Hi all,
I'm looking into buying a windows phone (found a htc 7 mozart really cheap) and I've made some extensive research on the os (I plan to start developing). However I have one question left: When Windows 8 will be released, will we be able to upgrade without having to change phones? Does anybody have any clue? Especially for 1st gen devices like the mozart.
Thanks in advance
i am sure it will, atleast the Windows 8 upgrade, maybe a bit later
else Microsoft have told about that
I really hope so. I want my focus to run Apollo
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I'm going for the Mozart than. Thanks for your replies.
I'm getting ready to pick up a laptop...
sorry pre mature post...i do alot flashing and working on android phones...should i stick to winfows 7 or will I be able to work with windows 8 when it comes to toolkits, Odin, drivers , etc....thanks...
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good luck with that.
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Thanks for sharing man, love to hear it -__-
Nah but to the point: it really depends on the style you like, imo, windows 8 is a bit smoother, and the boottime is way better, but not a lot op people are good enough with computers to use windows8, so it isn't recommended for grandpa's and such.
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Sorry guys didn't. Finish post...read above. Thanks
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Sorry guys didn't. Finish post...read above. Thanks
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answer quickly and read less ... better is to try it in dualboot to see ...
perhaps still some drivers not yet there , in dualboot u could be informed .
Jesushasadroid said:
I'm getting ready to pick up a laptop...
sorry pre mature post...i do alot flashing and working on android phones...should i stick to winfows 7 or will I be able to work with windows 8 when it comes to toolkits, Odin, drivers , etc....thanks...
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Win7 vs. Win8 is like trying to compare a Volkswagen to a Yugo
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You can run the same programs as you can on windows 7. (i'm running the release preview, and i can run everything, even games.)
windows 8 is windows 7 but with more features.
How does it work when flashing roms on galaxy s3, galaxy nexus, nexus 4...also running toolkits, and Odin....i flash alot of roms, root amd repair software issues on samsungs using Odin...will this be an issue on win8....windows was flawless for everything....just don't want to get windows and then have issues with drivers and etc...
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I cant tell you how it would be for flashing etc.
but i can tell you that windows 8 is a blast ( the positive way )
- As soon as you get to know it you really love it, there is a couple of things that annoys me about it, but there is also things in windows 7 and linux mint i dislike, it cant be perfect..
if you ask me, go for it.. and if you get sick of windows 8 look alike style you can " disable " it with a program called " start 8 "
OR you can do as i do, combine the two.. im running the windows 7 look, but i still have the metro apps, that i can run if i like to do that ..
So from the usage point, yes.. windows 8 is waaay better and so much smoother, faster and allaround just better..
People who dislike it has used it for 10 minutes, have read alot of hate on it and joined the crowd..
Hope it helped
Thanks so much for your feedback....good stuff
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Windows 8 is very clean and quick..
I have an alienware laptop.. and its very snappy..
Windows 8
I have been using windows 8 since last 2 months. I feel that user interface is clean. But there are some issues which i defiantly taken care of in for there updates . If your are a naive user than you might find windows 8 very irritating. BTW there is lot to explore in Win 8 ! :fingers-crossed:
Another thing to consider is that if you get a windows 8 machine and later decide you don't like it you are legally entitled to downgrade to windows 7. Check out the link on Microsoft's site: http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/licensing/sblicensing/pages/downgrade_rights.aspx
Not sure how easy this will be to do, but it's something to consider.
have you thought about having two operating systems?i think you should consider this option.win 8 is faster than 7.but you may find problems with drivers.good luck.
windows is far more better than windows 7 provided u have sufficient RAM coz win 8 just sucks up the RAM as far as i know
Most of the apps are not working for windows 8 but it is faster compared to windows 7. if u want to run the apps which are useful for android. some might not be into market which runs on windows 8.
From my own experience windows 8 boots very very fast (tested with normal HDD) Thats a great advantage! Tho I really dislike the metro interface, thats why I went back to windows 7.
Every second Windows system was the best in my opinion..
like first Windows xp then windows 7..
the others in between was bad..
So its just my opinion but i guess windows 8 is just good for tablets..
Windows 7 is perfect so far.. It aint too complicated.
Hi to all,
several months I did not look for anything on the xda-developers because I bought new Windows Phone 7 device (HTC 7 Trophy) and it still works very good. Xda-developers web was very helpful for me when I owned old HP Ipaq 614c and here was many of great ROMs for that device. So now I have this question:
What is happend with xda-developers.com? I can not find nothing here. I do not understand the new phone operating systems and the way how to "hack" them. But now I am looking for the appropriate ROM for my device and nothing was found I bought new Huawei Ascend G300 and I want to replace Android on it with Windows Phone operating system. Is there any way how to get Windows Phone working on that device? I found only some youtube video where somebody has Ascend G300 with WP8.
GeogrX
PS: I hope you understand me even though my english is not very good
Sadly there isn't any real wp8 available for any android phone. The YouTube ones may be using themes. You can download launcher 8 from playstore to feel wp8 on android
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Sadly there isn't any real wp8 available for any android phone. The YouTube ones may be using themes. You can download launcher 8 from playstore to feel wp8 on android
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**** the any louncher. I think that I should to work with android until my Windows Phone will be back from authorized service. I broked the display on it. But I have to say that Microsoft build very good system. More better than android. Stability and working with WP is more simple than with android. In compare with Windows mobile 6.x it differ in that we can not try various custom rom as easy like on older phones. Only HTC HD2 looks like universal device which can work under MS systems and android. Thats bad...
My friend gave me his old Nokia lumina 625 - the whole screen and front is completely smashed, but seems fully functional. I'm wondering if I could make use of it as a local web server to run some flavour of ubuntu on it with nginx on it for personal use only.
The specs make it seem as if it's powerful enough, but as it's a windows phone I'm guessing putting something other than windows on it will be a pain in the backside. All I'd need functioning would be the wifi and a usb port just in case.
Any clues how to achieve this? I can't find anything realistic about getting android working on it, but thought I'd come here and ask those with the knowledge!
Running a fully working Android on the lumia 625 is impossible at the moment.
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Running a fully working Android on the lumia 625 is impossible at the moment.
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Is this still true today? I also have a working Nokia 625 in my drawer and the screen is intact - any chance I could install Android on it? If not, what is preventing me from doing this? Thanks!
Any possibility of installing w10m in wp8.1??
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Yes and no - Yes, you can upgrade (I did it to both mine in 2015/early 2016) and it runs like a dream. However, Microsoft don't support the 820 on Windows insider any more, so I guess it's not going to happen...
(A search on this forum will show how other people have gotten around this - as I've not tried it (yet!) I can't comment )