Does the HTC Desire have a multi-colour LED?

[extorian]

So, one of the biggest thorns in my side in relation to the Nexus One is the fact it has two multi-colour LEDs (one at the top, and one in the trackball). The first is reserved for OS use (e.g. charging status), and the trackball, despite being mutli-colour, only ever shines white and at a slow blink rate unless you're rooted and install a custom ROM.

My question is this: Does anyone know for certain (i.e. you own one and have actually seen it) if the HTC Desire has a multi-colour LED on it, that can flash different colours and different blink rates, just like the one on the HTC Dream / G1 does?

[djunio]

I haven't seen it listed anywhere, might just be a solid with flash in the optical trackball. I'm sure there's an LED near the top somewhere.

[InsightGoalie]

The desire ROM for the nexus one does. Just get the nexus and root.

[cmbarry1]

The desire ROM for the nexus one does. Just get the nexus and root.

+1 lol, i don't know how/why people don't root

[djunio]

uh oh, here it comes lol, extorian gave a great reason why he doesnt root in another thread, i just cant find it now

[Wonsanim]

uh oh, here it comes lol, extorian gave a great reason why he doesnt root in another thread, i just cant find it now

Is Very Clear with some very important points,facts and from extorian point of view and personal experience,the thread name I'm Unroot again or something like that.

[Wonsanim]

uh oh, here it comes lol, extorian gave a great reason why he doesnt root in another thread, i just cant find it now

This is the Link dj:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f...o-stock-33188/

[extorian]

Hey - that was just one set of the reasons why I unrooted my G1 about a year ago. Indeed, there are other big ones - such is as voiding your warranty, so if you do brick it or burn it out you may find you can't return it.

Until recently, everyone who had installed Cyanogen's ROM was breaking the law via piracy, as it illegally came bundled with the copyrighted Google Apps. Most people wouldn't care, but look at it from a different angle... How would you feel if a mate of yours gave you an innocent looking box to carry around an airport, that you later find was full of illegal drugs? Your mate just made you break the law without realising it, and so did Cyanogen (intentionally or not).

Another big one is that you're bypassing possibly one of the best security features of the phone. On an unrooted phone apps can't break your phone. At worst they can crash on startup and you boot into safe mode to fix it. They only have access to their own application space and storage. On a rooted phone applications can run super-user/admin level commands in the shell (which may or may not pop up a warning), or just bypass that and run their own code at SU level themselves and write/change/delete/access absolutely anything on your phone anywhere, especially with the additional API the JDI brings. So far we haven't had many malicious apps on the Market, but there have been some.

You're also relying on someone else being reliable in knowing about, finding, porting across, testing, and releasing, all security fixes. In the UK and US there's been, what, about 3 security fixes sent out OTA in the last year? Each of them pretty serious - like the 2nd 1.6 OTA in the UK that patched a security hole that let anyone send you a specially formatted SMS that would crash one of the comms modules in Android and kick your SIM card off the network silently (it just looked like you had no signal), thus preventing you sending/receiving calls/data/etc until you powered off/on your phone. What if your custom ROM maker doesn't realise such a patch is released (for example, it was only released in the UK as the US got 1.6 later and the US version already had this fix)? What if they don't port it to their custom ROM? What if you don't get it?

Again, don't get me wrong. I appreciate there are many advantages to rooting, and it was one such advantage (tethering) that made me root all that time ago. But if I don't NEED any of them, I'm not going to risk it. I can live without different colours on the LED, because whatever colour it's flashing I'm going to look at my phone anyway, so white is OK.

I just wondered if anyone knows if the Desire has an LED at all, as you can't tell from the pics.

[bmcclure937]

Some like to live on the bleeding edge and enjoy following the latest updates in the open source community. I prefer being rooted and running custom ROMs for a number of reasons but mainly because it uncorks the full potential of my device.

As far as malicious apps go... only install from trusted developers and use superuser whitelist (which comes as standard on CyanogenMod ROM.

We will leave your "piracy" argument out of this since Cyanogen had no poor intentions and met the expectations of Google when they requested him not to bundle the Google apps.

[InsightGoalie]

So basically being paranoid is the best reason not to root. That's fine but, it's so peer tested I don't really worry that much.