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XDA - Motorola Droid forum?

Just curious whether you folks at XDA will be adding a forum/subforum for the Droid?

im just guessing this wont happen. this site modify phones by htc only.

yeah, like the HTC Palm Treo and the HTC Sony Ericcson X1, like he said

arcsum68 said:
yeah, like the HTC Palm Treo and the HTC Sony Ericcson X1, like he said
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Actually, pretty sure HTC did manufacture the Xperia. The Treo on the other hand...
Anyway, I think it would be a shame to miss out on the Droid rush. It's going to be the biggest Android phone this year (if not longer) and will probably spawn a whole new wave of development.

HTC did manufacture the X1 and the Treo.
Historically, XDA-Developers has been HTC only. This is really crappy because there are other devices out there that could benefit this community if the forum sections were created. The Motorola Droid is one of them.

I'd love to see that happen
Since I just picked one up.

himuraken said:
im just guessing this wont happen. this site modify phones by htc only.
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what bout this one....VERIZON ERIS?????

twztdwyz said:
what bout this one....VERIZON ERIS?????
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That's probably covered under the Hero subforum, since it's basically another CDMA HTC Hero.

mer6 said:
That's probably covered under the Hero subforum, since it's basically another CDMA HTC Hero.
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I'm going to be really upset if my favorite XDA devs won't be working on the Droid platform.. I LOVE it and it's the first handset that can handle those crazy ROMs.

HTC Hero UI on Droid?
I just got a Moto Droid the other day over the Eris due to its keyboard and hardware specs...
BUT, the Eris has a much nicer UI (Home Screen, Contacts, Widgets etc) thanks to HTC (as usual)
Because both the devices are Android (however different versions from what I understand), is it possible to get the Widgets and Home screen from the Eris on the Droid??
I am obviously new to Android and have typically been a Windows Mobile user (Used the HTC TouchFlo on the Omnia and what not), and would really like to continue to use HTC's UI's on my Droid.
Do you think this is possible, and if so perhaps this particular topic could be a forum dedicated to it on XDA

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jsg7377 said:
I just got a Moto Droid the other day over the Eris due to its keyboard and hardware specs...
BUT, the Eris has a much nicer UI (Home Screen, Contacts, Widgets etc) thanks to HTC (as usual)
Because both the devices are Android (however different versions from what I understand), is it possible to get the Widgets and Home screen from the Eris on the Droid??
I am obviously new to Android and have typically been a Windows Mobile user (Used the HTC TouchFlo on the Omnia and what not), and would really like to continue to use HTC's UI's on my Droid.
Do you think this is possible, and if so perhaps this particular topic could be a forum dedicated to it on XDA
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The hero widgets are highly coupled with the framework of the device. Therfore if you wanted to run them they just simply wont work. There is a 3rd party alternative called beautiful widgets for $0.99 cents of the android market.

I have also picked up a Droid and want to see it here, until the Leo comes out this is the Android phone to have.

Ditto! Ditto! Ditto!

Agreed, lets hack this phone wide open even if it's not htc!

many unique problems for this platform, especially if you really want SenseUI.
Me personally, I'd rather see a Cyanogen build...but we need root first and foremost...and a good recovery img.

Screen capture of Droid Bootloader is here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cizake/4087662259/
We are not that far, with the help of XDA team we could get there so fast.

Just so you all know... Alldroid.org supports the Droid... we're also getting clues on how to root it!!!

PLEASE
I would really like to see a Droid/ any other andorid phone sub forum. this site has the most expansive wealth of information and i feel that having XDA as a resource for Droid users would greatly advance the android platform.
TO XDA: i know you folks only do HTC phones but please, listen to the community so other members can help us out. just so you know all other fourms related to the DROID are disasters!! help we the droid users!

i second this request!

