williamj1

Hello everyone,

I've put up with the constraints of the Desire's internal memory for long enough now. I've decided I want to S-OFF and change the stock Hboot.

I wondered if anybody could tell me a little about how I go about this process, and recommend which boot thing to use.

I flash a lot of ROMS, and I know that in doing this I will restrict myself in the number of ROMS I can flash, so ideally I'd like an Hboot which allows me to retain as much flexibility in the number of ROMS I can flash as possible. In that sense, I'm not looking for a huge chunk of additional storage - 50mb or so would go a long way for me.

Some Hboots also differ widely in the amount of cache they leave with some going down to the likes of only 5mb ... I don't understand this as surely you need much more than this for app cache?

Finally, obviously I know Sense ROMS are for the most part massive, but I now really only use AOSP and Miui very occasionally. Typically these are <100MB or dead on 100MB. Would the likes of CM7 R2 allow me to still use my current ROM which is the main ICS ROM from XDA for the Desire? I am not prepared to make this change if I have to give up ICS haha

Also, I'm not already S-OFF'd - I presume I need to do this first? Any tips haha?

Thanks, as always.

William

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My Noob's Guide To Rooting
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Noob's Guide To Moving All Apps To SD Card

SUroot

/cache isn't for app cache. It's for market downloads. App cache is in /data/data

The faqs cover most of what you need to know

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williamj1

Isn't the market app cache problematic? Seen lots of reports of people having "insufficient storage" problems when downloading larger apps?

Just had a look in the FAQ's - they've been very helpful.

I'm still not clear if I need to be S-OFF'd before I do this though? And is it just simply flashing the .img in clockworks mod?

Thanks again

SUroot

Sorry, yes s-off is a custom.hboot, which you need to be for other custom hboots. .img file for hboot is flashed using fastboot. Executed in a similar way as adb, its completely different. I put add and fastboot into one faq, but you skip the add stuff


Edit, oooh cache, yeah means you can't download apps bigger than 5MB but there are scripts to fix this