[Q] Android on NOkia Lumia 920 - Nokia Lumia 920

Hi, I have a lumia 920 and I'd love to put on android, how can I do?

It is not possible. Why give to the Mercedes engine from Trabi...?

Petulinek said:
It is not possible. Why give to the Mercedes engine from Trabi...?
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Its not impossible...but DEVs are not so intrested in it an its really hard process
Dont forget Htc Hd2 which is basically Windows 6.5 device (many dont know this!)and enjoyed every android version perfectly till now 4.2.2 Jb...even it ran almost all feature of iOS port...
The Thing Needed is... Dev Interest & Some hard work...but Who
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Petulinek said:
It is not possible. Why give to the Mercedes engine from Trabi...?
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in today's world you can do it all

g0ku92 said:
in today's world you can do it all
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Why don't you take the initiative and start porting it then?

I would if I could but unfortunately I do not know where to start

ipsuvedi said:
Its not impossible...but DEVs are not so intrested in it an its really hard process
Dont forget Htc Hd2 which is basically Windows 6.5 device (many dont know this!)and enjoyed every android version perfectly till now 4.2.2 Jb...even it ran almost all feature of iOS port...
The Thing Needed is... Dev Interest & Some hard work...but Who
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You cannot assume that every piece of hardware "under the hood" is like the HD2; it is not. The last Windows Phone device that could be HSPL was the HTC Titan I (Eternity); the Titan II (Radiant) is locked tight as a drum. I own to Titans with HSPL and I have been on the fence in regards to getting the Lumia 920 despite my device being WP7.8. I was playing around with my HTC Rhodiums which have NRGZ28's EnergyROM on them and runs great to this day albeit slower. It continues to run Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile 6.x and runs Pandora. There are other devices similar to the Lumia 920 that run Android. Those who are up to speed on T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 521 may note its specs are quite similar to the HD2 with one lone exception; T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling will be enabled and unlike most new high end devices; this budget device will come with a expandable memory slot. It was announced T-Mobile will be adding the Nokia Lumia 925; a WP8 version of the a HTC One (M7); it will be metal cased.
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g0ku92 said:
I would if I could but unfortunately I do not know where to start
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Other than the HD2; name me one newer Windows Mobile/Phone device Android was installed on and the last "newest" Android device that some eager beaver installed Windows Mobile/Phone on?

berrywr said:
You cannot assume that every piece of hardware "under the hood" is like the HD2; it is not. The last Windows Phone device that could be HSPL was the HTC Titan I (Eternity); the Titan II (Radiant) is locked tight as a drum. I own to Titans with HSPL and I have been on the fence in regards to getting the Lumia 920 despite my device being WP7.8. I was playing around with my HTC Rhodiums which have NRGZ28's EnergyROM on them and runs great to this day albeit slower. It continues to run Skype 3.0 for Windows Mobile 6.x and runs Pandora. There are other devices similar to the Lumia 920 that run Android. Those who are up to speed on T-Mobile's Nokia Lumia 521 may note its specs are quite similar to the HD2 with one lone exception; T-Mobile's Wi-Fi calling will be enabled and unlike most new high end devices; this budget device will come with a expandable memory slot. It was announced T-Mobile will be adding the Nokia Lumia 925; a WP8 version of the a HTC One (M7); it will be metal cased.
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Other than the HD2; name me one newer Windows Mobile/Phone device Android was installed on and the last "newest" Android device that some eager beaver installed Windows Mobile/Phone on?
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Exactly... It's just not happening. If you want Android then buy an Android phone. Plain and simple.

snickler said:
Exactly... It's just not happening. If you want Android then buy an Android phone. Plain and simple.
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I'm on the same boat but with a Lumia 925. We have some shady employers who expect us to learn the tech but tell us they are too broke to pony up the funds to buy us what we need to learn it so we have to resort to getting these things loaded on devices we already own, and knowing of the incredible work done on the HTC HD2 running Android a few years back perhaps it could be done with today's devices.
I know that there are some very talented individuals that because of time constraints (work/life balance) can't devote time to make something like this happen and I respect their time and efforts on these sort of projects.

snickler said:
Exactly... It's just not happening. If you want Android then buy an Android phone. Plain and simple.
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and if you want WP, buy WP device...
when i buy real WP device i see how HTC HD2 with WP or android is bad and c*ap...

Related

HTC 7 Mozart - Desire clone running Windows Phone 7

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.
Moved to General as not development.
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.
ameel said:
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.

