Im looking to buy an HD2, however im not sure if i should purchase the T-Mob version or the Intl. version. I'm well aware of the hardware differences but im not which version has the most mod support (for example Cotulla's magldr will prolly first be released for the intl hd2). So yeah, which version would you buy considering both hardware and modding capabilities?
where are you from ?
3G isnt an issue, i don't use it. But to answer your question, Mexico; soon moving to the US
All versions can be modded pretty equally... they're the same hardware except for rom size. Magldr should work on all versions. I'd get the T-Mobile us version for the bigger rom size, and you can probably get it the cheapest. The only thing you have to be careful about is not flashing the wrong radio to it, as some of the older radios will brick it.
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Now that Qtek, T-Mobile, XDA II-O2, and iMate all have relatively recent ROM Upgrades can anyone tell me which is the best, or the pros and cons of each?
There has been so much press about the new XDA II upgrade. Why, because it is the first O2 upgrade or because it really is a great upgrade?
Now iMate has a new one, how does this one fit into the mix?
I still have T-Mobiles 1.60 ROM. Is it worth it to upgrade to the 1.60.36?
I'm not a big fan of running around upgrading to each new ROM, and I have no intention on switching ROM Brands, etc. I will stick with ROMs applicable to my MDA II device.
Do any of the new ROMs really fix all BT issues?
In general is one of the most recent ROM upgrades the best?
I suppose I might switch if one of the ROMs fixed everything needed.
Ed
Hi,
I am considering of buying a HD2, and I know the differences between T-mobile version HD2 and HTC version HD2.
I just woundering, what if the ROM of WP7 is larger then 512MB? Does that mean the HTC version HD2 cannot be upgraded to WP7 but the T-mobile version can (hypothetically, both of them can meet other require of WP7)? Or, the size of WP7 Rom is smaller than 512MB for sure, so either of them can be upgraded?
qingqing202 said:
Hi,
I am considering of buying a HD2, and I know the differences between T-mobile version HD2 and HTC version HD2.
I just woundering, what if the ROM of WP7 is larger then 512MB? Does that mean the HTC version HD2 cannot be upgraded to WP7 but the T-mobile version can (hypothetically, both of them can meet other require of WP7)? Or, the size of WP7 Rom is smaller than 512MB for sure, so either of them can be upgraded?
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The HD2 is almost a year old. Do you really want to buy a year old phone now?
Why dont you wait untill true WP7 phones hit the market? Or buy a newer android phone....
Neither phone meets the official requirements of WP7. There will be NO official update. Most probably someone here at XDA will get a non official version working, but allot like the android development it will take months (At best) to perfect.
Just hang on a bit, and buy a native WP7 phone.
Got it.
Thank you for your advice!
qingqing202 said:
I just woundering, what if the ROM of WP7 is larger then 512MB?
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its very unlikely to be anywhere near that size. The leaked WP7 rom for the mondrian is around the same size as a normal winmo 6.5 rom, (without all the branding) , 150 meg or so.
Wp7 hd2 illegal
qingqing202 said:
Hi,
I am considering of buying a HD2, and I know the differences between T-mobile version HD2 and HTC version HD2.
I just woundering, what if the ROM of WP7 is larger then 512MB? Does that mean the HTC version HD2 cannot be upgraded to WP7 but the T-mobile version can (hypothetically, both of them can meet other require of WP7)? Or, the size of WP7 Rom is smaller than 512MB for sure, so either of them can be upgraded?
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Buy HD7, WP7 on HD2 is illegal
abq1230 said:
Buy HD7, WP7 on HD2 is illegal
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I know it voids your warranty, but is it actually illegal to put it on a phone you own?
lonelykatana said:
The HD2 is almost a year old. Do you really want to buy a year old phone now?
Why dont you wait untill true WP7 phones hit the market? Or buy a newer android phone....
