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[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
For all intents and purposes... we really had nothing. I had a faux menu... and I had built a very rough rough rough draft of my proof of concept design built and attempting to boot a stock WP7 ROM from the HD2 forums which failed almost immediately... basically the filesystem driver loaded, and not much else. Not you nor anyone else has any real reason to have total faith that I will come through... I'm not an established dev on XDA... I've always been a user. But this isn't really a ROM Project per se... this is about a bootloader and drivers.

I had originally intended for any other devs to split up the bounty amongst themselves... I intend to donate my work completely free... I don't want anyone's donations, honestly. I am doing this for fun... I'm doing this to show myself that I can. What I'm not doing this for is to prove anything to you or anyone else. I'm completely confident in my abilities as a software engineer. I have nothing to prove. No one is telling you to hold your breath for this project to come to fruition.

For now... I'm all you've got. So if that's not good enough for you, take a hike. This is a huuuuge undertaking... and there is no guarantee that it will even work well. No one else is crazy enough to touch this other than myself. I've spent countless hours researching, learning, and working on this project. Ungrateful comments like yours are demotivating to me.

When I'm ready for my work to be critiqued, I will post something that will allow people to view my progress. Until then, I'm keeping my sharing to verbal communication on this thread. Peace y'all!
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
Dont take me wrong i wish you luck. Still not happy this thread was moved here.
[EVO 4G General] loonert:
I have total faith in you dude. After all i heard that the palm pre's bootloader was rewritten

sooooo is it--

1. HD2

2. Palm Pre

3. HTC Evo 4g.......... Who knows who will write it (maybe that dude named matt will....he looks damn promising...):eek::eek::eek::eek:

I am pretty sure HD7 is supposed to be in there somewhere- but that isnt really popular...

If this is just for fun, then this project might continue because you arent using every minute on it, but using your time gradually. Keep it up and i hope you can recover some data:)
[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
We all wish this would happen faster... myself included. Most things that are worth having require fighting for... working hard for... and sometimes waiting for.

As much as I hate to admit it, this thread belongs here for now. I see a new thread that will come when the project has materialized more. Hell, I'm not even totally sure how I'm going to approach some of the big hurdles... whether I'll be taking other peoples' work and trying to run it in a sort of "emulation container" or I'll go balls to the wall and rewrite everything from the ground up with a solution entirely of my own (or the team's own if the team ever grows). Not to mention that a good portion of the beginning of this thread is folks bickering about if anyone SHOULD even attempt this. We'll have a new thread that will be used for releases, reporting of issues, and enhancement requests.

Liu22 has done a great job in my opinion of trying to keep the thread fresh and interesting while we all wait for something to happen... or IMs to come in... for me to get an HD2... things like that. Unfortunately he can't control what other people post and this thread definitely got muddied with people spewing crap in the thread hehe. So let's all just be grateful we have a place to do this, wish me luck, and most of all let's all keep our heads and spirits high.

There is an experiment in quantum mechanics where they took two seeds from the same plant, put them in the same lighting conditions, same water, same soil... same everything. One plant was spoken to nicely and sweetly, while the other plant was basically verbally abused. Low and behold, the plant that was spoken to nicely actually grew taller and fuller than the one that was talked badly to. Think of the project as a plant in that experiment........
[EVO 4G General] droidguy718:
Very well said
[EVO 4G General] mikel719:
Haven't followed this thread in a couple days but to any nay sayers who are demotivating the people who are trying to do some thing on this

,,, funk off! Devs have lives and its not easy to port something like this. More importantly they have families, to be asking for eta's like a ungrateful child is old already, if you have that amount of time to spend at your computer talking **** may be you should be learning how to do the work your self and not pestering people to the point where they throw in the towel, not just on this project but any protect.

I for 1 am greatfull to have devs who are still committed to this phone. I came from a epic and while the devs there where great, they dont match the great community we have here.

Sorry to waste space, just my drunken ranting but when I see a post that long from a dev who is obviously fed up with the nay sayers and negative comments it pisses me off.