Windows 8

So guys i belive you all have heard about new windows 8 for PC but i heard that Microsoft will release an ARM version for smartphone devices and tablets, i think that we have the chance since thay say taha windows mobile phones that where latest in the winmo series would be suitablle to run windows 8. Any comment on this, true, false, posssible, or not?
time will tell nikola, i did hear that windows 8 will be alot easier to port than wp7, but, like i say time will tell
yea shure, time does everything, i think that win 8 would be portable to any device since there are some guys on sgs2 forum telling the same thing about porting it.
Hi there, you mean that there are guys with sgs2 trying to port it on Win 8? :-o now that's interesting
yea, there is a guy that have windows me on sgs2 so he think it will be peace of cake to make sgs2 run win 8. But a lot of people are like: we have android that is better. I say no. Win8 or wp7 are the simpliest imagined os's, like iOS. Android is candy eye, that is the way and have most powerfull machines runing it. So it is my opinion just.
nikola92 said:
yea, there is a guy that have windows me on sgs2 so he think it will be peace of cake to make sgs2 run win 8. But a lot of people are like: we have android that is better. I say no. Win8 or wp7 are the simpliest imagined os's, like iOS. Android is candy eye, that is the way and have most powerfull machines runing it. So it is my opinion just.
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False IMO. Why would Microsoft want to do that? If anything, they would be loosing profits ,as no one would buy their new hardware with the native OS.
Also this forum is empty.... There are no current devs anymore. Sorry to say,but I doubt anything more for the tg01.
What happened to Nokser's promise ?
IMO, i think Android is by far, the Best OS ever! So much it can do! Windows Mobile was great and taught me about roms etc... I would like to thank all the devs who made it a worthwhile expierence here!
But things have changed , and I'm really glad I made the switch to Android .
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Idk ms says that the ARM version of win 8 will be most suitable for windows mobile devices and tablets! Thats the official, and about win8 ptoject for sgs2 it is unofficial, like most stuff here...
nikola92 said:
Idk ms says that the ARM version of win 8 will be most suitable for windows mobile devices and tablets! Thats the official, and about win8 ptoject for sgs2 it is unofficial, like most stuff here...
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True, you got a point, but tell me, who is going to port win8 for us?
There are no devs here anymore.
To port an OS requires many devs.
Android is the easiest OS to port (due to open source nature )
Yet we don't have a functional full working port.
Wp7 project was complete rubbish by Nokser. He called for donations, promised a release, yet failed to deliver.
He took the money and left.
IMO, I think your best bet is to stick with the sgs2. The forums are like 100 Times bigger than here, so there will be much more dev progress. Soon there may ba another OS port for us there, and we can choose to switch platform. Also the hardware of the sgs is far superior to run the New OS requirements .
Do you not prefer capacitive touch lol?
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hehehe i am doing a lot on my sgs2 i am trying to destroy it xD. But tg01 is for extreme experiments, i allmost got wp7 working by help of a friend from MS but no use... Sgs2 will be my toy when i sell tg01 and buy new phone.
nikola92 said:
hehehe i am doing a lot on my sgs2 i am trying to destroy it xD. But tg01 is for extreme experiments, i allmost got wp7 working by help of a friend from MS but no use... Sgs2 will be my toy when i sell tg01 and buy new phone.
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Hi Nikola why you want to sell it?
I just buy a "new" TG01 and i can tell you that the price for such a piece is very good and that there are PNA's in the market that are a lot more slower and much more expensive.
So i think TG will never become "A piece of junk"!
You will always have a god device for test, navigation...! Men's stuff!
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nikola92 said:
hehehe i am doing a lot on my sgs2 i am trying to destroy it xD. But tg01 is for extreme experiments, i allmost got wp7 working by help of a friend from MS but no use... Sgs2 will be my toy when i sell tg01 and buy new phone.
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I forgot to ask!
What do you mean by : " i allmost got wp7"
How did you tryed to install wp7?
Thank's for answer.
Well on some strange way via some tsnand.exe for some japnesse people that tryed the same, it writes dirctly to nand and read from nand and erase from it but i never could establish good connection with my PC since i had some wierd version of win 7. Well i am gonna sell it cuz for that money i get i can by second hand Samsung Omnia 7 8 Gb version(with little more money).
