How To Install Android On iPhone

Android is a very fast growing mobile phone market, and being open source and a ton of apps available, Android phones are soon becoming competition to iPhone. Wished you could get the Android Unlock screen or the iDroid Mini Browser on your iPhone, without jailbreaking it? Yes, we are talking about porting Android to iPhone, so that you can get all the apps natively.

The Android port has been developed by PlanetBeing, and a step by step guide for installing Android on iPhone has been given by Android A Lot. Here are the complete steps to install Android on your iPhone 2G:

Disclaimer: Use this Android installation guide at your own risk on your iPhone. This guide is provided here, only for educational purposes. We are not to be blamed if you brick your iPhone.

Downloads

1. A jailbroken iPhone 2G.

Follow our guide to jailbreak iPhone firmware 3.1.3 with Sn0wbreeze (Windows), or using PwnageTool (Mac OSX), or redsn0w 0.9.4.

2. VirtualBox (Windows/Mac OSX: Get the version for your needs).

3. Ubuntu image for VirtualBox. The latest Ubuntu release is 9.10 Karmic Koala.

4. Install iPhone Explorer.

5. Android images and sources.

6. Patched images.

Transferring Android Files To iPhone

1. First kill iTunes Helper process by going to Task Manager.

2. Launch iPhone Explorer, and browse to private/var directory.

3. Copy all the image files downloaded in step 5 (ramdisk.img, userdata.img, cache.img and zImage) and step 6 (system.img and android.img.gz) to the var directory.

Setting Up Virtual Box

1. Install VirtualBox
2. Open VirtualBox
3. Go on File > Virtual Media Manager
4. Make sure Hard Disks is selected
5. Click Add
6. Locate the ubuntu-9.10.vdi file (download#3) and select it
7. Close Virtual Media Manager
8. Go on Machine > New
9. Click Next
10. Under Name enter “Ubuntu”
11. Select Linux Operating System
12. Select Ubuntu Version
13. Click Next
14. Set an amount of RAM, the default should be fine
15. Click Next
16. Select “Use existing hard disk”
17. Select the ubuntu-9.10.vdi
18. Click Next
19. Click Finish
20. Select that new machine to start up Ubuntu
21. The password to login is: reverse

Setting Up Ubuntu

Almost there – if this feels a bit long, just consider how short and simple each step is!

1. Click System (top bar) > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager
2. Enter the password: reverse
3. In the quicksearch box, type libusb-1.0, click the Check Box next to libusb-1.0-0 and select Mark for installation
4. In the quicksearch box, type libreadline, click the Check Box next to libreadline5 and select Mark for installtion
5. Click Apply
6. When it’s all installed close the Package Manager
7. Open Firefox (in Ubuntu)
8. Download openiboot installer from here
9. Click Places (top bar) > Downloads
10. Right-click openiboot.zip and click Extract Here
11. Click Applications (top bar) > Accessories > Terminal
12. Without the quotes, type ‘cd Downloads/openiboot’
13. Restart your iPhone in Recovery Mode (power off, hold down Home button, connect to USB cable)

Getting Android Working!

Credits to WinX Blog for these instructions – link.

1. In VirtualBox, the Ubuntu Window, go on Devices > USB Devices and select iPhone (Recovery Mode)
2. In the terminal type (without quotes): ’sudo su’
3. Enter the password: reverse
4. In the terminal type ./loadibec openiboot.img3
5. You’ll see the OpeniBoot screen appear on your iPhone
6. Hold down the power button a couple of seconds (iPhone)
7. The bottom option, openiboot console, will become selected
8. Press Home (iPhone).  You’ll see a bunch of text appear and stop at “Welcome to openiboot”
9. In VirtualBox, the Ubuntu Window, go on Devices > USB Devices and select iPhone (OpeniBoot Mode)
10. In terminal type su ./oibc
11. Enter the password: reverse
12. If this doesn’t work just type: ./oibc
13. You’ll see the same text from the iPhone in the Terminal
14. Type (without quotes) ‘nor_read 0×09000000 0×0 1048576′ and press Enter
15. Wait for it to say Done
16. Type (without quotes) ‘~norbackup.dump:1048576′
17. This creates a backup of your NOR memory – save a copy on USB stick, or email it to yourself or something
18. Type install, press Enter.  When this is done you’ve got openiboot installed on your iPhone.  You’re done!

Running Android on iPhone

What you’ve achieved up til now is Android files on your iPhone, and then installing openiboot so that you have an option to start iPhone OS or Android when you turn on your phone.  Openiboot was necessary because that’s the only way right now that you can boot into Android.  Here’s how to finish off and get into Android:

1. If you still have Terminal open with the oibc still running, just type ‘reboot’, press Enter and skip to step 3
2. If you don’t have Terminal open, disconnect your phone, turn it off and back on
3. When openiboot appears press Power button to switch to openiboot console (bottom option)
4. Hold down the Home button
5. Android will start to boot, but it might take a while

This is it. You can now dual boot Android 1.6 on your iPhone. This Android port for iPhone has all the basic call & SMS, WiFi working. The Camera app however is still not functional. Maybe a future release of the Android port will make it work.

Here is the step by step video guide:

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