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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Looneytoon98:
I'm engulfed in the sea of Apple myself with an iPhone & iPad. The iPad is a magnificent device but I keep my iPaq HX4700 on 6.5 because there's not a better note scribbler around. I had an Axim too but the iPaq has, IMO, a better screen and a sturdier stylus.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vikrant6681:
i am still using Windows mobile because i have all apps and games which i need for my regular life to make me happy and to helping in my work in my studies, i am not facing any cons in windows mobile to leave it i just love it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] jayc137:
Got it from somewhere

Want to port android into my htc touch 2 though

Was quite sad when I got the news that windows marketplace was closed

Imo Microsoft did the worst thing to discard win mobile
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aleks3008:
Any chance to give better hardware (better than HTC HD2) to Windows Mobile 6.5? Maybe something like NativeSD WM6?

There`s so much valuable old WM software still in use.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Looneytoon98:
Better than the HD2? Considering that the only other device with a capacitive screen was the Toshiba TG01, I'm not sure what you're after.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aleks3008:
I`m looking for possibility like dual boot (Android on NAND + WM6.5 on nativeSD) on some newer multicore Samsung or HTC smartphone. SG Note 2 with WM6.5 on nativeSD will be BINGO. That will be beginning of new life for WM.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] indoxperiax1i:
is it possible to install winmo in newer devices like samsung galaxy s3 or any other pwerful devices of newer generation..? or with dual boot option with newer devices winmo on sd card and android in phone memory .m still using winmo as primary device with many crapy android . ilove winmo want new life of winmo please inteligent developer, hackers, engineers do somtthingfor winmo. many people love this os
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Cookie Ninja:
One word: Drivers. No driver support for later day ARMv7 and dual / multi-core devices, ntm BT, touchscreen, & SOC all-in-one chip sets.

Dead cookies leave no trails...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rokkywoof:
It works for me as-is (mostly).

Replying to the original query (have not read the 33 intervening pages - this is as much to clarify my own thinking as to explain to anyone else) - I am ambivalent, and keep dabbling with Android, and even use it on a Dell Streak 5 on T-Mobile pay/go plan (no commitments!) as a secondary work/data phone. I love the big 5-inch screen for web and app stuff.

Still, I wear a WM phone on my belt on the other hip ( WM 6.1 on XV6900 and 6.5 on Imagio - I keep waffling between them ), and these are some of my "reasons":

For phone and PIM functions like contacts and calendar/reminder, and taking notes with the built-in Pocket Word, I find the WM "package" just works more easily and cleanly for me.

I like the Letter Recognizer input with a stylus for greater precision, and not smearing up the screen.

I can more easily work with Outlook-generated email and calendar invites from work. Googe calendar cannot simply accept an invitation like Pocket Outlook (it cannot handle the vcal/ical or whatever the Outlook protocol is), and Google keeps altering their kluge-y tools and techniques for working around that.

Overall, I think the tighter integration and focus on PIM/Communications just works better (for me).

Another big plus is that I don't have to worry about Google "sniffing" whatever I do on the WM phones. This is a case where MS's older non-internet orientation works to the advantage of my privacy (such as there is...).

YMMV
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dazza9075:
Ha, this is an old one! I personally like the summary " WM is the best pocket PC platform out there" an it is, WP to iOS are phone OSs android tries todo both but not great in either, WM with some TLC would have kick its arse :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] selvr:
Before I saw this thread, I felt so lonely and the only one who still loves and uses windows mobile, so thank you guys for this thread. I have always loved windows mobile since, very first day I used it on my very first pocket pc the ipaq rz1700. Before that I had a nokia 3510i and I have always wanted a mobile device, that feels more like real windows as I like (windows 9x, windows xp and windows 7). The most important aspect I like about windows mobile is that its just like classic desktop windows. Its very costumizable, the software is great and mature, the interface is compact and you get to see as much as possible on screen, menus that don't take the whole ****ing screen. Also I would like to say that I don't mind using stylus and I don't care for finger friendly interfaces. I guess I just like windows xp and its classic desktop.

I have ipaq hx4700 and HTC HD2, I use both and always carry both with me, but I find myself attached to the hx4700 more and the perfect(for my aspects) custom wm6.1 rom, I have made. ipaq hx4700 is just best pocket pc they ever made, the only thing that I don't like about it is the touchpad instead dpad (what were they thinking) and the filesys.exe cpu eating issues, because of the NAND memory, but I have worked around that and its not really an issue anymore since I flashed the most used programs like resco explorer and spb plus in rom and install the rest to the cf card, I'm also using ramdisk for temp files, so filesys kicks in very rarely.

