[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Jacob1369:
HD2 and Android builds...

Putting Sense in Froyo is absolutely great!

Since last year, I've been the HD2 badboy in our office building (along with another fella) where most of the people are using iPhones... Where they would take a second look at their puny screens and feel sorry... lol Winmo has been great and I wouldn't mind if there are no updates to the whole WP7 issue (I heard there will be?!? Who cares...) and all that jazz but when I saw the Evo 4G, I said to my friend; "Hey, we're out of luck dude! Why in the world would they create an almost identical phone with better features and not let us stick our sim cards in it?!? Man...!?!"

Since then I've been feeling much envy of the Evo guys and even the N1 guys (whom I didn't envy before) simply because of the OS, not the iPhone guys... So instead of work emails, I check xda first if there are any news on the HD2-Android thing and then the bootloader was patched and the rest is history :D

I personally find much use for the Sense elements but also love the snappy-ness of Froyo. I've used Froyo for 2 straight days with minor call volume issues but I survived without going back to Winmo. Also got the "Shake them all" live wallpaper which was really fun... (try it with sound reaction and mount it on your car, play Master of Puppets! :D) Which made me realize that I've got to get that colorful circles thing (HTC Sense LWP) but it wasn't on the Market nor it was preinstalled... So then I tried the Desire build and found my screens having more "sense" :-P (the stock Winmo+Sense cloudy and sometimes thunder-y screen makes you aware of the weather all of a sudden on a busy day)

While in Desire mode, I keep finding a way to replace the messaging icon on the home screen (the green icon is preferred) which led me to use Handcent (like the others suggested but with an even crappier icon). The app just allowed me to put a ton of customizations on sms plus the security pattern thing and oh, the "green icon" (well, a lot of other colors too) on the top bar but not the homescreen... With all of that I was still determined to make the Desire build work for me because of the sense elements on the homescreen (it just looks more "put together") and I was not experiencing any normal phone feature issues aside from minor in call volume (which can be helped by the stock HTC handsfree).

A full day passed and the phone was set up like it has been used for weeks... I still cant' find the HTC Sense LWP anywhere... Then I realized that I've downloaded the Froyo+Sense build (I forgot lol) and gave it a shot... Alas, the LWP is there and to my surprise, a "Green Messaging Icon" on the homescreen... if that wasn't enough, Sense is indeed there and I couldn't believe my luck that it was a lot faster and a stronger wifi signal boost (could be other factors but definitely better than stock Winmo, Froyo and Desire). I made a phone call and "yes" it was a notch better than before... (ZI 7/25) even the top bar icons made "sense" ;)

So, I'm following this and I'd like to say good work on this build... :D This made our phones popular yet again! lol More importantly, it maximizes the HD2 to a whole new level.

I apologize if its long but I figured sharing the experience is more noteworthy than complaints and gripes on the development) Cheers! :D

Wishlist:

Android and HTC keyboards present in the build

All builds to have the HTC Sense LWP ;) (there's a reason why they chose to slap their brand on it)

Evo to make a sim-friendly model lol

Did I mention I composed this on the phone? :D

*PayPal should resolve my account soon so I can make a donation! :mad: