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[Q] HTC Desire Roms

So I recently rooted my HTC Desire and installed Leedroid. Everything seemed fine, until I installed Launcher Pro. For some reason the animation when entering the app tray is very laggy, and sometimes when exiting the tray as well. I also noticed that the progress bar in the market doesn't work when downloading an app. So I decided to try a different ROM. Next I tried Gingerburst, but the same things happened. With Gingerburst I also had a problem with WiFi disconnecting the whole time.
Anyway my question is: Does anyone else experience these problems or know how to fix 'em. I know they're small thing (except for the WiFi), but still . Or can someone recommend a ROM for me to try next. There are so many I don't want to try them all.
Thanks

Hello, I have worked wit leedroid ROMS with no problems at all. Did you click on wipe data before installing the rom?.

JN25BN said:
...Or can someone recommend a ROM for me to try next. There are so many I don't want to try them all.
Thanks
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I used Oxygen on my desire.
If you ask me it's the best rom for the desire.
Very slim and clean, just the basics and then you install what you want.

I did a wipe in recovery before flashing the rom yes. What was weird was that I had exactly the same problems in two different roms. I think I'll try again doing something different (don't know what yet)

skijk said:
I used Oxygen on my desire.
If you ask me it's the best rom for the desire.
Very slim and clean, just the basics and then you install what you want.
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Thanks I'll go check that one one too

skijk said:
I used Oxygen on my desire.
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So I tried Oxygen ROM... very good! Everything works fine now BUT... I kind of miss Sense. At least some of the apps that came with it. Not a fan of the Sense launcher. But apart from that it's all good!
Can anyone recommend a ROM with Sense that's any good though?

[SOLVED] VoidU S New Android Market won't let me install any apps

Hey Guys!
Any help will do!
Installed Voidu S 1.1a ROM on my DS, works perfectly, smooth transitions etc.. BUT!!!
When I tried to install any app from new android market it says:
"Error Downloading <app-name>. There is insufficient space on the device."
Tried to reflash twice already!!! The same problem...
Tried to unmount SD and install then... no luck
Clearing Apps Cache won't help
Clean install with formated mSD....
Anyone with similar problem???
BTW, Virtuous Unity 2.37 ROM market works just fine!!! Flashed and tried!

hoodedman said:
Hey Guys!
Any help will do!
Installed Voidu S 1.1a ROM on my DS, works perfectly, smooth transitions etc.. BUT!!!
When I tried to install any app from new android market it says:
"Error Downloading <app-name>. There is insufficient space on the device."
Tried to reflash twice already!!! The same problem...
Tried to unmount SD and install then... no luck
Clearing Apps Cache won't help
Clean install with formated mSD....
Anyone with similar problem???
BTW, Virtuous Unity 2.37 ROM market works just fine!!! Flashed and tried!
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Been running v1.1a myself since this afternoon when it was released, no such problems here, in fact just loaded market picket random app, download, installed and ran it to test theory.
Have you tried de-installing market and then re-installing.
Sorry.

No problems here.
If you want, try downgrading to the old market. I have a zip for it.
It is much faster and more reliable than 3.0 market.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

Still Nothing
Still nothing guys....
Downgraded to Old market, tried to download but it won't even give me an error this time, just turns off the download.
... Thanks for the effort. I am out of ideas!
Will try tomorrow... going to bed!!!

hoodedman said:
Still nothing guys....
Downgraded to Old market, tried to download but it won't even give me an error this time, just turns off the download.
... Thanks for the effort. I am out of ideas!
Will try tomorrow... going to bed!!!
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Using Voidu S 1.1a ROM with stock kernel and market is working fine. Just d/l and installed a data monitor.

During the day tried several ROMs:
- CoreDroid Desire S GB 2.3.3 V1.3
- Desires S Android 2.3.5 Sense 3.0 v1.2
- Virtuous Unity 2.37 Sense 3.0
- Doubleshot S v1.2
.... and now trying to install BeatMod v2.5 Flyer Sense
Android market works perfectly in all of them!!!!
... after that I will again re-flash to Voidu S 1.1a and see if it works!
thanks everyone!

