Samsung S8000 (Jet)

**Kuimera** · 08-10-2009, 09:19 PM

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** · 08-10-2009, 10:29 PM

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** · 08-11-2009, 01:25 AM

Thanks for the reply constellanation.

I found this:

Samsung 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 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 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** · 10-23-2009, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by Kuimera

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** · 10-23-2009, 11:46 AM

Being interested won't solve the problem.

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

**mcu2009** · 10-24-2009, 06:52 PM

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

**draxter** · 10-25-2009, 06:16 AM

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** · 10-25-2009, 07:36 AM

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

**Kuimera** · 12-12-2009, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by draxter

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/samsu...-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?