Meego to be Open Sourced;) - Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

As meego is to be open sourced, do you think we should get our porting hats on and bring this baby fully to the Nexus S?
JD

If it can make the device make phone calls, i'm up for that
The reason i am on android right now is because my maemo was aging, and lack of meego handsets

I'm pretty sure we can get close when the source is released, even if we have to do a HD2 esque technique by running the ROM from the SD. I think it would be great to have another option other than stock and CM7(modded stock) to play with
JD
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Yes. Yes yes yes yes YES. MeeGo is the only mobile OS (sans Android of course) I'm interested in right now. Nokia was stupid for going WP7 over it, IMO.
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Pretty sure someone was on the case with this, take a look down the dev threads.
If i remember rightly they had it booting up OK but had problems with the LED colours and everything had a green tint (driver/balance issue i guess).
There are a whole load of Meego enthusiasts (me being an noob supporter ^^), so i am sure it's not too long until we see some action,
One positive of all this is that there is definately demand for meego, allthough beware i am loving this lil green robot community (apart from the fanbois who are just as bad as apple fans) and the fact it has so many people (one thing Maemo did not, i spent the last two years on that) so they best gain ground and give us hope of a third competitor (even if its an experimental one).
Look forward to the future, as long as it has MeeGo in it somewhere

btw Maemo much closer for Linux than android

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btw Maemo much closer for Linux than android
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Yeah, the guy tried to port it but it was before the source code was announced to be released. So basically that dude did really well because in essence he was pissing in the dark. With the source and some creativity we can get this beast fully functional
JD
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http://meego.com/downloads
JD
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I'm another noob supporter of MeeGo. I was really let down when Nokia ditched it for WP7. Thank god that Intel is sticking with it! Really hope it has enough force behind it to push MeeGo to the top

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Meego

Anyone know anything about the Meego? Would you be able to flash the htc tp2 and put Meego on it?
Good question! I'd also like to know if there is possibility to port Meego to HTC WM and/or Android devices just by cooking a new ROM - or are there significant h/w issues? Also to know how difficult it is to modify apps to run on Meego that have been written for Android or WMx.
Don't we all wish?
Lol when I saw this thread my heart jumped out my chest. Then reality struck. And reality is, its not ever gonna happen. And if it does, it will be because someone used a lot of stuff from the Android port (Meego, and Android are both base on Linux Mobile Kernel). Anyhow even if you did get it to boot it would be plagued with issues and honestly not ever work the way we all want.
Hardware issues aren't really there, just no drivers available. Hell at this point I would be happy with a touch pro 3 with 1ghz omap/snapdragon and winmo/android either. But no luck for that, and we are even farther from seeing meego coming out of HTC. Here is to hoping the N9 is good and ever sees stateside.. Hope someone proves me wrong!
mike.waters said:
Good question! I'd also like to know if there is possibility to port Meego to HTC WM and/or Android devices just by cooking a new ROM - or are there significant h/w issues? Also to know how difficult it is to modify apps to run on Meego that have been written for Android or WMx.
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Oh as for programming... thats where Meego excels. Winmo already has support for Qt 4.6 and that is how I currently develop apps for winmo5.X+. Then when I change my device to meego (target device), recompile, and it is ready not a single line of code changed. But that is more the power of Qt than any significant advantage to winmo. Android support is coming so be ready for a wave of amazing Qt apps. Thank you Trolltech and Nokia. Long Live QT!
Dead thread/project/idea? I'd love to run Meego on Rhodium. There are some Linux games (Cave Story!) I'd like to carry on my phone but I don't want to install Rhobuntu. Meego'd let me run Linux apps and make calls without having to reboot.
Me too! Keep the thread up!
nathanpc said:
Me too! Keep the thread up!
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Could anyone do it?!
It's based on Linux, so it can be booted using HaRET... People can port Ubuntu, but can't port Meego?
nathanpc said:
It's based on Linux, so it can be booted using HaRET... People can port Ubuntu, but can't port Meego?
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I'm with ya.
BUMP!
Another Bump!
It hasn't even gotten a successful Official port yet, and you guys are asking for it to be on the Rhodium already? Geeze. The Leo hasn't even got a functional port yet, and they have more devs than we'll ever see here.
The moral of the story is be patient, or please help to contribute. I don't mean to sound like a jerk, it's just that Meego is loosing momentum in an official capacity now with only Intel working on it currently.
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Just keeping things alive if I can. I think this would be absolutely great. I will be patient....but man that would be cool. I still have a ways to go on my contract and I really don't feel like investing in another phone atm. I'd rather get a laptop...
I'm all for this as well. So BUMP
Frankly I love my TP2, hopefully HTC will put out a TP3, though it appears the HTC 7 Pro, is the Touch Pro 3.

