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[DEV Discussion] HD Mini Android/Linux Development Thread

The purpose of this thread is to discuss the possibilities of getting Android up and running on the HD Mini.
A word to the wise…porting Android is NOT easy, it took almost 1 year to get an (almost) fully working port for the HTC Touch Pro, and there were a LOT of really good Linux developers spending TONS of time on it. (The preceding sentence was paraphrased from this post by TheDeadCpu.)
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2/13/2011 Big News: Android / Linux port for PHOTON by Cotulla
Thanks to Cotulla for getting the ball rolling!

eh, it´s a new Phone, u sold some...days...weeks...ago..?!?!?! WTF u didn´t buy a android phone if u like one?

Gosh, maybe he wanted a HDmini sized phone and now he wants to get Android s/ware. Get people skills an stop hating

francomok421 said:
Any method can install android for HTC HD mini WM phone?
Thanks a lot!
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Me to!! Can't live with what's in the HD Mini, but most certainy I can live with the hardware. Anybody knowing how to androidize it?

I bought HD mini due to the outlook, size and weight!
Legend have poor taste and the shape is not good to store in pocket.
Frankly, WM is more easy to copy and edit the Word/Excel files from PC and I can check some files out of office easily.
And I just seek for any solutions for multi-boot with Android OS as Android looks better and I just want to try it and need not to buy another phone.
Cos I have one iPhone already, too many mobile phones~

When the evo rom arrives, it will be ported to hd2. I find it logical that it will be a android powered hd mini in the future. Then, it would be rather easier than now to create a custom android rom for hd mini But I should stick to reality.
The dual boot app for winmo devices isn't written for hd minis hvga resolution.
But hey, the diamond 2 or touch pro 2 does not have a android twin to take a rom from. I will put up a request for hd mini support for the android dual boot app.
The hd mini would have been a great android device!
Sorry for bad English.

Thanks gingerviking! I agree that the hardware is made for Android rather than wm6.5. I cross my finger for a rapid solution - WM is just not for me anymore..

Good news is that a genious has managed to get the linux bootloader to work on hd2 and playing a 720p video. An Android port will soon come to hd2 even without the evo rom
Hopefully the kernel system on hd2 isn`t all that different from the hd mini

Well. We're all looking forward to see a genious hacker who cares about the hd mini and android. =)

Don't know if it will work but you guys could give it a try cause it runs via haret:
w w w _dot_ neopeek.com/en/stories/android/75-update-android-fuer-htc-blackstone-diamond-tilt-raphael-rhodium-topaz-fuze
@XDA-Mods: after months of waiting! when will you update my account?

Anything else besides android that you guys might want??? how about some cookies along with it? lol if you wanted android why did you bought a windows mobile based device?? cause of haret? if you want android on your hd2 mini, yould need a working linux kernel, then you can worry about android, and its not that easy im not going over this again im tired of explaining to noobs that android is not a a program that you can simply install...it dosnt work that way.

rafyvitto said:
Anything else besides android that you guys might want???
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Android would be just enough

ATT HTC ARIA -- a dead ringer for HD MINI but with ANDROID?
Does this mean an android rom won't be too far off?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/htc-aria-goes-official-for-atandt-gets-toyed-with-on-video/

nickel911 said:
Does this mean an android rom won't be too far off?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/14/htc-aria-goes-official-for-atandt-gets-toyed-with-on-video/
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No , them are different
Want android for hd mini , we need use Haret, not just port rom aria to hd mini

haret for hd photon exist ?

SoftWord said:
haret for hd photon exist ?
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Not yet i think, but i will get my touch in it soon
This week a bit busy
Tom

core of haret is a file called setup.txt where are stored parameters with rom/ram addresses, only thing to do is know this addresses.........

I hate you. Htc!
I have great news for all you people living in the US: Like the evo 4g with sprint(android version of hd2). At&t have released the htc aria, a true android clone of the hd mini. Just google it for more info.

