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Dual-Boot HTC HD2 Windows Mobile/Android

Hey I am new to flashing. I have changed the roms on g1's, and on the nexus one per different youtube vidoes and stuff i have read in this forum.
Yesterday i purchased the HD2 and to my horror found out that it was running on Windows Mobile (WTF). So i have been loking around and I saw that in the past the forum has been able to get Touch Pro 2 that run on WM6.5 to dual boot into android.
So I am hoping that the same can be done with the HD2. So is the HSPL2 listed in this forum the beginning steps to this process or what? Has anyone yet setup the HD2 to run on android?
I know this is wordy but I just want to make it understood that I am new and I want to learn and that I have the desire to get android on my HD2.
thanks any suggested reading is welcome as the steps to get android on this awesome phone that HTC FUBAR'd with WM6.5

The HD2 cannot run android at this time.

oberonblaq said:
Hey I am new to flashing. I have changed the roms on g1's, and on the nexus one per different youtube vidoes and stuff i have read in this forum.
Yesterday i purchased the HD2 and to my horror found out that it was running on Windows Mobile (WTF). So i have been loking around and I saw that in the past the forum has been able to get Touch Pro 2 that run on WM6.5 to dual boot into android.
So I am hoping that the same can be done with the HD2. So is the HSPL2 listed in this forum the beginning steps to this process or what? Has anyone yet setup the HD2 to run on android?
I know this is wordy but I just want to make it understood that I am new and I want to learn and that I have the desire to get android on my HD2.
thanks any suggested reading is welcome as the steps to get android on this awesome phone that HTC FUBAR'd with WM6.5
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No, it's not quite there at this time. However, while I understand your opinion, I don't think HTC "FUBAR'd" at all. I've had a few Android devices and this phone is AMAZING, even with WM.

this has been discussed already at length.. if you look in the ROMS section of the forum you'll find it ..
And it is NOT going to happen soon..

Android on the HD2 will be amazing! Hopefully they can get it ported by summer to compete with the HTC EVO.

King Royalty said:
Android on the HD2 will be amazing! Hopefully they can get it ported by summer to compete with the HTC EVO.
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i believe that is the plan to see how the EVO goes.. but here's the link to the other thread..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=637029

...this is not true,
There is an engineer at the local Tmobile call center dual booting Android and winmo. He runs Android off of the card itself. The phone that is dual booting is at the kiosk at the LaPlaza mall in Mcallen TX and has been used as their demo phone.
How is he doing it? I have no idea, but hes told myself and a Tmobile sales buddy that he'll help us out with it.

So, you purchased the phone without realizing its a WM phone, and have the balls to complain, all because you didnt read, and now are asking if you can put android on it...lazy much?
I suppose you want someone to flash it for you too, or better yet start another thread asking how to do that...

Didn't you see the windows mobile on the box...

tuck4x4 said:
...this is not true,
There is an engineer at the local Tmobile call center dual booting Android and winmo. He runs Android off of the card itself. The phone that is dual booting is at the kiosk at the LaPlaza mall in Mcallen TX and has been used as their demo phone.
How is he doing it? I have no idea, but hes told myself and a Tmobile sales buddy that he'll help us out with it.
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You're saying he's booting android on a hd2? I doubt it. Are you sure its not a TP2? There is an andriod port for the TP2.

I'm not sure how you purchased the phone without knowing the underlying OS, but I'm guessing you bought it in the US for Tmobile. If that is the case, and I'm guessing it is, then you can't flash any ROMs for it yet because of the different SPL.
tuck4x4 said:
...this is not true,
There is an engineer at the local Tmobile call center dual booting Android and winmo. He runs Android off of the card itself. The phone that is dual booting is at the kiosk at the LaPlaza mall in Mcallen TX and has been used as their demo phone.
How is he doing it? I have no idea, but hes told myself and a Tmobile sales buddy that he'll help us out with it.
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I seriously doubt this. Maybe you had it confused with an HD or a TP2, but I doubt xda wouldn't know about this...especially since it's most likely to originate here. A picture to prove this would be great, but I don't expect it.

