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A friend of mine asked me if I could put Android on his HD2 as he bought one with German language and he doesn't understand anything at all. Now we wan't to completely remove Windows Mobile 6.5.x from the phone and install Android. ICS with HTC sense is prefered but and older version will also do.
I have found multiple tutorials, but I wonder which method is the best. NAND or SD?
At this point in time we don't have any SD-card in the phone, so I asume the Sd method isn't usable. But which method and ROM is the best to use if we want to be able to switch language and want Android experience as close to the HTC android phones as possible.
Are there any bugs with the HD2 in Android? I've heard that there should be problems with the sound when calling people, and the data-connection should be unstable as well. Are these rumors still current or have they been solved?
CTSRP said:
Hi
A friend of mine asked me if I could put Android on his HD2 as he bought one with German language and he doesn't understand anything at all. Now we wan't to completely remove Windows Mobile 6.5.x from the phone and install Android. ICS with HTC sense is prefered but and older version will also do.
I have found multiple tutorials, but I wonder which method is the best. NAND or SD?
At this point in time we don't have any SD-card in the phone, so I asume the Sd method isn't usable. But which method and ROM is the best to use if we want to be able to switch language and want Android experience as close to the HTC android phones as possible.
Are there any bugs with the HD2 in Android? I've heard that there should be problems with the sound when calling people, and the data-connection should be unstable as well. Are these rumors still current or have they been solved?
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Ok. First of all, Nand is the better of the two. As your friend want to COMPLETELY remove winmo6.5 its better to use NAND. Currently there is no ICS sense rom but the sense gingerbread roms work very smoothly with all features working. So you may want to try that. And dont worry you can change language from german to english. You basically select english at the startup setup.
One more thing. Even when installing the NAND version of android you will need a sd-card. The rom is a .zip file which must be copied to the sd card and this rom will be installed on the phones internal memory hence: NAND.
Hope it helps
Feel free to ask but i suggest you search it first and read more, because clearly you are lacking information
adil1508 said:
Ok. First of all, Nand is the better of the two. As your friend want to COMPLETELY remove winmo6.5 its better to use NAND. Currently there is no ICS sense rom but the sense gingerbread roms work very smoothly with all features working. So you may want to try that. And dont worry you can change language from german to english. You basically select english at the startup setup.
One more thing. Even when installing the NAND version of android you will need a sd-card. The rom is a .zip file which must be copied to the sd card and this rom will be installed on the phones internal memory hence: NAND.
Hope it helps
Feel free to ask but i suggest you search it first and read more, because clearly you are lacking information
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Thanks for the quick reply. I will read further on how to install using NAND method. But how big should the SD-card be. As said he doesn't have a SD-card in his phone. I have one but it's only 128MB, so not a whole lot. If the phone was using the MiniSD cards instead of microSD I had a 1GB card. But isn't it possible to get a Gingerbread HTC Sense ROM and then extract and repack it on the PC so it can fit the 128MB card. Or are the packed ROM's small enough to fit on a 128MB card?
Tell your friend to invest in about 4GB or more, once you've got a few apps, video video clips, music files and recovery backups then the 4GB will be eaten fairly fast imo. If you grab a class 6 card you can get one for less then $1/GB (aud).
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Tell your friend to invest in about 4GB or more, once you've got a few apps, video video clips, music files and recovery backups then the 4GB will be eaten fairly fast imo. If you grab a class 6 card you can get one for less then $1/GB (aud).
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Sure I'll tell him that. But will the installationsfiles for Android fit on my 128MB card?
CTSRP said:
Sure I'll tell him that. But will the installationsfiles for Android fit on my 128MB card?
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No.
CTSRP said:
Thanks for the quick reply. I will read further on how to install using NAND method. But how big should the SD-card be. As said he doesn't have a SD-card in his phone. I have one but it's only 128MB, so not a whole lot. If the phone was using the MiniSD cards instead of microSD I had a 1GB card. But isn't it possible to get a Gingerbread HTC Sense ROM and then extract and repack it on the PC so it can fit the 128MB card. Or are the packed ROM's small enough to fit on a 128MB card?
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Dont forget the thanks button
Anyways, basically the sd card is used to put the rom in and all music, pics, apps etc. will be stored on the sd card. plus, the 128 mb card will not hold the rom. Some files of the rom are installed on the sd card as well(some) so yeah, like the above user said, invest in a class 4 sd card with a fairly high amount of memory.
try the link below, it could give you an idea
You will need an SD card anyhow as mentioned before. Not only for flashing it to Nand, also some ROMs needs an ext(2 or 3) partition on the SD card. Specially when it's an EU device as yours might seems.
F.e.: I got an EU model and the great Energy ROM running - this needs a 1Gb ext(2 or 3) partition on the SD card!
-> It depends on the ROM of your choice.