Yes please. Expand your views. It's not only HTC thats interesting

HTC Sense on Xperia X10

it probably is possible, i wanted to add this to the other thread but couldnt cause it was locked, sense has been ported to the moto droid, which is not an htc device.

good god there's already a thread in android dev about it. how many damn thread on this do we need?

killerskincanoe said:
good god there's already a thread in android dev about it. how many damn thread on this do we need?
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good god theres there's already so many complaining posts like this everywhere. How many damn complainers do we need? Why not just give a straight answer?
Once they root the X10, it might be possible to port the HTC desire ROM onto the X10, which includes HTC sense. But that would also take away timescape and mediascape. But again, none of this is possible until we get it rooted.
Theres an in the market called beautiful widgets, which is HTC sense like widgets, check it out

If you want Sense UI, buy HTC....

lostsouls said:
If you want Sense UI, buy HTC....
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Could'nt have said it better myself

I like htc sense on android and android 2.1, is possible? with some ROM?
The timescampe is compatible on sense?

BUY HTC dude!!!

when it will be rooted ,you will get every thing

Buy HTC and you will also get everything (",)

mobz said:
Buy HTC and you will also get everything (",)
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you are right ,htc has got every thing

This is a forum for Xperia users. Since you cannot have everything on one vendor it would be good to combine the goodies the others have. So, Sense is nice but HTC phones are not the best maybe
Mugur
http://mugur-ionescu.ro/tag/xperia

i love SE X10 esp the design and i like HTC sense UI as well but i don't like its design..
having an android phone means we get to explore it isn't? liked htc sense ui does not necessarily means we have to buy htc does it?

Heres what you can do
Get the latest ADW launcher then after set it up like sense, THEN download the HTC Sense theme from the market. This will give you the "leap" preview thing and much much more.
For the clock weather thing download beautiful widgets, or an older version of Fany Widgets. Just Remember to ignore them if your going to use a task manager.

Fany widgets sounds amazing
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SiRIus[X] said:
i love SE X10 esp the design and i like HTC sense UI as well but i don't like its design..
having an android phone means we get to explore it isn't? liked htc sense ui does not necessarily means we have to buy htc does it?
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I agree and the reason I don't go for HTC Desire is because of the design and outdated camera.
HTC Desire is like any of its other phone like Legend, Tattoo etc and it is still a 5 Megapixel camera and in terms of Android phone, SE has a better camera beside Motorola but it as a slow processor over X10.

http://themes.piratemedia.tv/?p=43

MarylandCookie said:
http://themes.piratemedia.tv/?p=43
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Sent from my X10I
Only for 2.1.

mobz said:
Buy HTC and you will also get everything (",)
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Yeah! What, do you think this forum is for hacking phones or something? Sheesh. Use your device with its intended functionality and don't even THINK of changing it!

I think it'd look great with sense, but really I'd like to have sense on my x10 cause sadly htc phones are not sold in Mexico
so really is not like i don't want to get a htc is just that I can't

buy htc
better than SE

Big question, which one?

So what's a better buy, since I am confused and conflicted as to what to get.
Motorola Milestone or Nexus One/Desire?
I actually have no clue, its confusing to think which one and every time I think I decide I go back to the middle.
And I know that for the Nexus One, this website has one strong modding front behind it, but I have no idea where, if any, modding movement exists for the Droid, since I haven't found anything on this forum.
What are your thoughts on it?

aniteshj said:
So what's a better buy, since I am confused and conflicted as to what to get.
Motorola Milestone or Nexus One/Desire?
I actually have no clue, its confusing to think which one and every time I think I decide I go back to the middle.
And I know that for the Nexus One, this website has one strong modding front behind it, but I have no idea where, if any, modding movement exists for the Droid, since I haven't found anything on this forum.
What are your thoughts on it?
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I personally have the N1 and also have T-mobiles "droids" aka cliqs... Htc is far better when it comes to hardware. I suggest the N1!

In my experience - if I want to get google/android updates ASAP I would only go with whatever google choses to sleep with (stock i.e. without any skin)
For GSM that would be the Nexus One.

dextroz said:
In my experience - if I want to get google/android updates ASAP I would only go with whatever google choses to sleep with (stock i.e. without any skin)
For GSM that would be the Nexus One.
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Aha no Droid love? Is there a site dedicated to Droid mods like this has a section for Nexus development as well?

aniteshj said:
Aha no Droid love? Is there a site dedicated to Droid mods like this has a section for Nexus development as well?
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nope, moto is lacking in the game... plus nexus isnt a branded phone... its a HTC/GOOGLE not a T-mobile/AT&T/Sprint/V-word phone that should be enough to go by in your choice...

