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Android-on-veer

Android, Veer

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Welcome to Android on Veer project.

Flashing this ROM may damage your Veer! Just for test!

This is homepage of Android-on-Veer project.

Preface

As a fake Palm fans, after seeing so much big bangs of mobile phones these years, I will never believe in loves...

There seems both approval and disapproval, for porting Android on Veer.

Those guys disapprove porting Android, are mostly loyal webOS fans, who will never say giving up to webOS...

However, hardware and software are supposed to be separated, and this possibility is provided by Android-on-Veer project.

I will always be happy to see an alternative.

When webOS is totally open-sourced, we may see lots of webOS-on-XXX projects, right?

Preparing for Installation

Please watch out the completeness of these files!

  1. android-rootfs.tar size: 71464960, MD5: 326c18b344576a138d9c913927bb56b6
  2. boot.tar size: 6707200, MD5: 960257d17cbb72dd12d7a09636b76409
  3. uImage.install size: 4028346, MD5: 305b3a882ea9ddfe2ef8ff95cc48562a

There must be more than 1GB free space for internal media partition of Veer

Installation Steps

  1. Power up Veer,link USB with PC, and mount as a USB disk. Put android-rootfs.tar, boot.tar into the Veer USB disk.
  2. Restart Veer,then holding the volume up key,get into Recovery mode (there will be a USB arrow)
  3. In PC, get into the directory of uImage.install, open cmd and put this command:

    novacom boot mem:// < uImage.install

    You can follow this way "Install Bootloader"

    Put uImage.install into the c:\Program Files\Palm, Inc folder or wherever your novacom executable file installed, then open a command prompt on your computer and use the cd command to navigate to the folder you transferred the uImage.install to earlier (C:\Program Files\Palm, Inc for Windows).

    Then run the command

    novacom.exe boot mem:// < uImage.install

  4. There will be installing logs in the screen of Veer. After installing, it will restart automatically

  5. You will see the moboot multi-boot screen. Use volume key to select, and power button to confirm.

Problems

Only touchscreen, wifi, keyboard works.

If you are interested in this project, you can donate to my paypal: xndchn#gmail.com (no more than $1...)

Thanks!