The Ultimate Information Thread | Specs, Reviews, Photos, Videos, Index

aashay960 · Jan 2, 2014

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HTC Desire C Specifications
Hardware Features :

Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon
CPU: 600 MHz
Card slot: microSD, up to 32 GB
Internal Memory: 4 GB storage (You only get 1GB to use because the rest of it is system stuff)
RAM: 512 MB
Dimensions: 107.2 x 60.6 x 12.3 mm
Weight: 100 g
Colors: Polar White, Stealth Black, Flamenco Red
Touch-sensitive controls

Software Features :

OS: Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
Browser: HTML, Adobe Flash
Radio: TBD
GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
Supported Video Formats: MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
Supported Audio Formats: MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
SNS integration
Google Search, Maps, Gmail,
YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
Organizer
Document viewer
Voice memo/dial
Predictive text input

Camera Features :

Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels
Features: Geo-tagging, Pre-Focus, Auto Focus
Video: Yes
Secondary: No

Display Features :

Type: Capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
Size: 320 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches (~165 ppi pixel density)
Multitouch: Yes
HTC Sense UI v4.0

Connectivity Features :

2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 900 / 2100
GPRS: Yes
EDGE: Yes
Speed: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi hotspot
Bluetooth: Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
NFC: Optional
USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
USB Features: USB Charging, USB Mass Storage, USB Tether, USB Reverse Tether, HTC Sync

Sound Features :

Alert types: Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
Loudspeaker: Yes
3.5mm jack: Yes
Beats Audio sound enhancement

Sensors :

Accelerometer
Proximity
Ambient Light Sensor

Battery Features :
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1230 mAh

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Useful Links
Official HTC Desire C Website
Official HTC Desire C Accessories
HTC Desire C Wikipedia Page
HTC Desire C User Reviews and Ratings

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Official HTC Desire C Video

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Official HTC Desire C Pictures

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HTC Desire C Comparision and Substitutes

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HTC Desire C Video Reviews

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Professional Reviews

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Real Reviews by Real Users!

MrToastedAndroid said:
This post has two parts, one highlighting my experience with the Desire C, the other is my review.

My experience with this phone

This was my first phone that I rooted. I remember when the only ROM's we had were a very alpha CM9, Explosion ROM by Seanny, and good old Nameless ROM. I even remember when we lacked a sub-forum for this device! I wanted to root my phone because it got very slow. I really liked the phone, the screen was perfect for me, the camera was great for the extremely few shots I took with my phone, and it did everything I wanted it to do. Keep in mind I didn't know alot about the power of Android, I just looked at my phone as a phone that can play Super Hexagon and send texts. I didn't ask for much from the phone, and it didn't give me any troubles. Now, I was happy for a while, before my friend got a GNex and started telling me about all these apps, different widgets and launchers I should try out. I tried out Nova Launcher, and fell in love with the stock Android look of Nova Launcher. Then my phone started slowing down, messaging took ages to load, carrying out a call was a pretty bad experience and even scrolling my timeline on Twitter or even Settings was too much for the Desire C. I realized that I had asked too much from the Desire C, so I rooted and installed Nameless v5 with a custom ROM.

That did the trick, but it still was slow and after a while, it was back to where I was before rooting the phone; slow. I keep seeing posts by XDA members that we should try to get working on CyanogenMod for our device, because Sense was holding our device back. So I waited for the devs to get on it, because I know ****-all about developing and programming. To fill that gap of waiting, I flashed russell664's Revolution ROM's and enjoyed it alot (still running Revolution Sense) but after seeing the beauty of Stock Android, and the hope that the lack of Sense will speed up my phone, I couldn't wait no more. At that point, CM10 was being developed and there was a lack of Wi-Fi. I didn't have any data on my plan, but I have unlimited usage from my ISP, so I was Wi-Fi only. Then, the day came where there was a Wi-Fi fix. I flashed it immediately, and there was a HUGE difference from a Sense Desire C to a non-Sense Desire C. Apps opened quicker, exiting apps was really fast, scrolling was smooth, and the best part is when I started adding back that I had pre-CM10, my phone did slow down, but I was still very impressive. I thank all the devs and the members of this community for bringing this phone to where it is today. Without this community, this phone would be "just another cheap Android phone".