I'm also kind of in a boat like this one. I have a G1 and desperately want to upgrade. I'm considering the EVO since Austin has a 4G tower here. The prices and plans are attractive too. The one thing holding me back however is the hotspot feature in froyo. Sprint will almost certainly cut this feature out of the froyo update for the EVO since they want to charge 30 bucks a month to use that. I'm wondering if there will be a version of froyo from cyanogen (or the many other developers out there) for the evo to circumvent this (not to mention to get rid of the Sense UI).

This isn't any easier a decision to make now aha.

I vote for Motorola milestone
considering its hardware keyboard

I have a Milestone and the hardware keyboard is useful, but I don't like the way Motorola have locked down the bootloader.
That means that even when rooted, we are limited in what can be hacked about!
I will be getting rid of the Milestone and getting a Desire soon if that tells you anything.
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stooby said:
I have a Milestone and the hardware keyboard is useful, but I don't like the way Motorola have locked down the bootloader.
That means that even when rooted, we are limited in what can be hacked about!
I will be getting rid of the Milestone and getting a Desire soon if that tells you anything.
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I see what you mean, well I've put in a few offers to some used N1s, my local shop stopped carrying them!!!

If you do not have any need for a hardware keyboard N1 will be better beause of the faster CPU.
If you like hardware keyboards like me you will forget about N1.
There are quite a few forums with support for the Droid/ Milestone.

Depends on the kind of work you want to do. If all you want is a shiny super modded device with great screen contrast (excluding touchscreen response) and speed and early updates, get Nexus One.
If you need to do a lot of typing and/or need better screen response, get Milestone.
While milestone doesn't have a dedicated community behind it, doing lots of rom porting, most of the useful N1 mods work on it. Also, it is a very solid and well built phone. The build quality compared to nexus one is equally good, if not better. You can also get it overclocked to about 1.2GHz which makes it run superfast, if you are worried about speed.

[Q] Is Sense 3.5 coming too for Sensation?

Hey i have a question.. is the new sense 3.5 coming too for the HTC Sensation?

As it's aimed at lesser powered devices I'd say no but you never know

Surely it must work, I wish I knew how to resize the files from the new DHD rom and try to port it over.

Yeah, just seen the DHD Bliss-based ROM. Ideally we'd need to wait for another qHD device to be released to get it. Or that new 4.5"-screened HTC Android phone announced recently (like the Titan)

EddyOS said:
Yeah, just seen the DHD Bliss-based ROM. Ideally we'd need to wait for another qHD device to be released to get it. Or that new 4.5"-screened HTC Android phone announced recently (like the Titan)
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i thought titan was gonna have wp7?
maybe the revamped sensation will have it, but it wont really matter to me because i like senseless better

It is, but I'm sure I've heard there's gonna be another Android handset the same size. Could be wrong, mind
EDIT: The Holiday is 4.5" but leaks so far show Sense 3.0

The only thing I'm interested from in Sense 3.5 is the new Notes widget. That looks slick.

of course it will come out

Yeah, I'm sure it will come out, we have an excelent development team here

Most likely

What files would er need to port and how do you resize them to fit sensation ? I know that the HTC apks are needed but what other files are needed......libs etc?
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EddyOS said:
As it's aimed at lesser powered devices I'd say no but you never know
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There is a light version for underpowered devices, there's also a full version for high end devices, the htc rhyme comes with the simplified version, while the runnymeyde(or whatever its called) comes with the full sense
This is the runnymede rom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZC2NQm0HoI

Today....maybe?!
EDIT: Yeah...ist out now. First ROM with 3.5 Leak available! Nice!

I hope it will beacuse it'll be nice to be able to eliminate the seventh home page on my Sensation Z710e.

escalator said:
Today....maybe?!
EDIT: Yeah...ist out now. First ROM with 3.5 Leak available! Nice!
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We've had it for the last 2 weeks or so! There's a load of ROMs in Dev with Sense 3.5
EDIT: Old post, my bad!

Sense 3.0

Is anyone ever going to port a Sense 3.0 rom for the g2x? I've been really wanting to try it lately
NOOB ALERT
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If they did it would probaly lag pretty bad since sense is a resource whore. Still i'm not saying it wouldn't be nice to see 1 made for our devices.

