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Time: 19 Aug 2010 12:18:19 Category: Gadget Reviews, Software Reviews Post Views: 207 Your say: 1 comment
This is a follow up post of my post HTC Desire First Impression. It was supposed to be posted a week after I bought HTC Desire but I totally forgot about it. Please bear in mind that this was written before I rooted and flashed the custom Froyo ROM. Anyway, here it goes. Everything about it is great. It behaves like a 3.7” netbook with full touch screen support. The 16miilion colours touch screen AMOLED display makes browsing photos enjoyable. The multi-tasking is unbelievably smooth. I can now run the music player while playing a game of chess or sudoku and check my email once a while without interrupting the music or the game. The unit feels tough and the battery cover is so tight that there is no creaky feeling or sound while typing a message or playing games.

Apple iPhone 4 and Samsung Galaxy S were some of the choices before I decided on HTC Desire. Undeniably, the price of Apple iPhone 4 has put me off while a £400 Samsung Galaxy S without a camera flash has made HTC Desire the clear winner.

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Time: 10 Aug 2010 14:44:28 Category: Gadget Reviews, Software Reviews Post Views: 256 Your say: 1 comment
As my previous post stated, I was going to root my HTC Desire. And indeed, I have rooted it. Bear in mind that my HTC Desire was still running on Android 2.1 Éclair when it was rooted and immediately, I felt a difference in speed. I could not believe it and I thought that it must be the reboot that I had to do in which the system RAM was refreshed and running programs were closed. Anyway, I launched Assassin’s Creed and believe me, it really ran smoother than before my HTC Desire was rooted.

Well, it has been almost a week since my last post and I have since flashed the Android 2.2 Froyo ROM; replacing the Éclair as I could not wait for 3 to release its own branded Froyo ROM.

After rooted and flashed custom ROM
I must say I am pretty satisfied with it even though I have not noticed a major change in the ROM. The much awaited feature is the A2SD (Application to SD Card) where it allows applications and games to be installed onto SD Card. However, developers have to incorporate the functionality into their existing applications and games which will then give the option to install to SD Card during installation process. As I have flashed a custom ROM based on the official HTC Froyo ROM, I did the hard way by formatting and partitioning my SD card in order to utilise the A2SD+. The ‘+’ means that Cache2SD is included. Cache2SD redirects the browsers cache files to the SD card. I can still use the Froyo A2SD by removing my SD card’s partition. For the time being, I will leave it as it is.

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Time: 3 Aug 2010 16:49:20 Category: Software Reviews Post Views: 148 Your say: 1 comment
As mentioned in my previous posts, I bought my HTC Desire from Three Store. Yeah, the physical store because they do not sell SIM-free HTC Desire online. Hence, my HTC Desire is a clean, unrooted, 3 branded unit with Android 2.1 (Éclair). I am fairly new to the Android world but I pretty much know what it can or cannot do. I also understand that the new Android 2.2 (Froyo) is available to unbranded HTC Desire users and how I wish that my unit is an unbranded unit.

Well, forums are everyone’s best friend. It is easy enough to turn a branded HTC Desire to an unbranded one. By doing the process of rooting, HTC Desire users can flash any ROMs as well as accessing the system files. Do a search and you will definitely be confused and surprised with the tons of information that you can get in blogs and forums. Still, it takes a lot of reading to digest all of the information.

Here are some of the facts that might help you to understand more about HTC Desire and Android.

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Rooting HTC Desire gives the users full access to the phone. System programs that are not particularly useful can be deleted at ease. I am more interested in the fact that rooting can direct the application to utilise the memory card space rather than the internal memory. If you are a heavy internet user, you will also be pleased that you can direct the cache to the memory card.

However, official Froyo cannot be rooted. If you want to have a root Froyo, you will have to use custom ROMs designed by some of the intelligent forum users. Otherwise, stick to Éclair and wait for someone to come up with a solution to root Froyo.

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