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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Bill R:
I've been using Windows PDA's since the 1990's (still have my first one in fact) and reading ebooks on them the whole time. It was great being able to have my work calendar and contacts on my hip or in my pocket too.

Several years ago I decided to combine my PDA, phone and MP3 player into one and got the AT&T Tilt. It was a heady experience. The one problem I wasn't able to overcome was age. My eyes were starting to go so I started fishing around for a phone that had a bigger screen.

Enter the iPhone. It had the biggest, brightest screen around at the time and the apps were cool so I got it. I fell in love with Stanza as my reader and the iPod player for my music (Sol Free I miss very much). What I hadn't thought about though was that my company didn't allow Itunes on our desktops and there was no push mail to sync my calendar and contacts. Also the cell tower that used to be down the street was removed so signal became problematic.

Then the chafing at the control Apple placed on MY phone started to sink in and I started searching around for an Android phone on a carrier that had a strong signal where I work and a big screen. Much to my dismay I discovered there was hardly any sync capability that would sync my works to Android without over the internet to gmail which is a no no at my work (I actually didn't stumble across HTC Sync till much later).

So I started looking at WinMo phones again. Eureka! The HD2 had a big beautiful screen and WinMo that would use wired ActiveSync! Added bonus, TMobile has a strong signal where I work. Doing my research I found that it was already Android capable. Score!

Do I miss some of the features of my iPhone? You betcha! Despite all the negatives of Apple, you have to hand it to their engineers. They got the whole finger thing just plain right and Android and any capacitive screen device owes them a huge debt of gratitude for changing the way people work with these devices.

Will I go back to it? Never!

Sure some features of WinMo/Android/HD2 could be improved, but by far it gives me the most flexibility of any phone on the market today and thats priceless!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pmoneyno1:
i knew an android port would be available at some point and i also believed at the time i got mine, that a windows phone7 port would be possible because of the specs.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Hey there, I love the first Windows ROM. Where can I download it?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] D4rk50ul:
I had the option of getting two free devices from T-Mobile USA. I have had terrible luck with Samsung devices and my buddy had an HD2 running a custom Rom so I went that way. Found out about the Android and being a long time Linux junkie was hooked. Love this phone and this community.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] digir0gue:
I have been with android since the g1 and have loved every bit of it. The HD2 is my first WinM phone. Within 1 - 2 hours of owning my HD2 I had Android loaded and running. I actually traded my fail Motorola Cliq XT and 50 bucks for my HD2.

WinM is something of beauty especially when it comes to syncing and using with my win7 laptop. I also like the fact that I get the best of both worlds. WinM 6.5 Energy ROM/Froyo 2.2 Stock with sense. I am extremely happy now with this device and I am even thinking about not buying the g2 (maybe just one for the wife, so I can at least play with it, lol).

I really enjoy having a phone that can run both and hope to always have it that way.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] zole2112:
I've been flashing roms on my G1 for...seems like forever. I bought the HD2 because of the hardware, 1 Ghz processor, 4.3" screen, holy sht! I didn't mind using Winmo, I used to flash it everytime Energy came out with a new rom, I think Winmo is damn powerful, just not as user friendly as Android. I figured someone would get Android to run on the HD2, Thank You Dcordes, you rock my friend! Now I run Android daily but now and then switch back to my Winmo with SPB. Love my HD2, love Android!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] lilly0x:
Well i was coming from a bb pearl flip. and i like to research phones and one day read about a phone called the HTC HD2 in europe. I saw the review on it and was blown away. :D then, I read a rumor that tmo was getting the "HTC HD2" ... windows mobile was never a problem for me so i got it a week after it launched in the US :D loved it. Then when the desire builds came out on gamesquare, it was like a dream come true. Many builds later, I've grown to love Android too <3 and i'm now using HyperDroid v1.2 ...oh how i love Love Stories :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] fusion06:
I had Tmobile for a while now..had a Behold before i got my HTC HD2. I was in radio shack and they had a deal going where i cold get it for 100 bux so i did..and gave my wife the Behold. I basically wanted SOMETHING close to what the Evo looked like but i didn't want to have to jump carriers.I like android but then again winmo has some good qualities.I have to admit though..i think most of those good qualities came from xda devs who made the roms allot better.I was going crazy with having a new phone that lagged and froze on me until some of you guys came to the rescue.I think it's also a rare and epic moment when you have a phone that can run dual operating systems ..so even if there was a stable android rom for the HD2, i don't think i'd get it because i love having a choice..a choice between titanium, SPB mobile shell,htc sense, android with sense or nonsense (senseless)... and thats incredible! so yeah, i guess i could have jumped carriers if i just wanted android,but i'm glad i didn't because now i have both. now i can have my cake AND eat it too. :p :D :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m4f1050:
I'm a computer administrator/engineer and I was testing Android on HD2, downloading the apps and trying them out on it, but decided to use it as daily use when I managed to install all the apps I use on WinMo *AND* be able to VNC and be able to scroll the screen with my finger instead of using the scrollbars (this was a big plus since I VNC every day to servers and computers.) Using WYSE POCKETCLOUD, check it out, it rocks! That's when I decided to leave Android as daily use. I still get bored of the OSes (like WinMo, but to be honest I got bored faster...hehe) I still don't like the fact that too many apps are user-written, possibility of backdoors is greater imho.

