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I am yet to be convinced of this.

I'm thinking of rooting my Desire later. It's on Orange at the mo and I want Froyo 2.2

Can someone help?

Do I follow this guide first...

http://myhtcdesire.com/modding/how-to-root-your-desire-easily-method-2

Then I have the Froyo 2.2 Rom from this website posted earlier.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775

But how do I actually run it on the phone? Is it a matter of going through a file explorer or do I need it plugged into a PC? I'm confused...

**Edit** And what's this about installing a Radio Rom? How on earth does one do that?

Vision:

Root your phone usng the link you provided.

That stock 2.2 froyo rom is the one I used on my T-Mobile, I used this radio rom:



and basically what you do is once rooted, copy the two roms to the root of your SD card, then follow the instructions here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775 (the thread you linked to in your post, I think).

I did the radio first, then the Froyo. While my contacts were already backed up on Google, I didn't back owt else up, and everything was still there very nicely when I finished upgrading. Whole process, once I knew what I was doing and got started, took half an hour tops. Makes hacking a PSP (the old, easy way) look like successfully 100%ing uplink.


I'm leaving out something here though - your original rom will want backing up so you can restore to factory for warranty repairs, and I'm unsure exactly how I got the software on my phone to do the backup so I'm not going to give you half the instructions. Study XDA forums and it'll probably make more sense to you than it did to me.

I HAVE A T-MOBILE PHONE AND SO DOES DAVPAZ. IT WORKED FOR US.

I AM POSTING FROM MY ROOTED DESIRE. ROCK ON MR THE VISION

Posting over-excitedly, you see. I meant anyone with a Hero. Stock 2.1 is a bit la


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Yeah - 2.1 on a Desire is such a leap up from 1.6 on my old G1 that rooting it would possibly BLOW MY MIND.

Also, Doccy G found this interesting article: http://www.reghardware.com/2010/09/21/o ... francisco/
£99 PAYG running 2.1.

Word feud is excellent fun. I applaud the devs for ripping off a rip off so well.

It really is.

Good find Joans!

I can see why you like it... RIVAL!

There's a new version of Wordfeud out today where you can donate to remove the ads.

It's only $2.99 and I might just do it!

I've updated Wordfeud and now it won't connect to any of my games. How annoying!

So... don't update it yet desire users. Mine is fucked.

I think I'd contend that Words With Friends doesn't rip off Scrabble. Rather it rips off that networked unlicensed ripoff Scrabble game that was popular on Facebook a few years back. So rip-rip-rip-off-off-off.

Tense moments in TheVision household as I'm rooting my Desire and updating it to Froyo 2.2.

I don't think I've ever seen a progress bar move so slow... or that's what it feels like at least!

I'm done! That was easy enough and now I've got rid of all the Orange crap on my phone! No longer have I got Photo next to Photos.

Anyone who's got a Desire on Orange will know what the internet button looks like. Now, I hated having the Orange one on my homescreen but... no more!

Check out the screen shot below! It's now a lovely blue colour!

Haha. We have wordfeud in the same place

Would anyone have any use for Keyboard Manager?
It requires root and is really fiddly to install, but it allows you to have two different keyboards depending on the phones' orientation.

Isn't that sim locked? Would it cost another fifteen bob on top of that to get it unlocked? :(

Get an iPhone.

Since I updated to Froyo 2.2 (With the help of everyone in this thread, thank you all!) I’ve pretty much gained an extra 50% on my battery life.

I don’t think I’m imagining it either. I’ve used it loads this week and haven’t had to charge it as much as I did when it was Orange branded.

Also… I had problems before with turning the phone off, sometimes it would have the shutting down screen for a couple of hours. Now, it shuts down in a flash!

FroYo came through for me on T-mobile a week or so ago. I like the new update options, and the battery life is indeed improved.

Apparently people are working on making a port of the Desire HD rom to the Desire.

Main advantage I saw was that it has a 3 second boot/shutdown time. That's 3 seconds to be completely up and running. Impressive stuff.

Like going from Windows ME to Windows 7 innit?

The biggest leap I've ever had PC wise was from XP to Vista and I can assure you, the phone was more exciting.

That's a leap downward.

You're telling me! I will upgrade to 7 one day... but it took me weeks to do my phone so it might be a way off yet.

There's still no official FroYo for the Galaxy S, but there's a wide variety of leaked releases on XDA. Unfortuantely, each release appears to be accompanied by someone saying that the battery life is a vast improvement on what they had before, and someone else saying that their battery is much worse. I guess I'll stick with Eclair for the moment.

All roms get that response, they're meaningless if you think abut how different each phone user's processor load must be. I would go with Google's '2.2 improves battery performance' claims as they would be the best people to say whether their OS manages power consumption better or not.

Wow, I've just heard from a friend that he was so impressed with my Desire that he's bought his own! He now wants me to root it and update it..

It's on Vodaphone where as mine was on Orange. I'm presuming that the guide I posted links to above will do the trick? What does everyone (or just GorvernmentYard and Dazpaz) think?

I would presume the same.

Well it worked for tmob, so I don't see why not.

Im on o2 and I don't have any o2 stuff on it.

Is it worth rooting?

I'm still waiting for a reason to root mine, too.

What are the rules on what apps you can and can't move to your SD card?

It just seems random to me which ones store on the SD and which ones store on the phone.

My phone hasnt been anywhere near a computer so I don't know if you can switch them on there.

Apps have to written to allow it I believe

I would say no. The only reason I rooted was to get rid of the Orange branding but if you don't have any, I wouldn't bother. The only apps that I've found that need a rooted phone are a backup app and a screen shot app.

Useful for sure, but hardly ground breaking.

Interesting.. I was under the impression that the Desire could display a keyboard when the screen was both vertical, and horizontal but I thought the horizontal keyboard only worked when it was tipped to the left.

I tipped my phone to the right today to write a message and the keyboard followed. Amazing!

Or maybe I've never noticed it before?

I might be wrong, but I think that was on of the things HTC added along with the 2.2 update.

That sounds like it could be the case. I've never noticed it before I updated.

God bless Android.

It is indeed a 2.2 brilliance.

Doesn't work upside down, though.
PHALE.

Yeah, I tried that too..

CyanogenMod could do this, but it might be possible without it. You might have to root your phone though. *runs*

I've REALLY been missing my android phone recently. I hope you lot are all still playing Scrabble when I get a new one in a couple of weeks!

No-one wants to play it with me

Aww! I'll play with you Grim...!

I sent you a fucking invite grim and you never replied