Has anyone tried to port over the windows phone 7 os to android? I believe it can be done seeing as though they ported android over to the HD2.
This belongs in Q&A.
There is a new UI that emulates the Windows 7 Phone on the android phones. But over all why would you want to go backwards, to what is history and should be dead.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=864034
It is unlikely that we will see a port of WP7 to Android due to licensing issues. Android porting to other devices does not have this restriction as it is open source. Hope this helps.
BTW, there is a Q&A section which is best suited for these kinds of general questions. You're new though, so I don't see any reason to be a **** to you just for posting in the wrong session. Perhaps people can grow up a little bit around here and stop being so rude...
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I love XDA, I love the people here and I truly beleive there is no other place like it on the net.
I'm moving over to Android and I have already seen a few threads popping up around the subject on here.
My question is will the XDA admin be looking at extending support to other Android phones than the G1 including those made by other OEMs like Samsung and will the site carry on supporting those in the same way Winmo has been.
I dont believe Android is going any where and I would like to see the site expand to embrace it and continue been the number on place to use your phone properly as well as trying out new stuff.
PS Admin - feel free to change the title if you want.
Terran
The general rule on this site is that devices can only have a forum if manufactured by HTC.
Requests for Non-HTC Windows Mobile device forums have not been accepted by the admins, so I think it is safe to assume that Non-HTC Android device forums will also, not be created.
Thanks
Dave
Sort General Forum by OS?
Can I pose a suggestion here? I know that the site is for HTC devices and the devices now come in different OS flavours. Should there be a separation on the subforuns (fora?) by OS now? There are more threads for the Android (and it is gonna be big soon!) coming up and it is getting even more confusing to sift through the posts even more so on the General area and it would be easier for everybody to identify what they want and how to help. No offence here but some other sites already sort things by OS and it looks much neater the way they do.
Cheers! All the best.
DaveShaw said:
The general rule on this site is that devices can only have a forum if manufactured by HTC.
Requests for Non-HTC Windows Mobile device forums have not been accepted by the admins, so I think it is safe to assume that Non-HTC Android device forums will also, not be created.
Thanks
Dave
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i can understand why they would do such a thing. however. This site is THE best on the web for everything HTC but also for everything WINMO. there is a lot on here with the omnia and Xperia becausreit's the same OS. I think XDA-devs should allow other phones on here as long as the developers here are working on them then lets have the forums.
wovens said:
Can I pose a suggestion here? I know that the site is for HTC devices and the devices now come in different OS flavours. Should there be a separation on the subforuns (fora?) by OS now? There are more threads for the Android (and it is gonna be big soon!) coming up and it is getting even more confusing to sift through the posts even more so on the General area and it would be easier for everybody to identify what they want and how to help. No offence here but some other sites already sort things by OS and it looks much neater the way they do.
Cheers! All the best.
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no need for that imo....the forum is very precise and easy to use and there isn't much confusion...so no need for that....
and in a few years (hopefully) we will overcome WM and you will have WM manufactured devices running android and linux with great reliability
...i mean when did MS care for reliability
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i can understand why they would do such a thing. however. This site is THE best on the web for everything HTC but also for everything WINMO. there is a lot on here with the omnia and Xperia becausreit's the same OS. I think XDA-devs should allow other phones on here as long as the developers here are working on them then lets have the forums.
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the thing in being strictly htc forum is that we do not want bunch of nokias and other devices around here...
the forum would be destroyed and not usable if there were all those manufacturers.....mobile telephones are one huge field and one forum can't deal with it
xperia is a htc...otherwise it wouldn't be in the forum...the omnia is not and there is no official forum for it.....but as you could probably see bunch of guys gather in the general forum...and that really sucks because they were asked not to and they still do (they do not respect the forum or pay any attention to it imo)....and mods can't deal with it because of their time and resources
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the thing in being strictly htc forum is that we do not want bunch of nokias and other devices around here...
