Hey there Devs,
Is it possible to flash a wm7 rom onto the htc legend? Will it work?
Can u guys please port wm7 onto the legend as a rom and not just suggest me to get those launcher apps or a new phone cause I need to use my legend a lil while longer...
Thank you
wand44 said:
Hey there Devs,
Is it possible to flash a wm7 rom onto the htc legend? Will it work?
Can u guys please port wm7 onto the legend as a rom and not just suggest me to get those launcher apps or a new phone cause I need to use my legend a lil while longer...
Thank you
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I personally believe that it is highly unlikely as the mimimum requirements for Windows Phone 7 are the following:
ARM v7 "Cortex/Scorpion" – Snapdragon QSD8X50, MSM7X30, and MSM8X55
Capacitive, 4-point multi-touch screen with WVGA (480x800) resolution
DirectX9 rendering-capable GPU
The HTC Legend does not meet any of the criteria and Microsoft does not support most of the hardware in the Legend so I think it's a no go :/
Mafuzzer said:
I personally believe that it is highly unlikely as the mimimum requirements for Windows Phone 7 are the following:
ARM v7 "Cortex/Scorpion" – Snapdragon QSD8X50, MSM7X30, and MSM8X55
Capacitive, 4-point multi-touch screen with WVGA (480x800) resolution
DirectX9 rendering-capable GPU
The HTC Legend does not meet any of the criteria and Microsoft does not support most of the hardware in the Legend so I think it's a no go :/
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Nothing has been ported to any other phone yet either, so the Legend is even less likely. The Desire HD has loads more developers and is similar to the HD7, but nobody has found a way yet. It would be like someone porting iOS to an Android phone as it is locked down in the same respect.
If you want a windows phone buy a windows phone
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With so many windows phones from HTC (Touch HD, Touch Pro, HD2) having Android builds for them and have shown they can run Android on these systems, I was wondering if you think its worth for someone with knowledge to try and port the Windows Phone 7 builds on Xperia X10 ?
Prima facie, it has the necessary hardware requirements such as three buttons, 1 GHz processor, enough RAM etc !!!
What do you think and will anyone be interested in trying ?
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With so many windows phones from HTC (Touch HD, Touch Pro, HD2) having Android builds for them and have shown they can run Android on these systems, I was wondering if you think its worth for someone with knowledge to try and port the Windows Phone 7 builds on Xperia X10 ?
Prima facie, it has the necessary hardware requirements such as three buttons, 1 GHz processor, enough RAM etc !!!
What do you think and will anyone be interested in trying ?
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i think win 7 requires 512 mb ram.. x10 has only 384..
nd why would u want wm7 on x10 either.. seems wm7 is turning out to be pure crap!!
Too early for speculation
Why not buying an Windows 7 phone ... why the hell somebody will put such an ugly OS on the wonderful X10?
cvchetan said:
i think win 7 requires 512 mb ram.. x10 has only 384..
nd why would u want wm7 on x10 either.. seems wm7 is turning out to be pure crap!!
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it only needs 256 as ms said not 512
WP7 looked really nice at first. But Microsoft have gone too far with the nazi-like apple control. It's way too locked down, phones wont even have memory card slots.
Dont support these types of OS and behavior people, it's not the way forward.
Beanyness said:
nazi-like apple control.
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i piss in my pants! Thats a good one! never heard it! ( i am from Germany and NO nazi!)
Beanyness said:
wont even have memory card slots.
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Not 100% sure. i did read both: that they do not allow card slots and that phones come out with one. (i think i read it with a DELL phone anywhere in the www 1 week ago)
Is this possible? 'cause i would like to play around with something new for our x10
If someone can validate the possibility in doing so,then i will try to work on this.
Sincerely Flame
Flamefaker said:
Is this possible? 'cause i would like to play around with something new for our x10
If someone can validate the possibility in doing so,then i will try to work on this.
