How to flash HTC Desire?
HTC Desire is a communicator (smartphone) with the Android operating system. It was developed by HTC. Let's talk in more detail about how to flash HTC Desire in different ways.
Preparing for firmware
Firmware is the replacement or update of the phone's software with a new one. Flashing your phone is the same as reinstalling Windows on a personal computer. For a successful flashing, you must complete the following steps:
- To obtain superuser rights (root-rights) on the site unrevoked.com, download the program "Unrevoked". Root rights are a special account in UNIX systems. The owner of such an account can perform all operations without exception.
- Run the downloaded program and select the "Hboot Driver" file. Then follow the instructions to install the HBOOT driver. You can download drivers for self-installation at unrevoked.com.
- Next, you need to disable Desire and enable it in the HBOOT system. This can be done using the Power and Volume Down buttons. Press them at the same time.
- Then the smartphone must be connected to the PC using a USB cable. We are waiting for the HBOOT USB PLUG message to appear, and go to the "Device Manager". Right-click on the Android 1.0 device and select the "Update drivers" section.
- Click on "Search for drivers on this computer." Next, you need to select the folder into which the drivers were unpacked.
- Exit HBOOT menu. The Volume Up, Volume Down buttons (moving through the menu items) and the Enter button will help you with this.
- In normal mode, start your smartphone and turn on the "USB Build" mode.
If you installed HTC Sync, uninstall it, but keep the drivers. Next, launch Unrevoked and connect your device to your PC. Give your consent when requested information. Then wait. The device will reboot, and as a result, the message "Unrevoked 3 Painless root and reflash" should appear.
How to flash HTC Desire: the main part
The procedure will be as follows: first download the firmware. You can download it on the site w3bsit3-dns.com. Recommended firmwares are RuHD and InsertCoin.
Next, you need to clear all user data. To do this, in the device menu, select "Settings" -> "Privacy" -> "Reset data". This can also be done using the firmware recovery mode. To do this, go to the Recovery menu, select the "Wipe data / factory reset ->" Yes "section. Due to this, the firmware modules will not match.
How to install the firmware file for HTC Desire?
- From the Recovery menu, select the "install zip from sd-card" file. Turn off or turn on signature verification (Clockwork) if necessary.
- Next, find the zip firmware, select it and run it.
- When the installation is complete, you will see the message “Installation completed”. Restart your smartphone and wait for the download to start.
The firmware usually takes about fifteen to thirty minutes. As a result, you should get a new version of Android.
How do I expand the memory for applications?
The phone firmware itself takes up a lot of free space. Your smartphone may not have enough free memory to download various applications. In this case, a special program will help you. For this:
- Download the "ROM Manager" program from the "Market" and run it.
- Next, find the item "Create partitions on the SD card". Select the size of the ext partition.
- The device should reboot and a partition will be created.
You can also familiarize yourself with other articles on our site on similar topics: and.
Having bought a not cheap device, you always want to squeeze the maximum out of it, because it was not just bought for calls, especially if we are talking about HTC, there are more alternative firmware for these smartphones than for all others.
MIUI 2.4.6 and 2.3.7 (Android 2.3 non-standard interface)
This firmware is different from all the others, after using it, I habitually switch screens instead of going to the applications menu. The firmware is made 1 in 1 for the IOS interface, all applications are located on desktops, if you remove the shortcut from the desktop, it is deleted from the phone, to save space, you can create folders on desktops and drop shortcuts into folders.
- The taskbar has switches for wifi, bluetooth, auto-rotate the screen, data transfer, etc. very convenient, you do not need to go into the settings to switch the main functions
- There is immediately root
- On the unlock screen there is a player control, you can turn on the flashlight by holding the HOME button, you can immediately see missed calls and unread messages, you can go directly to the phone or messages
- There is a built-in firewall for blacklisting numbers, etc., but it works a little crooked
- Battery life is noticeably longer, but many standard services have been cut out, because of this some specific applications do not work correctly
- There is a delay in response, i.e. you pick up the phone, say ale, and only after 2-3 seconds they will hear you, i.e. the microphone does not turn on immediately
- There is a standard means of recording conversations, but only the interlocutor is heard in it, nothing is heard from the microphone, i.e. there is no sense in it.
- In some applications, for example in QIP, there are glitches with the display of the interface, buttons are spreading, etc.
RUHD 3.0.1 (Android 2.3 and Sense 3.5)
Here we have almost stock firmware, but with many useful things, well, Sense 3.5 and updated applications. At the first launch of the firmware, we are asked which programs to install and which ones are not needed, many unnecessary applications have been cut out. But the firmware is a bit heavy for the device.
- There is a built-in tool for controlling the processor frequency, you can make the frequency higher than the nominal, or you can lower it to save battery, you can assign a frequency of the processor depending on the battery charge, for example, if 10% is left, then it is logical to lower the frequency to 128 MHz, tolerate dullness, but but stay in touch.