Only thing I don't like on the Android over WinMo is Opera... Another one is QEMU and running Windows 98 / .NET 2.0 on it...I write apps in .NET 2.0 and like to have them available on my phone... :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m4f1050:
Have you tried WYSE POCKETCLOUD on Android? Give it a test drive..I did, and love it!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Just found out about the HD3 coming here to T-Mobile with WP7 but I still will always love my HD2! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] noobshite:
I get my HD2 because Android development was going well and the phone is cheap. Compared to initial launching, I paid 60% less for an original set. I'm already on Android but my HTC Legend screen is too small. Not to mention HD2 is the only 4.3" screen pda available in my country.

Tremendous value.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Viper87227:
I had a MyTouch Slide and really wanted a better phone. I didn't want to risk waiting on the Vibrant, and T-Mobile has no other high class android phones. So, I chose to get an HD2 and put android on that myself.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
And more ironic that the iPhone doesn't come in a larger size of 4.3" either. Of course, I really like the new iPod Touch but that's another different story.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m4f1050:
Mozart would be my next purchase. Best of both worlds unite again...! Wonder how the Android porting will work out on Windows Phone 7...? They should do backwards compatibility and be able to run WM 6.5...even if it's through an emulator... :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Sleef:
I bricked my G1 and immediately picked up the snazziest phone at the shop, which was the HD2. However, WinMo drove made me want to nail my phone to the door at Microsoft so I returned it for a myTouch Slide. Once I'd finally overcome the trauma of WinMo, I heard about Android being successfully ported to the HD2. I found someone looking to trade for a Slide and we swapped! Yay! Super happy rainbow time!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] krypto16:
Had an upgrade and bought a mytouch slide since the HD2 only ran winmo and android was not yet at daily driver form. After screwing around with the slide for a while, wanted a faster phone and found someone to trade the slide for HD2 st8 up. Could not be happier with the decision to trade!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Johev:
My reasons for buying this phone are +/- the same as the majority of you. I like the hardware and I dare to say software of it.

I have Artemis ROM and I like the way it flows, no bugs that I can see and it is very fluid, never let me down.

I now found out about Android and I will be trying it as soon as I get a better micro SD card, as right now I do not even have a class 2 with me.

Hopefully it will be as good as you all are saying.

It should be fun getting my first impression of Android on a WM phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vinod9197:
hey man! where did you found hd2 for $48?? i still looking for cheaper hd2 at craiglist with no luck...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] clauswl:
Wall Mart, with 2 yr contract.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
The cheapest I found a HD2 was 220 dollars which wasn't all that cheap. But I have two of them to play with. Right now trying to get a Palm Pre Plus. :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Trig0r:
I went from the original HD to the HD2, at that time Android was pants...

Next phone will be Desire HD or HD3/7 or whatever its called..

Wonder what Android 3 will bring to the table..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hypermj:
I already had a Desire but wanted the WM capabilities as I've had WinMo since my 2nd or 3rd ever phone... so have all my bad habits linked to that! :-)

now love the idea of having both WinMo and Android on the same phone! ... good luck to all those developers! :-D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JoonatanO:
Because it was cheap (compared to the other high-end devices out there), I needed to upgrade my G1 (kept rebooting randomly, stuck in boot loop, etc.), and because it has a HUGE screen! Bigger than anything else out there (at least most)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m4f1050:
I find them on craigslist for $200 all day long... Here the EVO is available and a lot of people switch to sprint because of the EVO (and Android) not knowing you can put android on the HD2!!! HAHA! I took advantage of this a month ago, which I was finding them for $200 as well. I tried to buy one for $175 but it was sold quickly!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
Yeah... also Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi are becoming as much of a bargain smartphone as the HD2 as well.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] m4f1050:
Never liked PalmOS (or new WebOS) so haven't followed them...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] halling:
I got my HTC HD2 2009/09/10 last year and by then Android didnt have much to offer.

Cant really understand that my HD2 is over a year old and still kicking most phones ass. Way before its "time".

(Got it sent from HTC before release, got lucky)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Visentinel:
I liked the desire but found that after de-telstrafying my girlfriends desire I didn't like how much effort it takes to flash Rome on it and radios.

