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hey guys it's brannamon image from pocketnow.com Froyo for Android isn't available on most Android devices yet but that doesn't mean you can't get it on your HTC hd2 typically a windows mobile device let's show you how to do it ok so again just like all of the other builds of Android on the hd2 you run this off of your storage card it's very very easy to do there are no ill effects and I'll put the link up in the sidebar on how to download these files so here the files and in this particular case we need to run this little utility in order to get the speaker to work you just click on it and it runs and then it's done so I'm going to do Harry XE and it's gonna enter the Linux bootloader and within about 30 minutes we're gonna be looking at Froyo I'll jump jump ahead in time ok so here we are an Android 2.2 it knows the carrier that I am on let me get it to wake up again so I'm a slide to unlock and here we are in Froyo which is quite nice we can jump into settings just to confirm that we are indeed on Froyo let's go to a bat phone and there it says Android 2.2 motto is the HTC Desire it's the desire ROM working off of that and it's called dark stone HD - Froyo down here this is the particular build number so now you know I'll post a link up on pocketnow.com and in the description on how to get this to work but let's bounce around a little bit and talk about what works so first of all the phone works you can actually make calls with this so I'm gonna make a call out right now and you're gonna hear that it does work I'm gonna put on speakerphone so you can hear it the phone works as you can hear very nice let's go back we can go into the application tray which works quite smoothly so you get that 3d effects though the camera works so here we go take a picture of my hand beautiful and if it works it's pretty impressive and we can also do pinch to zoom with the multi-touch support it's not as smooth as it as a typical Android device would be but this is pretty impressive you have to admit for throw your running on the HTC hd2 so we can add a variety of widgets we can change the wallpaper this button here has again been mapped to the Android menu system so we can go to wallpaper go to live wallpaper and you don't really want to run a live wallpaper on this on this particular build because it's gonna slow down the system it's not really optimized perfectly to take advantage of all the resources so I'm gonna leave that there but let's take a look at some of the widgets that we can add you know the typical Android stuff we can add news and weather widget is always cool to have so little weather and all the widgets work because it stop tapping into the Wi-Fi and there we have the weather widget is working we can tap on it it goes into the weather application very very nice ok so let's go back let's go into the web browser permanent was using it earlier so there may be a page already loaded there where it's actually gonna start from the beginning so it's loading pocketnow.com ok and here it comes loading pocket now calm we can switch into landscape it does work with the accelerometer takes a little bit of a second but there it goes I'm gonna let it finish loading here we'll jump around on the page see our performances okay and it's done and we can you know move down the page a little bit choppy when you move down the page but you can do the pinch-to-zoom ziz to get a little bit closer to text so very nice pretty good for web browsing let's go back to the home screen and by the way you can actually have landscape home screens which is cool if you rotate the device so you don't see that too much on on android devices but we can use it in portrait or in landscape ok so let's jump into some other programs see how they operate here so of course the calendar works I mean everything everything works here it sometimes becomes a little bit choppy but that's what you have to expect when using a port like this so we can jump into the Twitter application and here's the the Twitter application for Android so you can sign in there little birdies animated down there if you tap and hold on the home button just like in any other Froyo device you'll get to eat recently used programs which is nice so you can use that to multitask let's back into the application tray see if there's anything else that we wanted to cover here before we jump out of this video and let's see how YouTube works so that's a particularly stressful program to run for device lots of bandwidth lots of GPU activity so let's see if we can play any of these videos here so let's see looks like it's gonna play we're doing YouTube high quality right now so yeah it works and it works quite well looks like the video is pretty smooth very very good so Froyo working quite well on the HTC hd2 of course there are still more improvements to be made in speed and stability but as it is now it's quite fast the phone works Wi-Fi works the internet works all the programs work you can get into the market download applications and almost use it as if you actually had Android installed on your hd2 and not you're not just running it through a Linux bootloader so please give a thumbs up if you liked the video and be sure to subscribe to our channel thanks for watching and that's it for now