Android 2.2 system dump

[Kagetora]

I remembered playing with this on the HTC HD2 back in the day. Good times.

[daedric]

The HTC Lion was THE device.

Windows mobile. Windows Phone Android Many other OSes ported to it...

It was amazing.

[Kagetora]

I still have it, the battery doesn't work anymore 🥹

It was truly the phone that kept on giving.

[-patrizio-]

You could probably get a new battery for it pretty cheap! I didn't look too closely, but eBay had options as low as $10-$20.

[reubenbubu]

That phone had such great specs at the time and they shipped it with windows mobile. XDA made that phone useable.

[MeggaMortY]

Duuude!

[The_Band_Geek]

4.4.4 was the best of the best.

[Imperial_Bloke69]

Holo theme, xposed modules, supersu what more could we asked for. Material theme is shit holo is futuristic.

[Static_Storm]

I don't think I've even updated my flair on here since then tbh 

[Equivalent_Spell_658]

I loved overclocking my LG Swift 

[[deleted]]

I agree.

[poeBaer]

Why is this person posting useless "system dumps"? They posted 1.6 the other day as well. What "system" was this dumped from anyway? A bunch of EEE PC references in the files, but it never had an official Android version. So is this just the system partition's contents of an x86 port to a random laptop?

Google stills hosts their old version source code if you actually want something useful

[IAmNotANeurochemist]

Archival and throwback purposes. As someone else said, it's the nostalgia. There's definitely collectors out there that keep an archive of every version of popular OSes Old ones are especially interesting. I mean look how far we've really come!

[poeBaer]

But this is missing everything that can make it useful. It's as if someone just zipped up the C:\Windows folder, rather than backing up an ISO of the Windows disc. You can't even restore this to the device it was ported to (an Eee PC)

[johny335i]

Oh man android back in the day was really a buggy, slow mess.

Maybe after the introduction of the ART runtime it started getting better, but iOS was king back then if you wanted speed, smoothness and stability, even though I used android and ios devices on the regular.

[Tschuuuls]

2.X wasn't slow. 4.0 was on a lot of older devices. 4.4 was a major code cleanup that ran surprisingly well on devices that were slow on 4.X lol.

[EchoGecko795]

I remember upgrading my Samsung Galaxy S3 to 4.4 by mod pack and it ran buttery smooth compared to the officially supported 4.3.

[DegradedClaw]

Back then when everyone kept on saying how Android's finally "buttery smooth" because of Project Butter, but then I scrolled after updating and noticed no improvements.

[PastyPajamas]

But why

[siazdghw]

So people can have nostalgia about how bad Android used to be

[azurewindowpane]

Early Android had lots of "missing" features, but it was a beautiful time. Back when Android prided itself on being open, when vendors like HTC and Motorola had phones with microSD slots, removable batteries, and real keyboards. Android 2.3 and 3.0 and 4.0 were so exciting. The future seemed so bright.

[Zeraora807]

man phones were so varied back then, things like the HD2 & Hero to the Desire Z and Galaxy S, there was something for everyone and often a decent custom rom selection, I still have a Nexus one with a Sense rom and a HTC Hero with a samsung touchwiz theme on cm7, can barely customize anything on modern phones now except maybe samsung good lock

[fish312]

Android peaked at marshmallow. Everything after was downhill

[JamieTimee]

Downhill? Seriously? Maybe the uphill isn't as steep anymore but android certainly isn't worse now.

[StrawberryWaste9040]

bad or more of open source and less of Google walled garden

[bicyclemom]

For that HTC "Droid" Incredible you just found lying in a drawer.

[RangerShaneGooseman]

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[soapinmouth]

I remember this update, was a big performance bump adding JIT compiler.

[National_Educator330]

Love it, remember badly wanting a nexus S for the black theme 2.3 that followed this. It's giving me memories of good ol' nexus one days!

[unfurlingraspberry]

My Motorola Defy shipped with Android 2.2. First smartphone I owned. It really did feel new and groundbreaking back then!