I have a Nexus One for my personal use but want to get an extra phone to do some testing/development. I only have experience with the Nexus and G1 working with the Android SDK and Eclipse. I may be able to get a TMobile myTouch 3G. Will the myTouch work just as well as the Nexus in a development environment? Will the Eclipse IDE be able to connect to the phone and do debugging through DDMS? My plan would be to put Cyanogenmod on the myTouch.
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Hey everyone, I've currently been using a Mytouch 3g and well I need a phone with a keyboard lol I just like the faster response keyboard phones have. So I was wondering which would be a better buy if I wanted a phone with a keyboard that operates on android....
morola cliq G1 or (??) if there's another one that runs android?
Also if I did decide to get the cliq, would i be able to still rom it like i did my MT3G?
thanks for your help
For T-Mobile There is also the Behold 2. I don't know if you will still be able to flash roms. You don't be able to flash roms from this site because this is for htc phones. You are going to have to find another forum. I don't know if you will be able to find ROM's of such high quality that you will find here, however.
yeah that's what i figured, i just love having a phone with a keyboard. Is there anything else like the G1 that can still be rom'd
for t-mobile? No. The G1 and MyTouch are the only HTC devices for t-mobile with Android.
I just switch from a Nokia N900 to a MyTouch because I wanted a simple Android phone I could root and run wifi tether for root users on to give an Ipad wi/fi net access when away from hotspots.
Turns out, the MyTouch (1.2) has recently been updated and what I got instead was a phone that took a lot of work to root for little gain--the wifi tether won't run and barnacle tether gets about 6kb/s at best. I'm running a decent rom right now, but the lack of wifi-tether is killing the experience for me.
I've still got time to return this phone, and I'm wondering if there's even a possibility that this phone will ever get a kernel with netfilter. Anyone know?
Other questions:
What other phones are options? Should I go back to a G1, the N900 (which can, with some work, serve as a wifi hotspot), or possibly stretch for a nexus one? Can either of the cliq models be rooted to run wifi-tether? I'm with Tmobile USA by the way.
Any responses would be helpful. Thanks.
yes you should if you cant wait for there to be more attention on this phone.
i would get the mytouch slide(if it gets tether) or nexus one
Driving in a 3G area right now, and my little my touch 1.2 is barnacle tethered to my iPad, providing 200kb/s for this browsing, while google navigating our route and playing music through the stereo. Forget a nexus one, this capable little phone can handle everything I need it to with ease.I'll be keeping it.
I switched back to my 1.2 from a 32B MT recently as well, trust me this thing is getting some good attention right now(~8 new recent roms, granted most of them minus the CM prot have a lot of work needed).
Okay so I was wondering if T-Mobile HD2 and Regular HD2 are any different?
Main concern is Android support, and installation of it in NAND instead of SD.
I am moving from my mytouch slide to something better so no idea.
Still reading more on hd2
HD2 and Android
I own an HD2(T-mobile USA). Running Android 2.2 works fin. About running directly from the main memory, I don't know but the HD2 is a great device. Search for Sergio76 on xda and you will find a lot of goodies
The hd2 runs android well, but battery life is not nearly as good as a native Android phone, as its just a port that we run on the hd2. If you're on a budget, the hd2 can make a great Android phone, but if you have the money to spend, and you only want to run Android, there are many other better native Android phones. Now if you like spending time tinkering with your phone and want to also run winmo and possibly wp7 in the future, and you don't mind spending a lot of time tweaking your phone to make it run the way you want, then the hd2 is a great phone. It all depends on what you're looking for in a phone.
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I agree 100% with zarathustrax. If you are buying a new phone, I do not recommend the HD2.
It was the last big phone to come out with Windows Mobile (6.5), soon after Windows Phone (7) was rumored to be coming and obsoleted Windows Mobile entirely. It seems HTC thought they'd have a good year left and did not anticipate that the rumors themselves would be enough to turn folks off of Windows Mobile.
The Evo 4G for Sprint was released shortly after and was everything the HD2 should have been, including being a native Android phone. The only issue I have with the Evo is the fact that it's not a quad-band and is stuck to Sprint.
In order to get Android running on our phones, we have to use ROMs that are ripped from existing phones, such as the Nexus One, Evo or Desire Family. Since we are not using native drivers built for our phones, the system just isn't as smooth or effective as it should be.
While Android can compete with the iOS series, in order to do so effectively (IMHO), you need a front-facing camera. Video chat was never WinMo's strong point and thus HTC made the correct decision not to include it on the HD2.
I love my phone. I love tinkering with it several times a week. I love how fast and smooth it runs when I get it tweaked just right. I love being able to switch from WinMo to Android whenever I want. I love the way my phone looks and how I constantly get asked by total strangers what phone it is. I love the looks on other HD2 owners' faces when I pop out my Android HD2.
But in spite of all of that, as soon as T-Mobile has a decent Android competitor from HTC, I'll be jumping ship and moving to a real Android device.
Has anyone completed a successful ROM port for handset 1.1 or 1.2...(I don't think 1.2 has been released) to mytouch 4g?
I am really looking to get meego handset on something with a full qwerty keyboard, and I know the mytouch slide 4g with dual core is set to release pretty soon, if meego has been ported to the myTouch 4g already, im sure the same instructions will work for the slide model...since the N950 is not available to John Doe's like myself
I am pretty good with hacking/porting things and tweaking what does not work, but as far as developing and compiling and image from scratch im not there yet, can anyone help...feel free to yell at me if I posted this in the wrong forum.
That doesn't exist on any of the android devices here AFAIK, now one has bothered with that. The hardware drivers don't exist to make all the parts function anyway.
thanks, well so much for that idea
There was some stuff about the hd2 getting it but I think that died
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is there a way to install a HD" Android Rom from this treat on my HTC 7 TRophy on the 8 GB intern SD Card ?
When yes, wich is it and How it works ?
No, If you want Android on your Trophy, Sell you Trophy and go buy a Android device. That is about the only way
There is currently no method to install Android onto Trophy. HD2 has it easy because it is almost the exact same phone as the HD7, which is why it can run WM6.5, WP7, and Android. I'm sure someday someone will figure it out, but for now, we are stuck.
You may buy one phone more. But I don't know why android had what so many people want install it on WP devices? WP is best operating systems I know!
I know one reason I'd like to have Android installed... tethering. I have the SparkW (Verizon Trophy), but the new tethering is even more limited then Android (tethering on android doesn't support NAT translation or DMZ/port forwarding).
The Android loader project is moving rather quickly now, so we should just wait and hope everything goes well. These things take time, and no one is getting paid (much) to do these things.
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You may buy one phone more. But I don't know why android had what so many people want install it on WP devices? WP is best operating systems I know!
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I could think one-two reasons why someone would like to dualboot..
1)flash support
2)more apps..
3)just for exploring the android os.
Many of us,cannot pay for 2 different phones.
I would like to correct my previous statement... tethering isn't limited, its much MUCH better then Android's tether.
NAT is supported, but on my phone (SparkW Verizon network) I am getting a IPv6 IP address.. so ONE irc network won't function for me. Everything else (including XBL via my 360) is golden.
I officially have no reason to run Android now, but we maybe able to soon enough if the devs can figure out how to get HaRET working on WP7's. They could be close, could be far far away.. only time will tell.