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[Q] Chrome OS on Android?

Now from what I've seen Ubuntu can be run on the Desire, how about the new Chrome OS? I know google haven't released there version but there are stable versions released e.g. Chrome OS Flow. I've seen it run on an iPad with great difficulty , why not on an android phone?

ubuntu can be run on a desire?!

zoltrix said:
ubuntu can be run on a desire?!
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Yes it can!

Considering that it would have to be online all the time.. Meh, but highly possible.
Probably would have to wait until the official official release though.
Oh, and since Chrome OS is going to pioneer the "disposable netbook", would chrome OS on the desire pioneer the "disposable smartphone"?

[Q] {Q} ummm... ok well im trying to put android on my htc tilt 2

ok so if any one could help me figure out how to put android on my att htc tilt 2 thatd be great cause i cant stand the windows 6.5 that came with the phone....PLEASE

mikelegz said:
ok so if any one could help me figure out how to put android on my att htc tilt 2 thatd be great cause i cant stand the windows 6.5 that came with the phone....PLEASE
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android can't replace windows 6.5 because its not fully functioning. I would try it but dont expect it to be a replacement. what I am assuming you are referring to as 6.5 is probably "sense" from htc they load it with the phone as an interface to work on top of windows. I personally don't like it though many developers have customized it and seem to love it. you can turn it on and of in a menu setting. if you shut it you erik be left with actual windows 6.5 what they call titanium which I personally dont mind but im not sure you will like it. you should try out spb mobile shell it will give you a fully customizable experience that is similar to android and it works perfectly without it I won't really enjoy using my phone.they have a trial version available in the windows marketplace. try it I think you will be very happy.if you have any other questions feel free too ask .

im not trying to replace it wit android. i just saw on you tube tilt 2's running android as an app but i dont have the know how to do it. i think i put the one thats on the market place on and it slowed my phone down even moar. but ill try it again. i had the android app thing on my phone but i forgot to download the anti virus and well it corrupted my sd card and well i had to start over fresh so im trying to find one that will work

mikelegz said:
im not trying to replace it wit android. i just saw on you tube tilt 2's running android as an app but i dont have the know how to do it. i think i put the one thats on the market place on and it slowed my phone down even moar. but ill try it again. i had the android app thing on my phone but i forgot to download the anti virus and well it corrupted my sd card and well i had to start over fresh so im trying to find one that will work
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you did not download the right thing. it is not in marketplace. It is right here on xda:
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=627997

Android- best experience
For just running Android apps- Get the FROYO X build over in the Android Development section, then download the 3D Kernel (Google it, it's not on this site) and then download the Backlight and Camera kernel from the FROYO X page.
For Droid Incredible envy- Do the same, just with the SENSE X build from the same page. It's stable, just slow. Oh, and did you know you can have more than one Android build on your SD card at a time? Just change the startup.txt within the folder, and on the set cmd line, just add a rel_path=yourfoldernamehere within the quotes.
I hope I didn't throw too much info at you...

Best theme for launcher 7

Hello,
I saw this video of Launcher 7 and was wondering how he got the lockscreen, icons, and the game hub, does anyone know how?
Here is the video:
https://picasaweb.google.com/duhh47/Apr232011?authkey=Gv1sRgCL7t_a-j5838Tg#5598793716572145826
Thanks
Here it is on the Nexus One:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqmMfdPu1E

That's an actual Windows Phone. Not android. To mimic it, you can download Metro UI or Launcher 7 off the market. The game hub is Microsoft's, so you can't get that. You can't really copy the lockscreen.
If you like the Windows Phone's style so much, Sprint has the HTC Arrive.

acer1096xxx said:
That's an actual Windows Phone. Not android.
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Partially correct, it's actually a rather old and outdated WinMo phone, with a hackey port of WP7 on it.

No, that's a hd2 running android and launcher 7. Can someone tell me how he got this?
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gokuman56 said:
No, that's a hd2 running android and launcher 7. Can someone tell me how he got this?
Thanks
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...its not running Android. The HD2 is and always has been a windows mobile phone.
Sent from my Samsung Epic

