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Installing WIndows Mobile HTC HD2 ROM on the Nexus one

Hi,
I know it might be an odd question but:
Is it possible to flash an HTC HD2 ROM on the nexus one there by changing the OS to Windows Mobile?
I'm asking this because I see that the HW of both phone are almost the same but the nexus one is cheaper.
I want to buy the nexus one but if i don't like the android OS I wanted to know if I can change it to Windows Mobile with the sense interface?
Regards,
Michael

coming from htc diamond to g1 to magic and to nexus one,
HEll u will love the android interface..
WM is crap.
So i think i answered yr questions

No,
Bye!

I don't think I've heard of anyone coming from Windows Mobile to Android and wanting to go back.
When I started using Android from Windows mobile it was like going from swimming in mud to swimming in Evian.
Try it, if you live in the UK you have 14 days to return anyway (I think).

Something like this sounds like it'd break the time space continuum or something. Wasn't the HD2 skin made to look like the Sense Android interface in the first place?

mgear356 said:
WM is crap.
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Actually, Windows Mobile is the ONLY mobile OS that can play pretty much any video file I can throw at it; DivX, Xvid, avi, wmv, etc. And they played flawlessly. That's one of the things I sorely miss during my move to Android
And before you say it takes a lot of power or whatever to do this, I did all this on my Samsung SCH-i730, about 4 years ago. http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-sch-i730-verizon/4505-6452_7-31313312.html
I see absolutely no excuse for Android or the iPhone for not having this.

Paul22000 said:
Actually, Windows Mobile is the ONLY mobile OS that can play pretty much any video file I can throw at it; DivX, Xvid, avi, wmv, etc. And they played flawlessly. That's one of the things I sorely miss during my move to Android
And before you say it takes a lot of power or whatever to do this, I did all this on my Samsung SCH-i730, about 4 years ago. http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-sch-i730-verizon/4505-6452_7-31313312.html
I see absolutely no excuse for Android or the iPhone for not having this.
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It isn't a matter of power, it is a matter of someone making an app to support it. The big names on WM are starting to take a long hard look at Android and developing for it. As well, the SDK has gotten much better and increased overall support for this and that.
I would be willing to bet that by Summer we have coreplayer, or something similar. As well, IIRC the actual HTC version of this phone with SenseUI has support for all of those video formats, except for maybe wmv. And those features and what not will be ported over to the Nexus One when that day comes.

Might as well install the iPhone OS while your at it
CorePlayer will hopefully make its way to Android soon...
http://forum.corecodec.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2885
We have been asked if we plan to release a version of CorePlayer for Android. The short answer is yes
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You may find out that the price difference between the Nexus One and the HHD2 Touch is the license for windows mobile. If you want to run Windows Mobile then pay your license!

stewart1988 said:
CorePlayer will hopefully make its way to Android soon...
http://forum.corecodec.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=2885
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Hmm, almost 6 months...

Just wait for a Sense Rom to hit the N1 then you can have the Sense interface and have android functionality.

Paul22000 said:
Hmm, almost 6 months...
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Yeah, if you read through(not sure if you did or not) it is pretty clear the delay isn't because they can't make it, it is because they are waiting for and SDK/NDK that supports everything they need, since they want it to be a universal app.
From the sounds of it, Google is working on allowing them to include their libs natively in the near future, and when they do that they should be where they need to be.

WM6.5
Yes there should be a suitable rom, for Nexeus One.
And why not its a lot of fun having dual boot or may be tripple boot using Ubnuntu.
Ashrafali.
HTC HD2

Waking up old threads isn't good for health, they eat your brain.
And if for 10 months nobody cared enough to make such ROM - there's your answer. Because it's worthless waste of developer power. Want one? You can always try to do it yourself. I'm glad the developers work on other things, that are the future, and not the past.

michael_h said:
Hi,
I know it might be an odd question but:
Is it possible to flash an HTC HD2 ROM on the nexus one there by changing the OS to Windows Mobile?
I'm asking this because I see that the HW of both phone are almost the same but the nexus one is cheaper.
I want to buy the nexus one but if i don't like the android OS I wanted to know if I can change it to Windows Mobile with the sense interface?
Regards,
Michael
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At least here in the US the HD2 is really cheap, while the nexus is holding its price really well. In my local craigslist a hd2 costs around $170-250, while a nexus is $300-450. You may want to check ebay and just buy a hd2 for cheap and ship it to your country. However, i doubt you will be disappointed with android so nexus would be a better bet.