HD2 is great phone, the HTC sense, looks great and works faster after you tweak it (stock is too much of memory hug and buggy). I find myself misspeling alot through, the keyboard can't be any bigger and finger friendly as it is, if you want all keys on screen of course. I prefer stylus and I guess finger input is not for everyone and the screen is just always too small or my fingers are too big :P I'm still on stock wm rom that came with phone, once I get to mod that it will work even better, I will get to that soon.

Windows mobile does have its downsides, but the upsides outweigh it for everyone who can see them. If you like windows classic desktop GUI (I mean the real windows, like windows 7, not windows 8 metro fail) you will like windows mobile.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] TheAH:
I really love WM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still use 2003
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dazza9075:
That would be pocket pc ;) why not update to WM5 or 6
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] bol422:
Why I'm still on Windows Mobile?

Yes because there is no alternative...

Android? This silent horror that will stall even at 150 CPUs (who said that this miracle OS? It's just ( ! ) :D). Symbian is dead. New BlackBarry? What is this? I haven't seen him in sales. Windows Phone 7-7.5-7.8-8-???? Microsoft is also called Windows Phone-OS. They are not funny?

While my device will run on Windows Mobile, I'm going to use them, and then .... Then we'll see :cool:

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pkb_always4u:
I am also in same comunity. Somewhere in my deep I am sad seeing that WM is being lost in fancy UI, and useless apps/games. WM is not only a mobile OS but its only a complete OS to handle any work on mobile. Just I believe that one day Microsoft will understand the value of WM and will drop WP but its a dream now.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] creativcoder:
Porting Audio Booster application

Hi,,, i guess,this ihe only thread that seems to be active .....

So i wanted an help with all u guys....who have been present here from a long time....

Now ...i still own an old windows mobile(htc pharos)...and what i really like about this phone is the audio booster application ....it has brilliant sound quality....

>Now i wanted to know ....if i can decompile the audio booster application into its source code so that i can port it to android......

>Is the audio booster application developed on .net language or some older language......does any one know it.?

> are there any tools which im unknown that will help me in my goal ?

>does any one have the source code of this audio booster application ?

> if anyone reads it.....please guide me

Thnks in advance.....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] dazza9075:
Ain't gonna work! Lol sorry mate but ill save you the hassle, your trying to take a program that is from another OS platform, designed around a driver subsystem that is equally different, then run it on an OS that couldn't be any more dissimilar to WM. Lets assume you are able to 'decompile' it which is doubtful at best, you'll nee to rewrite most of it anyway to getnit to work right, why not start from scratch an get it doe right
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] creativcoder:
hey...thnks for replying.........so then....how do i know.....how this app works....behind......how it switches the bass and treble effects....and 3d effects...any way to know....how it does.....this......becoz....this app really gives better effects...which i have not even heard in android phones.....

So any way to to the "know how" of the working of this app....

Thnks
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] pppppp:
turn back while it is not too late!

The path you are seeking is a narrow path...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=732393

for starters. Try to get in touch with the original developer. Getting the source code would make it worthwhile, maybe...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ocos:
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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Paradise-Bodies:
Hi,

i just came back to WM after the Universal was my first WM phone.

A long time after the Universal there was nothing that would satisfy me until the Leo came out.

Back then it was the time i wanted the biggest screen and i found touch phones cool.

After 3 years without a mobile phone i now have one again (yes you can live without mobiles).

But i was looking for something where you don't always hunting for a power outlet.

So i bought a Nokia 6310 but sometimes i want to write a sms and found out it's a pain.

Then i did remember WM and after playing with my old Universal and Leo i came to the conclusion i want resistive screen and stylus.

Times change and I'm not in the age anymore where my PC needs the biggest tower and my phone the biggest screen.

The smaller the better. So i was looking at all the HTC phones and compared them and now the Touch Diamond is my EDC phone.

So I'm running the latest official 6.1 on my MDA Compact IV because i just want something that works. MDA it is cause i think it looks the best of all the Diamonds.

No Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, NSA or "I spread my whole life through the www" spy stuff :good:

That lead to becoming a HTC old phones collector and i have now Universal, Hermes, Artemis (my fathers old mobile), Touch Diamond, Topaz, Leo

Yes i like old electronics stuff. I learned radio/television technician in the 90s and i still have 5 Loewe/Grundig CRT TVs for my old consoles.

I also run two DOS, one Win95, one Win98 and one XP PCs with 3dfx Voodoo cards.

I have all Game Boys, Walkmans and VHS and this stuff just works and doesn't need new capacitors after 2 years :D

Sure I'm also into new stuff cause i like HiTec and i also have a Android Tab. But no way there will be Android on my phone.

On my Tap all GAAPS are off + firewall + xprivacy...

Ok - what about you?

Last comment here is 2 years old...

