HTC Custom ROMs [Archive]

cyb3rt

09-07-2010, 01:33 PM

Howzit guys, root friends! So, what are all you guys running on your phone and what have your experiences been?

I'm currently on the [Froyo] DJ DROID v1.0-R1 BETA - with HTC Sense - HD 720p - base 2.04 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=720294) ROM

Only thing has have noticed about the "install to SD card thing" is, when you plug the phone into the PC and use Disc Drive, it breaks all the app wigdets on the home screen.

dakota

09-07-2010, 01:36 PM

I'm running stock (unrooted) at the moment. Planning on rooting and installing DJ Droid this weekend!

kvi

09-07-2010, 01:45 PM

hey cyb3rt

you on desire? which root method did you use?

cyb3rt

09-07-2010, 01:52 PM

Yes, HTC Desire, use the MoDaCo r6 release (http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/14-jun-r6-riskfreeroot-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-with-hboot-0-80-and-os-to-1-21-support/).

DAE_JA_VOO

09-07-2010, 04:45 PM

nly thing has have noticed about the "install to SD card thing" is, when you plug the phone into the PC and use Disc Drive, it breaks all the app wigdets on the home screen.

Yeah, this actually made me reflash and then start installing apps on the phone instead of the SD card. The ROM is perfect now.

Anyway, I was running the Pays ROM for a few weeks until the DJ Droid ROM was released yesterday, so I'm using that now as well.

francoislr

12-07-2010, 01:30 AM

DJ Droid for me as well....SD card access tests are much better now, the HD recording is phenominal....Wifi is incredibly far reaching now as well! Quite impressed!

Had a biut of trouble with the rom though....I did not wipe data and so on on the first install, and I could not get into the bit where you add your Google log-in, no matter how/where I went. Google Talk did not work, gmail did not. Did the Data wipe thing, then it was fine, but it did not sync my google contacts for some reason, so I just imported it from my backup.

Still happily testing it away.

trinityEon

12-07-2010, 09:42 AM

I currently have a 4GB standard card that came with desire, i ordered a 16Gb but im curios to find out if i can just copy everything over to the new card or do i have to format the 16Gb card as i did with A2SD, and all should work?

cyb3rt

12-07-2010, 12:42 PM

Awesome!!! Website to cook your own ROMs (http://cookandroid.com/). Cook your ROM on any of the following bases:

DeFrost 2.0
OpenDesire 1.5
ShadowFrost 1.4
Cyanogenmod 6
DJ Droid 1.0

PS: HTC Desire only.

DAE_JA_VOO

12-07-2010, 01:36 PM

That's cool and all, but you can essentially do most of that yourself anyway. When you download a ROM, you can just take out and add stuff as you please simply by unzipping, adding/removing apps/ rezipping :)

cyb3rt

13-07-2010, 07:07 PM

I'm running LeeDrOiD ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=724123) now, its more clean, and more stable and a bit more smooth for me.

cyb3rt

14-07-2010, 05:42 PM

My latest:

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm106/TurboLeunis/snap20100714_174000.png

Vie

15-07-2010, 04:14 PM

Rooted using r5
Started off with a MCR Sense+2.1 r3.1 ROM
Then tried out the MCR Froyo r21, which is a vanilla android
Since the uDK leak I've been using the MCR Froyo+Sense r4.

In truth, I REALLY prefer the Android vanilla "theme", with the exception of the trademark Weather/Clock widget from HTC, which is easily replicated using FancyWidgets.

The only reason I haven't moved back to vanilla Sense ROM is this issue I'm having with connectivity to my Wifi at work and home. Only prevalent in the Nexus Froyo ROM ports which is odd. I'm considering a Sense-less version of MCR Froyo-Sense r4 now.

DotKomrade

18-07-2010, 06:36 PM

So did anyone have to create a goldcard? I'm on Vodacom myself...

cyb3rt

18-07-2010, 08:41 PM

I am on Vodacom, mine did not work the first couple of times, untill I got the goldcard right. Easiest way to know, is to find out if the phone is branded or unbranded, suppose you could find that out from where you got it, not sure...

francoislr

18-07-2010, 11:53 PM

So far it seems that Vodacon handsets are branded, and MTNo serivce ever's handsets aren't.

