Comments on: HTC Desire and Legend confirmed for South Africa

By: Kgabo

Kgabo — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:53:49 +0000

Guys my simcard shows no service i dont know what i have done on my HTC Legend can someon help me

By: biltong

biltong — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 20:54:14 +0000

Should stick with the iphone ya cant beat it

By: wildfire owner

wildfire owner — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 22:19:32 +0000

I am a ‘quickly-to-be’ htc wildfire user from Kenya. I’ve been doing some analysis on this phone and i have found it to be the perfect price range-smartphone.I am now ready to order it, unlocked obviously, because it hasn’t yet began being offerd in my country. The one huddle yet to be falt with is findinga reputable firm keen to export overseas, particularly to Africa. Thus far the one website i’ve found is expansys.co.uk.

By: MorneT

MorneT — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:14:14 +0000

….and still no update to Froyo….

By: MIke

MIke — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:28:42 +0000

Guys i went to vodacom last week because i thought my battery had a problem. They checked the battery and confirmed it had a problem, then they take the whole phone and say leaf will replace the battery. Does that usually happen, i mean the problem is with the battery, why are they taking the whole phone? thanks for any help

By: James

James — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:07:26 +0000

Why are capetonians so damned smug?

By: H2wk

H2wk — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:30:27 +0000

Can’t wait to update my desire… Its gonna be so worth it… Wish we had our own dedicated servers thou….

By: lucky

lucky — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:28:03 +0000

MTN subs can get it as our phones are not locked or branded. Just connect to network and it will promt you to update. Changes are good. Hd recording, pretty faster, benchmark from 6 to 35. Games move faster fps. Eish too much to write here but its very good compared to 2.1. Also apps to SD work without rooting, but so far there are way less apps that move to SD. make yo phones a WiFi hotspot.

If you can’t find 2.2 on to updates give it 2 days, their servers are probably being hammered by Europe users.

By: RobinC

RobinC — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:26:28 +0000

I installed Froyo last night (my Desire is European).

The download failed about 6 times, till I freed up 500mb on the sd card and removed all apps off the phone (gave me 100mb internal), and then installed.

When the phone started up the first time HTC Sense force restarted in an endless loop (thought I bricked my phone), Did some reading online and found that you need to hard reset it (battery out and back in > hold vol down key, and press power > select clear storage with vol down > select with power button > confirm with vol down) [google it].

The phone restarted with factory settings – aka as you got it out the box.

Luckily I backed up with Astro File manager, and got all my apps back pretty painlessly.

Make full backups and save some time to do this – I got to bed at 2am

@Ryno: As for the differences, I havent tried the camcorder / camera yet (for 720p), but overall it is MUCH faster, cute flashlight app is built in. and the wireless hotspot which rocks. There is also voice search added. The sense interface looks exactly the same though, (missing the froyo 3 buttons where the phone button is) and you can store apps on the SD.

By: Duane

Duane — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:15:21 +0000

Go to this XDA thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7444078#post7444078)

People who have it already are reporting what they’ve found.

I’d say it seems like a substantial upgrade.