Replicant Wiki¶

• Table of contents
• Replicant Wiki
  • Supported devices
    • Maintained devices
    • Uncompleted devices
    • Unmaintained devices
  • Replicant status
    • Maintained versions
    • Unmaintained versions
  • Replicant installation and update
  • Replicant usage
  • Replicant build
  • Contributing to Replicant
    • Replicant porting guides
    • Hardware support
  • Research
    • Hardware support
    • Device evaluations
    • Other
  • Contact
  • Public

Welcome to the Replicant wiki, which provides information about Replicant, supported devices and research about other mobile devices and platforms.
For more information about Replicant, head over to the Replicant website.

You can help improving the wiki! Wiki editor privileges can be requested by contacting the developers. A short description of the changes and additions you want to make is needed as part of the request. The wiki guidelines should be followed.

Unless specified otherwise, the information displayed in this wiki is only relevant to the latest Replicant version. Do not assume backwards compatibility of the instructions with old versions of Replicant.

Supported devices¶

Maintained devices¶

• Nexus S (I902x)
• Galaxy S (I9000)
• Galaxy S 2 (I9100)
• Galaxy S 3 (I9300)
• Galaxy Note (N7000)
• Galaxy Note 2 (N7100)
• Galaxy Nexus (I9250)
• Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (P31xx)
• Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 (P51xx)
• Galaxy Note 8.0 (N51xx)

Uncompleted devices¶

• GTA04
• Galaxy S 3 4G (I9305)

Unmaintained devices¶

• Dream/Magic
• Nexus One

Replicant status¶

Maintained versions¶

• Replicant 6.0 status
• Replicant 4.2 status

Unmaintained versions¶

• Replicant 4.0 status
• Replicant 2.3 status
• Replicant 2.2 status

Replicant installation and update¶

• Replicant images
• Replicant SDK

• How to upgrade to new minor release (For instance from Replicant 6.0 0002 to Replicant 6.0 0003).

• Nexus S (I902x) installation
• Galaxy S (I9000) installation
• Galaxy S 2 (I9100) installation
• Galaxy Note (N7000) installation
• Galaxy Nexus (I9250) installation
• Galaxy Tab 2 (Px1xx) installation
• Galaxy S 3 (I9300) installation
• Galaxy Note 2 (N7100) installation
• Galaxy Note 8.0 (N51xx) installation

• Experimental generic instructions on how to install or update the recovery with Heimdall

• GTA04 installation
• Galaxy S 3 4G (I9305) installation

• Dream/Magic installation
• Nexus One installation

Replicant usage¶

• F-Droid
• Software Development Kit (SDK)

• Enabling WiFi with an USB WiFi adapter
• Replicant USB Networking
• Graphics rendering on Replicant
• Taking screenshots
• Android Debug Bridge (ADB)
• OpenSSH
• Deactivating the modem
• General-purpose usage notes and tips
• Safe mode: How to enter Android's safe mode (useful for devices stuck in a boot loop).

See the device pages for device-specific usage information.

Replicant build¶

• Build dependencies installation
• Replicant source code

• SDK build

• Nexus S (I902x) build
• Galaxy S (I9000) build
• Galaxy S 2 (I9100) build
• Galaxy Note (N7000) build
• Galaxy Nexus (I9250) build
• Galaxy Tab 2 (Px1xx) build
• Galaxy S 3 (I9300) build
• Galaxy Note 2 (N7100) build
• Galaxy Note 8.0 (N51xx) build

• GTA04 build
• Galaxy S 3 4G (I9305) build

• HTC Magic build
• Nexus One build

• Standalone Kernel build

Contributing to Replicant¶

• Tasks to improve Replicant
• Developer guide
• Tools installation
• Getting logs
• GDB debugging

Some device pages also have development sections.

Replicant porting guides¶

• Replicant 6.0 porting guide
• Replicant 4.0 porting guide

Hardware support¶

• Samsung IPC protocol support with Samsung-RIL and libsamsung-ipc

Research¶

• Details about the Samsung Galaxy back-door, that affects some Samsung Galaxy devices

The device pages contain hardware-specific research and a freedom and privacy/security evaluation for the respective device.

Hardware support¶

• BCM4751 GPS protocol support
• GSD4t GPS protocol support
• AKM8976A support
• OMAP4 Ducati camera support
• QMI-RIL QMI protocol support

Device evaluations¶

• Optimus Black (P970) including development notes
• Various devices
• Shared Memory between the modem and the processor running Replicant Information on security issues on the topic
• Qualcomm System On a Chip

Other¶

• Graphics Research on free software graphics driver implementations
• Location Tracking Research on how to avoid location tracking
• Upstream Research on approaches to use upstream Linux and generic HAL in Replicant
• Toolchain Development efforts to remove prebuilt binaries from the source tree
• WiFi Research on how to get free software WiFi firmwares
• Security Analysis of Android Factory Resets

Contact¶

If you have any questions or want to talk to the developers, you can use any of the following:

• Forums
• IRC: #replicant at Freenode
• Mailing list (searchable archive of the list)

For private, confidential or press-related inquiries:

• Private contact

Public¶

• Replicant artwork
• People behind the project
• Conferences presented on behalf of the Replicant project

The wiki is available under the Creative Commons BY-SA license.