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Call me crazy but is there a way to flash a working WM 6.5 on to a Omnia 7 ?
The Hardware is great but i hate WP7...
Any Ideas ?
Highly unlikely to happen. they have to crack the bootloader first .. htc devices will get more support than samsung.. more devs focus on htcs
I would love to see some of the older windows mobile apps come to life in WP7. Surely it can't be too hard?
Maybe HTC HD2 could be a good solution? It has WM 6.5, Android can be installed or WP7 - there's so many opportunities.
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Hello everyone, I have been a fairly long time xda member (a little over a year), starting with the Touch Pro. I remember a time when new ROMs for the TP would be released almost daily. Since the release of WVGA phones, VGA devices such as the TP have lost a lot of the attention that they used to have. Now a days, if you want steady ROM releases, you have to have a WVGA device. In addition, Sense modifications are being made that take advantage of more powerful processors, such as the one on the HD2.
I have been thinking about purchasing an HD2 for the last few months, but lately I haven't been so sure. It seems like Windows mobile 6.5 is a dying OS. More and more devices are starting to run the Android OS and the new Windows Phone 7 seems to be stealing the spotlight away from WM6.5. I am worried that HTC and other companies aren't going to make handsets that run WM6.5 anymore, and focus their efforts on Android and Windows Phone 7. Is the HTC HD2 the last Windows Mobile 6.5 phone that will be manufactured? Will Microsoft and HTC slow down or stop their efforts to release new builds and software for WM6.5?
I guess my real question is, would it be worth it to make the upgrade to the HD2, or should I wait and see how Windows Phone 7 turns out? Or, should I jump ship on Windows Mobile all together and get an Android phone? I have played with Android, and I like Windows Mobile a lot more.
The future looks grim in my eyes for WM6.5
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Hello everyone, I have been a fairly long time xda member (about a year and a half), starting with the Touch Pro. I remember a time when new ROMs for the TP would be released almost daily. Since the release of WVGA phones, VGA devices such as the TP have lost a lot of the attention that they used to have. Now a days, if you want steady ROM releases, you have to have a WVGA device. In addition, Sense modifications are being made that take advantage of more powerful processors, such as the one on the HD2.
I have been thinking about purchasing an HD2 for the last few months, but lately I haven't been so sure. It seems like Windows mobile 6.5 is a dying OS. More and more devices are starting to run the Android OS and the new Windows Phone 7 seems to be stealing the spotlight away from WM6.5. I am worried that HTC and other companies aren't going to make handsets that run WM6.5 anymore, and focus their efforts on Android and Windows Phone 7. Is the HTC HD2 the last Windows Mobile 6.5 phone that will be manufactured? Will Microsoft and HTC slow down or stop their efforts to release new builds and software for WM6.5?
I guess my real question is, would it be worth it to make the upgrade to the HD2, or should I wait and see how Windows Phone 7 turns out? Or, should I jump ship on Windows Mobile all together and get an Android phone? I have played with Android, and I like Windows Mobile a lot more.
The future looks grim in my eyes for WM6.5
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yes this has been talked about a lot, the HD2 may be the last of the 6.5 phones, but I , myself, am not worried..
As long as XDA is around then we will have support for these phones, as well, as I am sure, a "non-official" version of WP7 for it ...
MS is going in a diff direction but as of June they were still releasing new builds of both 6.5 and 6.5.x , so MS has not dumped it yet ..
To hear some of the upper-ups at TMO tell me, as we have a corporate account with 20 HD2's, 6.5 is going to stick around, as more of an "enterprise OS", whereas WinPho7 will be the consumer push.
Hi,
Do you think it will be soon possible to avec a Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM for latests handsets runing Windows Phone 7, like HTC HD7 for instance ?
Or was it already done ?
The interest is for some corporate applications running exclusively on old 5.x / 6.x phones that will be soon unavailable on the market anymore...
