I bought my HTC Desire factory sealed/new on Ebay a few months back and it was unlocked, I knew it was an unwanted contract upgrade. But there was no real evidence of it being bought from Vodafone - apart from one option: there was a "Vodafone" option the themes - not so bad I thought.
So yesterday I saw the ~19Mb update and thought it can't be Froyo at that small size. The blurb was a load of bs: "system stability and performance improvements" - I checked here and XDA (and luckily I did) and saw people said VF added all their branding to it and it can't be removed - hell, I'm using this phone on T-Mobile too :P
I should point out people are very angry, and rightly so. I am disgusted with VF for stating from the start that the Desire was coming out through them brand-free "just what the consumer wants"
^HTC Desire - Android 2.2 Coming Soon... - Vodafone eForum - Page 17
So Froyo has no chance of coming through from VF without going through their official bloatware route. More so, I am on T-Mobile so I don't want to update and have my phone locked to VF, so this guide is just what I need! Thanks very much!
I have a couple of questions prior to the debranding process:
1) What advantage is using mybackup pro to just copying the contents of SD card to the PC and then moving them back?
2) Do I keep all contacts (+info), sms messages if I take a full copy of my SD card? Or are they on internal phone memory? If so, how do I keep these?
3) After loading the new ROM, will all future updates be the vanilla/stock updates, regardless of the network?
P.S: VF have lost one potential customer when I shop around (when my contract ends with T-Mobile) due to their sneaky tricks.