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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshdt98:
I did not know if I should put this in the general section or not. As many of you advance user dislike that section. But anyways... Today I came across this video, That clams that you can now use the iPhone OS on your android phone. I just wanted to know if you guys know anything about this. And do you think it is possible? Another thing? Is there anyone here that is working toward the same goal to have the iPhone OS on the android? Thanks is will really help me out.

P.S>Here is the link to the video:

youtube.com/watch?v=bxnUYtCm-Tw
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeathBySnuggles:
I think it has been discussed before but I'll interject my opinion. Why in the name of sweet chocolate christ would you want to run the iphone os on here? I had every iphone since gen 1 and got the evo instead of iphone4 and I've never looked back. You know that expression" you don't know what you've got til its gone"? Well this is more like" you don't know what you had until you got something outrageously better"! I know devs like to do things just to prove it can be done. But id really hate to see a talented dev waste their time on this exercise in lew of something more useful like kernel, rom, and app development.

Just my$ 0.02. Change expected.

Sent from my Commodore 64 Evo running 8 bit XDA
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
Just watched the video. I guess its worth a shot i'm not sure what kind of risk it posses to your phone or even what it looks like. I would probably classify this under proceed with caution and only if you really know what you are doing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnpucillo:
I don't get it. If you wanted to run the iPhone OS on an EVO why didn't you buy an iPhone?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sporkman:
QFT

from the fade
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshdt98:
I am not saying I want to.. I really want to know if it can be done. Also I am interested in a few things the iPhone OS offers, but why in sand hills would I do something as stupid as buy an iPhone. I would never buy an iPhone. I think the phone is a peace of crap. But if I don't pay for the OS then why would I care to try a few things!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eman3316@optonline.net:
Seems strange, they never actually show the iPhone OS running on an Android device so how can you even tell if this is legit?

If it is, I think it is pretty cool. I am definitely an Android fan, but the more our device can do is always better!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
Thats why I am interested. Plus if it works thats another thing you can rub in an iphone owners face.

"Hey guess what. My Evo can be an iphone.....but why the hell would I want to do that!!!!! lol"
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eman3316@optonline.net:
I know for one thing, I always here that the iPhone has some great game that have not made it's way over to Android yet so that might please alot of people.

Wonder if the OS is jail broken this way. I still don't believe that it works though. I think we would have heard a lot more about this........
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshdt98:
Yeah! Exactly... If I could just prove it. I tried to download the file from the site but the site was down. But I did look more into and found out that this kid from NJ has proved this method works.

So here is a list of stuff our Evo's can already run:

Android 2.2

Windows 98

Windows XP

Windows 7 (Buggy)

Ubuntu (Linux)

iPhone OS (Once proven by me)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
First sorry I'm posting a lot I have history of confrontation with an iphone owner over whose device was better. So this sparks my interest a lot.

I agree it seems a bit fishy and the site to download the files doesn't exists according to Google chrome. So I cant even look into it or examine the files
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joshdt98:
So I just looked at the video again. Check out the comment: "yes, i have run into a lot of bugs.﻿ but i am working hard to fix them. This is why the files are not up yet. i hope to have them available with many bugs fixed by mid next week. for people that downloaded already.. please report bugs. thanks"

Sounds fishy... But yet cannot wait till they put it back up to confirm!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eman3316@optonline.net:
Do we know which OS it is? It is 3 or 4?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxcala:
+1 on that.

+1 androids are way better.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustindavidson900:
well post the proof that you found. because it all sounds like BS
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
Hey your the guy from youtube. The one whose comments get deleted lol

Just messing with ya :)

Bump +1 same question
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
I'm not sure why anyone would ever want to run iOS.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustindavidson900:
yeah my buddy called him a faggg. he blocked me from commenting, but i had another account.. I wrote an IM to CrashImpact to see if he will post a video of it actually RUNNING on a REAL phone...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
To say that you can of course :)

PS: He said it runs iOS 3
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dglowe343:
LOL. Well put.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VSack:
The first rule of Hack Club is we don't do things because they make sense, we do them because we CAN.

