Samsung S8000 (Jet)

[Kuimera]

Hey guys,

Glad to be here!

I'm wondering if it's possible to use Android on my phone, I know it's a long shot but I'm tierd of the Touchwiz OS from samsung...

To many limitations and damn few widgets...

Hope some one can ear my "cry for help"

Take care all.

mArK

[constellanation]

It's a long shot you are right, if you can find a bunch of enterprising developers who like your phone enough to port it over you might be in luck.

but i wouldn't hold your breathe if i were you, it's my understanding that the driver's, hardware and etc... would take lots of work to port it. and then it still would probably be somewhat crippled for sometime.

[Kuimera]

Thanks for the reply constellanation.

I found this:



http://www.electricpig.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/samsung_omnia_android-143x143.jpgSamsung Omnia hackers have managed to get Google’s Android OS to boot up on the normally Windows Mobile device. Maybe that Android-powered Omnia rumour could end up coming true, albeit via the back door.
The Samsung Omnia is a great phone but for many people it is just a bit too Windows Mobiley. Not entirely its fault - it does after all run Windows Mobile - but the lack of support for Google’s Android operating system has irked a group of coders enough that an experimental port of the OS has been released for the Omnia i900.
So far, all that coders at the MoDaCo Forums (http://www.modaco.com/content/i9x0-omnia-http-omnia-modaco-com/289028/project-andromnia-android-on-omnia/) have managed is to get the phone to dual-boot with WinMo and Android. Lack of device drivers for the Samsung Omnia hardware means that only basic functionality like touchscreen access and the clock widget is possible at the moment - luxuries like actually making phone calls will have to wait a while.
Trying this out for yourself is a bit of a chore and will require a functioning Linux system to format the microSD card containing the OS correctly (the developers say you can just use an Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download) Live CD if you don’t have a Linux box of your own) and is probably only worth it if you are really curious. Running Android won’t damage your phone, though, as nothing is actually installed onto the hardware itself.

We have no idea if this will go anywhere - or if Samsung may decide to crush it with a takedown notice - but judging by the MoDaCo forums at least, an Android-powered Omnia seems like a popular idea. Over to you, Samsung.


Can't find nothing on Jet yet...
Maybe it's because the phone is recent or something, I think Jet have better hardware then Omnia if I'm not mistaken...

[mcu2009]

Thanks for the reply constellanation.

I found this:


Can't find nothing on Jet yet...
Maybe it's because the phone is recent or something, I think Jet have better hardware then Omnia if I'm not mistaken...

i'm also interested by android on Samsung JET...

[draxter]

Being interested won't solve the problem.

Jet only has 128MB RAM memory, not really enough to run android smoothly I'm afraid.

[mcu2009]

samsung galaxy has 128mb too and runs android...

[draxter]

I didn't say it was impossible did I? I said not enough to run it smoothly.

This means laggy navigation apps, laggy scrolling, etc...

[mcu2009]

ok i see, but where can you see the RAM value on the JET?

[Kuimera]

Being interested won't solve the problem.

Jet only has 128MB RAM memory, not really enough to run android smoothly I'm afraid.

I think your wrong, Jet have more ram then 128mb.
Here's my source:

http://blog.itechtalk.com/2009/samsung-jet-s8000-review/

"
6: Equipped with 800 MHz CPU 512 Mb of RAM operating on TouchWiz cross-platform interface and colossal memory,performance doesn’t get any better than this.
"



Can you please, give me a link to your source m8?

[FireWall]

here it says 256 mb

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6MGBVDjGrLEJ:mobitech.69n.org/2009/07/samsung-s8000-jet-feel-jet-speed.html+ram+samsung+jet&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=be&client=firefox-a

[dopi]

here it says 256 mb

http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:6MGBVDjGrLEJ:mobitech.69n.org/2009/07/samsung-s8000-jet-feel-jet-speed.html+ram+samsung+jet&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=be&client=firefox-a

I also searched for the true amount of RAM inside the Jet. Values I could find ranged from 128MB to 256MB.

I then tried other sources and surprisingly both values are right, in a way. The application processor inside the Jet is equiped with RAM and flash inside it's package. In case of the Jet it is 2x128MB SDRam and 256MB flash. Half of the RAM (128MB) are to be used by just one source (the application processor I assume) while the other 128MB are shared between two processors. The division is 80MB for one port (e.g. the application processor), 32MB for the other port (e.g. the baseband processor) and 16MB to be mutually accessible by both. My source is a datasheet of the memory module.

In total this adds up to 208MB for the CPU + 32 MB for the baseband processor + 16MB shared between both. Maybe the reason why this was not published everywhere is, that this tends to be a little complicated.

Many people say it would be difficult to use WinMo or Android on the Jet as the Jet has less storage than e.g. the I8000 or the I5700. This is not completely true. The only difference in memory between these phones seems to be flash-size. While RAM size is identical for all these three the S8000 has 256MB flash inside the processor package, the I8000 and I5700 have 512MB flash.

I hope this answers a couple of questions. And if you ask me, there is no doubt, that Android could work on the Jet. So, let's do it! If you like to support the porting effort, please take a look at the JetDroid project (http://code.google.com/p/jetdroid).

Cheers,
Dopi

[lauan]

Hi! I'm new here and I want to know a little more about how to install Android in my Sams.Jet too. If someone can help me? Would be nice a complete guide for me cause I have no idea about how to do it..Hope I'm writing in the correct post :D
Thank u soooo much!

[volodymyr]

Hello from software developer ;)

I am also an owner of Samsung S8000, and I am surprised how little info is out there about it.

I found no SDK for S8000, and no technical documentation, API, etc ... Porting Android to S8000 seems to be a good idea, maybe there could be a project born for that ...

[volodymyr]

It seems like there is already a project which aims to port Android to Jet: http://www.shcherbyna.com/?p=547

[nickejeii]

I'm impressed guys.
I read volodymyrs blog and it looks as if Android is on its way in to the Jet! I would very much like to try to flash my jet with Android. Unfortunatly I am no SW developer so will just continue cheering your progress, too bad I can not help.

[Niju]

I'm using Samsung Jet 8003 in India. I too would like to change my OS to Android? Any developments please do inform me.


Thank you.

[sargis]

Hi, I update my s8000 os to new version , but phone started reboot . Can you tell me from where can i download s8000 os versions ?