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Well on some strange way via some tsnand.exe for some japnesse people that tryed the same, it writes dirctly to nand and read from nand and erase from it but i never could establish good connection with my PC since i had some wierd version of win 7. Well i am gonna sell it cuz for that money i get i can by second hand Samsung Omnia 7 8 Gb version(with little more money).
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What about your SGS2? You don't like it ??
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olyloh6696 said:
What about your SGS2? You don't like it ??
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hi Android_olyloh6696 i can confirm omnia 7 with wp7 mango is the best combination and the far best handset, if one wants to remain faithful to Windows and the upcoming Windows 8.
Windows 8 developers beta run on my new Wetab (exoPC)
mirolg said:
hi Android_olyloh6696 i can confirm omnia 7 with wp7 mango is the best combination and the far best handset, if one wants to remain faithful to Windows and the upcoming Windows 8.
Windows 8 developers beta run on my new Wetab (exoPC)
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Haha
Really nice to see you again Miro! I did begin to worry about about you as I didn't see you around for months!
How are you man?
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olyloh6696 said:
Haha
Really nice to see you again Miro! I did begin to worry about about you as I didn't see you around for months!
How are you man?
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thank you, i´m fine.. also nice to see you, my friend! i needed a technology- break and have done more with the family and my job.
.... how were your exams? i hope good
mirolg said:
hi Android_olyloh6696 i can confirm omnia 7 with wp7 mango is the best combination and the far best handset, if one wants to remain faithful to Windows and the upcoming Windows 8.
Windows 8 developers beta run on my new Wetab (exoPC)
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I think that if you will ask an Android - hard core fan he will also say that Android is the best option!
True is that if you feel fine with a SO then you must stay with it!
I personaly like Android because is easy to use (I speak as a low end user) and have good games. But i like WM 6 because is so versatile! You could install on the same SO more skins and is very easy to set it.
I didn't use WP7 yet ! (but i think is similar with Android - user frendly)
And by the way is wrong to compare the resistive touch screen(like TG01) with capacitive touch screen (like Omnia 7). The capacitive touch screen is made for gentle handling!
mirolg said:
hi Android_olyloh6696 i can confirm omnia 7 with wp7 mango is the best combination and the far best handset, if one wants to remain faithful to Windows and the upcoming Windows 8.
Windows 8 developers beta run on my new Wetab (exoPC)
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true,true i do like SGS2 offcourse... I mean it is EPIC phone after all but the smooth and SIMPLE, i prefer simple OS , is the WP7. And i say here in my country people are brand maniacs Nokia, Apple, etc. I call that brainless, but there are some smart ones WELCOME BACK MIRLOG. Pozdrav iz Srbije
mirolg said:
thank you, i´m fine.. also nice to see you, my friend! i needed a technology- break and have done more with the family and my job.
.... how were your exams? i hope good
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Yeah! Hope its all well for you!
Yeah I did well in my exams, thanks for asking!!!
Nice to see you around! Maybe one day we will see each other again in our future devices forums
@Rila I do agree with you to some extent! But if you root your phone you can customize as much as Windows Mobile
@nikola92 true some people prefer WP7 to android, but if I were you wait for the WP7 version of the SGS2, its just around the corner
Nice to visit the TG01 forum once in a while! I hope the best for this great small forum
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Yeah! Hope its all well for you!
Yeah I did well in my exams, thanks for asking!!!
Nice to see you around! Maybe one day we will see each other again in our future devices forums
@Rila I do agree with you to some extent! But if you root your phone you can customize as much as Windows Mobile
@nikola92 true some people prefer WP7 to android, but if I were you wait for the WP7 version of the SGS2, its just around the corner
Nice to visit the TG01 forum once in a while! I hope the best for this great small forum
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would like to congratulate, my friend!
...Yes small community but the best. We all miss that in the other forums!
... The coming Android 4.5 "and 1280 x 720 resolution would already interested
...
nikola92 said:
true,true i do like SGS2 offcourse... I mean it is EPIC phone after all but the smooth and SIMPLE, i prefer simple OS , is the WP7. And i say here in my country people are brand maniacs Nokia, Apple, etc. I call that brainless, but there are some smart ones WELCOME BACK MIRLOG. Pozdrav iz Srbije
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thank you, my friend! Really nice also to see you!