It's a mystery!
Mysteriously after 5 re-flashes Voidu S seems to work now, market loads and downloads apps with no error.
Don't know how this happened, so don't ask!
Case closed!

hoodedman said:
Mysteriously after 5 re-flashes Voidu S seems to work now, market loads and downloads apps with no error.
Don't know how this happened, so don't ask!
Case closed!
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Very glad to hear it as it's a great ROM, I'd suspect it had nothing to do with you or the ROM and more likely something out of your control like Google that was at fault....yer...blame them!

ben_pyett said:
Very glad to hear it as it's a great ROM, I'd suspect it had nothing to do with you or the ROM and more likely something out of your control like Google that was at fault....yer...blame them!
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I would not be so hasty my friend.... Yes this problem is solved, but another sprang up. ((
Now if I download more than one app AT ONCE from market the system/phone just hangs/freezes and nothing happens... after that reboot by pulling out the battery...
That is very unpleasant....
Will go for Virtuous Unity for now... This one is very RAW. Need to wait!

hoodedman said:
I would not be so hasty my friend.... Yes this problem is solved, but another sprang up. ((
Now if I download more than one app AT ONCE from market the system/phone just hangs/freezes and nothing happens... after that reboot by pulling out the battery...
That is very unpleasant....
Will go for Virtuous Unity for now... This one is very RAW. Need to wait!
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I'm afraid that this sound more like a device issue than a ROM one.
You shouldn't pull battery - read my signature!

ben_pyett said:
I'm afraid that this sound more like a device issue than a ROM one.
You shouldn't pull battery - read my signature!
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It was not doing such things on my stock rom!!! so what's the real problem here!!!
Going for virtuous unity and will check if it works there!!!!
Though, could it be stock kernel I wonder??
I know that battery pulling is bad, have no time to install Android SDK (that is what needed for that, right?)...

hoodedman said:
It was not doing such things on my stock rom!!! so what the real problem here!!!
Going for virtuous unity and will check if it works there!!!!
Though, could it be stock kernel I wonder??
I know that battery pulling is bad, have no time to install Android SDK (that is what needed for that, right?)...
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You don't need to install A SDK just extract the files in my sig, takes two minutes.... And you'll regreat not spending those two minutes if you were to fry your device.
It could be related to the version of the market that you're using.

ben_pyett said:
You don't need to install A SDK just extract the files in my sig, takes two minutes.... And you'll regreat not spending those two minutes if you were to fry your device.
It could be related to the version of the market that you're using.
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Don't know about version of the market... I don't think this is an issue!!!
Virtuous unity was not so smooth as I suspected , Voidu S was VERY fast though, good job
Flashed to CoreDroid latest... fast and smooth work.... installed 30+ apps from new market one after one and NO PROBLEMS!!!!
Still I don't understand what is the problem with Voidu S ROM on my DS....

I suggest that you read this thread [GUIDE] Basic Tips to avoid Bricking your phone

ben_pyett said:
I suggest that you read this thread [GUIDE] Basic Tips to avoid Bricking your phone
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Thank you! Will take that into consideration! However, I have several questions:
Do those recommentations apply for stock rom with S-ON as well?
If I brick my phone by installing apps from the market, will I retain my warranty?
Otherwise it sucks knowing that you can brick your phone simply by using market!

hoodedman said:
Thank you! Will take that into consideration! However, I have several questions:
Do those recommentations apply for stock rom with S-ON as well?
If I brick my phone by installing apps from the market, will I retain my warranty?
Otherwise it sucks knowing that you can brick your phone simply by using market!
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Yes, the recommendations apply to everyone, with the specific eMMC chip type.
Warranty would cover fix.
Yes you're right though it does suck.

hoodedman said:
I would not be so hasty my friend.... Yes this problem is solved, but another sprang up. ((
Now if I download more than one app AT ONCE from market the system/phone just hangs/freezes and nothing happens... after that reboot by pulling out the battery...
That is very unpleasant....
Will go for Virtuous Unity for now... This one is very RAW. Need to wait!
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This seems to be a very inconsistent problem with only some users, my phones market when updating, downloads & installs apps one by one automatically, never does it install or download more than one app at a time...... strange
Swyped from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

Want to get back to an official ROM

Hey,
i still can't get GPS Navigation for my Desire with Desire S Android 2.3.5 Sense 3.0 ROM from proxuser. I like the ROM, definetly.. but i need the navigation. So i decided to go back to an official release or ROM. But i don't know which is the best for me.. i found:
32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08
and
RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085 AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed.
By the way, i'm from germany..
in other words, i would like to have the latest official version of android and i hope that gps will work and the update to sense 3.0 is available for me.
if you can help me, many thanks for that!

