{"id":427,"date":"2011-07-23T01:15:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T19:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techtwaddle.net\/2011\/07\/23\/hey-ma-look-what-i-got-gingerbread-on-my-hd2\/"},"modified":"2011-07-23T01:38:16","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:08:16","slug":"hey-ma-look-what-i-got-gingerbread-on-my-hd2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/hey-ma-look-what-i-got-gingerbread-on-my-hd2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hey ma look what I got, gingerbread on my HD2!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gMDHakWNYbU?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yep, that video above shows my HTC HD2 running Android Gingerbread (v2.3.4)! I came back home, and not having much to do thought I\u2019ll give android another try. Sometime back I had tried running android from SD card but it didn\u2019t work, later I found out that it was because of an older radio version on my device, so I had to update the radio version to fix it but it all looked like too much trouble and I put the HD2 back in its box. This was 6 months ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today I thought I should take it for another spin. But this time we go all in, erase Windows Mobile 6 and flash the ROM with all the android goodness! It is pretty simple really, all you need is some patience to read all those articles on XDA a little carefully :)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The basic steps I followed are,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Check your radio version and update to <strong>2.08.50<\/strong> (if you\u2019re running an older version)<\/li>\n<li>Install MAGLDR 1.13 on your phone<\/li>\n<li>Install Clockwork Mod on your device<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Select an android ROM of your choice and flash. I chose the stock android gingerbread ROM version 2.3.4.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are the posts on XDA I referred to androidify my hd2,<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=893948\">http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=893948<\/a> (read this fully first, very important!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=1044830\">http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=1044830<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=609477\">http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=609477<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=905060\">http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=905060<\/a> (this is the android rom I installed)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showpost.php?p=10206031&amp;postcount=2\">http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showpost.php?p=10206031&amp;postcount=2<\/a> (faq)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=929324\">http:\/\/forum.xda-developers.com\/showthread.php?t=929324<\/a> (a list of all the rom\u2019s you can choose from)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To all the guys at XDA, thanks for all the posts and how-to\u2019s for noobs. You rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, that video above shows my HTC HD2 running Android Gingerbread (v2.3.4)! I came back home, and not having much to do thought I\u2019ll give android another try. Sometime back I had tried running android from SD card but it didn\u2019t work, later I found out that it was because of an older radio version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/2011\/07\/23\/hey-ma-look-what-i-got-gingerbread-on-my-hd2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hey ma look what I got, gingerbread on my HD2!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[15,10,6,16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ktFF-6T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtwaddle.co.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}