Android on Meizu M8 series

From Meizu Wiki

During the development of the final firmware for Mymobile some M8 owners wanted to speed up the process to avoid as much bugs as possible. Therefore the initiative was taken on June 29th 2009 by Evow04 to begin with reverse engineering the Meizu M8 series to be able to run any Linux kernel like for example Android. On 11 October 2009 members called Banxian & R3wdy managed to successfully load the first exploit on a Meizu M8 first edition, this opened the door for running Linux kernels on Meizu devices. Very quickly afterwards (30/10/2000) the first public test version of android for M8 series got launched by Banxian. On 10 februari 2010 Lang2 managed to get the /disk storage to be mounted in the android package, this making the Android build more usefull...

Development Status

At the moment a basic Android package is up and running on Meizu M8 series, this with a custom made dualbootloader called Tinyloader, the current running linux kernel is 2.6.27 with the android version 1.5(cupcake).

For now only the basic functions do work like support for M8/SE, booting from 8 & 16 GB internal storage, Audio out, Touchscreen, LCD output, power button (power-off) & a workaround to mount /disk.

This means that the project still needs developers to get a workaround for the baseband (calls, sms, gprs,..), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth & …

So if you have any knowledge on Windows Mobile, Windows Ce, Linux ,… You are invited to help this project further!

Development FAQ

Hardware

CPU (SOC) S3C6410
Power Management
Wireless Module
GSM Processor
Flash Memory
Audio Codec
Other hardware : Font: 2030WOWTQE , Bluetooth chipset: Samsung BTTM47C2SA](seems to be)

Software

Debug Connections

Forum support for the Android porting

The active topic for Android porting can be found here. The Topic itself is beginning to become very huge, however this doesn´t mean that it contains no information for you as developer in spé, so please try to read it first before asking questions.

End-users FAQ

Download packages

HowTo manuals

Forum support for End-users

The active topic for Android support can be found here. Please post all your issue´s regarding the testing of the Android port there, so it will be one central point where many users can find a solution onto their problems. If you want to install apps or games you should have a look here!