I relaxed HTC sence with cyanogen mod 7. But it was too unstable. Then I installed Gingerbread. The music app does not play anything from my music file. I guess it is not in the correct format even though CM7 and HTC sence had no trouble playing music from that same file. Second, I installed a newer version of rom manager which deleted my HTC Sence backup orange did it? Is there a way to find it or can I download it from the net somewhere? Lastly, I really like the Gingerbread Rom, but the HDMI does not work. I downloaded two apps HD win and full HDMI with no luck. Any tips?
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Hi all,
I've got an HTC Magic from Rogers (EDI1 / 32A) and I've sucessfully loaded CyanogenMod on this unit. There are a few limitations with this ROM that I'd like to work around:
- No full exchange support
- Can't run other HTC apps like PDFViewer, teeter, etc...
Now from what I've read the HTC / Google stuff had to be stripped to avoid copyright infringment and that's fine. I'm just figuring since this phone came with these features I should be able to extract them from the stock ROM and apply them over the CyanogenMod ROM myself? Afterall these were licensed to this piece of hardware right?!? ;-)
I've started to figure my way around both fastboot and adb so I restored my original ROM and started pulling the apk files from that. Started with teeter and PDFViewer as a start... When running on the CyanogenMod ROM Teeter exits gracefully with a message telling me it only runs on an HTC, and PDFViewer dies and needs to be force closed. So there's obviously more than just the apk files for these apps that need to be moved.
So does anyone know what files need to be pulled from the stock ROM and copied to the CyanogenMod ROM to allow me to run the HTC stuff on there?
Also if anyone can point me to the files I need to transfer to restore the full exchange functionality that would be sweet!
I know the files had to be pulled out / replaced to meet legal requirements so someone must know which ones they are?!?
Oh and one issue I've been running into is that I obviously can't get root on the stock ROM so things like the data directory are off limits to me... But the system folder's accessible in a read only mode at least.
I'm also wondering which files actually make up the Android OS? Maybe it would be easier just to copy the 1.6 os files to the 1.5 stock image leaving the rest the same? So in a nut-shell trying to do HTC / Rogers' job for them as they are obviously not looking to get this done any time soon if at all by the looks of things...
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Sandy
Has anyone tried to install HTC's music app onto a HTC magic? I only discovered there was another music player a few days ago and I would really like to use it on my magic.
Also, my Magic is not rooted. (Apparently it has a 'perfect SPL' and I dont have a spare SD to make a goldcard )
Thanks!
This is already covered. You need ROOT to either install a custom ROM with HTC's Framework or use a modified build.prop and use the HtcMusic.apk from the MyTouch Fender dump.
Hi together,
I am using HTC Sensation (as the subcategory of the forum implies) and rooted my phone a few weeks ago.
Actually I like the Sense UI and started with InsertCoin which I really like, stable, fast and updates every day ....
... and there it is - updates every day - is there an way to handle that easy. My Rom Manager can not download the updates automatically and I haven't found any info about the Premium Version can do that.
So, all the time download the file, copy to SD start RomManager to install from SD - that s***s
So is ther a way like for CM to get an easy way to update using RomManager or whatever - so I can skip the RSS Feed and Download manually stuff ?!
Thanks a lot
I have a htc hd2 with Stock desire ROM and want a new one - any ginerbread one or one where I can install apps on SD. How do I go about doing this?
I am unable to create an active sync on my PC since installing Android on my phone - had no trouble with winmo
For those of you looking to connect a Bluetooth keyboard to a Desire S with android 2.3.5
( also known as a SAGA)
It seems there is a fault in the Bluetooth programming done by HTC in android 2.3.5 and lower so you cannot ever connect
a bluetooth keyboard. There is a conflict with Sense in the bluetooth stack programming if that helps.
I tried every piece of bluetooth keyboard helper software in the market and none work.
I have found an excellent workaround that I want to share to save other people hours of wasted toil.
Following various posts especially this one
"How to root, install EXT4 recovery and custom ROM on HBOOT 2.00.0002"
source http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1525100
by N0elite ( thanks - sorry can't thank you on here yet)
I was able to root my phone with S-On
now it has an unlocked root using HTCDEV Unlock | S-ON | HBOOT 2.00.0002 | 4EXT Recovery v2.2.7 RC5
Note on the HTC dev website you have to Select the bottom option 'all other supported models' from the htc dev unlock root website
as desire S is not listed
then I downloaded a fantastic operating system ( rom) called virtuous Saga which has Sense version 3.6 and android 4.04.
( also via this forum - more thanks to mdeejay - again unable to thanks you on the forum yet)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1669497
I did not flash the firmware because I have no idea what that means and it sounded potentially hazardous and I read
somewhere you cannot do it with S-ON ( whatever that actually means) - I only installed the saga ROM which works fine
with nothing faulty that I have so far tested
I just installed the virtuous saga zip on my sd card, installed it from the recovery screen and then had to flash the boot.img
from the zip file using flashboot from my PC
Result - Bluetooth works and my phone has lots of nice updated features
My Tecknet. x310 Slim chiclet Bluetooth keyboard ( £15 AMAZON) works perfectly now with this
(Again not sure if it makes a difference but this keyboard works using a bluetooth mode called spp rather than HID)
And I still have the lovely clock and weather widget - in fact it does not look much different to my old android version
- just faster and smoother and now I can queue music in the stock music app too.
I tried a few other ROMS - the cyanogen mod 7 works with bluetooth keyboard too - but it was all too strange, although clearly excellent except somehow I manage to get the market app to stop downloading any apps which is why I did not stick with it.
NB if you try this make sure that your Google account is synced and all contacts are backed up . I also used BookmarksSB to back up bookmarks, Astro to back up all my applications to the sd card, and SMS back up & restore to back up all my sms messages. all free in the Google market.
I also took my sd card out when following the steps to format and clear caches in recovery mode because I did not want to accidentally wipe my SD card.!!
hope this helps
( first post so I am sorry if I have broken any rules - just message me rather than flaming if I have - thanks)
Update - bluetooth keyboard and HTC desire S
I have recently unrooted my phone and installed ICS ( android 4.04) from the RUU file available from HTC
here
www htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads/P10
Filter By Desire S Carrier WWE v4.0
This is a little less laggy than the virtuous ROM and I can confirm it works with bluetooth keyboards.
So if you do not want to root your phone this is the really simple solution