Developer gets Android Wear working on Samsung Gear 2 – Tweakers

A developer on the Xda forum has managed to get Android Wear running on the Samsung Galaxy Gear 2-smart watch. The smart watch is normally Tizen operating system. Really useful is the first build of Android Wear yet.

In January, began a developer, on Xda known biktor_gj, to Android Wear to get it running on the Galaxy Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. The housing of these watches varies, but they share the same hardware: Samsung Exynos 3250 dual-core SOC, 512MB RAM and 4GB of storage memory. Standard running watches Samsungs own Tizen operating system.

The developer added his own words the Tizen kernel of Gear 2 along with Android 4.4 kernel from the Galaxy Mini S5. Android Wear and the ‘normal’ version of Android share the kernel, making biktor_gj could use a variation of the S5 Mini. There were a lot of adaptations. So had to be rewritten include the video drivers to get the system working.

At present, the system does not have much more than boot. Therefore, it is still not suitable for normal use. The developer provides for that reason no image free before the biggest problems are solved. It is not likely to be as biktor_gj Android version can be easily ported to other watches from Samsung running Tizen like the Galaxy Gear and Gear S., which managed to have him as a Qualcomm-soc, causing other drivers are needed.