I used to work with WM 5 & 6 phones, had plenty of them and enjoyed them all until I discovered the HTC Magic. What a giant leap forward!! Especially when using Google Apps as we do. I am however a bit reluctant to root the magic as it doesn’t seem like a walk in the park. I really miss being able to backup SMS messages and all the other apps that only run on rooted devices.
So my question is if the HERO is a rooted device or not.
Does anybody have an answer to this question? I’m so tempted to preorder one
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Can you even buy 'rooted' phones? I believed the DevPhone One was the only one and it isn't really generally available.
rooting your phone is something you do, buy using a bug or exploit in the ROM I believe. So if this will be possible on the Hero, only time will tell.
(Android noob myself, more a Linux and WinMo god , so correct me if I'm wrong).
Hey all, really amazed how fast Android is moving now on our HD2s. Any one hear about the possibility of the Multi touch keyboard from the Droid 2 getting ported over? I've read that they're starting to get it for the Droid X & Incredible, so thought I'd ask. I use Swype religiously and I'm really happy with it, but I'm kinda intrigued with the multi touch idea since the main reason I don't like a stock keyboard is that they're never fast enough for me and this is supposed to solve that. Any ideas?
Search the development thread I remember seeing something there a couple days ago..... It had to be pushed though..
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I'm considering buying a HD 2 exclusively for Android. However i've read a lot about the g sensor and don't really want to take the plunge and end up not having working games etc.
I'd be buying second hand so no chance of returning if it doesn't work. It seems the android roms run just as good as native otherwise than the few with the above problem.
Can anyone confirm this or are there still issues with it being a WinMo handset?
In some beta phased ROMs auto rotation can have some problems. But this is a small percentage of all ROMs so don't be afraid, I didn't have this issue.
I have already tested about 10 different ROMs.
Go for it. As far as android on hd2 goes, well is as good as a native android, some of the roms here are amazing and work flawlessly. Even if HTC & Google tried to cook a rom for this phone now, it probably wont be as good as some of the roms here;-).
G sensor issues were resolved months ago. The only thing that someone might complain about is some auto rotation issues that only affect a handful of roms, but can be fixed using a different launcher.
Depending on the build you choose, android runs just as good, and in most cases waaay better than WM ever did. I bought my phone about 7 months ago, and only ran WM the first week I had it.
The HD2 is very easy to mod, and all of my friends love my phone, a couple have even gotten it because I showed them all the possibilities on them. And they are really happy they did.
If you have the opportunity to get one, I'm sure they are relatively cheap now since most people dont know about the massive community support for them and WM on them is pretty bad.
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Go for it. As far as android on hd2 goes, well is as good as a native android, some of the roms here are amazing and work flawlessly. Even if HTC & Google tried to cook a rom for this phone now, it probably wont be as good as some of the roms here;-).
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that sure is true
g-sensor works perfectly. Playing NFS Shift with zero problems running the rom in my sig....
I had a similar question to ask see my situation is that I have a Nexus One and I want a HD2 but I don't have the money to flat out purchase one because currently I'm not working due to being laid off.
I was thinking of trading my Nexus One for a HD2.
Now my question is what do you guys think, should I do the trade?
Hows the battery life now with the HD2 running on Android?
I remember reading last year on XDA that the battery life wasn't too good, have things changed with better roms.
Do you think it's even worth trading or should I just keep my Nexus One?
Any or all replies will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
juggaknot77 said:
I had a similar question to ask see my situation is that I have a Nexus One and I want a HD2 but I don't have the money to flat out purchase one because currently I'm not working due to being laid off.
I was thinking of trading my Nexus One for a HD2.
Now my question is what do you guys think, should I do the trade?
Hows the battery life now with the HD2 running on Android?
I remember reading last year on XDA that the battery life wasn't too good, have things changed with better roms.
Do you think it's even worth trading or should I just keep my Nexus One?
Any or all replies will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
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Its a win win both ways, both are really great phones
sometimes i wish i have kept my nexus because of the sleek and sexiness of it but most of the times i love my hd2
i bought a hd2 because i really wanted to try out WP7 also, right now i have WP7 and android dual booted and it is amazing
if you want to stick to just android, i think the nexus would be better (considering that the giant screen difference doesnt make a difference)
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Bought an HD2 about a month ago and Android runs flawlessly on it. I had a Samsung Captivate last year and this performs every bit as well as that did aside from gaming (Hummingbird is a beast compared to the 1st Gen Snapdragon).
Haven't had any issues with games so far. Currently running the TyphooN CM7 ROM but have also used Hyperdroid CM7, Ultimate Droid and the official MIUI. All excellent, fast ROMs.
I bought the phone a year ago thinking I was going to be stuck on WinMo 6.5 forever. This is by far the coolest phone I've ever had.
I also had a similar question about this, I'm thinking about trading my vibrant for an hd2, but I'm not sure if it's a good trade or not, my friend has an hd2 and it was awesome! What would you do?
I second the above praise. The HD2 came out on Feb. 16th in 2010. There is not one other phone that came from then that is as current now. I am running NexusHD2-Gingerbread V2.6 and love it. Very happy I got it.
the only problem for me is multitouch is really annoying when playing fps. It seems when 2 touches get close to aligning on either the x and y axis it become problem, so when I playing nove, sandstorm suddenly my person will turn around 180 degree. really annoying other than that no complain at all. best device I ever had, no regret buying this product LOVE HTC, next device would be htc sensation or htc EVO 3D
NFS Shift
Boradan said:
g-sensor works perfectly. Playing NFS Shift with zero problems running the rom in my sig....
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Hi
I'm trying to install NFS Shift on HD2 but the game on start shows only the logo and stops.
Is there a special procedure to install this game?
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I currently have an sgs i9000 and although its a good phine I've spent about £50 on games but never play any because I despise touch screen controlls
The reason I got the sgs in the first place is so I don't have to carry arouns a psp and a phone at thr same time sothis seems far better for what I want.
The reason I ask is I know the sgs has a great modding community and although im not big on it I would like to be able to root and install different themes but gaming is the main reason I want the phone
if u want to play games then get the play it rapes touchscreen gaming in everyway u will nt be dissapointed
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I currently have an sgs i9000 and although its a good phine I've spent about £50 on games but never play any because I despise touch screen controlls
The reason I got the sgs in the first place is so I don't have to carry arouns a psp and a phone at thr same time sothis seems far better for what I want.
The reason I ask is I know the sgs has a great modding community and although im not big on it I would like to be able to root and install different themes but gaming is the main reason I want the phone
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The devs are just starting to crack the play now, but you will really need, an unbranded factory unlocked device, the reason is, sony is only allowing the unlocking of bootloaders for factory unlocked devices ATM, we now have a custom recovery for the play, CM7 on the way, and no doubt the MUI team will jump on the play soon aswell, but for all this an unlocked bootloader is required
All I see about MIUI on the Play (which would be awesome) is a poll with a misinformed poor soul telling us that he wants to get a new Verizon phone, and he has to choose between the R800x, which "has unlocked bootloaders" or the Droid Incredible 2. The poll is very heavily skewed towards the DInc.
If you want to game, get the Play. It's just not a comparison.
I see HTC has released a bunch of Sense 6 apps on the Play Store. I miss my old HTC phone, I really liked the Sense UI although I appreciate many did not.
Unfortunately it seems none of those apps on the Play Store work on the Nexus 4, actually they appear to work on very few phones or is the fact they won't work on rooted phones?
Apologies if this has been done to death,but I only came across these apps this evening and had no time to read up.
Thanks.
I don't like it
I don't like Sense, i love stock android