Im looking at getting an older android phone just for rooting and flashing roms. OK .... to play around with it lol... Any opinions on what I should get?
I'd recommended a Droid Incredible. I loved that phone when I had it and there are a bunch of roms out there for it.
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I was kinda leaning toward the incredible. its hard to find them.
Check http://www.swappa.com
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what about the HTC Eris?
No question, get an HD2. They're incredibly cheap because they came with Windows Mobile as stock, incredibly easy to flash and has the largest spanning forums of any device. You can get every flavour of Android on it from Sense to Touchwiz to AOKP to ICS MIUI. AND, if you're bored you can play around with Windows Phone 7
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S2 will be good no?
I didn't even think about the HD2. ill need to look at that... thanks
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johnstd2 said:
I didn't even think about the HD2. ill need to look at that... thanks
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Just to help you decide, you should probably look at the HD2 Forums
its hard to find them. i just looked and the HD2 is pretty hard to find
I would go with something overbuilt at the time to keep up with the changing flavors of Android.
HTC incredible, definitely, it's a fun learning phone and many still work on it.
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First of all forgive me if there is already a thread on this, but I know there is going to be a whole new Android 3.0 which will be on the tablets. Anyway, I was wondering since all these devs will get their hands on it if it will be hitting custom roms in the near future for our phones!?
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think ive read that it will not be on most phones we have now, but it eventually will be ported to some of the newer phones
but am sure some of the guys here can work some magic
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think ive read that it will not be on most phones we have now, but it eventually will be ported to some of the newer phones
but am sure some of the guys here can work some magic
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking. At least for our more advanced phones Well it's something to look foward to at least!
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jtadak said:
Yeah, that's pretty much what I was thinking. At least for our more advanced phones Well it's something to look foward to at least!
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The htc evo, desire and nexus one already have honeycomb.. Still beta but looks like is work progress
I saw HD2 running Android and w7. So maybe we can have w7 OS run on inspire too. I am not a dev so I can't port OS to inspire but it would be nice to see some devs might be interested in it. Again just a thought.
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topgun303 said:
I saw HD2 running Android and w7. So maybe we can have w7 OS run on inspire too. I am not a dev so I can't port OS to inspire but it would be nice to see some devs might be interested in it. Again just a thought.
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Who knows it might be possible. But answer me this. Why not just get a wm7 phone? Ive seen people asking about this and ios being put on an andriod phone. Why not just get the the operating systems respective phone?
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cdfink08 said:
Who knows it might be possible. But answer me this. Why not just get a wm7 phone? Ive seen people asking about this and ios being put on an andriod phone. Why not just get the the operating systems respective phone?
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Sure we all can buy respected OS phones but if you can kill two birds with one stone then.... We all flash diff roms every day so w7 is just another Rom.
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topgun303 said:
Sure we all can buy respected OS phones but if you can kill two birds with one stone then.... We all flash diff roms every day so w7 is just another Rom.
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While I agree I'm guilty of flashing a new Rom just about everyday but at the core of all Roms its still gb or froyo. Wp7 is a new os altogether. Maybe I just dont understand the desire to have it on this phone unless you like the specs of this phone over regular wm 7 phones perhaps.
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There's a reason why you see an "Android Development" section in almost all native Windows Mobile phone forums. Windows Mobile seems nice, but eventually you realize that you bought the wrong phone.
You don't see a "Windows Mobile Development" section in any native Android phone forum do you?
Why. Just... OMG; why?
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Why. Just... OMG; why?
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Lol'd at your comment.
In my opinion, Android OS is far better than W7 OS. Friends of mine that have a W7 phone, complain that it slows down and often needs a reboot.
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Psssh f wm7. Hard dawgs put Windows 95 on their phones.
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Windows 1.0...
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Proud PC DOS 1.0 user right here.
DOS Inspire 4G
WP7 OS
cdfink08 said:
Who knows it might be possible. But answer me this. Why not just get a wm7 phone? Ive seen people asking about this and ios being put on an andriod phone. Why not just get the the operating systems respective phone?
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You Flash New Roms because each New Rom is almost like getting a brand new phone every single time.