Review of the Desire C

Screen is great for watching movies and YouTube videos on. Battery was never an issue on my HTC Desire C, it always lasted longer than I anticipated (I actually miss the HDC's batt life after switching to a N4). I am not one to judge the camera on this phone, I am no means a pro photographer, let alone someone who likes taking pictures, so I can't comment in detail about this aspect of the phone. Although, it's great for the 1 or 2 times I bothered to take a picture . Call quality depends entirely on the carrier's signal, the strength of the connection and the microphone on both ends of the call. I found it to be bad sometimes and great other times. No reviewer should judge call quality, because there is too much variables to make a judgement on. Loudspeaker is... loud? It's good when compared to the god-of-tinny-noise Nexus 4. The phone feels great in the hands, and it a very solid-built smartphone. I dropped it 2 times from about 3ft onto solid hardwood and it survived. Buttons are clicky. Software on the other hand, I would say it depends on what you would like to do on your phone. It's a $150 phone, with low-specs. It runs fine if you don't install high-end games like Dead-Trigger. If you do, then it will slow down, which I failed to realize after 3 times. (I barely have any apps on my N4 because of all the ROM's ) One of my friends owns this phone and he stuffed it full of different widgets, launchers, custom messaging/calling apps, even 3 different lockscreens! It was really slow, and even he couldn't bear it, so he wiped his phone. He didn't bloat up his phone again, so it was pretty decent to use for everyday.

I guess that last statement sums up the phone pretty well: it's a decent phone for the price.

tl;dr phone much decent

aashay960 · Nov 9, 2014

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Development Index For HTC Desire C
A request to Developers - Please mention in this thread if you update or release a new rom
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Guides :

Custom Recoveries :

TeamWinProject Recovery 2.8.1.0 - h1gh1
ClockworkMod Recovery 6.0.3.0 - mehmehmen
TeamWinProject Recovery 2.5.0.0 - nikhil16242
Stock Recovery

Custom Kernels :

Sense Kernel

Prometheus Kernel - nikhil16242
Stock Kernel

Jellybean 4.1.2 Kernels

Prometheus Kernel - nikhil16242
N.O.P.E Kernel - me4488

Custom Roms :

Stock ROM Perfect for Restoring - russell664

KitKat Custom Roms (Android 4.4.4)

CyanogenMod 11 - kirmaniarslan, h1gh1
Omni ROM - warrior1208

Sense Based Roms (HTC Sense 4.0, Android 4.0.3)

Revolution Sense5 Edition - russell664
Revolution Sense Edition 3.1 - russell664
Revolutionmod De-Sense 3.3 - russell664
Sensational ROM V4 - kush.smarty
Nit-Picked SENSE ROM - uchihasparky
Revolution Rom SuperStripped Edition 2.1 - russell664

Jellybean Custom ROMs (Android 4.1.2)

Cyanogenmod 10 - cute_prince
Darkbreed IV - addictz10
Xperia Z Fire - Series 2 - Aman
Miui v5- nikhil16242
Simplicity I - addictz10
Touchwiz UX - Shad0wPanda
MiniProvisionMOD V2 - for811
Touchwiz 5 Nature UX - ExonakiDev
Paranoid Android 2.99 - Failyx
Fusion C I - addictz10
HonamiZ II (Xperia Fire) - Aman
SpeedDroid - addictz10
LG UI - addictz10
BLU Mod - addictz10
Jellyfish CM10 - racky29
Sense 5 v1 - addictz10
PAX (Paranoid Android Xperia) - addictz10
Revolution JB - addictz10
ProjectBlue 9100 (Windows Phone Style) - addictz10
RootBox - addictz10
CyanogenMod 10 with 4.2.2 features - addictz10
Light Blue Jelly - addictz10
Codename Lungo - Shad0wPanda
Project KitKat - addictz10
Mini CM10 - warrior1208
Evervolv - warrior1208

LaKsHaY1997 · Jul 23, 2013 at 12:31 PM

Camera Features :

Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
Features: Geo-tagging
Video: Yes
Secondary: No

Great thread bro :good:
But I don't think Desire C has autofocus ...Its Fixed Focus or you can also say Pre Focus

Oh! Its time to watch Family Guy

aashay960 · Jul 23, 2013 at 1:51 PM

LaKsHaY1997 said:
Great thread bro :good:
But I don't think Desire C has autofocus ...Its Fixed Focus or you can also say Pre Focus

Oh! Its time to watch Family Guy

I checked a few sites and they did infact mention autofocus. I'm not a camera tech so I can't figure this out by myself.. Are you sure it's not there?

LaKsHaY1997 · Jul 23, 2013 at 2:01 PM

aashay960 said:
I checked a few sites and they did infact mention autofocus. I'm not a camera tech so I can't figure this out by myself.. Are you sure it's not there?

Yes Sir!

Its not autofocus

MrToastedAndroid · Jul 23, 2013 at 9:37 PM

Great thread to have here, this should have been here ever since we got our own forum for this device! Thanks a lot for getting all these links and hardware specs together in a nice and clean thread post! We all should ask a mod to sticky this in the general section!

sent from my HTC Desire C

webhijacker · Jul 23, 2013 at 11:38 PM

The bad
The display isn’t at the same level of HTC’s more stellar smartphones such as the HTC Desire One X. Its 480 x 320 pixel display isn’t as clear, or as bright, but still manages to cope adequately in bright conditions, but don’t expect it to blow you away.

