Guest joker.mn Posted April 22, 2009 Report Share Posted April 22, 2009 Many of you will ask: why the heck does he want to do that? but listen, I work with windows mobile quite a long time, now I had my hands on the G1 and really loved the keyboard and that little trackball. I did not even need the touchscreen. Sadly I invested quite a lot money in all of my WM6.1 Software which does not work on Android. So I wondered whether one can install WM6.1 or WM6.5 on a HTC Dream. (I read a thread where people made Android work on a HTC Touch Pro - so one must be able to do it the other way). Thanks for your comments in advance, jokeR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deadphill Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 No idea but the prospect sounds interesting! Hopefully this reply will give it a bump so people look! Cheers Phill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest awarner (MVP) Posted April 23, 2009 Report Share Posted April 23, 2009 It all depends on the size of the developer community. The main thing is you need to find someone who will invest the time to look at things like drivers for the keypad, screen and chipset etc. Once that is done the rest is technically a breeze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest smilegod Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 I think that is impossible 1.Developers ported android to HTC but it works not very good 2.WM is too hard to port .... At least i think so :excl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest semmtexx Posted April 24, 2009 Report Share Posted April 24, 2009 uhh.. why would you PAY for WM software lol? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest joker.mn Posted April 26, 2009 Report Share Posted April 26, 2009 well, i searched the net for a couple of hours and still did not find anyone willing to try porting it. do you have any suggestions where else to search? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest B_Eaze Posted May 3, 2009 Report Share Posted May 3, 2009 I think its possible but very time extensive. Your gonna need a lotta people to help you with it cuz finding all the drivers will cumbersome. Findin people who wanna go from WinMo to android might not be that easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest l3v5y Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Given that the G1 is based on very similar hardware to the Diamond, Touch Pro etc, it should be technically possible, but the screen is a non WM standard size, and the keyboard/trackball drivers will need to be rewritten. Also, the Android bootloader is quite different to the WM bootloader, so that would need to be redone as well. It's possible, but I'm not sure whether it's worth the effort of developers doing it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Webreaper Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Biggest question is, why would you want to? Most of us have spent years waiting for a better mobile OS than the crud that MS have palmed off on us over the last decade, and now you want to take the first decent Android device and put WM on it? The only thing the G1 has that isn't widely available on WinMo is the trackball, and I don't think it's that revolutionary. You'd be better off getting a touchpro 2 and just running WinMo on a device that's suited to it, with drivers that work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bas-r Posted April 26, 2010 Report Share Posted April 26, 2010 (edited) Oops, why did I revive this old thread? I didn't look at the last post date. Edited April 26, 2010 by bas-r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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