We Need to Port the Desire ROM (once rooted)

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I hope that once we have this rooted, we will be able to flash the Desire ROM. I'm sick at my stomach knowing that we are missing the wonderful News (RSS) widget and even a few others.

Re: We Need to Port the Desire ROM (once rooted)

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The desire is not a CDMA phone.

Make more sense to just port the app you want and much more realistic.

sure. if someone can port a widget.

Could you modify the ROM to work with the Qualcomm CDMA processor?

Re: We Need to Port the Desire ROM (once rooted)

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If you root it you won't be able to get the FROYO 2.2 upgrade. Can't be installed on rooted phones.

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Originally Posted by Ruben1123

I hope that once we have this rooted, we will be able to flash the Desire ROM. I'm sick at my stomach knowing that we are missing the wonderful News (RSS) widget and even a few others.

If we had root, and if we could write to /system/, then we could push the widget to the phone and be done with it. It should not require a whole ROM port to accomplish. We already have the file (com.htc.NewsReaderWidget.apk), however we cannot install/push it to the phone.

Originally Posted by jbh00jh

If you root it you won't be able to get the FROYO 2.2 upgrade. Can't be installed on rooted phones.

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A rooted phone might be locked out from an *official* update to 2.2, but the community would have that sorted out in a matter of hours once there was an official update to build off of. Anyways, until we do get root, that discussion is pretty much moot.

Thank you! Can't wait.

Originally Posted by askwhy

If we had root, and if we could write to /system/, then we could push the widget to the phone and be done with it. It should not require a whole ROM port to accomplish. We already have the file (com.htc.NewsReaderWidget.apk), however we cannot install/push it to the phone.

If there's an apk floating around, why couldn't it just be installed? :P



Also, rooted phones can run 2.2, I have no idea where you're getting that from.

Originally Posted by x.v_

If there's an apk floating around, why couldn't it just be installed? :P

Because you cannot install some .apk without permission to write to /system/app/ which we do not have. Want to try? It's attached. You will get "Application not installed" and if you try to adb push it, well, where are you going to put it? You cannot write to /system/app/ and you cannot write to /data/app/, so if you know another way... :P

Originally Posted by x.v_

Also, rooted phones can run 2.2, I have no idea where you're getting that from.

Of course they can run it. First of all, it was another poster who said they could not -- and they didn't even really say they couldn't 'run' it, just said unambiguously that they couldn't install it -- which in hindsight was probably referring to the same manual update engadget discusses, linked below. Second, my suggestion that the upgrade *might* not be *officially* supported on a rooted phone was just a logical possibility in my mind when I said it, but may have actually turned out to be the case:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/22/a...e-for-non-roo/


EDIT: and also here is Paul with things all community-flavored already (pre-rooted update.zip for n1):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686631

Originally Posted by jbh00jh

If you root it you won't be able to get the FROYO 2.2 upgrade. Can't be installed on rooted phones.

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Says who?

Update: Guess many others already set this comment straight. Sorry to be redundant