I've been spending the past week turfing out the house with a 16 cubic yard dumpster in the driveway. Everything has been thrown out that isn't needed, new walls up in the basement, new windows in the house, lots of renovations on the go. With all of this the bulk of the basement has been packed up into plastic storage bins while the basement is being built and to this I've lots the last of my project space for now. To the
ThinkHaus it is!
While waiting to get the windows in I decided that it was imperative that I hack my HTC Desire with root access, NAND flash unlocked and a new ROM.
It was actually a really easy process after some reading and tinkering.
I used the unrevoked3 app for OSX which is basically a one click root enabler that removes the read only flag from the NAND flash and installs a new BIOS and recovery mode.
From there is was as simple as transferring the new zipped up ROM to the SD card, booting into the BIOS recovery and selecting to load a new BIOS from the SD card.
Then it's just a matter of waiting for it to reboot and onto tinkering with all the settings. There are a lot of settings to play with. Install some custom skins and I'm good.
Right now I am running the Cyanogenmod ROM. It's pretty decent except for one feature and that is hooking the phone to a PC to charge. The standard factory ROM had the option of setting the default action when connecting to a PC, I would set it to charge as default. The new Cynanogenmod ROM doesn't. What it does is give the option to mount the SD card upon immediate connection of the USB cable. It's not a terrible feature, I just wish there was the option to change it as it cuts out Winamp playback.
Maybe someone has created a modded version of the Cyanogenmod ROM with this feature. Time to look around.
All in all I am very happy with the hack. My memory management is much better, I get better reception on WiFi and the phone just feels a lot more snappy and quick. It's very lean and clean.
In the mean time if you are looking to mod or hack your Android here are some useful links for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://unrevoked.com/recovery/
-Colin.