Keep up the great work on the port and if its ment to happen it will, if not buy a wp7 and call it a day.

A big thanks to every one working on it from a very greatfull flashing junky.
[EVO 4G General] LuckZz:
I wish you guys luck on this project I for one will be following and hope to test it when available
[EVO 4G General] samsonite.ace:
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh i came back and saw the thread in general..... very upset about that, we dont get the recognition that should be given to everyday WIP roms, may i suggest trying to PM a few moderators to get it back in Andr Dev section?

I honestly think that if people see it on a daily basis, kinda like i do with some other ROMs (Im deff a flashaholic) and get some more eyes on THIS PRI7E <<i made that up myself... ha

that should be step one, then we can progress with new fresh minds, and get some new movement back in this thread. =D
[EVO 4G General] samsonite.ace:
BTW matt keep up the great work lemme know if i can help in anyway possible! willing to test or anything at all"

thanks again!!
[EVO 4G General] Elbimster:
Love it Matt! Keep up the good work, ignore the naysayers. You don't have to prove anything to anybody!

Well, yourself maybe. But that's the good kind of proving!
[EVO 4G General] SimianJones:
Ahem.

From Security Now episode 112 -
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
there is a lot of work to do

a lot of code to write rewrite and fix

this will take a long time
[EVO 4G General] loonert:
I can definitely wait for this to happen. i have been also following the Sense 3 updates and i must admit.....it is looking pretty awesome at this point.:):)

never the less, i will still love this port
[EVO 4G General] KingViper:
I retract my previous statement; however, I've used Spinrite, and it takes FOREVER to run on a drive that is legitimately failing. Probably quicker to just redo the work he already did. ;)
[EVO 4G General] SimianJones:
Yeah, spinrite can take a while to fix a hard drive failure. Usually bad sectors are on the front side of the repair process, so it's initial estimates could be something like hundreds of hours. But SR adjusts its estimate of time to completion as it goes, and the actual time to completion is quite reasonable.

More importantly, Matt indicated that part of the data lost to the hard drive failure was related to his business, which makes recovery of that data more valuable.

Anyway, just trying to help out. Good luck Matt.
[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
Ya, I've been checking out that one as well. It looks VERY promising, and pretty darn sweet.

SpinRite... previously I was using the onboard fake SATA RAID controller... but now I'm using a super awesome workstation/server class hardware RAID controller with 512M of RAM. It's pretty nice. I saw a significant performance increase over the Sandy Bridge version I was using before... Junk

Creativity and dreaming... key components to finding the solution here... It sure would be nice to pick the brain of someone who is an expert in this arena. I have a JTAG coming for the HD2... so we'll see what I can learn from that here shortly. For now, I'm rebuilding the menu code.
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
Quench we in thirst

Put them first

And when the floodgates burst

Come inside and we'll keep you strong

who enjoys good techno while working?
[EVO 4G General] TooSlo:
I'm completely with you. I'm always listening to di.fm

Cheers!
[EVO 4G General] samsonite.ace:
hey matt just wondering what kinda help ya might want or need! also like many others wondering progress on this or ur drive?

TIA

=) keep on truckin, hard work always pays off!
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
bumping this thread so it does not get buried. you guys should pm a mod to move this back to the dev section.
[EVO 4G General] loonert:
We have no rom yet so they wont approve
[EVO 4G General] jonnythan:
There's no ROM. There doesn't even appear to be any work of any sort, let alone any sort of software product that might potentially even boot on an Evo. I support the mods in keeping threads about potential (and unlikely) projects out of the development section
[EVO 4G General] jadden:
awsome great work
[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
Just popping in to let you guys know I'm still on it. Still haven't received the JTAG yet, but still crackin at it.
[EVO 4G General] takethewall:
thanks so much for all of your hard work! it's hugely appreciated.
[EVO 4G General] droidguy718:
Bump
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
Dead?
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
I hope the project is still alive, and that miphonematt is in good health.
[EVO 4G General] loonert:
I haven't commented in a while but there seems to be a total lack of comments...

