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Desire: All about Rooting - Updated 11 Nov 2011
All useful threads will be added to this global sticky, if you feel a thread is worth of inclusion then please pm me with the details and I'll look it over. Good luck with your fantastic and sexy phone all!
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Shipped-ROMs is definitely better than that XDA thread for RUUs. Not only has the XDA list not been updated for more than a year, but I think the CDMA RUUs are for the wrong phone! Shipped-ROMs use HTC codenames, so the Desire CDMA is Bravo_C rather than Desire (which was the codename for the Droid Eris).
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Hi Dan,
Just comparing this to the new sticky, and maybe some of the tools and utilities links are worth preserving (though like you I'm not sure about ROM Toolbox)? Apart from SetCPU, Ti and Root Explorer would be the first 2 root apps that come to mind, so I don't see the harm in linking those - we've recommended them often enough
Anything else I'd add? QSI isn't really a root app, but it's one we've recommended often enough when trying to diagnose problems that maybe it's worth a link? I've had a browse through my own app drawer and don't see so much else.
Did you reckon Scary Alien's "what is root" was too, well, scary?
Do you mean the "what does rooting mean?" Thread? If so thought it was just repeating what was in the rooting faq.
Don't want duplicate info so if you want both, feel free to strip the rooting faq.
I'm just a bit concerned its a bit of a mess right now so I'm having to point people to my signature rather than the sticky until its sorted. It's not ideal so whatever it takes to get it right and not have two guides and general info sections....
Awesome job, much neater, well done,
Is it also worth adding a troubleshooting section?
Ie, things to try if something isn't working? Like linking to terminal emulator, gps test?
Probably not but just wondering?
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I've been trying to educate myself about the "standard sticky", and as I currently grok it (sorry, it's late!) I think that a troubleshooting guide added to the guides section would be fine, but an extra section in the sticky would be more controvertial.
Dan, I'm guessing the main motivation for your proposal in post 8 vs post 4 is flattening the structure and removing subsections whose names match the first 2 sections? I think that's completely cool, as well as much neater.
Please, anyone else with ideas do chip in. The purpose of the sticky is to serve the needs of the forum, so we need your thoughts.
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The SDK download is a particularly visible difference. I guess it's a trade-off between visibility and duplication. ADB should be obvious from the title "[FAQ] ADB and Fastboot", so that one seems a clearer-cut example of something that can be tidied up.
Google apps is the odd one to me - very necessary for just one ROM, but it's a very widely known ROM. I think that I regard that as an oddity of CM rather than something people need generally, so not so important to include in the sticky (unless we feel that there's a chance that people who flash CM without noticing that it doesn't include gapps would go here without being directed - long shot in my opinion! )
Hadron, a troubleshooting guide would be an excellent addition, good idea.
I would suggest that a troubleshooting guide should include, or link to, a guide to how to apply a RUU through fastboot including instructions to apply the downgrade hboot if a custom hboot had been applied.
When I had to return my phone for repair (wouldn't boot) I had no idea
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i like that the revised one looks less intense
its hard to give input into whether or not these changes are sufficient as im not really a user of guides anymore and wouldnt know what it would be like to first come across this guides.
smaller is definitely better as long as it serves the same purpose as the original. in this instance i think it does.
basically i cant see any reason for it not to be the revised version
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We could link to bortaks troubleshooting guide on xda. Senseless doing all the work again?
I don't think I have the time to do sb SUroot style one....
Although we could list all the scenarios and collaborate on Google docs or something
thats an excellent idea, its a good guide, then maybe add a useful app guide,
like i suggested for apps like gps test, terminal, titanium, sms backup, apn, backup, and any others people feel are a necessary app.
Hadron, could we get this added as is for now please? Then work on what else we want. I really want to start directing people to the sticky rather than my signature.
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OK, I've done the edits.
I left the MD5 verification link in because I figured that was only partially duplicating what we had elsewhere - the Toolbox has the Windows tools, but that link has Android tools and even a Mac solution in it as well. Otherwise it's as in post 8.
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I left the MD5 verification link in because I figured that was only partially duplicating what we had elsewhere - the Toolbox has the Windows tools, but that link has Android tools and even a Mac solution in it as well. Otherwise it's as in post 8.
Awesome, thank you...
Edit.. looks very neat
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