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Anyone have Ubuntu running on their GS3?

And if so is there any good how-tos? I've searched for a little while now and can't find any CDMA ones in the GS3 section. Interested in trying it out if it's functional or purely for nerd reasons.
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I've been wondering the same thing lately! Would be pretty cool to see

Look for Complete Linux Installer in the market. I used it to get ubuntu running on my ns4g and kindle fire. I showed it to my linux professor last year and he was amazed. I don't see any reason why it won't work on our gs3's, I should try it again myself. Really simple to do actually as all the instructions are there for you.
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Ok so what is ubuntu? What's so special about it?
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Thanks for that tip Raiderrep
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xCovErtWolFx757 said:
Ok so what is ubuntu? What's so special about it?
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Linux distro

I'm interested it

Isn't running Linux on your phone just using a VNC-like server to a computer, running Linux?

Ascertion said:
Isn't running Linux on your phone just using a VNC-like server to a computer, running Linux?
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Well you do use a vnc server but that's only so you can see the interface. It's all running on your phone independent of anything else.
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No worries DC, long time no see
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well i got the GUI up.. i dont really get it tho.. how do u type things in with no keyboard?

DrKaotica said:
well i got the GUI up.. i dont really get it tho.. how do u type things in with no keyboard?
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Hmmm...I'm going to try and get it running on my novo 7 fire after I do some homework. If I remember right there is a setting in the vnc app that you use for onscreen keyboard popup...
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I'd be interested in this too

What about the Ubuntu Mobile that we saw a couple months back for phones? That would be awesome.
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I kinda see the benefits but not really sure its worth it.

ccline84 said:
And if so is there any good how-tos? I've searched for a little while now and can't find any CDMA ones in the GS3 section. Interested in trying it out if it's functional or purely for nerd reasons.
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Thanks dear,
What is special about ubunt.

Would Ubuntu completely replace the Android OS or can you dual-boot it so that you can run Ubuntu while docked via MHL onto a monitor or laptop? When I say dual-boot, I'm referring to something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc0uMXGFBY

hotels-in-delhi said:
Thanks dear,
What is special about ubunt.
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Personally I don't find anything special about Ubuntu, but getting Backtrack running on my phone with the micro to normal usb adapter and a usb wireless receiver... that's my dream. Heard someone got it working on the Galaxy Nexus.

Ubuntu phone OS coming SOON!

Just saw something epic, and wanted to share. http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone

Will love to try on s 3
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When? Where? How? I must have!
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wgrant said:
When? Where? How? I must have!
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http://www.ubuntu.com/
Home screen says something about it this month? Maybe I misunderstood.
Looks great though, i'd love to try it out.

Wait.. So it won't be an android os but Ubuntu os?
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bikrame said:
Will love to try on s 3
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Try ubuntu for android
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I remember having Ubuntu on the hd2 this looks amazing I can't wait to try it
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Wait.. So it won't be an android os but Ubuntu os?
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No android and Ubuntu are 2 different things. They are both Linux but different. The good think about Ubuntu OS is that it runs with arm hardware that's present in android meaning that android phones should be able to run it. I'll be waiting for it to hit and get ported to a bunch of android devices. It will run gloriously on existing android and our s3 once ported. But all we do noe is sit back, enjoy our phones and just wait
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CodyRst said:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
Home screen says something about it this month? Maybe I misunderstood.
Looks great though, i'd love to try it out.
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Yes, that was its Display at CES only though. During it, Ubuntu put out that it would release around 2014. I would assume many versions would be released for us to work with though before then.

AngSanley said:
Try ubuntu for android
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Where is it?
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bikrame said:
Where is it?
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For me, i think MIUI is the most user friendly ROM so far.
But I cant wait to try ubuntu, it looks pretty cool and i am sure it won't have many bugs. But u think it will work on Tmobile S3?
let's wait and see
Thanks for great news

theory611 said:
For me, i think MIUI is the most user friendly ROM so far.
But I cant wait to try ubuntu, it looks pretty cool and i am sure it won't have many bugs. But u think it will work on Tmobile S3?
let's wait and see
Thanks for great news
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MIUI user friendly? For US users? Visit the miui thread in the original dev section. That's not the case at all any more... Not to mention miui is old news and nowhere near as customizable as aokp.
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theory611 said:
For me, i think MIUI is the most user friendly ROM so far.
But I cant wait to try ubuntu, it looks pretty cool and i am sure it won't have many bugs. But u think it will work on Tmobile S3?
let's wait and see
Thanks for great news
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I never liked miui, it's too iphonish, I'd rather run a stock rom than miui
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Definitely looking forward to this. It also states in the articles that it is the full blown operating system obviously customized appropriately for the interface but I'm looking forward to a full set of terminal commands instead of a condensed busy box.
One of the articles I think pointed to a Nexus in the next few weeks having a download available...not sure if that's true but I'm hoping our famous XDA devs can snag that and work their magic.

