Hiya guys well to the point I have a hd2 in my possession and I think the usb port is broke some how so i can't install anything that requires a pc.... I was informed I might b able 2 install a custum windows rom is this possible and any suggestions for possible roms any help appreciated
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Yes you can flash custom ROMs via SD card but you still have to have HSPL flashed to your HD2 to be able to flash a custom ROM via SD card. Unfortunately you can only flash HSPL via USB and not SD card, so you can only flash stock ROMs on your HD2 unless you get the USB fixed. Sorry friend.
Thank you very much for the help at least I know now and I'm not gonna be wasting anymore time looking for solutions tink an unsolvable problem lol thanks again
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You haven't said whether its a regular hd2 or a tmous. (Tmous has red and green end and send, regular all white)
If it's a regular, then a goldcard will let you use any stock rom, opening the options a little, if its a tmous, then goldcard is of no benefit and you can disregard this post.
Its a regular hd2 mate plain white buttons ....is there anything u can recommend as in basically I realise I'm never gonna have android inbed here but is any modded or custom rom possible I'm not gettin my hopes up tho
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Not cooked roms but with a goldcard you can flash any stock rom meaning non branded (if the phone is branded) plus there are tons of tweaks and mods for winmo, go look up cookies home tab, you wont regret it! and as for android you can run it from SD card, no hspl required, , a very popular way.
Thanks for the tip gonna go look it up now
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If you have the time and patience to tweak it you can get an android build running from SD almost as smoothly as a nand build, keep WM and have the best of both.
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Wuttup guys! Its been a while since I used winmo, I put a nand rom on my boys hd2 and it was great for a month or so. Now the screen is white on boot. Bootloader comes up so im assuming its not bricked. Don't have a pc to check things out for now. Any ideas what's going on? Im pretty knowledgeable of android and various devices. Thanks for any help you can give me! (thanks button hint hint)
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So... are you flashing a windows mobile rom, or an android rom, or are you not flashing at all and this is a random problem... I would check the Radio and HSPL versions are compatable with what you are flashing, if you are flashing.
Its a nand android rom. It ran completely fine for a month
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RADIO is 2.08.HSPL
PB81120 board
It appears that magldr crashed. Still get the white screen if I hold power for a while, no magldr...
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Im sure with a pc I can atleast go back to stock with bootloader but im at work for the next 9 hrs so im trying to figure it out
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Update...
I've gotten things to flash now but still have the wsod. Roms and radios won't flash, but hspl and mahldr 1.13 flashed. Although holding power only gets wsod anyways, doesn't access magldr. I'm determined to get this working...
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What radio are you using?
2.08.50 but I can't see the tmo splashscreen to verify anyways. I tried flashing the complete stock rom from sd and it fails at about a quarter of the way through flashing the radio
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Ok, so I got nrg's rom to flash from sd. I remember from my days of the tp2 and u had to do a battery pull after install from sd to reboot. In this case, hit the soft reset. Is this still the right procedure? Either way its still got wsod. Something interesting though when I pulled the phone apart... The void sticker was broken and the outer rim around the speaker was nicked. As if its been taken apart b4. My boy bought it used so considering its flashing now, I can deduce that its a hardware issue and hes sol
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Update your radio. To at least 2.12 or higher. I'm using 2.15.50.14 thats pretty much everybody uses.
I second that, I'm more fan of 2.12, which consumes less Battery
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Update your radio. To at least 2.12 or higher. I'm using 2.15.50.14 thats pretty much everybody uses.
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oh, and also, NEVER flash a radio 2.x.51.x, or you are totally screwed
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Also have a similar problem. I was running magldr 1.12 with a nand droid build and I had HSPl 2.08 and radio 2.15.50.14. Now I think magldr crashed and now the phone boots into a white screen. I can get the tri-colour bootloader but when I try and flash a stock wm6.5 rom through USB I get a communications error. Any ideas or input would be much appreciated
My phone was also getting in to the tri-colour screen, but after that a white screen.
Couldnt get rid of it, not even by installing a WM6.5 official rom, or doing a task29 .. or anything that would help me fix it. (any radio etc etc)
Brought it back for repair and they replaced my screen, working great again.
Pretty weird cause u can get in the tri-colour screen, wich would mean there should nothing be wrong with the screen itselfe
Yea I can't flash a radio, it hangs at about 20% progress with an sd flash, then fails
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Yea I'm just telling him its junk unless he sends it back to get fixed
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Hi, so a guy from work asked if i would put android on his phone (hd2). He asked because I own a Samsung Vibrant and I was able to root and flash and have been doing so for a while. i have tried to get android working on his phone, but when i click on the haret file it says that the certificate was dumb or something similar to that and asked me to reinstall. Not sure what i am doing wrong. if someone would be so kind to help me threw putting an android os on his phone that would be outstanding. (sd android is what i was going for). lol. i dont even know if im wording this right.
