Confused about Rooting/Romming

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Guys,

I've had almost every HTC since the early days of the original XDA, I then migrated to a Blackberry Storm2 for a short while but now back in the HTC camp and the proud owner of a Desire.

I am with Vodafone and have many apps installed ('Stocks' and 'Footprints' for instance!) that I simply don't want, other than that I am fairly happy with the 1.9 rom that is standard from the provider.

I would love the 2.2 Rom but understand that when Google finally deploy it to our Vodafone Desires, we'll still be stuck with standard apps that I don't want installed and cannot uninstall.

What is the best option for me to get the baseline 2.2 OS and the ability to uninstall ANY app that I don't want? Please suggest a specific rom if appropriate, or is it possible for me to just 'root' a standard rom giving me the ability to uninstall apps?

Originally Posted by ashleyhall

Guys,

I've had almost every HTC since the early days of the original XDA, I then migrated to a Blackberry Storm2 for a short while but now back in the HTC camp and the proud owner of a Desire.

I am with Vodafone and have many apps installed ('Stocks' and 'Footprints' for instance!) that I simply don't want, other than that I am fairly happy with the 1.9 rom that is standard from the provider.

I would love the 2.2 Rom but understand that when Google finally deploy it to our Vodafone Desires, we'll still be stuck with standard apps that I don't want installed and cannot uninstall.

What is the best option for me to get the baseline 2.2 OS and the ability to uninstall ANY app that I don't want? Please suggest a specific rom if appropriate, or is it possible for me to just 'root' a standard rom giving me the ability to uninstall apps?

for u to have a 2.2 rom u will have to root ur device
for me this is the best guide

http://theunlockr.com/2010/06/07/how...he-htc-desire/

and remember rooting voids warranty and its at ur own risk and back up ur device i use backup pro
or u can use smsbackup and restore and call history backup
contacts are already sync with google so just sign into google to get contacts back