OK
Help me learn how to make one I will be glad just show me the way, few links and I will pick up, trust me I like to do this .............
Ashrafali
HTC HD2

I came from Windows mobile to Android recently and too gush at the interface.
The only reason I'd go back to Windows mobile is for activesync functionality, mainly with outlook. (I have tried all the tricks btw)
Would the Sense ROM be a dual boot like the 4g phone has? Will it sync nicely with outlook?

ROM_Guest said:
I came from Windows mobile to Android recently and too gush at the interface.
The only reason I'd go back to Windows mobile is for activesync functionality, mainly with outlook. (I have tried all the tricks btw)
Would the Sense ROM be a dual boot like the 4g phone has? Will it sync nicely with outlook?
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Roadsync works perfectly with outlook. I get my outlook emails on my phone before I get them on my computer.

michael_h said:
Is it possible to flash an HTC HD2 ROM on the nexus one there by changing the OS to Windows Mobile?
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What type of sick individual would do such a thing?!
JK buddy I had the Hd2 at one point but I'd much rather have Android any day of the week

I think it is dumb that people are attacking the author of this topic just because he enjoys using windows mobile. Personally I used to have a mogul and it was a great phone to me. I don't think all you android fan boys need to be all aggressive like that. I personally like android more just because of its rapid updating and ui. But that doesn't mean that other people wouldn't like windows mobile better. But on the other hand I might switch to windows mobile 7 it looks really nice and i'm sure they will get it together with some developers.

Windows Mobile on the Hero?

Call me old-fashioned, but I'm wondering if it is possible to have Windows Mobile on HTC Hero - not as a dual boot, but instead of Android?
Are there any chefs out there developing Windows Mobile ROMs for the Hero?
I currently have HC Diamond and have been a very happy user of Makevaral's BsB ROMs, but I am getting HTC Hero on upgrade so I'm wondering if I can get WM on it.
I didn't put this question in the "Android Development" forum because it's not the development of Android that I am asking about.
Thanks.

Not possible, there are other threads on it if you search.

meirionwyllt said:
Call me old-fashioned, but I'm wondering if it is possible to have Windows Mobile on HTC Hero - not as a dual boot, but instead of Android?
Are there any chefs out there developing Windows Mobile ROMs for the Hero?
I currently have HC Diamond and have been a very happy user of Makevaral's BsB ROMs, but I am getting HTC Hero on upgrade so I'm wondering if I can get WM on it.
I didn't put this question in the "Android Development" forum because it's not the development of Android that I am asking about.
Thanks.
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Hero may be a downgrade then, worse screen.

I had the diamond...
Hero with android is so much better
With 2.1 Rom.. it kills the HTC Diamond

i have had the Td2 and the hero and the hero wins easily!

meirionwyllt said:
Call me old-fashioned
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Old-Fashioned !

since there are (from the hardware specs point of view) great winmo phones, why would you want to go through the trouble of putting winmo on a hero? the hero is a great phone, but if you want winmo (god knows why...) just get a winmo phone, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble.
this is not bashing, this is asking why.

1. don't get the Hero if you're happy with windows mobile. no point.
2. get the Hero and forget about that crap.
ex owner of Diamond here
Sent from my Hero using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk

winmo is immposible to install on hero becasue of hardware and kernel ..

Why would you want to spoil your Hero by installing an outdated clunky OS, that MS are soon abandoning? I used to have the TD - the Hero is just so much better for both hardware and software.
As others have said if you want to stick with WM there are plenty of HTC WM phones out there - get one of those instead of the Hero

buy a fake chinese hero which is identical to hero (I think - only saw it on a video) and has winmo 6.5 pro

Thanks for your answers.
The reason I was asking is because I've taken Orange up on an offer of a HTC Hero free as an upgrade. I was initially going to sell it because of my old-fashioned nature and wanting to stick with MS. But then I thought of asking about the ROM just in case.
"an outdated clunky OS, that MS are soon abandoning?" - I hope you are right, that MS are indeed abandoning it in favour of Windows Phone 7. I hope it's a complete re-write of the code, rather than what MS usually do and regenerate old code and put it into "new" OS's.
Thanks
I might have a play around with the Hero to see if I like it.

