The HTC HD2 has massive appeal these days for being able to boot various platforms with ease. Of course, when all the dust has settled, we imagine many users are rolling with either Windows Phone 7 or Android on their versatile HD2s. If you're finding it difficult to decide which OS to boot, why not opt for a dual-boot solution? Darrengladysz, from XDA-developers, has provided a lengthy tutorial on how to do just that. For starters, you will need an SD card adapter/reader and partition software. Also, two microSD cards are necessary - 8 and 16GB, for example. The former will enable you to ...

You might have heard by now that HTC HD2 owners can load Windows Phone 7 onto their device in just a few pretty easy steps. But just how good is the performance of an operating system not intended for the HD2? As it turns out, pretty darn good, as you can see in this video. Compared to the Samsung Focus, the HD2 holds its own loading web pages and accessing programs, often faster than the Focus. Granted, unless you're willing to engage in some trickery, Live services don't work on the HD2, disallowing you access to third party apps and other Microsoft services.

This has been a long time coming. Thanks to the unshakable versatility of the HTC HD2 (what other phone runs Windows Mobile, Android, MeeGo, Windows 95, and Ubuntu?) we finally have a working port of Windows Phone 7. As you can see from this video, the port works quite well: everything works (including the phone and web) except for anything that requires a Windows Live ID (though a fix for this might not be too far away). Here's how to get this working on your HD2: 1. Make sure you have flashed the latest radio to your HD2 2. Download these files 3. Flash MAGLDR 1.12 by entering the ...

A Windows Phone 7 security measure designed to perform real-time server authentication has indeed been bypassed, according to a person familiar with the situation, allowing cloud services like Xbox Live, Zune, and Marketplace to function on ported copies of the operating system, such as on an HTC HD2. However, since the method requires extracting what's known as a unique private key (PVK) from the device provisioning partition (DPP) of an actual WP7 handset, it is far from ready for widespread deployment. Specifically, Microsoft has apparently employed a variation of Windows Genuine ...

As if HTC HD2 owners didn't have enough alternative operating systems to play with on their very hack-friendly phone, now it's possible to run MeeGo 1.1 on the hardware as well. Granted, it's probably not going to generate the same level of interest as yesterday's direct-booting HD2 Android solution, but this hack is interesting for its own reasons; Android phones are a dime a dozen, but how many smartphone users have gotten the opportunity to play around with MeeGo? If you like experimenting with your phone for the sake of experimentation, this one's for you. Developer Steven ...

HTC's HD2 is hacker's dream. From its Windows Mobile 6.5 roots, hobbyists have expanded the phone's abilities to running Android and even a passable version of Windows Phone 7. Now those coders are looking to the past for new projects, and have managed to get Windows 95 and 98 running on the smartphone. Admittedly, getting assorted mobile operating systems to run on the same phone hardware is a very much different task than trying to run an operating system built for another type of CPU altogether. The Windows 95 hack uses a QEMU distribution to emulate a PC processor in the smartphone's ...

HTC has just released an official update for both the HTC HD2 and the HTC Touch2 Windows Phone 6.5 devices and it is related to Daylight Saving Time. Without going into many details, the manufacturer describes the update for both devices in few words. It is supposed to "readjusts your clock to account for the hour gained during Daylight Savings". In order to apply, download the proper EXE file for you handset, copy it to your device and apply. Since this is a software patch, you will need to reapply after a Hard Reset or a ROM upgrade. Source: HTC (1),(2)

Overclocking seems to be one of the most common power hacks applied to Android devices and the T-Mobile G2 already clocked at 1.34GHz and then to 1.9GHz. The HTC HD2 is already running Google's Android operating system and there are several builds to choose from but it looks like the Leo's 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor has been overclocked to 1.5GHz, resulting in a Quadrant score of 2057. You might of course remember the Windows Phone days where there was an app for overclocking the HD2's CPU and we said it back then and we'll say it again: Overclocking the CPU could be harmful and you ...