Right now, I guess there is now ICS ROM with sense out there - or an I wrong?
I can definetly recommend the NRG ROM as this one runs really great. There is also a very good lashing instruction in its thread.
Good luck :good:
Ooh, ooh, me too!!
adil1508 said:
Ok. First of all, Nand is the better of the two. As your friend want to COMPLETELY remove winmo6.5 its better to use NAND. Currently there is no ICS sense rom but the sense gingerbread roms work very smoothly with all features working. So you may want to try that. And dont worry you can change language from german to english. You basically select english at the startup setup.
One more thing. Even when installing the NAND version of android you will need a sd-card. The rom is a .zip file which must be copied to the sd card and this rom will be installed on the phones internal memory hence: NAND.
Hope it helps
Feel free to ask but i suggest you search it first and read more, because clearly you are lacking information
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I also want to completely remove winmo6.5 from my wife's stock UK HTC HD2 and put some form of Android OS on it so I can then get her Ovivo Mobile mobile connection to work (I'm not bothered about dual boot functionality). Could you quickly link to a guide you would recommend to do this ("Thanks" will always be given :good: ).
(Note: I had an HD2 once, and bricked it after 9 months of ownership with a dodgy radio, so I'm a bit once-bitten-twice-shy about doing it).
shaggydabbydo said:
I also want to completely remove winmo6.5 from my wife's stock UK HTC HD2 and put some form of Android OS on it so I can then get her Ovivo Mobile mobile connection to work (I'm not bothered about dual boot functionality). Could you quickly link to a guide you would recommend to do this ("Thanks" will always be given :good: ).
(Note: I had an HD2 once, and bricked it after 9 months of ownership with a dodgy radio, so I'm a bit once-bitten-twice-shy about doing it).
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Here is my favourite guide. It's incredibly simple. You should really search before posting though, it isn't difficult to find.
Thanks
Nigeldg said:
Here is my favourite guide. It's incredibly simple. You should really search before posting though, it isn't difficult to find.
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Thanks (and "thanks" added). I did search [and read the "sticky") but there were lots and I got confused as to which one. I'll give the one you recommend a go (which incidentaly did not come up in my [brief] search. :good:
shaggydabbydo said:
(which incidentaly did not come up in my [brief] search. :good:
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Ah, you see, it shouldn't be [brief] but [thorough]
Nigeldg said:
Ah, you see, it shouldn't be [brief] but [thorough]
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Ah, but I would have been thoroughly confused with a thorough search, fortunatly I was only briefly confused .
Hi all,
Actually this is a 2 part question.
I just updated my i9505 to CM12 lollipop.
1. This is a minor problem out of the 2. The internal storage bar shows a wrong proportion. As you can see, I have 1.81GB available but it's taking up half the meter bar for some reason.
2. From the photos you can see I have 13.31GB available on my external SD card, yet when I tried to move some apps from internal storage to SD, lollipop is giving me an error saying "Couldn't move app. Not enough storage space." Which is obviously not true. I also tried using Link2SD but it gave me an message saying "INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR".
If anyone could give me some advice on how to fix the mentioned problems I will be very grateful.
Thank you in advance,
Nelson
nelsonchan27 said:
Hi all,
Actually this is a 2 part question.
I just updated my i9505 to CM12 lollipop.
1. This is a minor problem out of the 2. The internal storage bar shows a wrong proportion. As you can see, I have 1.81GB available but it's taking up half the meter bar for some reason.
2. From the photos you can see I have 13.31GB available on my external SD card, yet when I tried to move some apps from internal storage to SD, lollipop is giving me an error saying "Couldn't move app. Not enough storage space." Which is obviously not true. I also tried using Link2SD but it gave me an message saying "INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR".
If anyone could give me some advice on how to fix the mentioned problems I will be very grateful.
Thank you in advance,
Nelson
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is this made by a clean flash? and which developer did you downloaded CM12? some roms dont have App2Sd support YET.
xDroidZz said:
is this made by a clean flash? and which developer did you downloaded CM12? some roms dont have App2Sd support YET.
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Hi thanks for replying.
It is a clean flash. I downloaded it from cyanogenmod.
nelsonchan27 said:
Hi thanks for replying.
It is a clean flash. I downloaded it from cyanogenmod.
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well a user reported that app2sd isn't working for him.
Quote on the Original Android Development CM12 Thread.
Pomp92 said:
Guys I still can't move app to SD. It says "not enougth free space" or something similar.
Searching on the web I found other people with the same problem but no valid solution. My SD is 32gb and fat32. Tks
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as i have not tested CM12 yet but Cr-Droid based on CM12, i dont have storage problems actually. but i'm on 4.4.4 now actually.
ok thanks. I assume it's a problem with CM. I guess all we can do is wait for updates!
