Linux Mobile (Cellular) Phone Survey: HTC

Linux compatibility, synchronization and configuration guides for mobile (cellular) phones made by HTC Apache, Blue Angel, Himalaya, Universal, Wallaby. The general resource section at the bottom, contains links to helpful Linux utilities (mostly available under GPL), community efforts, HOWTOs and FAQs. Have you written a documentation yourself? Then please feel free to submit a new entry.

HTC Apache (aka UTstarcom / Sprint PPC-6700 PocketPC, PPC6700, Verizon XV6700)	Fedora
HTC Desire	Android
HTC Desire	Android
HTC Desire	Ubuntu	German
HTC Wallaby (aka O2 XDA, Qtek 1010, T-Mobile MDA, Siemens SX-56)	Familiar
HTC Himalaya (aka O2 XDA II, Qtek 2020, T-Mobile MDA II)	Familiar
HTC Universal	Linux
HTC MDA Vario II	Linux
HTC MDA III	Novell/SuSE 9.2, Fedora Core 3	German
HTC Hermes	Linux	French
HTC Touch Diamond	Linux	German
HTC Touch HD	Linux
HTC G1	Linux, Android
HTC G1 (T-Mobile)	Android 1.1	German
HTC G1 (T-Mobile)	Linux
HTC Magic	Android	German
HTC Hero	Android	German
HTC Hero (aka T-Mobile G2 Touch)	Android	German

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Ports and Applications

SHR a GNU/Linux Based Operating System for SmartPhones

"SHR is a GNU/Linux based operating system for smartphones and similar mobile devices. It integrates various Free and Open Source Software projects into a versatile platform - flexible enough to run on a vast selection of mobile hardware such as the Freerunner Phone, Nokia N900, Palm Pre (and variants), T-Mobile G1, HTC HD2, iPhone 3Gs and more. SHR is based on OpenEmbedded and uses GNU/Linux at its core. It integrates the freesmartphone.org framework for telephony, networking, etc. and a user friendly garphical interface for phone calls, messaging and pim, based on Enlightenment libraries. A growing amount of available applications offers SHR users with web browsers, microblogging clients, games and everything else expected on a smartphone platform."

OpenMoko Port for HTC-Dream

HTC-Dream is a android based phone. Android is running on top of a Linux kernel. So we have basically no work to do using this kernel to boot an Openmoko userspace. This work is done.

Desire-AdHoc

desire-adhoc allows you to connect your HTC Desire smartphone to ad-hoc networks. It has been written specifically for the Desire and will not work on other models (unless they use the same network driver, in which case there might be a chance). It requires root access to your phone.

Resources

• back to Linux mobile phone survey
• manufacturer site: HTC
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers
• JAVA Applications for (Linux) PDAs and cell phones
• Debian Packages for mobile phones
• Linux and Cell Phones - Connectivity (IrDA, BlueTooth, GSM, GPRS, ..)
• Linux applications for BlueTooth cell phones
• Linux SMS applications
• Miscellaneous Linux applications for mobile (cellular) phones.
• free logos for mobile (cell) phones - mostly GPLed
• free ringtones for mobile (cell) phones - mostly GPLed
• free themes for mobile (cell) phones and PDAs - mostly GPLed
• do-it-yourself HTC mobile (cell) phone repairing, upgrading and modding
• conversion and migration of data for mobile (cell) phones (contacts, calendars, addresses, ...)
• conversion and migration of vCards
• FCC ID: unknown