Just heard about sonar os (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/02/19/sonar-hopes-to-power-social-featurephones-we-get-a-demo/). Anybody think its possible to port to a diamond? I know the guy in the video said its not touchscreen but Im guessing touchscreen versions might be coming out in the future if its designed to have a lot of web features?
Uhm, you don't have Android running well yet, and you want this, which is a prototype running on top of Android?
No, Im just asking if anyone thinks it would be possible or a good idea? And the video says that although it is sitting on top of android at the moment, they are looking at enabling it to work on devices currently running on symbian, etc - so WM might be a possibility.
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Does anyone know if the touch flo interface that the official upgrade is going to provide will be the same as the HD2 interface ?
More specifically, i wonder if it's going to have the decreasing ringtone option, the new horizontal view in the photo tab and the gps tab as we can see in THIS presentation ??
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Does anyone know if the touch flo interface that the official upgrade is going to provide will be the same as the HD2 interface ?
More specifically, i wonder if it's going to have the decreasing ringtone option, the new horizontal view in the photo tab and the gps tab as we can see in THIS presentation ??
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hahaah you might as well get it man im getting in couple of days man
I highly doubt it. Check this out. Apparently the official release is out. Just not on HTC site yet. I've downloaded it and will be flashing later tonight to see just what has changed.
little unclear, can US tp2 users use that new rom? i have the hard spl flashed, and im running nrgz rom. the way they make it sound, we cant get the official update until tmobile releases it.. enlighten me, please?
thanks,
josh.
If you've got hardspl flashed, you can flash any ROM that's made for your specific device.
Will it ever be possible?
I mean, when x10 gets rooted, will it be possible to "extract" mediascape application and port it to, say, desire? SE has said that scapes are just applications.
I know they (x10, desire) have different screen resolutions.
Anyone?
Not really I don't think.
It would be possible to port the rom if someone works on it, but that means downgrading to 1.6 just for the SE apps and losing the HTC Sense apps.
Downgrading to 1.6 to get something that our phone (IMO) already does better?
Unfortunately unlikely to ever occur.
I dont really think desire does media playback better.
I quess i'll have to find myself btundes, or something.
out of curiosity, why would it not be possible? Exactly? In laiman terms?
looka_oz said:
I dont really think desire does media playback better.
I quess i'll have to find myself btundes, or something.
out of curiosity, why would it not be possible? Exactly? In laiman terms?
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It's very possible to do but no developer is going to waste their time with it since there is almost no demand for a Xperia rom on the Desire. No one wants to lose multi touch and go back to 1.6.
Isn't Eclair also able to run the Scape Applications from SE?
So when Apps are extracted, ported to our resolution then it should be possible to run them on our stock roms as well, shouldnt it?!
Correct me if I'm wrong. Just a guess... I'm still new to Android-Section here
yeah, thats exactly what i had in mind. Is it possible to just "extract" the apps?
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yeah, thats exactly what i had in mind. Is it possible to just "extract" the apps?
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If's it's as integrated as Sense is then probably not.
Yes but WinMo Developers are also porting drivers and stuff of the many different phones (LEO Drivers to X1, X2 drivers to X1, X1 Drivers to Blackstone, etc)... so whats the big deal here with android?
Does it make any difference? I'm using TAEL on my ATT Fuze right now, but it's giving me real problems (actually, it's unusable at the moment. I'm 100% on android- until my battery runs out...) Should I go back to a WinMo 6.1 build? Which one do you use?
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Does it make any difference? I'm using TAEL on my ATT Fuze right now, but it's giving me real problems (actually, it's unusable at the moment. I'm 100% on android- until my battery runs out...) Should I go back to a WinMo 6.1 build? Which one do you use?
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Several people have done fairly extensive testing... and all we've found that WinMo does is initialize some hardware for Android - so any build of WinMo is fine. It really does not have any relation to Android at all.
With that said, if you want an easy way to go straight to Android, search for Gen.Y. That method is a sort of dual-boot of Android and WinMo (not a true Android ROM keep in mind.)
Thank you!
That's great- I'll just flash something simple and keep android up (love it BTW!). Does this mean that once android is running, WinMo is completely shut off? Does it make any difference if I have WinMo applications running before I start android?
BTW- Thanks!
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Does this mean that once android is running, WinMo is completely shut off? Does it make any difference if I have WinMo applications running before I start android?
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Basically, yes. Like I said, the only thing WinMo does is initialize hardware - for example, early on we had to make a phone call in WinMo before booting Android to get the mic to work. Devs fixed that issue. Same with hw3d, but they sorted that out as well. I think the only thing left is the display itself (I could be wrong) but there isn't any special app you need to run to initialize that.
I use that lightNHB winmo that is posted on the first page of the android release post. Seems to work good... and gets into Android boot pretty quickly
i'm using TAEL too, but it's quite stable, oh i'v instaled [prj][XDANDROID][2.2][AOSP][29.7.10] but i don't use lightNHB, i simply execute haret.exe on explorer
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No guys, you are all wrong. There's one ROM I'm on now, which automatically boots Linux and as well is very quick to boot (for those people who don't want to use WinMo at all)
It also lets you to use your device as the internal storage to (update/edit Android builds) I find this ROM the best to use with Android. It loads as quickly as possible and auto runs Linux which is surely the best decision so far. Here's the link.
