| | 1 | I really like my HTC Desire from a hardware design, but the stock software is rubbish en not developed any more. The three main points I did not like: |
| | 2 | 1. Phone calling in my pocket, because the slider was to easy to activate. |
| | 3 | 1. Internal Memory with 20MB free is way to small to be usable. |
| | 4 | 1. Battery was empty too quick. |
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| | 6 | Luckily there is a solution because mime runs Android; Custom Software. This is build by enthusiastic people hoping to make your device even more usable. Installing is more difficult, but no issue for the brave ;-) |
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| | 8 | Warning: You are brave a enough to void your warranty and possible brick your phone. |
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| | 10 | I used a variant of the CyanogenMod called Cibernodo Mod2Bravo, this required me to Root my phone and re-partition it. During the process I found at least 5 places which could possibly break my phone, so yet again: |
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| | 12 | Warning: You are brave a enough to void your warranty and possible brick your phone, please do not complain to me. |
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| | 14 | 1. Make sure you have an working Android SDK environment, preferably using Linux (I used Ubuntu 11.10 amd64), [http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html Install guide] |
| | 15 | 1. Root your phone using unrevoked method: [http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/20/how-to-root-the-htc-desire-unrevoked-method/ manual] |
| | 16 | 1. Re-partition to fit an new partion scheme [using this blog http://mist.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/blog/?p=429] (I used the ''Bravo CM7 r2'' version). |
| | 17 | 1. Find the latest version of the rom [http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328 at xda-developers.com]. I used 6.1 which can be downloaded from [http://www.mediafire.com/?ln7t399rg3warnz here] |
| | 18 | 1. You will need the attachment:CM7_Hboot_MIUI_MOD.zip to make sure to you can install large applications. |
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| | 20 | Hopefully this guide will give enough pointers to make your phone as cool as mine. |
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