Is it possible to run a whole new OS (in this case I was thinking WP7 Mango Beta) on our phones. It would be like a port over. I'm not talking about a Metro UI, I'm talking about the real OS. The reason why I ask this is because I'm getting really bored with my phone. I think it would be cool dualbooting a whole new OS.
So, is it possible?
I know on the HD2 it is possible. A phone that originally only supported windows 6.5 now has native android, windows 7, meego and ubuntu. So it is not a far stretch of imagination to say that it is possible on the mt4g. Will it be done? I highly doubt it, but hey, who knows. Maybe you can be the first to do it.
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vikashfoolsu said:
Is it possible to run a whole new OS (in this case I was thinking WP7 Mango Beta) on our phones. It would be like a port over. I'm not talking about a Metro UI, I'm talking about the real OS. The reason why I ask this is because I'm getting really bored with my phone. I think it would be cool dualbooting a whole new OS.
So, is it possible?
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Well I would have to say that since there are licensing issues with any version of windows that this is unlikely... As it would then be a pirated copy of the OS!
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The hd2 is what brought this to my attention. I had another question, how is hd2 able to run windows phone 7 without pirating issues?
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The hd2 is what brought this to my attention. I had another question, how is hd2 able to run windows phone 7 without pirating issues?
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The hd2 was originally a windows phone. It can be used with android because some people were really determined and put in some hard work to make it work on that phone.
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vikashfoolsu said:
The hd2 is what brought this to my attention. I had another question, how is hd2 able to run windows phone 7 without pirating issues?
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Good question! To which my only logical answer is... By law it shouldn't be able too unless there was a leaked test Rom or something. But it was a windows phone to begin with, so maybe less of a priority because of that... The reason the hd2 can run android is cause it is an open source product much like Linux and can be put on anything
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If you want until windows 8 comes out, there might be some people working on it. Windows 8 will have ARM support which will make it easier to get working, but would still need drivers for certain functions.
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I see....so it, in all technicality, it is possible to get WP7 on our phones, but because of legal issues and hardware compatibility problems, nobody bothers to attempt it?
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vikashfoolsu said:
I see....so it, in all technicality, it is possible to get WP7 on our phones, but because of legal issues and hardware compatibility problems, nobody bothers to attempt it?
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No one will do it because it's illegal, the devs would get a cease and desist order if they even attempt to put it on other phones....It may be possible but the lack of drivers would make it a no go, I don't think drivers would need to be ported from other phones from htc using mango already.
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Possible to make windows 6.5 on wildfire?
everything it's possibile, but it's useless and you have to do a long work to do that...
lol, I thought everyone wanted it the other way round?
Why would you want to? Wm6.5 is obsolete and horrible... you'd have better luck porting Wine to Android I reckon!
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jonusc said:
Why would you want to? Wm6.5 is obsolete and horrible... you'd have better luck porting Wine to Android I reckon!
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Wine for Android? Is that even possible? And what would make that?
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Nah probably not, since Wine is not an emulator and requires an x86 CPU whereas most phones are ARM. There exists DOSBox, but Wildfire ain't good enough for it
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why wm 6.5, the question shuold be wm7
Why do you want change to wm? There are many costume roms with a awesome style. Maybe you'll find another solution without wm
Is it possible? Id love to play with it lol
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Someone delete this lol I change my mind
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That's not going too happen. Windows is copywrited it'd be like stealing a copy of windows 7 and installing it on your pc. Illegal
As long it is a Windows 7 phone it has to be Windows OS. As for android which is opensource...
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its really hard to do.... but
why change your mind? just becuase someone said it was illegal?
Actually, its in the process of being done on the EVO, Its not final if it will work or start, but it was able to boot. Maybe at the End of the Summer, it may be available for the Evo, and it might get ported to the epic, but the chances are highly unlikely.
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Actually, its in the process of being done on the EVO, Its not final if it will work or start, but it was able to boot. Maybe at the End of the Summer, it may be available for the Evo, and it might get ported to the epic, but the chances are highly unlikely.
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One of my favorite features of the HTC phones was the ability to dual-boot android or WinMO. The Touch Pro was awesome with this. Unfortunately HTC doesn't want to make a decent phone with a keyboard anymore, and nobody else likes WinMO.
Launcher 7 is about as close as we'll come... I'm happy enough with it
Wp7 sucks.. enough said...
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jeffyv2 said:
Wp7 sucks.. enough said...
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+1 why would even conjure this idea when you own android and can do way more with it. Wait til android comes to desktops. OOOOOOHHHHH SH****T
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Netflix woould be one reason.
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Well we all know android is better. I just want to play with it out of the sake of curiousity... I owned a tilt back in the day and I HATED Winmo. But now that the os has been completely revised and its actually good and hasn't fallen flat on its face id like to try it out. Just out of curiousity lol
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It won't happen. Ever.
Incompatible hardware, closed source OS, and a dozen other reasons.