I userstand that the HD2 is capable of running wp7, but I can assure you that that is android.
It has skyfire, gmail, pulse and other android apps that cannot be run on wp7, that's why I want to know how the user achieved this, It is very convincing, a same layout is avaliable for the nexus one, I have seen it. Does anyone know how to achieve this look?
Thanks
And I will post launcher 7 on the nexus 1 soon to show you guys

gokuman56 said:
I userstand that the HD2 is capable of running wp7, but I can assure you that that is android.
It has skyfire, gmail, pulse and other android apps that cannot be run on wp7, that's why I want to know how the user achieved this, It is very convincing, a same layout is avaliable for the nexus one, I have seen it. Does anyone know how to achieve this look?
Thanks
And I will post launcher 7 on the nexus 1 soon to show you guys
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-________- Windows phone has all those apps too; it has a market, you know.
And it even has a freaking Windows logo at the bottom of the phone.
There's a port for the HD2 to make it Android, but it is NOT originally android.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxkIJdG2brU <--- THAT IS THE HD2. The video you posted is the HD2 with WindowsMobile 7.
This is what you saw: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiWDafvuaRw
Edit: Woah wait a minute...is that an Android port running? After watching it a bit more, it's like a mixture of two ports :S
Edit2: It must be a ROM or something, because some of those apps aren't accessible on the Android Market. I'm confused now xD
And if you're right about Android, that was really convincing. Launcher 7 has live tiles?

Look at the first video that i showed you, that is launcher 7, not windows phone 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqmMfdPu1E
Here is the same thing for nexus one
And I assure you, that is the HD2 running Android, with Launcher 7

gokuman56 said:
Look at the first video that i showed you, that is launcher 7, not windows phone 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIqmMfdPu1E
Here is the same thing for nexus one
And I assure you, that is the HD2 running Android, with Launcher 7
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Yeah I see it now..sorry.
What confuses me is how he got the apps to look so much like the ones from Windows 7.
I was also confused before because even though the HD2 originally has Windows Mobile, he clearly had a port for Android and then decided to make the HD2 with Android look like Windows 7 xD

acer1096xxx said:
...its not running Android. The HD2 is and always has been a windows mobile phone.
Sent from my Samsung Epic
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I put cyanogen mod on my girlfriends HD2, check their dev forum its full of android.

blu9987 said:
I put cyanogen mod on my girlfriends HD2, check their dev forum its full of android.
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No I'm aware it can be ported to Android. What I was saying was it comes with stock Windows Mobile
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Sent from my MyFrankenstein EC05OCE using XDAP App...

how do you get xbox live application? or style?

Check out Serenicity
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1332732
I used that as my daily driver for quite a while...
/thanks to randomking...
Its a very good w7 rom...

It seems like he's using different launchers to mimic the People, Games etc hubs. Launcher Pro, ADW EX, etc. the launchers are heavily themed to get the same effect as the WP7 hubs, and then the launcher is linked to tiles on the home screen to get the full effect. Seems pretty straightforward to link the launchers to tiles on the homescreen, but all the theming and wallpapers, to mimic the hubs is way beyond my skill set. Anybody have any ideas?

Like the guy above me said, that is setup like this:
The main launcher is launcher7.
The hubs are just links to other launchers, probably adw, launcherpro, and go launcher.
You link the hub tiles to the respective launcher you have set up for it, and boom.
Edit: its too bad L7 doesn't work right on ICS yet. I miss using it.
Edit 2: and the wallpaper is probably multi live wallpaper. Not sure though how each launcher has a different wallpaper though.
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WP7 on Android
Launcher 7 has live tiles?[/QUOTE said:
Yes my friend...The launcher & has live tiles. I am using it on my SG2 and am loving the feel and simplicity of it...
There other icon packs and templates available on xda also. Search for them and customize more.
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i just threw this on my CM9 beta2 Epic4g and love it. Only issue so far is that widgets behave erratically... sometimes the BW widget from the "top" will appear on top of a standard tile towards the "bottom" and then disappear if i tap it...it still remains in the correct place, but it's like the launcher is confused where it should be on the homescreen briefly. oh, sometimes the widget will just disappear but then reappear when tapped on again. using the power widget, if i turn on wifi it will disappear, but then reappear when i tap the blank spot and wifi will be turned on.

[INFO] Flash support for Android 4.0 ICS will be out before end of 2011

** EDIT for new info **:
Flash for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich will be out before the end of 2011. There will be no Flash support for Android 5.0:
http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/43152/flash-for-android-4-end-2011-no-flash-for-android-5
The main reason why I switched to Android was it's Flash support. Finding out recently that ICS did not support Flash and that Adobe was discontinuing Flash development was very discouraging.
Google has confirmed that Flash is not yet operational in ICS, but Google is also confirming that Adobe will support Flash in ICS.
“Flash hasn’t been released for ICS yet. So as far as we know, Adobe will support Flash for ICS.” – Google
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http://www.slashgear.com/google-con...e-cream-sandwich-for-the-time-being-19196702/
Although discouraging and disappointing at first, there is now hope.

So Flash Player doesn't even show up in the Android Market on the Galaxy Nexus but I thought that one can install the apk on the phone. It seems that this doesn't work either, according to other users who've already got theirs. e.g. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1351167
Half the bloody web uses Flash. How are we supposed to view those sites?