Apple IOS Ported to android

http://getandroidstuff.com/ios-running-android-watch-video-preview/
Found this and it looks promosing IOS has been ported to android,
MacaronyMax said:
http://getandroidstuff.com/ios-running-android-watch-video-preview/
Found this and it looks promosing IOS has been ported to android,
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1. Android is an OS, not a device.
2. No it hasn't. Not possible.
1. I know it is an OS and not a device but it has been ported to run on Android devices in this case HTC Magic (Or atleast recreated)
2.Nothing is impossible, Yes they have a locked source but people created it people can recreate it
1. I know it is an OS and not a device but it has been ported to run on Android devices in this case HTC Magic (Or atleast recreated)
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Then you probably should have said ported to the HTC Magic. Otherwise it just sounded silly. Just saying.
I personally do not think that is iOS, but a knock-off of the GUI running on top of probably some Linux variant or Android. I have personally seen some in China, and the GUI seems like a pretty good reproduction of the original. But is was nothing more than a reproduction of what iOS looks like.
OMG I almost choked on my apple while reading the topic, total massive FAIL tho, complete bogus, iphone 4 is still king, happy me.
nilly said:
OMG I almost choked on my apple while reading the topic, total massive FAIL tho, complete bogus, iphone 4 is still king, happy me.
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A king that's being bullied by it's wife Ann droid
Hehe
MacaronyMax said:
A king that's being bullied by it's wife Ann droid
Hehe
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That's great
- The background in the task pane doesn't seem quite right.
- That's running awfully snappy for a HTC Magic, especially since iOS doesn't have Qualcomm drivers (and closed-source, etc.)
- iOS won't let you delete the Phone app.
[busted]
Don't people rather have fully functional android on the iphone?
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When I looked at the news I laughed, because thousands of Shanzhai (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanzhai )phones are out there with pseudo-iOS UI.
Erm...
Search pc world and how_to_install_android_on_your_iphone.html (can't poslt links yet)
If Android on iPhone can be done on sure the reverse can be too.
Not sure why you'd want to though cause a new development idea (called monodroid) is being worked on by Novell so apps can run on all smartphones. Or at least be MUCH easier to cross platform. I think they have already made this for the iPhone.
vilesy said:
If Android on iPhone can be done on sure the reverse can be too.
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No, Android is open source, iOS obviously is not. Which means that, to port iOS to, let's say the HTC Magic, someone would have to rewrite it all from scratch.
MacaronyMax said:
A king that's being bullied by it's wife Ann droid
Hehe
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Lol
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If OS X can now be installed on a PC, then IOS can be installed on another mobile!
This is NOT iOS.
This is just a skinned Android to look alike iOS.
Read the news completely:
The operating system is perfectly identical to that of Apple, in every detail. The language set should be Chinese and is so well played that seems to be a sort of port. And it’s called Android Frøya iPhone
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It's called Miui
StephanV said:
No, Android is open source, iOS obviously is not. Which means that, to port iOS to, let's say the HTC Magic, someone would have to rewrite it all from scratch.
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not really, creating an emulation of an iphone to run iOS is totally possible and more likely to be done then recoding iOS, however, this looks fake, so i do agree that it hasn't been done.
But never underestimate determined developers, if they have been able to run windows 95, and/or ubuntu on android devices, or running Mac OS X on PCs running AMD, emulators to run older Mac OS on pc, emulators to run older games, emulators for private servers for games, I'm completely sure they can figure out how to get iOS running on an android devices without the source code of iOS itself, just give it time.
Ok...........
First of all, MUIU DOES NOT, I repeat DOES NOT work like this. Nobody in their right mind would write all these functions from scratch just so they could pretend its iOS. Why on god's earth would you write a weather app that functions, and looks exactly like Apples? Same goes for calculator and finance.
I honestly have no idea what to think. This has the exact same applications, functions as iOS. But the weird thing is that the wallpaper scrolls with each slide... This definatley is not MUIU, though.
This is way more than just a skinned launcher with a set of apps, but I'm not convinced it's an ACTUAL port of iOS (because that seems insane?).
It seems more fesable to me that this is a port of one of the Chinese clone iOS offerings. There have been a lot of iPhone clone phones on the market for a while, and some of the software has become quite sophisticated, it's more than possible that one of these UI's has been ported to the Magic (as it's a good bet that more than a few of these clone devices run on Android/Linux anyway).
Notice that he doesn't open the App store, or Safari, or the music player. Definitely NOT actually iOS, but certainly something I would be interested in seeing ported to other devices!
Zeb
I have an Android Phone for a reason, why would I want an apple piece of crap?
Ubermicro13 said:
I have an Android Phone for a reason, why would I want an apple piece of crap?
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Maybe you want to use one hardware button only? Or have no custom ring tone? Or be locked to a browser with no flash? The possibilities are endless man

