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@all,
being an "old" xda-developer over from the artemis forums, i am awaiting my new touch hd within the next few days!
now i read through various posts from within your threads...and feel a complete novice again ( i wrote the sd-card-flashing wiki entry for artemis)...
- should i stay with the custom 6.1 rom in order to not fight with battery drains - i read plenty custom roms drain battery within a day
- tomtom seems to create a couple of worries, read the "compatible software entry on wiki for touch hd" - but according to some posts this doesnt seem to be fully upto date - does tomtom 7450 run?
any help highly appreciated!
greetz
thormdac
thormdac said:
@all,
being an "old" xda-developer over from the artemis forums, i am awaiting my new touch hd within the next few days!
now i read through various posts from within your threads...and feel a complete novice again ( i wrote the sd-card-flashing wiki entry for artemis)...
- should i stay with the custom 6.1 rom in order to not fight with battery drains - i read plenty custom roms drain battery within a day
- tomtom seems to create a couple of worries, read the "compatible software entry on wiki for touch hd" - but according to some posts this doesnt seem to be fully upto date - does tomtom 7450 run?
any help highly appreciated!
greetz
thormdac
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I ran an older version of Tom Tom 7 (might have been 7.2?) and it ran with no issues whatsoever.
For your first question, did you mean should u stay with the stock 6.1 ROM instead of changing to a custom one? If that's the case, then I'd say that new manila is totally worth the ROM swap. and as far as battery drain, I haven't noticed a difference. I think battery drain is more dependent on what radio you're using. I heard the new Radio drains battery faster (but better GPS). I've stayed with stock radio so far, but have changed ROMs several times and have noticed no difference in battery life. For me, under heavy (daily) use, the HD manages a full day. (this includes around 6 hours of music/radio, a couple phone calls and txts, email dling every 30min., facebook status downloading every 2 hours. and some internet.) I'm very content with the battery life.
oh, and WELCOME TO THE BLACKSTONE PORTION OF THE FORUM!
thormdac said:
@all,
being an "old" xda-developer over from the artemis forums, i am awaiting my new touch hd within the next few days!
now i read through various posts from within your threads...and feel a complete novice again ( i wrote the sd-card-flashing wiki entry for artemis)...
- should i stay with the custom 6.1 rom in order to not fight with battery drains - i read plenty custom roms drain battery within a day
- tomtom seems to create a couple of worries, read the "compatible software entry on wiki for touch hd" - but according to some posts this doesnt seem to be fully upto date - does tomtom 7450 run?
any help highly appreciated!
greetz
thormdac
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Haha same thing happened to me. After being idle for like 2 years, now i find that things changed alot... there are talking about SPL HSPL USPL and nbh files... But I adore the HD its just everything you need... You will love it.
Thanx for your infos,
basically sums up what i have been collecting browsing through them threads
roms are built on *.nbh, yet i cant find anything on sd-card-flashing - does that mean it doesnt work, flashing from sd?
Greetz
Flashing from SD works fine, there are threads scattered around the forum but nothing on the wiki as yet (?). From what I gather, limitations include people reporting problems flashing from >4GB cards and Transcend cards not working. I have successfully flashed images from a SanDisk 4GB Class 2.
The image file needs to be placed in the root of a blank FAT32 formatted card (I used a blocksize of 32k), with the filename of "BLACIMG.nbh", then perform a hard-reset by powering on the device while holding the Vol Down button.
I use TomTom Ver 7.450 with absolutely no problems on Dutty's V2.6 ROM in landscape mode. However, there is an issue with the latest radio ver 1.13.25.24, which is what I am using. The satellite signal strength bars do not display anymore, but TomTom gets a great, fast fix with this radio ROM. This is apparently due to the fact that the new Radio ROM has opened up more channels for the GPS receiver and the ver of TomTom I am using can't cope with this. It has been reported to work well with later versions of TomTom.
Hope this helps.
battery will be a problem... :-(
Dear friend,
I have the HD since November. I still have not switched to a cooked rom. I am enjoying it as is for now! But as far as battery is concerned I confirm that the battery drains very fast with the official rom. Especially if you use wifi or 3g connection (even in stand by) it drains in about 12hrs! Actually I intended to look in the forum for this ...
Apart from that, TF3D is buggy (especially with the mp3 player). Compared to the iphone it is much slower and less stable. You can expect that since iphone is unix flavor and wm6 is microsoft(!). But it has great many advantages overall making it an excellent choice at least for me.
