cheers
I've found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775but there's still a bewildering array of stuff to follow in that thread. These are the two posts in the T-Mobile thread I've put on there, with no response so far...
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I've got a rooted Desire done with unrevoked3. As I understood it I could update using T-Mobile OTA and would then have their branded, bloated 2.2 and lose root.
I'm now reading that I have to unroot the phone before updating.
If this is the case, I'd like to consider updating to the vanilla HTC Sense version of 2.2, so please humour this n00b and clarify the following:
1: Which ROM is the vanilla one, I've done a search and must be missing something obvious!
2: Are there any downsides to having the stock rom as opposed to the T-Mob uk one, e.g. network performance, etc?
3: Unrooting - bricking potential?
4: Apparently the T-Mob rom is >80mb and the standard Sense one is apparently about 25mb. So far I can only find anecdotal evidence on the T-Mob forums to say the bloat is a bunch of irremovable links to 'top apps' (sigh), German voicemail and web TV things which I can't imagine are so huge. Am I misinformd regarding the 2.2 Desire sense vanilla size?
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I've been using search and reading the forum now for a couple of hours (on and off) and my head is spinning.
From what I now understand, my rooted T-Mobile (UK) 2.1 Desire can be made how I want it, which is this:
Ordinary, standard (stock?) Sense Froyo 2.2, no branding or T-Mob crapware, OTA updates from HTC as they are released in the future.
I think this is the rom to put on in order to get that:
***forum won't let me post the link. It's from nickiberli/localdroid, called rooted official HTC etc...***
but with 77 pages of posts I'm less sure at the end of the thread than I was at the start.
I understand that I need to use Titanium to back up my phone before I begin, I've got that installed and ready to go.
I currently believe that once I've downloaded this rom and installed it, I need to get a new radio thing to ensure it works ok with T-Mobile. I have no clue after extensive reading what radio this should be, also some seem to install it before not after.
I appreciate (having hacked various games consoles in the past without any difficulties) that these things have a myriad different options but I'm really struggling here to narrow it down to a clear set of directions for my device, in order to keep it running well on T-Mobile into the future.
/brainhurt I'm off to do something else for the evening.