Jét-Droid project
This mind-blowing development project has successfully ported Android to the non-android smartphones by Samsung S8000 and S8003
Dual boot (JetQi bootloader) preserves stock OS on the internal memory and boots into Android from the external micro SD card
Altough JetDroid project was done also for Samsung S8003, I will refer here only to S8000 as I couldn't test any of this with the S8003
NEW DEVELOPERS ARE WELCOME
INDEX:
This post includes:"JétDroid" project introduction / S8000 hardware info / development info
Post #2: Install guide for users / download links / attached files
Post #3: ROM CyanogenMod 7.1 (State-of-the-Art ROM to 2013/2014)
Post #4: Older ROMs and CyanogenMod 9 experimental
CREDITS:
All the credits and respect goes to the guys who have grounded, carried and brought to us this project, its developers and contributors:
The project home was not on the XDA but here:
- dopi
- KB-JetDroid
- Carlos_Manuel
- aleksey.4erepanov
- and many others: please post here and I will update the list
External links (old):
HARDWARE INFO
SAMSUNG Jét S8000
"Smarter than smartphone"
With this enormous fanfare worldwide, (with the General Manager for the UK who tought that the Samsung Jet S8000 is better than the Apple iPhone 3GS) Samsung's flagship handset as of 2009, Samsung Jet S8000 was released with this not really modest marketing tag that can be found still nowadays on internet.
Yet, altough released back in 2009, the hardware of the S8000 is even as of beginning 2014 still better than many modern low-end android phones and throughout interesting target for the android porting development:
Technical information:
- Manufacturer: Samsung Mobile
- Availability by country: June 2009
- Compatible networks: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
- UMTS (3G): 900/2100 MHz
- HSDPA: 3.6Mbps
- Form factor: Touchscreen bar
- Dimensions: 108.8(H) x 53.5(W) x 11.9 mm(D)
- Weight: 110 g
- CPU: 800 MHz processor
- Display: 3.1" (79mm) 16M color WVGA AMOLED touchscreen, 480 x 800 pixels
- Platform: Latest TouchWiz 2.0 UI with Motion UI, Media Gate 3D and Smart unlock
- Data inputs: T9, Abc
- Memory: 2GB internal / removable storage: microSD up to 16 GB (microSDHC compatible)
- Rear camera: 5MP (2,592×1,944 pixels) auto-focus, with dual LED flash, geo-tagging, image stabilization, face detection, Smile Shot, Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) and D1 video recording at 30 fps
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, TV out
- Media: MP3, AAC, AAC+, e-AAC+, WMA, AMR, WAV, MP4, MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, DivX, and XviD
- Connectivity: Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), AGPS, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, and USB 2.0 (microUSB)
- Other: Accelerometer for screen auto rotate and turn-to-mute, electronic compass, FM radio with RDS, DNSe and SRS sound effect, Touchscreen, full web browser (Dolfin), and haptic touch feedback
- Battery: 1100 mAh Li-ion
- Battery Talk Time: up to 8.2 hours
- Standby: up to 442 hours
CONS of Samsung's OS:
- The hardware of this nice looking handset is excellent but crippled by its poor operating system and even poorer support from Samsung
- No additional widgets / applications to download
- Official firmware support is non existent
- The Exchange sync software doesn't work with gmail
- No text smiley's
- Can't copy/paste text
- GPS drains the battery (Wi-Fi also)
- Java support is poor
- Motion gate is useless
- Memo's limited to 100 characters
- The phone with Samsung's OS is laggy
GET A JETDROID DEVELOPER !!
DEVELOPMENT INFO: about "JETDROID"
Target: porting Android OS to non-android devices Samsung Jét GT-S8000 (and GT-S8003)
"JETDROID": HOW DOES IT WORK?
JETDROID DEVELOPMENT SOURCES:
- Linux-based hardware of Samsung Jét is in general capable of booting into Android OS
- Boot into Android OS is done here directly from external SD card, not from internal memory
- JetDroid partition of the external (removable) SD card is formatted with Linux OS to ext2 or ext3
- JetQi bootloader must be flashed on the S8000, boot into Android is possible with 2-buttons-combo
- Original Samsung's firmware remains unmodified and the S8000 can also boot normally into stock OS
BUILD A ROM - DEVICE REPOSITORY SOURCES:
- JetDroid development: open source info is HERE
- JetQi bootloader (how-to-build) source: GitHub
- Jet-Kernel: GitHub
- Jet-Kernel_3.0: GitHub
- Jet-Platform: GitHub
DEVELOPMENT STATUS (to early 2014):
- How to build a Jét ROM: CLICK HERE
- How to build a Jét kernel: CLICK HERE
JETDROID project / external links:
- modification of the JetQi bootloader is possible for succesful porting of the CWM recovery
- drivers development necessary for enabling SIM card functions (calls, SMS)
- State-of-the-Art ROM: CyanogenMod 7.1 (build 20130603 by Carlos_Manuel: DOWNLOAD IT HERE)
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