Enjoy!
GPS navigation
I forgot. I use MN 7.3.1, for Europe I think it is the best...
Welcome too this part of the forum =)
First of all I'd like to reply on the flashing bit.
When I got my HD, the battery drianed within a day, but that was mostly because I played alot with it:
(internet using hdspa, phoning, trying games, programs and etc.)
These days I have Dutty's ROM 2.3Xtreme with the new 1.13.25.24 radio with some special settings in the program "Advanced Configuration".
Settings like "shutdown HDSPA after 1 minute of non-usage".
And "sync mail every 15 minutes between 6AM and 0AM".
Furthermore I keep on using Memmaid 2.2 which is a program that deletes cached files which reduce the usage of your ROM (don't know if it helps but it will make your HD way faster after you used it).
I use Tomtom 7 and it works great!
I think you'll experience the same batterydrains the first few days because you won't be able to lay it down and keep it still.
If you're not happy with the stock ROM, functionalities and so forth, you should reconsider flashing it.
Good luck with it!
grmbl,
that really makes me wonder,
is it worth paying a really good bargain 475 euros,
...and dumping my p3300, which under normal use lasts me 5-7 days, flight-mode overnight, flawlessly running any tomtom version and these days valuing in at about a mere 100 euros...and a machine which is simply an all day device i dont have to worry too much about- and be able to simply use it (accepting a shake and a bump here and there)...thats somehow not far away from why i dumped the iphone....well, lets see when it gets here...
greetz
Using flightmode overnight should increase your batterylife with a few hours.
Max. a half day.
Is there any newbie flashing gudie somewhere, and if i flash it, how do i get back teh original one? Any rom got "flip-it" buildt in? SMS in landscape mode?
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Is there any newbie flashing gudie somewhere, and if i flash it, how do i get back teh original one? Any rom got "flip-it" buildt in? SMS in landscape mode?
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All your questions are answered in full glorious details in the ROM section. As for flip it, Dutty's new ROMs use it. Other ROMs have landscape mode enabled as well, although it may be with various other methods.
howdy,
my mind is made up - i am gonna keep the touch hd!
now, before killing my custom firmware, how does dutty compare to miri, rom-wise?
and, havin had that battery drain in many of them cooked roms over at the artemis forums as well, what is the latest OFFICIAL radio rom? is there an extracted download?
in the times when drains occured in the artemis roms, some "researchers" went into testing labs, and found out that all drains resulted from a constant "polling" of the radio for a signal, whereas the original radio version decreased its polling ratio once a signal was found!
this concludes that after flashing a standalone radio rom with an official version, drains faded drastically!
Thanx for your guys help,
greetz
What is your general experience regarding stability with the T-Mobile hd2?
Mine so far has been lack luster. I love the phone, I just wish it was actually stable. My experience thus far has been-
Hangs at lock screen about 2-3 times per day
Texting occasionally lags heavily..
Music app has frozen once
1-2 times per day won't respond after returning lock mode, requires reset.
All the problems I have can be resolved by turning it off and on. So far, I've found myself resetting the phone 4-5 times per day. Anyone having the same experience? Any tips? It's been frustrating. Such an awesome phone, but sometimes it just locks up for no reason and I can't even make a phone call.
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What is your general experience regarding stability with the T-Mobile hd2?
Mine so far has been lack luster. I love the phone, I just wish it was actually stable. My experience thus far has been-
Hangs at lock screen about 2-3 times per day
Texting occasionally lags heavily..
Music app has frozen once
1-2 times per day won't respond after returning lock mode, requires reset.
All the problems I have can be resolved by turning it off and on. So far, I've found myself resetting the phone 4-5 times per day. Anyone having the same experience? Any tips? It's been frustrating. Such an awesome phone, but sometimes it just locks up for no reason and I can't even make a phone call.
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I've found it pretty stable. I have no problems... just as stable, if not more, than any of my previous WM devices. It'll lock up occasionally when I'm experiment with certain apps or settings, but never on normal usage.
Before I flashed to a custom ROM I had all kinds of problems with the phone. It was laggy and was almost unusable. After flashing to a custom ROM all those problems went away. Now I haven't had any problems with the phone and it is very stable now. I would recommend you flashing to a custom ROM if you haven't done so already.