Who is old-school and cool? :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rokkywoof:
FWIW, I wobbled back and forth up until a year or 2 ago between my HTC IMagio running WM 6.5 (and XV6900 aka "Touch" before that) and Android, but finally have settled on Android due to some apps I need that only work on that, and it IS more powerful with bigger and higher res screens. I do somewhat miss the stylus though compared to the blunt instrument input approach of fingers, but bluetooth keyboards and/or docks deal fine with more intense typing requirements. Also, the typical tiny styli have always started my fingers to tingling from carpal tunnel, and finger input and/or real keyboards don't to that, so just as well.

I do also miss the standalone Pocket Office and PIM apps that worked quite nicely with no "cloud" dedendencies.

I use the Imagio's FM radio sometimes for listening in my home office, but I have found that a new Windows Phone 8.1 Lumia 635 "spare" has a cleaner sound without all the interference the Imagio picks up a lot of the time. I guess the speaker wire/antenna setup is not as well shielded from the other phone circuits on the Imagio?

BTW, don't feel too secure in your older tech - NSA et al cracked WM long before Android came along, so if it goes over a carrier's network, you are not avoiding their all-seeing "eyes'. About all you accomplish avoiding G Apps is the big G itself, although that does count for something to be sure.

Hang in there...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Paradise-Bodies:
There is no Internet on my phone. I write one sms maybe every half year and it's a prepaid card and who knows how this guy with that name is who owns that card :)

And hey you really can turn off this phones. Take out the battery and nobody will listen. Bad enough that people buy TVs with cams and voice control where

every word goes to the voice recognition database on some server. No way i connect such a TV to the web.

Now this fitness trackers - next thing is the data goes straight to your health insurance and if you didn't achieve whats in your contract then you have to pay double :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuxo0j1JtE *lol

Sure you can't hide from everything but you also don't need to make it easy for them.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] usernoob:
I think there are still thousands of folks still using Dailup and have rotary phones but there's millions without a signal...Winmo had all the apps before anyone know what an iPhone or Android even was....
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cadmoitaly:
Windows Mobile 6.5 IS an operating system, not a game!

I have to

- quick and easy modify my phone to my wishes

- use programs standalone

- use a phone-sized computer either offline or online

- do whatever I want with this small computer as well as make a phone, sms, email call

- connect other systems, as I am a technician

...

So I still use WM6.5 TouchFlo3D Sense on HTC Touch Pro2.

What is missing?

Whatsapp to reply to my sister, as she is not able to understand that Google Chat is the same!

Worldwide web site with page dimensions less than 10MB (note: Netscape Proxy Tech Guide stated that 10MB was the daily mean internet usage per person...), but everyone else is missing that.

Services, as Google is closing down all the good things he did, Frings died, AccuWeather MyLocation too...

What is really missing?

The sense of having an APP, i.e. obscured urls encoded in a program instead of a classical web site.

I have many more and much more functional programs than my son's new phone, from sms to email to mapping etc. etc. Unfortunately these programs are disappearing, hopefully I alredy downloaded them!
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] poyensa:
Is google chat possible with wm6.5?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] rosain.batish:
guys can anyone help me with this issue??

whenever i call the contact shows its name but not when i receive the call from that person
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Talon Pro:
How do you have the number stored? With or without the country code?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] anudora:
Yes, cause my SGH-i780 phone still running smoothly.

The big problem is the lack of popular app like whatsapp and facebook.

Do you guys have any of these program running in WM?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Talon Pro:
I dont recall FB ever having a WM app, or at least i wasnt using FB back then. I did fire up my TP2 and using Opera Mini and logged into FB and it works pretty good. I dont believe Whats App ever existed back then though...

Heres the irony, ive been looking at snagging a GSM TP to run on my t-mo account...

I just found this for 6.5 http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=489379
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] _AndyAndy_:
Found this thread by chance, here are my 5 cents.

I'm still using WM v6.5 with MetroHome65 home screen GUI that imitates current WP look. I also owe a W10M Lumia and my family uses Android and iOS devices which I have to maintain, so I have hands-on experience on all popular platforms.

I'm NOT so happy with WM meanwhile, basically for the following reasons:

1) Outdated WiFi protocols: can't get connected with 50% of public WiFi networks.

2) Outdated browser technology: more and more websites cannot be browsed.

3) There is no Skype and Whatsapp client.

But these limitatiotns are not weaknesses of WM as such, but are consequences of the fact that WM isn't supported and adapted for newer technologies.

But I still have my WM phone in use. Why?

1. I use a HTC Touch Pro2 with physical keyboard. My fingers are too large for an on-screen keyboard even on my 5,7" Lumia 640 XL. There are just no newer Windows based devices with physical keyboard (apart from HTC 7 pro with freaky WP7).

