I have a Win 6.5 HD2. I am fairly confident with PC hardware architecture, and am interested to understand the HD2 architecture.
I am considering changing from Windows to an Android OS.
I can see many posts that talk about SD an NAND images, and would like to understand the differences, and if my HD2 has one or the other or both.
So, does an HD2 have a BIOS or equivalent?
I have a micro SD card installed, but I am assuming this is additional to a RAM component on the HD2.
What are the basic components needed to support Android, or any OS on an HD2?
Is there a document/manual available that explains the building blocks of the HD2?
Thanks in anticipation.
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Hey guys,
I am a programmer at heart and have developed in many different languages(C,C++,Java,PHP,ASP...). I want to begin developing applications for the Touch Pro (WM 6.1) but I have no idea where to start. My biggest fear is downloading the WM 6.1 emulator messing around with it for weeks only to find out that's not what I should have been using. Can anyone give me some pointers as to where I should start? Are there any tutorials out there for programming for this phone?
I also noticed that the WM 6.1 emulator didn't support the 480x640 resolution that the HTC Touch Pro uses...
Thanks!
Airhead315 said:
Hey guys,
I am a programmer at heart and have developed in many different languages(C,C++,Java,PHP,ASP...). I want to begin developing applications for the Touch Pro (WM 6.1) but I have no idea where to start. My biggest fear is downloading the WM 6.1 emulator messing around with it for weeks only to find out that's not what I should have been using. Can anyone give me some pointers as to where I should start? Are there any tutorials out there for programming for this phone?
I also noticed that the WM 6.1 emulator didn't support the 480x640 resolution that the HTC Touch Pro uses...
Thanks!
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I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 + Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK + Windows Mobile 6.0 SDK to develop....and this book "Programming Microsoft Windows CE .NET, Third Edition". Its for c/c++, from basics to create drivers, services, etc
Dani
danielherrero said:
I use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 + Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK + Windows Mobile 6.0 SDK to develop....and this book "Programming Microsoft Windows CE .NET, Third Edition". Its for c/c++, from basics to create drivers, services, etc
Dani
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Do you know of an emulator for the HTC Touch Pro? I downloaded a program that I know works, and was able to compile and run it on my phone but when I tried to run it with the emulator it was missing the HTCSensorSDK.dll file... something fairly new i presume. I tried default emulator and the Windows Mobile 6 Professional VGA emulator but I was wondering if there was one available for this phone yet.
I want to know the same thing
If/when you find an answer to this I would love to hear about it or see a post on it. Thanks.
There's no such thing as a software-only emulator for the Raphael's hardware, that would be incredibly complex to create for such a task
What the developers use is called a "Board Support Package" - it basically contains all the raphaels hardware, in a PCI card that gets installed in a slot in the computer.. that way all the drivers, etc can be loaded and everything can be tested as it would be on the phone itself.
There's pretty much not a chance in heck of you getting one of those (although if you do, send one my way, I would love to have one )
The emulators are useful for testing generic software that does not tie into any of the features that require raphael hardware. There should also be emulator images to support all resolutions (qvga square, qvga, vga, not sure about wvga/wqvga)
And, here's the link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...52-f89e-4354-84ce-5d19c204498a&displaylang=en
Looks like it does in fact come with wqvga and wvga emulators
Note that you can use an emulator kitchen to add SOME of the htc stuff to the ROM image, but none of the drivers that support the htc hardware will function.
if there any possibility to run HTC Shift rom (vista) on a kaiser?
I mean to take a shift rom and customize it to kaiser like:
to fit the screen to Qvga, to take out anything the kaiser don't need or can't run?
or
the any possibility to run windows xp table pc on the kaiser?
and i now tha't the vista need a 800mz processor and 512mb ram to run.
Thanks.
I am sure it would be a porting nightmare! Hows your wmvista comming?
Threads have been created about this before. this will not happen.
Kaiser uses the ARM platform while XP operates on x86. Also, there is a reason why a specific version of windows was created for an embedded low power platform. Our battery life sucks as it is under CE
Edit: Just to cover even more bases, the processor in the shift is based off the pentium m (x86). http://download.intel.com/design/mobile/datashts/31690801.pdf
thanks friend, about wmvista i'm whiting for the beta download link it will be publish at the end of the month.
Is the intel Atom processor x86 arch too? What about Windows XP embedded, is it all x86 still?...
Also, Ubuntu Mobile... http://www.ubuntu.com/products/mobile
What kind of language does it suport?
EDIT:
Apparently Ubuntu uses:
McCaslin platform and Menlow platform
Never heard of those
Ive seen the android on HTC windows devices, via 3rd party, SD cards, etc.. Is there an opposite of this? Is it possible to run windows on an android device?
(example: Windows 6.1 on an HTC Hero).
Welcome to the forums!
To answer your question:
No that's not possible.
As far as I know, the windows kernel code is not open-source. So it's not easy to port it.
Android however is open-source, so it's portable.
Hope this answers your question.
Hi
I'm split between getting the motorola milestone/droid which has a qwerty keyboard (which i badly want), and between the htc hd2 which has the windows apps which i badly need.
I am kind of stuck now between which one to choose for my new phone. So was wondering
1) is windows mobile 6.5 on htc hd2 backwards compatible with the software from windows ppc and other version of windows mobile? (mainly because the apps i want are stuff like rosetta stone on ppc, reflex mentor on windows mobile, lingvosoft on ppc etc which are old)
2) does android o.s have similar software either already or in the pipeworks from anyones knowledge (i know iphoen has a few of these apps or similar already btu no idea about android)?
3) how easy is it to hack android (i know i can test and trial out a lot of these apps before i buy on windows due to the great internet, but can you also do it to android and iphone)?
Thanks to anyone who can help clarify this,
guess no one knows
Hi, Android has over 20,000 apps and counting. It's also open source & has been hacked a pleanty
Check out the "google market" for more info...
Hi. Is there any winmobile emulators for android?? Is that even possible??? Goal is to run apps from winmobile 6.5 on android.. I know there is phones like HTC HD2, and others that can dual boot but i am looking for something like VMWare for windows on android...
Not possible on most devices. Get an HD2