Sincerely Flame
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Possible? Yeah, it's definitely possible. The X10 shares the same QSD8250 and Adreno 200 that the HD2 has (that has a port of WP7). But other than that, I don't think anyone really has the motivation to do the immense work that would be required to get WP7 running on the X10 (driver issues as there isn't similar enough hardware that's running WP7 as the X10)... not to mention that the bypass method may not be enough (I may be wrong as they've gotten Backtrack and Win95 running, lol)
ok thanks for the information undone i will pm some devs and hope they write me back. at least this would make a little bit more fun than watching all those threads getting some new roms upped
and this could also help us to improve our devices
Sincerely Flame
Edit: seems as if this will be for now a one man Show.
So please be patient ;D
Flamefaker said:
Is this possible? 'cause i would like to play around with something new for our x10
If someone can validate the possibility in doing so,then i will try to work on this.
Sincerely Flame
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sounds charming to me... that wud be a good idea... i think
i prefer ics more than wp7...
i think windows 7 is not good for x10
getting a new OS is always a better option why not try it??
You can download Launcher 7 and all WP7 apps from market and you will get an awesome WP7 experience
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Realy ?? Why we don't try ?? What we have to losse?? Can the dev try this ??
Xperia x10i
Android version : 2.3.9
Kernel : DoomKernel v6
Rom : FeraLab v14
Addons : Xperia S
I suppose it can be done I had windows 95 on mine at one point for a laugh (its somewhere on here how to do it). Although not sure bout win 7 thinking bout it it uses some serious RAM, something our dear phones lack.
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Let's be realistic this will probably never happen. And why would someone waste time porting wp7 os to our x10 . If you want wp7 os get a win7phone.
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Let this be just discussion first...
So today was the Windows Phone 7 announcement and a lot of new devices were announced including the HTC 7 Mozart:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/htc-7-mozart-and-7-trophy-set-out-to-conquer-the-wp7-world-7-pr/
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/11/htc-7-mozart-first-hands-on/
Pretty similar hardware and look to our Desire... I know it's early now but do you think that we will be able to port Windows Phone 7 to our Desire? Just for fun... Android is good enough.
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Would be much more difficult since that's 100% reverse engineering 'cause Windows Phone 7 OS is not open source at all. But not impossible, though don't expect any...
EleCtrOx666 said:
Would be much more difficult since that's 100% reverse engineering 'cause Windows Phone 7 OS is not open source at all. But not impossible, though don't expect any...
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Devs here have made wonders, and I think I saw a dev here running WP 7 on an HD 2....
I think we only need some sort of a bootloader... as the hardware is pretty similar it should boot and some parts should work.
I'm also more than satisfied with Android, but hey... as a geek, dual booting my smartphone does have some appeal
Seems unlikely. One of the biggest problems with pouring android to a wm phone is that some of the drivers are in the radio rom and that is closed. So a huge among of work goes into figuring out how to talk to the hardware then coding that into the linux kernel source. In the case of wp7, there will be no source code at all, just binaries. Without haret and debug information, there is no way to start other than flashing the rom and seeing whether it bricks. Maybe if haret got ported out would be a start. (maybe it already has, I didn't look at this for a while).
....speaking about Bravo clones, how about one that runs WinMo 6.5?
http://phonereplica.info/dual-sim/touch-g7-dual-sim-phone-htc-desire-clone.html
....and a video of the action:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/Un6h1tEL1GE/
rete said:
....speaking about Bravo clones, how about one that runs WinMo 6.5?
http://phonereplica.info/dual-sim/touch-g7-dual-sim-phone-htc-desire-clone.html
....and a video of the action:
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/Un6h1tEL1GE/
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These clones always make me laugh a little. Why don't they just put Android on them? Lol.
I'm 100% sticking with Android but, I'd love to be able to dual boot WP7. You know, just to say I can
This would be hard work!
WP7 ist not OpenSource so creating driver etc is vey heavy!
Side note, anyone know if its going to be SIM free? Orange have the exclusive as an operator but I'm quite tempted to have a look at this...first previews are saying WP7 is VERY fast
Orange will have paid through the nose to get exclusivity of this phone so don't expect to see it sim free for at least a couple of months, they normally have either 6 weeks, 3 months or 6 months exclusive rights before going sim free.