Is this alive?
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
Hell yeah me too lol.
[EVO 4G General] loonert:
This project is no more, thanks for the help matt, but this port will not work out...especially since NO ONE IS COMMENTING:(
[EVO 4G General] mistororange:
So from this I would assume that you think phone operating systems run on comments from community forums on the internet? no one is commenting because there is nothing to comment about, you can only say, good job, hope this comes out soon, so many times, a guy is working on it, when he has something developed or worth posting about im sure he will.
[EVO 4G General] droidguy718:
+1
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
i think the project is dead also. people are moving to the nexus as i and the OP did. also when the evo3d drops that will take away alot of users too.
[EVO 4G General] novanosis85:
Thanks MR. Obvious!!
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
i Moved on to the nexus s?

whelp

im thinking about it. but its scamsung.
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
i thought you did, my bad... the thread is still dead anyways! ;)
[EVO 4G General] JoshuaAlba:
told ya so
[EVO 4G General] mlin:
Do you feel like a big boy now? :rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
ahah

hashahaahahaahaha
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
dont get me wrong im thinking of switching over because im pretty tired of how crappy sprint is being with replacement evos. I got mein replaced like 2 months ago and the replacement's 3G doesn't work. I get absolutely no 3G its like the Radio is broken 4G works and so does 1X. on the upside. at least my battery lasts a day now since the internet is sooooo slow me nor my friends even bother to use it. my fathers is is the same. im using MIUI as my DD my dad is using Stock 4.12 and he gets 4G
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
miphonematt, If by any chance you are paralyzed or in a coma and are unable to transport yourself to a computer, my offer still stands. I can obey commands relating to the project that you give to me orally.
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
For some reason that sounds kind of... Sexual lmao.

Jk dude.
[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
Hey All,

I'm back... kind of a long story where I've been, and I won't bore you all with it all. I've been working on the project for most of 3 weeks since my last post... I just haven't been on XDA. Rest assured we hadn't lost much time at all, a few days is all.

I'll post some more feedback tomorrow.
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
please maintain this thread clean

no sexual posts or posts with double meaning

this thread will be closed if it continues
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
are you serious? That was a legitimate offer.
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
let me re-frase

please maintain this thread clean

If future posts continue to seem to have a double meaning or a negative connotation

this thread will be closed
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
As little grammatical sense as that makes, anything can be interpreted as something sexual if you're looking for it. Anyhow I don't think things like that warrant a thread close anyway.
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
Nice to have you back. I hope you are in good health.
[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
Agreed... I see posts where folks are literally saying like "eff off and die" or some such thing (only the more profane version)... He simply meant he would surrogate for me at the computer if I were unable to "be at the computer".

I had mentioned I was enlisting one of my previous employees to help develop drivers... and that process is in place... however it moves very very slow... if only we had more help... anyhow... we're working at it. We put in at least SOME time every day for the most part... and some days we put in several hours.

Just wanted to pop in and let y'all know my determination hasn't receded.
[EVO 4G General] jlechner:
Glad to hear you are still on the job. Thank you for the update.

End of line.
[EVO 4G General] aimbdd:
Thanks man!!
[EVO 4G General] xadidas4lifex:
hey how is this coming? or is it dead? =[
[EVO 4G General] miphonematt:
Sometimes the most unlikely times are when you have a revelation

When I originally started this project/journey, it was much because I wanted WP7 to use on the daily and because I wanted my first real contribution to the XDA community to be something huge. The journey thus far has been a very bumpy one. Between my workstation raid array failing, the lack of interest from other developers to help out, and more recently, my injury to my arm... I finally stumbled onto something that may very well be the ticket to success!

I've spent countless hours poking and prodding at my EVO and my HD2... many of these hours being very late into the evening/next morning. About 3 weekends ago I got so tired at my desk that I fell asleep at my desk with my head on my left arm, woke up a couple hours later to an asleep arm... in the process did some damage to my median nerve (I wasn't able to feel or move my wrist, top of my forearm, nor lift my fingers for 3 or 4 days). Then two weeks later I did it again (what an idiot) and aggravated the nerve pretty badly, and now a week after still have limited movement in my wrist and phalanges (fingers/digits). Needless to say, my typing speed suffers greatly. Last night, after hosing my EVO and the HD2 (the HD2 is the one in the pic I posted with the very cracked screen... and I only have service on my EVO, so hosing the HD2 wasn't all that bothersome), I was doing some debugging to fix both phones into stable form again, stumbled across some information I hadn't noticed before.

