Tag Archives: HTC

May
02
2012 HTC Desire HD power consumption
by Q under Software

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After rooting and flashed custom ROM, HTC Desire HD A9191 power consumption has changed dramatically. If with original ROM, in average use the battery almost managed to hold around 14 hours or in stand-by around 36 hours with all optimizations that i could do, now with custom rom easily comes to 24 hours for average use and 3 days if mostly on stand-by but with [Background data], [Auto-sync], WIFI and Bluetooth active.

 

HTC claims :

Talk time: up to 550 min (2G) up to 320 min (3G)
Stand-by: up to 490 h (2G) up to 420 h (3G)

 

Real life usage:

Time ON Battery
max – min
(%)		 Cell
stand-by
(radio)		 Phone
IDLE		 Voice
Calls		 Display
(backlight)		 WIFI Bluetooth Android OS
(CPU / Awake)
Light (A pictures) 1d 0h 47m 100 – 24 1d 0h 47m 1d 0h 47m 37m 5s 1h 18m 52s 6h 55m 1d 0h 47m 2m 57s / 22m 57s
Medium (C pictures) 1d 2h 12m 100 – 9 1d 2h 12m 1d 1h 6m 1h 18m 1h 5m 7h 37m 1d 2h 11m 3m 21s / 39m 12s
Stand-by (B pictures) 1d 10h 50m 100 – 54 1d 10h 50m 1d 10h 50m 0m 15m 1h 12m 1d 10h 50m 0m 35s / 3m 23s

 

 

Apr
21
2012 Rooting HTC Desire HD A9191 2.3.5 – Vodafone with AAHK
by Q under Software

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First of all many thanks to AAHK (Advanced Ace Hack KIT) team for making this so easy and possible, awesome release. Here i put on paper my root experience step by step.

  • OS: Windows 7 x64
  • Phone: HTC Desire HD A9191 (Android v2.3.5  |  HTC Sense v3.0  |  Software number 3.12.405.1 )
  • Application: Advanced Ace Hack Kit v.13012012
  • Custom ROM:  Android Revolution HD v6.3.2
  • Drivers: HTC USB Driver v3.0.0.007

Preparations:

  • download [aahk-13012012.zip] and unzip

Advanced Ace Hack Kit 13.01.2012
Advanced Ace Hack Kit – more info on XDA

  • read carefull the [effen-manual.html]
  • make sure no antivirus software is enabled
  • make sure you uninstalled all software related to your phone (HTC Sync and drivers) or other phones, PDA and tablets you may have
  • into your phone go to Settings > Application > Development > [tick] USB debugging
  • install HTC USB Drivers for Android from \Advanced Ace Hack Kit\tools\windrivers\HTCDriver3.0.0.007.exe
  • download a custom ROM. If you want something that looks like stock ROM, with Sense 3.0, etc … my suggestion is Android Revolution HD (many thanks to Android Revolution HD team for great work)

Android Revolution HD 6.3.2 (for HTC Desire HD)
Android Revolution HD – more info on XDA
Android Revolution HD – developer site

Running the process:

  • execute with Administrator privileges: hack-ace.cmd (for Windows 7)
  • enter the generated PASS KEY by pressing CAJUN.txt in [effen-manual.html] or you can find it in: \Advanced Ace Hack Kit\tools\txt\CAJUN.txt and press ENTER to start the process
  • the AAHK will check the version of your installed Android to see if is compatible, if is not compatible will automaticaly suggest to downgrade (see AAHK DOS Window Step 1 – Page 1) … type Y if you want to do it. RRU download will start (for me 247MB in 82sec at 4MB/s). When download is complete the process will copy required files to your phone SD card and the phone reboots in HBOOT, will continue with file integrity check (see AAHK DOS Window Step 1 – Page 2)
  • if everything is fine will prompt you to press [Volume Up] to start the downgrade process (see DHD-HBOOT Step 6.01)
  • after successful downgrade press [Power] to reboot, the phone will start normally as first time with wizard to configure the basics (see DHD-HBOOT Step 6.08-10)
  • now, to get ROOT just run again [hack-ace.cmd]

Install custom ROM:

  • disable [Fast boot] … Settings > Power > [untick] Fast boot
  • power-off and start your phone in recovery mode [Volume down + power] … keep the keys pressed till you see the HBOOT screen
  • from main menu chose Recovery to access AAHK ClockworkMod Recovery
  • here you choose ether [apply update from sdcard > Yes - Install /sdcard/update.zip] or [install zip from sdcard > use /sdcard/update.zip]. Wait till complete message appears [New ROM flashed successully! Reboot your device ...] and reboot. First time boot after flashing will be longer (about 3min), just be pacient. (see Flash custom ROM)

HTC Desire HD button functions:

  • volume [+ /-] is for menu up / down navigation
  • power/screen-lock is for back into the upper menu

Dec
18
2011 Review Gingerbread update – Android 2.3.5 with Sense 3.0 for HTC Desire HD
by Q under Reviews

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Finally the latest version of Gingerbread has arrived. HTC Incredible S and HTC Desire HD can now be upgraded the latest version of Gingerbread v3.12.405.1 which contains:

  • Android 2.3.5  – fixes some bugs and security flaws
  • HTC Sense 3.0 – changes almost everything

Lock-Screen: perhaps the best feature brought by Sense 3.0 is the ability to launch favorite applications directly from the lock-screen, that you can choose. Also comes with new and better look. In addition, via Personalization Menu – Lock Screen you can chose between other sixs themes – wallpaper, photo album, friend stream, weather, stocks and clock. The text characters are now lighter and  smoother than ever. Sense 3.0 also comes with Watch application which enables you to play movies trailers, very simple application, no fancy settings or functions but it’s a start.

Mail: new look for email client, more like Apple iPhone style that enables you to see couple of content lines directly. Now you can navigate between e-mail accounts with only two taps but still you need to get into Menu > Refresh to send / receive new e-mails. The mail number bug shown on mail icon remains, still after that you tap in and get out, number of unread / new mails vanishes in thin air.

Calendar:  the new calendar look even if is better the fact that you see the events on hour and you need to scroll down alot and is not practical at all, was better before with all events aligned below each other. And is not all, even if you add some event with description with a period of, lets say, couple of hours you still don’t see event aditional description even is plenty of space, wasted space.

Messages and dialer: here we have total downgrade. As an example, lets see an SMS from mobile service provider, something like:

Missed calls: xxxx xxx xxx
day 12/12
hour 12:00

If until now we could tap the number that appears in the message then we could choose what to do with it including displaying contact if it exists in the phone book. That was very helpful considering that one of the basic functions of the smartphone should be to identify the number in phone book and display the contact on request. If until now we had hoped to see a change in addition, for example telephone number to be automatically replaced with the corresponding name in the phone book, now we have no function at all. Now tapping the phone number has only one effect, that is reported directly in dialer to call, some sort of copy / paste.

Sense 3.0 seems to come with some unresolved issues from testing phase. After installing various application updates, Sense restarts every time. If this happens occasionally is not a problem but when happens after each update then it becomes annoying. Even worse, when some application closes abnormally again sense restarts.

The update has 228MB so, as usual, better update over WiFi to ovoid data charges.