Plus, I would look forward to a video that shows an Evo showing an iPhone owner what a phone with the whyfighs and the geebees that can actually make a call is capable of. :)

On a more serious note, it would be interesting to see how an unoptimized iOS port handled the graphics and processing power of our phones for gaming. It might help to portend a future in which Google starts doing more with 3D Acceleration.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dustindavidson900:
Just watched that video yesterday... ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilovemytilt1:
The same reason people can now have android on the HD2. Maybe you can't afford it, maybe it is too late to switch without it being so costly, maybe AT&T charges you an outrageous deposit fee e.g. 700 dollars just to buy an iPhone which is 200, or maybe you just want to do it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrcharlesiv:
A good rule of thumb that I follow is not to trust someone who can't spell for **** -- and whoever made that video clearly is grammatically challenged.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kindakrazy:
where have you seen an evo running all those versions of windows?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goodelyfe:
/facepalm !!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms79723:
hahaha +1!

and iPhone OS is pretty cool, i like it because its really simple and whatnot...only thing i miss from it is that damned facebook app...well...just its push notifications
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicholaaaas:
the iphone had 2.2 on it before sprint rolled out their OTA
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicholaaaas:
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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Systemfraud:
May be slightly off topic, but can it run windows mobile? I'm curious because I'd like to see how well it runs and stuff. Just purr curiosity.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Systemfraud:
+9000 I agree bro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VSack:
Topic has been covered before or can't you search without using wifi?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Systemfraud:
For one, I'm not able to search anything right now. Two, I figured I ask because it was pretty much a yes or no answer.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VSack:
Man I just had to check to see if search was broken on xda app. Nope, turns out you're just not using it.

Back to topic now!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Systemfraud:
[highlight]MOD Edit:Insults and homophobic slurs are not allowed on XDA.Watch your mouth.[/highlight]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 063_XOBX:
[highlight]MOD Edit: I know that you will probably not agree with my editing of this post, but to be honest with you, I hate jokes at the expense of kids with disabilities. I think that is one thing no one should use as part of a joke.[/highlight]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lehalter:
The only reason I would ever want the iPhone OS would be because I was used to using the iPod music interface. Now that I have Doubletwist(even though the stock is fine) I don't need it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notmike:
Where did you see Windows running on the evo?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicholaaaas:
the answer to most everything in this thread is google
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soxozor:
I seriously don't comprehend the hatred for the iOS There is a REASON why it is more popular than Android.

You don't sound any better than iPhone fanboys.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirtyShroomz:
Because it's extremely simple and the majority of the population understand it... considering the majority of the population has some kind of mental disability
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soxozor:
And what is wrong with simplicity? The fact of the matter is it is not a bad phone at all. Just different from Android. Don't be blind or be contradicting.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TorxT3D:
would love to have iOS on the EVO, for the games.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkinnison90:
I think it'd be pretty cool to see iOS on the Evo. Be another thing our device could achieve.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] apristel:
I think this is fake :/

Would be cool though.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijrod21i:
I agree with you that the market is always right. However, I believe that the market is always right mostly just when you're wanting to make money. Are you going to tell me that Kesha makes better music than Muse just because she sells more albums? Apple sells more because of its fabulous marketing squad and EASY to use ui and don't get it twisted.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Systemfraud:
Wow dude. +99999 You really couldn't be more right about that. Quality over quantity.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soxozor:
I have never stated that the iOS is better. Just stated that it is senseless and contradicting. People have different taste in music as well as different taste on phones. It is pointless to argue which is is better because people will have different opinions with different needs. Let it go.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms79723:
yup, easy to use is correct. most people just dont have the time to be tinkering with their phones.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drmacinyasha:
I believe I can summarize this entire thread in one picture:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BrianDigital:
its to each their own, I wouldn't do it but if we got win phone 7 on here I'd do it ( i gots a zune pass)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegasun18:
i personally do not like the iOS at all. the reason iphone is "more popular" (actually android has passed ti up now if you go by new sales) is because it had a few year head start AND Apple knows how to advertise. iOS like iTUNES ad most other iSOFTWARE is very poorly written in my opinion.

Sure it works ok for a very basic user however if you start doing anything like having multiple users trying to sync to the same pc or want to do anything that isnt expressly given permission by apple you run into problems.

is it the worst software ever (verdict still out on iTUNES) probably not. it will probably work for people who are very basic users. the thing is most people dont kow any better. they see the advertisements and see that other people bought one and they think its the best. most people are very sheep like when it comes to trends.

sure android also has problems ... but most problems people complain about arent about the actual android system but more about the fact they cant find certain apps they like. With the popularity of android booming and the recent fluke iphone4 i m willing to bet soon the shoe will be on the other foot.

as far as iOS on evo. I guess it would be neat specifically for showing iphone users that the evo can not only do most regular things better (minus pictures) but we can also run there software better too. Of course i dont think most iphone users are going to care...if they did they probably wouldnt have bought an iphone in the first palce.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edtate:
I think the determining factors that warrant interest in iOS is not the actual user interface but the larger app market and larger user base. We can't ignore the fact apple's app market is hands down better than and will be better than android for at least the next couple of months.