- In the phone shutdown menu, there are additional items: silent mode, vibration mode, airplane mode, turn off the mobile Internet
- From the lock screen, you can directly open Phone, Mail, Camera, Messages
- There is almost no delay in response (about half a second)
- The camera works fine
- The interface is responsive, but slightly inferior in speed even to the standard one, what can we say about MIUI, the 3.5 sensor is heavy, it eats a lot of RAM
- The taskbar has switches almost like in MIUI
- There are standard tools for blocking ads, using windows network resources, and much more.
Nikez Lente 1.0.1a6 (Android 4 and standard interface)
The firmware is at the beta stage, I installed it for the sake of interest, at the moment all custom firmware on Android 4 does not work quite correctly
- There is a significant delay in response, just like non-MIUI
- The interface is a little dull, this is due to the 2D acceleration curve, but they say a new custom kernel will be released soon and the situation will improve
- From the shutdown screen, you can go directly to BootLoader or Recovery
- There are no switches in the taskbar as on MIUI and RUHD
- Naturally, the interface of the fourth android is very interesting and convenient
Yes, a little out of topic, but still the other day I updated my, already quite old, smartphone and I have experience. As they say, the same firmware is something in common with satellite receivers.
I hope with this post I will help someone and reduce the time spent, since there is a lot of information, but most of it is very scattered. Further myself the process of flashing the phone htc desire a8181 on android version 4 or higher.
To start. Many people write that you need to unlock the bootloader - I never succeeded, not with the program HTC Bootloader Unlock, nor by the standard method through the office. htc website.
Instructions for flashing the phone htc desire on android 4 +
As it turned out, I had the last official update with android version 2.3. Accordingly, S-ON - protection of software change. Which must be removed first.
But before you do anything, you need to install the drivers for your device on your computer twice.
This should be done in semi-automatic mode, each time pointing to the folder with the drivers.
The first HTC + Drivers are needed when the phone is working normally, and the second Android USB Driver- when working with a bootloader and in recovery mode.
According to the instructions. Personally, I unloaded the archives to the root of the C drive and installed them from there, or rather indicated where they were.
So the drivers are installed and the phone is visible in the computer - let's move on.
As already mentioned - you need to remove S-ON to become S-OFF. You can view the status like this. Turn off the phone - take out the battery and press the volume down + turn on.
At the very top you can see.
How to remove S-OFF HTC?
More precisely, as I did. Go to the site http://rev.alpharev.nl/ - download the application for Windows in the same place. We fill in the data here. We take the serial number in our phone - look for it in the settings or look under the battery.
We enter respecting the register. We generate and receive the code which we enter in the running application from there. The phone must be connected with a cable.
After that, you should get S-OFF and the inscription in pink.
Further action - we sew a recovery for an alternative one. We need an archive Android- which we unzip to the root of the C drive.
There is Recovery Flash.bat and recovery.img (recovery-clockwork-touch-5.8.0.2-bravo.img). When you start the first one, the second one should be stitched. I chose this version of the recovery, since it seemed to me convenient, it worked adequately and the control is familiar - with a finger. You can look for an alternative and just rename it to recovery.img and sew the same way.
Next, you need to get super user rights. The program worked for me Kingo ROOT from under Windows when the phone is normally turned on via a cable.
All this allowed me to flash my phone with custom firmware. Of course, the first one that came across to me did not fit, and the second one was also poorly installed. In short, I stopped at this CM10.1_VJ_4.2.2_V6.2_Sense_Data ++. Zip. With an increase in space for programs on an external flash drive.
Do not think that everything is only in the firmware - that is, installing the software. It still needs to be configured. So this is almost a bare system.
The instruction at the address helped me a lot.
http://w3bsit3-dns.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=366523&st=7220#entry39335246
But you shouldn't trust her completely. See for yourself what you need more.
I did not delete Google services and updates - I just turned it off and this immediately gave a lot of space for the necessary programs.
It seemed to me necessary to install LowSoundFixer_v1.0.8.apk(increases volume - firmware bug) and SD + Maid + Pro + v3.1.4.6_arm-zipalign(cleans cache and junk on the phone). The rest is not.
pic phone screen
Conclusion - the phone works fine and is configured for modern android. Now you can install the necessary applications that did not work on the old version, besides there is a lot of space for games and programs. You definitely need to sew.
Video firmware htc desire a8181 android 4
I am the proud owner of HTC Desire A8181. When I bought it a year ago, my joy knew no bounds. After a while, Samsung Galaxy S, HTC Desire HD, HTC Incredible S, etc. came out. and then one day the era of "monsters" began on 2 cores with powerful graphic coprocessors (I think there is no point in listing the models)
I realized that I had a phone in my hands, which I bought "gray" for almost $ 700, but then it was he who was a "monster", now it is hardly relevant against the background of fresh interfaces and high performance. Since the warranty has come to an end, I decided not to waste time and squeeze everything out of my "desire". First of all, I got the rights ROOT, then S-OFF... Explaining:
ROOT- in other words, "granting super-user rights", they allow you to feel more freely in managing the phone, working with applications, almost all of them (with ROOT rights) are placed on the memory card; the ability to create Ext (the system will see the allocated space on the memory card as part of the phone's memory) and Swap (a section that works as a "swap file", as if creating additional RAM) partitions.
