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[Q] Good current android for beginner

Hi,
I wanted to have a look at android, but there are so many out there. Which ones are most current and are most complete?
Cheers!

I'm using darkstone HD2 froyo v2.1...everything is working except the hotspots feature...they are all pretty stable...check out Gamesquare.co
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You'll have to try them and eventually decide for yourself. That's far better than going by someone else's recommendation.
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Thanks!
Yeah, my question (or my intention, rather) was on which are more stable

they are all different for different people. shubcraft 1.5 works for me. may not work for you.

yeah you have the ones with HTC sence, and ones with out,
im using Froyostone at the sec, working very well for me

Yup...I went for the first recommendation - without sense. Looks pretty good, but not for daily use yet
Thanks!

Try hyperdroid. I use it as my daily and have no problems.
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Just go for the most recently dated build and work from there.

I can also suggest Bangsters 1.2a as it's Vanilla 2.2 and is pretty responsive and relatively bug free. But like said the easiest if no the most convenient way is to try them all, no build is perfect and each has it's own defects but from what I have seen it can range from user to user.

polo735 said:
Just go for the most recently dated build and work from there.
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Yup I would agree here. Even tho my DarkStone build is not one of the newer builds, it runs great, for me at least. I've tried a number of the other builds, but haven't found a real reason for changing from what I've got going. Updating the kernel on a regular basis keeps this build going strong.

Another conditional might be which ones work with HTC Sync. This is an absolute requirement for me personally. I've only tested a few Android builds, but so far only MattC's build works with Sync for me.

Yes I'm a total noob when it comes to this.... And I really don't want to brick my phone, which is the most fully featered 2.2 Version without sense for the HD2. And can somebody please send my an idots guide. PLease PM me deatils. I mean I've done WinMo Phones but nothing like this. Thanks for the Help.

NAND EVO Build Why Not?

Okay I have asked this question in the Android Q & A but no one answered, so I am going to try here.
How come no one is making a NAND Rom based on the EVO? I would have thought that the EVO is very close to specs as the HD2 as well as the desire that everyone talks about. So can anyone say why there is no build?
Motoman you can chime in here too since It seems your the only one that did make one for the SD version.

The HD2 is a lot more like the desire hardware-wise than the Evo. The Evo is CDMA and has all that WiMax stuff going on, and doesn't really offer anything that the desire port doesn't. What are you looking to gain from an Evo port? A bunch of 4G settings you can't use? Sprint crapware? I can't really see any pros.

Some people say the evo runs smoother, at least on sd build
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dung8604 said:
Some people say the evo runs smoother, at least on sd build
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it all depends on the kernel you're using, I've run an Evo ROM from SD and didn't notice it any smoother or faster than a desire port, both using hastarin kernel.

dung8604 said:
Some people say the evo runs smoother, at least on sd build
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Actually thats part of the reason, I used the SD version and it did seem to run a bit smoother and transitioning between menus or section felt less laggy, not saying that the dft nand rom is slugish, but feels different. And while on the topic, what is the real advantage between the desire and the desire hd? I see that as a topic as well and reading that the desire hd would run slower, whats its major difference or gain of the HD?
And no not trying to get get all the 4g stuff since obviously that wont work on ATT, but when the android was running from SD I tried many but always found myself going back to motomans carbon evo remix.

[Q] Coming from Samsung Vibrant...Media Hub question

Hello. I have recently acquired an HD2 that I am currently dual booting with WM6.5 and AmericanAndroid from my SD, and I absolutely love it. The question I have is this...I also have a Samsung Vibrant that I also like very well, with the Samsung Media Hub app installed on it. I have several movies that I have purchased for that app, and was wondering if it would be possible for me to install that apk onto my HD2 Android ROM. Just wondering if anyone has tried it or if there are any obvious complications I should avoid. Thanks in advance for any input.

spdrcr999 said:
Hello. I have recently acquired an HD2 that I am currently dual booting with WM6.5 and AmericanAndroid from my SD, and I absolutely love it. The question I have is this...I also have a Samsung Vibrant that I also like very well, with the Samsung Media Hub app installed on it. I have several movies that I have purchased for that app, and was wondering if it would be possible for me to install that apk onto my HD2 Android ROM. Just wondering if anyone has tried it or if there are any obvious complications I should avoid. Thanks in advance for any input.
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I have a vibrant 4g and an hd2. I'll try when I get home and will let you know
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Thanks. I'd appreciate it.

