HTC Desire — upgraded/updated to Android 2.2 – How To!
I have decided to not wait any longer for HTC / LEAF to get Android 2.2 on my phone – HTC Desire. And surprisingly the process was fairly simple. For the time being I have decided to stick with the stock HTC ROM which can be downloaded from here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773997). This works if you are coming from a stock Android 2.1-update1 phone. So what did I do
- Ensure that your phone is plugged into power. You do not want your phone to die in the middle of an update.
- Rooted my phone with Unrevoked — very easy if you run Linux
- Did a Nandroid backup just in case — Nandroid come with 2 above.
- Rename the downloaded ROM above to update.zip and copy to the root of your SD Card
- Switch your phone off.
- Power on into recovery mode. (Hold volume minus while powering on the phone)
- Select Recovery Mode from menu that come up. (Volume key to scroll and Power key to select)
- Select install from sdcard (volume key to scroll and press touch button to select – [the round button at the bottom of your phone])
- Scroll down to confirm that you want to install from SD Card (again volume key to scroll and press touch button to select – {what is this button called})
- Now be patient and just wait .. do not touch anything. In about 10 minutes you should have an Android 2.2 phone with all your data intact.
This instructions comes with no guarantee but it worked for me so there should be no reason why it should not work for you. Oh and when you boot and there is not HTC boot sound .. that is a feature of this ROM .. there is a small update from the link above if you want the sound back. There is various add-ons at the same link above.
The one small issue I have at the moment is that the Swype keyboard I am using is not working properly. Keypress typing works but not swype typing.
Please comment and let us know your experience and mileage.
Happy updating and thanks for nothing LEAF
I don’t think it’s antything to do with the rom. My malaise with the 16gig card was across four different roms. (That was part of my attempt to control for variables.) Those same roms completely accept the other 16 gig card.
You HAVE tried a complete clean format first, using some or other Windows-based app, have you?
Next question… What ROM are you running? And have you tried any others?
I find Pinkolin’s Pinky Desire 1.8 to be totally stable and useful.
Oh… just saw your question about where in Bruma.
Can’t recall the name of the place.
It’s opposite the Bruma China Mall. There used to be a big FotoCats branch where this spot is now.
To get to it, let’s say you’re travelling from Eastgate towards that sharp left curve on Bruma lake. You get to a traffic light. On your right is a decrepit Nando’s, and some sort of TAB bar. Across the road on your right is Bruma Flea Market. Across the road on your left is China Mall. Turn left there.
Next corner, turn left, then immediately right into the place’s parking lot. If you get to a Fruit & Veg city on your left, you’ve missed the right turn by a few metres.
Hope that helps.
Make sure that the card you’re getting is a Samsung. Along with the card, you get a free adaptor, which is a Kingston. But the card itself is a Samsung.
You should be able to put the brand new card into your phone, and, using ROM MANAGER, format the EXT3 directory as the very first thing you try on the card. It SHOULD work. But it may need a Windows format if that doesn’t work.
Hey Roy,
Im using the latest ROM release from HTC linked above.
Having no problems with the ROM.
All cards I try take the partition perfectly using EASEUS, but the ‘invisible card’ returns when placed in my phone.
I’ve also tried ROM Manager, but there are issues there too, The phone reboots but straight to a White triangle with an Excalmation, then I hit power and Im in Recovery, an error saying something like -> E: cache/update.zip not found
signature invalid
update incomplete
(not exact wording)
What I dont understand is that the primary partition is still FAT32, so it should Technically still be read, the EXT3 partition not so much???
Also ROM manager partitions to EXT2 it seems..
??