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[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] HQXU:
like what?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] HQXU:
invites :o
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] Koutch974:
For around 10€ / month for unlimited online music, and possibility to save them on your phone ... I've tried many online music apps, but Spotify is from far the best. And, it's 100% legal...
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] XteNce:
me's from Russia and we have several apps for our social network and one of them can search, play and download music from the site and especially my page.

it's enough for me :D

sorry for the wrong words, but I can't believe that only need to pay apps exist on Android...
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] church473:
Hey guys, this is probably a silly question but can you use nexus one custom roms on the desire?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lifeisfun:
It was asked here before ... NO
[Mogul, XV6800 General] fsubartender:
Ok I have an old Mogul. I have been playing with the FULL version of Ubuntu. I got it to boot, but have not touchscreen support.

Any input. It is a cool project to work on and have had fun trying it.

I used the startup.txt from an android rom and the Vogue/tytn port.

Thanks in advance.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] Magister2k7:
So do you have any plans to develop something that can be used on a daily basis?
[Mogul, XV6800 General] fsubartender:
I would love to. I need help with the ts_calibrate file/ command line
[Mogul, XV6800 General] hlopezvg:
Hi fsubartender

I have a mogul too and I would like to play with it installing Ubuntu, doy you have by chance a link or anything that can help me to install Ubuntu on it?

Thanks in advance
[Captivate General] jdbeitz:
Someone apparently ported the Windows Mobile Phone 7 to an HTC.... Hopefully coming to a "Dual-Booting Samsung Captivate" near you?!

I would link it, but I'm apparently not allowed? :(
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
This doesn't belong in Development.
[Captivate General] thejewhunter:
If I wanted windows on my phone, I would just take a crap on it
[Captivate General] akachay:
no need to bash on other OS because you prefer android. i'd love to see windows phone 7 on my captivate too. first impression doesn't mean anything, you have to play with an OS and knows what it has to offer and the feels of it to pass judgement.
[Captivate General] Reefermattness:
LMAO +1 to that!
[Captivate General] dirtyballoonot:
I'd be very interested in this. I actually REALLY, REALLY want a Windows Phone 7 device

I like my android, but, Phone 7 looks real nice
[Captivate General] cropythy:
No support in the OS for hummingbird processors, if you want a port you would have to write that in. Thats why samsung used snapdragons in the focus and omnia 7.
[Captivate General] magnumrt562:
Blah. 10 char
[Captivate General] Symmetric:
Having played with win phone 7, I actually like to do the opposite, can we put Android on a win 7 device? knowing windows sysreq, I'm sure it's pretty decent hardware...
[Captivate General] blackjackboy:
Wait

I'm going to wait for Gingerbread, I know WP7 looks great, but I have a feeling that Gingerbread is going to look even better, so I'm going to wait until I have a peek at what it looks like.
[Captivate General] spideyngo:
+2 to that

I agree with Reefermattness
[Captivate General] sevenvt:
+1

I know better to judge before I have had a month with the phone. Judgement shall be held until I actually have experience with the phone and os.. Pre judgement is kind of dumb, ios users do it to android all the time. Now people on android do it to wp7.
[Captivate General] sanners38:
That made me LOL
[Captivate General] E_man5112:
Exactly

If WP7 turns out to be a massive failure, or falls behind in the OS race, I bet we'll see it' Otherwise, I doubt it. Hacks will likely go to porting newer versions of WP7 instead. If they wanted android, they'd have bought it, since there are tons of high end android phones wherever they buy their wp7 devices.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
I would LOVE to have Windows Phone 7 on this instead. It's basically Android, but with all of it's major problems address (and the introduction of some new ones, I'm sure). But the positives clearly outweigh the negatives... Google needs to take a lesson from Microsoft and make some big changes to Android. Namely, updates straight from them.

But it's not going to happen.
[Captivate General] carlosjcar:
I think it can be done.

The Sansumg focus is a galaxy with windows phone 7. we have the most ingenius and resourfull community if it is possible, here is were it will happen .

