{"id":353,"date":"2011-07-17T20:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/plucking-up-courage-changing-desire-hd-rom\/"},"modified":"2011-07-17T20:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-17T20:39:00","slug":"plucking-up-courage-changing-desire-hd-rom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/plucking-up-courage-changing-desire-hd-rom\/","title":{"rendered":"Plucking up courage&#8230; Changing Desire HD ROM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy with my phone, but with my wife getting a non-branded one I realise that it is sub-optimal. \u00a0It has all sorts of extra services that I probably don&#8217;t need and it starts pretty slowly. \u00a0I suspect that if I can get a standard HTC ROM on it, it might be better.<\/p>\n<p>But this is a one-way path. \u00a0I could brick the phone or render it useless. \u00a0I&#8217;d need to set it up from scratch (it is the ultimate factory reset), but that is not too bad. \u00a0I need a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/mobile\/how-to-make-gold-card-for-htc-desire-hd\/\">gold card<\/a> (created last night) though I am clueless at the moment as to what that is other than something that makes the phone appear to not belong to orange.<\/p>\n<p>As I type I have clicked the button. \u00a0Hold on to your horses. \u00a0Could be expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Later: FAILED, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htcdesirehdforum.com\/htc-desire-hd-how-to\/htc-desire-hd-stock-htc-rom\/msg12333\/#msg12333\">just like this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe another day I will come back and try the steps from the <a href=\"http:\/\/androidforums.com\/desire-hd-all-things-root\/354749-how-root-install-custom-rom-desire-hd.html\">androidforums<\/a> &#8211; but they require the same goldcard \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am happy with my phone, but with my wife getting a non-branded one I realise that it is sub-optimal. \u00a0It has all sorts of extra services that I probably don&#8217;t need and it starts pretty slowly. \u00a0I suspect that if I can get a standard HTC ROM on it, it might be better. But &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/plucking-up-courage-changing-desire-hd-rom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Plucking up courage&#8230; Changing Desire HD ROM<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[56,51],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-htc","tag-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}