May 1st 2010 02:19 am
Android OS on your Samsung Jet
Smarter than a smartphone. Yup thats true if you’re a 6 year old kid, or living in stone age. This marketing scheme is controversial and misleading. Having a great hardware but crippled with crappy OS is certainly a curse to the 800MHz processing CPU as advertised. It doesn’t has smartphone features; installing additional applications is only limited to Java mobile platform. But on the other, it was still a great phone and best bang for buck if you’re not a techno geek and you basically looking for great multimedia features. To maximize the potential of Jet. A group of people has come up with an idea of installing Android operating system (OS) on Jet. The key person was Dopi. He was the person who started the Jetdroid group. These are the people who got tired of the sluggishness and bugs-full of the Samsung proprietary OS. A notable one would be the memory leak problem, where your Jet will be out of memory after using for a few days. Some Jet users in Jetdroid reported that it was caused by the messaging, where everytime you text a short message, the memory won’t be freed up after that.
Installing an OS for a handset(Android in this respect) is not as straightforward as it is for a computer.
- You have to get the bootloader to boot up the Android OS. Thus, needing to mod the bootloader comes with the handset.
- Since 3rd party OS will be installed on the SD card for safety reason(you won’t screw up if it fails), it would be necessary to initialize the SD card upon booting as well.
- Compiling the Android OS which includes all the necessary drivers for booting up the handset. Initial stage may only need the crucial parts only like the AMOLED screen, CPU, memory controller, storage controller and the touch input.
- Get all the hardware drivers
Of course, the above mentioned are just a rough explanation, but you get the idea here. It isn’t easy and these people dedicated to make this possible deserves an applause. On top of that, they didn’t get any payment whatsoever. But it was sickening for seeing people asking the status of the project all the time. Reminds me of stupid Project Manager in an IT firm.
If you are deemed to be skillful enough , please pay a visit to Jetdroid Group
**Omnia II which shares almost similiar hardware as Jet, already has been successfully ported an Android OS onto it. But it was slow and some hardwares were not usable.
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looking for one on 01 May 2010 at 1:22 pm #
Hi, i have a Samsung Corby, can it be ported with android 2.1 os? thanks for the info.
admin on 02 May 2010 at 1:27 am #
I dont think it can, and if it does, nobody will be interested in it. As it(Corby) doesnt has hardware good enough for an android os.
VGRATEFUL on 12 Jul 2010 at 8:08 am #
Would love Android OS on My JET.
You guys should start a paypal collection if you get this working.
admin on 12 Jul 2010 at 8:18 am #
hi john, it was already almost a week that Jet been ported to android 1.5cupcake. Though it was just a head start, it doesnt have any phone functions that you can call it as a phone. you can refer to the jetdroid group for more info. there are even videos in youtube showing the android desktop on Jet.
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