Okay, been on LeeDroid v1.2b this weekend...sleek, fast and a dream to use! Downloaded the 1.3a today, gonna flash it in a few minutes...been awesome so far:-)

Vie

19-07-2010, 10:43 AM

No Goldcard required for me on Vodacom. Received in the first week of release locally, maybe that's why?

cyb3rt

19-07-2010, 11:55 AM

No Goldcard required for me on Vodacom. Received in the first week of release locally, maybe that's why?

Don't know, but I think just try it without one, and if it fails, create a goldcard and try again.

cyb3rt

20-07-2010, 04:09 PM

On LeeDrOiD 1.4 now, 141mb free on first boot, Im impressed!

francoislr

20-07-2010, 10:01 PM

Dammit! Upgraded to 1.3a last night....here we go again....

cyb3rt

21-07-2010, 05:53 AM

Yeah lol this stuff is going too fast, flashed 1.4 yesterday afternoon, and then when I got home, it was 1.4a again... But Im not complaining :)

EDIT: Nevermind, when I got to work now, it is on 1.4b...

trinityEon

21-07-2010, 08:18 AM

cyb3rt

21-07-2010, 11:28 AM

geez, Leedroid is motoring away there

Yeah, good stuff, think by the time this 1.4b download completes (on this slow download at work) there will be another one...

EDIT: Yip...now theres 1.4c...hahaha

cyb3rt

03-08-2010, 08:33 AM

Good stuff, the official HTC Froyo release is now the base of LeeDrOiD 1.7

Follow my signature link to get it for yourself :)

trinityEon

03-08-2010, 01:30 PM

Official Android upgrade adds new hboot and locks your fone down...rather go with leedroids upgrade

mercurial

03-08-2010, 01:52 PM

For those running custom ROMs for HTC Magic, can you please post your links and findings here? Thanks.

francoislr

03-08-2010, 10:24 PM

Grabbing 1.7a now:-)

trinityEon

03-08-2010, 10:26 PM

Grabbing 1.7a now:-)

I just got 1.7a, but there is talk for 1.7b comming soon to an XDa thread near you LOL ;)

francoislr

04-08-2010, 12:07 AM

Sigh! Lee sometimes moves way too fast! But it's all good:-) Just finished the downloads, and backups. And kudos to Titanium backup! Just imagine flashing without it! With it is already such a mission...

cyb3rt

10-08-2010, 11:48 AM

Has anybody tried NeoPhyTe ROM? I see it has a Battery Save version of the ROM... Can anybody confirm that bat life is better? Or what I can do/use to make life easier on my battery? I have installed Juice Plotter and Juice Defender but I am not exactly sure how it works...

mercurial

11-08-2010, 12:50 PM

Has anyone used the one-click rooting procedure as described on the unlockr.com?

DotKomrade

11-08-2010, 11:32 PM

Has anyone used the one-click rooting procedure as described on the unlockr.com?

I used unrevoked and it was a one click process. Really easy...

mercurial

12-08-2010, 07:24 AM

I used unrevoked and it was a one click process. Really easy...

Have you ever used flashrec?

cyb3rt

16-08-2010, 01:23 PM

Something cool (I think) for LeeDrOiD ROM:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=755026

He says it works on other ROMs as well, not fully tested though...

cyb3rt

30-08-2010, 10:29 AM

Right guys! Don't know how many of you are using LeeDrOiD Mod, but it has been upped to version 2.0! There are lots of optional custom themes and extra downloads included as well!

And let me be the first to congratulate (well, the first here I think) our own home grown trinityEon for the work he has done and posted on XDA! Very well done buddy, I am downloading LeeDrOiD 2.0a and your carbon theme as I am typing this! Good job and keep it up man!

