Gingerbread Oxygen and a request for help.

smilodon · February 18, 2011, 04:29:30 PM

Met Gandy yesterday for a secret assignation, as you do, and he was pimping the new OxygenRom 2.0 RC7 with Gingerbread for the HTC Desire. So I went and installed it today. :yahoo: It's fast! I mean really fast. I thought Android 2.2 was speedy but this is insanely quick. It's pretty minimal (comes in at about 50 meg) with no added bloat. It gets a serious :thumbsup: from me. The new UI is not much different from 2.2 but it's been tweaked and does look smart. The stock keyboard has been fixed as well.

Onto my question. I was using Modaco r9 with Sense that came with A2SD+ baked in. The apps and the Dalvik cache went onto the SD card in a EXT3 partition. I also used Cyanogen 6.2 with Dark Tremors A2SD update. At the moment I'm running Oxygen with no tweaks at all. I'm wondering what the process would be to start going down the S-Off with a new hboot? I run lots of apps and do need to get them off the internal memory somehow.

I've read up on the hboot method here but it seems suspiciously simple and so I'm worried I've missed something. Any thoughts or advice on the process.

For information I rooted my Desire almost as soon as I bought it about a year ago. Gold Cards and the Unrevoked method I think. I have a 16 gig SD card installed with 512meg as an ext3 partition and the rest as fat32. I have about 8 gig free on the card. I usually use ROM Manager with Clockwork mod.
Cheers

BrotherTobious · February 18, 2011, 04:37:08 PM

Wow good work, would really like to know how to root my Desire

if you are attending the lan maybe a short master class if you would be so kind. Payments in pints of course

smilodon · February 18, 2011, 05:18:47 PM

The root process is pretty straight forward. However it's pretty crucial to do it right as it's the process that can kill your phone stone cold dead. Once it's done flashing different ROM's (versions of Android) is pretty straight forward.

Gandalf · February 19, 2011, 07:33:35 PM

S-OFF really is as simple as they say on that website. That is the exact procedure I used on my phone. Gingerbread is really tasty

smilodon · February 20, 2011, 01:27:02 PM

Actually AlphaRev 1.8 didn't work for me. I used a bootable CD to launch AlphaRev but when it reached stage 3 and should have started displaying text on the phones screen the whole process hung. I waited for half an hour but nothing happened. Eventually an admin on iRC told me to pull the battery and do a restore, which I did. No idea why it won't complete the flash?
Anyway I ended up using A2SD and ran a simple script to push the Dalvik Cache onto the ext2 partition. So I have Gingerbread, all my apps and 100mb of free space. And it still runs like greased lightning!

Gandalf · February 21, 2011, 08:22:37 AM

Strange, though I guess it does depend on the version of Desire you have. I have one of the very early versions and S-OFF it as soon as the S-OFF hack was released. Mine was the easy one to do as it has the old AMOLED screen. The newer Desires don't have these screens and have some changes that makes S-OFF harder apparently.

Still, as long as it's all working for you, that's the main thing! S-OFF is only useful for tweaking your HBOOT and removing the odd pesky app from system when the phone is running

smilodon · February 27, 2011, 02:02:35 PM

OXYGEN ROM ha just been updated to the full version 2.0. Seamless upgrade through the built in Oxygen update App. Now has video recording and the new Market. If anything it's even quicker than before. Rooters should really give this ROM a look.

Ended up going with A2SD and a script to move the Dalvic cache to the card.

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Gandalf · February 28, 2011, 08:14:35 AM

Snap, updated mine too. Works like a charm

Bye Bye sense, you will not be missed :lmfao:

DannagE · February 28, 2011, 03:41:26 PM

Just changed from Leedroid 2.3d with sense to this. Very nice rom, miss the sense part though. Should be able to mod it a bit with launcher pro and a bit of tinkering

Love the screen off animation though \o/

smilodon · March 01, 2011, 09:26:04 AM

Paul at Modaco is working on a Sense rom for the Nexus 1 and Nexus S. As HTC have said Ginerbread is coming to all the Desire range (Desire, Desire S, Desire HD) when it drops he should be making a full Sense ROM for those phones too.

suicidal_monkey · March 01, 2011, 01:30:46 PM

Quote from: BrotherTobious;320022Wow good work, would really like to know how to root my Desire if you are attending the lan maybe a short master class if you would be so kind. Payments in pints of course

+1 :-)

DannagE · March 01, 2011, 02:11:49 PM

Quote from: smilodon;320655Paul at Modaco is working on a Sense rom for the Nexus 1 and Nexus S. As HTC have said Ginerbread is coming to all the Desire range (Desire, Desire S, Desire HD) when it drops he should be making a full Sense ROM for those phones too.

Not missing sense at all

Installed launcher pro and cusomised the icons and widget locker for a custom lock screen and its great.

Fast rom too

DannagE · March 01, 2011, 02:14:03 PM

Quickest and easiest way to root now is with Unrevoked. Can't give you tips as I did mine before this method!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044

Hope this helps

suicidal_monkey · March 01, 2011, 04:53:33 PM

Quote from: DannagE;320680Quickest and easiest way to root now is with Unrevoked. Can't give you tips as I did mine before this method!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=788044

Hope this helps

Looks good. What should we expect on rooting? I assume data will go so backing up everything is essential, but will this conflict at all with any network settings? Is there any pre-requisite to rooting such as the phone being unlocked?

Any experience with (hopefully doesn't happen) brick recovery or Usb conflicts?

smilodon · March 02, 2011, 12:50:22 AM

t's getting more straight forward all the time. I never cease to be amazed that random people can understand at least as much if not more about something than the techs who were paid to build it in the first place. HTC work for months to lock down the Desire and it's cracked in under 24 hours by some spotty kid on his or her home PC!

Anyway, it's important to remember that it's possible although unlikely that you can kill your phone when rooting it. You have to do something pretty extreme but it is a possibility. So I would recommend having a read up about how it's done, direct from the people who created the process http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=594 is a good start.

Rooting a phone gives you access to the whole operating system so you can install a lot of apps that let you do stuff that you couldn't otherwise do. One biggy is that you can now store apps on the SD card. There is an official way to do this but it's not very efficient. The Desire has very little internal memory for apps but when rooted you can have as many apps as you like. I went from 130Mb up to 512Mb after rooting. Another example is i can now allow apps to reset my phones clcok, so every morning a little apps syncs my phones clock to the atomic clock in Rugby. There are many more things you can do with rooted apps but that is just an example.

But the best thing has to be installing ROMs. i am not stuck with HTC's default Sense. I can install one of many versions of Android. Unrooted phones will have to wait till HTC release Gingerbread (Android 2.3) and then for the mobile networks to re-release it to their customers. that can take months and if your with the 3 network probably never at all.

So IMHO it's best to check the link and have a read up on it.