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New Inspire

Hey y'all, I'm originally a forum poster on [H]ard Forums and I just got the new HTC Inspire. I've been hearing all about rooting and roming phones and I'm thinking about doing it. Problem is, I don't know much about it. I was thinking about doing it not only for the free apps but so I could completely customize my UI. If y'all could give me the pros and cons and possibly directing me to what I need or should do to root my phone I would like to know. This is my first Smart phone so I'm very interested in this process.

Xenomaniac said:
Hey y'all, I'm originally a forum poster on [H]ard Forums and I just got the new HTC Inspire. I've been hearing all about rooting and roming phones and I'm thinking about doing it. Problem is, I don't know much about it. I was thinking about doing it not only for the free apps but so I could completely customize my UI. If y'all could give me the pros and cons and possibly directing me to what I need or should do to root my phone I would like to know. This is my first Smart phone so I'm very interested in this process.
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Probably the best way to root your phone is the inspire hack kit. Its easy to follow and there is a ton of support for it.
The main pros are free wifi tether, side loading enabled, hsupa enabled, and tons of mods.
The cons would be if you have to take it back to att you will have to go through an unrooted process. Its not to hard but still a hassle. I can honestly stay rooted is the best way to really enjoy your phone.
Stock look
ClearD rom. Ive tried it and I haven't had any problems with it.
TPC Rom. Its stock with an over clocked kernel
DHD Rom
Android Revolution is fast and stable stock look
RCMix HD fast and stable and made with transparency.
These are the ones Ive used and they all work.
Have fun with your phone.

klquicksall said:
Probably the best way to root your phone is the inspire hack kit. Its easy to follow and there is a ton of support for it.
The main pros are free wifi tether, side loading enabled, hsupa enabled, and tons of mods.
The cons would be if you have to take it back to att you will have to go through an unrooted process. Its not to hard but still a hassle. I can honestly stay rooted is the best way to really enjoy your phone.
Stock look
ClearD rom. Ive tried it and I haven't had any problems with it.
TPC Rom. Its stock with an over clocked kernel
DHD Rom
Android Revolution is fast and stable stock look
RCMix HD fast and stable and made with transparency.
These are the ones Ive used and they all work.
Have fun with your phone.
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Did you reflash the radio on any of these Roms? I am rooted and about to try some Roms but don't really want to deal with flashing radios.

bmolloy said:
Did you reflash the radio on any of these Roms? I am rooted and about to try some Roms but don't really want to deal with flashing radios.
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Why not? Its really easy. Check the development threads. No need for eng s-off.
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.

bmolloy said:
Did you reflash the radio on any of these Roms? I am rooted and about to try some Roms but don't really want to deal with flashing radios.
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I have used both the recommend radio for the roms and the att raido. They all work fine.

I'm thinking about making my own UI interface using photoshop and creating a launch as well. Is it something that is really easy to do? I'm a big Aliens fan (H.R. Giger, not that ****ty AvP movie bull****) and would love to make a custom UI or at least make sounds for when I press a button (thinking about when I shut down hearing Hudson saying "that's it man, game over man game over!")
I'm probably getting way ahead of myself seeing that I'm still new to all of this.

Which is the best rom or are they all essentially the same?

first post noob questions

Hello , i'm buying the inspire and i've searched around the web, and found that the locked to att inspire can be unlocked paying about 14 bucks...
but then i read here in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
This contains everything needed to Radio S-OFF, Sim Unlock, root and installs rom manager and custom recovery on the HTC Inspire/DHD, and then flash back the stock AT&T radio if desired. Downgrade ROM is fully functional, with soundfix.
Sim unlock...
so do i need to buy an unlocked one, or can i unlock ANY insipire from att using the hack kit?
Thank you....

solrac8126 said:
Hello , i'm buying the inspire and i've searched around the web, and found that the locked to att inspire can be unlocked paying about 14 bucks...
but then i read here in this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952352
This contains everything needed to Radio S-OFF, Sim Unlock, root and installs rom manager and custom recovery on the HTC Inspire/DHD, and then flash back the stock AT&T radio if desired. Downgrade ROM is fully functional, with soundfix.
Sim unlock...
so do i need to buy an unlocked one, or can i unlock ANY insipire from att using the hack kit?
Thank you....
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Part of the hackkit is the SIM Unlock. the steps in the hack kit will sim unlock the device, no need to get one pre-unlocked

OK, now that i bought the phone i was wondering if someone can point me out to a rom.
I will like something that looks stock but with better batt life more speed less lagg etc...
sense 3 looks nice too...
what i don't want its something that does "magic" but crashes or simply doesn't work 100%
is that available today?
some bonus history:
the last cell phone i've used for the past 3 years was an iphone 2g
at the beginning i wanted to unlock jailbreak etc etc
now i don't even look at cydia or anything that has to do with it (except video)
i don't know if i want to spend weeks testing ALL roms i rather like some directions on where to go.
thank you.