OMG I love sense
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Sense doesn't make...

Sense would be a huge undertaking for the g2x. HTC sense runs propriety drivers and frameworks. Written to work on HTC hardware. Since the g2x and almost any HTC devices have very little in common that means writing drivers to get it to work. Although not impossible (think hd2 which shared alot of hardware with native Android/HTC phones) it's a huge undertaking and highly unlikely.
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When i had the g2 they ported sense 3.0 to it. Watching the progress of them getting it up and running, it was a HUGE undertaking. Took a huge tightly integrated team and HOURS UPON HOURS UPON HOURS X 20 to get it to work. Our dev community just isn't active enough to undertake something like that sorry

xsteven77x said:
When i had the g2 they ported sense 3.0 to it. Watching the progress of them getting it up and running, it was a HUGE undertaking. Took a huge tightly integrated team and HOURS UPON HOURS UPON HOURS X 20 to get it to work. Our dev community just isn't active enough to undertake something like that sorry
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The G2 was an HTC-Made device... It had a snapdragon processor as well, just like any other HTC Phone.
HTC Sense has been ported to the Galaxy S Devices before, so it IS still possible on Tegra 2 devices.

FatalityBoyZahy said:
The G2 was an HTC-Made device... It had a snapdragon processor as well, just like any other HTC Phone.
HTC Sense has been ported to the Galaxy S Devices before, so it IS still possible on Tegra 2 devices.
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G2 is the HTC vision in Europe where it was released with sense, should
of made it a little easier to port the latest sense to it. As far as sense on the g2x never said it wasn't possible, just said it would be a huge undertaking.
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I would pitch in at least 10$ for someone to port sense 3.0, anyone else?

will748 said:
I would pitch in at least 10$ for someone to port sense 3.0, anyone else?
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i would 5$

bstylz911 said:
i would 5$
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man i dont care to give $20+ if they make a sense 3.0 or 3.5 or LG OVERLAY on the g2x that works good stable. just so we can have another choice of flashing roms that are not stock gingerbread. most of all the roms we have are like that.

If and when I have time I would like to try. I don't care about the money, I can't receive it right now anyway. I just want sense. If you guys want LG UI I think that it wouldn't be too hard, so I'll do that first.

go ahead man were 100% pulling for you

Ya that would be awesome, go ahead and try it
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xsteven77x said:
When i had the g2 they ported sense 3.0 to it. Watching the progress of them getting it up and running, it was a HUGE undertaking. Took a huge tightly integrated team and HOURS UPON HOURS UPON HOURS X 20 to get it to work. Our dev community just isn't active enough to undertake something like that sorry
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Say what? The G2 and Desire Z are virtually the same exact phone and sense was ported to it quicker then you can blink! All they did was change the partitions and remove various apps so sense could fit on the G2's much smaller boot partition.
I'm not trying to imply that the devs did no work, and I for one could never have done it. But, it wasn't thaaaaaat big of a deal. Just sayin'
Source: Had a G2 from launch day.

Do you think it would be possible to base the port off of ports to other Tegra phones?
NOOB ALERT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZr_37WAHvQ
Nexus S can do it so can G2x with LOTS of work probably.

mt3g said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZr_37WAHvQ
Nexus S can do it so can G2x with LOTS of work probably.
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cool video. i know sense 3.0 is out but it would be awesome to see even this one on our g2x

tahahawa said:
If and when I have time I would like to try. I don't care about the money, I can't receive it right now anyway. I just want sense. If you guys want LG UI I think that it wouldn't be too hard, so I'll do that first.
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ill donate to you anyways! haha.
LOOKING FORWARD!

omarsalmin said:
Say what? The G2 and Desire Z are virtually the same exact phone and sense was ported to it quicker then you can blink! All they did was change the partitions and remove various apps so sense could fit on the G2's much smaller boot partition.
I'm not trying to imply that the devs did no work, and I for one could never have done it. But, it wasn't thaaaaaat big of a deal. Just sayin'
Source: Had a G2 from launch day.
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True, but missing one important fact. Both of those phones are htc phones. HTC sense is has it's own custom framework written for htc phones. Much easier than porting it to a non htc phone. (Not saying it can't be done, but don't dismiss it so fast. )