For running Android from SD on an Offical WM ROM, that is normal. Just okay the warning messge and the Android will boot.
In order to get rid of the warning, you either have to flash with a custom WM ROM or better yet flash an Android ROM.
Alrighty. Thank you for the response.
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If you want Android on your HD2 you should just go for flashing to NAND rather then keeping windows (unless he still needs windows).
Is flashing to nand pretty easy to do? Yeah he doesn't care for windows so im sure he wont care. I mean I can do the research to figure it out too but advice is more than welcome.
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Is easy if you read the instructions and you know what to do
you guys helped me also...
Anything to look out for, for the first time anything that you wish someone would have said to you?
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Anything to look out for, for the first time anything that you wish someone would have said to you?
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You need to have hspl 2.08 and a radio that is 2.12 or higher.
Hello all! After seeing my vibrant mod'd a buddy wants me to mod his hd2. I've researched alot in these forums and can't really decifer what way to go or what rom to choose.
I am leaning towards an sd installation. It seems easily reversable just in case something goes wrong and im not trying to brick a phone here. The vibrant is probly the easiest phone to mod and impossible to brick.
I know opinions vary and im not trying to create a pissing match here. im going for speed. Speed and reliability more than anything. So that once I boot the custom rom on to his device there wont be any glitches that pulling the battery wont fix. Thanks for your responses. *** no a holes please either, just some positive input and pros and cons of the different types of installations.
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welcome to HD2
I know coming to mod a new phone can be kind of a pain even if you're a pro on another, I had the same thing rooting, S-Off, flashing a ROM, and changing PRL to get a Dinc on Cricket (I'm on GSM...) so I know how ti goes.
Android on HD2 is different from any other phone. actually flashing to NAND is safer than any other phone because it is basically impossible to brick, here's why:
When you flash HSPL (hard SPL that is a modified bootloader with security off so you can flash custom ROMs and radios) you then flash another bootloader on top of it, called MAGLDR. This new bootloader allows you to flash WP7 to NAND, run Android off SD, or flash Android to NAND, it also has CWM support when flashed into it.
If anything ever goes wrong you can always load back into HSPL and just flash a stock WM ROM over MAGLDR and you're good, so it's an awesome fail safe.
My current set-up is WP7 on NAND and a very good, stable, awesome, fast CM7 ROM on SD, you can choose which you want to boot into when you turn it on.
I haven't used this tutorial but it looks simple and very easy to understand
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944288
If you JUST want Android I'd suggest going NAND with this ROM, it's a pretty awesome gingerbread ROM with some CM7 mods and other awesome features. Fast, stable, working everything, and the chef is really great with updates and support.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=918899
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The only real way to brick this phone is to flash the wrong radio. To be on the safe side, do not flash any radio below 2.07.50.
The best radios I have found for Android are 2.12.50, 2.14.50, and 2.15.50, (the 2.15.50 being the best)
The best radio for WP7 seems to be 2.12.50.
Check the radio thread in HD2 WM development for the radio list and how to flash.
Orangeskid's 100% correct. The HD2 is probably one of the hardest phones to brick and there's no real point just going for SD because you're afraid to brick it as you won't.
Just make sure if its a TMo phone that you don't flash a .51 radio. That'll kill it.
Just flash 2.08.HSPL then a 2.15.50.14 radio. After that all you need to do is flash MAGLDR then Clockwork. I recommend a CM7 as they are definetly the fastest ROMs out there.
It's actually so much easier than a native Android device like a G2 *cough*.
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Thanks guys! I think ill try the nand way of things. At first glance it looks so damn intimidating, theres so many steps!
A few questions:
Does whatever radio i decide to flash conflict with any certain roms?(i was looking at the link you provided and thats probly what im going to use but it didnt say anything anywhere about radios)
And Is a custom kernel reccomended... Is it that much better than stock? (on the vibrant it makes a huge deal thats why im asking)
Overclocking: is it essential to overclock these devices and if so is the program on these phones setcpu? Or antother one? And is it ok to set on boot?
LOL! One last Q for now: After everythings said and done and installed is it ok to hit reboot from the power menu or would the user have to shut down and then power back on?
**all these questions are reffering to NAND**
No the radio doesn't. Just use the 2.15.50.14 one and you'll be fine. All the suitable kernels are built in to the Rom so you don't really have to worry about that. SetCPU is choice but I don't think there's any need but if you want the extra speed you can. Set on boot works too AFAIK. oh and yeah reboot will work properly. It's recommended to shut down and start again though.
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none of the radios above 2.12.50 seem to have any conflicts as far as I can tell.
Overclocking is pointless IMO, if your ROM doesn't work smooth as hell on 998mhz then the ROM is fubar and you should get another one. No sense putting your hardware at risk.
