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How To Install Android On Your Iphone

#1 PCWorld

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 04:01 PM

Post your comments for How to Install Android on Your iPhone here

#2 OMGTECH

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 05:35 PM

Please also note that following this article will be 100% illegal and break your agreed to 159 page Apple iphone EULA.

I mean, everyone read every word of their EULA, right?

http://www.apple.com...docs/iphone.pdf

Great to see open source OS's on a closed source/store/appliance/etc though!

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#3 shawncrisp

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:10 PM

This wins for dumbest article of the year.

1. For installing an OS onto a phone that is unsuitable for it 2. For advocating breaking the law on a national website.

Is the next chapter: How to install a C64 OS on an iphone? or is it: How to pirate iphone apps?

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:11 PM

I am assuming you tested with WiFi/WLAN. iPhone/iTouch is consuming lot battery power once you installed Android, in my opinion it is not true. Did you ever used iPhone/iTouch in the WiFi/WLAN network. Mostly not. Because every user is tied up with verizon network. I have iTouch and I am using WiFi/WLAN, A fully charged battery discharges in just <3 Hours for iPod Touch(with factory settings, means I never tried to change brightness etc.,).

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:23 PM

Why would you want to install such a POS OS on your IPhone? So that you can experience the same battery problems the Android users face? So that any Android developer can track you and use your information?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/37236488

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#6 ScottSment

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 06:53 PM

shawncrisp, on 19 May 2010 - 06:10 PM, said:

@shawncrisp In this case, it is not illegal to install software on a piece of hardware you own. You might void the manufacturer's warranty; however, in the case of the iPhone, the user owns the hardware. As for "installing an OS...that is unsuitable...", who determines whether or not it is unsuitable? Is Linux unsuitable on a PC or Mac because it was not preloaded by the manufacturer? I dare say that "Hackintoshes" work just fine if the installer uses the same hardware specs as an Apple machine. Granted, the user violates the EULA for Apple's OS. However, violating a EULA by installing the software on a non-Apple machine is not in itself a criminal offense; you've just voided the warranty.
Ease up a bit, you might learn something here.

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Posted 19 May 2010 - 07:24 PM

@hastaluego249

That article is VERY biased in favor of Apple. Also the Android is considerable more powerful the the Iphone. I'm sorry that it hurts your feelings.

So you can continue to support closed systems that stifle innovation and release products based off of hype rather then technology. Me, I'll continue to support open source and innovation to insure we don't end up in a world where we have to get Steve Jobs permission to innovate a new technology/product.

I meant a lot of the Android based phones are more powerful

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Posted 20 May 2010 - 08:48 AM

Wow ,thats amazing. Android is SO cool!

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Posted 20 May 2010 - 04:02 PM

Wow! Thanks a ton for this! Been following you for quite some time, just waiting on the iTouch port to do this.

Can't wait to have an open source OS on my iTouch!

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Posted 20 May 2010 - 10:23 PM

shawncrisp and MatthewNichols are simply pissed off because once all the bugs are worked out and power management is incorporated, the debate over iPhone vs Android is OVER... who on earth would purchase an Android phone when they can have 2 phones in one with an iPhone... and uh, Android phones are more powerful? You do know the iPhone 4G is coming out in a few months, right? Go cry to your mom because the debate is OVER!

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Posted 20 May 2010 - 10:24 PM

Oh and to sum up, iPhone can run Android OS... why? because it is a low level operating system. I don't see the Droid running iPhone OS... so please, leave your jealous at the door.

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 01:55 AM

@JonathanBardi are you crazy or what?

I had an iPhone in my hand for one year and I discovered that the iPhone is an half phone! you are so locked with iTunes and monotasking.
I bought then an HTC Hero last year and I never want to hear again about iPhone!

Stop telling people iPhone is a revolution!

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 05:07 AM

i'm doing exactly what is said in the tutorial but with firmware 3.0 and its corresponding VFDecrypt key, but i get an error message when typed in the terminal:

vadmin@ubu1004:~/idroid$ ./dripwn iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw 8D5D1FEA02D627C9E9B0D994C3CFDEAAB9780C86AC908DB15461EFE44EDDD19F8924B6B2
No such file or directory
Segmentation fault

iPhone1,2_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw is located in the same folder as dripwn

what's wrong??

thanks!

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 06:43 AM

Everything works fine for me until I get to the 'sudo ./oibc' line, and I get the error..

"./oibc: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Am I missing some required package? readline-common is installed

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 07:42 AM

Hello and many thanks to u Android!

Could u help me little caulse im stuck on step 7,however he find idroid folder(cd ~/idroid)
but when try to run Dripwn in proces 9. that terminal says that dripwn file or folder dont exist.

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 08:44 AM

domr, on 21 May 2010 - 06:43 AM, said:

All: if you are getting the above error you need to run this command as well: sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev (Ubuntu Only)

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 08:46 AM

Getting this error?

"./oibc: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

Then Run this!

sudo apt-get install libreadline5-dev

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 09:07 AM

ThibaultTibsRomanet, on 21 May 2010 - 05:07 AM, said:

Just use the 3.1.2 ipsw for this step (even if you have 3.0 installed; you don't need to actually update to 3.1.2). All we need is a bit of data from the ipsw. Apple changed the way the multitouch firmware is stored at around 3.1, and this method of extracting the firmware only works for IPSWs from 3.1 forward.

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Posted 21 May 2010 - 11:33 AM

I currently get stuck when you run "sudo ./loadibec openiboot.img3" it gives me this error: ./loadibec: error while loading shared libraries: libusb-1.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I've verified through Synaptics that I have the required libusb installed and all that good stuff.

Plus I'm new to this Linux thing, so I'm quite stumped. Any ideas?

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Guess I missed the post prior to planetbeings... oops. Gonna try that now

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Christ I'm retarded apparently. Thats not the error I'm getting. >_<

This post has been edited by TooKay: 21 May 2010 - 11:38 AM