It's on http://ubuntu.com then goto Devices and Ubuntu for Android
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Petition to XDA to approach Canonical?
What I would like to see is to see what the interest of the developers at XDA to get their hands on the Ubuntu for Android or the Ubuntu OS for the phones, and then create a petition for XDA to get in contact with Canonical see if there is a possibility to get the XDA developers involved in the forming of Ubuntu OS for the mobile. Just imagine what that could do to help getting Ubuntu out there for mobile devices. I mean. I'm pretty sure we have a bunch of power users out there that would like to beta test it for Canonical.

elflip88 said:
I never liked miui, it's too iphonish, I'd rather run a stock rom than miui
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No offense, we have to agree IOS is more acceptable. I was Iphone user, and I love how IOS desgins its UI. You get around things much faster and easier.

theory611 said:
No offense, we have to agree IOS is more acceptable. I was Iphone user, and I love how IOS desgins its UI. You get around things much faster and easier.
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Most definitely not. I used to own a number of Apple products. Their iOS setup blows. It was amazing 7 years ago or whenever the first iOS device came out, but not anymore. The only thing I still like about my old Apple devices is the click wheel for my first gen iPod Nano. Sadly though, there was a recall on them, but I got a higher capacity new one.

theory611 said:
No offense, we have to agree IOS is more acceptable. I was Iphone user, and I love how IOS desgins its UI. You get around things much faster and easier.
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Nope don't agree at all, if I thought that was the cass I would have gotten an iphone instead
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theory611 said:
No offense, we have to agree IOS is more acceptable. I was Iphone user, and I love how IOS desgins its UI. You get around things much faster and easier.
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Lol so plain and none customizable. No thanks.
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Ubuntu (yeah I know...)

Since I see no mention of it on our forum... I'll break the ice.
The port guide went up today on Ubuntu wiki. So, are there any devs working on it for the note 2?
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beehiveblack said:
Since I see no mention of it on our forum... I'll break the ice.
The port guide went up today on Ubuntu wiki. So, are there any devs working on it for the note 2?
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+1 Ubuntu for our phones is a cm base plus the Ubuntu ui. Wish I had a box to try and port this.

Its on the Ubuntu site? I haven't been back there in a while since I formatted winblows an switched.
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Then if it is really purely CM at heart it shouldn't be difficult to port
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+1 on this, the ui looks very nice.......... i wish i knew how to port , i wanna learn this stuff.

I could give it a go, but I'm not sure how well it would go. best bet would be to just sit tight.
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Only camera and Web browser is functional. Nothing else. Not worth the time.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
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This was just posted in the MIUI thread earlier.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5556
"I sent him a PM. Thanks I am glad to be here. The GN2 is an amazing phone with limitless possibilities. Today I ported ubuntu touch to the Gn2 I am going to clean it up before or if I release it. It was very easy to change it over to compile for our phones, ubuntu touch is fast sometimes and slow others. As far as I can tell those issues have nothing to do with anything I changed in porting so that would make it an upstream bug. Gonna have to wait for canonical to push out a new release.
Regards,
Atsuisofu"
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I just wanted to say I just put ubuntu on my PC and now I am quad-booting on my computer. [Windows 7, Windows 8, Mac OS Mountain Lion and Ubuntu 12.10.] I cannot to dual boot Jellybean and Ubuntu from my Android phone.
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KBizzle said:
Only camera and Web browser is functional. Nothing else. Not worth the time.
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Exactly. I made a build but I wont post it because it take far too long to go back and forth to a regular rom and there are far to many upstream bugs.

I was browsing the developer only section and saw slick_rick taking with other devs so we shouldn't be waiting to long for a build, if you're impatient there's a guide on how to build it but it's not for the faint of heart haha
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Nicgraner said:
I was browsing the developer only section and saw slick_rick taking with other devs so we shouldn't be waiting to long for a build, if you're impatient there's a guide on how to build it but it's not for the faint of heart haha
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Ehh probably wont release anything either. If anyone wants to use my source though, github.com/slickrick is where I have my Ubuntu Touch repos.

Seems like a vanity OS imho, I'd most definitely try a build once put out but will probably end up switching back to TW or AOSP within a week, lol

slick_rick said:
Ehh probably wont release anything either. If anyone wants to use my source though, github.com/slickrick is where I have my Ubuntu Touch repos.
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Well it seems like it turns your phone into a media device, so if you don't need signal, it should be fine since Wi-Fi and the font artifacts are gone? But I can see the issue of people not reading and complaining..
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I'd like a ROM that turned into Ubuntu only when the note 2 was docked to a monitor. I'd probably stop using my laptop if I had that.
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Ubuntu touch.