Yes and, unfortunately for us, HTC Aria will be, and nowadays is, available only for USA market...
I want it in Italy!!!!!! Or maybe... someone which could "do" a complete Android ROM for the HD Mini, based on the Aria!?!?!? I wish it! I really want it...!
Because HD Mini is so pocketlly beautiful!!!!

its a company fault
we have went to market to get it and it was WM and now they have released HD Mini with Anderiod ,
so it is who's fault,
i hope anyone can give info how to get the rom of android for our hd mini (old) one

[Q] porting ios

Hello,
Nearly every OS is hackedand could be ported for example to the hd2.
But what about ios (i don't wan't ans like it just asking). Why ios cant get ported to another device?
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win98 said:
Hello,
Nearly every OS is hackedand could be ported for example to the hd2.
But what about ios (i don't wan't ans like it just asking). Why ios cant get ported to another device?
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First off , it's closed source . What can you do if you can't even have the code ?
Secondly , Apple will come after you if they see it .
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android and wp7 wont come after you? did they publish their code?
i thought that was "just" ripped anyhow

[Q] Android for Blackberry Bold 9900?

Dear all,
Is it possible to install Android on the Blackberry Bold 9900?
Or is somebody working on making it available on the Bold 9900?
Bastijn

hey, no its not possible for you to port android on bb OS. Might be in the future but not right now.

bastijn said:
Dear all,
Is it possible to install Android on the Blackberry Bold 9900?
Or is somebody working on making it available on the Bold 9900?
Bastijn
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I think it was impossible, afterall i ever heard about running android on BB Playbook

Sorry but NO =(

Sorry pal. Althought I go by the rule 'anything is possible' due too the amount of work that would be need I cnt see anyone attempting it in the near future.
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no its not possible for your phone buy samsung sgs2

Yeah I'm quite curious about this. Why is android not possible on a blackberry? No driver for its hardware? Bold 9900 has a 1ghz qualcomm, 728mb of ram and even a gpu. Something like a nexus one .

Doubtfull
That would require ALOT of work

DizzyWorm said:
That would require ALOT of work
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I also want to know what works should be do for porting android os to blackberry, I like blackberry 9900 design but the OS is too poor to use.

adrivetest said:
Yeah I'm quite curious about this. Why is android not possible on a blackberry? No driver for its hardware? Bold 9900 has a 1ghz qualcomm, 728mb of ram and even a gpu. Something like a nexus one .
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No, this aren't possible even if you have a 1 GB RAM, because BlackBerry Bootloader are Propietary Locked. You have too much Windows Minding, Android are Linux. So there's no such thing as "Drivers".

DUAL Boot Android and ios5

Hi Friends,
Have anybody tried to dual boot android with ios5. It will be great if someone can do this.
While searching came across this
http://code.google.com/p/bootdroid
http://bootdroid.blogspot.in/
Any solutions?

I don't think that's possible.
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You can't run iOS as a rom because its closed source. It would be impossible to port because all the libs are different even though its based off linux

IOS is based off of Mac OSX which is based off of *Unix*
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so the info on the links is just bull**** ?
BUT: it is possible to have your android phone "transformed" to look like ios with miui rom and iphone theme.
that still doesnt give access to the appstore but its as near as we can get to ios looks

Got none of the required devices I would have tried otherwise :/

i have a desire hd but i dont really think this is legit.. probably just some guy hunting payperclicks

This will never be possible. IPhone and android phones havedifferent processor architecture.
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It IS possible to dual boot an iPhone with Android and iOS, the project is called iDroid (idroidproject[.]org) but some of the iPhone jail breakers (like @chronic) are creating a linux-based OS (called Magenta) that replicates iPhone OS 1.0, my source says that it currently runs on ARM7 hardware
Magenta is an implementation of Darwin/BSD on top of the Linux kernel. It is made up of a number of kernel and userland components that work together. It is fully binary compatible with iPhone OS 5.0 (as in, it uses the same binary format).
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The final goal is probably recreating the iPhone OS 1.0 stack. I think this is a pretty feasible goal, considering the fact that there are so many open source libs that can be used to replace the proprietary libs used by Apple. Just as an example:
* CoreGraphics -> Cairo
-> FreeType
-> libpng/jpg
* Celestial -> Various open source media decoding libs.
* UIKit -> Chamelleon
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see my source for the news post: ht.tp://bit[.]ly/KZZ1up (9to5Mac)
More information about Magenta: ht.tp://bit[.]ly/Oo6eV4
Or this for the source code: ht.tp://crna[.]cc/magenta_source.html

The original ios firmware? ? I think its cool, hope they develop for the new ios though. Number one was pretty lame
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Dri94 said:
The original ios firmware? ? I think its cool, hope they develop for the new ios though. Number one was pretty lame
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I think so, they say the aim is to run iOS
The project does not wish to build a platform that can run Apple’s App Store apps; it appears to just aim at running iOS.
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As you can see it isn't for running App Store apps, but if it has root access like a rooted android, then you can just put any app on the device..
Like a Cydia app (for the ones who don't know: Cydia is an App Store that you get when you jailbreak your iPhone)