Wouldn't a dual boot of some other os be nice right about now? whats an os out we should get to dual boot?
None. No other device uses the same hardware as ours and writing drivers for an entire OS is an unbelievable undertaking we don't have the devs for.
063_XOBX said:
None. No other device uses the same hardware as ours and writing drivers for an entire OS is an unbelievable undertaking we don't have the devs for.
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it sucks how its the other way around though for windows users
XxLostSoulxX said:
it sucks how its the other way around though for windows users
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They don't have a dev community so not really. So far there has been one successful "jailbreak" that ruins their ability to update forever. Not much of a future there.
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They don't have a dev community so not really. So far there has been one successful "jailbreak" that ruins their ability to update forever. Not much of a future there.
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For 7 right? I know Windows Mobile 6 had the ability to dual-boot with Android just fine...
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Yeah, I gave my wife my old touch pro 2, she runs froyo on it... doesn't even use winmo anymore.
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The droid incredible can dual boot 2 android roms but that's becouse of its generous internal memory. It would be near impossible for us on our pathetic 400mb or so.
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For 7 right? I know Windows Mobile 6 had the ability to dual-boot with Android just fine...
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That's what convinced me to come to Android. I had a Windows Mobile 6 phone, and after dual booting with Android for about a month, I realized I liked it a lot better and decided that my next phone would be an Android one. And that was a big deal for me, because I was developing apps for my Windows phone but had never made an Android app before.
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For 7 right? I know Windows Mobile 6 had the ability to dual-boot with Android just fine...
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yes Windows Mobile 6
icevapor said:
Yeah, I gave my wife my old touch pro 2, she runs froyo on it... doesn't even use winmo anymore.
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Very cool!.. I played with android on my TP2 before I got the epic
What build are you using for your wife? I have a couple of "non techie" friends who are stuck with TP2's and i would love to get froyo working on them. Does everything work? camera, sound etc?
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Very cool!.. I played with android on my TP2 before I got the epic
What build are you using for your wife? I have a couple of "non techie" friends who are stuck with TP2's and i would love to get froyo working on them. Does everything work? camera, sound etc?
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Uhhh f...06 (... means I can't remeber, its something like frx06 or something) w/ one of of the updated kernels in the forums. Bluetooth doesn't work, but my wife never uses it.
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For 7 right? I know Windows Mobile 6 had the ability to dual-boot with Android just fine...
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The OS has nothing to do w/ whether you can dual boot or not. But more depends on the hardware and and what software and/or drivers the community has put together.
Comming from winmo, I see no reason why anyone would want to go to it from android.
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icevapor said:
Comming from winmo, I see no reason why anyone would want to go to it from android.
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This.
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I'd love to run WebOS on my Epic.
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I'd love to run WebOS on my Epic.
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You never will. It's mostly closed source and even if by some miracle someone got it working HP would sue them into oblivion.
I would like to boot Fedora 3.4 on my Epic.
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You never will. It's mostly closed source and even if by some miracle someone got it working HP would sue them into oblivion.
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Yeah I know. Just wishful thinking on my part. I love WebOS but the hardware they're giving it sucks beyond sucking.
3-4days ago, I saw that HTC announced Titan and Radar.. and both the cpu is msm8255. Moreover Radar is 1GHZ.... So I think we can port wp7 to our DHD... What do you think?
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Um why wp7 on the dhd?
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Better than nothing... Isn't it? I always envy HD2....
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Eh true, I dunno love android too much. but am curious about wp7
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It wolud be awesome a dual boot android wp7 but i think only cotulla can do it
Sounds interesting. I hope someone can do this id love to give it a try.
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Well, the problem isn't just the chipset. There are also other hardware parts that probably aren't the same as in these devices.
And that parts are the problem because wp7 is closed source so you can't really modify drivers, kernel,... Since android is open source, the drivers can be "easily" modified or replaced by others.
But if HTC uses the exact same hardware in these devices, there is a SMALL possibility that it will be portet someday. But imo it's unlikely that it will be ported.
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It would be awesome indeed. But I doubt that someone will do it.
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In my opinion, if you want to use wp7 and don't want to spend very much, you can buy a used hd2 around 100€... I am playing with this idea now, because I use two phones and wp7 looks nice and works good, but my main phone is and will be my DHD with Android because android can do more, than I would wish on a phone. It's the most amazing operating system ever...
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the question, why? I would have answered, just because of the good feeling that our phone can do that. I would never use W7 but I would like to try to look again and tell myself that the DHD with Android platform the best choice.
Well, if there are someone who will to create a new custom bootloader, den I think multi boot on multi os is possible
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I saw someone discovered dual boot between sense rom and non sense rom....
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[sarcasm] Wow, surprised this hasn't been asked before[/sarcasm] If you want WP7 on your phone go buy a windoze phone, it's closed source and would be a helluva a lot of effort for people to go to and why bother?.
