Initially, HTC announced the Desire owners across the globe cannot install Android 2.3 Gingerbread on their smartphones because there isn’t enough RAM to support the OS. Hours after the statement, HTC returned and said that the company will try once again to bring Gingerbread to the Desire and that an update on the matter will become official by the end of the summer. Well, here we are in the first day of August and the HTC Desire is now upgradeable to Android 2.3 Gingerbread.
If you download Android 2.3 Gingerbread for HTC Desire then you will notice that the company has deleted everything from the system including the beautiful Sense UI, carrier apps, Facebook, contacts, emails, messages, and basically everything that was on your phone. If you want to keep your data, then you will need to setup a Google account and backup everything and then restore your data.
Anyway, the Sense UI won’t get back to your HTC Desire because, like said, there isn’t enough RAM to support it. HTC attentions users that they might brick their phones as only consumers with a registered developer account will be able to upgrade their smartphones.
Users can download Android 2.3 Gingerbread for the HTC Desire at http://developer.htc.com/ right here.
It’s worth reminding that the carrier apps and customization are gone, too, and that in fact, all customization is gone from the HTC Desire as well as the wallpapers who can be found at the developer web page where you can also find the removed Facebook app, though the Android Market might be a viable solution, too.
If you thought that HTC kept its own apps on the Desire, then you’d be wrong as the HTC-developed apps are also missing from the smartphone. HTC has decided to cut down everything in order to make the consumers happy, however, most of them will probably choose to root the Desire and install a custom ROM with the help of XDA-Developers.
The Taiwan-based company has confirmed that the upgrade is available worldwide with a few exceptions including US, Canada, Japan, South Korea, and Germany so as long as you don’t live in these regions, you should be fine like this.
HTC wanted to let users know that some functionality like SMS and MMS might not work properly after they will upgrade the HTC Desire to Android 2.3 Gingerbread so don’t say you haven’t been warned.
The conclusion is this: only the experts can install this update and even if you would be able to get it done, nobody would ever want it because it lacks… well, everything.
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