Android on veer is coming

[pocket_vlad]

WOW!!!! Nice news!! I am happy read this topic.I will try to install Android on my Veer soon too!!

[kaz89]

Maybe you didnt read the posts before but this project seems to be dead,sorry didnt mean to stop your enthusiasm

[pocket_vlad]

It is very bad news I just install Android, phone did not define SIM.
Android looks perfect on HP Veer,if the project will be recovery, I will be happy.
So my opinion is Veer need Android, not suck HP Web Os.
I want help this project,know some programing languages,how can I help?

[theotherandy]

Originally Posted by pocket_vlad

It is very bad news I just install Android, phone did not define SIM.
Android looks perfect on HP Veer,if the project will be recovery, I will be happy.
So my opinion is Veer need Android, not suck HP Web Os.
I want help this project,know some programing languages,how can I help?

webOS doesn't suck, and veer doesn't need Android. Veer needs an operating system that's supported and has a nice app catalog. I think everyone in their right mind would prefer that to be webOS but unfortunately it doesn't fit the bill.

[Alinaki]

"Nice app catalog"? Cool joke.

[Nexoman]

Does anyone successfull uninstalled android? Acmeuninstaler doesn't work ....

Gesendet von meinem Galaxy Nexus AOKP

[AREMA]

nice..
just curious..
installing, and done!
Successfully, running Ginger on my Veer

Not bad... yeah, for demonstration only.
I am still looking for cheap Touchpad :lol:

[antoniolalo]

Originally Posted by OldSkoolVWLover

You will find the same problem with Android. Part of the lack of updates on the Veer is due to screen size, as Derek mentioned in another thread about Open Mobile on the Veer, sadly you still won't be seeing a flood of apps built for suck a small screen (and a screen size that has no equivalent in Android world).

I have owned a Veer since July, and even prior to Leo attempting to kill webOS, there was not a lot of app support for the Veer.

Wrong, in android is the x10mini pro the equvalence of screen dont you think??

[OldSkoolVWLover]

Originally Posted by antoniolalo

Wrong, in android is the x10mini pro the equvalence of screen dont you think??

Just because their are devices with similar screen size, not every app is programmed to run on every android phone. Those of us with Pre3s have even seen this with apps coded for webOS.

Veer screen is slightly bigger (.05 inch), a portrait vs landscape slider, mini has 240 x 320 screen resolution, Veer has 320 x 400

So even if you deem all those differences acceptable, you still need to account for how many devs took the time to code and test on a small screen device with low resolution.

Below is from the first article I found on the mini when googling for it's screen resolution.

Well, for starters, these low screen resolution devices suffer from the same app compatibility problem as the HTC Wildfire, so you'll be missing out on a small selection of popular apps like Robo Defense, WeatherBug, PdaNet, Tumblroid, and even our own Engadget app

[mdktch]

Guys, should we loose hopes of running the full suite of android?

[moo.tinys]

/media/internal is heavily corrupted after uImage.install (which do fat resize, lvm resize)
/media/cryptofs is mount from /media/internal/.palm*, so most apps is corrupted too

i'm not sure what cause the problem, it seems the partition is already corrupted a little bit before uImage.install do fat resize (shrink)
it took too fast for uImage.install to resize (shrink), it should normally take some time to move data i presume. maybe the scripts in uImage.install never check if resize success and continue blindly? most programmers do it this way, sadly

for those guys get unexpected break doing "novacom uImage.install", you need stable 2.0 USB connection, you motherboard supports 2.0 but it could be unstable/interfere that prevent it to work in 2.0 mode. switch to another usb port or another box until your windows won't complain "hey, use 2.0 port for better performance"

to install google service/market softwares
1. boot to rooted webos
2. novacom open tty://, get the shell
3. do the following
mkdir /media/android
mount /dev/mapper/store-android /media/android
cd /media/android
unzip /media/internal/googleapps.zip

[kanonenfutter]

mount /dev/mapper/android /media/android failed: no such file or directory


mount /dev/mapper/store-android /media/android
works


googleapps.zip which you used?

[moo.tinys]

Originally Posted by kanonenfutter

mount /dev/mapper/android /media/android failed: no such file or directory


mount /dev/mapper/store-android /media/android
works


googleapps.zip which you used?

yep, sorry for my typo

[qurit]

So does anyone know how to install apps it keeps on telling me I need an sd card

[ederic]

Tiny Droid: Installing Android on the HP Veer (Video) | Pocketnow

Android-on-veer

Followed the guides on the links above. It's now working -- including the wifi. I'm now trying to figure out how to install apps without Google Play.

[Tenchi-Man]

Interesting, but not sure whether xndcn is still working on it.

[geekpeter]

Originally Posted by ederic

Tiny Droid: Installing Android on the HP Veer (Video) | Pocketnow

Android-on-veer

Followed the guides on the links above. It's now working -- including the wifi. I'm now trying to figure out how to install apps without Google Play.

youd need an apk and usb debugmode enabled so you can use ADB to install an apk.

adb start-server (or sudo adb start-server for ubuntu)

then

adb devices (to make sure its working)

then

adb install YOURFILENAME.APK

that easy, well provided you have all the androidy stuff (sdk etc) installed to get a working version of adb, and ofc provided your not installing warez, trying to fudge a working version of google play is still your best bet.