Web OS on Desire

kirior · May 28, 2011

Hi all

Due to being confused i have posted the same thread in Desire Genereal, Desire Q&A, General, WebOS Hacking&General and WebOS Development.
Please delete the wrong ones.

I was just wandering would it be possible and if there is any brave soul to port Web OS to desire. I have read a bit and would like to try this OS myself. Not rich enough to owe 3 mobiles though :/.

Just let me know if I'm asking/wanting impossible or it is doable and someone may take it on board.

thnx in advance for all replies

Regards
Kirior

Da_Loony · May 29, 2011

I think it should be possible to do it, due to the fact that it also runs on a linux kernel, maybe with somemods on haret it might work... only problem, does anyone have a dumped rom?

vaxick · Jun 1, 2011

It would be a enormous amount of work to do honestly because all current versions of WebOS were designed with a gesture pad and Android phones do not have these. You'd have to figure out how to map all the gesture functions to hardware keys. You'd also have to figure out how to get a virtual keyboard working on the OS right away as the OS was only designed for use with a hardware keyboard.

ninditsu · Jun 3, 2011

For the keyboard, I would think that you would try to install the virtual keyboard via PC. That would require hacking to force detect the desire as a pre in webOS quick install or something

Then that still requires the mapping of gestures into hardware buttons

Don't question me about this, I'm not so knowledgable about modding software

bubby323 · Jun 3, 2011

It would be no easy task, but to say that the only things standing in the way of this working would be a virtual keyboard and remapping buttons isn't correct at all. In the kernel there are many a way to remap keys, not sure about the gesture pad, but it could work, and the virtual keyboard is just a patch so you could bake it into the rom itself. The whole issue, why noone has even tried is that it isn't legal.

ratchetnclank · Jun 6, 2011

It's all low resolution as well so your stuffed until the pre 3 is out.

vbetts · Jun 17, 2011

As far as I know right now there are no sources for this until the launch of the Pre 3, it would be interesting to see though.

gotablunt · Jul 17, 2011

It could be done with some sweat and tears, but just like when it was being ported to the htc hero, webos will not allow it to be copyright

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TabascoTX · Jul 27, 2011

That would be awesome. If it ports to the Desire then its just a matter of some time before it gets ported to the Mytouch 4G/Glacier. Sweet.

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Habarug · Aug 3, 2011

gotablunt said:
It could be done with some sweat and tears, but just like when it was being ported to the htc hero, webos will not allow it to be copyright

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Didn't HP let go and let other developers use web OS as well? If so then they can release the hero version and I can try it

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jmitr · Aug 6, 2011

all current versions of WebOS were designed with a gesture pad and Android phones do not have these. You'd have to figure out how to map all the gesture functions to hardware keys.

The Desire has an optical trackpad, but I'm sure you guys know that!!!

Jive Turkey · Aug 10, 2011

jmitr said:
The Desire has an optical trackpad, but I'm sure you guys know that!!!

It's not the same. I have a Desire Z and a Pre. The optical trackpad and the gesture are significantly different.

jmitr · Aug 13, 2011

Jive Turkey said:
It's not the same. I have a Desire Z and a Pre. The optical trackpad and the gesture are significantly different.

Never used a pre, how is it different? EDIT NVM, watched a youtube video!!!

Read the beolw if you want, but for a start here is an interesting link for you:

http://pocketnow.com/software-1/no-palm-pre-go-pro-gesture-launch-on-your-touch-pro

The desire has an optical trackpad as opposed to the desire Z / G2's touchpad. But after realizing the difference in gestures from the video, that difference is kinda mute.

In the old winmo days someone said it was impossible to have mutli-touch on a resistive screen, until a talented dev wrote an sdk for it. It "cheated" by holding one finger in place and moving the other but even recognizing multiple screen inputs was amazing.

I'm kinda lukewarm / "meh" on the idea, but it would be cool to try webos on my own device (desire) just like trying Android on my Vogue (shipped with winmo) was cool. In fact, that's the reason I now own an android device!!!!!!!!!

Regards,

JMITR

ChristianFS1 · Aug 19, 2011

Tabasco1TX said:
That would be awesome. If it ports to the Desire then its just a matter of some time before it gets ported to the Mytouch 4G/Glacier. Sweet.

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+1

just mah words brotha lol. XD
totally agree with you, except that i don't have a mt4g. i have a desire z

gdavies08 · Aug 23, 2011

pretty sure this is a landmark for the desire as that phone is pretty awesome

thegod2012 · Aug 30, 2011

Can't port tried on the cdma hero we got shutdown really quick

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ceyo14 · Oct 2, 2011

thegod2012 said:
Can't port tried on the cdma hero we got shutdown really quick

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Can you elaborate on this?

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ponde · Jan 24, 2012

Is anybody working on this? I heard somewhere that there is a team here on xda making this happen, but is it true? I really would like to see this happen and I believe that I am not the only one!

Herrie82 · Oct 18, 2012

I think the main problem we're facing now is that there are no 3.x kernel drivers available for most of the current devices. Once we have this, porting to a larger number of devices should be quite straight forward.

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