[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Development] jackrabbit72380:
There is a lot more content I wanted to put inside this rom but lack of support no donations and lack of interest on WP well

I decided. to quit developing for windows phone all together.

I spent 2 years on this project and with the amount of work that went into this rom I just cant spend my life programing for a device anymore.

This device is pretty slow ,old & WP as an OS is failing ms. Google now has 83% of cell phone market share.. I was hoping that things would have turned out differently but MS has undergone transformation from a software giant to a hardware and a products and services company

There is still talk of them buying Nokia cell phone company anyway. I got wind they where no longer going to support wp 1/2 way though 2014 they will probably make official announcement but they don't want to scare people who are still buying the phones they basicly shoot there self in the foot with this one.

In the long run the only thing that matters is what works best. & whatever makes people happy. unless ms makes some changes no ones going to bite the wp bullet!

This rom is one of a kind...it's quick simple easy to use and appealing to the eye.

I still love the OS and I love how simple it is to use compared to Android but there are also some things I don't like about it and the needs outwit the wants.

I did what I could to make WP7 better It was a tough project! and required a lot of time & research.

I didn't have enough room In the rom to include many great updates I spent time building. moded zune & a lot more.

The lang packs where removed to make new room for the mods.

The content could be put in it and the lang packs could be added back in but that would require a lot of work to clean up many files and many optimizations. & I do meen a ALOT of work. If someone else is building a new rom I may give them some of my files. But I think I have done my fare share of work here and I'm burned out.

This rom is all ready the most optimized rom there is. much optimizing has already been done to include all the content I have.

but no matter what I do we are always going to be limited to the rom and ram space and it's packed so full I hardly got the lid on it.

I stoped using the phone and developing for the phone. I gave the phone to my sister & I DONT EVEN HAVE IT ANYMORE. but I'm still sitting on project Ora as I have not released it to the public for other developers to use yet in there Rom's. I currently have my eye on the Nokia: Lumia 1520, 1320 phones if I get one I may develop for windows phone again. but with my lack of funds the chances are pretty slim. I would love to sell the code for project Ora but I am just an at home hobbist and I don't exactly know about how to go about doing that.

or who to talk to its not like I can just submit it to marketplace. & 5000 lines of code I spent 1 1/2 years writing. is a lot of work I would love to see project Ora be a little more organized and become an official update. but I have no clue how to make that happen.

if I ever do another update it will only be because I'm working on a rom for one of the newer devices.

and I am not exactly an application developer ither.

I just got lucky and asked the right questions to the right developers and learned how to use OS builder.

a lot of the work was based on other developers work that I simply could not fix, I keep putting in requests for errors to be fixed that I found but the other developers just stoped caring and supporing. there applications. so out of the small hand full of developers who do develop for WP

we are all pretty much done.

It is what it is. If you want to mod the rom or make changes use OSbulder. but don't expect me to teach you how to use it. It just takes to much time to learn and the outcome is not even worth the work.

My current device is the Samsung galaxy s4 for sprint and after 2 years learning WP development I'm not to excited. about starting over to learn android development so aside form learning a bit here and there I'm currently taking a break.

This new version of the rom so far has been downloaded 1024 times with out a single donation. not even 1c for 2 years worth of work.

so I'm done.

It is what it is I hope you guys enjoy my rom!

Jack out!