Froyo 2.2 on the Desire.. :)

Completely Hatstand · 08-06-2010, 04:10 AM

Orange UK told me that 2.2 would be available from around 5pm last Tuesday, I'm still waiting. I think its a case of empty promises and staff not knowing what their doing. I'm not surprised it hasn't arrived.

wanstronian · 08-10-2010, 06:46 AM

Froyo has screwed my phone.

Firstly, the OTA update failed at the last minute, with an error message that disappeared before I could read it.

Then I notice that running any Flash content in browsers caused an FC. This happened in both Dolphin HD and the standard browser.

I decided that rooting and a custom ROM might be an answer - then I found out that the Unrevoked root process doesn't work on Froyo.

So I had a failed install but the phone still thought it was on 2.2. But it wouldn't find Flash in the Marketplace so I couldn't replace it to try and get it working.

Eventually I did a Factory reset, and lost all my apps and some data. However, this did cure the Flash problem. I then spent a few hours reinstalling all my apps and setting up my home screens and preferences.

However, today I notice that Listen keeps asking for a Google account - I have one registered already. I can't remove the registered GMail account without doing another Factory reset and going through all the pain again.

In short, Froyo is a f**king waste of time and has been nothing but trouble. All I want to do now is reflash back to 2.1, then root it and use a custom ROM which I suspect will be signicantly more stable.

Be warned - DO NOT INSTALL FROYO - it's shite.

!PANDA · 08-11-2010, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by wanstronian

Froyo has screwed my phone.

Firstly, the OTA update failed at the last minute, with an error message that disappeared before I could read it.

Then I notice that running any Flash content in browsers caused an FC. This happened in both Dolphin HD and the standard browser.

I decided that rooting and a custom ROM might be an answer - then I found out that the Unrevoked root process doesn't work on Froyo.

So I had a failed install but the phone still thought it was on 2.2. But it wouldn't find Flash in the Marketplace so I couldn't replace it to try and get it working.

Eventually I did a Factory reset, and lost all my apps and some data. However, this did cure the Flash problem. I then spent a few hours reinstalling all my apps and setting up my home screens and preferences.

However, today I notice that Listen keeps asking for a Google account - I have one registered already. I can't remove the registered GMail account without doing another Factory reset and going through all the pain again.

In short, Froyo is a f**king waste of time and has been nothing but trouble. All I want to do now is reflash back to 2.1, then root it and use a custom ROM which I suspect will be signicantly more stable.

Be warned - DO NOT INSTALL FROYO - it's shite.

seems like its just you, everyone is loving it! including me

clockworkmod, gold card, unEVOked 3, and a custom ROM did the trick for me

love the phone!

sonicaholic · 08-18-2010, 07:15 PM

I had a vodafone Desire but when I noticed the update I went in search of a definitive yes or no to FroYo I'm glad I did as it was little more than a hboot lock and bloatwere update. Refusing to be lumbered with a bunch of crap branding apps and no way to root or flash I desided to debrand my device so I created a gold card and flashed HTC's official Desire 1.19 rom onto it to debrand I then went and downloaded there Desire FroYo release with the open radio kernal and lo and behold I now have a Desire with a 0.80 hboot running the gineric HTC Desire FroYo and NO sim lock w00t.
It works perfectly and rox my sox I can now add a few more apps gotta love a2sd

If you are a UK vodafone Desire owner and was unfortunate enough to install this poor and shabby (full of bugs) update I have bad news as the 0.83 hboot they installed will not allow you to flash and the dev's at xda have not managed to crack it yet.

!PANDA · 08-19-2010, 08:27 AM

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Originally Posted by sonicaholic

I had a vodafone Desire but when I noticed the update I went in search of a definitive yes or no to FroYo I'm glad I did as it was little more than a hboot lock and bloatwere update. Refusing to be lumbered with a bunch of crap branding apps and no way to root or flash I desided to debrand my device so I created a gold card and flashed HTC's official Desire 1.19 rom onto it to debrand I then went and downloaded there Desire FroYo release with the open radio kernal and lo and behold I now have a Desire with a 0.80 hboot running the gineric HTC Desire FroYo and NO sim lock w00t.
It works perfectly and rox my sox I can now add a few more apps gotta love a2sd

If you are a UK vodafone Desire owner and was unfortunate enough to install this poor and shabby (full of bugs) update I have bad news as the 0.83 hboot they installed will not allow you to flash and the dev's at xda have not managed to crack it yet.

I decided to update (as I thoughed that it was FroYo, insted I got 1.24.161.3... It was very ease to deband and root and install a custom rom, so yeah I have to correct you on that, It is possible to downgrade your hboot from 0.83 to 0.80...

sonicaholic · 08-19-2010, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by !PANDA

I decided to update (as I thoughed that it was FroYo, insted I got 1.24.161.3... It was very ease to deband and root and install a custom rom, so yeah I have to correct you on that, It is possible to downgrade your hboot from 0.83 to 0.80...

you can not debrand without rooting it, is what I was getting at m8 and as for adding custom roms that isnt debranding its rooting

!PANDA · 08-19-2010, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by sonicaholic

you can not debrand without rooting it, is what I was getting at m8 and as for adding custom roms that isnt debranding its rooting

adding custom ROM is flashing and rooting is hacking, de-branding is where you get rid of any of your carriers apps, get rid of start up animation to stock "hTc quietly brilliant" and letting flash the phone with a different stock ROM without having to root, via recovery

I did debrand before rootin.. http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Oth...-p/46252#M3190

then I decided to root as I then decided to flash the phone with NeoPhyTe 5.0 Custom ROM, which was much better the the stock htc ROM..