""The camera is fixed focus"", which means you’ll never get close to the high quality photos possible on more advanced smartphones. You’ll need steady hands to get the best shots from the Desire C. There’s also no flash.

This review from the gadget show
You can see that the camera is auto fixed not auto focus

aashay960 · Jul 25, 2013 at 3:24 PM

Added a lot of stuff

Aman_Arora · Jul 25, 2013 at 3:47 PM

LaKsHaY1997 said:
Camera Features :

Primary: 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus

Features: Geo-tagging

Video: Yes

Secondary: No

Great thread bro :good:
But I don't think Desire C has autofocus ...Its Fixed Focus or you can also say Pre Focus

Oh! Its time to watch Family Guy

it has autofocus the stock rom had a gud working one .
I think mods detorate some parts of our stock working stuff

but also improve some.

aashay960 · Jul 25, 2013 at 4:10 PM

aman23091998 said:
it has autofocus the stock rom had a gud working one .
I think mods detorate some parts of our stock working stuff

but also improve some.

Now I'm confused again.. lol

penguin449 · Jul 25, 2013 at 5:01 PM

@aashay960 Since Shreyan is not sticking to it and hasn't updated the bloody index thread, why don't you add in one into this, ask the people of the 3,4,5 posts to help out, put in guides, Roms, and kernels, make it sticky, rename it to just Ultimate Desire C thread? :3

aashay960 · Jul 25, 2013 at 5:19 PM

penguin449 said:
@aashay960 Since Shreyan is not sticking to it and hasn't updated the bloody index thread, why don't you add in one into this, ask the people of the 3,4,5 posts to help out, put in guides, Roms, and kernels, make it sticky, rename it to just Ultimate Desire C thread? :3

Right now my first priority will be to improve this thread a little further so that it gets stickied (otherwise its useless). There was some misunderstanding between me and the mods which has been sorted now. I will look for ways to improve this thread. Any help will be appreciated.

Regarding the Index thread, it is a pretty big commitment and requires a lot of hard work. I am willing to do it (will probably open a separate thread) but i will have to set up some rules like if you update or release a rom, leave a notice in the index thread. You know what I mean? I saw a forum (dont remember device) where it was compulsory to mention the 'last update date' in the title of the rom. This way it becomes easier for the new members as well.

I will think about that. But i will ask for Shreyan's permission before (and if) I decide to go ahead with it...

I was also thinking about updating that thread by Air_Combat. It is a really helpful thread but it is outdated and buried in the general section which is sad

aashay960 · Jul 26, 2013 at 8:58 AM

Added comparison and substitutes.

LaKsHaY1997 · Jul 26, 2013 at 3:09 PM

aman23091998 said:
it has autofocus the stock rom had a gud working one .
I think mods detorate some parts of our stock working stuff

but also improve some.

Bro,

I am 100% sure that it doesn't has auto focus.......One way to verify this is that there is no green thingy when we capture a pic...It does't even have touch to focus cause it simply don't have auto focus.. @aashay960 No need to get confused Bro

aashay960 · Jul 26, 2013 at 5:31 PM

Check out the 5 links in the comparison section. Our phone comes last in all

Even when compared to cheaper phones.

It does beat pico in terms of specs but then pico is almost 35% cheaper than our phone and has a much better development in the forums

wilberfish · Jul 26, 2013 at 8:04 PM

Before this I had a galaxy ace and can say this is a lot better!
A friend has pico and it is good with some of the custom ROMs.
My main phone is defy mini mainly for waterproof and rugged build but because of locked boot loader and little development is very slow.

aashay960 · Jul 27, 2013 at 4:46 PM

wilberfish said:
Before this I had a galaxy ace and can say this is a lot better!
A friend has pico and it is good with some of the custom ROMs.
My main phone is defy mini mainly for waterproof and rugged build but because of locked boot loader and little development is very slow.

According to me the major drawbacks of this phone are the CPU and the display (resolution and pixel density). Otherwise its a great phone given the price. Also, it is one of the cheapest phones that come pre-installed with ICS.

aashay960 · Jul 27, 2013 at 5:29 PM

This is kinda embarrassing but it took me almost 2 months to realize that we can 'swipe away the notifications'

lol
And also, I'll never forget the time I was rooting this phone. I was dead scared that I would mess something up

wilberfish · Jul 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM

The price and ICS is why I got this as my spare, It took me a while to learn the functions too!
For me it works great. My galaxy ace was bad in comparison and had no memory.
Rooting this was easy compared to some phones!

LaputaCake · Jul 27, 2013 at 9:45 PM

wilberfish said:
The price and ICS is why I got this as my spare, It took me a while to learn the functions too!
For me it works great. My galaxy ace was bad in comparison and had no memory.
Rooting this was easy compared to some phones!

I'm having a problem with my friend said ace where every time boot looped so had to restore odin

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