To all our SD chefs out there, has anyone considered porting MDJ's ViVo v2.5 so that it can be used on a SD Card. Similar work is already taking place on the Android HD2 NAND build.
It would be nice to see sense 3.0 in HD2 Android SD development
Cheers
100% agree. I really hope at some point, some clever guy does something magic with a kernal and we can do this. I'm still really comfortable on SD for now, partly as I can't tear myself away from a ROM which isnow 4 months old (and this is from a former flash-a-holic). I feel that when Sense 3.0 is perfected, I may consider NAND again (I have NANDed twice for the fun of it), but I would love an SD version to tinker with.
The good thing about SD is it's like having a Virtual PC. You can chop/change/resume. I know NAND is overall much better, but SD's advantages are still enough to keep me here for the moment
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I'm looking to get a bigger sd card for my xv6800. i want to get a 8gb card to load up on music. 2 questions (pardon me if they have already been discussed, please provide links):
1) will dcd's 3.1.2 rom support the sdhc 8gb cards w/o any upgrades?
2) anybody know what read/write speed our phone can put out? that class card can I most fully utilize?
-randy
The capacity that the phone can support has little to do with the rom and more to do with the capability's built into the phones hardware. The HTC 6800 is fully capable of using SDHC cards, regardless of rom.
As for the speed, get the fastest one you feel like, SD is a spec, and as long as you use an SD card on an SD spec device, it should be able to utilize it.
I can't see of many ways you would see a big difference though by buying a faster microSD, usually the faster cards are only used by cameras when pushing large photos into memory quickly. There is very little you will use with the phone that should need any major speed from an MicroSD.
So go to Meritline or something, get an 8GB card, and enjoy it.
Sort of right but,,,
VulnoX said:
The capacity that the phone can support has little to do with the rom and more to do with the capability's built into the phones hardware. The HTC 6800 is fully capable of using SDHC cards, regardless of rom.
As for the speed, get the fastest one you feel like, SD is a spec, and as long as you use an SD card on an SD spec device, it should be able to utilize it.
I can't see of many ways you would see a big difference though by buying a faster microSD, usually the faster cards are only used by cameras when pushing large photos into memory quickly. There is very little you will use with the phone that should need any major speed from an MicroSD.
So go to Meritline or something, get an 8GB card, and enjoy it.
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The 6800 stock 2.0.09 ROM would see all of a 2 gig, but only 3.6 gig of the new 8gig until I updated to the DCD ROM. But my friend has the Samsung and when we did the same patches I used on my 6800 to make the 8gig work with the old ROM his totally failed to see the card at all, so I figure the slot hardware was not able to make use of the sdhd driver. So I think that you are right that the hardware must support it, and the 6800 does, but the ROM must also have the drivers for it, which DCD's do.
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So go to Meritline or something, get an 8GB card, and enjoy it.
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Newegg.com is another.
so the new 3.x.x dcd roms will see a full microSDHC 8GB ?
if so, that's great news. (FAT32 i assume).
I've been sticking around with my 1GB, but if this is true, I'll have to get one
alright I'll admit I know practically nothing about android. I'm not even that savvy at linux, as a result I'm a bit flummoxed by this forum. What precisely is the SDE, is it the developers rom? and does the SDE run of the SD card always?
I also read that some of the sd cards run faster than the internal is that referring to the 8 gigs of storage or the rom? How far are we away from custom roms that run from the internal storage? and now for the mother of all dumb questions, why does development and root access seem to lag the nook color so much?
I fully admit I know nothing, this is my first official android device and I'm just beginning my journey of understanding. I really like my A70 I think it is a really capable device and I am looking forward to pushing it to it's practical limits just trying to gauge what those are right now.
It is the Special Developer Edition firmware that is used by developers. No, it does not run off of the SD card always, but you CAN make it to do that. To do this, you would use $auron's method to run off of the SD card using ext4 partitions of it. By getting a class 6, 8, or 10 card you can make it faster than the internal. Heck, even using an older class 2 card it runs faster.
How far we are away from custom ROMs??? That I can't answer for you.