[Q] HTC 7 Mozart with Android

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
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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.
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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.
Question
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!

Porting WP8 to Titan

I still can't believe it myself too ...
But apparently DFT is managing to port WP8 on HD2 :
http://twitter.com/CotullaCode
http://www.wpcentral.com/against-all-odds-windows-phone-8-has-been-hacked-htc-hd2
http://windowsphonehacker.com/articles/windows_phone_8_ported_to_the_htc_hd2-11-29-12
"Hopefully more details will be coming out soon with an actual release because as you have probably figured out, if the HD2 can run Windows Phone 8, there might be a chance for Windows Phone 7 devices too."
I guess it is right to ask ourself such a question indeed.
I don't think HD2 has something Titan doesn't have.
Surely it would be interesting to understand what DFT really has really done.
In the meanwhile I'd like to know what our beloved Titan cookers think about this.
i hope so that windows phone 8 will port to HTC titan
Don't get your hopes up. It will never happen. I wish it would. What does the HD2 have that the titan doesn't? Drivers that are more or less open sourced with a team (DFT) that specializes in them.
I don´t think, that port to Titan never be. Titan have better HW than HD2. You´ll see, port for Titan will be Now, we only waiting ...
Many phones have hardware better than the HD2, that is completely irrelevant.
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Many phones have hardware better than the HD2, that is completely irrelevant.
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not as irrelevant ... Titan is first series device with windows phone, i´m thinking, that port WP8 will be for all first series device - like trophy, hd7, mozart ... Maybe I´m wrong .... time will tell ....
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not as irrelevant ... Titan is first series device with windows phone, i´m thinking, that port WP8 will be for all first series device - like trophy, hd7, mozart ... Maybe I´m wrong .... time will tell ....
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Titan isnt first series device WP, Titan and Radar are second series. First series are HD7, Omnia etc...
bartCZ said:
not as irrelevant ... Titan is first series device with windows phone, i´m thinking, that port WP8 will be for all first series device - like trophy, hd7, mozart ... Maybe I´m wrong .... time will tell ....
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sorry HTC Titan is a Second serie of WP7
Second Windows Phone 7.5
HTC Titan
HTC Radar
First Windows Phone 7.0
HTC 7 mozart
HTC 7 pro
HTC 7 Surround
HTC HD7
HTC 7 Trophy
Diepvriezer said:
sorry HTC Titan is a Second serie of WP7
Second Windows Phone 7.5
HTC Titan
HTC Radar
First Windows Phone 7.0
HTC 7 mozart
HTC 7 pro
HTC 7 Surround
HTC HD7
HTC 7 Trophy
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Yes, yes, you have right ... I mean, that except faster CPU is Titan the same device as hd7, tropy etc ......... I ´m wrong wrote it. My mystake.
Moved to General as there is nothing for the Titan at this point.
Thank you,
mf2112
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Anyway, the point is the HD2 has drivers that can be worked with and a team of expert that specialize in it.
Titan has neither. Titan will not get WP8, don't get your hopes up.
I found the photo of the HD2 a bit interesting; one the build number's last few digits were blacked out and did all the zeroes escape everybody? What I find curious is the Titan I is flashable, as of this typing the Titan II is not. I own both the HD2 and Titan and the Titan runs 7.8 much better than the HD2 though I have nothing but sincere admiration for the HD2; an incredible piece of hardware despite it's lack of memory.
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Don't get your hopes up. It will never happen. I wish it would. What does the HD2 have that the titan doesn't? Drivers that are more or less open sourced with a team (DFT) that specializes in them.
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Do you have any proof of what you are saying ?
Well not "open sourced" but here's how it works (and all of this I have gathered from browsing XDA over the years):
In order to get android to work, someone had to either find drivers or reverse engineer something for the HD2 to get the hardware to work. This led to native ports of Ubuntu and Debian and MeeGo. Whatever was done, the previously closed drivers are now well understood enough to port it around to any linux. Then I've heard that the HD2 was a WP7 test device, and those drivers were leaked from HTC (I presume). That is the ONLY reason the HD2 has WP7. I imagine the leaked drivers aided the port to WP8.
Moreover I don't know if you follow DFT, but they have entirely rewritten and replaced the original bootloader and have added the ability to multi boot up to 32 (or some absurd number) different operating systems from multiple sources. They know the HD2 in and out.
It does not matter at all that other devices have better specs. Nearly any phone made after the HD2 has better specs. Specs are irrelevant. The HD2 is a special beast. In fact I don't think any other phone can even run android natively- all the android "ports" for other WM phones rely on HarEt, whereas the HD2 can run it natively... So afaik the HD2 is the only device that can natively run another OS.
Asking when *your* random phone is going to be able to do cool things like the phone that has *years* of community development behind it is rather self serving, a little ignorant and kind of annoying.
If you really want it to happen, put a bounty on it with a reward. Then maybe someone could work a miracle... If it were to be any Gen 2 windows phone, I suppose it would be the Radar or the Titan though, given that we have HSPL. But IMO the titan/radar are going to be left behind very quickly as the hacking scene transitions to WP8 devices.
link68759 said:
Well not "open sourced" but here's how it works (and all of this I have gathered from browsing XDA over the years):
In order to get android to work, someone had to either find drivers or reverse engineer something for the HD2 to get the hardware to work. This led to native ports of Ubuntu and Debian and MeeGo. Whatever was done, the previously closed drivers are now well understood enough to port it around to any linux. Then I've heard that the HD2 was a WP7 test device, and those drivers were leaked from HTC (I presume). That is the ONLY reason the HD2 has WP7. I imagine the leaked drivers aided the port to WP8.
Moreover I don't know if you follow DFT, but they have entirely rewritten and replaced the original bootloader and have added the ability to multi boot up to 32 (or some absurd number) different operating systems from multiple sources. They know the HD2 in and out.
It does not matter at all that other devices have better specs. Nearly any phone made after the HD2 has better specs. Specs are irrelevant. The HD2 is a special beast. In fact I don't think any other phone can even run android natively- all the android "ports" for other WM phones rely on HarEt, whereas the HD2 can run it natively... So afaik the HD2 is the only device that can natively run another OS.
Asking when *your* random phone is going to be able to do cool things like the phone that has *years* of community development behind it is rather self serving, a little ignorant and kind of annoying.
If you really want it to happen, put a bounty on it with a reward. Then maybe someone could work a miracle... If it were to be any Gen 2 windows phone, I suppose it would be the Radar or the Titan though, given that we have HSPL. But IMO the titan/radar are going to be left behind very quickly as the hacking scene transitions to WP8 devices.
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I have to agree. I stopped flashing my smart phones for quite some time and just recently picked it up. The HD2 is that device we all wish every other device since could do. If there is to be a WP8 port, that is the device that will garner the most attention. Currently as of this typing, I have the NexusHD2 on that device. It isn't Samsung's mini-beast, the Galaxy S3 nor is it enabled with that beautiful touch screen, but the HD2 is a stud among steers. The day my HD2 is put to rest, it will be buried with honors.
link68759 said:
Titan will not get WP8, don't get your hopes up.
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Don't mind for me DO getting my hopes up
Pneumo said:
Don't mind for me DO getting my hopes up
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Patience, patience, patience. There is rumor there is a HTC Titan III, the HTC Zenith in the pipeline. I know there are many who have this philosophy that they must get their hands on the latest and state of the art devices. I don't doubt that Windows Phone 7 should have been what we now know is Windows Phone 8. There's nothing more irritating than the inability to not run programs like Skype as they do on Android and an overall general attitude that appears contrary to customer loyalty 101. Today (as of this typing) we do not know if the SPLs on the HTC 8X, Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 and future unknown devices in the pipeline will be akin to the HTC Titan II (Radiant) which remains unlockable. It is unlikely there will never be another device like the HD2 and for me, that is what is wrong with carriers and Microsoft in regards to the devices they sell within the United States and Canada; it is internationally how different and many of us wish we had their device hardware.

