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[Q] Several Questions about mods etc

I just got my desire HD a few days ago. But have been visiting this site from some time back. Now i wanna load a custom mod on my phone. However there are several questions which i am stuck at. :|
1) What is the difference between the "Android Revolution HD 3.2 mod[ARHD]" and "Cynagenmod"?
2)Is rooting required? If yes, could anyone help me how to please.
3)In the Themes and Apps section i seen that many themes had the [CM7] tag. Im assuming this is for the cyanogenmod, but will it work on the "ARHD" also?
4)Most of the mods installation asks for S-off or so. What is it? :
5)What is flashing?
and lastly
6)Whats the difference between Sense UI and no-sense UI? [im thinking it includes/excludes the default htc sense.]

As i am new at these things too, i will try to answer some of your questions.
1. Cyanogenmod is based on AOST source, which is main android source, while Revolution, LeeDrOID and rest are based on HTC source.
2. To be able to flash cooked ROM your Desire HD needs to be rooted.
Full step-by-step guide is here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=11557769
3. Themes for one ROM might work on other, but are not recommended.
4. Check the guide in point 2.
5. Same as above.
6. I think you got that right.
I hope i helped you a bit.Cheers

glenvarun said:
I just got my desire HD a few days ago. But have been visiting this site from some time back. Now i wanna load a custom mod on my phone. However there are several questions which i am stuck at. :|
1) What is the difference between the "Android Revolution HD 3.2 mod[ARHD]" and "Cynagenmod"?
2)Is rooting required? If yes, could anyone help me how to please.
3)In the Themes and Apps section i seen that many themes had the [CM7] tag. Im assuming this is for the cyanogenmod, but will it work on the "ARHD" also?
4)Most of the mods installation asks for S-off or so. What is it? :
5)What is flashing?
and lastly
6)Whats the difference between Sense UI and no-sense UI? [im thinking it includes/excludes the default htc sense.]
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Some of the mods are made specificaly for a ROM. The tag describes what ROM they are designed for. Rooting and S-OFF is requred for installation of a custom ROM, so yes, it's required for the mods also. You should probably ask the mod developer if his mod is compatable with another ROM, but I think CM7 being Gingerbread and ARHD3.2 being Froyo, the chances are slim. S-OFF is "Security OFF". HTC introduced a level of security which was supposed to make the system "read only" for anyone but them to prevent custom ROMs, kernels and ultimately - overclocking, which potentialy can damage your device. Luckily thy didn't do a good job on that, so the developers found a workaround. Flashing is writing a new ROM, kernel or a set of system files in your phone. And lastly, you are correct about the sense/non-sense stuff.
You can find good guides in the developement section about rooting, S-OFF (both radio and eng), flashing ROMs, etc. Bear in mind though that if your software version is 1.72, you'll have to downgrade first to get to the rootable 1.32

First of all thanks for the help.
I suppose flash means to install. Also the guide you gave me tells how to put s-off but i wanted to know what does s-off mean??
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

@ tkolev
Thanks a ton maan , that seriously helped a lot .
Btw you suggested in your post that overclockin could hwrm the system. Can cuetom roms also harm the system by any way??
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App

glenvarun said:
@ tkolev
Thanks a ton maan , that seriously helped a lot .
Btw you suggested in your post that overclockin could hwrm the system. Can cuetom roms also harm the system by any way??
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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Custom Roms are there to help and inprove the things...
Overclocking is running an hardware to something which it was not designed for...So it could harm the phone (Does not mean that it always does, there are guys who are running the overclock phone without problem).
Custom Roms are just the installed ROM so if you flash one rom and don't like it replace it with another one..before flashing read the instruction and flash (I was only able to run official rom for 2 hours, after that I rooted and installed CM7...

@sanju.
so there wouldnt be any problems right? and which would you suggest.
Revolution or CM7 ?
Also the warranty gets void if im not wrong but is there any way to counter it like in the case of apple devices?

Yes you can revert your handset back to complete factory settings by running a suitable RUU (Rom Update Utility).
This will restore everything, except Radio S-OFF, back to HTC defaults. You could then send your handset away to be repaired, etc...

glenvarun said:
@sanju.
so there wouldnt be any problems right? and which would you suggest.
Revolution or CM7 ?
Also the warranty gets void if im not wrong but is there any way to counter it like in the case of apple devices?
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Rom depends on your choice, Revolution is based on HTC framework (sense and no-sense both available), 3.2 is froyo based, 4.X is gingerbread but its in beta..YOu will get the stock applications like video player, camera etc..
CM7 is also under development, RC2 is stable version, It is based on AOSP GingerBread...has a lot of modifications....I use this one....Just my preferance...
You can try both and see which one you like...
About warrenty, yes, you need to restore the RUU to claim it, but there are enough thread around which will tell you how to do that...
The only thing is I haven't seen the RUU for India, there is one for Asia and version number is close so that can work...in case it is required, or...before flashing custom rom create a backup for your official rom and save that backup...so that you can use that to come back to official rom...

