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Anyway to get android in these phones?
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Why not just buy an Android phone? Plus the new ones have better hardware than the WP7 phones. That's an odd request.
The straight answer to your question is you can't do it.

Answer: no

Take your Windows Phone 7, put it up for sale...
Get a Android phone and go to the Android fourms.
If there was a way to dual boot with Android, I'm sure by a simple search you would find it. Assuming that you didn't do that (there was a post about this subject just yesterday)

That sucks. Why is it the hd2 can, yet wp7 cant? I understand there on different operating systems, but developers cant make a duel booting device like the hd2?
Wasnt the hd7 tinkered with to run android awhile back?
Sorry i dont browse this section of XDA.
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The HD2 was a winmo 6.5 device, the hacking community already had years of experience with that OS. WP7 isn't a year old yet, that's pretty easy to understand.
Like DavidinCT says, sell your phone, buy Android and use their forums.

roidsmith said:
That sucks. Why is it the hd2 can, yet wp7 cant? I understand there on different operating systems, but developers cant make a duel booting device like the hd2?
Wasnt the hd7 tinkered with to run android awhile back?
Sorry i dont browse this section of XDA.
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The HD2 was based on a completely different Windows Mobile 6.5. WP7 is still yet to receive a HSPL bootloader that allow custom roms to be installed or a MAGLDR-like system for dualboot, while HSPL for Windows Mobile was achieved long ago. The HD7 android is still in a pre-alpha stage and the average modder on XDA would probably brick his device trying to flash it. Seriously, if a dual boot was released, it would be all over these forums. I know it may be hard, but next time, scroll up, find the white textbox with a large yellow magnifying glass, type in Android on WP7, and watch the magic happen.

Back then, when hd2 just came out...there werent really that much smartphones with 4.3in screens and 1ghz android phones...so there was a lot of interest on developing android for the hd2...but you got plenty of android phone now with that kind of hardware and better...like everyone else said...sell the winmo phone and buy an android phone...
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[Q] Windows Phone 7 ROM for Nexus S GSM?

I'm wondering if it's possible to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on Nexus S? It's been done on HD2. Just wondering why it hasn't been done for Nexus S. (unless if it's the sd card thing).

Wrong section!
I do know of ubuntu on the nexus s, but idk about win7 on it LOL.
And it makes sense with win7 put on the hd2 since its a windows phone lol
But yeah, you need to move this to q and a ;D
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It is really impractical for one thing. The hd2 was a windows mobile device with a completely different bootloader. I believe they were able to use a modified bootloader to do it. We would need to somehow port over the bootloader from the Samsung focus. Unfortunately modifying bootloaders is very dangerous. If it doesn't work you brick. We would brick a lot of devices. So with the price we pay for the bricked phones we might as well buy a Samsung focus.
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rpark91 said:
I'm wondering if it's possible to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on Nexus S? It's been done on HD2. Just wondering why it hasn't been done for Nexus S. (unless if it's the sd card thing).
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Wrong section perhaps for such a question?
The basic approach, or concept if you may, in my opinion, is completely opposite.
Like comparing apples to oranges.
HD2 is a Windows Phone to which Android was ported for dual-boot.
Where as, Nexus S is an Android phone and to port Windows Phone 7 to it would be an entirely different ball game.
Even to try dual booting.
Doubt if it'd be a worthwhile effort.
One can never really say.
Probably a far better idea to try and port Android to the Samsung Focus than do Phone 7 on the Nexus S.

As soon as you can talk Microsoft into open-sourcing the WP7 platform it will be done. The main reason Android was ported to the HD2 is because Android is open source and it made it possible.

bsbokc said:
As soon as you can talk Microsoft into open-sourcing the WP7 platform it will be done. The main reason Android was ported to the HD2 is because Android is open source and it made it possible.
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This idea has been proposed before on XDA for another phone, and the thread was shut down due to it being illegal.

mathkid95 said:
I do know of ubuntu on the nexus s....
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First of all sorry for my bad english.
Can you provide any information about port ubuntu in nexus s. Where is the progress and what can this serve?