zarathustrax said:
You're saying he's booting android on a hd2? I doubt it. Are you sure its not a TP2? There is an andriod port for the TP2.
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it sounds sketch but a guy at my tmobile told me that HTC had given one of the coworkers a website run by themself that had android software for the HD2. So hearing that i find it believable.

zstjohn said:
it sounds sketch but a guy at my tmobile told me that HTC had given one of the coworkers a website run by themself that had android software for the HD2. So hearing that i find it believable.
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Oh hey, it's another case of "A moron rep was spewing nonsense and i actually believed him." Go back and ask the rep if he could show you WP7S running on HD2.

lude219 said:
Oh hey, it's another case of "A moron rep was spewing nonsense and i actually believed him." Go back and ask the rep if he could show you WP7S running on HD2.
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Look, senor tinyballs. If you don't like what i have to say then ignore it. Here-say is here-say i never said it was fact.

zstjohn said:
Look, senor tinyballs. If you don't like what i have to say then ignore it. Here-say is here-say i never said it was fact.
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it was enough for you to believed him.

Someone please close this thread, it's going nowhere useful. Destination Flameville.

foney said:
So, you purchased the phone without realizing its a WM phone, and have the balls to complain, all because you didnt read, and now are asking if you can put android on it...lazy much?
I suppose you want someone to flash it for you too, or better yet start another thread asking how to do that...
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Bro are you for real?! Please dont waste my time with that smart mouth crap unless you are adding solutions along with it. I am not knocking your opinion I am just stating that maybe you should adjust the delivery system. Cause we both can play the a$$hole game and I promise you thats one I will not lose. So be constructive or dont post.
thanks

oberonblaq said:
Hey I am new to flashing. I have changed the roms on g1's, and on the nexus one per different youtube vidoes and stuff i have read in this forum.
Yesterday i purchased the HD2 and to my horror found out that it was running on Windows Mobile (WTF). So i have been loking around and I saw that in the past the forum has been able to get Touch Pro 2 that run on WM6.5 to dual boot into android.
So I am hoping that the same can be done with the HD2. So is the HSPL2 listed in this forum the beginning steps to this process or what? Has anyone yet setup the HD2 to run on android?
I know this is wordy but I just want to make it understood that I am new and I want to learn and that I have the desire to get android on my HD2.
thanks any suggested reading is welcome as the steps to get android on this awesome phone that HTC FUBAR'd with WM6.5
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wow, to buy a phone and later realize what os it's running on. that's just realy wow.
oberonblaq said:
Bro are you for real?! Please dont waste my time with that smart mouth crap unless you are adding solutions along with it. I am not knocking your opinion I am just stating that maybe you should adjust the delivery system. Cause we both can play the a$$hole game and I promise you thats one I will not lose. So be constructive or dont post.
thanks
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you want solutions and are talking about constructive? how about using the search button? this question is already been asked like 100 times?

I would just like to thank everyone that replied. I guess i just need to wait a bit longer for the xda big brains to resolve this issue. I just thought that it would have been a simpler thing to do since the HD2 in UK had been flashed to run android. I have plenty on time and money so I can buy another device and wait.
Thanks again all.

oberonblaq said:
HD2 in UK had been flashed to run android
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News to me! I've seen it running on other devices, but even then it's beta, with various functionality still unavailable, WIFI etc.
If you wanted Android, a little research before hand should and would have been wise, i.e. waiting for the EVO to be released.
I like WinMo 6.5. It may not be as pretty as Android or iPhone OS (without the Sense gui which is quite lovely imho) but it's a very versatile and an incredibly powerful tool in the hands of the right user. If you're in a business environment, using Microsoft equipment, exchange servers etc, there is not an more efficient handheld device to carry in you pocket (again, imho).

wana buy a tatoo kindly advise

i
im a jade user and now i have this made craze to try the android(no way to load android on the jade) so im planning on a tatoo can u guys kindly advise i know it does not have 3g(In my country India) and it seems to be the one in my budget so kindly advise
: very very sad 200+ have seen this and only around 3+ nice guys to reply come on whats their in telling me ur experience on this phone so it can help me in deciding to buy it or not
thanks in advance

i think you should search the forum. you can see some of the problems and solutions for this phone there. my advice is that if budget is limited go for the tattoo...

