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Is there a difference in hardware in these device, HTC desire vs HTC desire softbank.
The phone is bought and used in the Netherlands (he said from KPN(telecom provider), info came from the person), but softbank is used in Japan, so i have my ??????
I ask this because he asked me to do a Rom upgrade to Gingerbread with htc sence 3.0 on it.
I thought it was a plain HTC desire but then i saw 'softbank' on it, so i think it is 'softbank branded'.
If the specs are the same it should not matter because the device will be rooted and the SPL will be upgraded to.
Before i will do the upgrade, could anyone tell me is it the same device, does it have the same specs, from what i read, it looks the same, but i want to know for sure, i don't wanna brick it.
Thanks in advance.
Hope i have put it in the right post now.
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Hi All, Im a Flash Developer and want to get a phone for FLash mobile dev. I cant get the Nexus One where I live (South Africa) but we can get the Desire.
So my question is this, will the HTC Desire get the Froyo upgrade as soon as the Nexus One does?
Does anyone know how the Flash Player for mobile be rolled out? I can t find anything on it anywhere.
also interested in an answer to this... I know the Desire rom has been ported to the N1 but has the reverse been done and if not is it possible.
Very close to buying a Desire for it optical controller and slightly upgrade RAM but would like the option of moving to a fully functional Android 2.2 if HTC take ages releasing their own update (which is inevitable!)
Micahel
bradleycwells said:
So my question is this, will the HTC Desire get the Froyo upgrade as soon as the Nexus One does?
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Going by HTCs previous form, almost certainly not, though given how new the Desire is I would hope that HTC already have plans for an upgrade in the pipeline.
As I see it, the biggest issue with getting any form of Froyo onto the Desire is that we will need a 2.6.32 kernel.
Currently, HTC have not released the kernel source for the Desire, which makes it pretty much impossible for anyone to port the Desire specific parts of 2.6.29 to 2.6.32.
Given that the Nexus One and the Desire are very similar, it is likely that their aren't too many differences in the kernel source, but the current lack of the code for the Desire means we just don't know.
Regards,
Dave
Flash Player
Im happy to run 2.1 on the Desire, but I'm really getting it for Flash.
So does anyone know how Flash will be installed on the OS? Will it come with the update or will it come as an application that one can install?
Maybe HTC aint released the kernal for this very reason, that they dont want people to port over 2.2 from N1 ROM update.
According to a user in a german forum, HTC will release an update to 2.2 one month later: http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.android-hilfe.de%2F307474-post57.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8
I hope it's true
As far as I know Adobe will release Flash for Android in multiple ways and one of them is through the Android Market for all compatible devices.
So even if the Desire wouldn't get 2.2 for some time, Flash 10.1 should be available for the Desire from start (as HTC has marketed the Desire being Flash 10.1 ready).
Anybody got any real evidence of how this will happen?
Will be really cool if all devices get it as an install through the market but this is all still pure speculation?
Why is all this so tight lipped, we all know Flash Player is coming, why does it matter how it is coming?
Gotta love all the conjecture on these forums.
Not sure if this helps, but my desire HAS flash support. It works quite well though streaming video doesn't seem to work. Download video works most of the time (i.e. youtube etc.).
That's Flash Lite. This will be full Flash.
The Professor said:
That's Flash Lite. This will be full Flash.
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yep, which the world is dying for
bradleycwells said:
Hi All, Im a Flash Developer and want to get a phone for FLash mobile dev. I cant get the Nexus One where I live (South Africa) but we can get the Desire.
So my question is this, will the HTC Desire get the Froyo upgrade as soon as the Nexus One does?
Does anyone know how the Flash Player for mobile be rolled out? I can t find anything on it anywhere.
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It will be awesome to get froy one month after its release, but since i'm also from the good old South Africa i must inform you that even if HTC releases the update we (South Africans) have to wait for leaf and our "wonderful" network operators to test it as well...thats now unless you root you phone and get a ROM from XDA
Wouldnt it be a liiiiiiitle too strange if we Desire users wont get it... I mean if u compare Nexus One with Desire ther isnt realy much difference ore am i very wrong :S
now the kernal has been released, it may be possible for them to port over the current 2.1 N1 ROM to Desire. If that works then they can do it for 2.2.
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Wouldnt it be a liiiiiiitle too strange if we Desire users wont get it... I mean if u compare Nexus One with Desire ther isnt realy much difference ore am i very wrong :S
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No your right except for the fact that the nexus uses googles UI (user interface) and rhe desire uses htc's Sense UI, so the qeustion is not if it will work but when will htc port it to their UI...or thats how I understand the situation.
Just got a reply on a email I sent to HTC regarding the update to 2.2 (Froy) for the desire
This is the reply I got:
"Good Day Thank you for contacting HTC Support. We have received your email regarding the availability of the Android 2.0 software . We are still awaiting for feedback from Google SA on the (TA ) of the Android 2.0 version . Should you have any other queries please feel free to contact us again . Kind Regards HTC Support"
Not sure if this only counts for SA but doesn't really sound like the guy knows what hes talking about because i specifically asked about Android 2.2 aka Froy. We already have Android 2.0...
