Wednesday, December 05, 2012

Download Android kernels published by OEMs

Android is an open source project under GPL licences. OEMs under these licenses are obliged to publish the kernels they modified and used in their products.

The major players in the field of Android devices including the following OEMs including Google:
Google Inc (Android creator), Huawei (Android mobile devices), HTC (Android mobile devices), LG (Android mobile devices), Motorola (Android mobile devices), Samsung (Android mobile devices), Sony (Android mobile devices), ZTE in the alphabetic order.


Google's contributions to the kernel source codes are released in the Android Open Source Project at http://source.android.com/

The download sites of the kernel source codes from other OEMs

Huawei - http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/downloadCenter.do?method=index&type=software

HTC - http://htcdev.com/devcenter/downloads

LG- http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/opensource.jsp

Motorola - http://sourceforge.net/motorola/

Samsung - http://opensource.samsung.com/index.jsp

Sony - http://developer.sonymobile.com/downloads/opensource/

ZTE - http://supporthk.zte.com.cn/support/news/NewsDetail.aspx?newsId=1002402 for example


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