Bikers said:
i think you should search the forum. you can see some of the problems and solutions for this phone there. my advice is that if budget is limited go for the tattoo...
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hi
well budget is the limit this seems to be the only android phone which is in my budget thanks for ur kind reply

Tattoo is fine but...
Hey There,
This depends on whether you really need XDA support or not, I know we all here do to tweak our phones and get the most out of it!!
But if you are the types who does not play around much with the phone and wants an Android phone on a budged, I would recommend the Spica (has 3G but no GPS) and a larger screen, and is also way cheaper than the Tattoo.
Regards

kashishd said:
Hey There,
This depends on whether you really need XDA support or not, I know we all here do to tweak our phones and get the most out of it!!
But if you are the types who does not play around much with the phone and wants an Android phone on a budged, I would recommend the Spica (has 3G but no GPS) and a larger screen, and is also way cheaper than the Tattoo.
Regards
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hi
if u can see from my sign i am a guy who loves to play around with my phone i have checked spika but i thing i cant have much fun with it
just wanted to know if the tatoo is as good as my existing jade ie is it a good phone and yes i would prefer HTC
thanks for ur kind reply

Way cheaper than the Tattoo? It depends on where you are. My son paid <£110 for a Tattoo off eBay.
The Samsung is only cheaper if you pay full price.

Confucious said:
Way cheaper than the Tattoo? It depends on where you are. My son paid <£110 for a Tattoo off eBay.
The Samsung is only cheaper if you pay full price.
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hi
thanks but i want to buy only with warranty and the prices in my country ie india are more or the less the same for both tatoo & spika
thanks for ur kind reply

[Q] I wanna sell an Hd2 prototype I have...

Hi,
I am not new here, just never posted..
I own a what I found out to be the HD2 protorype, called the HTC PRO.THREE
It's all functional, and all the hardware and processor is the same as the regular HD2 accept for one thing... it has only 320Mb ROM.
The rest is exactly the same as the rest of the HD2's, works with all the ROM's and what not.
I have done a little research and found that there were only 500 made and scattered around the world as BETA TESTERS... I bought it without even knowing it was so "special".
Now I need to sell it since I got a T-Mobile HD2.
Do you think it being a prototype is some sort of added value for it?
lets assume that most of these are no longer among the livng...
anyone wanna buy it? how much should I ask for it?

Not saying you are lieing so please do not take it that way. But it would be a good idea to post some pics of the HD2 so everyone her can see it is a real HD2. There is just too many HD2 clones floating around and being sold out there these days.
If it is a prototype HD2 as you say it may or may nit increase the value as the T-Mobile and regular HD2s have more more MB for ROM then your HD2. But then again if you find a avid phone collector or a developer that is interested in it you might get a little more for the HD2. Just fpoer my personal interest I am going to google your HD2 model number you provided to see what I find.
Best of luck selling it.
Edit: Ok seems like you are dead on with the model name of the prototype HD2. Here is a link that I pulled up on it if any one wants to check it out. I would still post pics of your HD2 to calm any fears anyone might have that is interested in purchasing your HD2.

I don't think it's worth more because it was a prototype of special, maybe if it was an iPhone I could see it.
I do think it's cool as hell though and would be cool to have one, I just wouldn't pay more than like $100 or so to get a device with 320mb ROM when I have the exact same one with 1gb ROM.

clone?
Maybe it is simply a clone.

ttotoo said:
Maybe it is simply a clone.
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it wouldn't have the exact same hardware and custom ROMs/radios would not work on it.

