Being a mere smartwatch doesn’t save the Samsung
Galaxy Gear from the developers’ desire at getting deep
into the gadget’s core. And now, courtesy of XDA
Developers, comes the first custom kernel for the Gear.
The Samsung Galaxy Gear has already got its first
custom ROM , showing that developers aren’t afraid to
get creative, but the new kernel finally shows that they
are also now ready to go one level deeper. The first
custom kernel allows for the Gear to run at the maximum
frequency of its dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, which is
1.6GHz.
If you want to, you can set the CPU to work at its lowest
frequency (200MHz) to prolong battery life too. This will
be quite energy efficient, but it’ll potentially slow the
Gear down. Other features of the Triangulum custom
kernel, done by developer named lilstevie include init.d
support for firing custom scripts at startup and root
privileges.
Flashing the kernel requires the well known developer
tools Heimdall or Odin as well as a dose of bravery.
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