ICS HTC Desire

Roshan Karki Anonymous
I'm using HTC Desire for past two years. All these times I stuck with stock images. There were some minor inconveniences though. Some of them being in call volume being too low and while taking phone out of pocket to answer a call, the phone would automatically slide and reject the call.

So day before yesterday, I changed my G+ status, "Bye bye Gingerbread, hello Ice cream sandwich".


To cut not that long story short, I've been using Ice cream sandwich on HTC Desire from last couple of days. My reaction so far:
  1. Its smooth.
  2. Its kind of slow but not that much. I'm using a2sd with class 2 SD card so most of the slowness is due to my SD card.
  3. In call volume is very loud and clear. In fact I've to drop down the volume slider.
  4. I can use track pad to wake the phone. (Much needed)
  5. I miss some of the HTC's widget like Weather and HTC's dialer.
  6. I was surprised that Android's clock does not come with handy utilities like timer and stop watch.
  7. There are few things that are not working but the ROM is still in beta with active development. Some of the not working things are:
    1. Camera preview is not working but its already fixed in new ROM.
    2. USB tethering is not working.
    3. Full HWA is working but is somewhat buggy. I'm not 100% sure on this and have copied this line from the developer website.
    4. Auto brightness is not working very much for me.
OK, so if you also want to install ICS on your phone then you need to first root it and install clockworkmod recovery. For that you can view my earlier post.

After this visit the developer website at, http://www.sandvold.as/index.htm. From there download the latest build and keep it in your SD card. Now boot in to recovery by powering up your phone while holding the volume down key. In recovery if you want, you may backup your current state of the phone. After that, from recovery it self, wipe everything you can see. Finally, choose the option Install zip and choose the zip file you kept on SD card.

Please note that, first boot may take time.

Comments

  1. AnonymousNovember 9, 2012 at 8:36 AM

    hi, if i install ICS from a gingerbread, and i dont like it i can i revert back to gingerbread. i have rooted & updated my phone using ur tutorial.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. UnknownNovember 9, 2012 at 10:02 AM

      Of course. Once you are rooted and have installed custom recovery you can switch OS very easily. Just make nandroid backup and restore as you like.

      Delete

Post a Comment

Comments are moderated. No spam please.

Popular posts from this blog

Perm Root HTC Desire Gingerbread 2.3.3

Roshan Karki Anonymous
This guide is for permanently rooting HTC Desire running stock Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 . If you want to temp root then you can follow this guide. Before starting please be aware that problems while rooting can brick your phone. While the process in this guide is relatively simple and easy, I can't be held responsible for whatever happens. Enable USB debugging in your phone by going to  Settings  ->  Applications  ->  Development . Plug in your phone to the computer. Go to Revolutionary website  http://revolutionary.io/  . From there download revolutionary software. Leave this browser tab opened. We need to generate Serial key later. Extract the downloaded software on your computer and run the software with root permission. $sudo ./revolutionary It will tell you your serial number and ask for the beta key. Copy the serial number and go to the browser tab we left open while downloading the software. Put the serial key there...
Read more

Increase Free Space On HTC Desire Android Phones

Roshan Karki Anonymous
Are you running out of free space on phones like HTC Desire and variants? It only has about 150MB of free space and after official Gingerbread 2.3.3 update the free space has decreased. Its really frustrating seeing all those apps with 20MB+ size eating up valuable space on Android phones. Even with App2SD I had very very difficult time maintaining free space. Installing apps like Facebook, Google Plus, Google Reader would eat up all the space. Today I used link2sd to increase free space on my Android phone and now I've more than 1GB of free space for installing apps. I've been installed so so many apps now. link2sd can move your application apk, dex and lib files to second partition of your SD card and creates a symlink where necessary. Even when you mount your SD card in computer the apps in SD card will work as only the first partition will be mounted in computer. Requirements : Root MicroSD card Clockworkmod recovery to partitoin the SD ca...
Read more

Giving Out Google Wave Invitations

Roshan Karki Anonymous
One of our generous reader is offering seven Google Wave invitations. So please put your email address as comment. You can use scr.im to protect your email address from spammers. To get the invitation you don't need to be my regular reader nor you need to be my RSS subscriber. Its not necessary that you have posted comment in this blog. It doesn't matter if you hate me or have kicked me. Invitations will be sent on first come first serve basis.
Read more