In the future, there will be the possibility to port Maemo OS on our Xperia?
if nokia have released the source
and somebody reverse engineer all
the drivers required for x1 to work
then yes maybe
problem is the reverse engineering part could
take a few man years
Maybe, but it will be as useless as our Android ports ATM.
(no offence to the developers, but i think it will never will be functional (hardware support) enough to replace WM)
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Is it Possible to run Maemo on the Dream ?
fxone said:
Is it Possible to run Maemo on the Dream ?
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Anything is possible but it won't happen, just like people asking about winmo runnin on the dream.
Win Mobile is Boring, but Maemo looks Cool and it´s Linux based.
The New Nokia N900 comes with Maemo.
fxone said:
Win Mobile is Boring, but Maemo looks Cool and it´s Linux based.
The New Nokia N900 comes with Maemo.
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True but it would prolly need all brand new drivers that someone would have to write.
Maemo has been out for a while. First device to run it was the Nokia 770. It ran a much different flavor of Maemo compared to what's on the N900. I'm guessing that you're asking for Maemo 5 to be ported to the G1/Dream. That's very unlikely since the only device that currently runs Maemo 5 is based on a much much much faster SoC than the Dream's older Qualcomm chip. Also, while Maemo is built upon linux, they (Nokia) do not provide nearly as many resources as Google does for building out a ROM image. It would take a tremendous amount of effort to port over and the results will not be in any way satisfying enough to justify all the hard work. But, it doesn't mean we can't dream for a day to come when we can install any mobile OS on our phones and tweak to our heart's content.
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But, it doesn't mean we can't dream for a day to come when we can install any mobile OS on our phones and tweak to our heart's content.
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i like this utopia you speak of.
So I am trying to learn some about how android works. I am interested in how it works with the hardware. I am not a developer or interested in porting android to another device, but as I look at the hardware specs of say the Touch Pro2 and the hero, they are similar and the chipsets are close (same family). Recently i read that the CEO of HTC said he will not make a Android version of the TP2, so my question is this:
What is special about the hardware of the android device that it runs android, but the TP2 cannot? I know that people have been working on porting Android to other WinMo devices, but with limited success. So what is the stumbling block?
I'm just curious about this topic and was hoping some of the smart folks from XDA would know.
I believe that much like computer hardware, each component requires drivers, and those need to be written for WinMo devices. In the alpine section they've been port WinMo 5, but couldn't due to lack of drivers.
Also all WinMo devices are resistive, Android (up until 1.6) was all capacitive, which I believe is another issue.
Anyway, the Droid is better than the TP2 =P
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Do you think it is possible to port Nokia's MaemoOS (www.maemo.org) from the new Nokia N900 to hTC devices?
Thanks for answers.
Sopis said:
Hello
Title says it all.
Do you think it is possible to port Nokia's MaemoOS (www.maemo.org) from the new Nokia N900 to hTC devices?
Thanks for answers.
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Hi,
What are the difference with it and Winmo, Android,...?
that's hot!
im curious too about maemo...
i've taked a look on the web,but i found nothing....
It's Debian based running Hildon-Desktop on top...
With enough devs doesn't seem too hard to port, we already got Linux Kernel running on some PDA's it's mostly an Hildon-Desktop doing the rest.
Would be interesting indeed, I am currently waiting for Android to the HD, but Maemo would be nice too ! And I think I am not the only one.
Sopis said:
Hello
Title says it all.
Do you think it is possible to port Nokia's MaemoOS (www.maemo.org) from the new Nokia N900 to hTC devices?
Thanks for answers.
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There is community driven edition of Maemo called Mer. It is fully open source and it should in theory be possible to run it on blackstones at the moment. But it is not that usable/fully polished as Maemo 5 on Nokia n900. HTC Touch Pro is already mentioned on http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Status.
PS. I'm following UPS delivery of my n900, will have it on monday
Don't forget that the N900 is a really powerfull device with alot more "oempf" then our HD's.
I think that as an linux distributable, android is allot more qaulified for our HD's then Meamo will ever be
Thank you all for very good replies
I did not think that this would make such an interest...hope more people will read this and maybe some DEVs too
probably yes, but given the time and effort required, it would be easier to just have people buy an n900. poeple choose a blackstone because they want winmo/tf3d or whatever
i like to think it like this - if someone found a way to attach a coffee machine to a blackstone, id be interested, but given the time and effort required to get it to work (not to mention practical) i wouldnt be too fussed. anyone who wanted coffee machine functionality might have bought the wrong device
id say lets android working first then maybe work on other linux OSs would be easier
A couple of things:
By default Mer uses LXDE as its desktop but you can switch to Hildon (the n900 UI) using update-alternatives (Google it).
However Hildon uses Clutter which uses GL, and it all runs on Xorg, so unless there's a hardware 3D driver for Xorg for your device you're going to be out of luck I think (unless you like horribly slow and jerky UIs). Afaik there isn't an accellerated 3D Xorg driver for Raphael. Not certain but pretty sure.
Given that symbian has just gone open source, does anyone have any interest in working to port it over to the rhodium? Given the nature of the hardware, it should be doable, but the question is, is there any interest?
I know android is the new "thing", but symbian is still the most popular smartphone OS, and I'm sure I'm not the only one who moved over the WinMo from symbian for radio reasons -- I can get a T-Mo 3G WM phone, but not a symbian device.
Offcourse, the fact that it has gone opensource will make it easier, but I'm fairly sure it will be very hard to get symbian on any HTC.
Nokia uses very different hardware, so the cpu/chipset drivers won't exist at all. And as far as I know, symbian is not based on linux, so any linux drivers will be useless.
Android on rhodium is doable, because of the fact that it shares most of it's hardware specs with it's native android brothers.
Maemo on the other hand, is basicly linux with a skin/gui on top of it. We already have a booting linux kernel, so maemo will probably be a possible O/S to port in the future.
There's another thread on this at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=628384
Thread closed as existing thread exists as per above post
Today it may be that Intel unveils dev phone&tablet running Meego.
ww.engadget.com/2011/02/13/intel-promises-teases-meego-smartphone-and-tablet-for-mwc/
Hope this is the announcement of a release date for this OS even if there are no device announced from any manufacturer since Nokia dumped meego for that crp called wp7. Meego is what Android was supposed to be - a Linux not mutilated but done proper. Qt is nice.
And the best part? Only the OS&HW functionality needs to be done by devs before it is ready for mainstream since JVM can run Android apps (and widgets?) on Meego. So the application base is there already. h ww.phonearena.com/news/Myriads-Alien-Dalvik-to-allow-running-Android-apps-on-MeeGo-devices_id16530
Not to mention recompiling existing linux software and it should run native?
And Myriad alien dalvik VM might actually make the Android apps run faster than on native Android =)
ww.youtube.com/user/myriadgroupmarketing#p/a/u/2/8-qvyHhd0ao
And Myriad has also a booth on the MWC, i don't think this is a coincidence.
This can be THE paradigm shift in mobile OS:s, what android claims honeycomb to be, what a joke.
Cannot wait for meego to have a stable release, then serious work on porting it can begin. I am sure my Desire Z will make an excellent Meego Phone
(i am no OS dev, this post reflects my understanding. Correct me if i am wrong, please )
sadly meego will not meet the desired success, it will be like x86 linux in it's first years