Dual boot iOS and Android. Hm... why not to try Linux instead? iOS is not flexible as Android and what's the point of it? Also we can start porting Windows 8 and other stuff.

arpitsinghi said:
Hi Friends,
Have anybody tried to dual boot android with ios5. It will be great if someone can do this.
While searching came across this
http://code.google.com/p/bootdroid
http://bootdroid.blogspot.in/
Any solutions?
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iOS 5 is designed to run only on apple's specified hardware design. It is next to impossible to have apple software running on android hardware, but there have been reports of android running on apple hardware. This all involves a lot of lib tweaking, proper execution of binaries, andjust plain coding genius.
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k28king1 said:
iOS 5 is designed to run only on apple's specified hardware design. It is next to impossible to have apple software running on android hardware, but there have been reports of android running on apple hardware. This all involves a lot of lib tweaking, proper execution of binaries, andjust plain coding genius.
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Look at post #9 It IS possible if someone tries to get it on an android with a bit porting of the Magenta-project. And yes it is possible to run android on iPhone (post #9 as well) it is called iDroid (as mentioned in post #9)

here is the source code from cronic, who is an apple dev, who is working on porting it for us, http://crna.cc/ , if any dev is wishing to finish it off with his android intel

why doenst just buy an iPhone ?

android_isda_**** said:
here is the source code from cronic, who is an apple dev, who is working on porting it for us, ht.tp://crna.cc/ , if any dev is wishing to finish it off with his android intel
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That is exactly what's said in post 9! Don't people read the whole topic, or do you just post blindly and hope that someone before you didn't post that ?? Sorry for getting off-topic
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For those asking "why?", I found this thread because I would like an Android tablet, but I'm worried I'll want the latest app or game and it will be only on iOS for too long before going to Android. I'd like the best of both worlds, someday (perhaps when iDroid is out of alpha).

therussman2002 said:
For those asking "why?", I found this thread because I would like an Android tablet, but I'm worried I'll want the latest app or game and it will be only on iOS for too long before going to Android. I'd like the best of both worlds, someday (perhaps when iDroid is out of alpha).
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If you want the best of both worlds, let me give you some suggestions:
Buy a jailbreak-able iPhone (4S or 4 recommended) jailbreak it on iOS 5.1.1 (if that's the current OS) and then with Cydia you can customize your iPhone as much as you want.
Buy both of them (which I have done) and enjoy
But do not expect iDroid to be stable anytime soon, for now..
That was a bit off-topic, sorry, but I hope this helps!

ubuntu for galaxy r?

hey guys
i have a question is there any chance to get ubuntu mobile on our phone?
i know its not proper released so far i m just asking
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone
it is wokring on galaxy nexus
it looks very cool check that video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXWnMTm7We8
thanks in advance

samsim7 said:
hey guys
i have a question is there any chance to get ubuntu mobile on our phone?
i know its not proper released so far i m just asking
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone
it is wokring on galaxy nexus
it looks very cool check that video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXWnMTm7We8
thanks in advance
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Yes it is possible buddy.:good:

kataria.vikesh said:
Yes it is possible buddy.:good:
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How? ...
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mj.vikram said:
How? ...
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sorry buddy wrong interpreted. Its possible as minimum requirement is Cortex A9 processor
System requirements for smartphones​Entry level Ubuntu smartphone​High-end Ubuntu "superphone"​Processor architecture​ 1Ghz Cortex A9​ Quad-core A9 or Intel Atom​Memory​ 512MB – 1GB​ Min 1GB​Flash storage​ 4-8GB eMMC + SD​ Min 32GB eMMC + SD​Multi-touch​ YES​ yes​Desktop convergence​No​ Yes​

Buddy we have a cortex A9 processor.
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gitanshu said:
Buddy we have a cortex A9 processor.
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Sorry guys, I was actually very much busy & didn;t know what I just wrote. sorry.
BT what I jst edited it correct. it will be for us...

mj.vikram said:
How? ...
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Ubuntu is gonna be one another OS for smartphones. It will use the same Linux kernels and drivers but will use its own environment for developing. So for us, it will be like a new interface for our phones...Like using Ubuntu in our Window based PC. They are planning to release new phones which have Ubuntu as their OS. I think even before their release of smartphones, they will be releasing their sources which can be used for existing Android phones.
It's just a initial teaser. Hopefully it will get released by 2014...So long way to go....
P.S - You can register yourself here @ Announcement so that you will be notified just before date is finalized for release.

