No Official htc gingerbread for Desire

él statutorio · 14-06-2011 3:59pm #1

Damn

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5811738/htcs-not-updating-the-desire-with-gingerbread-as-sense-ui-is-too-big

Inquitus · 14-06-2011 4:03pm

él statutorio wrote: »

Damn

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5811738/htcs-not-updating-the-desire-with-gingerbread-as-sense-ui-is-too-big

CM7 is better than any HTC Gingerbread could ever be, while it's disappointing to see a handset cast into the wilderness a little over a year after launch, it's actually not going to make a blind bit of difference to anyone.

BionicRasher · 14-06-2011 4:05pm

Have been holding off rooting my desire for ages but might be about to take the plunge now - a bit disappointed in HTC to be honest. The phone is only just over a year old and no official updates now :mad:

A lot of angry people here too - http://www.facebook.com/notes/htc-uk/desire-and-gingerbread-update/225607660802056

él statutorio · 14-06-2011 4:07pm

Inquitus wrote: »

CM7 is better than any HTC Gingerbread could ever be, while it's disappointing to see a handset cast into the wilderness a little over a year after launch, it's actually not going to make a blind bit of difference to anyone.

I think it's probably now time for me to root and start playing with ROMs!

ongarite · 14-06-2011 4:09pm

That's surprising as there is a leaked Asian build available for the last 2 months.

cabrwab · 14-06-2011 4:16pm

That is genuinely disappointing, I have a legend and received a single update to get 2.2 after 8months of owning.

Say what you want about the Iphone at least Apple have updated the operating system on the 3gs. I know different companies in charge of the OS and phones but still disappointing.

I can't imagine there would be too many happy people time to try the rooting route so see what happens!

14-06-2011 4:17pm

have to say im not surprised, i recall waiting and waiting for promised updates on my Hero a few years ago... I have my DHD rooted running revolution HD5.1.9 and happy out with it

Korvanica · 14-06-2011 4:18pm

Time to finally root so....

Kenny Logins · 14-06-2011 4:39pm

Inquitus wrote: »

CM7 is better than any HTC Gingerbread could ever be, while it's disappointing to see a handset cast into the wilderness a little over a year after launch, it's actually not going to make a blind bit of difference to anyone.

^^ I agree.

The standard 2.2 is fine for the majority of users but those interested in the latest software should root and install Cyanogen IMHO.

davehey79 · 14-06-2011 4:44pm

Kenny Logins wrote: »

^^ I agree.

The standard 2.2 is fine for the majority of users but those interested in the latest software should root and install Cyanogen IMHO.

can any one point me to a n00bs guide to flashing / rooting / roms on to a HTC Desire and which would be considered the dogs liathrodi for said device.

Inquitus · 14-06-2011 4:47pm

davehey79 wrote: »

can any one point me to a n00bs guide to flashing / rooting / roms on to a HTC Desire and which would be considered the dogs liathrodi for said device.

Its been a while since I had to root mine as I used this permanent method a long while back.

http://theunlockr.com/2010/09/20/how-to-root-the-htc-desire-unrevoked-method/

If there's a more up to date method someone please point it out.

Kenny Logins · 14-06-2011 4:57pm

http://unrevoked.com/ is very easy, you just need to make sure the USB drivers are installed and working.

Drivers -

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install

Run through the above and you're rooted.

Then to install a ROM just download it to your SD card, power up holding volume down, and select 'choose .zip file to install' (or something).

Cyanogen is here - http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

él statutorio · 14-06-2011 5:04pm

A bit more of a detailed post here

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/06/14/htc_says_no_gingerbread_update_for_desire/

Tom1991 · 14-06-2011 5:13pm

dissapointing ill prob try cynogen mod but was wondering what drawbacks there are if any and if there is the ability to roll it back to sense 2.2 if i felt it wasnt for me

Nolimits · 14-06-2011 5:21pm

Kenny Logins wrote: »

http://unrevoked.com/ is very easy, you just need to make sure the USB drivers are installed and working.

Drivers -

http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/windows_hboot_driver_install

Run through the above and you're rooted.

Then to install a ROM just download it to your SD card, power up holding volume down, and select 'choose .zip file to install' (or something).

Cyanogen is here - http://www.cyanogenmod.com/

Un-related to this I just rooted my desire, and was looking for a rom, as far as cynogen goes, there are 2 desires there, is there anyway to tell the difference, and when I click through on one of them, I ma given a series of updates, would I be right in thinking that anyone of those updates would be ok to download?

Inquitus · 14-06-2011 5:22pm

Tom1991 wrote: »

dissapointing ill prob try cynogen mod but was wondering what drawbacks there are if any and if there is the ability to roll it back to sense 2.2 if i felt it wasnt for me

No drawbacks, flashing back to stock is easy as pie.

Kenny Logins · 14-06-2011 5:22pm

There are a few Sense ROMS, LeeDroid is very fast and stable.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328

and to return to stock, unrooted -

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695667

Kenny Logins · 14-06-2011 5:23pm

Nolimits wrote: »

Un-related to this I just rooted my desire, and was looking for a rom, as far as cynogen goes, there are 2 desires there, is there anyway to tell the difference, and when I click through on one of them, I ma given a series of updates, would I be right in thinking that anyone of those updates would be ok to download?

Is one GSM and the other CDMA? You're GSM.

h57xiucj2z946q · 14-06-2011 5:48pm

I have Cyanogen 7 nightly #98 (Android v2.3.4) and the Tiamat v4.0.5 kernel on my phone. Went from 30mb free space to 120MB, also battery life has improved.