May not be a CM problem...
nelsonchan27 said:
ok thanks. I assume it's a problem with CM. I guess all we can do is wait for updates!
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Hello All,
I am a long time user of custom ROMs for my devices, as I'm sure most here are. I have had my Shield tablet (wifi only 16gb version) since January, and in that time I have tried many ROMs. The only one that has allowed app to be installed onto the SD was the rooted stock Lollipop. I have tried, PAC (KK and LP beta), CM12, and ASOP 5.0. All fresh installs of these ROMs have lead to the infamous 'Couldn't Move app. Not enough Storage Space.'.... Therefore, I am waiting patiently for a solid ROM that allows App2SD. Keep up the good work!
Normally on andriods I would use Xposed and use the sd mod, however on my Note 4, I see that just to get xposed installed it requires a different rom then stock and it's not completely stable. (What I have found from looking on the forums)
So anyways, my question is, for the note 4, what does people use so they are able to use the OBB off of the SD card on their phones? Is there another stable way?
Thanks for the replies!
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Normally on andriods I would use Xposed and use the sd mod, however on my Note 4, I see that just to get xposed installed it requires a different rom then stock and it's not completely stable. (What I have found from looking on the forums)
So anyways, my question is, for the note 4, what does people use so they are able to use the OBB off of the SD card on their phones? Is there another stable way?
Thanks for the replies!
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Which Note 4 Variant You Have???
I'm Using Xposed with OBB To SD Module on Note 4 SM-N910F & It's Stable No issues...
TechLife said:
Which Note 4 Variant You Have???
I'm Using Xposed with OBB To SD Module on Note 4 SM-N910F & It's Stable No issues...
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I have the Note 4 SM-910T. I can't find any solid tutorials or anything to get it on my ROM.
jlw_4049 said:
Normally on andriods I would use Xposed and use the sd mod, however on my Note 4, I see that just to get xposed installed it requires a different rom then stock and it's not completely stable. (What I have found from looking on the forums)
So anyways, my question is, for the note 4, what does people use so they are able to use the OBB off of the SD card on their phones? Is there another stable way?
Thanks for the replies!
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Folder mount
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devasque.fmount
Been using it for a while with no problems. 32 gb internal is not enough and that where this comes in.
Hi, anyone looking to dual boot ROMs on their Galaxy S7 I have made a short 10 minute video on how to do it, I hope this helps people out!
Link to app : https://dbp.noobdev.io
For wat varient
A month ago came from nexus 5 world and I'm big time missing MultiROM. Thank you for the app
However, while installing secondary patched ROM in TWRP, I've got Error 1 - while installing both Lineage OS and AOSP Extended.
I wonder where I can error messages codes to figure our what's wrong with my setup.
Upd. 1 - just checked free space and /system got 0B.
- Does that explains error 1 message (see above)
- how I can free space on /system partition
- How I can get more space on /system partition - to be able to use this app? In other words, do I need to play around with PIT file? Or how else (and more safely) I can extend /system at the cost of interbal storage?
starche_old said:
A month ago came from nexus 5 world and I'm big time missing MultiROM. Thank you for the app
However, while installing secondary patched ROM in TWRP, I've got Error 1 - while installing both Lineage OS and AOSP Extended.
I wonder where I can error messages codes to figure our what's wrong with my setup.
Upd. 1 - just checked free space and /system got 0B.
- Does that explains error 1 message (see above)
- how I can free space on /system partition
- How I can get more space on /system partition - to be able to use this app? In other words, do I need to play around with PIT file? Or how else (and more safely) I can extend /system at the cost of interbal storage?
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I'm not completely sure how to resize system partition but have you got a very large sized ROM installed? I was running superman ROM and still had more than enough space to install it. You could try to download an app like system app uninstalled and either delete apps like Facebook and install them again from the playstore if they are installed as system apps or delete very rarely used apps like SHealth (just an example, I don't use my S Health but you might)
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For wat varient
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I am using the G930F but it will work on all S7 exynos variants.
Here is a list of the supported devices :
https://dbp.noobdev.io/supported_devices.html
dylanneve1 said:
I'm not completely sure how to resize system partition but have you got a very large sized ROM installed? I was running superman ROM and still had more than enough space to install it. You could try to download an app like system app uninstalled and either delete apps like Facebook and install them again from the playstore if they are installed as system apps or delete very rarely used apps like SHealth (just an example, I don't use my S Health but you might)
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Yes I do. But it still shows 0. I deleted quite a few apps, but no luck.
dylanneve1 said:
I am using the G930F but it will work on all S7 exynos variants.
