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Dual Booting Android and Maemo 5 on the Nokia N900

   

 

There’s an Interesting Thread going on over in the Maemo.org Forums.

Apparently user “bdogg64” has manged to get Android running on his Nokia N900 as a dual startup (with the default Maemo 5 OS).

Good news. Android (Donut) boots on the n900! The touchscreen isn’t working correctly though. Wherever I press the screen it thinks I’m bringing down the window shade. And I need to update the keyboard layout files, but it works using bootmenu!

I used the rowboat build of android because the stock source build from android crashes when booting.

Yea, I can still boot into maemo 5,. I’m using the maemo kernel with the android drivers patched in. If I can get the touchscreen working right, then I can do some more damage. The stock build from the android source code crashes when it tries to bring up the UI, but the rowboat build works. Rowboat is built for omap3 devices though.

I would prefer to use the stock android source, but rowboat works for now.

Fake ? Maybe. Awesome ? Totally !

For those of you interested in trying out Android on the N900, do check out the thread over on the Maemo.org Forums.

Update: “bdogg64″ just posted a video to prove it :

   

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I wouldnt know ! I'm not the one who made that video :P

WTF is with the claws man?

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