Did a nandroid backup of my original firmwar and setup.

used MyBackup app to backup all non market apps,settings/sms/call logs etc.. no need to backup market apps, contacts, calendar if you have google sync'ing these.

Since desire has very similar setup to the nexus one, maybe you could do something similar?

spiderjazz · 14-06-2011 8:26pm

The GF is looking for me to root the phone, as she's constantly getting messages about it being out of storage etc. I've rooted my hero and used a few different roms, but always ended up coming back to a Sense style rom. Would Leedroid be my best shot at this for the desire?

Kenny Logins · 14-06-2011 8:31pm

I think so, I used it for a good while, but TBH now having tried CM I don't think I'd ever go back to Sense ROMS.

I'm not even sure why I liked them... nice widgets, but nothing else.

conor.hogan.2 · 14-06-2011 8:45pm

Love CM, will be a while before it works on GS2 though.

killbillvol2 · 14-06-2011 9:52pm

Kenny Logins wrote: »

I think so, I used it for a good while, but TBH now having tried CM I don't think I'd ever go back to Sense ROMS.

I'm not even sure why I liked them... nice widgets, but nothing else.

Same here. I only changed when I got fed up with running out of space but I can't think of anytrhing I miss from Sense.

spiderjazz · 15-06-2011 1:21am

Kenny Logins wrote: »

I think so, I used it for a good while, but TBH now having tried CM I don't think I'd ever go back to Sense ROMS.

I'm not even sure why I liked them... nice widgets, but nothing else.

What major differences would there be between Leedroid and CM?

I personally just found I preferred the widgets in Sense, enough so that I ended up going back to it after using a different Launcher (Launcher Pro I believe).

jimmycrackcorm · 15-06-2011 2:26am

Leedroid. Ftw

Kenny Logins · 15-06-2011 9:42am

spiderjazz wrote: »

What major differences would there be between Leedroid and CM?

I personally just found I preferred the widgets in Sense, enough so that I ended up going back to it after using a different Launcher (Launcher Pro I believe).

AFAIK CM is based on stock Gingerbread, but with ADW launcher and LeeDroid is based on Froyo, HTC Sense.

....but I could be wrong, I was using an un-rooted, stock Desire for the last 4-5 months (LeeDroid up to then) and only Installed CM7 a couple of weeks ago.

Jim · 15-06-2011 9:52am

I was going to go out today and get a Desire S....does this make it kind of pointless?

apope8 · 15-06-2011 9:57am

I would completly recommend this rom for anyone rooted at the moment

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054435&page=1

I have Gingerbread, new sense with new lock screen including the weather graphics.

Very stable rom.

I would recommend installing 2.1.2 though as the developer has actually implemented the 3d graphics in the latest version (2.1.3) and the reviews are not the best so far.

Everything you need to know about rooting start to finish here. Very easy to follow

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1016084

Ste- · 15-06-2011 11:44am

Jim wrote: »

I was going to go out today and get a Desire S....does this make it kind of pointless?

This is about the original Desire.
The Desire S comes with gingerbread preinstalled.

BionicRasher · 15-06-2011 1:51pm

U-TURN

see here
http://www.facebook.com/htcuk/posts/225857300777092

él statutorio · 15-06-2011 1:59pm

and here

http://ca.gizmodo.com/5812097/htc-changes-its-mind-and-decides-gingerbread-on-desire-is-possible

BeciMester · 15-06-2011 2:19pm

...and here

http://m.engadget.com/default/article.do?artUrl=http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/15/htc-pulls-a-180-now-says-gingerbreads-coming-to-desire/&category=classic&postPage=1

Inquitus · 15-06-2011 2:28pm

I guess they put sense in the washing machine at too high a temperature and it came out shrunk:rolleyes:

Jim · 15-06-2011 8:52pm

Ste- wrote: »

This is about the original Desire.
The Desire S comes with gingerbread preinstalled.

AHHHHHHHH...sweet

Dacelonid · 16-06-2011 9:15am

Jim wrote: »

AHHHHHHHH...sweet

This is literally what I said out loud as soon as I read tui0hcg post.
Got some very strange looks from they guys at work, but sure feck it who cares

griffdaddy · 16-06-2011 1:29pm

What a fúck up by HTC. Basically lying that their engineers can't sort out a Gingerbread sense rom, when there's about ten amateurs over on XDA who have done just that. I'm running Leedroid 3.07 with Gingerbread and Sense, if they really wanted to they could just take that and mod it a bit and then release it as an official update. The reason they were planning not to release it must be marketing, I can't think why else they'd do this. One of my friends recently got a Desire S, and another got the Sensation on launch day. It's the first time either of them have had an Android, so they were both obviously very impressed. I thought they were nice phones, but were very similar to my Desire, especially since I rooted it. This was obviously an attempt to put some daylight between the Desire and the later models, probably because the market is so saturated with Desires as well.

BionicRasher · 16-06-2011 1:42pm

latest news from HTC is

"to resolve Desire's memory issue and enable the upgrade to Gingerbread, we will cut select apps from the release. Look for status updates starting next week."

As others have said it is possible to run Sense and Gingerbread - XDA mods having done it - f%£k up by HTC and I believe down to trying to boost sales of newer model phones

listermint · 16-06-2011 1:46pm

Well at least theyve been embarrassed into sorting it out.

Upstream · 14-07-2011 3:57pm

HTC have an update on their facebook page about this

HTC UK
Hi everyone. As some of you have seen already, we have more news about our build of Gingerbread for Desire. Our testing has gone well so we will begin rolling out the update by the end of July. Thank you again for your support.

http://www.facebook.com/htcuk/posts/241035262592629

No Official htc gingerbread for Desire

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