I would recommend the rom android revolution for your needs. Its a very stable optimized stock gingerbread rom. For sense 3.0 I would look at RCMix3D kingdom. Its a relatively new rom though.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using XDA App

Android Revolution is nice, but I think you would prefer Ingersoll. It also is very close to stock and is one of the fastest ROMs out there(I am also using it right now).
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1015206
You would want to flash the kernel he also made for the ROM right after you reboot from flashing the ROM...
Also right below the downloads, check out the add-ons, I found the stock animations with a few aesthetics thrown in looks really nice,such as the transparent slide down menu.
One more thing! I know you said you were intrested in running 3.0, considering it is relatively new any ROMs that are very close to it such as RCmix3D will be very buggy and slow(i tried it myself).
Hope this helps ;P

if you like the features of sense, try honeysense. its fast, good on battery life and it rocks

thank you all
i've seen some vids of coredroid... what do you think about that one?

I don't find it to be as Fast as other ROMs and all of the blue just was not for me...but of you don't mind losing some speed for aesthetics and you like the color blue, you should be satisfied with it
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coredroid is ok but is not too godd for battery life

If you want the nwest, then rxmic3d v.1.1 , its running sense 3,0

i'm using lee droid at the moment
i want lot's of battery

i went through 3 sense ROM's before i tried MIUI and it's given me the best speed and battery life of any ROM and you can install a launcher with a sense theme if you just like the look

[Q] New to Inspire 4G from Aria

Just got my new Inspire 4G (at&t). I'm going to root (obviously the stock is unusable) but I am very confused. I'm going to use Ace Hack kit to Root, etc. I keep seeing posts about flashing the Radio as well. Do I need to? I'm in Manhattan with decent reception.
IS there a Dalingrin kernel that works on Inspire? If not, what OC kernel is best?
Also, I'm thinking of using CM7 or LeeDroid. Any pros or cons for either? Must I change the radio with either?
Thanks lads, cheers m8s!

You may need to change your radio if you don't have the 06.06.30 radio and LeeDroid is my favorite sense ROM if I ever go back to sense and cm7 is excellent smooth as butter but I like MIUI better. If you have a chance try it out you won't regret it. And Leedroid sense kernel is the best for sense my opinion and Lord kernel for AOSP is AMAZING
Sent from my HTC Desire HD using XDA Premium App

wpnyc2009 said:
Just got my new Inspire 4G (at&t). I'm going to root (obviously the stock is unusable) but I am very confused. I'm going to use Ace Hack kit to Root, etc. I keep seeing posts about flashing the Radio as well. Do I need to? I'm in Manhattan with decent reception.
IS there a Dalingrin kernel that works on Inspire? If not, what OC kernel is best?
Also, I'm thinking of using CM7 or LeeDroid. Any pros or cons for either? Must I change the radio with either?
Thanks lads, cheers m8s!
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i also came from aria.. i never changed no radio, kept using the same radio that hack kit installs it was running fine but i just recently changed it to new att radio just for the sake of it....not that i needed it...

More often then not you wont need to flash a radio even if the rom says recommended. It's just just that recommended. Stay with the stock radio and see how it preforms.

Welcome.
I came from the Aria too and I think you'll love the Inspire. Since you're coming from Aria then I'm sure you're familiar with ATTN1 and his IRC channel; you won't find a better bunch to help you. Read up on the rooting process. It is more complicated than the Aria, but the payoff is greater in that you get true S-OFF and a wide open platform to experiment on once you're done.
I rooted my first Inspire manually using the cyanogen wiki guide:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=AT&T_Inspire_4G:_Rooting
The hack kit essentially automates this for you, but it doesn't hurt to read over the above guide to get an idea what's going on. Read and re-read the effen manual in the hack kit too. In a nutshell, HTC locked it down pretty good, but the chink in their armor was that it is essentially the same as a DesireHD and with a little trickery, you can get the Inspire to "downgrade" itself to an older DHD ROM that was the basis for all the rooting work done on the DHD way back when. Once "downgraded" the gfree utility frees it up (and really frees it up opening the carrier lock and SIM lock and giving you true S-OFF capability). From there, you can install any of the many ROMs available for this beast and have a ton of fun.