I would say the reason that we lag behind the nook is the sheer number of nook devices that are out as opposed the gen8 ones.
yeah I know that shear volume makes development difficult, I was just wondering if their were particular technical difficulties, such as a unique hardware or something making things harder.
Good evening XDA crew,
I was just wondering if there is going to be a possibility of a SD bootable version of WM6.5 in the future? Is it technically possible? What are the limitations?
Everyone's (rightly) moving away from WM6.5 and jumping onto the Android bandwagon, myself included, but WM6.5 still earns a place on the HD2, imo.
For two reasons for me anyway - TomTom and LowCaller.
Being able to boot WM6.5 as a secondary OS would be ideal.
So what's the verdict?
I read something either earlier or yesterday (can't remember where on xda) that cotulla was working on getting wm6.5 to boot from an sd card. I don't know if it's true and i can't verifiy it or find the thread i saw it in so don;t hold your breath.
One other thing, please don't assume that using android over WM6.5 is the best choice for everyone. It is just your opinion that android is better. Your post insinuates that any other opinion is wrong. For example, my opinion is that android is an immature, open source, iphone clone for immature, fan boy teenagers. This is not wrong, it is just my opinion. Please take that onboard for the future
Personaly, I don't know if this will be possible. (major doubt about it). But I can be wrong.
but let's be honest, running Android (what is relative a small OS) from your SD works but if we ar honest, it isn't the same as running as if it is install on internal memory.
Now we have WM who is a more large OS. imaging it running from SD
What I will say (I'm a big fan of WM) is we all knows that WM is sometimes what slow/buggy. So if tomorrow it will run from your SD-card I will have doubs about how good it will be.
If I was you I take a good WM custom ROM and run android from your SD-card.
Looks like it's in the works!
http://twitter.com/cotullacode
# We (DFT Team) developing several interesting stuffs for LEO, like WM65 running from SD card! 1:00 AM Feb 1st via web
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Fantastic news for those of us who rely on WM for navigation and Android for everything else!
^agree^
I lost all the utility I had when it came to backpacking/hiking. Geocache and even when it came to navigating with meens other then gps winmo is still the strongest OS. Anyone remember 100% free orbcast and other, iptv ipcc? Those days may not be behind us with this. I love bits and pieces of all the moder platforms, but none provide the real/true utility value of wm65
^^^ +1 for this.
It will most probably take some time (for any platform) to re-discover all the niches which are still being served by WinMo 6.5.
As long as it´s a niche which promises commercial success, one would think it will go fast - but then again, there is some massive doubt about that, considering the current situation.
However, "homebrew" solutions are king when it comes to smaller niches - this is, for the time being, the strength of the Android platform. It was an old, traditional strength of Windows Mobile. Just consider the xda platform we are all being a part of right now.
thats very true, unfortunetly most of my primary utilization of wm was simply that a niche, I must have adopted more niche uses then any other user lol
Wow, what a week, with the rooting and all. Now for me Honeycomb 3.2.1 is pretty damn good, so at the moment not really fussed about custom roms. My only problem with the Sony now is that i need more memory to satisfy my gaming needs. With games now coming in at roughly 1gb my poor little internal memory has run dry. What i would love now is to be able to utilize the SD slot so that game data may be able to be placed there instead of the internal memory.
Do you think this will be possible now we have root or am i asking to much?
Why did Sony go down the road of this silly file swapping thing between internal and sd slot?
I know its early days with rooting and all but i really could do with my 32gb sd card getting some action.
Am i the only one who would love to see this happening?
Cheers,
David.
There's a thread in the development section about getting it to work
Oh, my bad
Loved the android 3.0 honeycomb user interface.....very nice...really...
@diddy64:
Maybe you a brave enough to test one of this ideas:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22390716#post22390716
lol, since ive only had this little baby for under a week I better not. The wife would KILL me.
come on, you are young, you are tough and you need the space for your games ;-)
Have the courage ... you are the master in your house
Hello people,
I have an HTC TP2 on which I run FRX07.1 XdAndroid but it is extremely slow (or maybe perhaps now we have been habituated to expect faster responses with the latest Ghz Processors). I think if it was directly on the phone it would be faster.
So is there a way that rather than booting windows first and running haret.exe , we can put this FRX (or something that is faster) directly in the mobile instead of windows. All I need to run is Viber and WhatsApp.