2. I'm on a limited data plan, and I'm often abroad, i.e. on data roaming. In WM there are no background tasks that consume mobile traffic. In W10M, even if you deactivate all apps background execution, some system tasks still try to connect. So a quick check if the bus or train I'm waiting for is on time, would consume far less mobile data on WM than on W10M.

3. I can backup and restore a WM device completely offline and in any place or when moving. I use Sprite Backup and if the device would crash when I'm not at home, I can make a hard reset and just run an executable zip file that restores the previous phone's state completely. With W10M, I would have to search a place with WiFi and stay there until the restore is done. Besides, W10M OneDrive backup doesn't work as it shoud be.

4. In WM I have full control over all files and directories. Im WP I have - like in iOS - to use an interop unlock, sftp and crap like this just to be able to look into directories where apps are installed.

5. In WM there is a generic and reliable POP3 mail client, ProfiMail. On the contrary, W10M's outlook is a mess: can't open attachments, unmotivated connection errors.

6. My main browser, Opera Mini, runs much more smoother and quicker on WM than on W10M.

7. I'm not obliged to update OS if I'm happy with the present build. In W10M, updates are initiated automatically and can be prevented only if the system drive is full.

To conclude, I would shut down my old WM device only if I could get a W10M device with physical keyboard and offline backup and restore feature. Other things can be tweaked.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Shredder11:
I pretty much agree with all of that, especially the Sprite product although I use their Clone version for the small footprint and speed of deployment. I use it to quickly go from one operating system environment, e.g. one tailored specifically for GPS Sat Nav use with TomTom and few if any other applications, so the whole CPU, GPU and RAM power of the host device is thrown at TomTom for optimum performance. With Clone I can quickly revert back to my other general purpose computing environment afterwards, typically in around one minute or so. I also like that Sprite Clone makes self extracting image files, and this is very useful when someone you know is not tech savvy and suddenly finds their Pocket PC has lost power and performed a factory reset. After the initial panic from them, you just calmy instruct them to click on the image file you made specially for them, and a few minutes later their entire system is back to normal.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Talon Pro:
Yea, if i could find a GC or EC GSM TP2 id have it as a backup...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Elodie:
I don't like cloud :

Why give all my contacts and personal datas to google or anybody else.

Why use markets ?

Android is'nt secure : why any game need to access to my contacts ?

I use some GPS nav prgm on my HD2 and it's really fine. For office and mail : WM6.X is more than enough for me.

Android on my HD2 is just for my kids : to play some games.

WM6.X is more open than WM7 or Android.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] CRACING:
Yeah you are right. Everything is becoming cloud now. May be in a couple of years, human being will also be moved from land to cloud. I guess its because land space is fulfilled now. :p

Whats the guarantee that data on cloud are safer. Many large companies are being hacked so why cannot our data be hacked also!

Do they think all the people in earth have 24x7 internet connections? Nope, most of people are still angry about worst internet connections provided and its of PC and then how worst would be on mobile. My friends use gprs to download stuffs which its speed will be less then 40kbytes/s.

Companies only think about big countries and peoples. We struggle so much to get stuffs from there market place service. Thats one of my -ve point on wp7, android and ios. :(
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] creativcoder:
windows mobile is the common peoples os......bosses of all customization dat can be done on an mobile os.....and just like a pc....so its my best os...and will remain best
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ahsiang888:
1. I don't have the money to buy another phone

2. My wife wouldn't allow me to buy another phone because my WM phone still working fine.

3. iOS is super boring with the same old UI since day one, yuck!

4. Android is lame

5. I think I heard of Symbian like billion years ago. :P

6. I can make WM looks like anything that I like, thanks to XDA! :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] solidkevin:
lol how is Android Lame?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] ccezar2004:
I've had WM since many years ago... in the meantime I've also had a few symbian devices... now I have an HD2... this gave me the ocasion to try both android and WP7... and no matter what I dit I still got back to WM... more than that... I've just tuned my WM HD2 to eliminate HTC customizations and give it the feel and look MS intended as it is more practical...

hey, but that's just me...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] vannanta:
wm 6.x is good xperiment !
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] husam666:
yes, the most professional OS I was able to find so far

edit: also because the built in remote desktop is freaking awesome :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] cougargt:
Because my primary use is as a mobile computer, not a toy. It runs the programs i use for my work and then some. Some of the programs will never be available for other OS's And why would I want to buy the other programs again?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] azlan96:
I am gonna use WM until the day that Garmin will announce its app will be available for the download from the Market..
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] xtremetimma:
I totally agree. I only use WM for the Garmin. If Garmin could make an Android app I would switch. Or if someone could "emmulate" the WM os to be run on Android. Or boot WM from Android so i can use Android normally then use my Garmin that would be sweet. Kinda like a NAND Android and SD WM