Oh but i checked and seen that in CM7 the things like gps and google maps don't work .

tkolev said:
Some of the mods are made specificaly for a ROM. The tag describes what ROM they are designed for. Rooting and S-OFF is requred for installation of a custom ROM, so yes, it's required for the mods also.
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Not all custom roms require S-OFF btw... I would root your phone, once you have custom recovery you can flash your custom rom
get familiar with adb and just read read read .... plenty of guides out there
I would S-OFF after you are familiar with everything else... messing around with partition tables is a easy way to brick your phone... you can always S-OFF at a later date (just my personal view - alot of people S-OFF very quickly - depends how badly you want additional mods)

glenvarun said:
Oh but i checked and seen that in CM7 the things like gps and google maps don't work .
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Some people have had trouble with the gps lock on CM7, not all, as I for one haven't got any problems with neither of the RCs nor the nightlys. I'm running nightly build 20 atm. And there is a fix for the gps included in the latest two nightlys so it's not a problem anymore.

just read a lot man, all informations you want is spread out there! in beggining this thread helps a lot: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=846248
hope it can help! =o)

glenvarun said:
@ tkolev
Thanks a ton maan , that seriously helped a lot .
Btw you suggested in your post that overclockin could hwrm the system. Can cuetom roms also harm the system by any way??
Sent from my Desire HD using XDA App
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No, overclocking to a reasonable extend should not harm your phone. I'm running an overclocked kernel (1.2 GHz) and it has no negative effect on my phone. In the manufacturing process there are deviations from the design and Qualcomm has rated the processor which is in our DHDs to 1GHz. This means that most processors can safely handle higher frequencies, but the higher they rate their production, more units will have to be scrapped. I think it's quite safe to go for 1.2 or even 1.5 (if you really need it and monitor the teperature closely) but I would never run on 1.8 GHz. I just wanted to explain why HTC decided to go for locked internal memory. There is a reason for that, not just because they are mean control freaks... oh wait those were Apple .

BigMrB said:
Not all custom roms require S-OFF btw... I would root your phone, once you have custom recovery you can flash your custom rom
get familiar with adb and just read read read .... plenty of guides out there
I would S-OFF after you are familiar with everything else... messing around with partition tables is a easy way to brick your phone... you can always S-OFF at a later date (just my personal view - alot of people S-OFF very quickly - depends how badly you want additional mods)
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I didn't know that you can install a custom recovery without S-OFF. Or a custom ROM without a custom recovery. Anyway there are many users which followed the guide in the developement section (including me) and did just fine (thanks to the great tools made by jkoljo and all the help we get in this great forum). Ultimately is anyone's decision what to do with his/her own phone.

I'm gonna s-off this weekend after I've fixed my custom recovery
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA Premium App

Guess u guys are confusing between Radio S-Off and Eng-S-OFF.
You can't install a custom recovery without Eng-SOFF, hence u can't install custom Roms.
There is a one click S-Off for Eng-Soff & Radio S-OFf which u can find in Dev Section.
This should do the work quickly and in a painless way...
Personally i would recommend to go for MIUI or CM7...

All your questions have been answered clearly.
Just one warning regarding the warranty. It's possible to revert to stock EXCEPT if one hard key is needed and it doesn't work.
If on DHD all can be done via adb then it's ok (never checked).
I'm just coming from HD2 and without vol- key you were fu**ed (can't launch the bootloader but OS bootable).
Anyway never stopped me to install custom roms the first day

Guide to GB ROMS?

Hello all,
I like many others, I have installed the new GB ROM from the RUU supplied by HTC and it is "OK". However, i would like something else.
I have seen many guide to install ROMS and it seems more or less clear.
My problem, and maybe the problem for other noobs if the fact that there are so many ROMs out there. It is difficult to know which one to take.
For example, I am looking for plain old stock android 2.3 for the desire. No sense, no extra HTC apps. Just what google would have on the nexus 1. But, I cant figure out which ROM fits that.
Any ideas?
What would be great is sticky which lists the ROMs and their main features for all us noobs. Unless there is one already and I didnt see it

Get Oxygen Rom mate its nice and basic , if u want to go too basic get DevNull
But for starters i think u shud go with oxygen
Pm me if u want to discuss any other details

pablo_max said:
I have installed the new GB ROM from the RUU supplied by HTC and it is "OK". However, i would like something else.
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Well, if you installed official Gingerbread 3.14.405.1 RUU, you can't get root (yet). No root means that you can't install custom rom.