Speed
Can you guys tell me how is the speed on the Hd2 running android compared to the vibrant? I'm planning on buying an hd2 and use android on it until wp7 gets better (in terms of features), but I'm concerned that it will be a lot slower than native android devices. I know that the vibrant uses a different soc, but if the hd2 is just a tiny bit slower or something like that, then I feel I should go for it.
Sorry for offtopic.

I can only say from my limited experience with my hd2, but lots of experience with my vibrant. The 2.3.2 rom is butter smooth and have had very few problems. As far as speed, it is at least equal to my Vibrant, if not a bit snappier. I am only going by feel as I do not put too much stock in quadrant scores. In my opinion being able to dual boot winmo also, makes this superior, at least until they end up with a stable 2.3 port to the Vibrant.
Hope this helped.
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I think quadrant is useless anyway.Thank you very much for your answer!

Drextard said:
Can you guys tell me how is the speed on the Hd2 running android compared to the vibrant? I'm planning on buying an hd2 and use android on it until wp7 gets better (in terms of features), but I'm concerned that it will be a lot slower than native android devices. I know that the vibrant uses a different soc, but if the hd2 is just a tiny bit slower or something like that, then I feel I should go for it.
Sorry for offtopic.
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I had a vibrant and a hd2 and i sold the vibrant last month. For me, android on hd2 is near perfect. I bet the HTC guy that decided to put Win 6.5 on the hd2 was drunk at that time.

spdrcr999 said:
Thanks. I'd appreciate it.
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Doesn't work. it installs and runs with no force closes but nothing within media hub loads. Clicking movie store or tv store results in a box that says "loading" but then nothing happens
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Lint6 said:
Doesn't work. it installs and runs with no force closes but nothing within media hub loads. Clicking movie store or tv store results in a box that says "loading" but then nothing happens
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Hey, thanks for the effort. No big deal. So far that's the only drawback i've found to this setup, if you could call it that. I'm really loving this phone. I don't see my Vibrant getting too much use in the future except for flashing new builds just to see how they are.

[Q] HTC Sense with Gingerbread Desire Rom

is a desire Z rom planed with htc sense based on gingerbread?

Would be nice.
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Lmao rofl
Are you serious or are you just trolling?
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Derek0228 said:
Lmao rofl
Are you serious or are you just trolling?
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OP has a serious and legitimate question. Sense is the only reason I'm waiting for the GB switch myself.
Obvious anti-troll is obvious.

HTC has already announced that will upgrade to android 2.3 with new sense the desire HD, desire Z, incredible s and the "classic" desire

I would love to have sense on my Gingerbread as well. But there are alternatives to sense also. Search Beautiful Widgets, Beautiful Animations, Beautiful Live Wallpaper, Beautiful Home Weather and install those.
I use em instead of Sense and I am growing quite fond of them myself.
Huzzah to an excellent alternative
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P.S. Good to see you around Snark.
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Tribulattifather said:
I would love to have sense on my Gingerbread as well. But there are alternatives to sense also. Search Beautiful Widgets, Beautiful Animations, Beautiful Live Wallpaper, Beautiful Home Weather and install those.
I use em instead of Sense and I am growing quite fond of them myself.
Huzzah to an excellent alternative
^>^
P.S. Good to see you around Snark.
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First of all, welcome over to the HD2, Trib! I hope you are planning to cook for us, it would be cool to see what you come up with
I like the Beautiful Widgets (et. al.) but Sense has so much more to offer, like the Skins and FriendStream. I've recently switched to pulse from the sense News Widget, so I'm not married to the Sense widgets, but then there is more to Sense than the eye-candy.
I've tried and liked CM6 and CM7 ROMs in the past, but I was an early-adopter of Gingerbread and was turned off by the lack of available stuff in the Market. I plan to go back (err. forward) some day, but I am going to wait for Sense this time.