Coming from an HD, I have been using custom ROMs for over a year. However, I haven't yet flashed a custom ROM on my HD2 simply because I have yet to find any problem with the stock ROM (mainly since it's completely up to date and the cooks are using it as their base). So far, I've had only one...maybe two freezes. I'll definitely start flashing custom ROMs once there's an update to manila, but till then, I'll prolly stick with this one (or until i get bored).
(Also, I am a very heavy user, so I'm pleased with just one freeze a week.)
Using stock rom, occasionally using Task Manager to kill something that's sucking CPU, but otherwise very stable. Only hit sleep-of-death twice so far, and rebooted only couple times to fix extreme lag from something unkillable and hidden.
Using my own 8GB SDHC class 6 (instead of crappy 16GB class 2) to cut down battery drain, and using only external GPS. Lots of registry tweaks to turn on power-management, and using BsB Tweaks.
Besides Opera 10 constantly screwing up virtual, runs mostly fine with Garmin Mobile XT, Google Maps, iGo8, Navizon (wow!).
No Problems, What a fine piece of Hardware.
Hello Everyone,
I got my T-Mobile USA HTC HD2 on March 20th,2010 from Walmart 4 days before T-Mobile started sales.
Since I got it, it has been in use 24 hours a day,7 days a week.
Changes I made:
Removed all demo games.
Removed all demo music.
Removed all demo photographs.
Removed all Demo Software.
Removed Google Maps to update.
Got Unlock Code from T-Mobile
Made a few registry changes from this list Here
Installed onto device:
Skype
Google Maps 4.0.0 (#81)
Updated Microsoft My Phone
ICQ
PHM Registry Editor
HTC Wi-Fi Router
Installed on microSDHC Card:
8gb of .wma (lossless) music.
Have the camera store pictures on card.
Bluetooth Stereo Headset:
Sony Ericsson MW600. ( See link in signature )
Rom
I am using the stock shipping T-Mobile USA Rom
2.10.531.1 (82076) WWE
Stability
Not once, I had to do a reset. (hard reset or soft reset)
Not once, I had any lag in messaging application. (sms or mms)
Not once, I had any lag in the music player.
Not once, I had any problems returning to operation from lock status.(Just slide the lock,poof, back to work)
Not once, I had any problems using the Wi-Fi router as a source of connectivity for my notebook.
Not once, I had any problems with weather location and stating where I am.(pretty cool and accurate)
Not once, I had any type of freezing.
Typical Daily Usage, all running at the same time:
Running Skype.
Running ICQ.
Running Yahoo Messenger.
Running Google Maps.
Sending sms / mms. ( about 50-75 a day)
Listening to music.(On MW600 which controls tracks,play/pause,displays track info)
Answering Telephone calls and placing Telephone calls.(usually on MW600)
Surfing and researching topics on the Internet. ( Sometime IE, Sometimes Opera)
Use Microsoft Office ( mostly excel)
Check and update my Facebook Page.
Things I do:
Once finished for the day, I clear message history and clear deleted items.(sms and mms)
Once finished for the day, I clear the call history.
Once finished for the day, I clear Cookies,History,Cache,Temporary Internet Files in IE and Opera.
In Skype,Yahoo,ICQ, I clear conversations once finished.
I keep the Task Manager, Managed !! Once finished with an application, I make sure to shut it down.
Conclusion:
Completely Stable.
A multi-tasking workhorse.
Quick and fast,responsive,no lag or pauses.
A fine piece of electronic harware.
Impressive Sound Quality.
I am 100% impressed and 100% happy with my device.
Thank you,
Monnie
HD2
Hello all,
I have had great stability out of this phone thus far. Only problem I had was a cab that I installed gummed things up for a while, uninstalled it and soft reset and all was good again.
Like any phone, if your going to tweak it or install cabs, do one at a time. Then test the results. See how it effects your phone.
Most of the complaints you hear are unfortunately from people that really don't know what their doing or dont do the research before doing stuff and just dive in installing everything they can get there hands on, and then the end up complaining in the end, giving a phone a bad rap.
Just my 2 "Sense".
fhaines
I tried the initial NAND build upon release but had to go back to Winmo for the following reasons;
Higher battery drain than Duttys Family Rom
Led stuck on all the time after a message
No screen rotation
Crashing playing .wma files
Contacts listed by first name, no way to change it without editing it all.
Random freezes, slow to respond after standby, low volume in calls even after trying the speaker fix, g sensor would not calibrate.
