{"id":3465,"date":"2012-03-23T16:33:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T08:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2013-03-04T12:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T04:10:09","slug":"rooting-your-htc-cha-cha-to-gain-more-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/rooting-your-htc-cha-cha-to-gain-more-memory.html","title":{"rendered":"Rooting your HTC Cha Cha to gain more memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have my HTC Cha Cha for more than six months now. Their qwerty keyboard was one of the reason why I chose this model over the full screen display version because of the ease of typing. However HTC Cha Cha is considered a budget end mobile phone and thus the provided internal ROM memory is severely limited at 150MB. I read somewhere the reason for such low memory is because this mobile was just meant for simple users who would just want the phone for simple communication and not install much application. Boy did HTC get it wrong. Before even installing any other apps the build in apps (and other bloatwares) and other system function already took up more than 50% of the 150MB available and the user ended up with about 70MB. And when you completed putting a few essential apps and signing up the various accounts like emails, facebook, twitter, etc and downloading your gmail contacts you would be down to about 20MB.<\/p>\n

\"MyYou could try using App2SD to free up some memory but that only shift a partial section of the app software. The cache and data still need to reside in the main internal ROM memory. You could use aggressive app cache cleaner and task killer or even wipe out some data (not advisable to clear data as that would cause the app to lose settings and worse, won\u2019t work properly) to help out a bit, but more often than not, those were just stop gap measure. Before long, I would get a warning about low memory whenever I hit a balance of less than 15MB.<\/p>\n

So finally no choice but to root my HTC Cha Cha to gain more memory. Many people root their phone to use other non-official ROM by third parties gain additional function or make their phone work differently. For me, I will just stick back with the HTC Cha Cha stock kernal, because there are many other issues when using other ROM. What I want is just more memory so that I can install more useful apps.<\/p>\n

However note that it is very difficult<\/u> to root your phone and you will need several tries using several methods until one works. So get ready to be very frustrated when attempting to root your phone!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SuccessfullyMy HTC Cha Cha is a S-On type (Security-On), which initially meant there was no way to root it. Due to overwhelming request, HTC provided an unlocker program to unlock the HTC Cha Cha bootloader. It would still be S-On except that you now have access to the system files. However as an S-On type phone you won\u2019t be able to change carriers and unlock the SIM card. Fortunately for me, my phone is not fixed to any telco company as I bought it from the store and not as a package.<\/p>\n

Unlocking your HTC Cha Cha<\/h3>\n

To unlock your HTC Cha Cha head over to HTCDEC<\/p>\n

HTC DEC Unlock Bootloader<\/a><\/p>\n

Do read their terms and condition when unlocking your phone as your warranty would be affected if your phone is still within the warranty period. <\/p>\n

This info from XDA-Developers forum
\n(Ref: http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=1432199)<\/p>\n

This process is made of 3 steps<\/p>\n

1. Update HBOOT to support generating device tokens
\n2. Getting unlocking key from HTC-Dev
\n3. Unlock bootloader<\/p>\n

It was suggested you do a full phone back up as the process will wipe out all your phone data.<\/p>\n

STEP 1 – Update HBOOT to support generating device tokens<\/p>\n