So, Whos up for it?!
[Captivate General] E_man5112:
How is it android? It's closer to iOS than android.

No, the focus is not. It's got the same internals basically as an older HTC like the Evo, not a hummbingbird.
[Captivate General] Dani897:
no it only borrows the screen. it is spec'd as a snapdragon, not a hummingbird!

and why would anyone in there right mind want phone 7 if they can have android? why not just buy a focus with out dated hardware?

the hts phones running windows mobile are because the hd2 had a bootloader that could support multiple os's. i would like the bootloader ported so we can run multiple android roms like there are doing in the evo forum but id never install phone 7 or winmo 6.whatever from what im looking at the interface is so limited you might as well port iOS 2.2 because they are about the same.
[Captivate General] Shammyh:
Not going to happen. The hardware is too different, and unlike when you port Android to another piece of hardware, WP7 is not open source.

And yes, the Samsung Focus is NOT a Galaxy S in any way except for the Super AMOLED screen.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Some people prefer things that work. Some people prefer getting the latest firmware at all times. Not this "let's wait 7 god damn months after FroYo is released before you actually get it" crap. Some people want a UI that isn't ugly, lag filled, and unintuitive.

It's not perfect, but for a first release it's pretty damn good.
[Captivate General] SiL3nTKiLL:
imma wait for gingerbread...
[Captivate General] Pirateghost:
its not a first release....notice the number 7? thats not a coincidence.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
You're right it's not a coincidence. It's called Windows 7.

Windows 7 has been a massive success, and Microsoft is trying to play off of that. Something along the lines of "Well my PC with Windows 7 is pretty nice... maybe I'll try Windows Phone 7".

Windows Phone 7 was redone from the ground up, so yes, it's a first release. Not their first Mobile OS, but a first release.
[Captivate General] [[ Cold ]]:
well it comes after WinMo 6.x ... so yeah it's not entirely new for MS.
[Captivate General] Versed:
The Samsung Focus has a hummingbird cpu, so much for the OS not supporting it. Except for buttons and cosmetics, I doubt its much different then a Galaxy S phone.
[Captivate General] ragingclue:
I'm pretty sure it's a snapdragon actually.
[Captivate General] kegobeer:
It's the SnapDragon QSD8250, not the Hummingbird.

*edit* ragingclue beat me to it. I gotta learn to type faster! :)
[Captivate General] sevenvt:
And you obviously don't think you waited for years for wp7...
[Captivate General] XGX5309:
Yes it is. It's named "7" for the obvious success that is Windows 7. Windows Phone 7 is built on a completely different CE version and is a totally different subsystem than WinMo 6.5. The CE6.0 R3 kernel could technically be run on ARM, SH4, x86, and MIPS... it would mean the community here would have to write whole sets of new drivers... and that is a LOT more work than is feasible right now. Maybe if WP7 is released on a phone with similar hardware as the SGS's then it might could be ported. The Snapdragon cores are different enough to where their builds wouldn't work on the Hummingbird.
[Captivate General] mac208x:
Untill than cars will be flying
[Captivate General] E_man5112:
Wow, tell us how you really feel in your exaggeration filled and inaccurate statements.

No, snapdragon
[Captivate General] tonyc0642:
Not only is this a pointless fanboi thread, it doesn't belong in development. Mods, please intervene.
[Captivate General] pulser_g2:
Moved to general as not development
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
What's inaccurate? What's exaggerated?

FroYo has been out for 7 monthes, and we still don't have it officially. Many phones don't even have Eclair. Gingerbread is coming in a matter of days, and if we ever even get it, it won't be until the middle of 2011.

Don't get me wrong, Android is certainly a neat platform. It's powerful, and has a lot of pros. But there are some major cons, that Microsoft has take steps to correct.