Neither phone meets the official requirements of WP7. There will be NO official update. Most probably someone here at XDA will get a non official version working, but allot like the android development it will take months (At best) to perfect.
Just hang on a bit, and buy a native WP7 phone.
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HD2 was one year old but it's hardware is very advance in todays mobile world (576MB RAM & 1GB ROM in T-MOBILE HD2 or 448MB RAM & 512MB ROM in International Version) till todays no any phone compared with HD2... also one more thing, this phone capable for porting many operating system like android, wp7, ubuntu, etc... so it is great phone till today.
Hi,
first of all i want to say that this thread is in no way meant to offend or me being impatient about anything. I am just asking the question to know the answer.
I noticed, that many dev´s for the SGS2 (such as codeworkx and others) have big/giant trouble to bring a new Version to our Phones.
The problems seem to be that big that they have to wait for a Kernel from Samsung to make it even work a bit.
From my other/previous Phone, the HTC Dream i know that there weren´t such big problems.
It got 4 perfectly stable main iterations (2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3) of Android after its updates were discontinued and it already has a 4.0 version that has only 2 issues left to fix. All that without a kernel beeing released from HTC for the specific OS version. (i remember that the Camera drivers for 2.x were completely created from scratch to make it work [or so] )
My question is:
Why is it so much easier/less complicated to make a total new version run on the HTC Dream than on the SGS2? without the help of the manufactor
I'm not sure but I think its because other phones get source code releases for all the hardware or at least most of it to make porting/dev easier. Whereas Samsung hasn't released source for all the hardware in the sgs2 because of contractual obligations/restrictions from other hardware vendors that provide some the chips inside...
I also believe Samsung has modified Android quite heavily and badly in their quest to have the touchwiz interface, which also makes things difficult to reverse engineer etc...
I don't its anything actually difficult about the actual hardware itself
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So Samsung Canada has officially announced that all the Canadian versions are going to be just like the Japanese one with the Snapdragon CPU for LTE support and 2GBs of ram, at a glance it appears that everything else under the hood should be the same more or less (obviously dont know for sure but just guessing) so What Im wondering is will the firmwares be the same for these 2GB varients or will there be enough differences that the modding and development area of the S III will differ to the point that anything made for the GT-I9300 wont work on these models?
Naturally the assumed answer would be no, such as the custom SGS2's that have 4 touch buttons and no home key compared to the international model, however all S III's appear to all be the same layout of 2 touch 1 home and same phone design ect, just different CPU and amount of ram inside the phone.
+1 for this question, this will make if I buy or not the phone
The amount of memory is the least of your concerns.
The device is using a completely different chipset, it uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, so no, firmware/roms made for the GT-i9300 will not work on the version you're getting, not even the HSPA+ one.
But i'm sure there will still be a lot of support for doing custom roms on your versions as well
This has always been the case... anything for the "I " will have to be ported to work on north American variants... there will be different modems/kernels ...international will get updates first and certain things will be pulled to build roms for us.
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Both of them are based on different soc. international version is using the exynos chipset
and the lte version is using the qualcom chipset. so the roms would be totally different
What I think he's asking is whether or not the Canadian and Japanese (for example) versions will be firmware-compatible, as they both will get the alternate SoC and memory, not the international version...
It's a question without an answer. All we can do is guess, and not educated ones. We'll have to wait and see.
Chainfire said:
What I think he's asking is whether or not the Canadian and Japanese (for example) versions will be firmware-compatible, as they both will get the alternate SoC and memory, not the international version...
It's a question without an answer. All we can do is guess, and not educated ones. We'll have to wait and see.
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Actually its both, I guess I should of worded this better with more details lol.
But my main thoughts were dev work on the international GT-I9300 and mods/addons etc working on the LTE 2GB varient (since at a glance it looks like they are the same phones but with different CPU/Ram), also as well Japanese/Canada/USA versions working together since it looks like all 3 countrys are getting the same model phones with the same hardware (different model numbers though because of branding purposes but same hardware inside the phone).
