Hello to all I have a Nokia 7710 and I was wondering if it would be possible to port any version of Android over to it? this is the hardware specs TI OMAP 1510 168 MHz processor. Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciated. Even Android 1.5 will be great.
Not sure if this will be of any help...h ttp://elinux.org/Android_on_OMAP
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I don´t think it´s possible, but let´s see what experts have toy say
168 Mhz is far to slow. even low budget android phones use 400mhz and above. you could install linux on your phone, but android seems to be too far imho.
Thanks for the info. It would be great if you could direct me to some info on how to put linux on my 7710. I bought one to mess around with. So I'm looking to get messy.
You'd spend months or years to port linux to the phone, anyway you could not use the phone's functions because of missing drivers.
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can i get android on my nokia n97 mini
The answer to all of these questions will be no unless Google says otherwise. Porting an OS that is not designed for a device is an ENORMOUS amount of work.
Sorry guys! The only reason ports happen devices at the moment is the comparatively open and similar hardware and software architectures between the devices. Nokia/Series60 are a million miles from android or WinMo once you get into the details.
First let me introduce myself. The name is Darcy and I have been casually using linux and other *nix OS for about a decade. I am in school working on a programing degree ATM, and am a pretty quick study. Anyways, I without much research bought my wife a generic 7" tablet running android 1.6. I know what processor it has and Im hoping that leads me to a place to start. Ok so the device is a "Kasser Net'sGo" we didnt realize that its just a china pad with another companys name on it when we ordered it. So most of the apps dont run correctly, and in general the device sucks(on a software level the HW is fine although generic).
Anyways it apears that i can get into recovery mode to flash if i had no other choices. But since there are no official roms im hoping to find a build thats based on the same CPU or similar hardware to find a starting point. Its running the Marvell Aspen 800mhz chip and standard ddr2. Sadly thats all we have been able to find out about this device.
I have compiled custom builds for linux before, and i have now purchased a Gtab so i have a less garbage device to test some things on(i have allready flashed 2 different roms and fooled with a bunch of the settings). But we would realy like to do something with this other tablet. So if anyone can point me in the direction of some info on how to do android builds or a repository of chipset drivers and such that might help me that would be greatly appreciated.
I have a prototype that a friend of mine is creating for a slate device but he wants to put android or linux on the device. I am not a programmer or developer by trade, im a network engineer so I really dont know what I should be doing first to get an OS installed on this device. There's a very basic OS on the device that the company created as of right now. The company that created the prototype has gone bankrupt and the one contact that I have was the PM for the project and he cant get in touch with any of the developers to tell me how to go about flashing an OS on the device. Below is the hardware thats being used, I just need to get an OS installed/flashed on the device for testing purposes. If anyone could help or point me in the right direction it would be appreciated. I have done research and have pretty much came up empty handed.
Processor: rockchip rk2738
Flash memory is a: Hynix 256mb
It also has a Infineon chip, not sure if that helps or not lol.
The board was custom made so there are no markings or serial numbers. Thats pretty much all thats visible on the board.
Bump.
I checked out the specs of the newly-announced $249 chromebook, and I realized what an awesome android device it would make, if only android was successfully ported to it....
I know at the same price point we can get a n7 32gig, but the larger 11.6" LED HD tempts me, though the res at 1366 x 768 is not that great. also, all the hands-on reviews have heaped a lot of praise on the high-quality keyboard-touchpad on the device, which is even more tempting and would make up for the lack of touch input on the device...
Its config is pretty identical to a flagship android phone/tablet with two cortex-A15 cores on the Exynos 5250, 2gig RAM and 16GB onboard storage with an expandable mem slot, 2 full usb ports and a full HDMI out, with the usual WiFi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
I'm a noob when it comes to creating ports and ROMS, but I guess it would not be such a difficult task for the awesome dev community out here to manage that feat. Maybe we need to wait for an actual android device with the exynos chip inside to release, whose android ROM we could use as a base to port to the chromebook...
windows 8 RT would be more awesome, but seeing that its a licensed OS, porting it might amount to piracy/illegal hacking, so its not something that I would discuss/encourage here....
Chromebooks boot with UEFI (Basically a modern BIOS), so the Android source code would have to be heavilly modified to be bootstraped from UEFI. Not to mention drivers and custom kernels (which isnt much of a pain if the hardware has documentation, all eyes on you Samsung.)