[Q] Android?

Is it possible to install Android 4 on Nokia Lumia 920?
Unfortunately not at this point in time, Many users would love to have a dual boot option, Set a bounty to the Dark Forces Team to work on HSPL and if there is enough interest then may be work will begin
Either way it will not be happening for a very long time.
Yes, you just need the boot floppy.
i want Android too.
Not much love in WM8 now.
According to the reviews I read getting HSPL for the WP8 devices is close to impossible. (although that was said about a lot of things) I personally would however not want Android on this awesome device even if someone paid me for it
Megamegamonster said:
Is it possible to install Android 4 on Nokia Lumia 920?
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Fortunately, no.
sk22 said:
i want Android too.
Not much love in WM8 now.
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Buy an Android phone then. Problem solved.
These aren't desktop computers you can just load any OS onto, they are complex embedded devices.
There is a surprising lack of compatibility on ARM processors, so you're better buying the phone with the OS you want to run.
gilesjuk said:
Buy an Android phone then. Problem solved.
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Have to agree, why get a WM8 phone if you want to put Android on it?
HD2 was also a wm6.5 phone, right??
But I don't think there are a lot of HD2 still running wm6.5.
Why people keep porting different OS into it? They can just buy an android device, problem solved, too.
I think there will be more fans if 920 can be ported other OS.
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Not much love in WM8 now.
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What is "WM8"?
There are more than enough Android phones bro.
You bought the wrong phone if you really want Android
the Lumia 920 is pure Windows Phone, you can fell the power and style it
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There was not a single port of Android to a WP7 phone and almost all of them had HSPL. When looking into HSPL for Nokia though some Devs decided it was to hard to crack - I would guess with Secure Boot this has not gotten easier.
So all in all: it is highly unlikely that you will see an Android port for the Lumia phones or any other WP for that matter. If you don't like WP8 and want an Android device: sell the Lumia and buy an Android - everything else seems likely to just frustrate you to no end.

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