Yeah… The famous Windows Mobile Energy ROM chef joins the HTC HD2 NAND Android club lately. The ROM was based on HTC Pyramid at first, then changed to HTC Desire HD base. It is based on Android 2.3.5 and using HTC Sense 3.0. I like his Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM, how about his Android ROM? Let’s find out…
How to Install Android on HTC HD2? There are several type of Android for HTC HD2 like SD card Android, NAND Android in MAGLDR format, CWM format and cLK format. CWM NAND Android ROM is the most common ROM for HTC HD2. And I prefer it because I can use Nandroid to make backup and restore. There are several components needed to be installed before you can use NAND Android. But it is not hard to install them when you can follow my step by step video guides.
Prerequisites
Do take your time to study these guides. Then install them one by one. You need all these components in order to use CWM NAND Android with A2SD+ support.
Yeah… Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread is available on HTC HD2 now. Thanks to XDA Developer, Tytung. It is actually a mixed of Nexus One 2.3.6 OTA (Android 2.3.6 GRK39F) and Google’s AOSP Nexus One 2.3.5 (Android 2.3.5 GRJ90). This build is using tytung_r12 kernel with mic gain support. Has latest Android Market v3.1.5 and SuperUser v3.0 too.
CyanogenMod 7 should be the best Android ROM for HTC HD2 (MIUI too). It is faster than HTC Sense builds. Besides, it is smaller in size too so you can have more internal storage disk space. HyperDroid v3 is based on CyanogenMod 7.1.0 RC0 (Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread) and using seader_R5 Kernel. As usual, it has strange LCD density. It increased to 192 from 167 DPI on v3 which is better but might still be small for certain people like me. Personally, the smallest DPI that I can accept on HTC HD2 is 220…
Most of the NAND Android ROMs for HTC HD2 support A2SD+ feature. A2SD+ helps to store applications and data at EXT3 partition on SD card. This is very useful for HTC HD2 which has only 512 MB of ROM. You will easily face out of internal disk storage issue if you don’t use A2SD+ supported Android ROM. EXT3 partition on SD card should solve low internal disk space issue.
Prerequisites
You can use any method that you know to create EXT3 partition on SD card like using GParted Live. However, create EXT3 partition with ClockworkMod Recovery is easier. Follow this guide to install if you don’ have CWM yet – How to Install ClockworkMod Recovery v1.3 on HTC HD2? (Video).
Note – CWM will format and delete everything on your SD card when creating EXT3 partition. Remember to do a backup of your SD card first.
