Hi hope u all can help me in this noob question..

Does warranty claim for HTC Desire (SIS warranty) requires original receipt? Or any form of proof of purchase required?

What if I got it 2nd hand? Would I need to "re-register" to make the phone to be under my name for identification purpose?

Hope I'm not asking a repeated question here.

I'm using the stock ROM Froyo 2.2, how should I assign a ringtone to a group in People/Contact (eg: Friends, Family, VIP, etc) in 'batch' style? It can be very tedious if assigning one by one in the group.

Or is there any application that can do this task?

Assign ring tone with multiple choice? You mean there is somewhere that I can set the 'rule'/choices on to which contact/keyword the ringtone should assign to?

Guys, do you know which custom ROM that could save on power consumption the most?

Whoa.. 4 days! I haven't reached that long yet with the stock Froyo.

Thanks for the tips! Will control my usage rather than seeking the power efficient rom then.

Any news/source on Garmin XT is available for Android phones?

I can only find there are attempts of extracting GMXT from Nuvi phones.. wondering is there any further updates from there..

I am thinking of rooting the Desire to remove some unwanted system apps that took up the internal memory space (i only have around 40MB left.. )

Care to share any tips/guides/links on how to remove the system apps after rooting the Desire? and what are the system apps that should NOT be removed at all?

Hmm.. what if i just wanna remove the system apps? eg: Friendstream, plurk, RSS stuff etc.. and wanna retain stock HTC Sense?

Thanks guys for all the pointers!

Is it hard to pickup ADB?

Any link/guide to learn ADB just for the sake of this system apps removal?

I had asked about assigning group ringtone earlier in this thread. Finally I found a solution for it and would like to share here.

There's an free app called "group ringtones" in the Market that can assign ringtone to each contact groups.

At least now I feel the Androud phonebook is closer to what Symbian phonebook could offer me! (I still kinda miss Symbian for its better search name function..)

Whoa.. I'm still looking for a class 10 8GB MicroSD! May I know where did you managed to get it? and what price? PM me if you feel that's the better place.


Had anyone here tried S-off HTC Desire? Which tool you used? I'm thinking of trying out AlphaRev's S-Off tonight.. Any other suggestion or tool to do S-Off? Hoping there's Unrevoked Forever but can't find the one for Desire GSM..

I need the S-Off to get an app call Absolute System running in Desire, the apps could play around with system apps and change splash screens/fonts.

And i'm suspecting enabling S-off would make ad-block and busybox installer effective without much help of adb.. Will test this theory soon after i succeed in doing S-off! Still quite scared of bricking the phone..

Guys I'm back with a Desire S-off using AlphaRev! I'm still using the stock HTC Sense and the whole process finish within 15 minutes!

And yes I can testified the following:

- able to use AdFree effectively and smoothly without adb tweak. Previously before S-off would fail to update/implement or just reboot the phone.

- able to install busybox using the busybox installer in Market. Previously before S-off would reboot the phone if click install.

- able to remove system apps by just using Titanium Backup Pro! (removed Footprint and its widget and so far no ill effect noted). I believe Titanium Backup 'normal' version would be able to do the same job. No longer needing adb to remove! Previously before S-off would reboot the phone if try to uninstall system apps.


But the bad news is I still can't get the Absolute System Root Tool up and running. Keep on force close on me. So I have yet to try out the function offered by Absolute System apps including changing the fonts, switch the splash screen, backups, add/remove apps etc..

Hope my info would be useful for those who are still like to use the stock HTC sense but at the same time wish to have the 'true' full rooted phone to tinker around more!

This post has been edited by hakumiyashi: Oct 26 2010, 11:23 PM

Paisie la Bro.. I'm also newbie in tinkering around Desire and still very new in this field of ROM/flashing. Just picking up things step by step whenever I feel the urge of give the Desire a change/tweak..

Better for you to throw this question to the open floor and let all the sifus here help us newbies!

If search hard enough.. can get 2nd hand Desire with extremely good condition from LYN here.. at good price too!

HTC android phones is fighting tough fight with iPhone and WM7 phones...

Juz to share with you guys my quick review on Absolute System Root Tool..

I've gotten myself installed Absolute System successfully with the version 1.1.5a. It has pretty high requirement to get running: Root, Busybox (I used 1.17.1 installed from Busybox installer) and S-off!

I was glad to see it really has many functions that a rooted phone supposed to have..only for the 1st half an hour though. Later then I felt the overall interface is too slow and the functions are still kinda crude (eg: it has backup function but it doesn't show what it had backup and can be done only for "everything in one go")!

I uninstalled it very soon after that.. I'll just stick to Adblock and Titanium Backup Pro for what's essential to me now.

So if you really interested in having all the important root tool in 1 app then this might be a good choice. But would be good if can give the dev team more time to refine it for better user experience!

If you are using just on a stock HTC Sense then copy everything from the existing MicroSD you using (including hidden system files, just in case) to your new MicroSD.

Is there any way to get a "separate" A2SD+ to install into the HTC Sense?

Or A2SD+ only comes with custome ROM and no other way to put it into HTC Sense?

Yea I have done rooting and S-off on my Desire with stock Sense ROM.. Does that mean it would automatically has the A2SD+ capabilities? Eg: using Ext2 partition, Dalvik cache on SD card etc?