The port of Windows Phone 7 to the that has been underway for a while now has finally come to fruition with the first public release of an experimental LEO_WP7 ROM courtesy of the DFT (Dark Forces Team). So what is this all about? Well, you can finally play around with on your trusty old HTC HD2 but without access to any Live services which kinda renders the whole thing useless IMO.

You can grab it from.if you understand Chinese. Anyway, just read my newly posted: to see what will be missing without access to the Live services. UPDATE: Find all downloads links and mirrors at the bottom of the post! UPDATE: yes it is now possible to activate the Live Services via a registry hack that fools the MS servers into thinking that the HTC HD2 is an HTC HD7 and by requesting an activation code from MS (only 3 allowed by LIVE ID). But I strongly recommend you not to do it. Elite proxy switcher 109 crack free.

This is a custom ROM given by DFT team. Dicota replicator 20 driver windows 7. We have step-by-step guide of installation of Windows Phone 7 in HTC HD2. Extract the downloaded contents.

Once Microsoft lays down the ban hammer on the Live IDs accessing the services this way there’s no going back. For more Windows Phone 7 and Android news. HTC HD2 running WP7 system: Flash MAGLDR 1.12 Flash WP7 OS via DWI (DFT Windows Installer). System starts quickly, after flashing the first boot needs about 20 seconds up to start settings. —————————————————————– Battery can be charged normally in WP7 OS.

Testers reports that power consumption is normal. —————————————————————– Phone functions are working: call answer, dial without problems and good sound quality, speaker volume is very large, volume +,- keys works fine. During a call when you can adjust the volume. SMS send and receive works without problems, display Chinese symbols right. Import contacts from the SIM card works, the Chinese text displayed correctly, contact editing all normal.

Setting ringtone working. Camera works, all the features available, including the 720P video.

(Photo-Flash sync is slightly buggy, better make photos without flash) Green camera can be used for camera activation. WiFi turn on, turn off, fast, and works for available networks properly, unable to make detailed settings (common WP7 system issue). Bluetooth functional normally, but have not detailed settings (common WP7 system issue). Program interface and system UI works correctly, features fully stocked. The system date, time, normal, alarm clock works correctly. Calendar have all functional.

Internet Explorer all functions works, up to 6 pages possible. Multitouch works.

Office – all functions are available. The music and video player works. Picture view works, including multitouch. Lock screen interfaces works normally, show event reminders, wallpaper, and appear on screen quickly after power button press, everything OK. ————————————————————— Sync with the Zune works.

USB function can be achieved (by modifying the registry on the PC side), you can read, write, everything works. Accelerometer works, autorotation works with beautiful effects. Screen brightness control can be manually controlled. Automatic works fine too. Ability to choose custom wallpaper works. Lock screen, unlock correctly, including password.

—————————————————————— remarks; Press the dial(green,send) key to enter activate camera, press the dial key again for shooting. Wake up from standby possible only via power key. Home key are actually search key (bring up Bing). Return back via return hardware key.

—————————————————————— Market place: in mobile phone you can start the data connection, such as GPRS, 3G, WiFi, market place access, browse, search, all of the resources, but Purchase and install the software requires a Live ID to activate, otherwise invalid. Current activation codes is unknown. About 3G: 3G APN must be set up manually, once it is set, depending on network environment will appear at the top of the screen “, 3G, g, h” signs Data connection is stable. About SD card: This test, I used SD card 2G, about the mechanism after you remove the SD card, Card Reader make SD card into the computer, only 200M available, the remaining 1.64G Space is divided into a personal identification by Windows Phone RAID region, if you would like to use this SD card after the date required to reformat the card.

HTC HD2 is going to be phone of the year 2011 again. It came with Windows Mobile 6.5 in year 2009 and running Android 2.2 Froyo on SD card on year 2010. Just got NAND Android treatment last month. And here come Windows Phone 7 on HTC HD2. Who dare to say that 5 buttons’ HTC HD2 cannot support Windows Phone 7 now? Prerequisites • HSPL3 ~ SPL-2.08.HSPL • Radio that support 576 RAM Note – by installing MAGLDR, you cannot boot into Windows Mobile 6.5 anymore.