Replicant Wiki¶

• Table of contents
• Replicant Wiki
  • Introduction
  • Replicant status on phones
  • Installing Replicant
  • Using Replicant
  • Building Replicant
  • Technical infos on the devices
    • Supported phones
      • HTC Dream/HTC Magic
      • Nexus One
      • Nexus S
      • Galaxy S
      • Galaxy S2
      • GTA04
      • Galaxy Nexus
    • Unsupported phones or work in progress
      • GeeksPhone One
  • Developing on Replicant
  • Contact
  • Licenses and credits
  • Useful links

Introduction¶

This is the Replicant project wiki. Our main website, which holds news of the project, is available at http://replicant.us.

Feel free to contribute by creating an account and editing pages but please bear in mind that we are a free software project.

Replicant status on phones¶

• HTC Dream/HTC Magic Status: Supported (Replicant 2.2)
• Nexus One Status: Supported (Replicant 2.2, Replicant 2.3)
• Nexus S Status: Supported (Replicant 2.3, Replicant 4.0)
• Galaxy S Status: Supported (Replicant 2.3, Replicant 4.0)
• Galaxy S2 Status: Supported (Replicant 2.3, Replicant 4.0)
• GTA04 Status/Detailed status: Supported (Replicant 2.3)
• Galaxy Nexus Status: Supported (Replicant 4.0)

• List of devices which could be good targets for Replicant: GoodPotentialTargets

If your phone is unsupported, it may still be possible to get it working with some work, especially if it's similar to a device we already support. See Developing on Replicant

Installing Replicant¶

• Download Replicant images: ReplicantImages
• There is a general installation page: Installation

Detailed instructions per-device:

• HTC Dream/HTC Magic: FastbootInstallation
• Nexus One: FastbootInstallation
• Nexus S: FastbootInstallation
• Galaxy S: GalaxySInstallation
• Galaxy S2: HeimdallRecoveryInstallation
• GTA04: GTA04Installation
• Galaxy Nexus: FastbootInstallation

Using Replicant¶

• Enable and configure USB networking: ReplicantUSBNetworking
• Learn to use FDroid, the libre market application
• Install some of the free/libre replacements to Google non-free apps: GoogleAppsFreeReplacements
• Take a look at the list of known free software for Android: ListOfKnownFreeSoftwareApps
• Install and use our SDK: SDK

Building Replicant¶

• Install the BuildDependencies
• Get the sources: GettingReplicantSources

Detailed instructions per-device:

• HTC Dream: HTCDreamBuild
• HTC Magic: HTCMagicBuild
• Nexus One: NexusOneBuild
• Nexus S: NexusSBuild
• Galaxy S: GalaxySBuild
• Galaxy S2: GalaxyS2Build
• GeeksPhone One: GeeksPhoneOneBuild
• GTA04: GTA04Build
• Galaxy Nexus: GalaxyNexusBuild

• To build the SDK: SDKBuild

Technical infos on the devices¶

Supported phones¶

HTC Dream/HTC Magic¶

• Dedicated page: HTCDreamHTCMagic
• Here's what proprietary libraries and firmwares were shipped on the HTC Dream/HTC Magic and the status of their replacement: HTCDreamHTCMagicProprietary

Nexus One¶

• Dedicated page: NexusOne
• List of the proprietary libraries, binaries and firmwares shipped on the Nexus One and the status of their replacement: NexusOneProprietary

Nexus S¶

• Dedicated page: NexusS
• List of the proprietary libraries, binaries and firmwares shipped on the Nexus S and the status of their replacement: NexusSProprietary
• For a technical overview of Nexus S and a rationale explaining what makes it a better freedom-compliant device, see S5PC110TechnicalOverview
• For Documentation on the preliminary work for freeing its bootloader: S5PC110Bootloader
• Status of the free software that talks to the Samsung modems : SamsungModems
• Status of the work on the Nexus S GPS chip: Broadcom4751GPS

Galaxy S¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyS
• List of the proprietary libraries, binaries and firmwares shipped on the Galaxy S and the status of their replacement: GalaxySProprietary
• For a technical overview of Galaxy S and a rationale explaining what makes it a better freedom-compliant device, see S5PC110TechnicalOverview
• For Documentation on the preliminary work for freeing its bootloader: S5PC110Bootloader
• Status of the free software that talks to the Samsung modems : SamsungModems
• Status of the work on the Galaxy S GPS chip: Broadcom4751GPS

Galaxy S2¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyS2
• List of the proprietary libraries, binaries and firmwares shipped on the Galaxy S and the status of their replacement: GalaxyS2Proprietary
• Status of the free software that talks to the Samsung modems : SamsungModems
• Status of the work on the Galaxy S2 GPS chip: GSD4t
• Serial console for the Galaxy S2: GalaxyS2SerialConsole

GTA04¶

• Dedicated page: GTA04
• Detailed status: GTA04Status
• Many infos are available at: gta04.org

Galaxy Nexus¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyNexus
• Here's a list of proprietary files shipped with the phone(And that replicant replaces or avoid): GalaxyNexusProprietary
• Status of the work on the Galaxy Nexus GPS chip: GSD4t
• Status of the work on the Galaxy Nexus Camera: omap4-tiler-Camera
• Serial console for the Galaxy Nexus: GalaxyNexusSerialConsole

Unsupported phones or work in progress¶

GeeksPhone One¶

• Dedicated page: GeeksPhoneOne
• Here's a list of propietary files shipped with the phone(And that replicant replaces or avoid): GeeksPhoneOneProprietary

Developing on Replicant¶

• Our developer guide: DeveloperGuide
• List of tasks to improve Replicant: Tasks
• Howto Debug on replicant: GDBDebugging
• Help on getting logs: GettingLogs

Guides to port Replicant on certain types of devices:

• For MSM/QSD devices: PortingGuideMSMQSD
• For S5PC110 devices: PortingGuideS5PC110
• For OMAP devices: PortingGuideOMAP

Work in progress:

• Adding support for AKM8976A (dream accelerometer/magnetometer chip) to akmd-free
• Adding support for htc accoustic for the nexus one
• Introducing Replicant video
• Building Replicant on a 64 bit computer without the 32 bit compatibility libs: ReplicantNative64BitBuild

Contact¶

• IRC: we meet on #replicant at irc.freenode.net.
• Mailing list: Our mailing list is: http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
• You can send any inquiry to: contact@replicant.us

Licenses and credits¶

• Wiki License: Creative Commons BY-SA (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
• The Wiki was re-licensed to CC BY-SA: WikiRelicensing
• Artwork: you can download Replicant Artwork at: ReplicantArtwork
• People: learn who are the persons behind the project: People

Useful links¶

• SHR project: The Replicant project is no longer involved with stock GNU/Linux port on Android devices, this is now up to SHR devs
• Replicant category in AndroidWiki
• Replicant article on Wikipedia