[Q] Lumia 900 to Titan? - HTC Titan

I have been lurking on this board for a while now to get some info - and let me say, there is an abundance of it! Anyways, I currently have a Nokia Lumia 900 I have been using for several months, and love it, but I would like the ability to get internet sharing without paying $50 per month for AT&T's 5GB plan. Basically, I have their $30 plan for 3GB, and that is plenty of data for me since I'm on wifi a good portion of the time, it just doesn't allow you to use the internet sharing feature without that $50 plan.
Anyways, my dad also upgraded to the Lumia 900, coming from his HTC Titan. He was having the issue of the disappearing keyboard, and with replies from his Exchange 2003 being truncated. Both of those were fixed with an update, which I learned how to do manually from this board, but after he had upgraded already - so the phone is just collecting dust at this point.
I guess my question is this, given the fact it looks like I can use one of the custom rom's to enable internet sharing on the Titan, but not the Lumia 900 - do you guys think I would be giving up anything significant in going from the Lumia 900 to the Titan I with a custom ROM? It looks like they even have ROMs that enable the Nokia specific features, and now with 7.8 OS. I literally have like 40 tabs open in my browser right now with different threads from XDA, its slightly overwhelming to say the least. Just wondering what the general consensus is around here on the two devices. To me, spec-wise, they seem pretty similar.
Thanks in advance!

---

sikko10 said:
I have been lurking on this board for a while now to get some info - and let me say, there is an abundance of it! Anyways, I currently have a Nokia Lumia 900 I have been using for several months, and love it, but I would like the ability to get internet sharing without paying $50 per month for AT&T's 5GB plan. Basically, I have their $30 plan for 3GB, and that is plenty of data for me since I'm on wifi a good portion of the time, it just doesn't allow you to use the internet sharing feature without that $50 plan.
Anyways, my dad also upgraded to the Lumia 900, coming from his HTC Titan. He was having the issue of the disappearing keyboard, and with replies from his Exchange 2003 being truncated. Both of those were fixed with an update, which I learned how to do manually from this board, but after he had upgraded already - so the phone is just collecting dust at this point.
I guess my question is this, given the fact it looks like I can use one of the custom rom's to enable internet sharing on the Titan, but not the Lumia 900 - do you guys think I would be giving up anything significant in going from the Lumia 900 to the Titan I with a custom ROM? It looks like they even have ROMs that enable the Nokia specific features, and now with 7.8 OS. I literally have like 40 tabs open in my browser right now with different threads from XDA, its slightly overwhelming to say the least. Just wondering what the general consensus is around here on the two devices. To me, spec-wise, they seem pretty similar.
Thanks in advance!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry.
Let me explain. The HTC Titan has an unlocked bootloader. The Nokia Lumia 900 doens't (yet) has that. An unlocked bootloader means pretty much that you can flash custom roms. But you can't.

---

sianto1997 said:
Sorry.
Let me explain. The HTC Titan has an unlocked bootloader. The Nokia Lumia 900 doens't (yet) has that. An unlocked bootloader means pretty much that you can flash custom roms. But you can't.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for your response. I do understand that aspect, I guess my question is more do you think hardware-wise I am giving up anything significant enough to warrant not switching from the Lumia 900 to the Titan in order to have the ability to get custom ROMs. I do like the feel of the Lumia more, it seems like a more solid device, but if I can get that internet sharing to work with the Titan on AT&T without the $50 plan, I think I can sacrifice a little in aesthetics. Kind of just wanted to get the communities advice here, particularly if anyone has used both devices - which one they would choose - a stock Lumia 900 or a Titan with a custom ROM.

---

Well as i looked here on forum you have about 60% chance of doing the flashing of custom ROMS because a lot people have problems with doing SPL because there is a lot of AT&T Titans all over world, I live here in Serbia and still had the "luck" to run on the AT&T version...

---

The biggest one is that AT&T's Lumia 900 has LTE. Titan does not have LTE.
Titan's camera is better than Lumia's in terms of picture quality and 'extras' like panorama support. I can never get Lumia's panorama to work as nicely as Titan's. However Lumia has support for wide-screen photos, which Titan lacks.
You would also be giving up Nokia's software suite, some of which has no good or no free equivalent (Drive, Transit, Maps).

---

Since the new 7.8 ROMs available for the Titan there is not much you will be missing from the Lumia 900, I have both phones and have a new found love for my Titan since putting a custom 7.8 rom on it, Don't get me wrong the Lumia is a fantastic phone and will be even better with the 7.8 update but for now the Titan shines just that little bit brighter having the custom tiles and backgrounds and green fonts lol, If I were being super picky I could say I miss the pure black Amoled screen of the Lumia but I wont

---

Thanks for the responses, much appreciated! As far as lack of LTE on the Titan, I am not overly concerned with that as the city I live in currently doesn't have LTE available with AT&T, and the cities I have been to that did have it, I honestly didn't notice all that much of a difference in speed, however the battery seemed to drain significantly faster. I don't surf the web a ton on the device itself, which is probably why I didn't notice the difference.
So I have decided I am going to go ahead and give the Titan a try - just ordered the parts to make my y-cable on Amazon. AndyFZ1S - which 7.8 ROM are you using on your Titan. I see there are several to choose from, but don't know what would work best for me. I guess my biggest 'wants' would be to have the Nokia extras available on the Titan, to have Internet Sharing available on AT&T without the 5GB plan, and to have it as stable as possible. Since its technically my business phone, I can't have it randomly rebooting, locking up, dropping calls frequently, etc - so I want it as close to my Lumia as far as stability as possible. To take it even a step further, I really don't even need 7.8 yet, even 7.5 would be fine so long as I have the Nokia extras and internet sharing. At this point, I have no interest in homebrew apps, etc. Given that, which ROM might you guys recommend for me?

---

Given your needs I recommend you stick with a Lumia, to avoid stealing Nokia's software.

---

Hi sikko10, sorry for late reply, Been working with no time for play lol,
Currently using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1692150
No issues so far and it has some nice features, Screen shot below :good:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}

---

Decisions...decisions. Well, I may mess around with this stuff once the supplies for the y-cable arrives. I suppose I always have the Nokia to fall back on if things don't work with the Titan. From what I can tell, the 7.8 builds are not the final code, correct? Its very possible I will just wait to do any of this until that comes out, because I don't have the time to constantly be tinkering with the phone - as much as I wish I did. If $%#^ AT&T would let you actually use the data you are paying for however you wish (eg. let us actually use internet sharing regardless of the plan you are on) I likely wouldn't deal with any of this nonsense. The way I see it, if I am paying $30 a month for 3GB of data, I should be able to use that whether it be on the phone itself, or via my laptop/tablet through my phone. But I digress...
Thanks for everyone's input, i'll keep you posted on how it goes.