Windows mobile 7 is completely new, but will not work on any existing handsets.
back to android.
Android is great, fully customisable and there is no reason not to love it.

meirionwyllt said:
The reason I was asking is because I've taken Orange up on an offer of a HTC Hero free as an upgrade. I was initially going to sell it .
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Exactly what happened with me - it was going on Ebay and I was keeping the TD, until I made one mistake and did this
meirionwyllt said:
I might have a play around with the Hero to see if I like it.
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One little play and I was hooked.
In use the capacitive screen is so much better - do not believe those who say it is a worse screen because it has less resolution. In fact ease of use of the screen is the one thing that I always envied iphone users for when I watched them swipe easily between screens without ever accidently switching on an app.
And Android, especially with HTC's SenseUI, is much better than WM. Because of the WM interface (which HTC did their best to hide) I used my TD mainly as a phone and did not get the best out of it because of that. Now I use my Hero for a lot more. And I have not missed my old stylus one bit - I just let my fingers do the walking.
Let us know how you get on with your little play - try the market and see how easy it is to get all sorts of weird and wonderful apps that you never realised you needed, but you will find indispensible once you've got them. I bet you will be androided.

Before I sell my Galaxy S Android to buy an HD2

Does anyone know of a way to run Windows mobile on an Android device ?

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Does anyone know of a way to run Windows mobile on an Android device ?
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Very funny ,are you serious,everybody gong the other way .However my personal choice is still lthe WM.

yes I am serious, I have tried Iphone, Android but I still believe Windows Mobile is what I have been used to in the past and have some brilliant software that I have collected over the years.
I tried to make my Iphone like the HD2, tried to find the OSmapping UK software as good as Memory map, tried to find a birding app as good as the Collins or the Aviasoft range, I seriously miss the ROM flashing and customisation, sorry Android just doesn't have the customisation that Windows mobile does, my old touch HD was brilliant if a little slowish at times, sync with outlook and my PC was perfect, being able to use actual office applications and I also miss Sense UI.
But just had a thought I know there is a lot of development for porting Android onto the HD2, just wondered if there was a the reverse

i'll trade my hd2 for your galaxy if you want.

help needed to choose between HD2 and HD7

Hello guys,
I am going to University of Waterloo, Canada, to study software engineering this fall. I currently own a xperia x10i but i have found out that it wont be able to work in Canada due to network band compatibility issues.
Hence i am gonna switch over to WIND telecom and purchase the 29CAD/mo student plan.
I basically now want to use a windows phone. Would you recommend me to get the HD7 or the HD2?
if Windows 8 ever comes out, then will it run on the HD2 or HD7? I intend to keep this phone for a minimum 3 years.
One more thing that should be kept in mind is that the normal hd2 WONT work with WIND network bands. Only the T mobile version works on WIND.
The same case is valid for the T-mobile version of HD7.
I also like customizing and flashing different ROMs etc, HD2 is undoubtedly the best HACKER friendly phone in current times, since android,ubuntu, wm7,meegoo etc have been ported to it. Will the HD7 also be like HD2 in the near future?
To summarize my requirements, i would like to use Windows mobile, preferably windows 7 (fully functioning or important things working like marketplace, browser, wifi, xbox) for a span of 3 years.
Also the device should not lag much.
Please help me choose between the HD2 and HD7.
Cheers!
Vito

If you want windows phone take an hd7. But it won‘t get all the developement the hd2 has. You also have to remember that the hd2 is already 2 years old. Developement decreases and many devs already switched to a newer phone. But if you‘re into flashing the hd2 is king.
I would take the hd7 if you want to use wp and the hd2 if you want android or an outdated winmo.

rauschkugl said:
If you want windows phone take an hd7. But it won‘t get all the developement the hd2 has. You also have to remember that the hd2 is already 2 years old. Developement decreases and many devs already switched to a newer phone. But if you‘re into flashing the hd2 is king.
I would take the hd7 if you want to use wp and the hd2 if you want android or an outdated winmo.
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well yes i would sometimes like to use android, but will the hd2 have full windows 7 capabilites?

Vito Andolini Corleone said:
well yes i would sometimes like to use android, but will the hd2 have full windows 7 capabilites?
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It already does, we're just waiting for a cleaned-up working Mango build.

Well that's awesome! Is it true that the hd2 is faster than hd7?
Will the cleaned up hd2 perform better than hd7? Btw from your point of view by seeing the pros and cons if both phones which one do you recommend?
orangekid said:
It already does, we're just waiting for a cleaned-up working Mango build.
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Vito Andolini Corleone said:
Well that's awesome! Is it true that the hd2 is faster than hd7?
Will the cleaned up hd2 perform better than hd7? Btw from your point of view by seeing the pros and cons if both phones which one do you recommend?
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HD7 will perform WP7 better than the HD2 always.
HD2 has the "multi-touch bug" (where if you don't put both fingers at exactly the same time, multi-touch won't work).
HD7 also has better battery life.
If you really want perfect WP7, get an HD7. For me, I want Android too much to ever get a WP7-only device. I use and like Android more, but I do reboot into WP7 sometimes, and it's a good experience when I do.

