Adding RAM To The Nexus One Without Soldering

Want 21 megabytes more ram in your Nexus One? [Coolbho3000] worked out a way to tweak the kernel and remap memory usage to free up some resources. That means this comes as a custom kernel image requiring no hardware alteration. Try it out and share your experiences in the comments. But if you don’t need more ram you can just upgrade to the most recent kernel.

[Thanks Juan]

19 thoughts on “Adding RAM To The Nexus One Without Soldering

  1. Seems like this is taking memory that has been reserved for DSP use. If that is the case, it’s great if you don’t use any hardware acceleration. But not worth it if you do.

  2. “glad I dont have to do these hacks for my iPhone…

    Jailbreak it and I’m free-er than all the android people.”

    Umm, can’t apple remotely de-activate any apple iphone/ipod touch/ipad?
    Hmm, don’t think anyone can do that to nexus one’s or nokia phones or any other phones that I know of.

    How free are you then?

    Not that I don’t like apple but I just thought i’d make that comment

  3. fartface, I’m about to submit this patch to the Android Open Source Project. If Google’s engineers accept it, it will eventually be pushed to all Nexus Ones.

    Can you do that with your iPhone?

  4. Buzz: This tweak simply moves things around (camera and GPU were moved to an unused area), and expands the first memory bank beyond what it was before (the Incredible source showed that this could be done). It does not remove any memory from the DSP.

  5. “Umm, can’t apple remotely de-activate any apple iphone/ipod touch/ipad?
    Hmm, don’t think anyone can do that to nexus one’s or nokia phones or any other phones that I know of.”

    Actually, every single phone in the world can be remotely de-activated. Try calling your provider to report yours missing.

  6. “Actually, every single phone in the world can be remotely de-activated. Try calling your provider to report yours missing.”

    That just bars the phone from the network (IMEI block) – everything other than the cellular radio still works. Apple can brick the whole phone.

  7. Ever heard of iDroid? Yeah thats right Android on the iPhone. I am a developer in this project. We are working hard to get it all ported. Were almost done we just need to get some sort of Power Management Unit implemented so the battery doesn’t die within 3hours. I have the baseband/wifi/multitouch everthing works. So Android Fanboys can STFU did I mention we dualboot Android and iPhone?
    Dualboot Proof http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/5657/previewwj.jpg and heres the link to the wiki http://www.idroidproject.org/wiki/Main_Page

  8. @TheParadox

    So you mention Android fanboys…

    But are you not putting Android onto an iPhone?

    You should be telling Apple fanboys to stfu because you are taking all of Apple’s programming hard work and raining on their parade.

    Anyone who puts on Android on an iPhone is just rooting for Android.

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