How To: Install Android On An iPhone 2G

We recently posted an article that planetbeing, a member of the iPhone Dev-Team had ported Android OS to the iPhone. The step by step guide to installing Google Android on iPhone 2G that came with the "iDroid" download has since been updated.

The video below constitutes a detailed version of the process described by folks at Android A Lot, you can also read the complete guide here.

IMPORTANT: This guide is for a Jailbroken iPhone 2G ONLY!! The developer also posted a disclaimer -

I take no responsibility for any damage you might cause to your phone by following this guide. Whether it gets bricked, blocked or eventually thrown out of the window, I can’t be held responsible. Use this guide at your own risk. Thanks!

Earlier today, the iPhone Dev-Team member, planetbeing posted a picture showing progress on the 3G. The image shows an iPhone 3G booting into a BusyBox / Buildroot shell, and shows proof of WiFi working on the device. BusyBox is a tiny binary which combines small optimized versions of many common UNIX utilities into one package, which let's the developer interact with the device without having a full GUI environment.

He also claimed that he was able to communicate to the baseband, although only through the debugging channel at the moment. A small to-do list was also posted -

I'd still like to get the WM8991 codec working for it in openiboot (shouldn't be much trouble since there's a datasheet), just so we can iron out any quirks before testing it inside the kernel. We also need a new multi-touch driver (they've upgraded from Zephyr to Zephyr2). After that, we'll have a working port of Android.

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