All in all, enough to put me off. However, having gone back to winmo I can see that android is the way I want to go.
So, simple question; which build, if any, has the most of these issues fixed particularly battery drain and rotation? I am not bothered about getting 'under the hood' to tweak everything just a nice clean stable ROM with no fancy UI tweaks.
And I have searched on this for days but there are many, many opinions in hundreds of pages of comments. Thought I would ask here for the benefit of anyone else looking for a nice clean android build.
I have only tried the CM build (call me a fanboy), and it's really stable. I have noticed the 60mA battery drain still happens at times, but using Quick Reboot (free on market) one or sometimes multiple times fixes this without too much effort.
Speed, stability and features (well, the ones I use, didn't do a thorough test on everything) are all good.
I will no doubt slap my forehead for this but what is the CM build?
Has any build so far fixed the battery drain and sensor properly?
Cynagen mod =cm
I'm using MDJ's gingerbread its very stable and plenty of free space but no gps usb or camcorder apart from that smoorhest Android build I've ever used and one used most
i suggest NexusHD 1.9 NAND version, it's very stable, smooth and fast and i have no problem with it. just works well ;-)
Are these suggestions based just on personal preference or do they address those issues I had in the first post i.e battery drain, lack of rotation (G-Sensor problem I guess), LED stuck etc?
Appreciate your input all the same but I feel like reflashing Android today and want the best ROM...if those issues are fixed.
CM based or Nexus1. I think that until they are optimized, Sense are a no-go for Nand : too heavy, too big. You will be left with 50-40mo for apps and that includes apps2sd. Count on the double with CM and N1 Nand's. And in terms of battery life, G-sensor, they work perfectly.
The Led seems to give problem to most of the Nand for the moment...
Downloading the Nexus 1 rom now, I can live with the led if sensor and battery are better, especially as it is so easy to get back to winmo if needed.
I Know Ill Slap Myself Too For Asking Nooby Questions...but
Does it Matter What Radio i Use To Flash nand android as long as its above 2.08.whatever number ....i forgot....will it still work
I think I am on 2.50.14 and it installed like a charm. Absolutely great Rom; getting 2ma in idle and everything I wanted works fine.
Two things though;
1. LED doesn't blink to notify of messages
2. .wma files don't play (maybe that is normal for Android).
Just one thing to bear in mind (I didn't). As this is non-sense you cannot use HTC sync so I spent quite a while getting my contacts back in via business card from Outlook.
Great rom so far though. Nice and clean UI.
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I think I am on 2.50.14 and it installed like a charm. Absolutely great Rom; getting 2ma in idle and everything I wanted works fine.
Two things though;
1. LED doesn't blink to notify of messages
2. .wma files don't play (maybe that is normal for Android).
Just one thing to bear in mind (I didn't). As this is non-sense you cannot use HTC sync so I spent quite a while getting my contacts back in via business card from Outlook.
Great rom so far though. Nice and clean UI.
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Sync contacts with gmail then it stores them in the clouds
Try HD2ONE froyo cm 6.1.1 nand.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10246269&postcount=228
It supports using your existing cm6 data.img on sd card. This alleviates the issue of low device storage.
This was rock solid as an sd build and better on nand.
I'll be sticking with this until gingerbread has all features working.
Hi... a pretty straight forward question but a less than simple answer I'm sure.
I love Android on my HD2 and have been trying all the different roms, from SD and now NAND. I'm not that bothered about Sense or Stock builds, I like some of the features of Gingerbread but am quite happy with Froyo.
But I am still struggling to find a NAND rom with loud ringtone and alarm volume and also give me a fairly good/quick GPS fix.
For me the priority is:-
1. Volume, louder the better (I depend on the alarm and currently miss lots of calls I don't hear).
2. GPS - I often need to refer to my HD2 for an instant "where am I".... sometimes I find myself waiting for minutes.
3. Battery... well we are all on a quest for 3 days standby i suppose
4. Bluetooth (phone and streaming must work faultlessly)
With so many variations I'd appreciate if someone could point me in the direction of a NAND build that will provide me with the above features please.
Have a look on Jaws-MIUI by lesjaw
I like it. using this few weeks now and for now I havent find any big issue on it.
I've tried many Android ROMs before but this is my favorite and its look I keep it for a while.
busterdan said:
Hi... a pretty straight forward question but a less than simple answer I'm sure.
