12:35 - UPS drops off my new AT&T HTC One

[G+_Mike Tsirigotis]

12:35 - UPS drops off my new AT&T HTC One 

12:47 - Completed install of Vanilla Google Play Edition ROM 

 

Total Number of times I booted Sense UI: 2

 

Just FYI, AT&T 4G LTE in rural Tennessee is fast. I could blow through my data cap in 3 Minutes and 18 Seconds. Somehow, that feels very scamy on the part of AT&T

[G+_John Winstanley]

Hi McKinley Tabor - which ROM did you use? Can you point me toward a guide?

[G+_McKinley Tabor]

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2341395

 

This is the guide I used. In the interest of full disclosure, I root and switch out ROMs my devices all the time, so I can't comment on how easy this guide is to follow. I used it primary to get:

1. The bootloader unlock process. This is different for every model of device, and with many devices like the HTC One, it requires sending cryptographic keys (obtained from the device via a command line tool) to the manufacturer vand entering a token sent back to you from them. This sounds more complicated than it really is, but can be daunting for someone who has never done it before. FYI, unlocking the bootloader erases your device. 

2. Once the bootloader is unlocked, it it then possible to load custom softer into the bootloader in this case it is a custom "recovery mode", I use ClockworkMod, but there are others that work just as well. 

3. With and via the custom recovery mode, it is then possible to load new ROMs. The one above is a rooted and deodexed mod of the Google Edition ROM (sans the Google Edition Kernel). Once you have the custom recovery it's VERY easy to switch ROMS, though, a full wipe of all user data, apps, and cache, is generally recommend when your switch ROMS. It takes longer to reinstall all your apps and get your settings back to where you want them than it does to install a new ROM. 

 

The Google Edition ROM has 2 minor drawbacks. These are not draws from the ROM, but rather they are issues with the full Google Edition HTC Ones bought via the Play store. One, Google Wallet does not work (yet). All of the stuff to make Google Wallet work is there, so I think that will be forth coming from the community in the next few weeks. Two, the IR baster is not currently supported in the Google Edition ROM. This is because IR blasters on Android is a bit new (though I had IRDA on a PDA in 1997), so the code to make the IR baster work is not in Vanilla Android. HTC has said that a fix for this will coming "soon". With both Samsung and HTC having IR emitters now, I think that hardware will be supported soon through Vanilla Android regardless.