This should totally be pursued further just because we can; I mean, how cool would it be to say android does itself and iOS?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugedraw:
Ok, so most people want to see the iOS on Android just to show up iPhoners, and the rest (and more logical of the group) want it for the games.

To everyone that wants it just to show iPhone guys that their phone can run their iOS: Did you search in YouTube for the complete opposite of this? People have been porting the Android platform to the iPhone for a while. So you guys saying to an iPhoner "look what I can do" and show them their OS on your phone will only lead to "look what I can do" and them showing you your OS on their phone.

You're better off just showing them the kick stand again. They won't be able to that until maybe the iPhone 5.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lgevo:
ok wtf why would ppl not want the ios on the phone... simple reason is because the games and apps. i can name over 50 apps/games that i would love to have and some i already bought when i used to have a ipod touch.... I want the most from my evo. Android is king but companys are taking their time realizing that. so if i could dual boot the phone i absolutly would.

i guess there are many that feel the same way and a few that just hate the iphone to much there blinded and cannot see the benifit, or just spoke before they thought about it lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kindakrazy:
i agree, the iphone is terrible in my opinion but the top android apps come no where close to the kind of apps iphones get, im not sure if any of u have seen the epic citadel preview, if not go check it out and then say you dont want to be able to run that **** on your evo, for me its not about the ios part its all about the kick ass ingenuity of the developers making apps for that piece of **** phone haha, if only these developers would see android is the ****
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms79723:
i see what your saying. but most people were probably never in a situation where they actually had to use iphones for a great deal of time (ex: owning an ipod touch or iphone) so its easy for them to say they dont need the apps if they never really put that much time into those apps. like the facebook app on the iphone, i just cant stop talking about that app, that app is magic..even though for some reason it does have some trouble sending friend requests (doesnt send them at all) thats the only thing the android app has over that app

i also like that keyboard, android has an ok keyboard...but typing on an iphone is more accurate for some reason (for me). it not having a period or comma button and a wider spacebar and thinner keys is a plus...i want that keyboard so bad
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edtate:
That keyboard is definitely a plus; I don't know if it's the keyboard itself or apple's touch interface, but whatever they did they did it right.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edufur:
Both stock keyboards are a waste of time. When I showed my buddy (iPhone user) my shapewriter keyboard, his jaw dropped and he drooled with envy. I out type him 3 to 1 with this thing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
Is there any update on this??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philosuffer:
Nope, just 6 pages of egos arguing their personal opinions.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
There has to be someone besides the creepy dude on YouTube who knows how to do this. Or we need to get the YouTube guy to give us what he's already got if anything.

Sent from Evo via mysterious entity
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spy_owl2:
Why is this thread getting so much traffic? This is not real:

1. iOS is not compiled for Evo hardware and will not run on it

2. iOS is not an open source project and can only be compiled by whoever possesses its source code - i.e. Apple

If that's not enough:

3. Video shows adb command: adb --act iphone kernel android evo_final_2.01.bin

There is no "--act" option or "act" command for adb, but all the buzzwords definitely made it in

4. When run the command in #3 in video fails with standard adb help message

5. There is no website at the address video mentions

6. The file it asks you to download "iphone20.bin" is not used for anything

7. Video claims the adb command in #3 will reboot your phone to a command prompt in which you need to type "phone = run" to start "linux going through boot commands" then you end up in iOS - none of which makes any sense whatsoever

At best it's a bad joke, but now it's mildly funny that it has generated 7 pages of "discussion."
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donopolyblocks:
No progress just war among egos :(

Sent from the Dammerung running Ava-FroyoV7
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superlinkx:
Finally, someone who knows what they are talking about. Also, even if by some miracle you got iOS running on an Evo, it would be crap. The App Store probably wouldn't let you in, games wouldn't work and the UI would be screwed up, since iOS only supports two resolutions (maybe 3, but they are all the same aspect ratio). The UI isn't made to scale to various screen types, so it would suck. The processor and gpu

are also not supported by iOS, so even if you hacked drivers for it, the performance would suck at best.

In other words, its not worth even trying, because even if it were possible, it would be 100x suckier than running 4.1 on an original iPhone.

Of course, no need to worry about that, since as was already mentioned, its virtually impossible to port it, much less compile it to run on an Evo at all.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philosuffer:
Another video (stolen from a thread that was wrongly posted in Development forum). Looks pretty convincing, could be fake, but I'm not experienced enough with iOS4 to claim whether it's a Chinese clone or an actual semi-successful port.