S-OFF- Security OFF - disabling the protection of the phone to "expand the possibilities" of working with it.
Then I flashed the most recent version of the radio module (responsible for the signal quality in the GSM / CDMA network, the stability of Wi-Fi). Then there was the question (the most interesting) of installing custom (modified / ported from another device, more colorful / productive) firmware.
In this article I will tell you about 4 firmwares that on my HTC Desire proved to be the brightest of all and differed from other firmwares in a number of "features", "usefulness" and "goodies". Let's get started.
In order not to clutter the blog with huge screenshots, you can look at them slightly reduced in flash. Full-length screenshots !
MIUI... (now relevant, for me personally.FCR_MIUI_R29.3, but there are many modifications of this firmware)
The appearance of the firmware is beautifully "licked" from the iphone. NTS Sense is missing in the firmware. The settings menu looks the same as in the iphone. The ability to customize themes, background, not only the desktop, but also the lock screen. The ability in the lock screen to jump directly to the phone (dialer) / sms / just unlock the screen (by the way, this function was used in MIUI earlier than in Sense from the NTS), at the bottom of the desktop there is a scroll bar - under it is a block of dedicated programs that you can fill yourself / edit
Performance. The firmware does not slow down in any way, does not freeze. Based on the results of tests in Quadrant, NeoCore, Benchmark AnTuTu, we can conclude that MIUI is very productive and fast firmware!
Personal opinion: the firmware is original, brightly different from others, has a peculiar look, has high performance and its own proprietary add-ons. Not suitable for everyone, avoid "apple-phobes"! Those who have nothing against the iphone and its interface - I advise you to take a closer look!
Oxygen... (I tested oxygen-2.1.4)
Before us is what is called "naked" Android. There is no HTC Sense interface (sacrifice towards performance). The firmware looks insufficient - everything was pulled out of it - both the NTS Sense, and all the built-in programs, and even the set of widgets is limited. But this is the whole point of Oxygen - this is the firmware that the user "saws" by himself, while installing only those applications and widgets that he needs.
It is also possible to install additional. those, using which the device changes before our eyes (I used Oceanis_oxygenv2-6). There is a dedicated oxygen menu in which you can make serious settings regarding the phone.
Performance. The firmware has proven itself well, it is really fast, and that is why it is popular.
Personal opinion: the ability to customize the device for yourself, everything that could slow down the capabilities of the device is cut out. This is one of the most productive "naked" Androids. Suitable for all those who are looking for performance, who are looking for the most customizable version of the firmware. But in my case, there were some system glitches, then the lower bar of programs disappeared into nowhere, then the phone itself rebooted, in general, it is a little unstable.
CyanogenMod 7.
Before us is again "naked" Android, without the NTS Sense interface. The firmware is notable for the fact that it is updated once a day, CyanogenMod 7 has the concept of "nighties" - nightly (frequent updates), the guys from this team update the firmware every day, and when they release a stable version, they post it separately, call it stable, which logical
The firmware is also quite productive and very "customizable", and to the maximum, you even need to install google applications separately. Sufficiently fast and stable, unlike Oxygen (perhaps this is only in my case).
Performance... The firmware behaves well both in simple situations and in moments of special stress. It performed well in tests.
Personal opinion: great alternative to Oxygen, updated frequently, stable, fast. Suitable for all speed seekers. In my case, the sound of the spoken speaker dropped
RCMixS. (used version RCMixS_v2.1_A2SD_CM7Hboot_TEST4).
This is the brightest and most juicy firmware I have ever installed. Here NTS Sense 2.1 + 3.0 is involved. The firmware is "live", mega-beautiful, but in no way can boast of performance, in contrast to the firmwares listed above. Everything is compensated by beauty.
Performance... The performance is on a low level, but not lower than on the "native" firmware for HTC Desire. In everyday use, the device does not feel slow - poor results are seen only in tests, but not in practice.
Personal opinion. This firmware is just a dream for those who are looking for themselves in firmware with Sense. In it, Sense does not bug or crashes, animated wallpapers, weather and active icons on the lock screen - everything works fabulous. НТС Sense 2.1 + 3.0 is only here and only now! It seems that your Desire is turning into Sensation, or at least into Incredible S. I myself still cannot get rid of it.
My verdict
- 1.Most original - MIUI
- 2. The most productive (fast) - MIUI / Oxygen / CyanogenMod 7 (to each his own)
- 3 the most beautiful - RCMixS
Of course, there are still a lot of firmwares for HTC Desire, and they are all interesting in their own way. In some more interesting interface, in the other - the camera behaves better and shoots HD video, in the third, perhaps something else unusual. Everyone chooses what he likes best, sets his own priorities. I showed an example on my HTC Desire, but similar firmware (radically changing the impression of the device) is available on almost every Android smartphone, so I wish you good luck with flashing it!
Thank you all for your attention, I hope my work helped someone, someone was just interested, in any case - good luck to everyone!