Or is there already clearly hardware limitations detected ? HD2 and HD7 seem very close on a hardware characteristics...
colt54 said:
Do you think it will be soon possible to avec a Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM for latests handsets runing Windows Phone 7, like HTC HD7 for instance.
I don't think it will work as even though the hardware is similar, it will take quite a while to port it and I don't think any of the devs want Win 6.5 on a Win 7 device.
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Has anyone heard if, or tried for that matter to run, android on WP7 phones? I am fairly new to windows phones, but heard that they all could run android. Now that I am thinking about this, I have only seen it run on HTC devices. I am thinking of getting the focus tomorrow OR getting a telstra HD2, on which I know android works.
Why not just buy a new phone that already comes with Android? The DesireHD or something like that?
I want a phone with both, You know that 2 birds one stone thingy
Ah right
HTC HD2 is probably such a phone to support 2 versions of Windows OS as well as Android.
Windows phone 7 devices cannot run android yet, Windows mobile quite a few devices will have android ports.
Focus is windows phone 7, HD2 is Windows mobile 6.5
(there is a huge difference between windows phone and windows mobile)
All who would like to request developers for Win Phone 7 on their omnia 2 plzz post a request it below
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Yes I would like
I would like too
Even though porting of WP7 has been successful on device such as HD2, however, Microsoft seems not planning to help the developers and hackers in realizing the dream of running WP7, so most likely even if the porting is successful, most or some features and applications are NOT likely to work.
Refer to: http://wmpoweruser.com/microsoft-comments-on-windows-phone-7-htc-hd2-port/
i would still like to have another OS on my phone just wna get rid of winmo 6.5
fusioncoast said:
i would still like to have another OS on my phone just wna get rid of winmo 6.5
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LOL...aren't you satisfied with Android?
Omnia II Runs winmo
lj27416 said:
Omnia II Runs winmo
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There's a Android porting over now and I'm talking to Fusioncoast btw.
sure I do too
bu i have read before it's not possible cause of the buttons and minimume requirements
i hope u can do it
Yes please, that would be nice to play with.
I want it too...
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I would like to play with wp7 on my omnia2
i would love to have wp7 too! i support your team, gurus!
who wouldn't want if possible?
Omnia2 isn't in the same league with HD2 in terms of hardware specs.even if it's possible, i guess it will be extremely slow
Microsoft has officiallly announced that no WM6.5 or WM6.1 operator can upgrade to Windows Phone 7....even by flashing......
count me in, i want winmo7 too...
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Microsoft has officiallly announced that no WM6.5 or WM6.1 operator can upgrade to Windows Phone 7....even by flashing......
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This is the truth, sadly. And this thread is going nowhere.
Sorry guys.
can we upgrade this phone omnia 2 i8000 to windows phone 7.1 or 7.5 or any 7. version ?
Sorry, but there is no way to do that. WP7 is based a bit different than WM6.x. So, if you like WP7 then by a phone with that OS or you can get HD2 and have WM6.x, WP7 and Android on the same phone, like me
mendoza1 said:
Sorry, but there is no way to do that. WP7 is based a bit different than WM6.x. So, if you like WP7 then by a phone with that OS or you can get HD2 and have WM6.x, WP7 and Android on the same phone, like me
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I love this. If I have understood correctly, you are saying that you can run WM6.x. WP7 and Android on the same phone? Which one? HD2?? or also QTEK 9100
SE Xperia X1
SE Xperia X2
HTC Touch Pro
HTC Touch Pro 2
HTC 7 Pro
HTC HD2
I have an Qtek 9100 and would love to play on it
tx foe letting us know!!
You can run several OSs on HD2, not the QTek.
HD2 is the best phone I ever had, so if you like to experiment with ROMs and OSs than buy HD2 and you will be pleased with it. Unless, you need keyboard....
What´s the difference bwn the omnia2 and the hd2 that enables the latter to run w7 but not the former?
And do you have a multiboot installed or you have to re-flash the mobile to run a different OS?
I´d like to buy the same phone as I´m used to the old winme and i´m not very happy with android either. Just to have more options.