pablo_max said:
What would be great is sticky which lists the ROMs and their main features for all us noobs. Unless there is one already and I didnt see it
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Isn't there one already?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=809328
Sent from my HTC Original Desire using Tapatalk

watch the video tutorial too - but it sounds like you want an AOSP rom

Yup, you definitely wanna try Oxygen + it was recently updated to Android 2.3.5.
It's sense free, all bloatware removed, very fast & minimalistic.
http://forum.oxygen.im/viewtopic.php?id=149 (it wasn't updated on XDA yet, but you can download it from there)
CyanogenMod7 will also fit you.

Should have read into what you were doing before you updated. You can't root now, which means no custom ROMs for you. HTC updated HBOOT so no more rooting for the time being. You're stuck with it till someone cracks it. Unlucky dude.

My recommendation:
Sense (2.1+3.0) : InsertCoin 1.0.9
AOSP: Oxygen
no MIUI from me...sorry..

Thanks for all the replies. I am pretty sure it is only a matter of days or weeks at most until I can root. I recall the same situation last update.
It sounds like oxygen is the way to go. Once the root is available I will give it a shot. Thanks.

MIUI v4 (GSM/CDMA) Working with USC Wildfire S Marvelc

This is a general note for those interested in a fairly stable ROM for the US version of the (CDMA) Wildfire S running 2.3.5 (Marvelc.)
After trying several other ROMS, some supposed to be stable with CDMA but were not, I can state the MIUI v4 - 2.8.10 by Henry_01 DOES work with my US Cellular WFS after updating from v2.3.4 to 2.3.5. However, I had problems when installing via cwm recovery for reasons I cannot fathom, but everything went smooth after reverting to twrp 2.2.2 and doing the simple wipe thing...
Just for the record... Yes: Both Data and Wifi worked straight from 1st boot.
Nice Work Henry-01 ^5
UPDATE:
MIUI v4 failed... I couldn't find a fix for the GPS, I'm guessing because I couldn't find an option in Settings to activate GPS... but the ROM was still stable otherwise.
I will try other ROMS and add my findings here as I go until I have something working at least 90% I don't expect 100% as these ROMs need to be tested and continually developed, especially for marvelc.
Currently running: cm-9.1.0-CRYPTOMILK-ALPHA9-marvelc
This appears to have updated my android version to v4.0 ? It doesn't come with GAPPS so I installed myself using goo.im goomanger from there site v2.2.
This was yesterday. Checked and working:
Wifi, Data, GPS, SMS, Phone.
Camera/Camcorder and browser. (Browser seems a little slow and glitchy... but that may have been down to the connection... not sure yet.)
I will test further today...
SuperSu, Link2sd,

gryffon said:
This is a general note for those interested in a fairly stable ROM for the US version of the (CDMA) Wildfire S running 2.3.5 (Marvelc.)
After trying several other ROMS, some supposed to be stable with CDMA but were not, I can state the MIUI v4 - 2.8.10 by Henry_01 DOES work with my US Cellular WFS after updating from v2.3.4 to 2.3.5. However, I had problems when installing via cwm recovery for reasons I cannot fathom, but everything went smooth after reverting to twrp 2.2.2 and doing the simple wipe thing...
Just for the record... Yes: Both Data and Wifi worked straight from 1st boot.
Nice Work Henry-01 ^5
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you should install twrp 2.3 with goo manager

icu64 said:
you should install twrp 2.3 with goo manager
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Tried twrp 2.3 but it wouldn't work... hence using 2.2.2..
+ goomanager is included in MIUI v4 ....
I'm just sharing my own experience with this particular phone/rom/etc...

Can you flash cron mod with that recovery?
Sent from my Marvelc using Tapatalk 2

icu64 said:
Can you flash cron mod with that recovery?
Sent from my Marvelc using Tapatalk 2
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I'm not familiar with "Cron mod" but... I did try the marvelc cm-9.1.0-CRYPTOMILK-ALPHA9-marvelc yesterday, I couldn't get the cm7 or cm9 working while using cwm recovery but never tried the cm9 Alpha9 until now, and of course I used twrp as I find it appears to work great on my device.
Anyway, this alpha9 is to date: The ONLY ROM I've installed on this MarvelC wfs that actually works with wifi/data/gps having no issues, and I flashed gaps by downloading goo manager from the goo.im site.
Now to test and read some more and find out if I have any bugs on this rom.
As I've tested quite a few roms this week... I may at some point start a thread with all roms that I COULDN'T get to work on the wfs US cdma...