I love Android on my HD2 and have been trying all the different roms, from SD and now NAND. I'm not that bothered about Sense or Stock builds, I like some of the features of Gingerbread but am quite happy with Froyo.
But I am still struggling to find a NAND rom with loud ringtone and alarm volume and also give me a fairly good/quick GPS fix.
For me the priority is:-
1. Volume, louder the better (I depend on the alarm and currently miss lots of calls I don't hear).
2. GPS - I often need to refer to my HD2 for an instant "where am I".... sometimes I find myself waiting for minutes.
3. Battery... well we are all on a quest for 3 days standby i suppose
4. Bluetooth (phone and streaming must work faultlessly)
With so many variations I'd appreciate if someone could point me in the direction of a NAND build that will provide me with the above features please.
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Thanks... how would you rate sound volume compared to say Win Mob. 6.5?
using mdj's rom and love it. very low battery drain.
[CWM][AOSP] PureGingerbread gpc_hd2_gingerbread_v1.7 [Kernel:gpc#226]
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1. Volume, louder the better (I depend on the alarm and currently miss lots of calls I don't hear).
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1. I use this version at v0.9 and dont seen any problem with loudness. All calls are getted and dont missed any email or calendar reminder.
busterdan said:
2. GPS - I often need to refer to my HD2 for an instant "where am I".... sometimes I find myself waiting for minutes.
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2. Dont seen again problems. For quicker connection (30-40 sec, normally 40-50 sec) i use time at time free GPS Status at market, to download new satellites data. For using with Navigon Select i just replaced libmedia.so file on /system/lib (attached to post)
busterdan said:
3. Battery... well we are all on a quest for 3 days standby i suppose
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3. Honestly 4-6 mA on stanbay mode with running services (Settings, Fancy Widget, Message center, Button savior, Call Light (just testing)), 3g connection 24h and emails verificaiton every 30 min. With that i can get with normal phone using 2 days.
busterdan said:
4. Bluetooth (phone and streaming must work faultlessly)
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4. About what you talking? Ever heared and seen.
ring wolume maybe 80-90% of winmo and call wolume is i think same. but its individuall.thats what i hear so for someone else can be different
busterdan said:
Thanks... how would you rate sound volume compared to say Win Mob. 6.5?
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Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
Hello all,
Firstly a big thank you to all on this site for offering such a fantastic platform to rebuild our priced gadgets to something which is more user friendly...
I aint no techie but in the past have used this site to upgrade the ROM/RADIO for my HTC HD2 phone as was constantly facing a drop in signal and the phone booting up etc...
My current details are as listed below:
OS 5.2.21913(21913.5.0.94)
Manila version 2.5.20181527.1
Rom version 3.14.161.3 (04666) WWE
Rom date 15Dec 2010
Radio version 2.15.50.14
Protocol version 15.42.50.11U
some of my queries:
- I am thinking of converting this to a complete Android OS... Is this possible on the above specs ?
- Is the benefit with Android only to do with additional applications available in the MARKET (WIN6.5 hardly has any and most are charged!) or will i get a better connectivity/signal strength and a better battery life ?
- I noticed on a few forums about a dual boot with Android on the SD card but am not keen on booting the phone every now and then.. would rather stick to one - Android or W6.5
- I do have a problem with the phone sometimes while browsing with Opera or IE. The phone heats up a lot and then just shuts off or the screen freezes and I need to open the battery slot, get the battery out, reinsert and then start the phone all over again. Its quiet sad thing and yet I love the damn phone!
I apologize in advance in case if I have posted this wrongly in this forum. Kindly point me to the right direction, as always...
Cheers!
HTC fan from India
Do it, there is a tool that can do it for you without much hassle, nice simple gui. I would suggest doing the nand android method instead of booting from sd.
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enigma075 said:
Hello all,
Firstly a big thank you to all on this site for offering such a fantastic platform to rebuild our priced gadgets to something which is more user friendly...
I aint no techie but in the past have used this site to upgrade the ROM/RADIO for my HTC HD2 phone as was constantly facing a drop in signal and the phone booting up etc...
My current details are as listed below:
OS 5.2.21913(21913.5.0.94)
Manila version 2.5.20181527.1
Rom version 3.14.161.3 (04666) WWE
Rom date 15Dec 2010
Radio version 2.15.50.14
Protocol version 15.42.50.11U
some of my queries:
- I am thinking of converting this to a complete Android OS... Is this possible on the above specs ?
