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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Software Guru:
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
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
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..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ryan123459:
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.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ryan123459:
Follow the link : http://xdaforums.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.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Memodevran:
Hi, use "SpriteMigrate" to transfer your sms from winmo to android.

I prefer Typhoon, here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=933951
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
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...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
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!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
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!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] WSumners:
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.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dr.Move:
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.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
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!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dr.Move:
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 :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
hi thks for yr revert....

may i request u to share more info on the titanium backup to store contacts... is it like a prog or applc ? its quiet a task sendind contacts to sd card for the sd version or may b my assumption is wrong...

read in an alternate forum that the latest version of Nand is much more stable n defi better battery life..

once my problem of storing contacts is sorted can move to the level...

cheers!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mmattes:
Sync Windows with a google account

Yes you should switch, I think no one who switched misses anything from winmo...

At the time I swichted to android I used the possibility to sync my winmo hd2 with my google account to get the accounts, scheduler across to my android hd2. Here is a small how to...

I´m not able to post links... but you will find it if you search for 'winmob google sync' at google

But that doesnt work for SMS!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mutil:
android can back up your contacts to your google account.android can take your contacts from another phone using bluetooth.android can backup your contacts to sd.and there are many apps to backup and restore contacts and messages,so dont worry about that.join us and enjoy nand roms:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nks2105:
yea i was thinking the same thing.

use or create a google account and sync your phone with it (transfer all your contacts to your google account) if it's possible, I don't remember as I never really used WinMo on my HD2

It will be easy then to re-import them in Android.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
hello guys...

just a quick note to thank you both for the last posts... i managed to get my contacts sync on to a gmail account .. phewwww! :) Well it wasn't difficult but guess there was a bit of trouble syncing it as some of the instructions were not very clear on the google website... managed to nevertheless have it moved there finally!!

I am ready to rock now...but before i put on my rocking shoes... do you guys recommend the NAND ? If yes, am assuming the link posted in the earlier message by another gr8 soul is still relevant...?

Can you please tell me what are the files I need to download as the link has got pages and pages of clarifications and messages and its all tech speak.. looking at simple/str8 forward steps for a newbie like me.. for the NAND version (as I have read its much more stable with the battery and other apps)...

Cheers and thanks again for your inputs... looking forward to more to move AHEAD...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mmattes:
Thats nice to hear :)

I´ve used now every thing you can do, winmo and android at the same time. MAGDLR and now finally clK. What I would recommend you is to use NAND and go for clK because it is a faster bootloader then MAGDLR. It is not so complicated to get everything installed because a lot people alread put a lot work into tools to speed up the process of installing Android on an HD2.

You already got the latest Raido installed so you dont need to do any thing on that point.

1.) Get HSPL 2.08 to your phone http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=611433

Use the HSPL4.zip from the third thread

2.) Get the tool to install clK on your phone from here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1090783

and follow the instructions in thread 2 to get clK installed

3.) Get a Rom from the NAND thread which you copy in to the root folder of your SD card

4.) start your HD2 and hold the home screen button while your starting. Now the Clock Work Mod Recovery should start. A good how to install a room is here available: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=918899

There you can find a link to a pdf in the secound thread in which from step 9 on the installation and use of CWM Recovery is explained.

Thats basically all... enjoy your android phone! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] samsamuel:
the registry, *sigh
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
hi there...

thanks for your update... its getting clearer now bit by bit...

Just a small clarification.. on point no.3... which ROM do you recommend for download ? What about the Typhoon Cyanogen MOD 7 ? Do i have to put it on to the SD card ? Thought the NAND would eliminate the program to be loaded on the SD card..

A strange/weird request... but is anyone likely to be online on gmail/msn/yahoo messenger to just be able to support in case if I need help.. I know most of the senior members are online and quick in responding but its not the same as chatting with someone live... seriously would appreciate it.. though with out time difference between India and the world..not sure how it would work as I am online around this hour mostly (its around 2300hrs) ...

Cheers!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayyu3m:
Hello dude, i m currently residing in India. If your device is the 1GB model (T-Mobile US) HD2, i will be glad to guide you on.

But if you have a 512MB (Europe) HD2, then someone with the same spec can help you out more.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dr.Move:
you need to copy the ROM to the SD in order to flash it into the device memory.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] enigma075:
hello there,

thanks for the update. Is there a link to put the ROM on the SD as mentioned in your message ?

Which is the best/stable ROM that I can use ?

