- Copy ROM to SD
- Titanium Backup
- Enter recovery mode
- Nandroid backup
- Wipe, wipe, wipe
- Flash ROM
- Titanium Backup restore

Partition after flash is recommended 
Remember to backup everything into your PC before partitioning 

Sifus, please correctly if i am wrong 

Feck...I flashed the Original theme instead of my preferred NextSense theme...

Nevermind, guess I will just settle for it since new version will come out pretty soon anyway. And the original theme doesn't look that bad

just finished of flashing as well. now booting.

got newer radio than .20?  I saw the requirement of NextSense V7.0 still the same:

Requirements:
-Latest Radio 32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20
-Partition ext2, 3 or 4 wiped (for APP2SD)
For a best running of rom should do a Wipe Factory Reset and wipe at ext partition.

I have currently 5.3 in my Desire which I already flash 00.20 radio when I installed the 5.3.  So no need to flash new radio, right?  Where to download new radio (if it is better to use the latest)?  Thanks.

Using .30_2 radio, working fine for me on nextsense (although it doesn't work well on some ROMs). Many people say better 3G signal

Nextsense 7.0 seems to have issue with HTC IME Mod, keep FC... will try again by uninstalling the one comes with ROM and install the one from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=663608

Now flashing back the NextSense theme (instead of the original one) cos I really prefer that

Next sense auto download apps to SD card right?

hmm...how bout Nextsense ROM? coz losing Chinese language support is what's holding me back.

thanks for the quick replies.

one last thing i forgot to specify was not only chinese keyboard input support, but also with chinese handwriting input support, just like the current HTC Desire with Android 2.1 ROM. i think none of the custom ROMs have them yet, but i may be wrong.

cool, so that little chinese handwriting box can be selected in the Nextsense ROM? if so, it's time to get rootin'

Nah, cant live without Sense
Yea, maybe i should splurge some money How much you paid anyway?
Speedtest only test the internet connection 

Nope. You need "market access".

Just got my kingmax 8gb class 10 and setup nicely. Ext3 set to 1gb, no more running out of space... hehe.

you mean Amon_RA?  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=721792

ok, later tonight when I have time.  But it is easy actually.  You need to use Unrevoked to "upload" it into your Desire.

Partition only need to be done once. If you format your card, of course you need to repartition.

ROM manager is the easiest way to create partition.

Check using Quick System info

Yes, no need to partition again.

You format...err...when you want to format it -.- If you want to change your partition size for instance

ok, as promised, some basic step by step guide to partition your sd card with Amon_RA.

Stage 1: Get Amon_RA into the Desire
1. Download Unrevoked.  [Link]
2. Download Amon_RA   [Link]
3. Install HTC and HBOOT driver.
4. Run reflash.exe as Administrator (DO NOT connect your Desire to computer at the moment).
5. At Unrevoked, File>>Custom Recovery>>Choose recovery-RA-desire-v1.7.0.1-R5 (the Amon_RA file you download in step 2).
6. Connect your Desire (USB debug mode on, etc).
7, The rest is fully automatic. 

Stage 2: Partition you SD Card
1. Enter into Recovery mode.  You will see the options below:
    - Reboot system Now
    - USB-MS toggle
    - Backup/restore
    - Flash
    - Wipe
    - Mount
    - Partition sdcard
    - Other
    - Power off
2. Under Partition sdcard, you will see:
       - Partition SD
       - Repair SD:ext
       - SD: ext2 to ext3
       - SD: ext3 to ext4
3. Use Partition SD to make the ext2, swap, and the remainder will be auto partitioned to be FAT32.
4. press back to return to step 2, select SD:ext2 to ext3 to upgrade the ext2 you created in step 3 into ext3.  Do SD:ext3 to ext4 if you want to upgrade further to ext4.  But I only upgrade to ext3 only coz i read somewhere ext4 is not necessary.
5. Reboot system now, it will boot with all the partitions now.

Note:  If you want to flash rom, you can use the Wipe function to wipe all ext3 partition, cache, etc clean, but the partition remain intact.

Hope this mini guide helps. For more details, should refer to this master guide.

Use desire for two weeks, love it but now start to think maybe should have waited for iphone 4. Boy battery ids bad, at lcct, using wifi, reading e book, sms, 3 hours battery left 55% since off charge at 7.30 am. Frus...

Automatically, I don't know

But Titanium Backup keeps my settings, and this APN (separate APN for MMS) works for me

Name - Maxis MMS
APN - unet
MMSC - http://172.16.74.100:10021/mmsc
MMS Proxy - 202.75.133.49
MMS Port - 80
MMS Protocol - WAP 2.0
MCC - 502
MNC - 12
APN Type - mms

Others leave blank.


sorry, didn't realize you're using Digi... lol

o/t: NextSense 7.1 is on the way  Hopefully those minor bugs are fixed