Like others, I realised that flash player was not working properly on my CM7.1 ROM.  , but that’s the pain of rooting I suppose.

Much fiddling and I worked out how to get the thing going.  The main issue I had was that the named path:

/data/data/com.android.browser/app_plugins/com.adobe.flashplayer/.macromedia/Flash_Player/config.data

did not exist, but I worked out

1. that it does not exist until the browser has tried to run a flash file and my problem was with BBC’s app
2. .macromedia is a hidden file (ls -la finds it)

So in the end I went through and did

chmod 000 /data/data/com.android.browser/app_plugins/com.adobe.flashplayer/.macromedia/Flash_Player/config.data

Changing the red text for any app that does not work.  I am still using Terminal for this, I can’t get adb to work and have not got round to the massive £2.50 for Root Explorer.

Getting to grips with the fun of rooting…

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18548861

And have added the nice ICS font to my phone.

I am getting to grips with this rooted phone stuff. This morning I backed up my phone’s state using nandroid, then installed an ICS Beta from xda-developers.  ICS is the new integrated version of Android that is formatted for both tablets and phones.  It looks very nice, and I could almost use it except for the fact that the camera does not work (yet).  When the camera is operational I may well mover over to it.  I suspect that this will be the quickest way to get this update for my phone.

After playing for half an hour, I backed up the ICS install and then restored my CyanogenMod build.

I have not tried undervolting yet.

It is all working now apart from one panic where I appeared to scramble the recovery image (ClockworkRecovery) and had a heart stopping wait to see if I had bricked the phone.  This appeared to be related to ROMManager being linked to all zip files on the sdcard.

Now I am trying to reduce battery use, I have been using androidforums again, more specifically a post on undervolting, but need to calibrate the battery first, something I have never done.  The instructions on androidforums use a LordMod set of apps for undervolting, but I have also read that CyanogenMod is already undervolted.  I think I will leave it for now. The calibration is clearly needed though.  My phone is charging, the battery says 100% but the current is still flowing in to the battery!

Well, I have finally made the change and have rooted my phone using the excellent and stupidly easy to use Ace Hack Kit.  Having done this, I also found a hint that I can return it to stock if I really need to.  El Presidente at androidforums.com has been very helpful.  Some pages of use for future reference:

• [GUIDE] DHD All things root roundup sticky at androidforums
• Specific CyanogenMOD steps for installing that ROM
• Changing the CID (not sure I will need this, also it is used for possibly reverting to stock)

I am currently working through the steps making backups and backing up my backups.I am probably confusing myself, but I will soon be moving to CyanogenMod 7.1.  I used it on my HTC Hero whilst my phone was being repaired and really liked it.  It should fly on the beefier Desire HD.  I am hoping for better battery life with the new setup.  I still sometimes have days where I am dead before 5pm, particularly if I am not at home for the day.

Now I understand a little more (oops) I realise that I should have rooted my phone when it was in its pure Orange state, since that would give me a stock ROM to return too (not sure how you put back the old recovery mode but I think that link above answers that question.  I’d have backed up the stock Orange ROM, now I will be backing up the old HTC ROM that I am using that does not match my phone’s CID (Carrier ID, which in my case is ORANG001).

I’ve just hit reboot to recovery.  More to follow.