[57north-discuss] Alternative Androids (was Re: Hack space, android phones and stuff)

[Iain R. Learmonth]

Moving discussion to the mailing list so other hackers can chime in if they
have insight.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 07:31:50PM +0000, Anthony Robertson wrote:
> I was chatting with you at Becycle the other day about Replicant on an old
> Android phone. Did a wee bit of digging around and it looks like it's not
> supported, according to Replicant's pages: 
> 
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantStatus#Replicant-42
> 
> (Mine is a Samsung Galaxy Apollo, aka i5800) 
>

Yes, Replicant isn't actually supported on many platforms as it's a lot
easier to get things working than it is to get things working properly so a
lot of effort ends up going into the CyanogenMod project.

It does look like they've got CyanogenMod working on your phone[1].

[1]: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1803180

> Going to do a bit more research into rooting it, but don't have much of a project to do at the moment. 

Of course, you can just root it and play about with an alternative app store
like F-Droid[2] which only contains free open source software.

[2]: https://f-droid.org/

Iain.

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