Take off the Android fanboy glasses for a moment, and you'd see that as well.
[Captivate General] aNdroidnut:
Just got back from the att store and my windows phone 7 experience was decent. Although I am sticking with android, I can say that in the future windows phone 7 will def replace any Iphone thoughts I have. I really liked the focus's screen(captivate) but the hardware looked cheap. The htc surround did not impress me at all. Overall I think this ui will def compete with apple fans as it is simple and smooth. Now windows just needs to create a new following and they will be on the right path with this overhaul. The only thing I wonder about the ui is how people are going to change it and incorporate new things. Like I said the phone and ui are awesome but I feel like you would get bored overtime. As for your releases comments, look at microsofts past and the carriers release times. Its all the same either way.
[Captivate General] Dani897:
yes it's written on a new ce version hence the new successive version number.

[runs and hides]

is windows phone a new version 1 os? im sure people would like to debate that. but it's not like microsoft has no mobile experience. lets not kid our selves we cant compare it to cupcake or ios2. they have better hardware to work with so they arent limited by that. in all fairness it should be compared to it's modern competitors. they have plenty of experience with mobile gui's and arm based processors. lets not say it's the best version one mobile os like that actually means something when that statement implies that it is compared to systems 5+ years old and systems developed by microsoft themselves. it's meaningless.

anyway, why does every one want ports when a phone is available?

and about froyo, samsung has a plan, it might not be a good one but they will release it and it will be good. if it is not out with the launch of the tab in a few days it should be out by christmas. i think the whole galaxy s line is getting froyo on the 11th if i had to guess. no waiting on att, tmobile verizon or sprint. just one date for all 4 updates. it's just a guess but id rather have a bugless update than fast update anyway. im gonna check out phone 7 to see what the hype is about but being that the hype was there before the phones were released then im guessing it is just that.
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
Compared to present day Android, WP7 is a serious contender.

To say otherwise would be foolish.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] XGX5309:
There... I fixed that for you. With future revisions and updates WP7 could sure pose a threat, but it's missing several key OS features that Android has. Multitasking, and the whole copy/paste thing being on the top of the stack.
[Captivate General] Dani897:
the whole multi tasking thing is hard to judge. i just played with int in a store. the some apps are saved state, im sure it has some ability to run background sevices but there wasn't anything on the phone that would use anything like that, it is snappy and smooth with nice animations but the interface still seems odd. it is very zune like.

it is easy to find things with vertical scrolling list views (i use touch wiz launcher for the scrolling list in the app drawer, it's my prefered view), but the home screen looks odd, there is alot of black space on the right hand side of the screen and the icons are offset. overall it is simple and doesnt give you a headache using it so it may appeal to the every day person in ways other mobile os's dont but the lack of copy/paste is a deal breaker. i would need to use one for a couple days to see how notifications are implemented and some other things but it's about a step above iOS2. the tiles are live so they can be similar to widgets, that and the app drawer are all the distinguish it's functionality from my iphone 3g almost 3 years ago.

the calander app is simple and the tile shows upcoming events. there was a daily briefing app on the focus and it was interesting but not too practical. the image was bigger than the screen so you had to scroll left to right to see the whole thing, and it would infinately scroll, it just loops back to where you started.

overall it wasnt bad but im not sure it was good. it may become a big seller but it wont win over android enthusiasts. i'd buy one for my mom who might be lost on android :p
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
I would love to see this happen. I want to run the Windows Phone 7 OS on my Captivate.
[Captivate General] :
I would like to see this for the simple fact that you can't say something is decent or you wont like it until you try it. I used to have an iPhone, I loved it. However, I love my android phone too. They all have pros and cons.

Android has a better interface and customization options.

IPhone has a better app store.

Windows is trying to step up their game and be a contender to these two. I welcome the competition. If it wasn't for that, we'd still be playing snake on our nokias.
[Captivate General] modest_mandroid:
Does WinPho7 actually take advantage of any snapdragon-specific features? If the entire OS only requires the arm v7 instruction set, then it should still function at some basic level on a Galaxy S phone sporting a hummingbird cpu. Something tells me Microsoft didn't hard-lock their OS to a very specific cpu architecture that is going to go out of style in half a year, mandating another serious rewrite, which means driver development and patching parts of the OS for captivate-specific hardware would be the major hurdle.