the forum would be destroyed and not usable if there were all those manufacturers.....mobile telephones are one huge field and one forum can't deal with it
xperia is a htc...otherwise it wouldn't be in the forum...the omnia is not and there is no official forum for it.....but as you could probably see bunch of guys gather in the general forum...and that really sucks because they were asked not to and they still do (they do not respect the forum or pay any attention to it imo)....and mods can't deal with it because of their time and resources
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i apologise i didnt realise xperia was htc as well. no i too dont want nokia users here lol. i suppose the compromise is keep the forum htc phones but allow in depth use of the resources for the OS's. android has a place here as it is used by h... you know what i'm writing this and thinking to myself actually I DONT want loads of other phones here. I like the fact that XDA-devs are the best there is and you do that by being a specialist not a generalist.
so to summarise. keep things as they are.
what a waste or forum space this post was. I am ashamed.
i did have an android section on the winmo site but ive took it down until there is an actual need for it to be there
at the minute there ist a lot of non htc android device but they are coming so until that time there is no point in me havineg an android section thats gonna stay empty until there is interst
but when the devices come and you need a forum then hit me a line ill start putting android forum support again
Hi,
Has anyone had any luck cooking a WP 7 ROM for the Dell Streak? If not, is it difficult? Which current WP 7 platform will have the closest hardware to the Dell Streak? I presume that ROM is which a developer would begin working off from as a baseline.
Any info is most appreciated...
Thanks!
No one has ported WP7 to ANY device. WP7 has not been ported, and honestly I would be willing to bet my right arm that it will never be ported to the Streak, nor any other Android phone.
Hahahaha...I wont mock I asked lots of questions like that...no, not likely ever, no...how about Galaxy S
from what i've heard, the OS itself ties to the phone with a unique serial, so I'm not too sure if we'll ever see it.
Thread closed. Please read the stickies. I will update the sticky to include a section about android soon.
~~Tito~~
I am surprised about the lack of Android development for WP7 devices considering that most of xda is dedicated to bring Android to devices.
Given that most WP7 devices have identical hardware to their Android counterparts,
Desire HD -> HD7
Galaxy S-> Focus/Omnia 7
etc
it should be a fairly simple job for the experienced people here?
Please read the stickys. Thread closed. I know you don't mean bad with this question but it has been asked time after time and it has just to much work involved to accomplish this ATM. Just becaude the HW matches doesnt mean they run the same.
~~Tito~~
Hey there,
as many of you know, the Marketplaces of iOS and Android are far ahead of the one Windows Phone has.
Those offer a bigger list of Apps for almost everything you can imagine.
Of course Apps get ported to Windows Phone, but that goes pretty slow.
What I thought of was creating a "Request an App Development" board for Windows Phone 7 on XDA. So developers who got skills, but no ideas yet can browse XDA and prolly begin to release one or two apps which are already present on iOS or Android.
Of course we do not support cracked apps. So those who ask for warez versions of the apps on marketplace should get warned. This board should be only related to releasing new, missing apps.
Since XDA is daily visited by thousands of users, this would be a great place for devs to look for new ideas. All in one place.
The current Software Development board is more like a "Post an App, Talk about it!" board.
There is a stickied Request thread in the Software Development Board
When the Windows phone version gets released, Does anyone know if it's possible to try a Windows Rom out on are android versions of the HTC One M8 ?
Pff can people please stop making these threads and use the existing windows topic threads !!! It's getting a bit boring now......
See this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2858241
Anything is possible. I've read the HW specs are the same. The problem may lie in the fact that Windows is not open source and each device it's on needs a license agreement. Not that that will stop anyone but if you get caught you might spend some vacation time at the Grey Bar Motel.
This is why I decided to stay with Android and the open source community. I want to control my device, after all I paid $600 for it I should be able to do what I want. Windows, although pretty closed, is no where near the control Apple has over it's users. I wouldn't touch an Apple product with a 79 1/2 foot long pole.
Thread Closed - This is Android Development subforums. Windows development should be discussed in the Windows development subforum. See Mr. Hofs link above.