To be honest I'm glad there is no support at the moment and wish that it wouldn't come. I haven't missed it since upgrading to the Nexus and if anything browsing is faster!

has anyone tried side loading it

Flash is going to die in mobile platforms, and we should be pressing video stream websites to use html5, instead of crying about flash's death. Damn memory/cpu hog.
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i dont know about you guys, but for me, more then half the web uses flash. The only reason im not getting iphone because of flash. The stream i always go to, uses flash. gonna wait a month, if they dont support flash on nexus, im getting sgs2

SGS2 will eventually get ICS and will have similar "problem"

uvarvu said:
To be honest I'm glad there is no support at the moment and wish that it wouldn't come. I haven't missed it since upgrading to the Nexus and if anything browsing is faster!
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It's no problem at all to set the flash settings to "on demand " so you have the fast browsing experience and flash if you need it.
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i her simple apps like tweecaster and facebook do not work! is this true? wtf is going on?. not having flash is a bummer. at least we should have the option. volume issues, no flash, simple apps not working.. this is getting really discouraging

Because they aren't updated for ics I would say. And because the Nexus is the only ics device at the moment they are probably to lazy to do so.
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Nebucatnetzer said:
Because they aren't updated for ics I would say. And because the Nexus is the only ics device at the moment they are probably to lazy to do so.
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yea the apps issue i expected..same happened with nex 1 and nex s.. but the no flash and volume issue are real bummers

Who gives a s$&@ about Flash? DOA.

bmstrong said:
Who gives a s$&@ about Flash? DOA.
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you keep running the Apple party line. the rest of us would prefer to have the option for when we need it.
Adobe Flash is currently #24 in the top (free) apps for Android. and the majority of the low reviews are from idiots using 50 dollar Cricket android phones.
don't like it? don't use it. no reason to come in here and spout nonsense.

Hopefully this will shut up the people who keep going on about no Flash support on the GN. It's a brand new hardware running a brand new software; of course there are going to be compatibility issues for early adopters.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

There are allways apps that don't work with newer OS versions. Happens with iOs, too.

kms108 said:
has anyone tried side loading it
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Several people have reported trying to sideload the latest flash apk for Honeycomb - it didn't work.

About the apps issue, how long is it before they usually get sorted out and ready for the latest OS (right now ICS). I know that the main reason I use my phone for is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Browsing.
I'm not guessing too long right?

Clancy_s said:
Several people have reported trying to sideload the latest flash apk for Honeycomb - it didn't work.
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has anyone tried it on ICS, honycomb is for tablets, whiles ICS is for both tablets and smartphones, hopefully it works.

Faz20 said:
About the apps issue, how long is it before they usually get sorted out and ready for the latest OS (right now ICS). I know that the main reason I use my phone for is Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Browsing.
I'm not guessing too long right?
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If those 4 things are your main concerns it shouldn't be a problem. As far as I know Twitter works fine. Official Facebook app has always been pretty ass on the Android so if you can live with it before you can probably live with it now. YouTube is natively supported and apart from not having Flash the browser is blazing fast.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using XDA App

BiGMERF said:
yea the apps issue i expected..same happened with nex 1 and nex s.. but the no flash and volume issue are real bummers
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Lack of flash is Adobe's fault, not Google's.

[Q] Windows 7 Theming

Anyone know the best way of getting that Windows look for our device? I would like to get it as close as possible to an actual windows 7 phone.
Currently I've been searching around the market and downloading apps, such as Launcher7(windows 8 ran slower), Messaging 7, and WP7 lock for the lock screen. Basically i've smashed 5 or 6 different apps to get a windows 7 look, does anyone know of an easier way of getting the windows ui? Thanks.

Buy a Windows phone
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bfranklin1986 said:
Buy a Windows phone
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Yea, i figured someone would say it.. Windows isn't as good as android, obviously, but I do like the UI.
Thanks anyway.

You can install miui use one of the many wp7/themes and use launcher7. They do have launcher 8 but I find it not very efficient at least not last I used it. Also they probably have wp7 theme for cm10/aokp etc roms if you do Google search
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md1008 said:
You can install miui use one of the many wp7/themes and use launcher7. They do have launcher 8 but I find it not very efficient at least not last I used it. Also they probably have wp7 theme for cm10/aokp etc roms if you do Google search
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Thanks for the response.
Also, i agree with the Launcher 8, seems that it not only runs slower, but also slows the entire phone down, unfortunately.
Did google miui wp7, as well as themes for cm10/aokp, but just having a bunch of different themed apps seems to be the closest I can get to what i want at the moment. Oh well.
Thanks