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No guys, you are all wrong.
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I'm so glad you feel our opinions are wrong...
I could easily say you are the wrong one, because I don't want to run a ROM that only boots Android...
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I'm so glad you feel our opinions are wrong...
I could easily say you are the wrong one, because I don't want to run a ROM that only boots Android...
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Haha, that and I said I use LightNHB and works good, and that was also wrong
Come on now people, is this needed really??
I think to paraphrase the thread, try out some ROMs and see how you get on.
Really thats it.
Agreed; thread closed.
I own an HD2 and loved the windows 6.5 format, now im looking at the incredible due to a change in service provider and wonder if I could put a windows rom on the incredible even though its running android. I know on the HD2 which ran windows, you could put an android rom so im wondering if it works the other way around. I have tried searching the forums and have yet to find anything that can give me a definite answer if i can or cant.
thanks in advance guys
As far as I know it has not been done on any android phone to date...
Correct me if I'm wrong...
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Why? Have you ever used android? There is a very good reason it hasn't been done...once you switch you'll never want to go back.
bilbobrian said:
Why? Have you ever used android? There is a very good reason it hasn't been done...once you switch you'll never want to go back.
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Well said, sir, well said!
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I own an HD2 and loved the windows 6.5 format, now im looking at the incredible due to a change in service provider and wonder if I could put a windows rom on the incredible even though its running android. I know on the HD2 which ran windows, you could put an android rom so im wondering if it works the other way around. I have tried searching the forums and have yet to find anything that can give me a definite answer if i can or cant.
thanks in advance guys
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cant be done, winmo is not open source. but android is, thats why u can put android on an HD2
kvnly2 said:
i own an hd2 and loved the windows 6.5 format, now im looking at the incredible due to a change in service provider and wonder if i could put a windows rom on the incredible even though its running android. I know on the hd2 which ran windows, you could put an android rom so im wondering if it works the other way around. I have tried searching the forums and have yet to find anything that can give me a definite answer if i can or cant.
Thanks in advance guys:d
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wtf? Them are fightin words!
This will probably never happen.
Android is open source. So a conversion is more likely to move towards open source than a proprietary OS.
What you want may not be impossible, I think the community to drive towards proprietary OSes will be too small for success.
It'd probably never work right anyway... Even if you could find an image of WinMo compiled for the processor, driver issues would be everywhere. It's very unlikely that these would be something which could be corrected.
bilbobrian said:
Why? Have you ever used android? There is a very good reason it hasn't been done...once you switch you'll never want to go back.
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+1 Exactly, no one really wanted windows over android so everyone just ports android onto windows phones.
Give Android a shot
setexascustoms said:
Give Android a shot
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I love your avatar haha...best game ever!
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..........or just get an imagio for 49.99
I agree that it hasn't been done because Android is so much better, but there are things I miss from Windows that just worked better. Mainly connecting to my VPN and using remote desktop. It just worked so flawlessly on Windows (and why shouldn't it, its the same company I know) and Android is being difficult with it. Plus there aren't any remote desktop programs that are free that is as good as the one that came stock on the windows phone.
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I know, if I wanted Android, why get my WP7? Well I actually wanted both, and was sort of hopeful that someone would port it. I am just curious, I know as of now the devices haven't even been hacked yet, but I know people have opened the devices and messed with the internals. Does anyone think any OS could be installed? I would love to have Android on this huge screen. I know the HD2 had a port that works well. Yes, I know it is a little too soon to tell but as of now does anyone have plans to do so?
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I know, if I wanted Android, why get my WP7? Well I actually wanted both, and was sort of hopeful that someone would port it. I am just curious, I know as of now the devices haven't even been hacked yet, but I know people have opened the devices and messed with the internals. Does anyone think any OS could be installed? I would love to have Android on this huge screen. I know the HD2 had a port that works well. Yes, I know it is a little too soon to tell but as of now does anyone have plans to do so?
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it could be possible but would be awkward due to there only being 3 buttons instead of 4.
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it could be possible but would be awkward due to there only being 3 buttons instead of 4.
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the camera shutter button could be search or you could just not have a search key, Android doesn't need the search hardware key.
BACK KEY could be back
WINDOWS KEY could be home
SEARCH KEY could be menu
given how open android is... whoever goes to the effort could easily map the camera button to the actual camera application...
but give it time, i'm sure someone will try and get it done.
That would make me really keep my HD7. Love the hardware, so sleek but the software is too incomplete right now. Being able to dual boot or at least switch OSs would be freakin' awesome.
The HD7 seems to have the same boot sequence/software that all the other HTC devices, which is a starting point...
Right now there is so much better android hardware available in my opinion...I'd rather go the other way and put WP7 on an Android phone