I don't have words. Simply amazing! Finally a native mobile OS that can work on our device.
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The gesture support is very amazing
Only downside will be availability of apps as of now. But hopefully it will gain popularity and apps start flowing in.
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gitanshu said:
The gesture support is very amazing
Only downside will be availability of apps as of now. But hopefully it will gain popularity and apps start flowing in.
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The Development work on apps has already started. So by the time the OS is readily available for us, we will a gud volume of apps. And for those who wish to develop apps, you can check it over here.
And one more advantage is that as i said it will be developed in its own platform, it will reduce the Overhead of Java and there by it will be more smoother. Hope there won't be any head swirling smali.

selva.simple said:
The Development work on apps has already started. So by the time the OS is readily available for us, we will a gud volume of apps. And for those who wish to develop apps, you can check it over here.
And one more advantage is that as i said it will be developed in its own platform, it will reduce the Overhead of Java and there by it will be more smoother. Hope there won't be any head swirling smali.
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What am i thinking is Tizen is also going to be release ( as humor said) & simply following it, ubuntu is also going to be. so, Android is towards downfall or something else..??

Tizen is a totally different OS. It'd be much harder to port it than Ubuntu for phones. It is said that S4 will be released with Tizen, but I don't think so. They would lose many users because of the lack of apps.
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Adam77Root said:
Tizen is a totally different OS. It'd be much harder to port it than Ubuntu for phones. It is said that S4 will be released with Tizen, but I don't think so. They would lose many users because of the lack of apps.
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And Tizen is being rumoured for a long time but i dont think they will experiment it with 'S' series phones..Even it was said Bada will be made as a Open source but after Wave-3, i dont see any Bada OS supported phones and u know what, Cyanogenmod has been ported to Wave series phones which had Bada OS and now they are enjoying Jelly Bean in Wave phones. To be frank, Wave series phones had excellent hardwares and now with Cyanogenmod, it wud be superb..CM10

selva.simple said:
And Tizen is being rumoured for a long time but i dont think they will experiment it with 'S' series phones..Even it was said Bada will be made as a Open source but after Wave-3, i dont see any Bada OS supported phones and u know what, Cyanogenmod has been ported to Wave series phones which had Bada OS and now they are enjoying Jelly Bean in Wave phones. To be frank, Wave series phones had excellent hardwares and now with Cyanogenmod, it wud be superb..CM10
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Agreed for Tizen. but somewhere rumored were for Tizen for Wave II & III. but unfortunately Bada OS ported to them. But yes, now what I want is can we port Bada for our device..?? Lols..head scratching..

Why Bada OS? As the specifications satisfied, we can get the ubuntu OS.. Just seen the videos.. It is amazing and they are going to use same android based kernel..
Love to see different OS in our R... Also, just read somewhere that the Tegra 2 device running windows 8 RT..

so we have good chances to get it :laugh: :good:???
amazin

karthik050782 said:
Why Bada OS? As the specifications satisfied, we can get the ubuntu OS.. Just seen the videos.. It is amazing and they are going to use same android based kernel..
Love to see different OS in our R... Also, just read somewhere that the Tegra 2 device running windows 8 RT..
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Yes buddy, just like Bada OS now runnign CM10(android) so we can run there also. But I asked from SIyah Kernel Dev for building the Kernel for us but he simply denied coz he doesn;t have time for us. BTW Selva.simple buddy is working on it. May be we can have it.:fingers-crossed:
If we will have dual booting kernel then WIndows & others ROM can be thinking to port to our device also.
Hey just now see this one -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2079869
Meizu ICS ROM ported to HTC HDLeo. check out this one also.

I sent message to ubuntu team and they replay and told me that they are on thier way to announce the software but it still beta till now
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Even if we have a dual-booting kernel, we won't have Windows-based OSes. It is totally different.
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Adam77Root said:
Even if we have a dual-booting kernel, we won't have Windows-based OSes. It is totally different.
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Agreed for the same buddy. But if it can be done ( as processors & if we get the source over which other did the same) for others then can't it be for us. Means I said, "dual booting" means Android in one hand & MS OS other hand.