Android on HTC "Touch Dual" (his French's name)

[CHiCaNoS]

["His French name", sorry...)

Hello all,

Before, sorry for my bad english...

I am French, and i have many difficulty for understanding manipulations about "running Android on a HTC Nike".

Is that operation possible ? Difficult ?
Can i have help, in french if possible...

Thanx a lot

[kvstrien]

Hi,

Thou shalt use the search function and read the forum before opening new topics (in this case, your answer was even on the first page, so even a on-page search function would have done). However, I understand that you find English a bit difficult (tip: Google offers page translations).

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=441999

No, it's not yet possible.

Reason:
a. Android is too big to load into RAM at once, so it needs to be booted from SD-card
b. SD-cardreader drivers are not yet ready (DZO is working with it, expected to be ready in January 2009)
c. Kernel for Niki (which is the Touch Dual) isn't fully functioning (however that's not the largest problem because Android can also be used with nearly only a touch-screen).

The posts complaining about it being possible to boot into Android are talking of Android 0.8 SDK (which wasn't quite as fully functional as the "release" version 1.0 is)

[CHiCaNoS]

I'm really sorry but it was very more easy to ask this question because my english is very bad...

But, i have seen many videos on youtube, peoples can be running Android on HTC Touch Dual ..?!

Or so is an emulation of Android ?

Thanx very much

[kvstrien]

It isn't that bad - it's better this way than asking those questions in the development thread bcause this doesn't add unnecessary posts to that thread :-).

The android version you've seen running is Android 0.8 - which was a small (and development) version of Android. For example, you don't have the application pane/slider you have in Android 1.0, and there are very few applications.