Nexus One HTC Desire ROM Melds HTC Sense & Flash 10 into Happy Nexus

February 20, 2010 by 3 Comments

Paul at MoDaCo forums has let the cat out of the bag and released an early (read Alpha) version of the HTC Desire ROM with HTC Sense for Nexus One.  This ROM is also packed with Flash 10.1 for Android along with tons of widgets for the full HTC Sense experience. Although this is nowhere a completely stable release, if you have the gall and tenacity to play with the install, you will be plenty happy with the results. Tutorial, video and pics after the break.

Step 1: First up, you will have to unlock the bootloader, and then root your Nexus One for full file system access on Android 2.1. Follow the guide posted here to unlock the bootloader, and here to Root Nexus One if you haven’t already.

Step 2: Download the patched recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img recovery image from XDA here, move it to the same folder as fastboot.exe, and then flash it by running the following command via Command Prompt.

fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.5.3.img

Fastboot tools can be downloaded from here.

Step 3: Download the HTC Desire ROM from the source link here and copy it to over to the root of the SD card on the phone.

Step 4: Now power off the phone and enter the recovery image by powering on while pressing the ‘Home’ trackball.

select “BOOTLOADER” –> “RECOVERY”

Step 5: Now you will be rebooted into custom RA recovery mode. Select ‘Backup/Restore’ from the menu to do a Nandroid backup.

Step 6: Now select “Flash zip from sdcard” to flash your Nexus One with the latest alpha version of HTC Desire ROM.

Step 7: Reboot your phone and enjoy HTC Sense on Nexus One!

NOTE: If the current Alpha 3 version of this ROM gets stuck with a plain white screen on reboot, to fix this, simply download boot.alpha2.img from here, move it to the same folder as fastboot.exe, and then reboot your phone back into fastboot mode of bootloader as mentioned in Step 4. This time select:

“BOOTLOADER” –> “FASTBOOT”

Now flash it by running the following command:

fastboot flash boot boot.alpha2.img

Everything should now be working as it should, here is a video which shows off the new HTC Sense experience from HTC Desire, running on Nexus One.

Watch the ROM running here:

[via MoDaCo forums]

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  3. Lisa Frack says:
    February 23, 2010 at 7:40 am

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