All kernels are "custom" since there is no official Android on HD2 build, I would just stay with whichever kernel comes in the ROM, the chefs here generally know what they are doing as far as which kernel to use. Tytung's kernel seems to be the best at the moment IMO for NAND.
One more question guys... thanks for all the info and guidance. Im in the usa and useing the tmobile hd2 am wondering if all the roms or more specspecifically the rom you gave me the link too work for that phone? Thanks again.
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One more question guys... thanks for all the info and guidance. Im in the usa and useing the tmobile hd2 am wondering if all the roms or more specspecifically the rom you gave me the link too work for that phone? Thanks again.
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everything works on all HD2s except you can flash a .51 radio on the euro version. This is obsolete since you won't be flashing anything below 2.12.50 anyways (or there's no reason for you to). Also some WM6.5 roms may be euro only.
So any Android ROM you see in the NAND or SD dev you can flash to any HD2 and be fine, and actually you have the advantage here. You see, the TMOUSA HD2 has 1gb ROM instead of the 512 in the Euro, so this means you can flash the Desire HD roms on NAND without having to squash everything and go thru a lot of ext parition drama, unless you still want to.
short answer is this: Flash whatever Android ROM you want, you're good to go.
edit: also note some ROMs have a tmo version and euro version, these are just optimized with APNs and set up to work with the network better, if you get a choice go with tmo, if not then that's fine too.
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everything works on all HD2s except you can flash a .51 radio on the euro version. This is obsolete since you won't be flashing anything below 2.12.50 anyways (or there's no reason for you to). Also some WM6.5 roms may be euro only.
So any Android ROM you see in the NAND or SD dev you can flash to any HD2 and be fine, and actually you have the advantage here. You see, the TMOUSA HD2 has 1gb ROM instead of the 512 in the Euro, so this means you can flash the Desire HD roms on NAND without having to squash everything and go thru a lot of ext parition drama, unless you still want to.
short answer is this: Flash whatever Android ROM you want, you're good to go.
edit: also note some ROMs have a tmo version and euro version, these are just optimized with APNs and set up to work with the network better, if you get a choice go with tmo, if not then that's fine too.
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thanks for useful info.....i am really in love wid HD2
If you install HSPL, is that considered as rooting your phone once you install android?
No, HSPL only turns off your device's security so that you can flash any ROM.
As per Android, you need to root it yourself. [But why? 99.9% of the ROMs are already pre-rooted].
hardspl just unlocks the bootloader of htc hd2 !!
great work by bepe and cotulla there !! !!
after installing hspl, the bootloader is open and magldr and clk can be installed which act as custom bootloader so as to install and run any custom os or rom !!
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Any android ROM you flash from xda is going to be rooted already.
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The answer has been said above, but root is a user on the OS - just a FYI.
Root HD2
I wonder if wilfred888 was meaning that if you install HSPL they will be able to use cracked apps? Just a thought.
i have a htc hd2 with a android gingerbreed nand rom that i downloaded from here works perfectly amazing phone even today but however my device is not rooted it is very annoying how do i root the gingerbreed build on my phone ive tried super onclick no joy and a few other apps but still nothing i dont want to rebooted another rom as this one is great but i need it rooted any advice on what programme i could use would be appreciated thanks guys you rock
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i have a htc hd2 with a android gingerbreed nand rom that i downloaded from here works perfectly amazing phone even today but however my device is not rooted it is very annoying how do i root the gingerbreed build on my phone ive tried super onclick no joy and a few other apps but still nothing i dont want to rebooted another rom as this one is great but i need it rooted any advice on what programme i could use would be appreciated thanks guys you rock
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As far as I know all GB ROMs come rooted. Just flash a different and more modern ROM and you'll be fine.
No the SPL hard or not does not give you root accesd. The spl is what allows you to flash custom roms on your phone. As an above poster stated almost all if not all newer roms come pre rooted so you'd be fine.
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No the SPL hard or not does not give you root accesd. The spl is what allows you to flash custom roms on your phone. As an above poster stated almost all if not all newer roms come pre rooted so you'd be fine.
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Try not to open old threads when trying to get your 10 posts, you may be providing useful advice but the fact is that it's not really directed towards anyone. At least you're doing the right thing and helping people rather than just spamming though, so I haven't reported you.
my brother didnt wait for me and try to did it himself .
got his new tmobile hd2, and try to put android on nand.
now its a brick.
witch device do i need to get to connect to the jtag? and if you guys have a guide ill be happy to have one..
thank you !
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google 'riffbox' or 'ortjtag'
and you also need a jig (which may or may not come with the jtag box) so also google 'jtag hd2 jig'
dose it respond to anything you may be able to task 29 it or try a winmo rom from htc them selfs as thats a auto exe file im sure there is a sd card method if you csan get it to the multi bar screen