Rooting && Flashing the HTC Desire HD

April 3, 2011
AndroidHTC
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One of the perks of flashing, is better battery life and more responsiveness

This is were i learned ( for HTC DESIRE HD ) REVOLUTION ROM
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=984045

BEFORE YOU START

In general you want USB debugging on
you find it in the settings somewhere on your phone ( google it )

ROOT

 

  1. Market Place Download – VISIONary
  2. open VISIONary , hit TEMPROOT
  3. if successful hit PERMROOT

POSSIBLE DOWNGRADE

 

  1. If fail then stop
  2. go to the HD revolution page and read, If you need to downgrade, then follow the instructions on that page to do it

CHANGING THE BOOT LOADER

 

  1. Market Place Download – Rom manager
  2. Rom manager will replace your recovery boot loader with clockwork
  3. if you want to see the boot loader, turn off the phone, holding the ( VOL +- ) and POWER ( comes on about 10 seconds later )
  4. the HTC boot manager will load, using the VOL +- to navigate up / down, POWER button to select RECOVERY
  5. the RECOVERY menu has a few options

S-ENG OFF && S-RADIO OFF

 

  1. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=855403
  2. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=857537

BACKUP BEFORE FLASHING

 

  1. Choose BACKUP from the recovery menu – it will backup your current ROM SDCARD
  2. When the backup is complete, choose reboot
  3. Market Place Download – APN BACKUP AND RESORE
  4. Open APN and slect BACKUP to BACKUP your Mobile Providers Settings – it will save them to your SDCARD

GETTING READY FOR THE FLASH

 

  1. You should have the following
  2. ROOT ?
  3. Clockwork bootloader
  4. A BACKUP of your current rom
  5. APN BACKUP
  6. USB DEDUGGING ENABLED

THE FLASH

 

  1. Given that your new ROM (REVOLUTION) is on your SDCARD
  2. reboot and go to recovery
  3. Choose WIPE DATA
  4. DO NOT TURN OFF PHONE
  5. Choose restore from zip file
  6. choose REVOLUTION
  7. pop a champagne cork
  8. reboot and your done

POST FLASH

 

  1. Restore APN Settings, you can go onto your Cell Provider and put in these settings manually ( but we already backed them up )
  2. Download Andriod SDK
  3. SET HTC to CHARGE ONLY
  4. go to SDK folder / bin
  5. open up your browser and download APN BACKUP and restore to your pc
  6. put the APK installer file into the SDK folder
  7. CMD > sdb install ./APN installer.apk
  8. its now on your phone, you can use it to restore your APN settings

Launched Synology Download Assistant website

December 19, 2010
CodeGoogle ExtensionsJavascript
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I decided to bring the synology download assistant chrome plugin to the next level.

Beginning with the launch of synologydownloadassistant.com

i hope to bring a whole host of new features through community help.

Synology Download Assistant

August 22, 2010
CodeGoogle ExtensionsJavascript
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I recenlty bought a new Synology DS410 Network Attached storage device.
What a great product, i banged 4 2tb hard drives into it!

It has a download manager, that can handle torrents, emule links etc. but rather than browsing to this webpage on the machine i decided to create a google chrome extension that adds downloads directly to it from your browser.

More Details on Synology Download Assistant Google Extension

Enjoy!

Where its used!



Ubuntu 10.4 / Fedora 13 Vmware Workstation 7

May 14, 2010
Linux
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After much scouring the web i eventually found a fix for vmware workstation 7 on Ubuntu 10.4
Follow these to the T. and you should have no problem compiling vmware modules.

1. Switch to your temp directory

]tar xf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar

3. Add #include “compat_sched.h” under the first set of includes

tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmnet.tar vmnet-only

5. Extract Virtual Machine Communication Interface

gksudo gedit vmci-only/linux/vmciKernelIf.c

7. Add #include “compat_sched.h” under the first set of includes

tar cf /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmci.tar vmci-only

9. Finally recompile the vmware modules

  Ubuntu 10.4 / Fedora 13 Dell 1320C printer 
  May 8, 2010    
  Linux
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To add the dell 1320c to Ubuntu 10.4
 Download the following deb file fuji-xerox-docuprint-c525-a-ap_1.0-2_i386.
if your architecture is 64bit, your probably going to have a bit of an issue! wrong architecture? no problem, just use
sudo dpkg -i --force-install fuji-xerox-docuprint-c525-a-ap_1.0-2_i386.deb
once installed open up the add printer though system > administration > printing
 Follow the steps as usual and when asked for the printer make, choose the ppd file from
/usr/share/cups/model/FujiXerox/en/FX_DocuPrint_C525_A_AP.ppd
Happy printing!
Screenshots – Process