So I'm not sure but do we have any restrictions with aosp and drivers?, The reason why is I'd like to try and build Ubuntu touch for our LG OG.
Also I haven't tried anything like this and maybe would like some help from anyone willing to help.
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blmvxer said:
So I'm not sure but do we have any restrictions with aosp and drivers?, The reason why is I'd like to try and build Ubuntu touch for our LG OG.
Also I haven't tried anything like this and maybe would like some help from anyone willing to help.
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It would work, but it's not stable and CDMA is not working yet.
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Did ubuntu abandon this project? They said cdma support would follow soon but once it was released for gsm news about it died. Every once in awhile it would randomly appear but nothing exciting..
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tsdeaton said:
Did ubuntu abandon this project? They said cdma support would follow soon but once it was released for gsm news about it died. Every once in awhile it would randomly appear but nothing exciting..
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They're close to getting Data working for GSM devices, so CDMA will likely be soon after. Canonical says it should be a daily driver (IE: most peripherals working) by the end of the month.

xboxfanj said:
They're close to getting Data working for GSM devices, so CDMA will likely be soon after. Canonical says it should be a daily driver (IE: most peripherals working) by the end of the month.
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Exactly the answer I was hoping for. Thank you
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tsdeaton said:
Exactly the answer I was hoping for. Thank you
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Convenient day that you asked. I read an article about it today. I'll have to find it again.
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advantages
What are the advantages of ubuntu is it instead of android

harrybear25 said:
What are the advantages of ubuntu is it instead of android
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It's a completely different experience. Different OS. It's like comparing ios and windows with android.
The main advantage to this though is that it is a bit easier for devs who have android app building experience to port their apps and even develop for.
It's one step closer to getting ubuntus name out there on the level of compition windows and mac have had for so long. The biggest step so far has been steam support for it's desktop version. Windows games are flooding in. Imagine this kind of support on a mobile device. Ubuntu has said that soon the same apps could be used cross platform desktop<-->mobile.
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Another advantage is that officially supported quad-core phones will have Ubuntu Desktop as an option when connecting to an external display.

iOS based Rom idea..?

Hi, I came from an iPhone 4, and I want to make an iOS based Rom. Probably iOS 6? I switched to android because of ios 7 lol. If anyone could comment, or pm me with any ideas. That would be much appreciated!
Also thought about an iMessage port with the Rom, I figured it could be spoofed with apples servers..
About me: I have a Sprint LG Optimus G
Rooted, and unlocked with CWM.
Very little experience working with Roms, a bit of experience in the iOS Jailbreak scene.
I'm not trying to dual boot iOS.
Trying to make some thing similar to iDroid
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I know back in the CM7 days there was a ROM called JoyOS. It functioned like Miui but it was completely themed to be like iOS5/6. Dunno if that's still an active ROM project or not, though.
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Xhase said:
Hi, I came from an iPhone 4, and I want to make an iOS based Rom. Probably iOS 6? I switched to android because of ios 7 lol. If anyone could comment, or pm me with any ideas. That would be much appreciated!
Also thought about an iMessage port with the Rom, I figured it could be spoofed with apples servers..
About me: I have a Sprint LG Optimus G
Rooted, and unlocked with CWM.
Very little experience working with Roms, a bit of experience in the iOS Jailbreak scene.
I'm not trying to dual boot iOS.
Trying to make some thing similar to iDroid
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You have group messaging on any 4.3 ROM. I can also confirm it works with iOS devices when they send put you into group messages.
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Xhase said:
Hi, I came from an iPhone 4, and I want to make an iOS based Rom. Probably iOS 6? I switched to android because of ios 7 lol. If anyone could comment, or pm me with any ideas. That would be much appreciated!
Also thought about an iMessage port with the Rom, I figured it could be spoofed with apples servers..
About me: I have a Sprint LG Optimus G
Rooted, and unlocked with CWM.
Very little experience working with Roms, a bit of experience in the iOS Jailbreak scene.
I'm not trying to dual boot iOS.
Trying to make some thing similar to iDroid
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I mean...to each their own...but why get an android phone just to run iOS, or something similar on it? Totally defeats the purpose of having an android phone in the first place. Which is why I never understood why people liked Muiu (sp).
But anyway, that's just my own person opinion and you're totally entitled to use your own phone in whichever way you please.
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Why not have the best of both worlds.
I'm mean think about it.
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Xhase said:
Why not have the best of both worlds.
I'm mean think about it.
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Do you want full fuctionality like iOS or just the look? If just the look you can download Espier Launcher and I think you can also get a dialer and sms by them as well.