Found that the hd2 has allot more going for it

Same performance

Bigger screen

Very easy to crack the security to remove the Telstra crap with HSPL

Switching to android and then updating android is as easy as copying files to an sdcard

Extremely long flash life. Your not write wearing the internal flash. Once the internal flash is worn out its over. But on the hd2 go nuts. Then replace.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] AmpJack:
It was a light night scowering through Craigslist, in search of a new used phone for Simple Mobile. (Runs on TMOUS network, but cheaper)

Knowing I could use either an unlocked phone or a T-Mobile phone, I figured a T-Mobile phone would be cheaper.

This was when the keyboards were my best friends.

Had a keyboard phone since 2008 and never looked back.

The latest, was the Sidekick XL 2009, which of course, did not have data.

Before that was the ATI (UTStarcom) Quickfire with the touch screen and keyboard.

OS reminded me of the LG VU. Couldn't receive MMS no matter what I tried.

So anyway, two phones to play with, neither quenched my thirst.

I turned my eyes towards the G1.

I didn't have much cash on me.

Called everyone on Craigslist who had posted about selling a G1.

EVERY LAST ONE HAD ALREADY BEEN SOLD.

So I look through other touch/keyboard phones and find only crappy ones that wouldn't meet my needs.

In desperation, I contact a friend asking if he knows of any nice phones for sale.

He does, the HD2.

Only used for a few days, but was freezing with the stock ROM and the lady that owned it never ending the background tasks.

I Googled it, and was instantly impressed.

So I drive about 20-30 miles.

Get there, in the ghetto, afraid of being shot.

And out comes the lady with the HD2.

In the box, with the 16GB Class 2 Micro SD card and all.

I walked away with it for $150 straight up, no strings attached.

Used it for a while with a cooked WinMO ROM, then decided to move on.

Android was something I'd never experienced in a phone.

I found problems though.

Trying every combo of ROM and Radio I could, and trying so many different builds of Android.

Now I'm running HyperDroid and it works.

MMS, Web, no dropped calls, decent battery.

But the GPS doesn't work.

About to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.5, hopefully it'll work then.

:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] white-energy:
Got it (new) as a gift! :cool:

It will bring the best cookies which are gingerbreads :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Geicco:
Screen

The screen is great... no other reason. the phone facility is slow and hangs when trying to call someone quite to often. i will switch to android next time. Will however get the HD3

if

it is deliverd with android... WM is dead fellas. unless some of the programers from xda here can get into microsoft and give them a lesson on how to really make a good rom that fits the phone specs and that people want... Btw, apps and games also suck for this phone (most apps and games do not support multitutch and the quality is crappy).

*Note* I will never be devoted to a applefag no matter what. That leaves me with android.

Do i regret buying this phone? No i like the customisation part though it requires more work than what should have been nessesary :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] StardustOne:
I paid a lot a few months ago and did only recently realize that it can also run Android. Today I gave it a try and wow, what a shame for WM 6.5. Exept for synchronizing the phone with Outlook, WM does not make any sense anymore. It is old, ugly, full of bugs, can't be seriously used for browsing (despite the 800x480 screen) and so on and so on.

Android is so much better. I did not have a clue how to use it, although after 20 minutes playing with the build, it is a much better user experience than I ever had with WM. I am surprised that WM did not die earlier. Perhaps because Android was not there earlier? :)

Seriosly, it is so much better to use the HTC HD2 with Android, I did not have a clue. Now I know :). WM 7 will only make things worse (because it is so pick yon the hardware to support it).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Bill R:
MattC's Android build is compatible with HTC Sync so syncing with Outlook is simple.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] JDM Civic EG8:
I chose the HD2 for the screen and i found out you can make it run on android which im doing right now using the SD card. Idk why the HD2 never came with Android to begin with
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] datfk:
I originally bought the hd2 because I got tired of the iPhones that I had For 2 years . I was not familiar with the android but I never considered switching to it from my iPhone. On top of that I had t-mobile and had no 3g on iPhone so I got the hd2. I was so happy with wm but the lack of apps pissed me off. I didn't know wether to get android or not, I tried it, and after that first time of using it, it felt like wm was ancient had nothing good other then the weather animations.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] juggs:
Honestly I didn't care what it had on it. I fell in love with it when I saw it in the Tmo store window. Now we have both! Holy **** I'm getting a chubby again.

:p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] unitedxempire:
As jmmmmm said I have been a WinMo guy forever. And by forever I mean since the days of Dell Axim. I had Dell Axim X50v > X51v > HTC Tilt II > Touch Pro > Touch HD > HD2. I also have been with TMOUSA forever. I love their cheap plans and service. I didnt plan on changing either. I am also pretty good with WinMo stuff. So I got the HD2 for the hardware specs and because I want to get Windows Phone 7 on it. All my previous phones were awesome on ROM updates and extended its life. I didnt really care for Android because prior to 2.2, Andrioid was meh. But now I truly see the evolutionary step from WM6.5, its Android and not WinPho 7. WinMo is customizable, hackable, has the abbility to side load apps,and etc, which is something Android share unlike WinPho 7. WinPho7 is very much controlled like the iPhone. Although now it looks to me like iOS is more open then WinPho7 lol.

