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Android Port on Meizu M8 Coming Along Nicely

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Old 11-10-2009   #1
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Android Port on Meizu M8 Coming Along Nicely

When we first reported on Android coming to Meizu M8 in June, we honestly didn't have high expectations.

Meizu's international fans have been working hard porting the system on their own over to the Meizu M8. They've come a long way, already having a working Android port on the system that anyone can download and try. The video below shows the Android port running on Meizu M8.

For more information, pictures and download, visit the Meizu M8 Android Project Page!

Update: Rumor has it that Meizu has been internally testing Android and will release a dual-boot solution similar to that created by the Meizu Me community to the public in the coming months. Source
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Great work!

Keep up the good work!
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anyone could install it its easy.
but its still unusable as we work ond drivers for wlan and gsm
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Originally Posted by r3wDy View Post
anyone could install it its easy.
but its still unusable as we work ond drivers for wlan and gsm
you have any idea how long it will take to manage wlan?
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But Andorid will work ONLY IN LANDSCAPE MODE?
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once the drivers for the tilt-sensor are figured out maybe it can be freely rotated.
but until then, yes. this test-version is landscape only.
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dunno, im working on it :P
It a question of getting s3c SPI drivers to work
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Yes but, now too i have didn't have a good exprience, Android don't have wifi, phone bluetooh, basically nothing.
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yes true but,
if we were meziu engineers and weīd have their resources on the hardware it would all be running.
Reverse enginering builds are not that easy to do with just a few guys who work on building drivers
so or we have patience, or we receive resources from meizu/other, or we have more people working on the drivers : it will be done.

edit, you should really be checking who are working on the android builds, that are really only the guys who are part of this forum.
canīt find any other people on other forums who are busy with it atm.
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Originally Posted by evow04 View Post
...you should really be checking who are working on the android builds, that are really only the guys who are part of this forum.
canīt find any other people on other forums who are busy with it atm.
Absolutely correct!!!!
And if anywhere, US, Asia, Europe, etc.,....there will appear a 100% working Android on Meizu M8, itīs only because of you guys !!! TOP WORK !!!!!
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first thank you guys for working that but i think j. wong had a ultra special secret team where they work on Android they only to hide for the other mobile corporation, forget the other OS (symbian, webOS etc.) j. wong come with Meizorid

......sarcasm, i still luv it

no really i thank you, guys for all support
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Cool Too late for me though, I've already bought an Android phone. However I wonder what you guys are going to do about the buttons... my Android has 6 (not counting the volume ones), and you do need them. Ok, the search button maybe not, but the rest... home will probably be the big button in the center, but what about menu? Or back? The OS is designed around them, without using the phone might be a bit difficult...
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good news bad news

Bad news : i had to return my m8 for repair (no service RRRHHH) or i hope replacement !! with a SE version !

good news : i chek this forum and can see ANDROID is running on the phone !

So I cannot stand to get my phone back to try THIs !!!!

THANK YOU ALL GUYS FOR THIS BIG GOOD WORK !!!

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Originally Posted by kadajawi View Post
However I wonder what you guys are going to do about the buttons... my Android has 6 (not counting the volume ones), and you do need them.
If i am correct those keys are not really needed cause they are just some 'shortcuts' to system actions. It is like for example all those pmpīs that are coming out, most of them do not have so much keys either.

btw what android phone do you have? you like it?

nicojoy69, hopefully you have it back soon to get started ;-)
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I Would Love To Run Android On An M8.
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I Would Love To Run Android On An M8.
Hi Eliot,

did you allready had a look here? If you have issues with it you can post here.

goodluck!
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If I run Android on an M8 the excitement might cause my heart to rupture.
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Another reason for me to buy a Meizu. Too bad I don't have any money to buy one.
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does it only work landscape, if that then no
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does it only work landscape, if that then no
scroll down on the main site (meizume.com). There is a picture of android in edgewise mode. I don`t know if edgewise is the right word but you know what i mean. (turned 90 °)
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