Contact xmoo, he bricked his pro three, and is always the first to find/release test roms and such, maybe he's interested.

samsamuel said:
Contact xmoo, he bricked his pro three, and is always the first to find/release test roms and such, maybe he's interested.
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Hey baruchh just encase you don't know who xmoo is he is a member here on XDA. He is the one that started the very much used "Leo 1.5 T-MOBILE Test & Stock ROMS" thread in the T-Mobile HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Development forum.I linked his profile on his name for you.

T-Macgnolia said:
Hey baruchh just encase you don't know who xmoo is he is a member here on XDA. He is the one that started the very much used "Leo 1.5 T-MOBILE Test & Stock ROMS" thread in the T-Mobile HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Development forum.I linked his profile on his name for you.
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thanks a bunch, i will.
its a pitty some people are so darn sceptical before checking stuff out.
the only reason i want to sell it is because i dont need two phones.
i got a better one and this one just sits there. its still unique though and might be valuable for some people

baruchh said:
thanks a bunch, i will.
its a pitty some people are so darn sceptical before checking stuff out.
the only reason i want to sell it is because i dont need two phones.
i got a better one and this one just sits there. its still unique though and might be valuable for some people
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it sounds like a sweet device.

Hej,
Indeed I did brick one. And got a new one and sold the new one here on xda.
The prototype doesnt have that much of a big value cause it doesnt run current roms that good.
So if you want to sell it, I would offer around $100. The one I sold like half year ago was $170 inc shipping.
So let me know what you think.

xmoo said:
Hej,
Indeed I did brick one. And got a new one and sold the new one here on xda.
The prototype doesnt have that much of a big value cause it doesnt run current roms that good.
So if you want to sell it, I would offer around $100. The one I sold like have year ago was $170 inc shipping.
So let me know what you think.
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Hey xmoo with it being the prototype/test device, does that that mean you can flash any radio version to it without bricking it? And out of curiosity how did you brick the one you had?

When I had mine. There was no HSPL or the Radio upgrade from HTC
The phone came shipped with mfg spl 0.67 plus radio 1.01.
So I wasnt able to update the rom and bricked it trying to drop SPL. Cause the radio and spl didnt allow higher version roms.
You can flash all signed and unsigned official hd2 roms. So no custom.
Sent from my LG-P990 using XDA App

i have dutty's rom installed right now
i have had several different ones before that.
i will have to pass on 4he 100$, will use it as a media center in the car instead...and a gps!

Enjoy!
If you ever want to play with the Test roms: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=768251

Questions for new HD2

Just got a new HD2 for 180$ brand new with just the computer connection and a rubber protector.....everything else including the only other thing I wanted the SD card wasnt included.
Was this a good deal?
I am also looking into straight custom roming this phone....have a TP2 custom romed and with geny with android.
3 questions.
1.I am not use to the snap dragon yet.....I overclocked the tp2 yet the snap dragon makes it seem like molasses...will a custom rom make the HD2 slower or will it actually increase?
2. Which is the most stable ROm out now?
3.Are there any overclockers?

That was a really good price for a HD2.
I am not aure bit I think some of the custom ROMs slightly overclock, but over all the custom ROMs run a lot better and faster on the HD2.
All the custom ROMs are pretty much very stable in my opinion.
I do not knpw of a actual overclock app for Wimdows Mobile maybe someone else can help you out there.

