After roughly 30 hours on the xda-developers.com forums, I successfully installed Android onto my Bell HTC Touch, also know as the HTC Vogue. It really didn’t need to take that long, as I made a mistake on the first step which unlocks the phone. If I had done that correctly, I would have been up and running in about 20 minutes.
So far, Android has been a great improvement over Windows Mobile 6.1. Despite being a newer operating system, I am finding it to be a lot faster than WM 6.1. I am also a gmail use. Gmail on Android is awesome. It is way better than on WM 6.1, and it is probably even better than gmail on the iPhone or blackberry. As expected, Android plays very nicely with all of google’s other apps. My calendar, contacts and even my youtube account all synced after entering my google login info once.
…can’t see myself ever going back to Windows Mobile now..
Check out the video of it booting below:
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7 Comments on this post
Leave a CommentGlad that it all worked out for you. I was a little worried when I thought I was responsible for you bricking it…
Comment left on 4.12.2010 by TS
I tried it last time on my HTC Touch Pro 2. Couldn’t get it to work but willing to give it a try again. They still have a few important bugs/features left though (I heard that you can’t put ringtones yet…that’s harsh)
Comment left on 4.15.2010 by Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com
Question: where you able to sync up when you connect with windows anymore e.g Outlook?
I’ve installed in on my SD card and it runs but very slow and drains the power very quickly. I am quite sick of Windows 6.1 so I’m very inclined to wipe the phone clean and just boot with Android.
Does your GPS work? Did you have to flash the ROM as it shows here?
http://www.xda-developers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=636024
Comment left on 7.12.2010 by Eugene
Yes, that guide is the one that I used initially. Once you have installed android on the NAND, it will run faster than running it from the SD card.
I haven’t tried syncing it with outlook. I would recommend checking out android’s documentation for outlook syncing.
If you use google services like gmail, contacts and calendar, android will sync all of those over your data connection, so there is no need to connect it to your computer. I find this feature very handy.
Comment left on 7.12.2010 by Adrian Corscadden
Thanks Adrian.
I’m still in my 11th hour of trying to to unlock the darn phone. I’ll get there. Any other tips or guides that you had used? I’m green with envy that your phone is running android so smoothly… Can you post another video showing how fast and smooth the android is running on NAND? I can run it on my SD card but it’s clunky and battery draining…
Comment left on 7.13.2010 by Eugene
It took me quite a while to unlock it at the beginning as well. I think I was using the wrong unlocker initially. I tried running another one, Coke version 2.31, which worked the first time.
Coke version 2.31 can be found here:
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=20370
Sorry…but I don’t think I’ve got time to upload a video. There are others’ if you search for them though.
Comment left on 7.13.2010 by Adrian Corscadden
Thanks Adrian! I’ll try that.
Comment left on 7.14.2010 by Eugene