I want complete functionality, but still keeping it android. I figured.. I'm gonna unpack an iPhone 4S CDMA Ipsw and work on it from there.
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Xhase said:
I want complete functionality, but still keeping it android. I figured.. I'm gonna unpack an iPhone 4S CDMA Ipsw and work on it from there.
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If you get it to work...I'll be using it. Its a cool idea and a great way to make iOS users a little mad...why have one OS when you can have both? That's why I love android.
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Xhase said:
Hi, I came from an iPhone 4, and I want to make an iOS based Rom. Probably iOS 6? I switched to android because of ios 7 lol. If anyone could comment, or pm me with any ideas. That would be much appreciated!
Also thought about an iMessage port with the Rom, I figured it could be spoofed with apples servers..
About me: I have a Sprint LG Optimus G
Rooted, and unlocked with CWM.
Very little experience working with Roms, a bit of experience in the iOS Jailbreak scene.
I'm not trying to dual boot iOS.
Trying to make some thing similar to iDroid
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I have one suggestion(off topic sorry) I have a Ton of exp with the LGOG,(my thread helped nickname it and I OC the camera to the point where LG contacted me asking me how I did it) I'm so not bragging(though proud Lmao) just wanted you to know I know what I'm talking about and I would suggest you use team win recovery project(twrp) and not clockworkmod. So Much better for the lgog. Trust me,some phones love CWM like the photon but most in my tiny opinion work better and team win updates better and faster than cwm. All you have to do is use good manager click on the three little dots in the top right hand corner and hit open recovery script and it would do it for you, very very very easy
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I have one suggestion(off topic sorry) I have a Ton of exp with the LGOG,(my thread helped nickname it and I OC the camera to the point where LG contacted me asking me how I did it) I'm so not bragging(though proud Lmao) just wanted you to know I know what I'm talking about and I would suggest you use team win recovery project(twrp) and not clockworkmod. So Much better for the lgog. Trust me,some phones love CWM like the photon but most in my tiny opinion work better and team win updates better and faster than cwm. All you have to do is use good manager click on the three little dots in the top right hand corner and hit open recovery script and it would do it for you, very very very easy
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I've been trying to find your camera fix but I can't. -___- please bless me with your magic
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Pretty sure its impossible. iOS is closed source. MIUI is pretty much as close as you can get to iOS on an Android device. There are iOS themes available all over for instance here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np5Rls-AneA

Like I said though, I have very little experience with coding and reverse engineering.. but ill see what I can do.
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Xhase said:
Like I said though, I have very little experience with coding and reverse engineering.. but ill see what I can do.
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It's not going to happen. Even if you could do something, the driver's are all closed source and the code is made for special architecture. ios on Android is NOT going to happen.
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Xhase said:
Like I said though, I have very little experience with coding and reverse engineering.. but ill see what I can do.
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If iOS were that easy to decode then every bootloader for every iOS device would be unlocked and you would have jailbreaks within a day after each official release. The fact it takes 6-8 months now should tell you how much protection iOS has
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Xhase said:
Like I said though, I have very little experience with coding and reverse engineering.. but ill see what I can do.
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Yeah dude, like everyone else is saying, its damn near impossible. Android on iOS has been done before, but iOS on Android is literally impossible.
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Doesn't hurt to try right?
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Xhase said:
Doesn't hurt to try right?
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You can if you want, but it'd be one hell of a job, though.
I will admit, I've never seen someone as determined as yourself Look up the old Android on iOS project and see if you can reverse it.
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iamterence said:
You can if you want, but it'd be one hell of a job, though.
I will admit, I've never seen someone as determined as yourself Look up the old Android on iOS project and see if you can reverse it.
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That only worked because the a4 processors bootloader and below was successfully decoded. Once that happened easy peasy. But decoding the entire iOS source code?
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I think, things will be slowly added into a flashable zip. I figure decrypting a CDMA iphone 4S ipsw would be appropriate.
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Xhase said:
I think, things will be slowly added into a flashable zip. I figure decrypting a CDMA iphone 4S ipsw would be appropriate.
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You would have to write the phone drivers you're self, IPhone 4 drivers and hardware are nothing like the LS970, Which would mean even if you happened to decrypt the entire package and put out .img files (assuming thats the format they chose), If you flash it, you will brick your phone. You would honestly be better off re-writing iOS from scratch.
MIUI, Buzz Launcher, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shere.easycontroller
There are tons of things to allow the look and feel of iOS on Android.
The Android community has lots of problems porting Android OS's to Android Devices as it is because of closed source drivers. There's no reason to get your hopes up on attempting to port a completely closed source OS to a non-apple device. No disrespect or harm intended, it isn't impossible but the way to do it isnt by trying to decrypt packages. The only way I see this happening is to just start writing a new OS based on the ideas iOS has present and how it runs it apps.