Is the inspire the official aria upgrade phone? Seems like more and more people myself included have come over from that phone. as people have said though the radio thing is up for debate I've switched to the newer at&t one and haven't had any issues but have heard people take both sides on the matter. I have to say for starters such with the one you start with it's always possible to change it latter.
Sent through the power of Cthulhu!

Rooted last night!!!!
Used the Ace Hack kit. Done and rooted in a few minutes. Awesome work lads! Love 'really' owning my phones.
As for the Aria-to-Inspire upgrades people are doing lots of, my change was necessitated by a facedown drop that smashed my screen into a gajillion pieces.
Cheers m8s!

hungmung said:
Is the inspire the official aria upgrade phone? Seems like more and more people myself included have come over from that phone. as people have said though the radio thing is up for debate I've switched to the newer at&t one and haven't had any issues but have heard people take both sides on the matter. I have to say for starters such with the one you start with it's always possible to change it latter.
Sent through the power of Cthulhu!
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Well, as far as ATT is concerned, its a superior HTC phone. So if your an HTC fan, it would be the natural choice.
Or if you're a disgruntled ex-captivate owner, like me.

Agreed it would be an upgrade from the aria. And from the captivated to in IMHO

It's an upgrade from the LG EXPO as well.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side.

I must agree it was certainly an upgrade especially since the aria has only just gotten a means to get s-off. Its awesome to have this much control over the phone.
Sent through the power of Cthulhu!

Post root testing

I've been lurking in this forum for few days now. I have decided to root my wife's inspire this weekend. I have the ace hack installed in my pc and it's ready to go. I probably won't install any custom ROM unless someone has a great sales pitch.
I see that some people have problems with gps and maybe WiFi after rooting. What functionality should I test immediately after root? I will be in hot water if something doesn't work like it does now.
There are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary math, and those who don't.

Everything is functional when you root but you will be left with the bugs that are already in the stock ROM. I use 2.3.5 based roms because they don't have these bugs and sense 3.0 or 3.5 are better than 2.1 IMO.
Sent from my HTC Inspire™ 4G using xda premium

Is there a recommended 3.0 or 3.5 Sense ROM that won't require a data wipe? I am hoping to avoid reinstalling all the apps she has installed. Gingerbread might be nice, but I don't want to change too many things on her.
I'll go ahead and root tonight, leaving the ROM changes for later. She thinks I'm doing a simple AT&T update.

Why are you rooting?
Sent from my HTC Inspire 4G using Tapatalk

Rooting appeared to complete, but now I get blank screen on reboot. I can get to hboot, but not recovery. PANIC!!
There are only 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary math, and those who don't.

Where to begin

I've rooted my inspire and my nook color and have custom roms on them. I'm used to the android system and how it works. I was just wondering what rom would be suggested for my inspire. I just got the phone secondhand from a friend and I'm not sure what people consider the best rom for the inspire as there are always like 40+ for each system and only 2-3 are good ones.
Thanks for the advice,
Potticus
I was also wondering if there as a way to boost my network signal. My iphone 4 gets full service in my bedroom but hte Inspire gets 1-3 or so. I'm running Android Revolution for the inspire btw.

potticus said:
I've rooted my inspire and my nook color and have custom roms on them. I'm used to the android system and how it works. I was just wondering what rom would be suggested for my inspire. I just got the phone secondhand from a friend and I'm not sure what people consider the best rom for the inspire as there are always like 40+ for each system and only 2-3 are good ones.
Thanks for the advice,
Potticus
I was also wondering if there as a way to boost my network signal. My iphone 4 gets full service in my bedroom but hte Inspire gets 1-3 or so. I'm running Android Revolution for the inspire btw.
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There is no "Best ROM" its all personal preference. Theres Sense, AOSP, MIUI. Youll just have to try them and see for yourself. To boost your signal you can try flashing new radios+rils

Trial and error really, I have tried cm7 and it was pretty good. If your looking for a suggestion I'm really liking ice cold sandwich by lord clockan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450962
Sent from my Inspire 4G Ice Cold Sandwich

Ok well, I've given Android revolution a shot, not for me. And I'm on Coredroid with the Lee kernal, But that confuses me a bit more. There is five different kernals to chose from?
As far as radios and rils, I've done my reading but that seems to be a total cluster**** as far as hunting down combos and what not. Could you direct me towards a combo that might work in the Southern states (Oklahoma to be exact) Also I've checked the guide and I've got to turn something or other off. I've turned off eng but not the other.
What might be the major differences shortly summarized between AOSP and MIUI and Sense. All I've tried is Sense to this point.

