![]() If you really wanted to run Android, you would buy a proper Android phone. But why would you? Why would you pay the extra price for the iPhone hardware just to run an outdated version of Android sluggishly? Put it on a 3GS or even a 4, and it could be a useable device. IDroid needs pushing on to higher hardware. It takes a custom firmware like whited00r to increase the speed of these aging iPhones. To be fair, both of these devices are quite sluggish even with official Apple firmware. IDroid works well, but without severe tweaking it is going to suffer on the original iPhone and iPhone 3G, which share the same processor. Running the custom CyanogenMod 6.1 ROM brought Android 2.2 ‘Froyo’ to the G1 and it ran okay, but not amazingly fast – and that’s on official Android hardware. The very first Android handset the Google G1 (aka the HTC Dream) packed a 528 MHz ARM 11 processor with 192 MB RAM and only ran Android 1.6 ‘Donut’. Playing around, the first thing you will notice is that it is sluggish, and you might be thinking this is poor porting, but remember that the original iPhone only has a 412 MHz ARM 11 processor with 128 MB RAM, so all things considered its pretty good. It’s a great port of vanilla Gingerbread everything seems to work including phone calls and WiFi. It will take a few minutes to load, and then you can have a play. Use the power button at the top or the volume buttons to cycle through the options, then press the home button to load your selected OS. On start up you will be faced with a bootloader screen. This will take a little while but is all done automatically. OpeniBoot will allow you to install a special bootloader that lets you select iOS or Android on boot up.įirstly you will need to install iDroid, the fourth button along the bottom. QuickBoot will allow you to boot straight into Android. Along the bottom you have QuickBoot and OpeniBoot. Once your iDevice has rebooted, run Bootlace again. Run it and let it do its configuring and patching, and then reboot. ![]() ![]() Once installed there will be a Bootlace icon on your phone. Go into Cydia, search for Bootlace, and install it, which should only take a few minutes. I love breaking from the norm and trying something different, and I love a challenge. Your iDevice will need to be jailbroken first with Redsn0w, PwnageTool, Blackra1n, or whited00r. A few months ago I stumbled across iDroid, a project that ports Android – Google’s mobile operating system – to the original iPhone, iPhone 3G, and first generation iPod touch. ![]()
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