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Flashing Cyanogen on your rooted HTC Desire

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So if you have followed the one-click root process to root your HTC Desire, here's the next step from there. Now that you have root access what are you going to do about it! Well, you flash a ROM of your choice. I chose Cyanogen which is supposed to be one of the best ones, and with a not so complicated process. Here's everything you will need: Download the latest version of Cyanogen . I'm using 7.1. Download Google Apps (This is optional, I did not need this. I manually downloaded the google apps) Pre-Flash Process: Connect your phone to the computer. Mount as Disk Drive. Find your phone as an extra drive under 'My Computer', open it up and place both the .zip files in your SD Card. Remember both these file names! Turn your phone off. Unplug from computer. Flash Process: Hold your phone's power key & volume down key at the same time, until the screen comes on. It should load into what is called the Bootloader. (You will k

Rooting the HTC Desire

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After a year of enjoying my HTC Desire as it came, I finally gathered the courage to root it. You need not just courage but enough reason to root your phone. It is a stressful, exciting process leaving you very hungry! :P My Reasons to root are as follows: 1. Battery life 2. Low Memory Problems 3. No Gingerbread update from Desire. 4. Wanted more apps on my phone. 5. A year old phone. I could either now change it or root it and make it brand new. 6. Also, My phone turns a year old on Oct 29th, & what better present could I give it, than a completely new look? :P With my reasons in place to root and the courage I needed to go ahead, I finally decided that October 26th, 2011 would be the day I would choose to root my phone. I chose the easy one click root method by unrEVOked . This root program was orginally developed for the HTC Evo but can be used for quite a few other HTC phones as well. Pre-Root Process: Click on the link above. select your phone model and let that download and