I'm not going to go into detail as to what I found until I have solid evidence that it IS in fact the golden goose that I believe it is. I am telling you guys, I feel really really good about this! Now, I am not CERTAIN that this is going lead us to success... but like I said... it feels like it is. I jumped up and down like a schoolgirl playing jump rope!

Next time I post I will either be including a link to a video of the amazing progress I've made, or admitting the failure of my revelation.

With my new (hopefully temporary) disability, it's going longer.. but patience is a virtue ... that I've recently become significantly more familiar with (this post took me 3 hours to type I think!)

Until then my friends... until next time
[EVO 4G General] monkeychef:
Sorry to hear about your injuries, but its great to hear that more progress has been made. I thought that this project wasn't going anywhere, but now I have a bit more hope. Good luck to you, and I will donate as soon as I get some money.
[EVO 4G General] Stalte:
Thank you for all of your hard work. There are some of us who really do appreciate it. I myself have nothing to offer besides donations and confidence.

I am very sorry about your arm, but I am glad you are sticking to this project.

I hope you are ready to become an Xda legend and make the front page of every tech website. This is going to make Cvpcs porting CM7 to the Droid X look like child's play.

Thanks again.

PS: EVERYONE HIT THE THANKS BUTTON IT IS THE LEAST WE CAN DO FOR HIM!!!

And mod's could you move us back into the development section please. I think I see development happening :)
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
Yeah bro thank you so much for endless work you have been doing, and sorry about your arm... Damaged nerves are no slap on the wrist. :(

Take your time sir, don't kill yourself lol.
[EVO 4G General] kingdazy:
very sorry to hear about your setbacks. seem's as though you might have had a rough month, eh?

regardless, success or fail, very interested to hear what sort of progress you've made.
[EVO 4G General] xlGmanlx:
Appreciate your continued support for this project
[EVO 4G General] NewZJ:
sure... "slept"on the arm....

put the porn down will ya?

hope you get well soon though
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
Anyone feel free to chime into me, but as we all know Mango is arriving in the Fall of 2011. Does anyone have any idea how to incorporate that into the ROM that miphonematt is cooking? I'm not trying to ask for an ETA or anything to that imagination. But, if this was a fully successful port, we would have to add over 300+ features to the ROM... Please don't flame me too bad lol.
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
I may be wrong, (feel free to correct me if I am) but I believe we will have to wait for mango to come to a sprint cdma device before it can be ported.
[EVO 4G General] dirkyd3rk:
Well sprint has the htc arrive so that should help out with the cdma settings, but what we really need is an wp7 device with similar evo specs like the HD7 since they have similar resolutions.

Still probably light years away from a wp7 port though.....don't hold your breath lol.

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
Any more progress bro?
[EVO 4G General] Circular Pastry:
Haven't checked in in way too long... Thanks for the update Matt! Hope we find you feeling better when you drop the video!

Tapatalked from my SUpersonic...
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
Happy fourth of July everyone. To matt, i hope your quest is going well and has been injury-free.
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
seriously..
[EVO 4G General] miranda916:
Wow i didn't even know this port existed! Good thing i didn't sell my evo :)

Any more progress on this?
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
Ah, but therein lies the rub!
[EVO 4G General] miranda916:
Haha what's that supposed to mean? :)
[EVO 4G General] nebenezer:
Check the date the op was posted then consider how much progress has been made/posted on this "project".. also, this is the first and only "dev" thread I've ever seen in a General section..
[EVO 4G General] miranda916:
Just read through the whole thread ... Matt seems to have found something but hasn't revealed any technical details... Matt have you contacted any other xda members to see if you have truly struck gold?