Vito Andolini Corleone said:
Hello guys,
I am going to University of Waterloo, Canada, to study software engineering this fall. I currently own a xperia x10i but i have found out that it wont be able to work in Canada due to network band compatibility issues.
Hence i am gonna switch over to WIND telecom and purchase the 29CAD/mo student plan.
I basically now want to use a windows phone. Would you recommend me to get the HD7 or the HD2?
if Windows 8 ever comes out, then will it run on the HD2 or HD7? I intend to keep this phone for a minimum 3 years.
One more thing that should be kept in mind is that the normal hd2 WONT work with WIND network bands. Only the T mobile version works on WIND.
The same case is valid for the T-mobile version of HD7.
I also like customizing and flashing different ROMs etc, HD2 is undoubtedly the best HACKER friendly phone in current times, since android,ubuntu, wm7,meegoo etc have been ported to it. Will the HD7 also be like HD2 in the near future?
To summarize my requirements, i would like to use Windows mobile, preferably windows 7 (fully functioning or important things working like marketplace, browser, wifi, xbox) for a span of 3 years.
Also the device should not lag much.
Please help me choose between the HD2 and HD7.
Cheers!
Vito
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you choose HD2 (windows mobile - android - windows phone - ubuntu)

Vito Andolini Corleone said:
To summarize my requirements, i would like to use Windows mobile, preferably windows 7 (fully functioning or important things working like marketplace, browser, wifi, xbox) for a span of 3 years.
Also the device should not lag much.
Please help me choose between the HD2 and HD7.
Cheers!
Vito
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You will never be able to run Windows 7 or 8 on any current phone.
If you want to use Windows Mobile, then you need to choose the HD2 or another Windows Mobile device.
If you want to use Windows Phone, then you should choose a native WP7 device to avoid the touchscreen bug and unlock lag.

android is also beeing portet for the hd7. there were vids around ages ago and now rspl for windows phones was released. so you will also get custom roms.
i think if you want to use wp7 as your main os you should take the hd7.

rauschkugl said:
android is also beeing portet for the hd7. there were vids around ages ago and now rspl for windows phones was released. so you will also get custom roms.
i think if you want to use wp7 as your main os you should take the hd7.
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I wouldn't be so sure...
Cotulla said:
for LEO - yes. about WP7F, we have some experiments and runnning some MAGLDR version on Gold and Mozart, but not sure how deep it will go.
because this devices are not so lucky as LEO, some things make stuffs difficult, like external audio codec and other ril interface. Last thing can stop porting for a long time. time will show truth but I can't promise anything.
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Dude you won't believe I'm going to Waterloo this year and I'm in the same dilemma as you!
Btw, I'm going in Computer Engineering, and I probably going for the HD2 cause it gives me more time to play around, reason it's so widely hacked..

WM6.5 possible to run on WP8

can we run WM6.5 on WP8 ? how ?

Erm.
We can't even install custom WP8 ROMs on most devices yet.
WinMo never had the drivers for devices like these (for example, I don't thing 6.5 even supports multicore).
Hell, we couldn't even do it on WP7*, which at least still used a CE kernel. WP8 uses an NT kernel.
Some kind of virtualization might work, but don't count on it. That's a long way off if it ever happens at all.
* OK, there was a program that aimed to allow running WinMo apps on WP7, but so far as I know, it was never released.

GoodDayToDie said:
Erm.
We can't even install custom WP8 ROMs on most devices yet.
WinMo never had the drivers for devices like these (for example, I don't thing 6.5 even supports multicore).
Hell, we couldn't even do it on WP7*, which at least still used a CE kernel. WP8 uses an NT kernel.
Some kind of virtualization might work, but don't count on it. That's a long way off if it ever happens at all.
* OK, there was a program that aimed to allow running WinMo apps on WP7, but so far as I know, it was never released.
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I'm fairly sure dft showed a proof of concept with wm running like an app within wp. But again, I don't believe it was ever finished / made to work or released
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dazza9075 said:
I'm fairly sure dft showed a proof of concept with wm running like an app within wp. But again, I don't believe it was ever finished / made to work or released
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Yea, they did and it was on rooted WP7.X devices but, never released. Also, it was 6.1, not 6.5 (not sure why but, there are images on DFT's twitter page if you dig back a year ago)
Wonder what ever happened to this project, there was some classic games on WM 6.X that I would love to play on my WP8 device if that was even possible..