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Just got a reply on a email I sent to HTC regarding the update to 2.2 (Froy) for the desire
This is the reply I got:
"Good Day Thank you for contacting HTC Support. We have received your email regarding the availability of the Android 2.0 software . We are still awaiting for feedback from Google SA on the (TA ) of the Android 2.0 version . Should you have any other queries please feel free to contact us again . Kind Regards HTC Support"
Not sure if this only counts for SA but doesn't really sound like the guy knows what hes talking about because i specifically asked about Android 2.2 aka Froy. We already have Android 2.0...
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Its little bit weird to ask about updates on system that was not even announced.
hello guys im new to htc desire forum. currently i own a sony ericsson xperia x10. sony ericsson is really slow with thier update and i want 2.1 or 2.2 cellphone which htc desire came into my mind. telus in canada is getting htc desire on the 6th of august so im wondering is it possible to unbrand the the phone? cuz i dont like telus bootup logo. and how is 2.2 in your desire? please share and thanks
I too am waiting to buy the Telus Desire. We will then see which version of HBOOT it has. Anything above .80 has not been hacked, yet.
ya cant wait . ill have to sell my xperia 10 or maybe keep it and samsung galaxy s comes same day but it doesnt have camera flash. so i decided to get desire
does anyone think that this will work on a rooted desire running official 2.2 rom????
I want badly! we need this.
It's only just been announced and we won't know until it has been released on the new Desire Z, Desire HD phones. I hope they update the Desire to this new sense though.
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I hope they update the Desire to this new sense though.
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Me too! This new sense has some nice new features.
Looking through HD specifications I saw that it will support .avi and .xvid video playback. Could be useful if they bring this to Desire. DLNA too.
And this HTCSense.com thing sounds nice.
Even if they can't update the sense on the Desire I am sure it wouldn't take much for HTC to make an app to read phone data, many free apps already do this so should be simple in theory.
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have you guys not learnt anything from htc yet lol i can guarante you this feature will not be officially ported to the desire. the main reason is because if htc gave there older phones all the new features, what incentive do we have to spend $500/600 on a new device
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have you guys not learnt anything from htc yet lol i can guarante you this feature will not be officially ported to the desire. the main reason is because if htc gave there older phones all the new features, what incentive do we have to spend $500/600 on a new device
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this is very true. i waited for ages on the 2.1 update for the hero until i got fed up and got a desire
You have a point, AndroHero, but on the other hand, how many Desire owners would actually switch to a Desire HD or Desire Z? I know there are some enthusiasts, but most of us will at the least wait until next year. I could understand not giving this to a model that's maybe 1-2 years old, but Desire is from this spring, so it wouldn't prevent many people from buying a new phone, and people would know that buying a HTC was a safe bet.
I'm not saying it will come to Desire, but I think it should.
I just got my desire and see no reason to upgrade to these phones at all.
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I bought Desire in April and I will probably skip Desire HD. Its nice phone, but I don't think its worth to upgrade, because I think soon we will have better phones available: with dual core processors, Android Gingerbread etc. So I will rather wait for those phones.
Hey All,
I just called HTC and asked them flat out if they are going to support the Desire with the New HTC Sense as found on the Desire Z and HD. The guy said that they have been told that it is likely for all of the phones supporting the current HTC Sense at the moment to be upgraded as they want them on the website however it was uncertain as to any ETA.
My main suggestion or reason for why HTC would upgrade older phones is data. Seriously. As a software developer myself, we crave data in order to examine usage and everything.
Yeah.. hope you will get any response as soon as possible and share it with us.
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Hi I'm thinking of getting a dhd on Tesco mobile does anyone know if it will Get
2.3
I'm pretty certain it will, are they even branded from tesco mobile?
HTC have said that they will be updating the Desire HD to 2.3, so I think you would get the update ...eventually.
If you simply can't wait for gingerbread then you could always take the risk of installing a custom 2.3 based rom, theres plenty in the DHD 'Android Development' section
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HTC have said that they will be updating the Desire HD to 2.3, so I think you would get the update ...eventually.
If you simply can't wait for gingerbread then you could always take the risk of installing a custom 2.3 based rom, theres plenty in the DHD 'Android Development' section
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What are you talking about. HTC have already updated the DHD to GingerBread, so have many UK carriers. I'm fairly certain though that Tesco phones are all unbranded anyway, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I do hope they are unbranded..... Having a nice phone with Tesco logo on it would just make me laugh where ever u are there is a Tesco lol
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What are you talking about. HTC have already updated the DHD to GingerBread, so have many UK carriers. I'm fairly certain though that Tesco phones are all unbranded anyway, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
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I have a friend with a DHD who's still waiting for his update, thats all haha
I might be wrong and hes just unlucky
Its branded just like o2. I seen for14 quid a debrandkit that consists of a SD cardandu flash the Tom to stock ill get 2.3 then. I'm sticking with Tesco cause they cheap as chips lol
The Desire HD on Tesco is probably the best network. I bought mine in Vodafone and it was packed full of bloatware (Vodafone this, that, soundhog or something). Where as my dad purchased the phone on Tesco and its pretty much a clean stock rom. His came on 2.2 and we just updated to 2.3.2.
Tesco Rocks, Vodafone Sucks.