How to Install Android 4.0 IceCream Sandwich (ICS) on Nokia N9 - Video tutorial

The NITRoid project to work Android ICS on Nokia N9 Hardware and dual boot with MeeGo Harmatton is now at the alpha stage and it is available for download and testing it on your Nokia N9. Please note that its only for advanced users and it will also void your Nokia n9's warrenty.

Below are things which are working with this alpha release of NITRoid for Nokia n9:

- dualboot kernel (without reflashing), ability to choose OS after power on.
- 3D drivers, OpenGL
- hwrotation (portrait mode only, accelerometer HAL doesn't work)
- touchscreen (multitouch)
- hw buttons (volume, power)
- ECI accessory (headset buttons)
- USB networking
- lcd off in sleep mode
- alarm driver, RTC
- mounting MyDocs as "SDCard" [realized; NOT FIXED, but HACK EXISTS]
- basic video decoding (sw) and playback, youtube (choppy)
- basic CellMo functionality: network registration, USSD, SMS, data (GPRS/EDGE/3G), signaling. Actually, ofono/ofono-ril stack is used: all things that it able to do on the n900.
- bluetooth (scanning, can pair devices. I didn't test deeper).
- charging (note: without any notification in UI)
- sensors: accelerometer
- audio: playback (audio routing to: loudspeaker, headset or earpiece)
- lights HAL (lcd brightness)
- root access (via adb shell; su/Superuser.apk)

There are also many things which are not working with it but Modding community is working hard to bring up a fully working version of Android ICS on N9. If you also want to get android ics with dual boot on your n9 you can try it by following this tutorial.

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