Linux on the iPhone: iPhone 3G binaries!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

iPhone 3G binaries!

I wrote up a how-to for PC World on how to put Android on the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2G and it went up today. I wanted to be there to tweet about it when it went up, but I've been keeping really strange hours lately and I wasn't awake for it when it went up.

But here are the binaries (for iPhone 3G, and for iPhone 2G), graciously hosted by PC World!

Please read the how-to that I wrote for PC World to on installing it. The steps are basically the same as before, except you can put the firmware in a directory on the iPhone OS data partition. This means that you don't have to modify the ext2 partition as before.

One thing I didn't mention is that you could perform the installation on OS X without a Linux VM if you recompile loadibec and oibc. Otherwise, the directions are the same.

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HackThatPhone 97p · 775 weeks ago

Fantastic! Trying it now...

Edit: just got it up and running.

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Ramine Darabiha · 775 weeks ago

Congrats and thanks a lot man :)

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Isaiah J Roberts · 775 weeks ago

Awesome! But... what about the iPod Touch 1G? Is there a guide to install using the source, or are there any binaries available for it? Many thanks!

Isaiah J Roberts

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Robby · 775 weeks ago

Cant wait for ipt2g :)

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Grayda · 775 weeks ago

Bring on the power management! I'm going to give this a shot as soon as I get home from work. We're having family over for dinner, but who cares? I've got Android on the iPhone!

But how easy is it to update Android once a new version that fixes power management / uses a newer Android build / has a power off / whatever comes along?

There's another $10 coming your way once I have an experiment. Good job!

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Kick Ass · 775 weeks ago

I am not a coder of any sort, but I have always considered myself somewhat tech savvy.

That being said, I find your instructions extremely confusing and frustrating.

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mcFactor · 775 weeks ago

Can I install iDroid on 3G running iPhoneOS 4.0 beta 4?

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Terence · 775 weeks ago

hey! despite what people are saying over on the PC World comments page. I would like to thank you for breathing new life into the iPhone!

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Kick Ass · 775 weeks ago

Been checking this blog every day for about a month..eagerly awaiting the release..and now that its out..I read your instructions and all i can think is

fuck this

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tobyqingnan 1p · 775 weeks ago

awesome improvement.

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Sidd · 775 weeks ago

Keep up the good work. I'd love to help out, but I'm new to Android; maybe one day..

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cnicktopher · 775 weeks ago

It works! Thank you! Thank you!

I'll have to send you some cash.

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imbadmin · 775 weeks ago

can I still try this on my 3G with 3.1.3 on it?

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SiLo · 775 weeks ago

YES, after a 9 hour work day, I'm TOTALLY ready to do this.

And yes, I agree with you planetbeing, this is NOT that hard. I'll be posting a blogger page about it shortly (with instructions under Windows).

Wooooot.

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Julian · 775 weeks ago

So in your instructions you explain that if you have upgraded your phone to 3.1.3 than you can use PwnageTool to create a jailbroken 3.1.2 .ipsw file to restore down to. Can you explain how this is done. I cannot seem to figure this one detail out. Thanks

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Ree · 775 weeks ago

What did you guys expect? iDroidSetup.exe? Thanks for this man. Gonna give it a spin now

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eeemgee · 775 weeks ago

anybody know what this is about?? http://androidoniphone.com

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omid · 775 weeks ago

OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG,OMG!!!!!!!!!!!

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Michael · 775 weeks ago

Finally :)
But is it really true that Andorid decrease battery life that way? I was really looking forward to this but only one hour of Android fun is pretty less :(
Can you estimate when you release a better power management and will this be upgradable?
But thanks and nice work anyway :)

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ninjaoftheneedle · 775 weeks ago

I'll be donating once you show progress on 3GS. I would like to say that I admire your efforts and you are very kind for bestowing this gift upon the somewhat tech savvy world.

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Ed Marshall · 775 weeks ago

Just FYI, dripwn, loadibec, and oibc all build fine under Fedora 13 beta on x86_64. For anyone needing to do this: you need to install libusb1 and libusb1-devel if they aren't already there, along with cmake (for xpwn) and the usual build tools (make, gcc, etc).

David, excellent work! It booted up on the first try for me, no hassle whatsoever. That is one tiny-ass font for the kernel messages, though. ;-)

Now I need to figure out how to get the Google apps from my wife's G1 loaded up on here...

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CD · 775 weeks ago

this is awesome but please port to iPhone 3Gs.And is the android market on this I want it so bad.

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evilsocket · 775 weeks ago

I get :

"Sorry!
The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."

Italian iPhone 3G .

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Liam · 775 weeks ago

Will this work if I jailbroke my iPhone 3G with blackra!n?

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ewr54 · 775 weeks ago

http://androidoniphone.com says they have ported android to ALL iphones and itouches. it costs 30 bucks though. anyone try it?

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