[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Development] TonyCubed:
You read me wrong, I'm a very optimistic person in general, but I'm also realistic. My comment will come off as negative, but I'm just stating the facts of problems we have.

Question I want to ask you though is, why do you want another bootloader other than MAGLDR? I know on Android we have MAGLDR and CLK, but CLK was in development around the same time as MAGLDR as another alternative since Cotulla was being very quiet about it's release date (at the time). A new open source bootloader would not change a thing with the WP7 loading because of how the system is booted. MAGLDR and CLK are like chainloaders, but the reason why CLK and MAGLDR can act differently from each other is because of the way the Android system/kernel/init is booted. WP7 doesn't have this problem at all.

If you were creating a new bootloader, it'll only be doing exactly the same thing as the current MAGLDR does. Cotulla/DFT are already working on an updated version of MAGLDR and Cotulla recently said that work was still ongoing.

As for the problems we have, again, this is not down to the bootloader, this is down to the actual drivers being incomplete. As far as I'm aware, DFT managed to get their hands on the original Leo test ROM and simply ported the drivers over and integrated them with the RTM version of WP7 (7004) which would happen to be either HD7/Schubert based ROMs.

You then talk about console and emulators, really? Emulators have nothing to do nor will they help fix the problem.

You have good intensions, we can see that, but this is just another topic of someone who believes the problem with our HD2 devices is down to developers not paying attention or not being motivated or not knowing what the problem is.

Let me tell you this, WP7 is still a new OS, it's going to take developers awhile to fully understand how things work, but it does not change this one simple fact. The HD2 is not a native device nor does it have complete drivers.

Multi-touch is a minor problem, let's be honest. Okay, I can't play multitouch games, but it doesn't interfere with me using the operating system.

Sound does need some work, I'll admit.

Battery is the biggest issue, because while the battery trick does work, it can often stop working without doing much to the device which would require using the battery trick.

Camera is another minor problem, a green tint is hardly going to stop someone from using the camera.

To fix all these issues: We need a developer familiar with WP7 and the HD2 i.e. someone who has all the material on the device and how everything works (we don't have this, we've never had this, even for Android),

We were lucky with Android because there are a few similar devices that we could port the drivers over from. There are still issues with Android that are still being worked on, in comparison, there are more problems with running Android than it is with running WP7, and that's because the HD2 was once a developers phone for WP7. Android has open source system and drivers and things are still incomplete. And that's the disadvantage we have, a none-open source system that we can't really do anything with.

Emulators and constant threads reporting the same problem isn't going to fix the problem.