PS: Follow the links in my sig for LeeDrOiD and trinityEon's work if you like the sound of it ;)

HapticSimian

30-08-2010, 07:09 PM

I'm dropping Sense... currently downloading DeFrost. We'll see how long it lasts.

francoislr

31-08-2010, 01:11 AM

I'm dropping Sense... currently downloading DeFrost. We'll see how long it lasts.

Have you tried Launcher Pro yet?

trinityEon

31-08-2010, 07:31 AM

HapticSimian

31-08-2010, 08:02 AM

Have you tried Launcher Pro yet?

I'm using LauncherPro and WidgetLocker at the moment - I like the clean look you can achieve by hiding the notification bar and having a widget clock rather than the Sense bar on the lockscreen... I've only just started really fiddling around with the phone's layout and whatnot; things aren't likely to stay unchanged for very long.

cyb3rt

31-08-2010, 08:33 AM

I have just released a blue Carbon fiber version of the HTC Sense UI v1.2, For Rooted phones only here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728107, try it out and let me know what you think :)

Tested it on Leedroids 1.9a

Great job man!

Anyway yes I don't use Sense either, I just love the LeeDrOiD ROM... But I run Launcher Pro, best home replacement on the market IMO!

HapticSimian

31-08-2010, 09:04 AM

Anyway yes I don't use Sense either, I just love the LeeDrOiD ROM... But I run Launcher Pro, best home replacement on the market IMO!

I was on LeeDroid 1.9 with A2SD+ for a day, but I think I did something wrong somewhere with the EXT partition... my phone conked out on me in a big way. I couldn't get half my software installed, the phone rebooted intermittently, everything that did run FCd... was not cool. And all that because I wanted the 512mb EXT partition so I could go on a market installing spree without worrying about storage space. So, I decided to go the complete opposite route of where I was heading. Dump Sense along with everything else that's non-essential, install what I'm actually going to use, and hopefully end up with a fast, clean, stable phone. So far so good - I've got most of what I want installed (including Nav) and I've got 55mb to toy with without A2SD+

Dunno if you've tried DeFroST yet, but it's also quite slick. It comes with the Cyanogen tweaks and the DeFroST setup proggie, which allows you to install kernel/notification bar mods and whatnot, is very nicely implemented.

cyb3rt

31-08-2010, 10:15 AM

Yeah I'm sure most of the other ROMs are great, but I am happy with LeeDrOiD for now... I am actually thinking of going to the Psychosis 5.0 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=744879) ROM which is based on LeeDrOiD, just senseless, and a couple of tweaks here and there...

francoislr

01-09-2010, 12:07 AM

I had such trouble with LeeDroid 1.9...had a random restart or 2 every day while I had it on. Upgraded to 2.0 now so will see if it is better.

Btw, trinityEon, awesome work! Had it on my previous previous install(I think it was 2 back), will probably put it on again if I have time later this week:-)

cyb3rt

15-09-2010, 08:32 PM

Well, I took the leap and flashed DeFroST (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=690477) and I must say, I am very impressed coming from LeeDrOiD! Very nippy, nice customizations taken from CM. I will check it tomorrow through the day, its supposedly a bit nicer on the battery life as well :)

cyb3rt

29-09-2010, 08:21 AM

VillainROM comes to the Desire at last! Check it out!

[ROM - 28/09/10] VillainROM 1.0 for the Desire (Sense UI, 2.2 Froyo) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793943)

[ROM - 28/09/10] SuperVillain 1.0 (No Sense UI, speed tweaked, based on VillainROM) (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=793950)

Going to flash SuperVillain later today and check it out! :) Have taken a liking to the non-sense ROMs

DAE_JA_VOO

29-09-2010, 01:22 PM

Been running SuperVillain since last night :D Feels snappy!

hawker

29-09-2010, 01:34 PM

I've bookmarked this thread for when my Desire arrives!

cyb3rt

29-09-2010, 02:27 PM

Been running SuperVillain since last night :D Feels snappy!

What "ugly font" are some people moaning about on the XDA forum?

mayurh

11-11-2010, 07:25 AM

howzit guys for those that have tried leedroid are there any things that dont work?
how is the battery life?

mayurh

11-11-2010, 07:33 AM

guys how long does the latest leedroid take to boot up?
why is cookandroid.com not working?

cyb3rt

11-11-2010, 07:52 AM

guys how long does the latest leedroid take to boot up?
why is cookandroid.com not working?

