link: http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/09/android-hacked-to-run-on-real-hardware/
Android has been hacked to run on actual hardware (rather than the released emulator).
This is excelent news! Now we just hope that somehow it's also ported to our beloved Pocket Phones and the world will be happy again
Here is the how-to for Sharp Sl-C760:
http://euedge.com/blog/2007/12/06/google-android-runs-on-sharp-zaurus-sl-c760/
Great news!! But what do you mean by hacked?
Didnt they release the SDK for developers to port the OS to real hardware devices?
Or just for software development?
Software development. But I am pretty Google knows it can and eventually be ported to actual devices. Its only better for them, the ported devices never run flawlessly as their Android phone. We're their free advertisement.
Hi, I hope not to upset anyone by starting a new thread, but could not find this question asked elsewhere yet.
Now that Nokia and Intel have linked up to back Meego, this should have the potential to be a major OS for smart phones in the next couple of years - after all, Symbian has the biggest OS share, with 45% of the high end 'phone market, far above the iPhone or WMx. And it is also backed by an impressive list of other 'phone makers.
Is there any appetite within XDAdevelopers to port this OS to HTC products? Can it run on HTC 'phones (I guess so, since I understand it has a Linux kernel)?
Is there much involved in developing current apps to run on Meego? Can this be automated?
Would appreciate some thoughtful feedback to this question, since apps developers are missing a major market by either writing separately for Meego, or not at all.
By the way, I am very interested in a XD-meego version
Meego Handset have been released some weeks ago
http://meego.com/community/blogs/valhalla/2010/meego-handset-project-day-1-here
I think there is a way to adapt a bootloader like haret to boot a Meego image.
There is already a aava image released officialy and a (ARM) Nokia N900 image
Is there a way to get a webOS ROM and G1 or HTC Magic? I believe the webOS SDK (https://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=page&id=1788) is opensource like Android is.
Android is open sourced, but drivers for network connections aren't... There is no way to port web os for android devices... (if i'm not mistaken)
sickleman said:
Android is open sourced, but drivers for network connections aren't... There is no way to port web os for android devices... (if i'm not mistaken)
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They are both Linux based so why not pull the wireless from android and port it to webOS?
Drivers belong to f.e. HTC/Motorola, so there is no way to pull them from OS in usable (uncompiled) version. I think if it could be possible, there would be a lot of linux based ROMs first (like for some siemens old devices)...
It's a kind of defense from ideas like yours...
This is what I said to someone who asked this Q, but about WP7...
"Porting it to Android phones is illegal, the only exception is porting WP7 to other WinMo phones only....This is the same reason why WebOS can't be ported to other phones, you will get a C&D from Microsoft or worse if you attempt to have the OS on non-Windows phones. WP7, WinMo, WebOS, and iOS are all closed-sourced, unlike android you can't have those OSes on any device."
Now WebOS has some things that are open, but it's not fully open like Android. HP wouldn't allow such a thing, if you've try porting WinMo/WP7 , or another closed OS, you'll be told to quit it. The SDK isn't there for people to port it to other phones, but to develop apps, and other things for the pre line and other Webos native devices....And WebOS would be to slow on the 1st Gen Android phones...It was slow on the Pre 1, so it'll be slower on a 528MHz too. It's finally good on the 2nd Gen snapdragon, but look how big the Cpu Gen gap is...
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Drivers belong to f.e. HTC/Motorola, so there is no way to pull them from OS in usable (uncompiled) version. I think if it could be possible, there would be a lot of linux based ROMs first (like for some siemens old devices)...
It's a kind of defense from ideas like yours...
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Can a CM wireless module be edited to work with webOS? Like a webOS and CM merged rom for G1 and HTC Magic. Like some of the gingerbread roms for sapphire.
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This is what I said to someone who asked this Q, but about WP7...
"Porting it to Android phones is illegal, the only exception is porting WP7 to other WinMo phones only....This is the same reason why WebOS can't be ported to other phones, you will get a C&D from Microsoft or worse if you attempt to have the OS on non-Windows phones. WP7, WinMo, WebOS, and iOS are all closed-sourced, unlike android you can't have those OSes on any device."
Now WebOS has some things that are open, but it's not fully open like Android. HP wouldn't allow such a thing, if you've try porting WinMo/WP7 , or another closed OS, you'll be told to quit it. The SDK isn't there for people to port it to other phones, but to develop apps, and other things for the pre line and other Webos native devices....And WebOS would be to slow on the 1st Gen Android phones...It was slow on the Pre 1, so it'll be slower on a 528MHz too. It's finally good on the 2nd Gen snapdragon, but look how big the Cpu Gen gap is...
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WP7 is closed sourced that is the big deference.
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Can a CM wireless module be edited to work with webOS? Like a webOS and CM merged rom for G1 and HTC Magic. Like some of the gingerbread roms for sapphire.
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I don't think so... There was new type of java developed for Android (dalvik-java). I don't know how the WebOS is written, but it's not the same programming language for sure. Crossprogramming/crosscompiling is like copy polish text to english homework. Trust me, it won't work at all.