Thank you for the welcome, mate.
Hopefully there will be Honeycomb for us some day. I was thinking about waiting to cook then; there are too many ROMs right now for us in the Android HD2 marquie.
I do have some idea though. So if we never see Android 3.0, then I will show what I have in mind.

Tribulattifather said:
I would love to have sense on my Gingerbread as well. But there are alternatives to sense also. Search Beautiful Widgets, Beautiful Animations, Beautiful Live Wallpaper, Beautiful Home Weather and install those.
I use em instead of Sense and I am growing quite fond of them myself.
Huzzah to an excellent alternative
^>^
P.S. Good to see you around Snark.
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You are right about those widgets, but as some one else said,sense has much more things to offer.. For example people (phonebook),and smart dialer.. Those 2 things are only things that are keeping me away from gingerbread or CM builds.. If there is a way to have sense like phonebook and dialer,i would switch to ginger or CM instantly..
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Tribulattifather said:
Thank you for the welcome, mate.
Hopefully there will be Honeycomb for us some day. I was thinking about waiting to cook then; there are too many ROMs right now for us in the Android HD2 marquie.
I do have some idea though. So if we never see Android 3.0, then I will show what I have in mind.
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Google has specifically stated that Honeycomb is for tablets only and the UI wasn't intended to work on smaller screens. Engadget said something about a guy here on XDA hitting a settings switch in the SDK that turned Honeycomb into a smaller, phone-like aspect without the major UI stuff.
I'm not so concerned about Honeycomb, except that it threatens to fragment Android (tablet vs phones) right now. I think Gingerbread could be perfect if Google could get BT HID licensed without having to pay for it.

thx for the answers. i hope htc publish sense for gingerbread soon. it was very fast on my hd2.
i like sense. some functions a very comfortable.

Laynee1 said:
You are right about those widgets, but as some one else said,sense has much more things to offer.. For example people (phonebook),and smart dialer.. Those 2 things are only things that are keeping me away from gingerbread or CM builds.. If there is a way to have sense like phonebook and dialer,i would switch to ginger or CM instantly..
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Try "Dialer one" you can get it from market.

camera is one of the things that keeps me attached with sense.

Think HTC are missing a trick here... just release an official Sense ROM for the HD2 - they'll be selling HD2's by the bucketload!

drunkenfcuk said:
Think HTC are missing a trick here... just release an official Sense ROM for the HD2 - they'll be selling HD2's by the bucketload!
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Lol and then have m$ sue them?
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Lol and then have m$ sue them?
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How about 'accidentally' leaking an unofficial one then?

Windows Phone ROM for MT4G?

Is there's a Windows 7 ROM for the MT4G (or other Android phones). Not sure how difficult the coding would be to do or if anyone's even interested in doing one. From the quick scan I just had, I found nothing in the Development section.
Just curious, please don't flame

ECBomb said:
Is there's a Windows 7 ROM for the MT4G (or other Android phones). Not sure how difficult the coding would be to do or if anyone's even interested in doing one. From the quick scan I just had, I found nothing in the Development section.
Just curious, please don't flame
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I think it's possible because it's virtuously the same hardware that most W7 phone's work on.
But it will never happen because I can't imagine anyone taking their time to port over a W7 ROM. Would be too time consuming since there wouldn't be a demand for it.
But it would be kinda cool to play around with for an hour though.