Read op of radio thread in the dev stickies. It will explain radio ril combos. As for a Rom its trial and error. Since the DHD has had more updates almost all of the roms for the inspire are based off of DHD roms. I personally beleive that anything based on an inspire Rom will give a better user experience as far as everything working the way it should. However the dhd roms have a lot more options. Att just did release our sense 3.0 Rom on the 31st so maybe we will see a little more inspire based roms going up. Still though we won't be seeing any sense 3.5 or higher roms based off of anything made specifically for the inspire and American data network. If you can sacrifice the sense interface than I would say hands down aosp is the way to go, but I myself am stuck on sense for now, and I HATE miui. But its all opinion.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium

I've been reading his thread, but I'm not sure I got the radio installed? I've tried going to bootloader but I can't seem to get it to work through his instructions.
"A. Radio - Download the PD98IMG.zip file. Place this file on the root of your SD card. Reboot to bootloader. When prompted, press the Volume Up button to install. Then reboot."
I'm not sure I'm getting the correct prompt or one at all.
I'm using coredroid until I can get all this figured out right now. (actually I'm going to ice sammich, thanks to the guy that posted it) I grabbed the latest ATT radio+ril combo for the inspire just as a starting point.
The only message i got from bootloader is "parsing the .zip" then it just goes back.

Woah! grabbed a different radio from the one I was trying, and it worked!(HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM)
Going to install the RIL right now, let's hope we've made progress to better signal. Aswell as the ICS i'm going to load on it.

Usually when it just says parsing and goes back its either a bad download or an issue with the SD card

potticus said:
Woah! grabbed a different radio from the one I was trying, and it worked!(HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM)
Going to install the RIL right now, let's hope we've made progress to better signal. Aswell as the ICS i'm going to load on it.
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Only use radio. Don't flash the ril. Ril is included in Rom anyways. Ics is aosp so don't mess with the ril. It will mess things up. Ril is for sense roms.
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Ok thanks, I put another copy of it on there and it worked. But the SD card is fine, I use it for nook flashes and whatnot.

I already did... but I'll reflash ICS now that you say that. Good call!
Am I safe to flash a few different radios over the next 2-3 weeks to check the connection without having to change anything else?

potticus said:
I already did... but I'll reflash ICS now that you say that. Good call!
Am I safe to flash a few different radios over the next 2-3 weeks to check the connection without having to change anything else?
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Yeah radios are fine to play with as long as you stick to inspire threads. Stay away from ones with rc data unless you know it matches all three radio/ril/rom.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium

unometooo said:
Trial and error really, I have tried cm7 and it was pretty good. If your looking for a suggestion I'm really liking ice cold sandwich by lord clockan
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1450962
Sent from my Inspire 4G Ice Cold Sandwich
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Gizmoe said:
Yeah radios are fine to play with as long as you stick to inspire threads. Stay away from ones with rc data unless you know it matches all three radio/ril/rom.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium
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Ok how do I know it matches up? Also, I'm on ATT and it won't read my contacts off my sim card or show me my phone number and carrier in the software informations/settings part of hte rom.
Currently I'm using the recommended radio(26.06.06.30_M AT&T) with the inspire .5 mod found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131256

potticus said:
Ok how do I know it matches up? Also, I'm on ATT and it won't read my contacts off my sim card or show me my phone number and carrier in the software informations/settings part of hte rom.
Currently I'm using the recommended radio(26.06.06.30_M AT&T) with the inspire .5 mod found here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131256
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That is the disadvantage to using roms that aren't supposed to run on our phones. Read up about Ics in the forums and see what issues are known and decide if you can live with them or if they can be fixed. There is a ton of information in these forums and pretty much already a thread for every question you could ask. That's why people say you just have to test them and and figure out which ones will work for you. The same goes for all the Rom/radio/ril combos. The radio thread is the best place but there are also many threads on the subject.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using xda premium

So far, I'm willing to deal with it. Just takes 20 minutes of reentering contacts into my phonebook. The phone number part wasn't an issue, just wondering if that was a problem.
And I just switched to the non RCdata radio at your suggestion.
My battery seems to be 100% better, I've lost 4% in the course of about 2 and a half hours.