Interesting article.

Interesting article I just read. Thought you guys might be interested.
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/04/2...-over-iphone-50-of-recent-acquirers-go-green/
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I wouldn't say that Android has become the "cool" thing. I would assume its because ios is really not that great and wm7 is even worse, and rim... rim.. I loved blackberry but seriously their OS just sucks compared to iPhone not even comparing it to Android. Open source owns. /rant
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mudknot2005 said:
I wouldn't say that Android has become the "cool" thing. I would assume its because ios is really not that great and wm7 is even worse, and rim... rim.. I loved blackberry but seriously their OS just sucks compared to iPhone not even comparing it to Android. Open source owns. /rant
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Funny that you mention this mud, I was just thinking about how much I loved my Bold 9700 just a year ago. I do agree that ios is great in it's own right, it just isn't for me
I think people are leaning towards android OS cause they are sick and tired of the same ol' UI with iOS. I used to have all iphone versions up until 3GS. Was gonna get the iP4 but decided to give android a whirl and I am glad I did. Just the fact that we can customize android (thanks to the devs here at xda), made me not want to look back at iOS.
Yea, the customization alone is it for me..
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[Q] [2 ALL DEVS] Any chance to see WebOS/iOS/WP7 on NS/NS4G?

With the UnBrickable Mod?
I read that webOs was ported to the Evo, and many mobile Os can be flashed on the HD2.
So, is possible to see other mobile Operating systems on our smartphone?
Share your experience, i wanna know about the incredible world of mobile operating systems
Happy New Year 2 all the estimated Developers and all the members of XDA!!!
Not trying to be a ****, but why is it so hard to type 'to' instead of 2? Rest of your post is written well...
Happy new year to you too
Romonster said:
Not trying to be a ****, but why is it so hard to type 'to' instead of 2? Rest of your post is written well...
Happy new year to you too [/QUOT
Lucky you, you managed to succeed without trying
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So far, nobody answered my question....i'm confused
doubtful. Not enough interest.
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vetvito said:
doubtful. Not enough interest.
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Far from it. The reason we'll probably never see webos or wp7 on the nexus s is that neither of those os's are fully open source like android, in fact wp7 is completely closed source.
webOS was ported to the Evo 3D but virtually nothing worked from what I remember, making it far from useful, useable, or anything past booting really.
Ios - Never been ported to anything non-apple (as far as I know).
Meego - Possible I guess, but I dont know why anyone would bother putting that amount of time into it.
WebOS - Looking possible, its going open source i hear, but the nexus S community is only going to decrease due to the release of the Galaxy Nexus
Windows Mobile - Dead
Windows Phone 7 - This was ported to the HD2 as the HD2 was used as a test phone for the OS and the drivers got leaked! Microsoft used it as it was a high spec Windows Mobile phone. (It got android as it was very similar to other HTC phones that ran Android, such as the N1 and Desire)
Ubuntu - I guess, probably wouldn't be too hard to get going, why anyone would want to I have no idea.
BB OS - hahaha...
so.... no interest.
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I realize this isn't what you're looking for, but if you're just interested in emulating the WP7 look, give Launcher7 from the market a try. I'd also recommend using the Ubermusic music player with the optional metro theme.
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Why nobody wanna port android on iPhone 5