And I dont think we will ever see Windows on a chromebook unless someone creates an emulator for ChromeOS... Which I dont think is possible, but dont quote me on that.
i know it would take a ton of modding to find a workaround for it, but enabling the developer mode on the chromebook allows booting of an unsigned linux installation off the external memory (eg. gentoo ubuntu) on the x86 chromebooks currently available (Cr-48 etc..)
trying something similar for booting android off an image on the mem card might be a possible way...
UPDATE : https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ a google employee has already begun work on porting ubuntu..!!
drivers would be difficult, esp for the SoC as there is no device currently on the market with it. but maybe after Samsung releases a couple of phones/phablets running the A15's, porting of the drivers could be attempted...
I was wondering the same thing and figured I would come here to see if anything was planned. I just ordered the new one and was curious if there would be much interest in modding this thing. Guess in due time!
rumors say the upcoming google nexus 10 tablet is running identical hardware (exynos 5 dual omap15 / 2gig ram) which is gonna run android 4.2
once its out, MAYBE porting the ROM to the chromebook may become a teeny bit easier...
the_crazy_devil said:
rumors say the upcoming google nexus 10 tablet is running identical hardware (exynos 5 dual omap15 / 2gig ram) which is gonna run android 4.2
once its out, MAYBE porting the ROM to the chromebook may become a teeny bit easier...
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If I'm not wrong Nexus 10 will have exactly the same processor than the new Samsung Chromebook. If someon manage port android to this new latop I won't hesitate to buy it.
there is a developer board with same hardware and as far as I know it has android source codes, you can check the website http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Wasnt this done a while back with the CR-48 thanks to Hexxeh?
http://hexxeh.net/?p=328117655
Just got to find a way to port it over to the new Chromebook, then port Android.
Since Android was ported to the HP Touchpad I'm pretty confident that it can be ported to this device... I mean the touchpad was the last thing I thought Android would run on and it runs like it was made for it... COME ON DEVS!
Following this thread with anticipation.
Well seeing as this device uses the same SoC as the nexus 10 i would be hopeful someone will manage to port android. I for one would be keen to have this option!
Touch Chromebook?
If this article on Android Community turns out to be accurate and Google release a touch chromebook any time soon, I would throw some money at a kickstarter to get android on it. Would be cheaper than an N10 - and probably quicker than waiting for a keyboard dock...!
Can't link because I'm new... androidcommunity.com/google-reportedly-plotting-12-85-inch-touch-chromebook-20121126/
Very hopeful!
^ here's a +1 form me
started..
OK...I was able to get into the uboot portion of chromeos and managed to load uvboot ( unverified boot )which will allow the booting of non chrome os kernel's. however it seems its looking for something else. I already got Ubuntu loaded on it so maybe I'll try to get it booting off the SD first so I don't brick my cb.....keep you guys posted.
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OK...I was able to get into the uboot portion of chromeos and managed to load uvboot ( unverified boot )which will allow the booting of non chrome os kernel's. however it seems its looking for something else. I already got Ubuntu loaded on it so maybe I'll try to get it booting off the SD first so I don't brick my cb.....keep you guys posted.
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great work! i'm still waiting for my chromebook the stock's very erratic, and i cant find anyone willing to ship it to my country...will try to help as soon as i lay my hands on one!!
Ok ... DD'd the system.img from the stock N10 factory image and created a new BOOT partition. Booting the Chrome OS kernel worked ( which should be fine due to the fact that the CB and N10 have the EXACT same ARM SOC ) it seems the boot partition need to be re-written to work with the UEFI. im going to keep digging until I find something ( or someone lends some expertise dealing with UEFI and BOOT ).Happy New years !!
Kernel boots..just has a hard time mounting the ROOTFS...any want to shed some light on this.
Thanks
Super stoked for this!! Have been thinking this would be good to have Android on from the minute I got it!! Looking forward to this!!
Hi,
This is a plea for help from anyone out there who knows something about the Allwinner 32GB Tablet. I bought one a few years back when 4.4.2 was all the rage, but since then, have pretty much ignored it.
I now find that I have a use for it so I was wondering if it is possible to upgrade the OS on my machine, just to make it a little better at absorbing Apps and making them work - so far, I have not had much luck
in trying to download apps from the Shop. I have a copy of Android Magazine, issue No 45, which showed me how to do the upgrade but unfortunately, nothing it refers to is there any longer, or at least in the form it is shown in the magazine. However, I do see the SDK website, but on it, nothing at all about the Allwinner Android Kitkat or the model number BS1078. The Firmware version is 4.5, and the kernel is 3.3.0, and it has a
Quadcore - A31 Series Processor Type (most of this is double dutch to me, but it may mean something to someone).
Regards to any and all,
Philip.