Thanks for the info!
I already HSPL'd and put the dinik rom onto my phone but when all the craze was getting a overclock on the tp2 I heard someone say that the HD2 already had a overclocker..
I'll keep looking around.
Thanks.

grifter024 said:
Thanks for the info!
I already HSPL'd and put the dinik rom onto my phone but when all the craze was getting a overclock on the tp2 I heard someone say that the HD2 already had a overclocker..
I'll keep looking around.
Thanks.
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Maybe you want to take a look at this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682663&highlight=overclock

silverwind said:
Maybe you want to take a look at this link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=682663&highlight=overclock
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thanks for the link....do you know if it works with the TMo version of the HD2?

grifter024 said:
thanks for the link....do you know if it works with the TMo version of the HD2?
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ai also checked out the link, and even though I never even knew about this app while running Win Mo I am sure it works with the TMOUS cause it is made to work with Win Mo.

grifter024 said:
thanks for the link....do you know if it works with the TMo version of the HD2?
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Frankly, I never try it
I dont need to overclock, most custom roms are already blazing fast

T-mac
Yeah I can understand what you mean but there seems to be a difference between the Leo and the TMo HD2 which never made sense to me.
I'll look through the thread and see if it does work.
silver-
Yeah the HD2 is one of the fastest phones I've had due to the snapdragon ...it makes my TP2 even overclocked feel super slow haha.
I just want to check out the overclocker to see how faster it would actually become, faster is usually a good thing. haha.
IF you guys have any other tips for the HD2 please feel free to post....I just custom romed it and thats about it....well and putting slacker on there.

it's really cheap buy it!!!i bought my used hd2 for 1100 TL (about 700$)

sarp_pasha said:
it's really cheap buy it!!!i bought my used hd2 for 1100 TL (about 700$)
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Holy cow thats expensive!
I knew I got a good deal but I didnt know it was that bad to buy.
I called T-mo here and they said no contract it would be around 500.

grifter024 said:
Holy cow thats expensive!
I knew I got a good deal but I didnt know it was that bad to buy.
I called T-mo here and they said no contract it would be around 500.
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It only costs about 200 used... new maybe 350 at MOST.

I see well I still got a good deal it seems.
I hate how people overprice things. ;/ .
Anyone ever find out if that overclocker works with the tmo hd2?

yeah you pay 18% + 10% tax for phone purchase

grifter024 said:
I see well I still got a good deal it seems.
I hate how people overprice things. ;/ .
Anyone ever find out if that overclocker works with the tmo hd2?
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About overclocking...
Taking into account how much a mainboard for HD2 costs and how many of them were destroyed by overheating, I want to warn you, beware of overclocking, Snapdragon is fast enough without any overclocking

pvii-
Yeah I see that some people have been having problems with overheating the more topics I have been reading so I might not even overclock till later down the line.
sara-
Jeez 10% in just tax! Online shopping is becoming alot better.

[Q] No Custom Roms?

am i missing something or there really is no custom ROM for Flipout? no cyanogen, MIUI, cronos or anything? the only custom rom i found is (ROM) FlipDroidMod2.1_SoftMod[wip](no blur) ..is that all? i don't wanna complain or anything.. i'm just surprised as i have Milestone and there's plenty of ROMs for that one though it has locked bootloader like Flipout..

Astrowe said:
am i missing something or there really is no custom ROM for Flipout? no cyanogen, MIUI, cronos or anything? the only custom rom i found is (ROM) FlipDroidMod2.1_SoftMod[wip](no blur) ..is that all? i don't wanna complain or anything.. i'm just surprised as i have Milestone and there's plenty of ROMs for that one though it has locked bootloader like Flipout..
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yes thats al there is atm
if you would like to help port cyanogen then be my guest

silent_bob52637 said:
yes thats al there is atm
if you would like to help port cyanogen then be my guest
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i've no porting experience.. i don't know anything about it i'd like to help bring more ROMs for Flipout of course.