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yes
- Is the benefit with Android only to do with additional applications available in the MARKET (WIN6.5 hardly has any and most are charged!)
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yes
or will i get a better connectivity/signal strength and a better battery life ?
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no
- I noticed on a few forums about a dual boot with Android on the SD card but am not keen on booting the phone every now and then.. would rather stick to one - Android or W6.5
- I do have a problem with the phone sometimes while browsing with Opera or IE. The phone heats up a lot and then just shuts off or the screen freezes and I need to open the battery slot, get the battery out, reinsert and then start the phone all over again. Its quiet sad thing and yet I love the damn phone!
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oh dear, that doesn't sound good, I'd suspect overheating leading to hardware faults. As an example I can browse and listen to music all day long with very little temperature change. Winmo or android.
I apologize in advance in case if I have posted this wrongly in this forum. Kindly point me to the right direction, as always...
Cheers!
HTC fan from India
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Summary,,, if you want to change, change, if you don't, don't. Android wont make the phone "better" but it will give you new stuff to play with.
That being said I'd be wary of too much flashing since it sounds like you have possible hardware problems on the horizon,,be a shame to get stuck in an unflashable state.
hello guys... thank you both for your encouragement... would rather flash the phone and play around with something new instead of letting it die a natural death...
Whats the latest version of the NAND ANDROID that you guys recommend ? ne links on it with a detailed description...step by step... i aint a techie remember..
thanks for the views and responses...
Cheers!
I had the same dilemma a few days ago, ended up putting on the NAND rom of android and it obviously a lot better to play around with than winmo but the battery life is not as good as with winmo on. Still lasts a couple of days on standby with a little bit of use.
The rom I would reccommend is the one I flashed, Typhoon cyanogen mod 7 without sense but every thing works perfectly on it so far.
Here's a link to it : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933951
Once you have installed it set the cpu with SetCpu app to about 800 mhz and it works fine without getting overly hot.
ryan123459 said:
I had the same dilemma a few days ago, ended up putting on the NAND rom of android and it obviously a lot better to play around with than winmo but the battery life is not as good as with winmo on. Still lasts a couple of days on standby with a little bit of use.
The rom I would reccommend is the one I flashed, Typhoon cyanogen mod 7 without sense but every thing works perfectly on it so far.
Here's a link to it : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933951
Once you have installed it set the cpu with SetCpu app to about 800 mhz and it works fine without getting overly hot.
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Also, by tweaking the CPU VDD levels you will provide to keep your phone colder and squeeze some more juice from the battery: you can find all the instructions on the first page of Tyween's thread (the link above).
hi there... thanks both for your response... is the version provided in your message the latest files/version that is available for download or are there any other versions to look around for ?
Before flashing I plan to save my contacts with msn mobile... it saves my contacts and sms's... will i be able to recover it in the same format after i upload android ?
noticed on some forums that gsensor is a problem... does it impact the functioning so much on android ?
One of you mentioned 'sense' will not work on android... does that mean the seamless touch that is there on w6.5 will no longer be applicable...
requesting all this information just to be double sure b4 going ahead with something major like this...
are there any video tutorials on this ? the link as so many sublinks... i am thoroughly confused...
thanks in advance for your response...
The version of android is 2.3.5, the latest version at the moment I think.
The G sensor works fine on mine I have been playing games which use the sensor.
The phone touch will work fine its just you won't have the htc customization of clocks etc.
I'm not sure about saving contacts but if you could somehow save the contacts with a Google account it would be straight forward getting them onto android.
So to sum up everything seems to work fine as it would on Android though the battery doesn't last as long, but it still lasts a considerable time for a smartphone.
If you follow the link for the Rom I posted, in there, there is a instruction document made by someone which is very easy to follow. Just follow it step by step and you should be just fine.
PS make sure you backup anything you require before starting the process.
Good Afternoon
A friend of mine wants to install Android onto his device and wants me to do it for him as he doesn't want to mess it up.
Is there any sort of idiot guide to show me how to do this, I don't think it'll be easy as when I update the ROMs on my Desire HD
Also which build would one recommend, I want something he can use wiht any issues if possible.
Thanks in advance
hi ryan,
thanks for your revert mate... and clarifying about the gsensor. When you say the standard HTC application like 'clock etc' will not be there... would that take away the weather background which I so like... is there something similar available in the android market to download at a later stage (i love the weather thing HTC has to offer)...
