Replicant Wiki¶

• Table of contents
• Replicant Wiki
  • Introduction
  • Replicant Status
  • Installing Replicant
  • Using Replicant
  • Building Replicant
  • Technical infos on the devices
    • Phones looking for maintainers
      • HTC Dream/HTC Magic
      • Nexus One
    • Supported phones
      • Nexus S
      • Galaxy S
      • Galaxy S2
      • Galaxy S3
      • Galaxy Note
      • Galaxy Nexus
      • Galaxy Tab 2 10.1
      • Galaxy Tab 2 7.0
      • GTA04
  • 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.

You can request wiki editor privileges if you wish to edit pages, but please bear in mind that we are a free software project and follow the Wiki guidelines

Unless specified otherwise, the informations shown on this wiki are relevant only to the latest Replicant version. Do not assume backwards compatibility of the instructions with old versions of Replicant.

Replicant Status¶

• HTC Dream/HTC Magic: Replicant 2.2
• Nexus One: Replicant 2.3
• Nexus S (I902x): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy S (I9000): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy S2 (I9100): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy Note (N7000): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy Note (N7000): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy Nexus (I9250): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (P31xx): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (P51xx): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy S3 (I9300): Replicant 4.2
• Galaxy Note 2 (N7100): Replicant 4.2
• GTA04: Replicant 2.3

• Other possible targets for Replicant evaluation: TargetsEvaluation

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
• Download the Replicant SDK: ReplicantSDK

Detailed instructions per-device:

• HTC Dream/HTC Magic: HTCDreamHTCMagicInstallation
• Nexus One: FastbootInstallation
• Nexus S: NexusSInstallation
• Galaxy S: GalaxySInstallation
• Galaxy S2: GalaxyS2Installation
• Galaxy S3: GalaxyS3Installation
• Galaxy Note: GalaxyNoteInstallation
• Galaxy Nexus: GalaxyNexusInstallation
• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1: GalaxyTab2101Installation
• Galaxy Tab 2 7.0: GalaxyTab270Installation
• GTA04: GTA04Installation

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: ReplicantSources

Detailed instructions per-device:

• HTC Dream: HTCDreamBuild
• HTC Magic: HTCMagicBuild
• Nexus One: NexusOneBuild
• Nexus S: NexusSBuild
• Galaxy S: GalaxySBuild
• Galaxy S2: GalaxyS2Build
• Galaxy S3: GalaxyS3Build
• Galaxy Note: GalaxyNoteBuild
• Galaxy Nexus: GalaxyNexusBuild
• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1: GalaxyTab2101Build
• Galaxy Tab 2 7.0: GalaxyTab270Build
• GTA04: GTA04Build

• To build the SDK: SDKBuild

Technical infos on the devices¶

Phones looking for maintainers¶

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

Supported phones¶

Nexus S¶

• Dedicated page: NexusS
• List of the proprietary software shipped on the Nexus S: NexusSProprietary
• List of the Nexus S firmwares: NexusSFirmwares

• Details about the S5PC110 Hardware design used in the Nexus S: S5PC110HardwareDesign
• For Documentation on getting serial on some samsung phones: SamsungSerial
• For the information gathering on the samsung signed bootloader: SamsungSignedBootloader

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL
• Status of the Broadcom 4751 GPS chip implementation: BCM4751

Galaxy S¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyS
• List of the proprietary software shipped on the Galaxy S: GalaxySProprietary
• List of the Galaxy S firmwares: GalaxySFirmwares

• Details about the S5PC110 Hardware design used in the Nexus S: S5PC110HardwareDesign
• For Documentation on the preliminary work for freeing its bootloader: S5PC110Bootloader

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL
• Status of the Broadcom 4751 GPS chip implementation: BCM4751

Galaxy S2¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyS2
• List of the Galaxy S2 firmwares: GalaxyS2Firmwares
• Galaxy S2 Compass calibration: GalaxyS2CompassCalibration

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL
• Status of the GSD4t GPS chip implementation: GSD4t

Galaxy S3¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyS3
• List of the Galaxy S3 firmwares: GalaxyS3Firmwares
• Galaxy S3 Compass calibration: GalaxyS3CompassCalibration

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL
• Status of the Broadcom 4751 GPS chip implementation: BCM4751

Galaxy Note¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyNote
• List of the Galaxy Note firmwares: GalaxyNoteFirmwares
• Galaxy Note Compass calibration: GalaxyNoteCompassCalibration

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL
• Status of the Broadcom 4751 GPS chip implementation: BCM4751

Galaxy Nexus¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyNexus
• List of the Galaxy Nexus firmwares: GalaxyNexusFirmwares
• Serial console for the Galaxy Nexus: GalaxyNexusSerialConsole

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL
• Status of the GSD4t GPS chip implementation: GSD4t
• Status of the work on the Galaxy Nexus Camera: omap4-tiler-Camera

Galaxy Tab 2 10.1¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyTab2101
• List of the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 firmwares: GalaxyTab2101Firmwares
• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 Compass calibration: GalaxyTab2101CompassCalibration

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL

Galaxy Tab 2 7.0¶

• Dedicated page: GalaxyTab270
• List of the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 firmwares: GalaxyTab270Firmwares
• Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Compass calibration: GalaxyTab270CompassCalibration

• Status of the Samsung-RIL modem implementation: Samsung-RIL

GTA04¶

• Dedicated page: GTA04
• Detailed status: GTA04Status
• Kernel work: GTA04Kernel
• Many infos are available at: gta04.org

Developing on Replicant¶

• Our developer guide: DeveloperGuide
• Using gdb to debug on Replicant: GDBDebugging
• Help on getting logs: GettingLogs

Guides to port Replicant to a new device:

• Replicant 4.0 porting guide: Replicant4.0PortingGuide

List of tasks to improve Replicant: Tasks

Contact¶

• IRC: we meet on #replicant at irc.freenode.net.
• Mailing list: http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant
• Forums: http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/boards
• If your inquiry can't be made public, you can contact us directly at: contact@replicant.us
  but preferably use the mailing list or the forums for general-purpose questions that might help others

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