It's no easy task - much more difficult than throwing Android on an ATT Tilt, for example - but definitely within the realm of possibility.
[Captivate General] jakemochas:
people forget that only the ORIGINAL LAUNCH DEVICES needed snapdragon, so microsoft could push it out the door... WP7 is really windows CE which runs on a variety of platforms (Tegra, snapdragon and other ARM devices) so it is definitely possible... the hardest requirement would be screen resolution, but the focus has the same screen so it would not be an issue... Later devices can run on different processors
[Captivate General] Roxy:
Well, I'm glad that samsung focus doesn't have random shut down issue / gps problems like captivate. :P

Windows 7 phone is great, but as always, there are things that they have to improve here and there.
[Captivate General] Driggity420:
Lol
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
Yeah, yesterday I gave in and purchased the HTC Surround. It is a beautiful phone, and I'm heavily favoring the Windows Phone 7 UI. Captivate now belongs to my future brother-in-law. :)
[Captivate General] daleaf:
I don't know if this makes sense, but if we were to port Windows phone 7 onto our Captivate, would the GPS work?

Is the issue within the drivers on Android on the Cappy, or the hardware itself?
[Captivate General] Roxy:
Erm, I'm actually not sure whether if it's a hardware or software problem.

People say it's software problem... but

If it was a software problem, wouldn't samsung be able to fix it easily?

I'm starting to think that it may be hardware.
[Captivate General] Reefermattness:
Its not hardware. Do some research. That same GPS chip is in quite a few other handsets that have GREAT GPS. We got our hands on the actual manufactures manual for the GPS chip and have already run across LOTS of settings that are incorrect. Also Samsung IS working on it (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=838151), and Samsung isn't really known for spectacular software programmers they are known for their hardware, so it might take them a while to get it right....
[Captivate General] ryuaced:
I think its funny

how many places this post has gone when it started with such a simple direction.

I would like to see the captivate be able to double boot or boot windows phone 7 software. I actually accumulated 3 captivates through a lot buy on ebay for under 600 bucks. I have 2 to play with but I don't have the tech know how to even attempt to figure out how to port.

I also am confused at how everyone is saying wp7 focus can't use a snapdragon processor when it is installed with a snap dragon processor?

Seems that even if it isn't able to use it to its full extent it has to be written to at least partially recognize itself.

As for anyone putting down os's either direction you can do that any time, everyone is entitled to an opinion but the starter of this thread did have a valid idea and was just wondering if it would be plausible. Not asking for a bashing session. LoL

At least I don't think he was.

I really love android and I am not wanting to lose it but like to double boot to be able to try the software out Like i did with my old htc's in which i booted android for the first time. haha
[Captivate General] shishir95:
The reason hummingbird is better than snapdragon is because it adds specific instruction sets to speed up processes i think... i mean even if microsoft did hardwire wp7 to use the snapdragon instruction sets exclusively (which they wouldn't) it should still work on hummingbirds. they're still based on the same ARM cores
[Captivate General] iMiLK333:
regardless of Windows being crap, I would like to see this through. I'd like to see someone working on a port for the captivate than not seeing it at all ;-)
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
Nope, CPU side is the same. Actually Snapdragon is a little bit more efficient when dealing with floating point caculation. The difference is GPU. The GPU in Snapdragon is really old and slow.

Rumor is Microsoft has finished driver support for other chipset. So it may show up in next update for WP7. I'd like to see a Tegra 2 WP7 handset.
[Captivate General] foxbat121:
You are mistaken. Current release of WP7 only has Snapdragon support. So all phones, including Focus, uses a Snapdragon chip.
[Captivate General] Abeeftec:
I am not a troll so I dont want to even hear that!

I just want to say that I would LOVE to get Windows phone 7 on my Captivate because I was in the sprint store checking it out the arrive and Windows phone 7was the smoothest and fastest of any phone I have used!

Here is why I say this...