ECBomb said:
Is there's a Windows 7 ROM for the MT4G (or other Android phones). Not sure how difficult the coding would be to do or if anyone's even interested in doing one. From the quick scan I just had, I found nothing in the Development section.
Just curious, please don't flame
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Wouldn't it be illegal? Not that I care. Microsoft is usually pretty *****y about their software.
I could very well be wrong.
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ECBomb said:
Is there's a Windows 7 ROM for the MT4G (or other Android phones). Not sure how difficult the coding would be to do or if anyone's even interested in doing one. From the quick scan I just had, I found nothing in the Development section.
Just curious, please don't flame
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They have a launcher with the windows Mobile UI on the market. It's ok, but I don't like windows so, yeah lol.
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saranhai said:
They have a launcher with the windows Mobile UI on the market. It's ok, but I don't like windows so, yeah lol.
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Yea it sucks to me ads and the iu is ugly my friend has a windows phone the only thing I like about it is It's 1.5ghz processor how high u think he'll be able to overclocked it if he wanted too curious ?
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Thanks for the replies guys. I guess there really isn't a demand so no one's going to go through all the hassle to do it.
I just started looking into the Windows Phone platform once Mango was announced over the summer and they look like they got something good happening.
I primarily like the fact that:
1) has a very clean look to it (apps have a very consistent look, even 3rd party ones on the app store)
2) update straight from Microsoft rather than OEMs or carriers (I guess that's also thanks to the "strict" hardware requirement Microsoft has set for OEMs, so software wise, all phones can get updates at the same time, unlike Android's fragmentation)
3) very snappy and not very demanding on hardware
4) simple, but different from iPhone's style
But then again...I'll most likely miss flashing ROMs if I ever do migrate over (however, I think I can live with it if everything's super snappy and there's enough app support for the OS). And really sucks that there's not a lot of WP7 selection for AWS and no tethering yet for the OS.
I'm trying out the Launcher 7 right now, but because it's running as a launcher and Sense is still running in the background, it's killing my battery lol.

I'd love to test a wp 7 ROM or atleast a hybrid version with Android.
From my fist to your face, enjoy!

I am sitting next to a girl right now in my class with a windows phone running Mango
It's pretty snappy but loads apps that aren't stock apps slower then shz.
I am my mom's "little elitest"
Deal with it!

mackster248 said:
I think it's possible because it's virtuously the same hardware that most W7 phone's work on.
But it will never happen because I can't imagine anyone taking their time to port over a W7 ROM. Would be too time consuming since there wouldn't be a demand for it.
But it would be kinda cool to play around with for an hour though.
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Psh, i'd love to have WP7 on my MT4G, Android is starting to get alittle too complex now.
The only thing i miss about my iphone was how simple the ui is. WP7 looks just as simple.

in the other hand i love android super computer!!
i think android is turning into a super computer and its getting better each day i dont like windows bcus it dont have flashplayer and i hated the days i was with my htc hd2 with windows 6.5 so many glitches i love it running DARKSIDE SENSE v3.3.0::. [SENSE 3.5] [UPDATED! 11.1.2011] on my mt4g i cant wait for icecream sandwich to come out see what they do with that!!!

CoNsPiRiSiZe said:
I am sitting next to a girl right now in my class with a windows phone running Mango
It's pretty snappy but loads apps that aren't stock apps slower then shz.
I am my mom's "little elitest"
Deal with it!
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hahaha all the girls in my classes are jealous of my phone

saranhai said:
hahaha all the girls in my classes are jealous of my phone
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Good for you...that will get you far!
I am my mom's "little elitest"
Deal with it!

oniddy said:
i think android is turning into a super computer and its getting better each day i dont like windows bcus it dont have flashplayer and i hated the days i was with my htc hd2 with windows 6.5 so many glitches i love it running DARKSIDE SENSE v3.3.0::. [SENSE 3.5] [UPDATED! 11.1.2011] on my mt4g i cant wait for icecream sandwich to come out see what they do with that!!!
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You know adobe gave up on mobile flash right?

WM 7 is not open source. To get a working port would be a guessing game and super not worth it, not a DD. That's the reason you don't see honeycomb ports to other devices either like the nook color. It was never open sourced. Windows is not going in the open source direction either
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probably 2ghz max, it probably has the same processor as the one in the MT4g even, just clocked higher

oniddy said:
i think android is turning into a super computer and its getting better each day i dont like windows bcus it dont have flashplayer and i hated the days i was with my htc hd2 with windows 6.5 so many glitches i love it running DARKSIDE SENSE v3.3.0::. [SENSE 3.5] [UPDATED! 11.1.2011] on my mt4g i cant wait for icecream sandwich to come out see what they do with that!!!
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+1 I hate Windows
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