Is someone online right now to guide me .. may be chat on messenger and take it forward together ..? Just wanna do it alone .. a bit nervous though I have flashed my phone a few months back to upgrade the ROM. Attempted that time as the steps were very clear like 1.2.3.....

Cheers and thanks again for being patient with me ... I would love to buy you helpful guys coffee soon once I have android on my phone... :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mmattes:
Hi,

its always hard to recommend a ROM to use. What I would recommend you is to find out what style (dont know how else I should call it) you like the most. There are roms in the Sense, MIUI and CyanogenMod style available. I personally like the MIUI the most and use the following ROM http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1028693 (But you need to fix the wifi tethering manually). Just install ROMs from the different styles and look which one you like the most!

To clearify why you need to put it on your SD. The file you download from one of the NAND threads is a zip file which contains the installion files. The ClockWorkMod will use the file on the SD card to flash the ROM to your phone. It can be removed after flashing.

I will send you in a few secs my icq number in a PM, but I first need to remember it, havent used my messengers for a while... ;)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisully:
Hi I'm on a unlocked unbranded desire hd I'm trying to do the first step of downgrading from 2.3 to 2.2 so can flash custom Rom. Having no luck the cmd in the tutorial worked once then not again to get root . I reboot try to flash the zip but says tat I can't flash image . Any ideas people ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] L-ViZ:
first of all i´d advice you that tool, i really love it :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1180639

just make a goldcard, use downgrade, everything is being done by the tool while downgrading, after it root it, s-off, eng s-off additionally and install recovery. after that you should be able to flash a costumrom
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Life Engineer:
I really couldn't understand what you really are facing and what help you want, however i can tell you the following:

-Make sure you have installed all HTC drivers as required

-Make sure you have installed latest HTC sync

-Make sure you have debugging mode enabled

-Read read read! Read another guide if you need to! Read comments because they have valuable info!

Good luck man!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3x1at1on:
Can you at least link the downgrade guide you are using so people can have an idea what is going wrong...
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bhdunn:
You can you ATTN1's ace hack V12.3 also. Sorry l don't have link, but you shouldn't have any problems locating it.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisully:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=905003
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisully:
cheers i get to boootloder sd checking .... loading... no image .... loading pd98diag.nbh .....no image or wrong image
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisully:
ohh its flashing now yey cheers guys for help
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisully:
Hi it their a guide to using this tool i downgraded to 2.2 now just want to read up on what to do rather than risk bricking my dhd, also i think the trouble before was fast boot was enabled ta .. chris
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alex6vasy:
follow this: http://driphter.com/index.php?topic=3867.0 it really works
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barqers:
Hello. I'm currently on the 1.2 bootloader flashback rom. Some applications seem to be cut off at the bottom of the screen and I'm not sure why? Does anyone else know what's going on?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torres77an:
Ok here's my problem the Alarm clock no longer goes off when my phone is shut down it only works when my phone is on I'm not sure what I did to cause this .. rooted Xperia arc .
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azaberl:
phone compeletely off or just in airplane mode?
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ambroos:
It's just one of the many 'steps down' from regular Sony Ericsson phones (the ones without Android). I've found quite a few actually. It'd be nice if Sony Ericsson could re-add these things to Android:

FM Radio Alarm

Custom Calendar reminders (not only the pre-set amounts of time)

Alarm while the phone is off

It's all little things, but they're all things I loved my Sony Ericsson Elm and G705 for that simply aren't there anymore. And that's a shame!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
It is normal on most OSes.....
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torres77an:
I still want my phone to be a phone

okay so my phone is a computer and not a phone any more witch angers me just a bit , some of my old sony ericssons had features that that some developers are charging for with there apps in the market like recording calls and I don't think having the alarm go off when the phone is off is asking for much

and a physical hang up button would be nice too I think touch screens are a bit of a fad right now that will wear off eventually even though they are quite useful all's I'm saying is we shouldn't forget how to walk just cause we have learnt how to fly otherwise we might crash and if I'm late for work cause my phone didn't go off you can mark that down as an EPIC fail in the not so smart so call smart phone category though I may be speaking to soon there might be an app for this .
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JarekG:
I think you should first define what you mean by Phone Is Off.

If you mean the phone can only be put on by the holding the power button...I don't think this is possible at all (and never was).

If you mean the phone can be put on by any button and only the screen is off that's different story.....that should be possible since the phone is not OFF. It's similar to having screensaver on your computer.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Torres77an:
I think you should first define what you mean by Phone Is Off.

If you mean the phone can only be put on by the holding the power button...I don't think this is possible at all (and never was).