DavidinCT said:
Yea, they did and it was on rooted WP7.X devices but, never released. Also, it was 6.1, not 6.5 (not sure why but, there are images on DFT's twitter page if you dig back a year ago)
Wonder what ever happened to this project, there was some classic games on WM 6.X that I would love to play on my WP8 device if that was even possible..
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probably went the same way as WM5/6 on the Alpine (aka XDA IIi) I wouldn't ever expect to see that again or the WM "app"

My question is, why would ANYONE want to put WM 6 on a WP8 device? If you want WM 6, then buy a WM6 device. They're cheap now.

snickler said:
My question is, why would ANYONE want to put WM 6 on a WP8 device? If you want WM 6, then buy a WM6 device. They're cheap now.
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Not sure I would want to put WM 6.5 on a WP8 device(AKA: flash a device with a WM6.5 rom) but, I would love emulator where I could install apps/games from Skydrive or something.
So if wanted to bring back some memories (a simple game of Uno 1.63), I could with out having to deal with the other BS from WM...
Isn't that the same point of having SNES or NES emulators for WP8 ?

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We can't even install custom WP8 ROMs on most devices yet.
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I noticed "most devices", is there ANY currnent Windows Phone 8 device that custom roms can be installed to ?

Some people are saying they've managed on the Huawei W1, and there have been rumors regarding the HTC 8X or 8S.

I joined XDA back when I had a Pocket PC and my dad had a Windows Mobile smartphone by HTC (the Hermes). The biggest problem we'd face is that the OS is made for small screens. I don't think any of them were bigger than 3.5", and even if they were, it's just a hard OS to navigate via touch, because you didn't. You used a stylus. The keyboard was super tiny, and the menus were made for you to tap your stylus at.

The HTC HD2 had a 4.3" Display and using HTC Sense (TouchFlo 3D) on it was pretty usable with touch. This was also necessary because the HD2 had a capacitive touchscreen which meant that a stylus could not be used.

GoodDayToDie said:
Erm.
We can't even install custom WP8 ROMs on most devices yet.
WinMo never had the drivers for devices like these (for example, I don't thing 6.5 even supports multicore).
Hell, we couldn't even do it on WP7*, which at least still used a CE kernel. WP8 uses an NT kernel.
Some kind of virtualization might work, but don't count on it. That's a long way off if it ever happens at all.
* OK, there was a program that aimed to allow running WinMo apps on WP7, but so far as I know, it was never released.
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Most devices? Are you implying there is a device or two that does exist?
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Jessical said:
I joined XDA back when I had a Pocket PC and my dad had a Windows Mobile smartphone by HTC (the Hermes). The biggest problem we'd face is that the OS is made for small screens. I don't think any of them were bigger than 3.5", and even if they were, it's just a hard OS to navigate via touch, because you didn't. You used a stylus. The keyboard was super tiny, and the menus were made for you to tap your stylus at.
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I joined XDA when I owned the Motorizr Z3 and customized that tiny little thing and you bring up excellent points. The best resistive screen device I've ever owned and in fact still my all time favorite phone was the HTC Touch Pro 2 (Rhodium). HTC with the exception of the HTC Arrival never came out with another device with undoubtedly the best keyboard ever put on a smart phone with maybe the exception of the Blackberrys. Now that HTC is about to release the "Max" and Nokia the Lumia 1520... it boils down to Windows Phone 8 or Android.

My HP Pocket PC had NO physical keyboard. It was like typing on a 3DS. :laugh:

GoodDayToDie said:
Erm.
We can't even install custom WP8 ROMs on most devices yet.
WinMo never had the drivers for devices like these (for example, I don't thing 6.5 even supports multicore).
Hell, we couldn't even do it on WP7*, which at least still used a CE kernel. WP8 uses an NT kernel.
Some kind of virtualization might work, but don't count on it. That's a long way off if it ever happens at all.
* OK, there was a program that aimed to allow running WinMo apps on WP7, but so far as I know, it was never released.
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correct me if I am wrong, but the hd2 I believe was dual core.

im better with a pc said:
correct me if I am wrong, but the hd2 I believe was dual core.
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HD2 was only single core. It ran a QSD8250 Snapdragon.
With that said, I will say at this point that we will have NO WAY to run WM6.5 on WP8 devices. I really don't know why you'd want to run WM6.5 on a WP8 device.. Just get an old one, they're cheap.