Heyoo
iPhone 5 is the most beautiful smartphone on the market !
This design i love it !!
I remenber during iPhone 3G era people tried to port android on iPhone it worked !
So why people stopepd their work ?
Android on iPhone 5 the DREAM !!
If anyone could port it that would BE INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING !
I know a lot of people are asking that, but yeah if people are asking that that's because the demand is here ! So why saying no ?
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So why saying no ?
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Because the screen size reminds us of 2010?
...
(Seriously though, look up GooPhone i5S if you want something like that)
Because Apple would find a way to sue the crap out of any developer who tried?
How about... no?
brunodmjr said:
How about... no?
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Why ? .. stop slowing down progress, if you came here just for trolling please get away
because Apple thinks you are its slave after you buying anything from it.
Scellow said:
Heyoo
iPhone 5 is the most beautiful smartphone on the market !
This design i love it !!
I remenber during iPhone 3G era people tried to port android on iPhone it worked !
So why people stopepd their work ?
Android on iPhone 5 the DREAM !!
If anyone could port it that would BE INCREDIBLE AND AMAZING !
I know a lot of people are asking that, but yeah if people are asking that that's because the demand is here ! So why saying no ?
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Because Apple lawyers would eat you alive rather than letting you have some freedom of choice except black/white color and wallpaper, maybe? BTW, you have joined XDA just to ask this? OMG, I'm LMAO right now...
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Because Apple lawyers would eat you alive rather than letting you have some freedom of choice except black/white color and wallpaper, maybe? BTW, you have joined XDA just to ask this? OMG, I'm LMAO right now...
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Yes i came here to ask that, and ?
I thought XDA community were kind and comprehensive but loooks like i was wrong ..
Scellow said:
Yes i came here to ask that, and ?
I thought XDA community were kind and comprehensive but loooks like i was wrong ..
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because porting is not that easy..
i m nt a developer bt porting any os would first requiring unlocking the bootloader which i guess is not possible wid iphone5.
ios is beautiful why wanna change that??
Because average iPhone users can't care less. As Apple will say, it just works, well good enough for most people not to care.
Apple = simplicity / terrible for development
Android = more complicated / developer-friendly
I use my iPad mainly for surfing the web, since you can't really do much with that thing, even if you are jailbroken.
Locked bootloaders prevent ANY type of porting. The most I can do for a different look is to install Dreamboard themes.
Android on the other hand is perfect for making small tweaks and installing new / pre-alpha apps.
Or you can choose not to mess around too much.
In short, Android on iPhone = next to impossible.
Still, if you dare http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Android-Into-an-iPhone,
Only for older devices though, and judging from your response, I don't think you are up to the job. Just saying...
Not possible also......
It would be too complicated for Apple users.
iphone 5 isnt nowhere near build quality as android phones,..and it just started using 4'' screens last year. by the time they get 4.5'' screens, samsung will have flexible display or curved glass device out, and apple phones are boring and useless..notice i didnt mention anything about android screen size, because i dont see a future of big-ass-phone trend continuing in the mainstream market..
Main reason people won't do it is because they can't. Simple. There's a type of encryption Apple uses in a certain part of their OS and no one has been able to figure it out
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EcHoFiiVe said:
Main reason people won't do it is because they can't. Simple. There's a type of encryption Apple uses in a certain part of their OS and no one has been able to figure it out
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Oh i understand !
I have a Iphone 5 and a Nexus 7
I really love android beacuse you can mod, install many emulator without rooting !
I stay on iphone because i can't find a beautiful adroid smartphone .. they all suck with BIG porthole on the back , i hate that !
They can't make simple phone that's why i love apple stuff ..
Because its far too difficult to do and rather pointless as now a days there is far superior and more beautiful hardware that runs android natively. Yes that is subjunctive but I can't stand most everything about apple and don't see the iPhone 5 as anything more than a copy of the last few models, its old and boring.
If there were bad hardware only for droids than maybe someone would care enough to spend the countless hours it would take to do this, but I can't imagine anyone who would have the talent, the time, and the reason to do this
Sorry, but I'm afraid this is a lost cause....
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Personally i wouldn't want it since the screen size is so small. I will agree that their build quality is still very nice though.
if you want android then why the hell you buy a iPhone??
Android OS requires common sense and basic logic, like many OS's, this is just one thing any apple device could not comprehend.
Putting android on a iPhone is like putting a diamond into a freash pile of steaming dog crap....ur taking a superior software and sticking into a 3 year outdated hardware....that got released this year and was passed off as the latest and greatest to apple fan boys who r to busy juggling a latte and a iPhone to do research to see there buying crap lol....apple rant plus one!
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