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I bought a new HTC Desire (will arrive in a few days). The phone is not branded (or unbranded) will arrive with version 2.1, and I want to update to 2.2.

After a lot of reading I realized I need to create a goldcard. So I bought a 2GB microSD card and I will create the goldcard when the phone arrives.

I also read about rooting the phone, which means (from what I understood) to flash the phone's ROM.

What I want to know is do I have to root the phone in order to update to 2.2 ???

Thanks a lot !!!

TCS
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  • Related: http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/2696/when-will-my-phone-get-android-2-2-froyo and http://android.stackexchange.com/questions/3911/upgrade-rooted-htc-desire-with-unrevoked3-clockworkmod-to-froyo-2-2 – ale Dec 23 '10 at 13:28
  • Thanks :-) but none of these related posts answers my question... – TCS Dec 23 '10 at 14:06
  • You should get an OTA update to 2.2 without rooting. If you want to root to install a custom ROM then you don't need a goldcard - use unrevoked instead. – FoleyIsGood Dec 23 '10 at 17:13

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HTC provide OTA-update to 2.2 for HTC Desire. You don't need any special (root or goldcard) to update your phone. Just connect your phone to Wi-Fi or 3G

  • Hey Vitus - thanks for your answer :-). I read/header about some cases that if you don't update with gold card (even using OTA) some wifi issues appear (http://www.htcdesireforum.com/htc-desire-troubleshooting/wifi-%27error%27-after-installing-android-2-2/)

    With that, I must add that I am total newbie in android, so maybe I am missing something out.

     – TCS Dec 23 '10 at 14:11