Astrowe said:
i've no porting experience.. i don't know anything about it i'd like to help bring more ROMs for Flipout of course.
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niether do i
does restoring backup in recovery work on your device
also we would need to find a device with as close hardware as possible and 2.2 or 2.3

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niether do i
does restoring backup in recovery work on your device
also we would need to find a device with as close hardware as possible and 2.2 or 2.3
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actually i don't know yet.. i'm just checking the situation at this moment as my flipout arrives later this week

Astrowe said:
actually i don't know yet.. i'm just checking the situation at this moment as my flipout arrives later this week
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fair enough where did you order it from
how much did it cost you

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fair enough where did you order it from
how much did it cost you
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it was an auction server like ebay.. some guy bought it last month, tried it and didn't like it so i bought it from him for 238$ which was pretty good since i'd have to pay 415$ if i wanted to buy it by myself from a shop.

here i can find it for 110 euros
http://www.monclick.it/schede/motorola/SM2102AD3H1/flipout.htm
I started forgetting shops and ebay for phones:
- online stores or mobile providers for phones
- ebay for covers, repair kits, batteries and accessories
btw, I'm using it @500mhz with no prob (you can set it to max 250mhz too to save battery) so it can support gingerbread easily
Motorola is quite strange: it uses .sbf roms instead of common .zip ones
So clockwork recovery must be ported and then roms can be cooked easily I guess
With this price it can find a place in many pockets and the physical keyboard is a plus for it

suoko said:
here i can find it for 110 euros
http://www.monclick.it/schede/motorola/SM2102AD3H1/flipout.htm
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110EUR is a great price.. maybe even a weird price
i'd get it from online store as well but than that offer came up so i took advantage of it.
anyway, it seems to have the same processor (Cortex-A8) as my Milestone/Droid so it might be a good thing to port it from other Motorola device like this. Well that might sound pretty stupid 'cause it might be so obvious.. i really don't know anything about porting, sorry. I also have Openrecovery which seems to be a port of clockwock. Guess i'm gonna ask somebody with porting experience..

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110EUR is a great price.. maybe even a weird price
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why weird ? that's its price !
They have a good acer E130 @108 euros too
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anyway, it seems to have the same processor (Cortex-A8) as my Milestone/Droid
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no, they have different cpus
http://compare.setooz.com/compare/Motorola+MILESTONE+XT720/Motorola+FlipOut

suoko said:
why weird ? that's its price !
They have a good acer E130 @108 euros too
no, they have different cpus
http://compare.setooz.com/compare/Motorola+MILESTONE+XT720/Motorola+FlipOut
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first, i actually meant just Milestone, not Milestone XT..
second, TI OMAP3410 is Cortex-A8 based..
OMAP is apparently something like chipset (SoCs) so though Milestone has different "chipset" from Flipout.. both have the same CPU core (Cortex-A8) though the devices still might be running different frequencies as the Cortex has wide frequency scaling range
..so it still might be a chance for a good porting base... i guess..
and the price seems to me suspiciously low, but that might be only because in here the Flipout is expensive.

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and the price seems to me suspiciously low, but that might be only because in here the Flipout is expensive.
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so it's probably time to open a moonclick/amazon store in your country too !

I just got an unlocked flipout...kind of impulsively when I thought I had lost my phone (less than 1 year into its 2 year contract)....probably wouldn't have if I had read the forum first. But, my old phone turned up....
So, if there's a way to upgrade its ROM, I'm interested. And, I'd be interested in helping....its been a long time since I've done anything like this, but sounds like something I could dive into now (though I may still activate my FlipOut just so I can get data occasionally when I'm not near WiFi...)
The Dreamer.

So.. i have my new Flipout. Gotta tell it's an awesome thing.. though the display is really bad. Anyway, i already had to flash it several times i hated the old lockscreen so i modded framework-res with resources from froyo..but it has some weird issue which i hope get fixed somewhere in the config files.
Another thing.. phone memory. I'm not an app freak but i like my.. apps, ok i'm a freak. Anyways.. i'm already running low on phone storage so right now i'm heading for memhack.. if anyone already done that with Flipout, let me know.
EDIT: ok, i've just built in memhack and it's working now so never mind. if anyone interested, i can post instructions.

Astrowe said:
EDIT: ok, i've just built in memhack and it's working now so never mind. if anyone interested, i can post instructions.
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Yes, pls post instructions.
I can only find german instructions about this memhack. Is it compatible with link2sd ?