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Installing Android Froyo 2.2 onto HTC TYTN II Kaiser

Ok.  This may seem an long overdue post as I didn’t really had time to actually write a guide about it. The method I’m listing down here is installing Froyo onto your SD card, so that you won’t need to worry about flashing your phone for this to work.  Ok on with the show.

Things You Need

1. Minimum of 1GB SD Card
2. HTC Kaiser TYTN II Phone (Best if your using WM6.1)
3. Andboot
4. Incubus26Jc’s Super FroYo 2.2 – Current version RLS15 (02-09-10)

Preparation

You can use partition for the SD card if not just make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32.  Read here on how to Partition your SD Card.  You need to create 4 partition if you are using this method.

Partition 1 = ext3 at 260mb, Partition 2 = ext3 at 260mb, Partition 3 = Swap at 80mb and the remaining balance is for Partition 4 formatted at Fat32.  If you don’t want to partition it’s fine as well.  Just make sure your card is formatted to Fat32 and you’re good to go.

Let’s Go

1. Unzip the file ANDBOOT.
2. Copy the whole folder on to the SD card
3. Unzip the file Incubus26Jc’s Super FroYo 2.2, and you should get a file andriodinstall.tgz
4. Copy the andriodinstall.tgz into the Andboot folder that you have placed inside the SD Card.
5. Once copied reset your phone.
6. Run File Explorer on your phone, go to Storage Card –> andboot –> run the program haret.

The next step here is very important and you might need to be aware of.  Once you run the program haret, you should see the linux penguin on the top left and it will have a lot of words running down.  But it will stop for about 2-3 seconds when you see something like this.

Hold The Middle Button

7. When you see that message, quickly hold the center of the D-Pad Button then it should bring you to an installer as shown as below.

Installation Menu

8. If don’t partition your card it will look like the one on the left.  If you did, it will look like the one on the right.
9. Press Install System
10. Select Yes to wipe system. And Yes again to wipe data.
11. Just let it run until you reach back to the Main Menu.  Once you reach there, select EXIT.

Welcome Screen

Once you exit it should run a few more command lines before you should see the welcome screen like the above.  And a few seconds after that you should see a green ball eye kinda thingy.  And it will take quite a while before it loads up Froyo.

12.  Once you’ve got Froyo running inside your phone, don’t set the time, data or sync with your google account.  Just skip any process you see until the main page on your phone.  Next step is very important.

13. Don’t touch the phone, and leave it for 30 minutes.   From what I understand is that, Froyo is in the midst of copying files and building some data or some sort.
I know you’ve all been dying to play with it, but best leave it for at least 30 minutes.  I left mine for at least an hour, and not only it improves on performance but also prevent a lot of errors compared when I straight away played with it once it finishes installing.  So be patient!

14. After your 30 mins long wait is over, hold the power button and select reset the phone.
15. Run File Explorer –> Storage Card –> Andboot –> Run Haret.
16. This time just by pass the dpad instruction and let it run through till you reach the Andriod Main System.

Now you are ready to go and play with your newly installed Froyo on your HTC TYTN II.  It’s way much cooler compared to Windows Mobile that’s for sure.  Anyway, there are still limitations on this system whereby I think they still have a bit problems with the bluetooth audio, and of course the front camera is not working.  But I seldom use those features so I think it’s ok.

If you have problems whereby instead of getting the welcome screen, but rather those funny color lines flying here and there.  What you need to do is :-
1. Go to Andboot folder in your sd card
2. Edit the file startup.txt
3. Change the panel_type =3 to either 1 or 2 to see which one works.

If you would like to sync your outlook contacts with your freshly installed android phone.  I would suggest CompanionLink.  It’s free for 14 days, just enough time for you to sync all of your contacts.  You need to go to the market place for android and install a client for it to link later.

Small issues that I face when running this OS is that, it consumes a lot of battery usage.  One way of conserving the batteries, was disabling all the extra animation features, switching to 2G only, and turning off the data usage.  And make sure you always turn off the wifi before your phone goes to sleep as wifi will still be on even in sleep mode.  But apart from that everything else seems fine.