If you want this thread to stay you really need to move it or a mod will close it.
But here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10486278
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rpark91 said:
I'm wondering if it's possible to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on Nexus S? It's been done on HD2. Just wondering why it hasn't been done for Nexus S. (unless if it's the sd card thing).
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I dont think there is dev enough to do that, and i think we need the SD card to Dual boot. Bot maybe its possible to port WP7, but we need a dev that want to work on it.
But hey! Its sound awesome to have WP7 on NS, is miss it alot from my old HD2 (sold now )

Yes it is possible.

dario3040 said:
Yes it is possible.
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It's possible if it is not on XDA. it is illegal and considered piracy as WP7 is closed source, android is open source software so you can modify.
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dario3040 said:
Yes it is possible.
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You just have to clap your hands and say "I DO believe in WP7..."

I don't think that's ever the nexus s will have WP7.
All WP7 devices has the same hardware, the Snapdragon CPU, same RAM etc..
The Omnia 7 also as well.

The new Mango update fully supports the Nexus S hardware, but I doubt it will be available for a number of reasons, the 2 best reasons being:
1: It's closed source
2: Unless we got an unbrickable thing like the captivate, I doubt we would come far anyway, or at least we would need many Nexus S devices.

Thank you all for the input. Since WP7 is locked, maybe there's a rom that mimicks the WP7 platform?

[Think thread] android on wp7 devices

Please post any idea how to port android to any wp7 device. I really like my hd7 but I wanna try android. If you wnt to help us please write a pn.
Thanks
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just go buy an android phone

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just go buy an android phone
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classic answer, something like spam?

it's true.. if you've bought wp7 phone the last thing you want is to have android...
it's the same thing if you'd like to have android on iphone... useless

I want to try android on my hd7 because I think hd7 has more potential with android. The best choice is to dualboot both systems.
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probably would have been a better idea to have bought an hd2.

everytime someone asks the question why not try android on a wp7 device and you dudes start telling him to buy an android device and stuff like that... dont you get it? the ability of running more than one OS on your personal device (not being hd2) is just pretty nice to not be done ;]

@n1mr0dwp7: are you interested in helping us... Maybe you can learn something from us or we can learn something from you.
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n1mr0dwp7 said:
everytime someone asks the question why not try android on a wp7 device and you dudes start telling him to buy an android device and stuff like that... dont you get it? the ability of running more than one OS on your personal device (not being hd2) is just pretty nice to not be done ;]
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because at this point for android to boot, someone else has to do it. DFT openly stated previously they are not taking up the project...so there you go...
as far as in general, the consensus is correct. If you want an android device, get an android device. It is far simpler.
Yeah, we want options, but if a port were to happen, don't expect it to be done like tomorrow. So when people suggest getting an android device, they're correct.

I would never do that to my phone! WP> android IMHO. Although with the limited number of WP devices, it would be great if we could port WP to android devices :-D
I know it's impossible but sure would be better than porting android to WP devices.
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agree.. porting wp7.5/mango to Android device will be better

pittphan said:
I would never do that to my phone! WP> android IMHO. Although with the limited number of WP devices, it would be great if we could port WP to android devices :-D
I know it's impossible but sure would be better than porting android to WP devices.
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i would also much much much rather have this over running android on a wp7 handset.

Windows 7

I've looked on other threads and have seen that some phones have three diffrent topics, winmo6.5 , win7, and android development threads my question is there a way to make a win 7 Rom for the inspire?
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No...and why would you want that? Lol
I've seen some win 7 themes but that's about it.
I got your 10 char right here
abso Bacon Mod

Was just wondering I love my android phones was thinking of checking out Windows on my next phone
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jjpeasl said:
Was just wondering I love my android phones was thinking of checking out Windows on my next phone
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If you like Android you'll hate Wm. It sucks.
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Maybe but you'll never know unless u give it a shot.
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jjpeasl said:
Was just wondering I love my android phones was thinking of checking out Windows on my next phone
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I had a winmo phone before i bought a captivate (predecessor to the Inspire). I wouldn't go back. But, to each his own

jjpeasl said:
Maybe but you'll never know unless u give it a shot.
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You're more than welcome to give it a shot. But the point you are missing is that windows phone is inferior to android. The Devs already know what windows phone is all about. That is why they did not waste their time to port it. Not to mention it is not open source. Porting it violates copyright infringements. If you really want to explore that OS then go buy one and you will soon return to android.