Hey man, Leedroid is quite fast when booting, except the first time after flashing, mine took 6 minutes one time... I am running 2.2d at the moment, and its so far the best I could get the battery. As for the things that don't work, I have not had anything not work so there is nothing that I can mention.

EDIT: Don't know why cookandroid is down.

mayurh

11-11-2010, 07:53 AM

Hey man, Leedroid is quite fast when booting, except the first time after flashing, mine took 6 minutes one time... I am running 2.2d at the moment, and its so far the best I could get the battery. As for the things that don't work, I have not had anything not work so there is nothing that I can mention.

EDIT: Don't know why cookandroid is down.

thanks alot man
does the led notifications work? for miss calls,msgs,alarms etc etc?

was at the wrong cookandroid link
its working now

HapticSimian

11-11-2010, 07:57 AM

Also on LeeDroid, and I think also still 2.2d... It's a full Sense ROM so everything works as it does on the stock one. I'm trying to decide whether I should give DeFRoST/Launcher Pro a go again as it really does run amazingly well, but Sense's cloud integration is just so much better... :confused:

cyb3rt

11-11-2010, 08:35 AM

Yeah the LED notifications work :)

I am running Launcher Pro, I don't like sense anymore, but the ROM is just to good to pass by. But yeah I will stay on 2.2d for as long as possible, everything is working like I want it to at the moment! I tried Defrost as well but I had weird problems with the phone just not unlocking and the screen just staying black, forcing a battery pull and restart, but it could have just been something else I guess.

mayurh

11-11-2010, 08:40 AM

I like the sense hd rom, but whats the point if the camera does not work, and from what I hear doesn't seem like they'll find s fix anytime soon

HapticSimian

11-11-2010, 08:46 AM

I like the sense hd rom, but whats the point if the camera does not work, and from what I hear doesn't seem like they'll find s fix anytime soon

The rumours seem solid that the Desire will get the new Sense sometime next year anyway. Although, having a bit of history with HTC phones, I've seen XDA do some pretty incredible things. They'll crack it eventually.

nadimm

11-11-2010, 03:33 PM

On leedroid - first time rooting and rom. Works brilliantly. V2.2f with carbon theme - i like the transparent notifications. Also using launcher pro even though leedroid is a sense rom.

Only thing has have noticed about the "install to SD card thing" is, when you plug the phone into the PC and use Disc Drive, it breaks all the app wigdets on the home screen.

If you have apps2sd+ then there's no real need to install to sd card, either way don't move widget apps to the sd card.

I currently have a 4GB standard card that came with desire, i ordered a 16Gb but im curios to find out if i can just copy everything over to the new card or do i have to format the 16Gb card as i did with A2SD, and all should work?

I would think its exactly the same procedure, just format th 16gb to get the ext partition, and copy your files over from the sd card into the fat partition. Then run titanium backup to restore your apps.

cyb3rt

11-11-2010, 04:04 PM

Yeah that post of mine was quite a while back. Been running A2SD+ for quite a decent amount of time now :)

mayurh

12-11-2010, 07:56 AM

The rumours seem solid that the Desire will get the new Sense sometime next year anyway. Although, having a bit of history with HTC phones, I've seen XDA do some pretty incredible things. They'll crack it eventually.

yes i hope the new sense comes soon

cyb3rt

26-12-2010, 09:29 AM

So who has been playing around with one of the Gingerbread ROMs available? I myself have been running Oxygen v2.0-RC2 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=829734) on my Desire for a couple of days now. One thing that I have noticed is the change in battery life, for some reason, mine seems to last longer now and by longer I mean quite a bit longer! Usually when I get back from work around 17:00 my phone would be between 20 - 30%, and since I have been running this ROM it would be around 50% at that time which is very good for me!