meinFreund said:
Hey,
i still can't get GPS Navigation for my Desire with Desire S Android 2.3.5 Sense 3.0 ROM from proxuser. I like the ROM, definetly.. but i need the navigation. So i decided to go back to an official release or ROM. But i don't know which is the best for me.. i found:
32.56.00.32U_5.17.05.08
and
RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085 AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed.
By the way, i'm from germany..
in other words, i would like to have the latest official version of android and i hope that gps will work and the update to sense 3.0 is available for me.
if you can help me, many thanks for that!
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the RUU u specified is the 1 to install if you want the sense 3 update and everything 100% stock

Ok,
just to make this safe
you mean RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085 AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed.
Do I also have to flash the Radio ? And what is AU ?
Do I flash the ROM same as costum roms?

meinFreund said:
Ok,
just to make this safe
you mean RUU_Saga_HTC_Europe_1.47.401.4_Radio_20.28I.30.085 AU_3805.06.02.03_M_release_199410_signed.
Do I also have to flash the Radio ? And what is AU ?
Do I flash the ROM same as costum roms?
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yes that is the RUU to flash.
but before you do that u need to be sure you have bootloader ENG HBOOT-0.98.2000
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113820
then you run the RUU.exe file on your pc and follow the on screen instructions.
this will return you completely to stock

Hi meinfreund,
What are the problems you are having with your navigation? I've been on VoidU and now MIUI and got my navigation running pretty well. Actually MIUI seems to be incredible with it's assisted GPS implemented settings.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

I also had gps problems on certain 2.3.5 roms. Couldn't get the gps icon to even appear in the notification bar. No error messages when turning gps on though. Sound like your problems?
No need to go back to stock. Try Coredroid or CM7. I can confirm both work with gps. Also perhaps try LeeDrOid. Very close to stock look and feel but with some nice tweaks. Gps also working there too.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium

wnp_79 said:
I also had gps problems on certain 2.3.5 roms. Couldn't get the gps icon to even appear in the notification bar. No error messages when turning gps on though. Sound like your problems?
No need to go back to stock. Try Coredroid or CM7. I can confirm both work with gps. Also perhaps try LeeDrOid. Very close to stock look and feel but with some nice tweaks. Gps also working there too.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using xda premium
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the icon appears and i got gps far outside the city, but when i grabbed it the signal was lost. Had to put it in front of the car to get the signal, very sensitive. I resetted gps data many times but that didn't change anything.
Before i started flashing ROMs, it worked pretty fine, in the cities too.
Actually I think that all the ROMs that I tried are not faster or better than the Stock I had before. So i'm a bit confused about what doing next?!
LeedrOid and Coredroid are from August. Aren't they a bit outdated?
Does an update of the Base and Kernel might has positive effects to the gps?
Because ther is an update for Desire S Official Sense 3.0 - [GRJ90] [2.3.5] OTA 2.10.401.4
@mimirom:
I tried MIUI too, same problem here

meinFreund said:
Does an update of the Base and Kernel might has positive effects to the gps?
D
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For the signal reception ou have to try another radio.img

If you want navigation working why dont you use another stable ROMs like Virtuous Unity, VoidU1.1a etc. etc..
Reverting back to stock is something unusual after rooting. There are lot of candidates , Just pick one and hit the base..Keep Hitting

blindndumb said:
If you want navigation working why dont you use another stable ROMs like Virtuous Unity, VoidU1.1a etc. etc..
Reverting back to stock is something unusual after rooting. There are lot of candidates , Just pick one and hit the base..Keep Hitting
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I tried several Roms, always the same probs with gps.. thats the reason why i consider flashing back to stock.. i'd like to stay in costoum, but without Navigation i cant use it.

Eclipse_Droid said:
yes that is the RUU to flash.
but before you do that u need to be sure you have bootloader ENG HBOOT-0.98.2000
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1113820
then you run the RUU.exe file on your pc and follow the on screen instructions.
this will return you completely to stock
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thanx a lot

meinFreund said:
Hey,
i still can't get GPS Navigation for my Desire with Desire S Android 2.3.5 Sense 3.0 ROM from proxuser.
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Sry for the dump question but is it now a desire or desire s? If it is an desire your lucky that the only problem you got is GPS
Swyped from my Desire S

Tectas said:
Sry for the dump question but is it now a desire or desire s? If it is an desire your lucky that the only problem you got is GPS
Swyped from my Desire S
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Yo, it is an desire S
Read that Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 will be released soon, can anyone say how long it usually takes to get a release of a new version such as ICS 4?
Would like to test that as well

Hey,
I now flashed the Cyanogenmod 7.1 and have big trouble with that.
GPS does not work as well as with the other ROMS (GPS fix can't even "fix")
But there are some more difficulties.. i cant call or get called by someone, the Homebutton does not work (after flash, it worked.. but after shutdown it doesn't anymore)
Apart from these problems, this ROM is very fast and nice looking!
Does one of you have an idea how long it takes until a shipped ROM of ICS is available when its released?