In conclusion, it’s really fun being able to run android on my HTC.  Somehow it sort of prolonged the life span of my phone in terms of usability.  As you all know that most of the software being developed currently are for blackberry, iphone and android phones.  So, at least I’m still able to play with my phone till I decide to replace it with another one.

Good luck and have fun!

Credits goes to :-
1. The developing teams of Incubus26Jc’s Super FroYo 2.2 for making all this possible.
2. ghghgh14702 for preparing a flawless kernal and image files. (Believe me after 1 year of searching for the kernels and image files separately, his one was the best matched with no problems)
3. j101399j for preparing easy to use image instructions, you can actually get them here.

HTC TYTN II

HTC TYTN II  Christmas indeed came early for me this month.  As Deluxe went and sponsored me a new phone which is the HTC TYTN II.  No doubt it’s an old phone, but it was either this phone or the Acer DX900.  As much as I wanted the DX900, but considering the price factor as well as the condition of the phone, the TYTN II apparently won.  I’m not complaining though, unlike the DX900 this one at least have a QWERTY keyboard.  So it will indeed save me a lot of time especially on writing sms or even emails.

  So what have I’ve done with this phone?  Well, at first when I received this phone on Tuesday, the current OS that it was using was Windows Mobile 6.  So what I did was went over to HTC website and got the latest ROM for this phone which is Windows Mobile 6.1.  Whereby one of the feature I was looking forward to use was the threaded SMS.  So it’s sort of like GMAIL whenever you receive a new email from the same person it just shows as one user instead of multiple user like your conventional emails such as Hotmail or Yahoo.  So you won’t have problem replying the person because you will still see the previous sms as if you were like chatting.

3D SMS or Emails which will look like this.  After upgrading my phone to Windows Mobile 6.1, the next software that  my brother in law suggested to me that I should install SPB Mobile Shell which is a must have software for any Windows Mobile.  He told me that SPB Mobile Shell is much better compared to Touch Flo, so I went and got the trial version and see what he meant.  Apparently the new version had a lot of 3D emails and sms which was really cool where you can actually flip to the next sms.  Yes the picture actually shows up if you add on to the contacts.

  Another feature was a 3D carousel where you can flip from one screen to another like a rubik’s cube.  But if your phone support Open GL, you would see the whole thing in 3D, not in 2D.  So as you all might have guessed it, my phone does not have Open GL so I wasn’t able to use that function.  But never the less, it’s still a nice software to play with.

  They have also added Facebook & Twitter widgets, whereby you can actually update your status on your phone.  So now all I have to do is just update it from my phone and I honestly feel that I won’t be using Plurk anymore because it’s kinda depressing when you see your karma dropped due to inactivity.  So it’s all good.

  They even have weather forecast embedded on this software, which I’m not sure why they need to do it.  I was quite surprise that they even had Kuching for the location where you want to have it predicted.  Apart from that you have your usual favorite contacts as well as a control panel where you could actually set your connections such as phone, bluetooth, as well as Wifi.  There are also other widgets you could use such as birthday reminders, task & agenda to actually help you keep track of the things you need to do or appointments you have made.  So that’s pretty much about that software for now, until I go and explore some more later.

  Ok, another cool feature I found out with this phone is that it can actually be used like a router modem.  What you need to do is connect the phone to your 3G, EDGE or GPRS and then turn on the internet sharing.  You can pretty much link a few laptops via wifi and start surfing the internet.  So that’s kinda neat.  Anyway, I haven’t played with the GPS yet.  But after installing google maps, I was told that I need to be connected to the internet for it to work.  There are other softwares such as Garmin or Mapking, which I think you just install it on to the phone and it will pretty much work from there.  Anyway, that’s the story for today.  Will try and see if I can find anything else more interesting on this phone.

  Current complaint?  Well, I’m not too sure about the volume of this phone.  For a normal call I would still be able to hear it.  But until today, I can’t even hear the SMS beep.  Maybe it might be due to the volume, but I’ll see what I can do with it.  Until then you all have a good weekend.

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