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Root One Click Root For The Desire?

Wooo! :D

So easy in the end. If it wasn't for the fact I've never used HTC Sync on my laptop, I'd never have got so confused about why it wasn't working.

Now to find a decent ROM, look into getting my apps on my SD Card etc and get rid of some of this T-Mobile bloatware.

Where do I start?!
 
There is a good range of roms available, all available from Desire Android Development - xda-developers but you'll notice most of them are many pages long.

Have a look at the original post on them to see if any take your fancy....

Personally im using leedroid 2.2f & its rock solid, but to be fair i haven't tried any others yet so cant have an opinion on those.
 
lorrebreaker said:
There is a good range of roms available, all available from Desire Android Development - xda-developers but you'll notice most of them are many pages long.

Have a look at the original post on them to see if any take your fancy....

Personally im using leedroid 2.2f & its rock solid, but to be fair i haven't tried any others yet so cant have an opinion on those.
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Thanks again.

I've heard a lot about this leedroid 2.2f ROM, and it does seem to be up my street.

I'm not after anything too fancy to begin with. I'd be more than happy with a good, solid ROM, similar to the stock ROM with HTC Sense etc, just with the ability to save apps to my SD card (I've got a 16GB SD card I don't seem to be able to do much with in terms of apps!) and to be able to get rid of some of the T-Mobile bloatware to free up some internal memory.

Cutting a long story short, the main reason for me rooting is because I was sick of having to manage the internal storage space and having bloatware take up valuable space!
 
JohnnyBravo1000 said:
Thanks again.

I've heard a lot about this leedroid 2.2f ROM, and it does seem to be up my street.

I'm not after anything too fancy to begin with. I'd be more than happy with a good, solid ROM, similar to the stock ROM with HTC Sense etc, just with the ability to save apps to my SD card (I've got a 16GB SD card I don't seem to be able to do much with in terms of apps!) and to be able to get rid of some of the T-Mobile bloatware to free up some internal memory.

Cutting a long story short, the main reason for me rooting is because I was sick of having to manage the internal storage space and having bloatware take up valuable space!
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Thats exactly the reason i rooted too now i have more than enough storage ;)
Leedroids rom is obviously well made & very stable but i've also seen mentione (including on this forum) teppics rom which also is sense based.
 
Cheers mate.

I'm a bit stumped. I've read on another forum that I should backup everything via Nandroid and accessing the boot/recovery menu.

However, since rooting, I can no longer access this menu by holding the power and volume buttons when the phone is switched off.

Is this normal? Or has something gone wrong?
 
dinaro said:
Are you holding the volume down rocker and holding power button when your phone is off?
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Yep.

Obviously not well enough! It's just worked!

Well, I'm currently doing a backup using ClockworkMod Recovery. Is this the right thing to do? I bloody hope so! :D
 
Have you downloaded ROM Manager from the market? That's the tool for root users that makes creating a partition and flashing a ROM much easier. You can also do nandroid backups using it too ;)
 
dinaro said:
I would just backup everything on the SD card to be safe. What ROM are you going with?
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Will do.

I think I'm going to opt for the LeeDroid ROM or the other (Teppics?) which is very similar to the stock ROM with HTC Sense etc.

Eris Ed said:
Have you downloaded ROM Manager from the market? That's the tool for root users that makes creating a partition and flashing a ROM much easier. You can also do nandroid backups using it too ;)
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Not yet, mate. This brings me onto my next question...... Do I do this partitioning business before or after I install the new ROM?
 
Before you install the ROM. teppic's stock froyo rooted ROM is the "t" yer speaking of, in my signature.
 
Here's what I did before I flashed the ROM:

Install Titanium Backup > backup/Restore > Menu > Batch > Backup all user apps & system data.

The backup is saved on SD card.

Install ROM Manager > Flash ClockworkMod Recovery > Backup current ROM (this will do a nandroid backup and also save it to SD card)

Copy contents of SD card to PC, which will now incluide your nandroid backup and the batch backup from Titanium containing settings.

After that, you're ready to partition the SD card
 
Thanks to both of you.

I'm currently backing up the contacts of my SD card.

Ed - I've already done a backup via ClockworkMod in the Recovery Menu. Would this more or less bring me to the same point as yourself?
 
Yes, the the backup from the boot menu and from ROM Manager are both the same (nandroid). The only thing you won't have is the selective batch backup from Titanium. This contains phone settings and application data such as game scores. nandroid will contain the same information, but you can't selectively restore it. You use a nandroid to restore EVERYTHING back to how it was. With Titanium, you can just restore individual items, like Angry Birds with scores, or LauncherPro wallpaper and settings, etc.

Hope that makes sense!
 
Sod it. I'm playing doing exactly what you did, Ed. You are a man ITK! :D

I'm currently backing up all user apps and system data with Titainum. I assume the free version is suitable?

I'm going to follow your steps! Not that I'm a coward or anything! :D
 
There's a difference between being smart and being a coward. You're taking the proper steps to prepare thus eliminating more errors that can be made. ;)

You've already taken the plunge to root so that would make you brave, in my opinion.
 
Ed - I think I'm up to date now. I've just backed up my current ROM via ROM Manager and I have an "update" file on my SD card - is that right?

I'm now copying the contents of my SD card to my laptop.

I'm sure this will all be worth it in the end! :D
 
The reason why it's best to have 2 backups is necause the nandroid would be used to completely restore your phone if something went wrong with flashing the ROM. You use it from Recovery and it includes your old ROM. The Titanium backup is the best option when the ROM flash is successful - you'll have a nice new ROM so all you need is your apps, data and settings. The restore is done using Titanuim rather than from Recovery. It's handy to have the option of choosing what elements you restore, so if a setting (for example) clashes with your new ROM, you can restore things one at a time and avoid anything that is creating a problem.
 
JohnnyBravo1000 said:
Ed - I think I'm up to date now. I've just backed up my current ROM via ROM Manager and I have an "update" file on my SD card - is that right?

I'm now copying the contents of my SD card to my laptop.

I'm sure this will all be worth it in the end! :D
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Is the "update" file called "update.zip"? If so then I think that's the custom recovery you flashed during rooting. The latest backup using ROM Manager and Titanium will be dated, so if you ever need them choose the one with the latest date.

Titanium Backup and Current ROM backup will be on SD card, so they will be copying to your laptop now :)
 
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