Only thing still not working in Gingerbread ROMs is the video recorder, which is fine by me cause I don't use it that often... Other than that I have not found anything that doesn't work or that does not work better coming from Froyo! I would recommend everybody that can to have a look at it, very impressive!

WesleyR

26-12-2010, 10:40 PM

I agree, been running Ginger Villain 0.4 for the last few days and the battery life is considerably better! I used to have to charge my phone every evening, now it honestly lasts 2 full days! Don't know how they have managed to do that, but it's awesome.

Been using my phone exactly the same, so it's not like I have stopped phoning less, if anything I may have been using it a bit more than normal over the festive season.

Honestly guys, if you can live without video recording, then give it a bash, you won't be sorry.

milomak

27-12-2010, 01:55 AM

running gingerbread in the form of http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872441

is this thread meant to exclude non-htc androids?

cyb3rt

27-12-2010, 12:51 PM

is this thread meant to exclude non-htc androids?

not at all, from the description the ROM looks like it runs nice :)

MegasXLR

19-01-2011, 07:06 PM

Any roms for better radio reception? The HTC keeps on losing signal (0 bars) for every cloud passing by where the N8 would drop to a minimum of 4 out of 7 bars. Right next to each other. I can hardly post here without pages failing to load (Using the HTC as modem).

milomak

20-01-2011, 01:28 AM

what radio are you running? and what phone?

cyb3rt

20-01-2011, 06:12 AM

the N8

I'm assuming you mean the FM radio ;) Don't know if the ROM will make any difference regarding the FM radio, try google to see if it will in fact have an impact. 2c

nadimm

20-01-2011, 02:57 PM

I'm assuming you mean the FM radio ;) Don't know if the ROM will make any difference regarding the FM radio, try google to see if it will in fact have an impact. 2c

Radio doesn't refer to fm radio. I think it's also known as baseband, and tells the phone how to prioritize signal power. This is what I gather, might be wrong.

Anyway, I'm on .27 for the desire

Swyped from my Leedroid HTC Desire

cyb3rt

20-01-2011, 05:28 PM

Radio doesn't refer to fm radio. I think it's also known as baseband, and tells the phone how to prioritize signal power. This is what I gather, might be wrong.

oh...lol, seems we will have to wait for him to respond and be more clear, oh well, at least he got a couple of answers! haha

cyb3rt

28-02-2011, 11:40 AM

Gingerbread (GRI40) ROM's are up and running! Being a Oxygen fan I am currently running this ROM, and I must say it is very awesome so far:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971904

Here is the HTC Desire thread for those wanting to check out all the GRI40 build ROMs!

http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=628

mayurh

28-02-2011, 12:20 PM

oh...lol, seems we will have to wait for him to respond and be more clear, oh well, at least he got a couple of answers! haha

howzit man

what doesnt work on this oxygen 2.0 rom?
are using a2sd+?

cyb3rt

28-02-2011, 01:28 PM

Havent been working on it too much, but it doesn't seem to have any problems other than couple of tweaks that was not ported yet like the trackball wake and the likes. But coming from RC7 I don't see to much difference, it feels a bit snappier/faster though!

High quality video recording is working which was the only thing I could notice for day-to-day use on the RC versions.

A2SD+ is working for me, yes!

EDIT: It seems A2SD+ was not working, went down to 90mb with 15 installs. Found this though (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11688173&postcount=65), moves dalvik cache to SD that pulled my internal storage back to 140mb internal with same amount of apps on :)

GreGorGy

01-03-2011, 03:37 PM

Cyanogen myself - seems to be the one that most suits my needs. Busy cooking my own based on it IF i can get the FM radio to work. That seems to be something that can only be achieved in Sense, although I am told that Oxygen might support it.

HTC Wildfire, CM6...
http://www.knowfine.co.za/cyan4.png
http://www.knowfine.co.za/cyan3.png

cyb3rt

03-03-2011, 08:09 AM

GreGorGy

03-03-2011, 04:18 PM

FM Radio now in Oxygen ROM. Change list feature:

- Added FM Radio

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971904

Cool - now will my Wildfire take to it. Waits to see...I may be bricking tonight