I will end again with what jmmmmm said; any device I purchase from here on WILL be able to run two OS...... Old habits die hard I guess. I think its because I am always looking into the next thing so having one device with the ablity to do both is cheaper than having two device.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] derycklong:
hd2 is the phone with the biggest screen that can run 2 OS maybe even 3 if WP7 is possible on HD2.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] eyanlaya:
I bought the HD2 cuz i thought it is very fast with the 1GHz snapdragon CPU on WM 6.5 and the screen is damn big and the design look very cool compared to iPhone 3GS. At the time i bought this phone i didnt even know there is such thing called Android OS. Today i change BUILD everyday 3 days and Android is going to sit inside my HD2 forever. I think Windows OS is not bad either. They should have think twice when creating such a **** OS on a mobile phone. I doubt that they understand the word "Mobile PHONE". They were actually creating the OS that turn a phone become a MINI Pocket PC which has the ability to called and sms. I myself do not want my big screen phone to become a mini Pocket PC. A phone is a phone not another PC.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Dr.Jeckyl:
Been a G1 owner since launch and have been loving it. Saw the EVO and wanted it bad but Sprint service sucks in my area plus not one store around me for 30 miles had one. Found a kick ass deal on Craigslist for a like new ZERO scratches HD2 and jumped on it. Installed Android on it the same night and have been a happy camped ever since.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
I am staring at Windows Phone 7 and it looks good. I wonder whether this will boot up Android too?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] arthurbrownleeiv:
I bought the HD2 because I knew it would be the last hurrah for WinMo before MS trashed the functionality with WP7.

The hardware is awesome, cept I'd give an arm and a leg to have a resistive screen again.

Android is pretty cool, but I find myself switching back to WinMo for my work days. Especially for exchange support, and no I'm not impressed with Touchdown.

Anyway, HD2 is still the sexiest hardware I see out there, and it is over a year old. I don't see anything impressive on the horizon until we start seeing some ATOM phones from the Nokia camp.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] firebert:
+ Huge Screen

+ Looks great

+ HTC Phone

+ Android Builds

but I'm starting to regret the purchase because all the Android builds available are full of bugs. I'm seriously thinking about getting a G2 but it's such a ugly phone with a tiny screen.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Oneirophage:
Got the HD2 in May to replace a broken Touch Pro 2. Loved it as the hardware design is fantastic, it was far faster and was perfectly sized for me (I use the HD2 one handed, yes I have gorilla hands)

Then screen cracked on the HD2 (landed face down onto stone) and the store had none in stock :(, so I got a Desire. Got used to the Desire, thought Android was quite good but was really missing the larger screen. I remember using a friend's 3GS and feeling the screen was cramped...a 3.5" screen cramped!

Then read up on the Android ports and loaded one onto the HD2's SD card. It works surprisingly nicely, enough that I'm considering getting the screen replaced (but not selling the Desire, it's nice to have such a good spare :D

It's quite funny that almost a year after its release, the nicest new phone is still pretty much reskinned HD2 (Desire HD).
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] qipengart:
I would love to own a Desire HD on T-Mobile for sure. that would be beautiful!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shuntje:
I got it because it was the most bad ass phone around. It was thinner then any other smart phone it had a bigger screen it had a superb processor and not to bad of a graphics card.

It had windows mobile 6.5 and as a Windows mobile user for 3 more phones i had no real bad experiences with it. However windows mobile also was the reason it drove me to Android. The general SMS issue with Win mobile made the phone more then useless in windows mobile for me i text A LOT so in boxes are always over 500 ish texts and the Sense interface just could not handle this amount.

So since at least a month plus a bit i'v been using this as a android phone. And the second i get my hands on a nand flashing tool it wil be a true android phone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] intruda119:
I pretty much just went though 2 samsung vibrants in about 4 weeks. Beatiful screen but first phone in 10 years of playing with smartphones, that I actually bricked one. Probably user error but just check the vibrant forums.

While I was in depression I checked my backup hd2 forums, and you guys are getting a NAND version soon. Ill keep this until the end of the year atleast.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shure2:
simple: hd2 cost me half as much as the desire hd would, and for a similar experience
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bountygiver:
need both winmo and android, winmo for some classic game and garmin (no one port yet) and some winmo apps

android for other uses :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dunkelfalke:
Because I've used Windows Mobile since the good old Wallaby.

Because back then I didn't care about Android - the apps that I use are Windows Mobile only. And they still are.

But first and foremost because of the huge screen.