[HD2 Android NAND Development] aberean:
Best options for running this Rom in my oppinion!!

First I want to thank Tytung again, without his work the simpletons like me would be stuck with windows mobile!!

Also thank you to NYLimited - he has helped me many times whether he knows it or not directly and indirectly!

These are my findings and my own experience - hopefully it will help others like me.

I have tried all installation methods over the last three years - starting with running android from sd while having WM installed!

I used NAND for the last 2 years but found issues like low memory and I may have bad blocks - in any case, i have had many errors, high battery consumption, and often found my device had turned off randomly without reason (I was using a 16gb class 2 sandisk sd card - the one that originally came with the phone the whole time. I have used almost every update from tytung from GB to now using JB 1.3a with the same hardware.

JB has been the biggest frustration for me, it has been the biggest of battery consumers and very buggy for me.

About a month ago I finally upgraded my sd card to a 32gb sandisk class 10 HC1 and decided to try some other configuration to see what worked best, NAND was faster but with the apps i have installed i felt i would quickly run out of memory, battery is better and overall it is less laggy than before.

next I tried NativeSD, this was worse than ever before for Lag, as everything rand off the sd - everytime i updated an app the phone was useless untill it finished installing, if there were more than one app to update then it would take sometimes 5-10 mins to update all.

after some more reading in this and a few other threads, i found that many were using dataonext setup. I installed this a few days ago and have to say, i wish i would have done this a long time ago. battery drain has decreased to half what it was, i have found that i still have a few random shutdowns but not near what they were, i can still use the phone during app updates and i have few if any other bugs. i believe this setup in conjunction with a well rated sd card can solve many of the problems that I and so many others have been having.

My current setup is:

Tmo US HTC HD2

Leo_RADIO_2.15.50.14

HSPL: 2.08.HSPL

magdlr 1.13

system partition 350mb

cache partition 45mb (not needed but i now have the room)

sd-ext 4gb ext4 (Via 4ExtRecovery)

fat32 28gb

NexusHD2-JellyBean-4.1.2-CM10 V1.3a via datatoext

steps:

1)Wiped device via hd2toolkit

2)installed magdlr via hd2toolkit

3)via hd2toolkit - repartitioned to 350mb system Part w/45mb cache (this solved a problem with the bootloader where i was not able to install from sd card (happened after installing nativesd i somehow lost recovery options in the bootloader)

4)Formated sd card via minipart tool (1st partition fat32 partition making it primary - 2nd partition format sd-ext to ext 3 or 4 also make this primary partition)

5) via pc i loaded all needed files to fat32 partition of sd card (recovery_4EXT2.2.7_leo_nand per their instruction, JellyBean-4.1.2-CM10 V1.3a.zip)

6) boot into magldr via holding red phone button until it gives magdlr options

7) set device boot to sd dir 4extrecovery folder (made in step 5)

8)reset device - or select option in magdlr to boot into sd (boots 4extrecovery)

9)format sd-ext to ext 4 (done in 4extrecovery)

10) while in 4ext revovery after sd format - select install from sd and select your JellyBean-4.1.2-CM10 V1.3a.zip file - aroma installer will come up and give you options

11) device will restart once installation is complete

I realize this has all been explained many times in many threads, but I am still a noob and still need much help, this is a way for me to give back to the community and hopefully help others.

if i missed anything please let me know and i will amend this post, I did not include installing radio or hspl - these can be done via hd2 tool kit prior to step 1

also - i used titanium backup prior to this - the free edition backed up most of my settings and all of my apps, this cut in half the time to re-install everything!