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HTC Desire HD – How to Root

How to root HTC Desire HD :

To root HTC Desire HD, the simplest way is by using Visionary. Visionary is able to perform temporary root and also perma-root. Take note that Visionary no longer works on HTC’s Android 2.2.1 build for now (Visionary R14). It works fine for all base below 1.72 which is all Android 2.1 base.

A full read about Visionary to root Desire HD here : http://android.modaco.com/content/software/320350/19-nov-r14-visionary-one-click-root/

Steps :

(step 1->3 to temp root)

(step 1-> for permanent root)

1. Install Visionary, it can be obtained via this mediafire link

2. Run Visionary and click on temporary root (temp root) – MAKE SURE USB DEBUGGING IS ENABLED

3. Your device is now rooted with temporary root! Congratulation woots!!! but it the root will dissapear after the phone reboots.

4. Open Visionary and tap temproot, then attempt permroot now. Your device will reboot.

5. To perma root the device, step 4 must be completed and now you can continue by tapping Permaroot (permanent root)

6. The device will now restart

7. Done, you have now permanent root on your device


How to unroot HTC Desire HD?

- Unrooting can simply be done via clicking unroot in Visionary.

HTC Desire HD quadrant score and some benchmarks

Thanks to dealer75 via XDA forums, now we have some benchmarks of the HTC Desire HD. He also posted the system dump of the device. Goodness is on the way and we are 1 month approx behind the on-sale day.

Quadrant score :

more benchmarks coming soon…

Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM

Well, this is what has just leaked, the official HTC Sense Froyo ROM for the HTC Desire.

ROM name : [ROM-FroYo] Official Froyo HTC Sense ROM (15/07 v1.0b | OpenDesire Team)

Read more for the full features, changelog and links

Read more…

HTC Ace / HTC Desire HD has a normal spec?

Another rumor is out apart from HTC Ace, now its the HTC Desire HD which is the follow up rumor to the HTC Ace device. This will be the next international flagship of HTC but with “normal” aka un”extraordinary” specs?

It is said that the next device would be :

- 4.3 inch screen (LCD or HTC own rival to super amoled?)

- 8MP camera with 720p video recording capabilities ()

- 4GB of internal storage

- 1Ghz Snapdragon processor

My own words to this, the 4.3 inch would be awesome. Seeing it as the GSM version of the Evo 4G and HTC has to make sure that it is comparable to the current leading screen which is the retina display (IPS) on iPhone4 and the SUPER AMOLED (yes, in capitals) on Samsung Galaxy S. Surely it won’t be an Amoled display as we know bout the Amoled shortage which is happening now. Seems like its going to be LCD just like the Evo 4G which is not bad at all as we all see it or HTC might be using its own LCD as we heard (i don’t think so).

The 8MP camera with 720p capabilites is a must, Droid Incredible and Evo 4G owns that feature and considering this is the update to the flagship HTC Desire, they should provide this on the new device.

4GB of internal storage is very handy eventhough most other manufacturers are going 8GB and above. Micro SD’s are appreciated in this situation, just make sure that there are more internal phone space for Apps installation regardless that Froyo enables moving apps to SD cards.

Last but not least, a 1Ghz snapdragon processor? OMG. The Droid X has TI OMAP 1Ghz which is better and the A4 chipset hummingbird on the Galaxy S is far superior in terms of GPU capabilities. Perhaps 1Ghz is sufficient but in terms of GPUs, the Adreno gpu on snapdragons are so yesterday. Perhaps this device is going to be another new snapdragon as they won’t be releasing the same chip on their new flagship which is not capable of running NFS Shift. Hopefully the new chip (1.5Ghz or dual-core based) would perform better than the previous 1Ghz snapdragon to stay on par with the current leading GPU monsters (Droid X and SGS).

By the way, did anyone noticed that NFS Shift which is demoed on the Nexus 1 is running smooth during Google I/O? How come they are saying that snapdragon adreno is not capable of running it at full frames and why we are not able to reproduce that same performance even on Nexus 1 FRF91? Thats a mystery for sure.