[youtube]IY-uRRCARJw[/youtube]
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
Apparently it can be done. Yet I'm still a skeptic but if thats proof we have than I, using the Mythbusters mentality, I would call this Plausible but highly unlikely
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] imwillzillla:
Egos, START your engines!

Probably a clone but convincing enough to ruin some iphone fanboys day *insert sinister laugh here*

Sent from the mind of a Christian using the XDA app!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stalte:
If they can do it we can do it :) Ill take a clone any day of the week
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daneurysm:
At *best* it's an Iphone internals put into an HTC case and hooked up to the OEM screen. Next--and most plausible--is they found the closest size match (screen wise) and just dumped the internals into the HTC case.

If it's video/photo editing tricks then I'm very impressed by their video/photo abilities.

But anyone with a lick of knowledge about how processors and architectures and programming and compilation works knows this is complete and utter horse-sh*t.

I understand the draw. As crappy as I find the iOs to be I also am the proud owner of a Hackintosh. Why? Cuz I can. That's the hacker motto. Those who question "why" don't understand that simple fact. Go look at how many (unlikely) devices have been hacked to run Linux in some form. Why? BECAUSE WE CAN. OsX was possible on Intel hardware because of Apple's switch to--wait for it--Intel hardware.

There are so few similarities between an Evo (or any HTC phone) and an Iphone that at _most_ I'd believe somehow they added another abstraction layer that got the OS and UI up and running (poorly), but to actually have that entire abstraction layer running with ANY usable level of performance for every piece of hardware than needed to be mapped to the available hardware....seems extremely unreasonable....and that's being optimistic about it.

Sorry guys, as much as I'd love to show my iphone toting friends iOs running on this monster screen--for nothing more than geek-gloating rights--I'd be amazed if this was anything more than well crafted horse sh*t.

YMMV.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottndville:
And to think that at one time it was IMPOSSIBLE to run Apple's OS on a PC. I've been running Leopard on mine for over a year. Just saying. Almost always great things come from experimenting.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cubandevil:
guys i was able to get the iphone theme on my G1 long time ago , it wasnt the full OS.. but it was the theme with the safari looking icon and everything .. so yea... also i was looking around and ive seen Iphones with android running .. so why wouldnt it be possible to be the other way around!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms79723:
i dont know much about iOS and android and stuff...but isnt android open? meaning that anyone can take its code and use it for whatever, which (to me) would explain why samsung and htc are able to do w/e they want with it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverStone641:
Pics or it didn't happen! ^_^ but seriously, where are you getting your info?(i'm not trying to bash you, i just legitimately want to try those OS's)

also, on the iphone OS, i would never fully replace android with it, but just being able to boot it and show the iSnobs( I have several buddies that i'm slowly converting to android) that the Evo can ROCK the iOS compared to the iphone would be sweet.

final 2 cents. i would only load iOS for the bragging rights. i would guess thats the reason 99% of you would. just like i loaded xp, 7, OSX, linux on my netbook. not because i necessarily used them, but just to see if it could be done. plus i enjoyed all the learning that ensued while experimenting.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Last-Chance:
thing is it doesn't matter. You're average iphone user, has no clue what iOS even is. All they see is the gui, and fall in love with it instantly. A replica of the theme and the bootscreen would be good enough to convince them that it is iOS.

And since the theme will be flashable, you can simple reflash your old theme when ever you want. but the theme will need heavy modifications. Like to turn the android market "into" the app store, and to change the application screen into launcher screen, and so on.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] edtate:
I think we have a winner!!!

My hypothesis is they're using an iphone 4 with a custom htc shell of sorts.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Last-Chance:
highly doubt it. they would have to completely take apart the phone and add extra button functions. The reason is, iphone has 1 button, but he displays usage of multiple buttons on the bottom. If it was just a shell then only the middle button would work. And since they added extra buttons, it would require a modified kernel, but that won't happen since iOS is not open source.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ms79723:
the iOS4 seems a little slow in that video...so i dont think that would be an iphone 4 either. probably that 3g
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Philosuffer:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/ios-4-ported-successfully-to-htc-magic/

More info on the port, and another video. He took the back cover off this time. Probably to silence the people saying it's just the guts of the iPhone slammed in case, haha.

Sluggishness more apparent in this video, but still impressive.

Edit: Here's the other thread on XDA.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=766637

Someone in that thread pointed this link out too:

http://opensource.apple.com/