Hi I have also cm7.1 since stable release and not having your problems. Just csipsimple has some isues. Did you do wipe cache and data? Did you restore via titanium? I restored BT pairings and had to begin since clean system, cause BT didn't work correctly. I would give a try to flash radio.
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

meinFreund said:
Hey,
I now flashed the Cyanogenmod 7.1 and have big trouble with that.
GPS does not work as well as with the other ROMS (GPS fix can't even "fix")
But there are some more difficulties.. i cant call or get called by someone, the Homebutton does not work (after flash, it worked.. but after shutdown it doesn't anymore)
Apart from these problems, this ROM is very fast and nice looking!
Does one of you have an idea how long it takes until a shipped ROM of ICS is available when its released?
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in that case you should consider about the bad weather that can affect GPS receiver.
so you can try later whenever the weather becomes better?

Touchscreen issues, sense related?

Fellow Sensation users,
I've got some problems with the touchscreen that is possibly related to sense?
I've posted this in the coindroid thread already, but nobody will reply to it, so I thought i'll make a thread.
Copy/past from my post in the CoinDroid thread:
Ok, yesterday I installed CoinDroid again. But i have the same problems:
-Sometimes screen wont turn on, then i have to pull the battery.
-Sometimes i cant unlock the screen with the ring, touch doesnt work anywhere on the screen.
I haven't installed many roms, but i've tested with other roms and the only stable ones for me is VI and HyperNonSense. I dont get the screen problems i've mentioned above with VI/HNS. So it's definitly not the screen that causes the problem! My idea: because both VI and HNS dont have sense on them, i think it's related to sense. Maybe some people bought a phone from a wrong batch?
Any ideas from other people? If I cant find a fix or something, I have to find a new phone...
Some details about my phone:
Sensation XE
HBOOT: 1.27.1100
radio: 11.22.3504.07_m
Some details about roms i've used:
Stock - problems
CoinDroid - problems
VI - no problems
HNS - no problems
Will update some more later, busy at work

I would suggest you install a stock ROM, And see if the problem is software or the hardware.
You can use this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849.

roi258 said:
I would suggest you install a stock ROM, And see if the problem is software or the hardware.
You can use this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1098849.
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Same thing, that's why i decided to root and custom rom it before ICS got released..

Your problem is like in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWoRuweerIY
If yes try this and let me know:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...ing-touchscreen-issues-heres-a-potential-fix/

roi258 said:
Your problem is like in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWoRuweerIY
If yes try this and let me know:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...ing-touchscreen-issues-heres-a-potential-fix/
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Yes, exactly. But only with sense roms.. Why doesnt it do this when i have a rom without sense?

I really do not know why, But try to do what is offered here:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...ing-touchscreen-issues-heres-a-potential-fix/

roi258 said:
I really do not know why, But try to do what is offered here:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...ing-touchscreen-issues-heres-a-potential-fix/
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Thats not it, sorry bro.

are you using bricked kernel??

Viper ROM issue

So i flash ViperOneS 2.1.0 - everything works perfect.Then i get the OTA update to 2.2.0, wich i download and install. After i installed 2.2.0 the rom is incredibly laggy and it moves like sh*t. Anyone else has this problem? I tried to clear the data for htc sense but it didnt solve anything....

cosmionnn said:
So i flash ViperOneS 2.1.0 - everything works perfect.Then i get the OTA update to 2.2.0, wich i download and install. After i installed 2.2.0 the rom is incredibly laggy and it moves like sh*t. Anyone else has this problem? I tried to clear the data for htc sense but it didnt solve anything....
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Mate, did you search in the Venom section about this issue?
Because there is stated clearly, that you should change the skin as well at least one time and clear also data of venom tweaks and venom hub...

rootrider said:
Mate, did you search in the Venom section about this issue?
Because there is stated clearly, that you should change the skin as well at least one time and clear also data of venom tweaks and venom hub...
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Ah damn, yes you are right...i saw something about clearing data but not the skin changing....thanks and sorry for this, my own stupid mistake.

You're welcome. Sorry for being a bit rude in my answer. I should have considered that there is too much different information in all of these threads for new owners of this device.