I have tried the Gingerbread of the same XdAndroid and that is even slower.
I have read a lots of posts and I am completely lost, just can't understand what, where and how
Apologies for being such a noob.
Thanks.
huzefa_from_kuwait said:
Hello people,
I have an HTC TP2 on which I run FRX07.1 XdAndroid but it is extremely slow (or maybe perhaps now we have been habituated to expect faster responses with the latest Ghz Processors). I think if it was directly on the phone it would be faster.
So is there a way that rather than booting windows first and running haret.exe , we can put this FRX (or something that is faster) directly in the mobile instead of windows. All I need to run is Viber and WhatsApp.
I have tried the Gingerbread of the same XdAndroid and that is even slower.
I have read a lots of posts and I am completely lost, just can't understand what, where and how
Apologies for being such a noob.
Thanks.
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I know how you feel; I'd kill for a TouchPro2 style keyboard on the latest crop of HTC/Samsung smart phones but we're in the minority so I'm guessing a good physical keyboard are over...I had FRX71 installed on my Rhodium, currently I have NRGZ28's EnergyROM which is excellent by the way and i was looking at selling my Rhodiums with a NAND install of a stable Android OS variation and was asking myself what is a good ROM for the device. The device is slower than the current models for obvious reasons but I was using CoPilot Navigator on my as a GPS device and an emergency backup should I need to. It's going to kill me to part ways with them...best phone I've ever used from the practical sense of what a phone is. I must admit the HD2 spoiled me...what that device can do is simply amazing for what is now a 4 year old device.
huzefa_from_kuwait said:
Hello people,
I have an HTC TP2 on which I run FRX07.1 XdAndroid but it is extremely slow (or maybe perhaps now we have been habituated to expect faster responses with the latest Ghz Processors). I think if it was directly on the phone it would be faster.
So is there a way that rather than booting windows first and running haret.exe , we can put this FRX (or something that is faster) directly in the mobile instead of windows. All I need to run is Viber and WhatsApp.
I have tried the Gingerbread of the same XdAndroid and that is even slower.
I have read a lots of posts and I am completely lost, just can't understand what, where and how
Apologies for being such a noob.
Thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2049567
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1965459
All I have to say to the OP - the phone is old. Try a different SD card - you want one with the fastest random read/write performance.
Let the phone settle once you boot. If the phone is trying to multitask - IE pull in contacts / calendar / etc from Google, it will be SLOW. C'est la vie, the SoC is ancient when the device was released.
Thank you a lot for your replies.
I have tried the guide by wizardknight however I am stuck and will post the question in that forum regarding it.
Thanks Again.
Yes it turned out to be an incompatible card.
I changed my old 4gb card with a 2gb one, and I tested by booting both FRX and GBX from this card and its much (actually much much) faster.
Thanks.
huzefa_from_kuwait said:
Yes it turned out to be an incompatible card.
I changed my old 4gb card with a 2gb one, and I tested by booting both FRX and GBX from this card and its much (actually much much) faster.
Thanks.
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I successfully NAND installed OGBX on my Rhodium using a 16 gig and a 4 gig SD card and don't get me wrong, what you folks have done is simply amazing but there too is reality and we all know we're never going to see the Rhodium form factor again and that's a shame because the keyboard just made that device a dream to use. It's too slow. That said, I still possess three of them; one verizon wireless and two - T-Mobile; I run NRGZ28's EnergyROM on all of them now and run CoPilot Nav on all of them as GPS devices. As you see from my signature I own a Windows Phone too and as I get ready to move my wife permanently to the upcoming HTC One (M7), it's stunning that every program that supposedly won't run on WP7.x runs on Windows Mobile 6.5...Skype, Pandora...both to this day run on my Rhodiums. I own an HD2 too and currently have NRGZ28's EnergyROM Android on it and was blown away as to how eerily similar it was to his WM custom roms and that's all I wanted; I can't stand that generic interface every Android device has. I want my devices to look gorgeous and he delivers. All that's left to do is to decide whether I will sell the Rhodiums with Android on them or not. It's a damn shame the form factor isn't in the current crop of new devices.