I suppose cause the ROMs are out it could just be debranded, assuming it's not too hard to break the bootloader
given desire and mozart have very similar specs, does that mean there's a good chance android can be ported to mozart? im guessing through some kind of bootloader? anyone working on it?
Wondows 7 on htc desire
I would also love, If My HTC Desire is capable of dual boot on Windows 7 and Android. After having such a good hardware but if it does not support on software then it such hardware is of no use.
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given desire and mozart have very similar specs, does that mean there's a good chance android can be ported to mozart? im guessing through some kind of bootloader? anyone working on it?
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Any one found a workaround to this yet? Dual booting is lovely. For this reason, I happen to put a hand on a HD2 with WinMo 6.5 and I can boot Android on it but the phone is not mine, so now Im searching for a good HTC phone that gives me the options to play with.
I want to buy HTC 7 Mozart but I don't want to use Windows phone 7
Can I install Android instead of WP7 in HTC 7 Mozart
and can I down grade to Windows mobile 6.5
thanks a lot
As far as I know, WP7 is an only system, which can be loaded in Mozart, now...
eng_bobbo said:
I want to buy HTC 7 Mozart but I don't want to use Windows phone 7
Can I install Android instead of WP7 in HTC 7 Mozart
and can I down grade to Windows mobile 6.5
thanks a lot
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no way
if u want android - buy android phone.
but, imho, wp7 much better
eng_bobbo said:
I want to buy HTC 7 Mozart but I don't want to use Windows phone 7
Can I install Android instead of WP7 in HTC 7 Mozart
and can I down grade to Windows mobile 6.5
thanks a lot
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Why would want to run lousy OS on Mozart? Lag , lag and more lag. Especially with single core CPU. Even dual core CPU lag.
you could always try reading one of the MANY other threads asking the same question
or ask yourself why do you want a mozart if you dont want WP7
TL;DR: idiot
I want too
wp7 to android
Thats probably one of the most stupid questions I have heard this week, search the market for an Android phone that looks like the Mozart and buy it....
I would love to have android on mozart too
kkcheong said:
Why would want to run lousy OS on Mozart? Lag , lag and more lag. Especially with single core CPU. Even dual core CPU lag.
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your brain lags. It prevents you from speaking properly.
peacekeeper05 said:
I would love to have android on mozart too
your brain lags. It prevents you from speaking properly.
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With current smooth UI from iOS and WP7, Android is Winmo 6.5 of the current mobile world.
Buy android phone.You like the appearance of Mozart?
buy HTC HD2 u can have wm6.5, android or WP7 on it
maybe you must go to HTC factory center then you tell them if you want to change the wp7 os to android on your mozart.. good luck...
I believe it is a matter of hardware why this will not work
I have a HTC Mozart 7. You can't downgrade to 6.5 sadly. But I hope the developers make a rom that would run 6.5 on mozart. The new android phones such as Samsung galaxy 2 is well better then Mozart but if you like a buisness phone buy a Mozart because you get great services from it such as emails and Microsoft office etc... On the other hand tho android does the same.
All am saying is you should go for HTC Mozart or a Samsung galaxy. In my opinion their both good phones.
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No one has actuly answered the question yet though.
Is it actuly possible, even a slight chance?
If some of the android apps were ported over I wouldn't want android on my phone, but I like most of the apps like Temple Run and Mine Craft (Minecraft is very addictive game, I have it on xbox and p.c, but only I had it on my WP7), a brilliant games on android and IOS but not on WP7
I love the smoothness of WP7 and its load of capabilities but just not the app market.
jeez, you're going to change a licensed phone into a free-licensed one? Windows phone has it's own Limited license (belongs to Microsoft) while that droid has no limited license..
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okay, I will answer this to conclude all of the replies.
