Newbie alert: HTC Wildfire.

Daniel S

I'm an iPhone user ("BOOOOOOO!!!!!!":D) but I have to customise my brother HTC Wildfire and I was wondering how to do it? I've looked around and it's pretty clear it's nothing like jailbreaking, its more flashing roms etc, which I've never done.

Here's some info:

The HBOOT menu wrote:

BUZZ PVT SHIP S-ON
HBOOT-1.01.0001
MICROP-0622
TOUCH PANEL-ATMELC03_14ac
RADIO-3.35.20.10
Nov 17 2010, 12:08:53

What rom would you reccomend, could you recommend a guide or just tell me what to do. I don't really know what I want to do with it yet, but I want everything unlocked for me to be able to mess with it, ie, have nothing restricted.

johnny_adidas

best place to start would be xda, specifically :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=701

never get why people assume an interstellar war was launched between users of one phone or another

Daniel S

Was looking at that but it was sort of "OMG unplug the bastard!", way too much going on

dmullaney

To install a custom ROM on the Wildfire with hboot-1.01.xxx you need to hardware unlock with an XTC Clip.

srsly78

Why do you want to install a custom ROM? Android is not like the iphone, you don't actually need to jailbreak it. You can customise a hell of a lot of stuff without installing custom rom. If you want to pirate apps you are going to be in for a surprise since the new security was added

To completely change the UI just install a different launcher. Try LauncherPro, or ADWLauncher. Note that you will lose HTC Sense features here tho. Pretty much everything is "unlocked" anyway, so don't waste your time.

nmfn

Hi all,
I just need to unlock (SIM) my HTC Wildfire. How can I do that?

dmullaney

There isn't a software only solution at the moment. You either need an unlock code from HTCimeiUnlock.com or a hardware unlock