Possibility of putting Windows Phone on the HTC One M8? - One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

With the new Windows Phone HTC One M8 coming out (or possibly out already), would it be possible to put Windows Phone on the Android version?

With secure boot that seems a distant reality but maybe a conversion
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PunishedSnake said:
With secure boot that seems a distant reality but maybe a conversion
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We have a supposed "leak" of the Verizon HTC One M8 for Windows RUU, so it looks like there could be hope (at least for S-OFF users I think)

I moved this thread back to One Q&A since the moderating team decided that's where it belongs, but I'm closing it since we now have a single discussion thread for porting Windows Phone 8 to the current m8s. Please continue the discussion there.
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[REQUEST] Windows Phone 7 or 8 for HTC Vivid

I would be interested in funding a dev for this project.
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This is impossible
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Why would you want windows 8 on an android? Just buy a windows phone
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ProtheusIRC said:
I would be interested in funding a dev for this project.
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Launcher 8
Close enough?
camo_flage said:
Why would you want windows 8 on an android? Just buy a windows phone
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More options to choose from maybe?
I prefer to port a Sense4+ to our device than WP8 LOL. If you want WP together with Android, you need an HTC HD2. FuXXing large variety of ROMs.
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ZeRo2o9 said:
This is impossible
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Agreed...unlike android windows mobile os is very picky about the devices it runs on
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mg2195 said:
Agreed...unlike android windows mobile os is very picky about the devices it runs on
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I completely disagree. We have all the specs needed. All that remains is a willing dev. Nothing is impossible. Also, Launcher 8 is nowhere close.
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ProtheusIRC said:
I completely disagree. We have all the specs needed. All that remains is a willing dev. Nothing is impossible. Also, Launcher 8 is nowhere close.
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At this point in time I believe all devs for this phone are devoting their time towards cm/pac/pa or sense 4.0+... But hey, if you want to learn how to dev
tagriff said:
At this point in time I believe all devs for this phone are devoting their time towards cm/pac/pa or sense 4.0+... But hey, if you want to learn how to dev
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Currently in the process of relearning Linux.
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Its closed source. Someone would get sued lol
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XxSHaDoWxSLaYeRxX said:
Its closed source. Someone would get sued lol
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Exactly why i agreed to.it being.impossible...plus the fact that windows os is supppsdly picky on the devices it runs on
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You would have kernel issues (different kernels, WP7 uses the Windows CE kernel, WP8 uses the NT kernel), hardware incompatibilities, security to deal with, and you'd be locked out of Microsoft services, among other issues. It's much more complicated than dealing with Android ROM ports, even with HTC's shoddy kernel work.
This really does not belong in the development section and as others have mentioned getting a windows based rom to run on a android phone would be almost impossible as a matter fact of all the phone forums I moderate I don't believe I've ever seen a windows rom for an android phone.
Thread closed since I don't see this as being a very productive thread.

[Q] interchangable?

Hey guys just a question regarding the roms for the one, I see for some reason development in the sprint one section is rather slow compared to the other versions. I see when I go to the general HTC one forum the roms say "supports all HTC one models" does this mean I can use on my sprint one? I would assume not because of radio issues?
Thanks in advance for the replys.
No. Only flash roms designed for the Sprint One. Give development time... It will pick up.
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Quality over quantity. We have root, and a few ROMs. The Evo3D took forever to break in and just exploded after a bit.
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really are ones were just released they had there's a month or more longer
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Would any of these roms work on the Verizon HTC One?

This is probably a dumb question but I just wanted to double check.
fatmando2 said:
This is probably a dumb question but I just wanted to double check.
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No. And at least you asked. It's much easier to answer a yes or no question then to try to lead someone back after they messed up their phone.
Check out the Verizon One Development section.
Though I haven't looked in a while, so I don't know how much development is being done with locked bootloaders and what-not.
Good luck.
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CoryTallman said:
No. And at least you asked. It's much easier to answer a yes or no question then to try to lead someone back after they messed up their phone.
Check out the Verizon One Development section.
Though I haven't looked in a while, so I don't know how much development is being done with locked bootloaders and what-not.
Good luck.
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There was actually an exploit that came out today for the verizon one that does s off, roots and unlocks the boot loader so I was looking around for roms and there are some good ones for the verizon one but there are definitely more here. I'm guessing verizon one development will pick up though.
Now that you have an exploit it should. Many of these Roms will probably be ported over.
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[HTC One m7] DE ? [Q]

Hello, i own a HTC One M7 since 6 months, and some how i sent it to the factory because of the Camera gradient issue, and after a month i got a new one, everything was similar, until i got a pop-up in May 21th about the new software Release it was the 4.4.2 with Senses 6, i searched the net and saw that this is the Developers Edition (DE) but i can't see any difference in the software information, like i saw one day that the normal one is named HTC One M7 and mine should be named HTC One M7 DE but i can't find it anywhere, and those it restrict something if i want to root, or it comes with S on or S off and what's the difference between them ? Please if anyone can help me and sorry for my bad english, i'm french
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It just has to do with updates and one already being unlocked. Its not really important....if you look in bootloader it is s-on because htc wont s-off you....you can do that yourself. I would look at the different guides for rooting and flashing throughout these forums. They will help you alot.
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Turning the HTC one M7 into windows mobile

Just for fun I sort of want to try to get my htc one as similar to windows phone as possible. I've always been intrigued by their tile interface.
So right now I'm using the launcher 8 free to Simulate it a bit after a quick search in the Google play store. But how can I take this further?
I know I could just buy an M8 with wondows but i want to return to android. Options. That's the beauty of android.
I did a ton of googling and searching this site but couldn't find a comprehensive guide or posting of someone else who did it.
Has anyone? Is there a more detailed post regarding it? I want to do more than just run a launcher. Are there windows mobile Roms to flash?
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I'd like to do the same to my M8. Just for curiosity sake. Can it be done? Yes?, maybe?, heck no?
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No, not for the m7, already discussed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2749473
For the M8 , ask in the M8 forum.

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