[Q] HTC Sense of HD2 (WM6.5) port for S2 - Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Is there an opportunity to get a port of this awesome feature?
You know, what I'm mainly talking about is this kind of taskbar at the bottom of the screen and the with this linked programs that open. This would be awesome if someone could port this or has already done this.
If it's absolutely not possible to create this it would be nice to tell me why
Thanks in advance.

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It is so much possible. But it'd consist of so many mods. It's a lot of work. You need to be making a whole launcher. I've seen WM6.5 on the HD2, looked awesome, but I think we'll never see this like a 1:1 mod.

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Hmm. Ok, you say it's possible!
That's a good thing.
But I personally find it so hard to believe that nobody tries to do this... Ok, as you said, it seems to be quite hard and difficult and so on, but come on... There are so many guys, android community is so big and I can't believe there is nobody willing to do that... And I mean, it's not a crappy and ugly looking mod of a buggy whatever, it looks awesome and is so functional and in my view it would be used as launcher by so many people. Even just because it's so different to the 'standard-launcher' with this 4 or 5 buttons at the bottom of the screen and the widgets.
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To whome do I need to talk to get more information or a chance that someone starts doing this?

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As a former HD2 owner for 18 months much and all as i liked that phone there is nothing from the HD2 that i would like to see on the GS2, past tense time to move onwards.

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SCHMANKii said:
To whome do I need to talk to get more information or a chance that someone starts doing this?
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Put up a bounty as a starter .
jje

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jonny68 said:
As a former HD2 owner for 18 months much and all as i liked that phone there is nothing from the HD2 that i would like to see on the GS2, past tense time to move onwards.
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Hmm, but that's not the question here...
JJEgan said:
Put up a bounty as a starter .
jje
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Aha?

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You will not (100%) get WM on the GS2. Totally forget that idea.
If, however, you're just after Sense then just use the search button and see the suggested apps and launchers that have been discussed before. It will make the phone look very similar.

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johncmolyneux said:
You will not (100%) get WM on the GS2. Totally forget that idea.
If, however, you're just after Sense then just use the search button and see the suggested apps and launchers that have been discussed before. It will make the phone look very similar.
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I don't want WM, just Sense of HD2.
And I already searched a bit, but there is nothing like this to find. It's always a bit different like LauncherPro where i just select different apps in this kind of switchable taskbar down there but this is nothing else like shortcuts. That's not what I'm searching for...
What you find is just Sense of Android...

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SCHMANKii said:
I don't want WM, just Sense of HD2.
And I already searched a bit, but there is nothing like this to find. It's always a bit different like LauncherPro where i just select different apps in this kind of switchable taskbar down there but this is nothing else like shortcuts. That's not what I'm searching for...
What you find is just Sense of Android...
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In that case, if that's not suitable for your needs, the answer is no. Sorry mate, but that's it.

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johncmolyneux said:
In that case, if that's not suitable for your needs, the answer is no. Sorry mate, but that's it.
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So no port available?
Or better, no port possible?

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SCHMANKii said:
So no port available?
Or better, no port possible?
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There is currently no port of Sense for the GS2. There are discussions in the ROM development threads - I suggest you have a read through them to see where they are getting.

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johncmolyneux said:
There is currently no port of Sense for the GS2. There are discussions in the ROM development threads - I suggest you have a read through them to see where they are getting.
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I think that is talking about the old Sense, like in the Windows Mobile era. Not the Sense port from an Android phone. Atleast that is what I make of it
- If you are talking about the Sense from Windows Mobile, no probably not.
- If you are talking about the Sense skin in Android, probably yes, you just need to have patience.

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Lennyz1988 said:
I think that is talking about the old Sense, like in the Windows Mobile era. Not the Sense port from an Android phone. Atleast that is what I make of it
- If you are talking about the Sense from Windows Mobile, no probably not.
- If you are talking about the Sense skin in Android, probably yes, you just need to have patience.
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Of course I'm only talking about Sense of Windows Mobile (Sense of HTC HD2!).
I looked it up, everyone else is talking about Sense of an Android based device by HTC, but that's not what I'm looking for.
Why is that?

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theres a such thing as theming and doing a custom ui and doing it in the style of old sence/manilla could be possible but as a direct port,its a no

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So I don't know if 'port' is something special again, what I want is that it looks like on HD2 and has the same functions, not just shortcut-like.
But I thought 'port' would fit for that then.
TheiPhoneKiller said:
theres a such thing as theming and doing a custom ui and doing it in the style of old sence/manilla could be possible but as a direct port,its a no
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Or what do you mean by saying that?

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Do you know how many people here are working on other stuff already? I think that no one will make a working android copy of the WM6.5 Sense interface. And nobody is willing to, it's too much work. They can't simply port it, they need to rebuild everything from scratch.
I indeed say its possible, but I am sure it will not happen.

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prodygee said:
Do you know how many people here are working on other stuff already? I think that no one will make a working android copy of the WM6.5 Sense interface. And nobody is willing to, it's too much work. They can't simply port it, they need to rebuild everything from scratch.
I indeed say its possible, but I am sure it will not happen.
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Yeah for sure.
But as I already said, Android comunity is so big and hmm... I don't know, somehow I can't imagine that there are no other 'fanboys' of Sense of WM like me
I also have to say, I have no idea how porting something should work, why it is so much harder to port sth from another OS, I have no idea of all these things. So I don't want to be offensive or something, just want to get to know why this is like it is.

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prodygee said:
Do you know how many people here are working on other stuff already? I think that no one will make a working android copy of the WM6.5 Sense interface. And nobody is willing to, it's too much work. They can't simply port it, they need to rebuild everything from scratch.
I indeed say its possible, but I am sure it will not happen.
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it does take work but its possible but what if i said it was allready done for iPhone
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Do you think itle be easier to do if you had a zip file from this to do it,then all you have to do is make a script for it work and do the apk for it to work on android or make it compatible with an existing Launcher
Oh yeah.The theme has been uncrompressed from an ios format and put into zip format.take a look
http://www.mediafire.com/?jnnhtmjznmz

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Do you have a video of this working? :O
Or do you know that it works just the way it works on HD2?