Also, the op seems like an idiot. No op in the Dev section is like that...
[EVO 4G General] Jimdog420:
I'm loving the android os but would be nice to dual boot into WMx id have to say I'd support a competent dev if he decided to pick it up.

Swyped from a galaxy far far away......
[EVO 4G General] lui22:
guys help me my asking devs if the want to help remember dont overwhelm them pm the ones that say yes or no and i will post them on the op
[EVO 4G General] Igotsanevo4g:
Who ever decides to give this a go is in for a hell of a project. Totally new bootloader pretty much, new drivers, and besides the fact that WP7 has never been ported to an android phone.

Many kudos and $$$ to anyone that gives it a REAL attempt.
[EVO 4G General] lakers1624:
I could learn to dev real quick and port this for you guys lol

... on second thought ... what does it take to learn how to do this sort of thing? Where to begin?
[EVO 4G General] jcalba89:
This thread has FAIL written all over it. Again.
[EVO 4G General] Mazda:
Reading the set of rules for this thread and your "please help us" paragraph, all I could do was laugh! It sounds like you were trying to suck up to the developers on here! One "Thank You" was enough! Now that I said that, I would have to agree with jcalba89....this will NEVER get off the ground! Too much work for anyone and for what?....an OS that is going no where??? Do you really think Windows Mobile is going to keep up with Android and the iPhone??? I don't think so and neither does anybody else with common sense! I mean to be honest, it would be cool for it to happen and say HEY, WE DID IT but running WP7 on a smartphone like the EVO would be a waste of time! Putting WP7 on the EVO would be like putting a 1995 Honda Civic engine into a brand new Bentley! I don't know how many times people are going to ask about this! If you really want to run WP7 then either do one of the two.....either buy a phone running WP7 or trade your EVO for an HTC HD2 and run WP7!

Oh and you can say I was mean or whatever but this needed to be said! I would much rather have developers put their time and efforts into getting Android 3.0 running flawlessly on the EVO!
[EVO 4G General] jcalba89:
Or the Netflix apk
[EVO 4G General] kingdazy:
Hey! Thanks for showing up and posting such learned and meaningful comments!

We are So glad you arrived to offer such considered and participatory input!

Now, back to the actual topic...
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
Why the hell would you want Honeycomb on the Evo? There aren't even sources for it to work with. Aside from a UI difference, we wouldn't benefit from anything with Honeycomb on the Evo. In this situation, I'd say Honeycomb is in the same league as far as WP7 on our device.
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
Agreed. Just another troll with nothing better to do. Damn near wrote a short story.

WP7 looks better than Honeycomb, IMO.
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
I'm not saying that because he's trolling or anything, just to me basing it on what would be more useful to me I don't see any point. Personally, I don't see any point in WP7 on the Evo except to mess around with it. Honeycomb is the same way, Honeycomb is a tablet OS. Saying things on the line of we wouldn't benefit from WP7, it's the same story with Honeycomb. Honeycomb provides nothing new except a different UI. If devs could port the UI over to Gingerbread or Froyo, I would take that at least.
[EVO 4G General] Dj21o:
True, but wp7 can be ran. You need tegra 2 to run honeycomb. So that is a waste from the get go.
[EVO 4G General] tiato:
I take it you own both a 1995 Honda Civic and a brand-new Bentley, right?

I had a opportunity to play with the HTC Arrive and I must say it ain't half bad. The main thing here is choices. I would really hate if the only choices we have are either Android or iPhone.

Oh, yeah! Fact is there are some properly tuned $20K cars out there that can beat a brand-new $200K car any time.
[EVO 4G General] vbetts:
With what we have of Honeycomb, Tegra 2 is basically all that works on it. There are no real sources for Honeycomb yet you see, but I seem to recall the Nook color having a Honeycomb port that's only a cortex a8 at 800mhz. We may have the hardware, but right now there is no bootloader. Without that there is no WP7 on the Evo.

Yeah, but the Bentley gets more ass. It's not just about performance either, they're hella comfy! :D
[EVO 4G General] HiddenKnight:
All I have to say is port the damn thing.....please :)