Personally, I was tired of waiting, so I freed my phone from the Swisscomian influence! Passed like a letter in the post, the same for another friend, so for those who want to post the second one, don’t hesitate! Otherwise, for those who remain “branded”, patience!

Ha yes if someone were to read this and say to themselves: “he’s crazy, he didn’t wait for swisscom to test the ROM for possible bugs! -> xD”, well I would simply answer that if there are bugs , well they are very very discreet, basically, no apparent/annoying bug!

Did you put a standard HTC ROM, or a rooted version like cyanogen?

Good morning,

I am a very impatient person and would threatening Swisscon be a good thing?

I put an original HTC 2.1 ROM, then the 2.2 update came immediately!

@htc94: I don’t think swisscom is going to rush since the Android community is not huge and active people who call and/or send requests are even rarer, so you have to put an original HTC ROM, and therefore after that you no longer need to wait on Swisscom.

htc94, you’re funny, what do you want to do? Plant a bomb at the Swisscom shop, call your uncle, director of Vodaphone?

There’s nothing you can do except wait, or if you don’t care about your warranty, switch to stock ROM.

So the manipulation was limited to (1) Booting the phone with a goldcard then (2) booting the phone with the correct update.zip on the SD? Or is it more complex than that?

don’t forget to root the phone first!!!!!!!!!!!

Make your goldcard preferably with the 4GB microSD supplied as standard with the Desire, and then from a Windows PC launch the installer of the original ROM in version 2.1, then update OTA in the following minutes, preferably by wifi! ABE

Vodafone announced on the 10th that Froyo would be released within 7 to 10 days…. well it wasn’t the 7th:smileyhappy:

shark: +1

Just for info, could you give the exact name of the official ROM you downloaded?

Because in all the tutorials that I have read, they do not offer the same ROMs, so I wanted someone’s opinion under Swisscom.

THANKS

For the impatient, here is the official forum where Vodafone announces the update to 2.2 which concerns us.

[http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/70251-htc-desire-firmware-update-100810/](http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/70251-htc-desire-firmware -update-100810/)

They posted this morning, obviously to say that they will not respect the 7-10 day deadline which was given on August 10.

The rest of my message was addressed to Kriegalex in fact.

I finally rooted with unrevoked3 and installed a rooted version of the standard HTC rom.

The procedure is quite simple. Here it is (in detail). Obviously at your own risk…

• Download unrevoked3 from http://unrevoked.com/

• Launch reflash (I used the linux version). The phone reboots and now has an additional application that gives root rights to applications that request it.

• Install the “Rom Manager” from the market.

• Download a ROM to replace the one on the phone, copy it to the SD card.

  I took Official_FroYo_Market_fixed.zip which is available on

  http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=741775

  and I also downloaded

  [http://android.adamg.co.uk/bravo/radio/32.43.00.32U\_5.09.00.20.zip](http://android.adamg.co.uk/bravo/radio/32.43.00.32 U_5.09.00.20.zip)

  for the “rom radio” (no idea what it is, but before I upgraded it too, everything worked except the video…)

• Launch the ROM manager and install the “Official_FroYo_Market_fixed.zip” rom by making a backup. The ROM manager will first download something else, this is normal.

• After reboot, launch the ROM manager and install “32.43.00.32U_5.09.00.20.zip”, without backup this time, since we have already done it.

There you go, after this last reboot, you have a rooted Froyo.

I tested for 1 hour, and it works.

For your information, I had the Swisscom hotline for a long time on Wednesday. The person I spoke to assured me that the warranty remains valid for the hardware (however, they did not guarantee anything for the software aspects and compatibility with their network).

I told him that I would refer to this discussion in the event of a problem, so that he had to be sure, and he confirmed, adding that if I had it repaired, I could indicate that I had changed the ROM and it should not be touched (!)

Thank you for all this information! There you teach me something, I didn’t know that the software and hardware warranty were separate, I thought it was a whole (and it’s justified, because a software modification can cause hardware damage to the phone such as overheating, overclock, etc… in addition to instability). I say that, but we see crappy ROMs, like masterpieces that are more stable than the official versions.

However, it’s a shame that you don’t have proof, because there you can’t justify anything. It would have been necessary to have a copy of the telephone recording or an email with signature…

So it’s good to know, but not 100% reliable. The merchants can very well play it cool and repeat the phone as if they were laughing in your face because you didn’t read the general conditions carefully.

From what I know, the radio ROM is the information necessary for the software to interact with the phone’s hardware such as the antenna, the camera, wifi, etc… It is therefore very important! Many custom ROMs require flashing the radio to work properly.

You have to be careful, it’s a trick to brick the phone, especially when Vodafone announces that it’s coming in less than a week (see the link above).

I was also surprised by what this hotline person told me about the warranty, hence the fact that I asked him to repeat it twice. It is quite possible that the information is still false, but it is better than if he had told me the opposite.

As for separating hardware warranty from software, there are indeed cases where the two are linked (in particular if there is mechanics, like fan, hard disk head, etc.) but I believe that it It is up to them to demonstrate that the failure is actually linked to software modifications. But hey, I’m not a consumer rights specialist, and I’ve always had good contact with Swisscom, so I assume that they wouldn’t make a fuss on principle.

As for the reasons to root it: 1. to be safe from the next great marketing ideas from Vodafone, 2. to have the next updates quickly and 3. to be able to install applications that require root privileges. In particular, it seems to me that there are openconnect VPN clients – which I need – but they only work with root privileges.

Unrevoked lets you root without a goldcard, but don’t you need it for every update anyway?

Good morning,

So after a phone call with swisscom, I managed to get a date, it would be for Monday August 30 which unfortunately seems to coincide with the end of August/beginning of September in the news posted yesterday. On the other hand, on the Vodaphone UK forum, they have just announced the update for this Monday ([see here](http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/topic/70251-htc-desire-firmware -update-200810/)). This will not remove the *super* 360 service and co: you will have to uninstall manually despite error messages (nice) or completely reset the phone after the update (you can start backing up this weekend).

I still secretly hope that we will also obtain it sooner than the 30th, because I understood between the lines that he gave me the date of the 30th with a certain margin of safety. Well, in short, don’t hesitate to use the “menu -> about -> log updates -> check now” from next week because this would allow you to recover it before we receive the official notification which can take up to at 2 weeks (see moderator post vodafone).

For your information, he made it clear to me that changing the ROM VOID the warranty. So ultimately I think it’s up to the free interpretation of the hotline guy, because they contradict each other. And when I asked him to send me the general warranty conditions, he told me that I would not find anything on this subject in them. But I’m waiting to take a look.

Have a good weekend.

> Unrevoked lets you root without a goldcard, but don’t you need it for every update anyway?

I’m not sure I understand the meaning of this question. Once the ROM manager is installed, it takes 2 minutes to install any ROM (without PC, without goldcard, just the phone), including to revert to the original ROM in the event of a problem.

It’s funny to see that they impose a délai on us to test the software and that they give us something buggy.

Well, I have no worries:smileytongue:

Is Vodaphone ROM multilingual? Surely… but we can expect a délai from Swisscom to test its own services.