If you mean the phone can be put on by any button and only the screen is off that's different story.....that should be possible since the phone is not OFF. It's similar to having screensaver on your computer.

your a crack head when i say the phone is off that means shut down turned off by the power button the phone is either off or on it's not hard to figure out !
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] royalves:
I actually agree with him

I actually agree with him, I wondered what you meant by "off" because what really seems idiotic to me is the idea that the phone should perform any action whatsoever when the OS isn't even loaded on memory. Now if you had your phone on sleep mode and the alarm didn't set off, I can see how that constitutes a problem.

- Roy
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xtacy!:
I'm sure everybody can differentiate between "Screen off" and "Phone off".

I don't know about you but it was pretty straight forward for me.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JarekG:
..

:D

As a software developer.....sure what ever you mean....as long as you pay the bill
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JarekG:
And to add to it....no !
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nirak:
O yes, some phones had the alarm feature in the past, I remember from a nokia I once had. It sure was nice when having an empty battery or just switching off for the night.

But since I switched to WM and android later no phone could do this anymore. But he, who shuts down his phone ever nowadays ;)

Sent from my Arc
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sarcat210:
This is about an alarm that can not survive when the phone is switched off

I am also looking for a decent breakfast about once an alarm to be alive when we turn off the phone.

because this is the first android phone and my favorite.

computer and to my knowledge only if we turn off the alarm can live as long as the power cord is not detachable and certainly with the alarm on through bios

I hope there is a way to alarm my life for android
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tomsue:
Im totally with Torres77an. I've had 20 years of phone alarms that work when my phone is off. And by off I mean off! Lol

Now we can't get that feature? I don't care if I can put it in airplane mode all night. I prefer it off! Im actually using a 4 year old phone that has this feature... But trying to upgrade? Im picky and this is a feature that I want! Im not the only one. You'd think with all the technology around now that the manufacturers could sort it out! We had it in the 90's we had it up until a couple of years ago.
[Defy Android Development] cardozclive:
One thing I noticed in Miui rom is that there is no 3G hotspot app coming with it. I tried installing it seperately by pushing it in system/app and gave permission. But it keeps on force closing. It doesn't works. Can somebody tell me how do I get it work on MIUI rom? Please. Thanx in advance.

Sent from motorola defy
[Defy Android Development] nolimitzz:
i use this app on CM7, ver 2.07:

http://code.google.com/p/android-wi...etail?name=wireless_tether_2_0_7.apk&can=2&q=

i posted this workaround for cm7 as well:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16412336&postcount=5
[Defy Android Development] xel666:
On CM7 I use barnacle wifi tether, works great :)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] theraffman:
Seriously, I go to GTG's thread hoping for updates or legitimate bug reports or fixes and all I see is the same few people *****ing back and fourth. Literally making me sick seeing all that crap. Maybe those kids can grow up soon and business can continue as normal.

Bare minimum, can you guys please take your *****ing to an off topic thread? Hell, use this one if you have to, but please don't make those of us who actually care about development endure any more of your drama? thanks

You guys are seriously doing a disservice to the devs and in my opinion being very disrespectful to GTG, trivializing his hard work with your banter.

Infused with gingerbread **** thanks GTG465X
[Samsung Infuse 4G] welchertc:
I totally agree with you. Sadly, asking them to stop doesn't work, only seems to encourage them to troll more. I feel bad for gtg and the other devs.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Auto-Android:
gtg now has to start a new thread. that post was specifically for the v2. he is doing the best he can to establish the gb rom. but people flood that post like nothing to it, thats not even a v2 thread anymore. its a troll thread
[Samsung Infuse 4G] S1XXV:
My opinion is all this wok for the infuse by these devs is on their own time. They do the best they can with what they have. People need to stop harassing them for eta's and improvements, especially when they state that they are working on it before the complaints start. Before you complain read the first post, it most likely tells all.

Sent from my Bionix SGH-I997 with Infusion.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] crawlgsx:
This section will improve 10 fold when Bella and the rest of the crying gang leave for SII. I personally can't wait.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ddot196:
Agreed. There are only a few people in that thread that continued to argue just for the sake of arguing. Hopefully they leave soon.

Infuse, infused...running gingerbread
[Samsung Infuse 4G] beatblaster:
It's so awesome to see a group of people who feel the same exact way I do. I don't even post like I used to anymore because of those trolls.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Corvette Dave:
Another case of the few spoiling it for the many!

Neo should have booted the offenders not the Developer thread!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] crawlgsx:
x100000^9.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] 02ranger:
x another 1000000^9