Never tried google to synchronize my phone contacts... is it done through USB or over the air using 2G or something like that (sorry am quiet a novice with gmail!). Will it sync my sms's too... ?
I have changed my battery and no longer use the original HTC one... as it would drain out in a few hours inspite of me using the phone sparingly. I now use a chinese battery from the last few months and it lasts me a good 1.5-2days at max...
Will my service provider in India 'Loop Mobile' be able to send me the new settings that are compatible with android ? Being a weekend I don't want to loose out on contact sync in the middle of the night if the data plan is not activated again...ne suggestions would be appreciated..
There is a clock-weather app in the market which is similar to HTC sense's.
Not sure how google sync works with winmo you would have to figure that out.
About the service proivder I can't be 100% sure as my first android rom on SD didn't work straight away with T-mobile uk but this typhoon one worked straight away, but if you had setting on winmo you should be able to get it on android.
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Good Afternoon
A friend of mine wants to install Android onto his device and wants me to do it for him as he doesn't want to mess it up.
Is there any sort of idiot guide to show me how to do this, I don't think it'll be easy as when I update the ROMs on my Desire HD
Also which build would one recommend, I want something he can use wiht any issues if possible.
Thanks in advance
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Follow the link : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933951
and under install tutorials use the clean installation guide, which I used and it tells you step by step what to do, remember to download all the required files first which are all in the link.
Hi, use "SpriteMigrate" to transfer your sms from winmo to android.
I prefer Typhoon, here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=933951
hi there... i just checked up the "spritemigrate" site and they have closed their FREE BETA application... what a shame as it seemed like the perfect solution to my problem of storing sms/contacts before flashing the phone...
any other options ?
cheers and thanks for writing in mate...
hi there again... as mentioned in my earlier posts... i have sync my phone to msn mobile and hence all my contacts and sms's are backed up every night on msn... once i move to android.. will i be able to sync the phone again just as i did with w6.5 ?
I do have a gmail account but not sure if they have the feature of storing sms's along with the contacts in google mobile. I am frustrated trying to figure out an option for contacts and sms's together.. any help would be appreciated...
cheers!
Oh Lord... I am so frustrated... spent the whole afternoon trying to figure out to save contacts and sms's online somewhere before i flash my phone but sadly no luck... just realised msn-my phone service has been deactivated and most other services are paid services...
Guess this is the only thing that is stopping me now from flashing the phone inspite of downloading most of the required files...
My last attempt - any help guys ?!?!?
thanks in advance...
Cheers!
Hi Enigma075, a little off topic but watch out with flashing in case the issues that you've described get worse. The symptoms you're describing, phone heating and screen unresponsive are exactly what happened to my HD2 recently. A week or two after it started the screen became entirely unresponsive and now HTC are (hopefully) fixing it.
Have a search on google, a few other people have encountered this as well.
I recommend trying SD first.
Note that some users reported NAND android to cause bad blocks in the NAND. so if anything bad happens, you might not be able to flash windows again. Read a lot about specific NAND build before you try them.
SD builds cause bad blocks on SD card, which is easily repairable. on NAND, it's not easy, if possible.
hello Dr. Move & Wsummers,
thank you both for responding to my post. I guess I would go in for the SD first as its getting extremely frustrating to save my contacts somewhere and then put it back again on NAND plus the tension of bricking the phone completely...
Are you able to advise me on the latest link on the SD version ? Have a few questions on this method:
- Will the phone become slow in terms of usage ?
- Will I have to reload the contacts again when i boot it to the sd android mode ?
- Whats the battery response like ?
Thanks again for your insights...
Cheers!
you can use titanium backup to backup your contacts, it'll save you quite sometime. alternatively, you can export your contacts to your SD and reload them again on the SD version.
Newer SD build are quite fast in terms of usage, not as fast as the NAND, but the difference is barely noticeable.. but that depends on how you use your device. Note that some games may not work on certain SD versions.
You can try the two versions in my sig, I've tried both for more than a month, and they're quite stable.
Battery consumption in standby is low in new builds, I get around 7 mA/h when the phone is on and 3 mA/h on airplane mode. some people experience even lower values. it depends more on your SD, and the network coverage.
in hourly terms, you'll lose ~1% per hour, and ~1% every two hours on airplane mode.
if you have any problems regarding the SD version, you can check my troubleshooter (in my sig), or ask me directly