In 2016, Mozilla discontinued Firefox OS, its attempt to put the Gecko engine on smartphones. A few former Mozilla employees then forked the codebase of Firefox OS to create KaiOS, a web-based operating system for feature phones, with a focus to open the Internet to more people around the world.
KaiOS made huge successes with the release of JioPhones in India and the global release of the Nokia 8110 4G. It was considered to be “the third most popular mobile OS in India”, rivaling Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS in developing markets.
BananaHackers was formed in 2018 as a group of amateur hackers and developers, who push the limits of what KaiOS can do.
Here are some links to help you get started, or you can use the navigation sidebar on the left:
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Proceed at your own risk and with caution!
All resources on this site are provided as-is, with no guarantees or warranties being given or implied. By proceeding, you assume all risks of any damages that may occur, including but not limited to hardware damage or data loss. Note that unless explicitly allowed by the warranty covering your device, it should also be assumed that any warranty accompanying your device will be voided if you tamper with either the system software or the hardware. BananaHackers Wiki may contain links to other websites which are not managed or operated by the BananaHackers team. We are not liable for the reliability of the content of the linked websites. Please use the content of any linked website at your sole discretion and responsibility. |
¶ Contributing to the Wiki
Due to the team’s extremely limited operation, we cannot document all KaiOS devices, especially with many of KaiOS 3 devices which are only available to purchase network-locked in the United States. We need your help! If you have any insights or experience on a KaiOS device, or simply want to correct a typo because we’re not English natives, we encourage you to help shape the future of the Wiki.
To contribute to the Wiki, create an account, then send us a message with your display name on the Wiki and whether you log in from Discord, GitHub, GitHub or locally to bananahackers(at)ducmbui(dot)com or in the #wiki-discussion channel of r/KaiOS Discord server. A Wiki maintainer will verify and grant you the Contributor role.
We might even choose to feature your page on the main bananahackers.net site!
BananaHackers Wiki is only available in English at the moment. We’re not open for translation yet. Sorry!
¶ Donate to the BananaHackers team
BananaHackers is currently not on Open Collective, Patreon, or Ko-fi. We look forward to that! You can, however, support us financially by donating directly to the team members listed below; your contributions help cover the server costs for running the Wiki and keep the project alive!
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Ivan Alex HC, founder of the BananaHackers team: PayPal
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Luxferre, founding BananaHackers team member, developer of Wallace tools:
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Monero:
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perry, developer of o.map, feedolin, greg, BananaHackers Wiki administrator, maintainer and contributor: LiberaPay (requires an account), PayPal
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Farooq, developer of chooj and former BananaHackers Wiki administrator:
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Monero:
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Bitcoin Cash:
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sunsetonwheels, BananaHackers Store developer and r/KaiOS Discord server administrator: Revolut, Stripe
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Cyan, developer of Discord4KaiOS, TeleKram and BananaHackers Wiki administrator: Ko-fi
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bmndc, BananaHackers GitHub organisation admin and Wiki contributor: GitHub Sponsors (requires an account)
Or you can donate directly to Uberspace, our hosting provider:
Don’t forget the reference Uberspace bhackers in your transaction — otherwise we won’t get the money!
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Thank you in advance!
¶ Send us devices to test
Monetary donations help us maintain our operations and support the purchase of new devices for researching purposes. We don’t recommend sending devices to us directly. But if you must, bmndc is located in Vietnam and might be able to receive devices from international carriers such as UPS and DHL.
Vietnam has a prohibition policy on importing used electronic devices without permit from the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the de minimis exemption limit for gifts is 1 million VND (or around 35 USD/30 EUR/25 GBP). If the device exceeds that limit, an additional duty fee of 0–100%+ of the device’s value is applied. As such, when you package the device, please include the invoice of the purchased device in the box, and notice in advance if the price of the device goes over the de minimis limit.
If you’re okay with this, please send an email to bananahackers(at)ducmbui(dot)com so that he can assist you through the process.
¶ Accessibility
Although the BananaHackers team follows best practice guidelines to ensure our sites are accessible to the widest possible audience, we acknowledge that issues may arise, whether due to limitations inherent to Wiki.js — the engine powering this site — or because user-generated content may not always fully comply with accessibility standards.
We welcome your feedback to help improve the accesibility of this site. If you have experienced any difficulties while navigating BananaHackers Wiki, please reach out to us at bananahackers(at)ducmbui(dot)com or by posting a message in the #wiki-discussion channel on our Discord server.
For issues specifically related to the page structure or Wiki.js itself, please submit a bug report to the Wiki.js GitHub repository.
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¶ Privacy
We use Wiki.js’ built-in analytics tools to collect aggregated visitor data, helping us track the number of visits to each page. If you choose to log in, we may also store the following information to operate the site:
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your account credentials:
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an OAuth2 token if you log in via Discord, GitHub, or GitLab; or
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your email address and hashed password if you log in using local authentication
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your basic user information, if you choose to complete your profile:
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display name, location, job title;
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preferred time zone, date format and site theme
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your activity on the site, including but not limited to:
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account creation, last profile update, and last login times;
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your contributions, along with page creation and modification history;
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any files you upload through the built-in editor
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We currently do not use collected data for any purposes other than operating the site, and we do not share collected data with any third parties unless you explicitly consent to it, or disclosure is required by law and/or our service providers (Uberspace and Wiki.js).
Additionally, Wiki.js may place cookies in your browser to store information (not that type of cookie, though we’d love to). You can disable this through your browser settings if you wish, however, doing so may prevent you from using all features of the website.
We use Font Awesome and Google Fonts to render fonts and symbols on the website.
JavaScript is required for most features of the website to function properly.
If you wish to permanently remove an uploaded file or to delete an account, please get in touch at bananahackers(at)ducmbui(dot)com or by sending a message in the #wiki-discussion channel on the Discord server. BananaHackers Wiki administrators will honour your request as promptly as we can.