1. My captivate worked perfect with 2.1 android. It did have a few things that could have been better but overall it never stuck in use.

As soon as I installed Froyo It is now horrible! It sticks when trying to do some things where the 2.1 did not.

2. When going to Websites with the Captivate it takes many seconds to get to a MOBILE site. And then many more seconds to get to the Classic site.

In the Windows Phone 7 It took no more then 2 seconds ( And it was more like one second) to fill the screen with every image from the Classic site!! It doesnt go to mobile sites!

That difference can make or break a deal on ebay, a Bet on TVG, a win on an online auction and can also cost tons of time if you do online work! G

Granted most people that do online work do it from a laptop or desktop anyway. But thats just the point! You CAN do it from Windows phone 7 While out because it IS that fast!

I am not a fanboi of ANY OS or product. I truly try them out and say what I see. Andriod to me was far superior to Iphone for the simple versatility over the iphone.

But windows phone 7 is superior to android IF ( and this is a big if) apps are not important to you and intenet connectivity is important to you.

Sorry if that was to long but now I dont need to explain why in another post

I posted here because I was checking to see if I could get windows phone 7 on my Captivate of HTC HD2 phones... Anyone know?
[Captivate General] amtrakcn:
1. Captivate is far from perfect on 2.1

We all know what lagfix is used for. On 2.1, we only has OCFL early versions of voodoo, not very helpful.

On 2.2.1, my Captivate works at the most optimized states.

Not sure if you updated ur 3rd party apps.

2. Just change the browser agent. Web sites determine which page to deliver based on browser agent.
[Captivate General] garringm:
There are only two people I have seen port android to windows I would assume porting windows to android would be about the same. All I know is there was a new bootloader that was written from scratch and not all functions worked

!!correctly!!.

What are the main differences between the focus and captivate, do they use the same internal parts if so then maybe just maybe it would work out fairly easy.

I understand that this part of the community is mainly for android users BUT in the spirit of what brought about xda this is for the developement, hacking (and I'll add commaraderie even with the occasional flaming) whether or not wp7 on the captivate would make it greater is up to the end user. I will alo add though if you want wp7 on the captivate; sell it and go buy a focus it'll cause less headaches, and youll thank yourself later
[Captivate General] rannic95:
It will be cool, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
[Captivate General] macropp:
This would be so good! My colleagues use Windows Phone 7 and I was interested to test them.. I must say the user interface is very neat and tidy unlike the Android.. Screen was much more responsive too.. So I'd really love to see WP7 ported to Captivate.

Microsoft still has a lot of work but it's very good. The sync was absolutely superb (all the facebook photos were automatically imported to the mobile, contacts were added and a lot more).

So please Developers.. Port it to Captivate.. This would be sooo Grand!
[Captivate General] quarlow:
I would also like to try WP7 on the captivate. I know the HD2 had a WP7 port, and I thought I read it has something to do with licensing, because WP7 is not free and open source like Android. But because the HD2 was licensed for WinMo 6.5, it didn't cause a legal issue of xda hosting it.

I think WP7 has a lot of potential. If the SGS II is not out soon, I think I may jump the WP7 boat and give it a try. You get 30 days to decide if you get the phone from AT&T. But it would eliminate that need if I could sample it beforehand on the Captivate.

I would love to help in any way I could to try this, beta testing etc. Anyone that needs help of that nature to bring WP7 to the Captivate PM me.
[Captivate General] b-eock:
It would be nice if we could run any software on any device, a build your own device you could say, that would be great everyone would be happy!!!
[Captivate General] eortizr:
why will anyone want WP7 on a Captivate,,, WP7 sucks big time. I got curiosity once and bought a WP7 phone,,, it last just 1 week,,, sold it and got back to Captivate...
[Captivate General] MikeyMike01:
My brother traded a Captivate for a Focus. Now he's kicking himself because of the lack of apps, and the ones he does have cost more than they do on Android.

Sent from my SGH-I897
[Captivate General] Barbarian:
Windows Phone...lol