Agoattamer said:
You're more than welcome to give it a shot. But the point you are missing is that windows phone is inferior to android. The Devs already know what windows phone is all about. That is why they did not waste their time to port it. Not to mention it is not open source. Porting it violates copyright infringements. If you really want to explore that OS then go buy one and you will soon return to android.
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first if its a copyright infringement how do they have the right to port it at all, even if a device comes with it any modifications to their coding would fall as an infringment i think, and they have ported it for phones like the htc tilt2 witch comes stock with winmo6.1 i think but theres a thread for windows 7 over there, the question is can it be done weather or not i go back to android has no matter to the question i asked.

jjpeasl said:
first if its a copyright infringement how do they have the right to port it at all, even if a device comes with it any modifications to their coding would fall as an infringment i think, and they have ported it for phones like the htc tilt2 witch comes stock with winmo6.1 i think but theres a thread for windows 7 over there, the question is can it be done weather or not i go back to android has no matter to the question i asked.
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No it cant be done. The reason it was dont on the phons you mentioned is due to being WM phones to start with. Android running on them is a hack to run off a partition setup.

Technically I don't think they had the right to port it on the older windows mobile phones like the tilt2 or the HD2. Windows mobile and windows phone are 2 totally separate operating systems. I am no expert on this though. But it was the excitement of the moment back then and on those forums it was allowed.

Please understand that XDA operates in alot of grey areas. Microsoft knows what is done here and if asked we will pull anything as we have done before when they have asked.

[Q] [2 ALL DEVS] Any chance to see WebOS/iOS/WP7 on NS/NS4G?

With the UnBrickable Mod?
I read that webOs was ported to the Evo, and many mobile Os can be flashed on the HD2.
So, is possible to see other mobile Operating systems on our smartphone?
Share your experience, i wanna know about the incredible world of mobile operating systems
Happy New Year 2 all the estimated Developers and all the members of XDA!!!

Not trying to be a ****, but why is it so hard to type 'to' instead of 2? Rest of your post is written well...
Happy new year to you too

Romonster said:
Not trying to be a ****, but why is it so hard to type 'to' instead of 2? Rest of your post is written well...
Happy new year to you too [/QUOT
Lucky you, you managed to succeed without trying
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So far, nobody answered my question....i'm confused

doubtful. Not enough interest.
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vetvito said:
doubtful. Not enough interest.
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Far from it. The reason we'll probably never see webos or wp7 on the nexus s is that neither of those os's are fully open source like android, in fact wp7 is completely closed source.

webOS was ported to the Evo 3D but virtually nothing worked from what I remember, making it far from useful, useable, or anything past booting really.

Ios - Never been ported to anything non-apple (as far as I know).
Meego - Possible I guess, but I dont know why anyone would bother putting that amount of time into it.
WebOS - Looking possible, its going open source i hear, but the nexus S community is only going to decrease due to the release of the Galaxy Nexus
Windows Mobile - Dead
Windows Phone 7 - This was ported to the HD2 as the HD2 was used as a test phone for the OS and the drivers got leaked! Microsoft used it as it was a high spec Windows Mobile phone. (It got android as it was very similar to other HTC phones that ran Android, such as the N1 and Desire)
Ubuntu - I guess, probably wouldn't be too hard to get going, why anyone would want to I have no idea.
BB OS - hahaha...

so.... no interest.
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I realize this isn't what you're looking for, but if you're just interested in emulating the WP7 look, give Launcher7 from the market a try. I'd also recommend using the Ubermusic music player with the optional metro theme.
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