Rooting the HTC Desire

After a year of enjoying my HTC Desire as it came, I finally gathered the courage to root it. You need not just courage but enough reason to root your phone. It is a stressful, exciting process leaving you very hungry!

My Reasons to root are as follows:
1. Battery life
2. Low Memory Problems
3. No Gingerbread update from Desire.
4. Wanted more apps on my phone.
5. A year old phone. I could either now change it or root it and make it brand new.
6. Also, My phone turns a year old on Oct 29th, & what better present could I give it, than a completely new look?

With my reasons in place to root and the courage I needed to go ahead, I finally decided that October 26th, 2011 would be the day I would choose to root my phone.

I chose the easy one click root method by unrEVOked. This root program was orginally developed for the HTC Evo but can be used for quite a few other HTC phones as well.

Pre-Root Process:

• Click on the link above. select your phone model and let that download and install into your computer.
• Install the hboot drivers, using these instructions. After you finish the process, hit the power button till you reach the first screen and select reboot, which should restart your phone. (Note: This step voids the warranty)
• unrEVOked should be downloaded by now, make sure you install it some place you remember.
• Make sure HTC Sync is uninstalled on your computer.

Root Process:

• Open reflash.exe (unrEVOked), with your phone plugged in to the computer. Ensure that HTC Sync is uninstalled without which the root will be unsuccessful.
• When unrEVOked detects your phone, it will prompt you, before it starts the root, click okay and the root should begin.
• unrEVOked will prompt you when the root is complete. You can check this by going into Menu and checking if you have SuperUser rights. If you do, your phone is successfully rooted. (Note: There is a chance you may have to try this a few times till it succeeds. I had to about 5 times. But if it still ain’t successful, try a factory reset and then root. If you don’t want to do a factory reset, ping me in the comments with your dropbox ID and I will share with you another version of unrEVOked that worked for me)

Congratulations! Your HTC Desire is now rooted. Your phone can now be restarted and used with the bonus of root permissions!

Next Step – Flashing a ROM of your choice and moving up to Gingerbread.

Disclaimer: If you are choosing to follow this process of rooting and my recos, I am in no way responsible for any damage caused to your phone.

 

Android v/s Iphone

Here’s presenting to you…

Hope this made you smile as much as I did!

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Going Android with the HTC Desire

So the world is going android with that being the ‘in’ thing and the phone to move to. For those of you who do not know what an android phone – let me educate you of the little I know.

Android is the operating systems of most of the new phones developed by Google, what the phone world is moving too. Its the coolest operating system present right now, with so much that you can do on your phone leaving your phone no less equal to a computer. Oh! and also it is the answer to Apple. (warning: For those of you who are mac lovers this post may bet offensive.)

Now that you know what an android phone is, here’s how I am making the change.

Presenting to you the HTC Desire:

Now this is the phone that convinced me to go android. What can it do? Here goes:
The HTC Desire has the most amazing picture quality with a 5 mpx camera bringing your pictures to a whole lot of life on your phone with its 3.7″ display. The display makes a really good place to even watch videos or stream movies!

It has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor which makes the phone super fast, so you can surf the internet at high speed and not even miss having your computer around.

The HTC Desire has 7 home screens allowing you to customize every screen to your liking, with easy scrolling to each screen. So you can either scroll to either of your 7 home screens or pinch (yea, pinch the screen) to choose your screen.

HTC has its very own social networking tool called ‘Friend Stream’ allowing you to receive updates from FB and Twitter straight to your phone and also allowing you to update all of your social networks just once. This is one thing that HTC has making HTC completely stand out from other android phones – particularly the Nexus, its what we call HTC Sense!
Its not just a social networking phone but also a business phone. So you don’t just send emails but send emails with attachments too, and what’s more you can even open these attachments in your phone!!!

Seriously, this phone might make me never look at a computer again!!

HTC Desire supports a whole lot of games and all of these easily download-able at the Android Market! Check the link and see what you have access to when you have an android phone.

All I am waiting for now, is a good deal, the right colour and the perfect phone will finally be MINE!!! The only thing I am a little sad about is that India just has the brown colour available, I’m waiting a little longer to see if I get another colour, but if not, a colour is not going to stop me from buying this awesome phone.

I’m planning on doing an un-boxing video, just to show you all and convince you how awesome this phone is. Stay tuned to watch it sometime next week, hopefully if I have bought it by then.

This blog is courtesy Dwayne and everything that he has talked to me about the phone. Any opinions floated are purely his that I have been convinced of and very happily convinced!