I love to Flash New Roms. I've tried just about every single android sd & nand Rom that is out there... When I heard I could flash WP7 OS to my HD2 I just had to do it! The temptation for another New, Uncharted, Undiscovered Rom was simply unbearable. If someone ports WP7 for the Inspire people will Flash it. My Roommate will be the first.
"If You Build It They Will <Strike>Come</Strike> Flash It"
Hi all I was just wondering in a moment of madness,would a desire s run windowsmobile and viceversa? Even though I love my beloved android and custom roms
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Hi all I was just wondering in a moment of madness,would a desire s run windowsmobile and viceversa? Even though I love my beloved android and custom roms
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Simple answer, no
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Having done from a windows mobile world I hope it doesn't
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Might as well install Mango on it.
having (dual-booting) MANGO on a desire s would be great but,
a) Not many people here are interested
b) Even if people are interested, no one is skilled enough to do it
c) It's not completely legal to port microsoft stuff. It's not open source like android.
don't think it can be done, and comming from a windows phone I don't hope it can
maybe getting HTC Surround these days just because of its hardware
[its gonna be my new useless media phone i guess ]
anw.. please don't let any1 to port windows on our beautiful device..
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maybe getting HTC Surround these days just because of its hardware
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Even if someone did port, who cares? It's not like there's any demand for it.
On the flipside, I wouldn't mind vice-versa as I have alway found the Windows HTC models looked better than the Android ones imo.
Installing windows mobile on a perfectly good DS should be a punishable offence.
i have used my friend's windows phone 7 device(before i started using custom roms) for 5-10mins(i know that its very brief) & i seemed to like it a quite a bit,mostly because it seemed faster (when i was on stock ROM)
is there something im missing?or is it just that the brief time i spent fiddling with the phone not enough to tell me enough about the device?
(im just curious )
kartkk said:
i have used my friend's windows mobile phone(before i started using custom roms) for 5-10mins(i know that its very brief) & i seemed to like it a quite a bit,mostly because it seemed faster (when i was on stock ROM)
is there something im missing?or is it just that the brief time i spent fiddling with the phone not enough to tell me enough about the device?
(im just curious )
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I tried it too at the phone store. I will agree its quite good. Fast and responsive. But it doesn't quite still well with me like the way Android does.
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Hey guys,
A buddy of mine is getting a SGSII or iPhone 4S and he is selling me his G2x. I currently rock a Samsung Vibrant running MIUI AOSP
I'm gonna spend the next couple days reading the how to and what not, but I thought I'd take this time to introduce myself and perhaps get any tips tricks and recommendations from you vets.
Well look forward yo trying out some new stuff
Vahdyx
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It's really a great phone and once nvidia releases proper drivers it will be perfect. I love this phone, wish development was as high as my girlfriend's sensation though. But there's plenty of roms to use on this.
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redmonke255 said:
once nvidia releases proper drivers it will be perfect.
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Yeah the driver tooth fairy will deliver them, hope you are right.
NVIDIA NEVER AGAIN!
My contract is almost up and I've been looking at phones, both upcoming and current. I'm also on att now.
My current phone is the Samsung infuse and I've been using many ROMs on that device. I've been looking into the HTC one x+. It has amazing specs. Also the gnote 2 is incredible but it may be a lil too large for carrying around.
I've never had a HTC phone but I've heard the ui is a little bit different. Samsung has touchwiz, but that can easily be changed though flashing ROMs. Is HTC sense something that is a love hate type of deal? I'm sure the development support will be great to fix that.
Just wondering others input. Been researching.
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In addition, from what I've read, the x+ doesn't have an SD card slot but has a 64 gig model. I use quite a bit of storage, but I'm sure the large model will be quite spendy.
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I enjoy sense on HTC but I know some people hate it. Definitely don't think its the worst custom UI out there
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pepe86 said:
I enjoy sense on HTC but I know some people hate it. Definitely don't think its the worst custom UI out there
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Hmm. Is flashing a ROM pretty much the only way to get around sense?
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galaxy s3... End of comment.
Sir, there is thread in place for this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1846277
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