Im not looking for custom roms though my main thoughts are small addons that you generally see in the themes and apps section and the huge following that you see with the S II and constant checking and usage with new firmwares for the shake of improving everyones device, and most important of all CF-Root for the device. My concern is that most of the dev's will be putting the work and effort into the international model and not the other ones so I will be SOL unless I get the international model (which is why the question in the first place), but heres the other thing that bothers me with that...
It feels like its not worth the upgrade (hardware wise), everything is the same except 200MHz faster CPU with a couple extra cores that most apps probably wont take advantage of for some time to come, and a 720p HD screen which is nice but not really necessary. The S III feels more like a software upgrade rather then a hardware one (amazing software and improvements Samsung has done for the device over the S II for sure), but to me it feels like its not worth it unless your getting all the hardware improved upon aswell, like were just re-buying our S II's because its "shinier" with new and improved software lol.
Doesn't anyone else feel that the S III should of been not only a CPU upgrade but double the ram, improved MP's on the front and back camera's etc etc?
So with all that in mind atleast for me it feels like if im to get the upgrade it should actually be a nice upgrade (hardware wise) you know what I mean?
Well, our opinions appear to differ a lot on the subject, but I have no interest on elaborating on them yet again.
However, for rooting, for the SGS3 something like CF-Root is not needed due to the separate kernel and recovery partitions. You flash a modified recovery (once) then root through that.
Future firmwares can then be flashed with Mobile ODIN (which can root during flash), or (again) through the recovery, if you didn't overwrite it.
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Well, our opinions appear to differ a lot on the subject, but I have no interest on elaborating on them yet again.
However, for rooting, for the SGS3 something like CF-Root is not needed due to the separate kernel and recovery partitions. You flash a modified recovery (once) then root through that.
Future firmwares can then be flashed with Mobile ODIN (which can root during flash), or (again) through the recovery, if you didn't overwrite it.
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Ah yes i see, i thought he meant compared to the International GT-I9300 model
Sorry to the OP, i haven't a clue about that.
FISKER_Q said:
Ah yes i see, i thought he meant compared to the International GT-I9300 model
Sorry to the OP, i haven't a clue about that.
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No I ment both. Compared to the international model and as well between the same alternate ones that are the same.
Pretty much don't want to get the 2GB ram model if most of the development is only for the international model, however getting the normal one over my S II feels like I'm practically getting a small upgrade if the ram isn't getting doubled among other things.
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so whats the point in having an unlcocked bootloader if you cant even do anything to it..
i have the tmobile version of the galaxy s3 which only has 2 roms available
we cant flash any international roms onto the phone.
when i had the htc sensation i unlocked the bootloader and got s-off
and was flashing international stuff/roms
why cant we do that with the galaxy s3???
i know ill probably get lots of hate on this
or this has already been posted,sorry if
it has..
The international version has different hardware. It has the Exynos processor and Mali GPU. The US versions have the Snapdragon SoC. This requires different code optimization and different communication interfaces for each hardware component. There are actually a lot of little differences in the hardware, most because of the Exynos vs. Snapdragon CPUs and the way it interfaces with the hardware.
For example, both versions have the same LEDs and everything, but the Light Flow dev(s?) had a problem getting the US S3 to work even though the international one worked. In fact, I'm not sure if Light Flow is fixed yet for the US S3. And that's just one of the minor differences. More important components could cause huge problems.
I'm willing to bet that the Sensation had all the same hardware, international or not, but the radios were a little different. If that were the case with the S3, then yeah, we could use international ROMs. Different processors (and most likely, different motherboards, too) make a huge difference.
There are more roms than that. Flash cyanogen 9, 10, aokp, or redrum or team sonic's to name a few
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At this point, you can't even flash Roms across different US carriers much less the international version. Which really is an almost completely different phone.
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Just Flash It !!!
The phone was released THIS MONTH.
Go develop something