The reality is pretty powerful (calling all hackers!)

 

You can use BREW...

Learn about:
BREW
Qualcomm CDMA Hard + Software
NAND/SDRAM...
ARM instructions...

What AMSS is... what EFS is... NV items...

Qualcomm Tools:
QPST
QXDM

You have many to learn. 

Then come back... and think again about it. 


Summary.
How you can change the OS (based on BREW)?
If since years nearly NOBODY successfully changed other Verizon handsets to Android or Win Mobile nor amazing Firmware changes... 

You know the Firmware structure... Bootloader chain and so on?

 


Best Regards
 

I wonder if it is possible to export the firmware from the phone.  There is an option to reflash the phone from the security menu so there must be a protected copy of the firmware in the phone.  We need to find some samsung developers that have a better understanding of where stuff gets hidden.
Paul

I don't think the Reality is all that locked down, vs any other phone from any other wireless company.  All the providers lock them down, to prevent the deu's from breaking them. 
deu=defective end user
They also turn off a lot of functionality so they can sell up.  The current chalenge is just to fully document the phone, and hope to find support from developers.  It would be nice if bitpim supported this phone, but they don't even have one, don't hold your breath.
Paul

going to be keeping an eye on this thread, i would LOVE to have winmobile or android on this phone

JAVA Virtual Machine is an BREW Extension...
BUT it is integrated in AMSS...

There are some differences between dynamic Apps like you know... what comes over the Air and you can find with BitPim... MIF + MOD + SIG...

The internal BREW Apps in Firmware called static Apps... MIF + and now comes the Game over... files with Extension .c and so on... NO *.MOD files...

I NEVER seen JAVA Extension...   There is NO way to find all parts as it is spread over the whole Firmware...      


Best Example is VX9700 and CX9700... SAME device, but CX9700 is JAVA capable as it has the JAVA VM in Firmware...

Normally it would be "easy" for Developer of JAVA VM Extension to make run on U960...
But it seems Qualcomm not interested... Samsung not interested... and Verizon not interested...      

JAVA VM would be around 4 or 6 MB... I think less then 10 MB complete, with all necessary "Libraries"...


But REX this is the name of U960 Operation System... with BREW...
BREW is upgradable... via Extensions...

Working and confirmed example is for instance Flash lite.
Flash lite exists as BREW Extension to install on nearly all BREW handsets...
except you need mandatory valid SIGnature file *.sig

Best Regards

I got into ma reality a few days ago after dropping it in the fish tank and i took some pretty good pics of the qualcomm chip. If thats the chip I think it is than it's the one the Droid eris uses

At this time unless you have figured out how to hack the reality you can't get a java virtual machine. If you could there are alot of things that java based.