Dokładnie jak teraz, nie sądzę, żebyś cokolwiek z tego co tutaj piszę zrozumiał, ale i tak pozdrawiam Ciebie, jak również innych polaków korzystających z XDA.
But there is one possibility to run WebOS on our devices! You have to write everything on your own. If you want write new drivers for network/gps/camera/etc modules you have to know how they are communicating with each others, and have a lot time and skills and informations (like datasheets for all microcontrollers in device) for writing all starting from nothing...
(There are problems in porting Honeycomb for other than originally supported devices... If it is so hard, about WebOS i think you can forget...)
Ofcourse everything is possible (like MacOSx on f.e. AMD or Atom based processors), but not everything is profitable. There have to be some issues causing HP abandon WebOS (and making it worst from other OSs) (I'm speculating, I don't know how WebOS is working and how is to work on WebOS..).
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WP7 is closed sourced that is the big deference.
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I know what I'm talking about...WebOS is closed sourced...You can't port it to non-palm/HP devices at all...It's not legal...
http://forums.precentral.net/webos-discussion/292920-we-need-team-port-webos-android-devices.html
If you don't believe goto that thread, or make a new one asking the question, the pal devs will tell you it can't be done.
So there is no way to get Android to look like webOS.
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So there is no way to get Android to look like webOS.
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There are themes that were made very very long ago, doubt you'll find them again. However the "wave launcher" from WebOS is on Android, on the market.
http://androidcommunity.com/android-team-forced-to-pull-palm-pre-theme-20090814/
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There are themes that were made very very long ago, doubt you'll find them again. However the "wave launcher" from WebOS is on Android, on the market.
http://androidcommunity.com/android-team-forced-to-pull-palm-pre-theme-20090814/
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Have been looking for the theme as well http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1251829
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Will this now be possible now that HP has open sourced WebOS?
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Since WebOS is open source this is very "do-able", hell they ported Android to the iPhone, why not WebOS to an Android Device?
First, let me unravel what I mean by the title...
Apple offers updates to most if not all iOS devices when a new version of iOS comes out. I can be mistaken about this, but it really doesn't make my coming point invalid.
Most major GNU/Linux distributions supports a **** ton of hardware via the Linux kernel and can thus be installed on a lot of different computer configurations. Arch and others manage to have a rolling release, while Ubuntu and others can be updated to the latest version every time there is a new one.
Now, the Android kernel is a fork of the Linux kernel.... yet to my knowlegde, Cyagen Mod is the closest thing we have to an "Android Distrobution" that works on several devices... yet the latest stable release for my Optimus 2X was in October 2011 (Android 2.3).
My guess is that, as of 2012, the number of Android users has far surpassed the number of Linux Desktop Users.
So my question is, why can't I have an up to date Android experience on my phone?
One simple answer would be to blame NVIDIA for not updating their tegra-drivers... I might be extremely uninformed, but I believe I had a working tegra driver in my stock android 2.3 version. So why not patch the same driver for 4.1? Is Android 4.1 really that different? Why arn't more people working on this? No commercial interest? Has that ever grinded the linux community to a halt?
I want 10 stable Android distibutions by Friday afternoon... Go!
No, but seriously... I understand there are a lot of developers working on bringing the latest Android experience to all sorts of devices.
Greetings, fellow devs and fans. Hope that you are doing fine. I do hope that this would be the right place to ask anything, including what I have in mind right now.
I may have been ditching Android as my daily driver for Windows 10 Mobile for like two years now, but that didn't stop me from keeping tabs with the latest news about Google's mobile OS, and the latest news about the Go Edition of Android 8.0 Oreo do catch my attention. I would definitely love to see how Android Oreo Go stacks up against my current favourite mobile OS from Microsoft.
But that's not what I wanna talk about. I actually wanna talk about Motorola Droid 4 XT894 aka "maserati". I've been yearning to own what is undoubtedly the last ever Android - indeed, the last EVER smartphone with horizontal QWERTY keyboard. But that got me thinking: Since Android Oreo Go only needs 1GB of RAM and "maserati" is indeed only have 1GB of RAM, I wonder if there is(are) a way(s) of porting that particular Android into that Motorola?
Don't get me wrong - I'm not asking for tutorials or suggestions about steps on doing it, because I don't even know if someone else is thinking similar line as me. But who knows... in the future... maybe it is possible after all?
That's all for me. Would love to hear your thoughts.
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Since Android Oreo Go only needs 1GB of RAM and "maserati" is indeed only have 1GB of RAM, I wonder if there is(are) a way(s) of porting that particular Android into that Motorola?
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I would even be happy if the "normal" OREO 8.1 (Lineage 15.1) was released some day.
But here are some sad but unconfirmed news: https://forum.xda-developers.com/droid-4/development/rom-cm14-1-nougat-t3499338/page22#post76220740
Maybe you could ask the developer "stargo" https://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=3457922 directly if he will publish an Oreo (Go) version for the XT894 maserati