Here is a list of the supported devices :
https://dbp.noobdev.io/supported_devices.html
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So this will not work for the qualcomm devices , there is a way to use roms on a locked bootloader but unsure how on the s7 ,its on the redmi device , thus has been tested on
miko12312 said:
So this will not work for the qualcomm devices , there is a way to use roms on a locked bootloader but unsure how on the s7 ,its on the redmi device , thus has been tested on
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I doubt it, without a fully working recovery it isn't possible. I could be wrong, there might be a way, but I wouldn't count on it.
starche_old said:
Yes I do. But it still shows 0. I deleted quite a few apps, but no luck.
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Are you running stock or custom ROM already?
dylanneve1 said:
Are you running stock or custom ROM already?
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Stock MM, model number is 930W8
starche_old said:
Stock MM, model number is 930W8
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If you really want to maybe install a ROM like superman ROM and try it. It might be a problem with the ROM
dylanneve1 said:
If you really want to maybe install a ROM like superman ROM and try it. It might be a problem with the ROM
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What do you mean - the problem with current ROM?
BTW, I tried to flash aosp rom
starche_old said:
What do you mean - the problem with current ROM?
BTW, I tried to flash aosp rom
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If you are using the stock Samsung firmware maybe it is causing issues, if you tried flashing something like Hydrarom or Superman ROM it might work
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If you are using the stock Samsung firmware maybe it is causing issues, if you tried flashing something like Hydrarom or Superman ROM it might work
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While been a flash-o-holic, I tried that. But while there are no official ROMs for for 930W8, thus there is no proper CSC. That screwing up my modem big times. I'm not sure what's wrong, but after ANY N ROM I do not have network connection.
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While been a flash-o-holic, I tried that. But while there are no official ROMs for for 930W8, thus there is no proper CSC. That screwing up my modem big times. I'm not sure what's wrong, but after ANY N ROM I do not have network connection.
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Might be that then if there are no official ROMs, I'm really not sure, I've seen this work definitely on SM-G930F/G935F and dual sim models but I'm not sure about 930W8, really sorry
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Might be that then if there are no official ROMs, I'm really not sure, I've seen this work definitely on SM-G930F/G935F and dual sim models but I'm not sure about 930W8, really sorry
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No worries, buddy, it's all good. I'm waiting for official ROM and than I'll play this game
starche_old said:
No worries, buddy, it's all good. I'm waiting for official ROM and than I'll play this game
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Good luck , sorry I couldn't be more help with it
What if i want to flash a kernel for secondary rom?
skivnit said:
What if i want to flash a kernel for secondary rom?
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It should work, just flash the kernel in the secondary ROM slot.
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It should work, just flash the kernel in the secondary ROM slot.
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It did not work for me.
Hello All
A friend is visiting me and he wants to use the SD as internal storage on his SM J500F phone.
I only found one article on XDA. Can someone confirm if this is a working solution?
Thanks
tell him not to do it, it will slow his phone down and decrease perfomance
Ragazzza said:
tell him not to do it, it will slow his phone down and decrease perfomance
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Is the speed decrease substantial?
kiwigi said:
Is the speed decrease substantial?
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Yes, a lot of apps will be crashing, because most of apps nowdays are not meant to be stored on sd card, and phone storage will never be same as sd card storage, that is why the perfomance will go down.
Well in my opinion is one of the best options to be made to a j5 as it does not have enough storage to support the apps of today so my recommendation would be to put internal sd and leave you the necessary zip to do it
I think better option is to move to to SD card, by doing this i have 2.5 gb available, even though i have so many apps, but still, he can give adoptable storage a try and decide for himself
kiwigi said:
Hello All
A friend is visiting me and he wants to use the SD as internal storage on his SM J500F phone.
I only found one article on XDA. Can someone confirm if this is a working solution?
Thanks
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There is a method for Root users via Root Essentials or work around stock settings. I was able to get Adopted internal storage on stock 6.0.1, No luck on CM13 as the kernel doesent allow it.
@kiwigi I think that better is a debloated Rom and native app2sd. You should test and pick what you find better for you. I personally avoid as much as I can craps like Facebook, Snapchat, etc. which are always the great responsible of out of memory and so.
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@kiwigi I think that better is a debloated Rom and native app2sd. You should test and pick what you find better for you. I personally avoid as much as I can craps like Facebook, Snapchat, etc. which are always the great responsible of out of memory and so.
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Thanks. Have you got a suggestion for a debloated tomorrow? Or is there an option of rooting then debloated ourselves?
Or root and move apps to SD?
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"debloated ROM (not tomorrow, dum spell correct)
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Actually, googling things like debloated AOSP, debloated Lineage bring us very interesting things. We know that all stock roms need root and our work to recover valuable space. I like the CM/AOSP branded roms. There are lot of threads here in XDA about customize and debloat and apps to do such and that works with SD managing as well ?
Hopefully now there are plenty J5 roms for you to taste and choose.?
I want to use sd card as internal storage, and use it to download large files from playstore, but could not find solution please help.