jelly bean roms work pretty great, except GPS but if you turn WiFi on (don't need to connect to an access point) it gets you dead on. for me at least. and yes you can flash cronmods int2ext+ with twrp 2.2, so im guessing you can flash the rest as well.
Sent from my Marvelc using xda app-developers app

demi_fiend said:
jelly bean roms work pretty great, except GPS but if you turn WiFi on (don't need to connect to an access point) it gets you dead on. for me at least. and yes you can flash cronmods int2ext+ with twrp 2.2, so im guessing you can flash the rest as well.
Sent from my Marvelc using xda app-developers app
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For me, the GPS needs to work, for travel. Wifi does get you very close but that is no good when using the navigation to follow a route by instruction. I didn't even realize at first that the wifi did that and thought that the GPS was 'Working' in CM9. Alas it was not... So another failure for me :/

well the only two roms that work flawlessly with our phones is jmz sense and teamblueridge sense. which kinda stinks because they're gingerbread.
Sent from my Marvelc using xda app-developers app

[Q] Status Error 7 When Trying to Flash GPE ROM

I'm trying to flash the AT&T Google Play Edition HTC One M8 ROM onto my phone. I'm coming from the CyanogenMod nightlies. I really do love CyanogenMod and all its extra features, but with all the bugs included in the nightlies (which is too be expected) and the lack of BoomSound and HTC's Ultrapixel camera, it seems pointless.
The problem is, after doing a factory reset in ClockWorkMod Recovery, I try to flash the ROM, and it says "Status Error 7." Any idea how to fix this?

I can't really answer your question but I have noticed that error 7 when trying to flash a ROM or two. What I found is that changing to a earlier ROM or redownload the ROM helped me. I had issues with Liquidsmooth and MIUI and waited for a new release of those Roms and it worked. Just a thought.
Sent via electrical potential to your device. HTC One M8 - MIUI V5 rom

frankieworld said:
I can't really answer your question but I have noticed that error 7 when trying to flash a ROM or two. What I found is that changing to a earlier ROM or redownload the ROM helped me. I had issues with Liquidsmooth and MIUI and waited for a new release of those Roms and it worked. Just a thought.
Sent via electrical potential to your device. HTC One M8 - MIUI V5 rom
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Or something as simple as updating CWM

BerndM14 said:
Or something as simple as updating CWM
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I tried that, in my case, including downgrading and also using TWRP and never worked for my case. That's what made life frustrating as a noob like myself that's learning on XDA...
Sent via electrical potential to your device. HTC One M8 - MIUI V5 rom

frankieworld said:
I tried that, in my case, including downgrading and also using TWRP and never worked for my case. That's what made life frustrating as a noob like myself that's learning on XDA...
Sent via electrical potential to your device. HTC One M8 - MIUI V5 rom
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That's what makes it fun though... :good:

BerndM14 said:
That's what makes it fun though... :good:
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That's true.. Spent this whole weekend and the last and the one before that flashing, s-off and other good stuff.. I think I need help, I have a flashing addiction lol
Sent via electrical potential to your device. HTC One M8 - MIUI V5 rom

Get an iPhone no more flashing[emoji12]

[Q] Which version of CWM do I have ?

Hello guys!
After few years I have installed CWM through your tutorial. That was beggining of 2014. Now is 2015 and I have found some tutorials how to update my phone (HTC Desire 300) to lolipop 5.0.Now I must know which version of clockworkmod do I have because ROM Manager is asking me. When I installed CWM I think it was "CWMRecovery_Philz-cmw6-v5.15.9_base_6.0.3.7_by_SPaWn" now is it ClockworkMod 2.X or 3.x+ ? Mybe it's dumb question but I really need answer. Thanks for patience
My friend has told me already.

There is only 2 recovery for Desire 300 (actually 3 but 2 CWM).
First is Philz that had some problems and second is Unofficial CWM 6.0.2.8 from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-300/general/recovery-cwm-recovery-6-0-2-8-htc-t2860761
Also you have TWRP from same thread.
BTW, where did you get Android L for Desire 300? And, please, report progress with Lollipop.

ffroms said:
There is only 2 recovery for Desire 300 (actually 3 but 2 CWM).
First is Philz that had some problems and second is Unofficial CWM 6.0.2.8 from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/desire-300/general/recovery-cwm-recovery-6-0-2-8-htc-t2860761
Also you have TWRP from same thread.
BTW, where did you get Android L for Desire 300? And, please, report progress with Lollipop.
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Hmmm my bad, ROM that I wanted to install have survey and I think it is a classic scam. Sorry for this.