Answer: NO. there is no chance of you to install a droid into your hTC 7 Mozart, unless you got your own way on how to flash the rom with that droid's files and configure the files to run with the hardware properly.
*Correction for this post is strongly allowed
Everyone who likes the change, may wants to have a multi OS phone ... just like me...
I had a HD2 but on that time it had just windows 6.5 and now I have a mozart and strongly want to have many OS on my phone ...
It isn't stupid at all...
if you want you can convert cLK (open source loader) .
eng_bobbo said:
I want to buy HTC 7 Mozart but I don't want to use Windows phone 7
Can I install Android instead of WP7 in HTC 7 Mozart
and can I down grade to Windows mobile 6.5
thanks a lot
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So do I,but I can't find any way to do that.
eng_bobbo said:
I want to buy HTC 7 Mozart but I don't want to use Windows phone 7
Can I install Android instead of WP7 in HTC 7 Mozart
and can I down grade to Windows mobile 6.5
thanks a lot
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I'm also want to install an android in my HTC Mozart!
Dear Devs i have a question for you - is there any way to port windows phone mango 7.5 ??
Areg8_6 said:
Dear Devs i have a question for you - is there any way to port windows mango 7.5 ??
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The short answer is no. The easiest way for ports to be made is to use similar/identical hardware that is running the desired platform. Therefore seeing as there isn't any similar hardware running WP7.5 then it would be insanely hard.
Areg8_6 said:
Dear Devs i have a question for you - is there any way to port windows phone mango 7.5 ??
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1. WP7 is a closed-source operating system, its hard to modify it like implementing other drivers.
2. The exynos processor is a very unique component, no wp7 phone uses such a processor, its a hard workt to rewrite nearly the whole os.
and these are only 2 arguments, why we will never get wp7 on our sgs2.
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The short answer is no. The easiest way for ports to be made is to use similar/identical hardware that is running the desired platform. Therefore seeing as there isn't any similar hardware running WP7.5 then it would be insanely hard.
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Silberpfeil3110 said:
1. WP7 is a closed-source operating system, its hard to modify it like implementing other drivers.
2. The exynos processor is a very unique component, no wp7 phone uses such a processor, its a hard workt to rewrite nearly the whole os.
and these are only 2 arguments, why we will never get wp7 on our sgs2.
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thanx for quick reply , i didn't know that windows is closed-source and it's so hardware demanded.
The one and only not-WP7-phones to run a Windows Phone are HD2 and Toshiba TG-01. Those are WM phones and I don't think that it's possible for any Android device to run WP7.
And I used it quite a bit when I still had my HD2. Believe me-Android is way better .
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The one and only not-WP7-phones to run a Windows Phone are HD2 and Toshiba TG-01. Those are WM phones and I don't think that it's possible for any Android device to run WP7.
And I used it quite a bit when I still had my HD2. Believe me-Android is way better .
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Yeah Android is better, i was just interested ...
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Hi friends ,
since htcTITAN is a powerfull machine , there will be any chance To bring some custome WM8 ROM To this device...???
Or the hardware and display resolution the limit off this ???
Tnks To all.
wolfpt said:
Hi friends ,
since htcTITAN is a powerfull machine , there will be any chance To bring some custome WM8 ROM To this device...???
Or the hardware and display resolution the limit off this ???
Tnks To all.
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Resolution is fine. Earlier builds could run on Titan, but I am not sure if there are newer features that will not work due to missing hardware.
My guess is that people will eventually port WP8 Roms, but that there may be some features missing and it may take some time depending on who gets interested in the project.
It is not perfectly functioning WP 7.5 ROM, so WP8 is a distant future...
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Not in the dev section!
I'm not holding my breath for WP8 on my Titan II. WP7.8 will have to do but I plan on buying the first 4.7" HTC WP8 that has NFC and an equal 16MP camera with a 1080 display resolution.
wolfpt said:
WM8 ROM
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What is "WM8?"
tai4de2 said:
What is "WM8?"
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He's probably old school and used to typing WM for windows mobile from before WP windows phone came out...