Anyway MODS any chance you can close this thread as you have the other 100+ asking this question?
I suppose that it will be nice to have dual boot, but IMO wp7 sucks. The effort in achieving this is just not worth it.
Have wp7 on my work phone and I must say that win 6.5.x on my topaz is much better. Yes the speed and UI are better but some general things (which are very annoying in daily use) need to be polished.
Many missed calls as the wp7 can be powered off while phone is locked. So every time you put it in your pocked you must be sure that power button is face down.
i just can't honestly think why any one would want wp7 as a daily OS, maybe for a play, but why, really why?
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i just can't honestly think why any one would want wp7 as a daily OS, maybe for a play, but why, really why?
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Why does people keep asking this question? It's because we can. Please write it down for future reference.
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Android is the best
ill stick to android..one of the best...
I for one would love to see WP7 dual boot with CM7 on my DHD. Even if it's just for a proof of concept. The new Mango update does give WP7 ability to run on DHD hardware. Maybe not e'thing would work but the chipset will be supported. So porting it to DHD shouldm't be that difficult.
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[sarcasm] Wow, surprised this hasn't been asked before[/sarcasm] If you want WP7 on your phone go buy a windoze phone, it's closed source and would be a helluva a lot of effort for people to go to and why bother?.
Anyway MODS any chance you can close this thread as you have the other 100+ asking this question?
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Garbage suggestion
The Same question was in my mind and i was going to post topic about it right now
why there is no chance to get WP7 running at Desire HD ???
Anyone ever try to make a hackinphone?
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hackinphone?
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iOS on a device other than an iPhone. Like I made a hackintosh by putting OSX on my old Asus laptop.
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iOS on a device other than an iPhone. Like I made a hackintosh by putting OSX on my old Asus laptop.
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i was going to hackintosh my dell mini but like windows 7 to much and are u talking about a I phone custom rom for are phones it's a launcher very close to the I phone ui called espier launcher and it's free
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Edited Build Prop
Beats Audio
Gingerbread 2.3.5
Dark Side Sense 3.3 !
There's also miui. Ios copy in my opinion.
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Anyone ever try to make a hackinphone?
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lol dude... this is android, otherwise known as the "iOS killer"
we don't need iOS roms here
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lol dude... this is android, otherwise known as the "iOS killer"
we don't need iOS roms here
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lol dude... this is android, otherwise known as the "iOS killer"
we don't need iOS roms here
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MiUi is mimics iOS5.x almost in every fashion. If you were to lay a iOS theme on it, and did a screen shot no one would know the difference.
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MiUi sounds like a great mimic, and I'm going to give it a try. But is there any way to make it the primary operating system of a phone like the Droid X? What is the fundamental difference between the phones that is preventing migration?
Try iLauncher by SUCKGAMONI on the Google Playstore. If you want the MIUI launcher here it is:View attachment MIUI_Launcher_3.1.apk
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MiUi is mimics iOS5.x almost in every fashion. If you were to lay a iOS theme on it, and did a screen shot no one would know the difference.
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until you went into the music player or the app store or the video player or the settings...
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until you went into the music player or the app store or the video player or the settings...
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Well your name fits you perfectly.
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Well your name fits you perfectly.
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Thanks, can I send a couple of representatives over to talk?
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iOS on a device other than an iPhone. Like I made a hackintosh by putting OSX on my old Asus laptop.
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who would want a crappy, simple/basic, "advertised-to-retards" kinda product like that. apple sucks.. ill stick to android
I am only asking out of curiosity and not out of a desire. I know that ios is not open source so making an ios rom is not realistic, but if super hacker really wanted to, could he or she make it work some how? Or what about a program which could sniff out the source code for closed source platforms?
I am very happy with Android no desire for iPhone(unless free) just asking
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I am only asking out of curiosity and not out of a desire. I know that ios is not open source so making an ios rom is not realistic, but if super hacker really wanted to, could he or she make it work some how? Or what about a program which could sniff out the source code for closed source platforms?
I am very happy with Android no desire for iPhone(unless free) just asking
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i dont think it would be too hard to port for a pro, the problem would be with drivers. how will iOS know what to do with your htc/samsung/etc hardware?
Theoretically, given unlimited amount of time and unlimited determination, one could make such a port work, at least partially.
Practically, given different HW of those phones, the amount of time and determination required to port anything newer than iOS3 are close to insane - unrealistic enough for anybody to want to do it.
If one were to say make a port of ios, would it be illegal to release it being that ios is closed source or would this fall under fair use? More than likely Apple would sue who ever released it lol
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If one were to say make a port of ios, would it be illegal to release it being that ios is closed source or would this fall under fair use? More than likely Apple would sue who ever released it lol
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you will be sued for distributing it, whether making money or not.
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you will be sued for distributing it, whether making money or not.
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Gotta love Apple! This is probably the real reason it has never been distributed.
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