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[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MadSage:
The dual-form nature of this item would fit a dual-boot scenario perfectly. Boot into Android when used as a tablet, boot into Ubuntu when docked. Just curious as to the possibility of this.

As far as I know, Ubuntu supports ARM architecture, so the Tegra 2 chip should work well with it. Ubuntu 11.04 was just released with the integrated Unity interface, which looks wonderful with the touchscreen: http://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/utouch/

The Unity 2D interface should fly on the Tegra 2, even if the Unity 3D mode lags.

Now I know that on the Xoom, we were able to run Ubuntu on a VNC server and connect to it locally, but that is obviously not an ideal solution, due to VNC's weakness, and the general inefficiency of it.

Are there any devs working on something like this so far? I am sure there would be a very sizable audience for something like this. I'd be happy to do any necessary testing, and I'm sure more will as well. I also wouldn't mind taking this as an opportunity to get involved with the dev community (I have a thorough background in CS, just no experience with this specifically), I'd be happy if anyone were to take me under their wing. =)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Billus:
You're not the only one hoping for this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1053641
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Niilismo:
I was just thinking about this yesterday. Dual booting Ubuntu and Android would make this the perfect device for me.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnaL0R:
i would also love the ability to run linux on mine :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rootblock:
I'm tempted to wait until this is guaranteed to happen before buying this thing. I need a new portable device for developing on the go, and I also want and need a Honeycomb device for testing apps and casual content consumption.

At the same time though, if anyone knows of a site or thread dedicated to making this dual-boot happen (similar to the dedicated Toshiba AC100 page here http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/page/Ubuntu ), I wouldn't mind learning all about it and potentially help if I can, so please share.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vigneshd:
There are some devs who definitely pulled this off on the Atrix and I had Ubuntu on my phone so I'm sure we can get it on the transformer. I'll try to find them and see if similar methods can be used.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stcardinal:
It'll take years but I don't see why it wouldn't work. If I can do this on my old ass wm6.5 phone then it's possible on the TF!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnmeister:
Maybe it wont take years, but more of these tablets have to hit the market. Still so many people waiting on their preorders, me included.

I think that there might be quite the interest in making this happen. I remember reading somewhere that Ubuntu allready runs on the Tegra2, so why should it be far into the future before we see it running on the Transformer?

Sorry for any typos. I have fat fingers, a 4" screen, a small child and a dictionary gone wild...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hl3fx:
here's to hoping

So far i'm quite impressed with this little tablet. It crunches bytes as fast as i can throw them, and customizing it was easy enough. Although with the dock station and Tegra 2 it does feel more like a netbook than a tablet.

Android 3.0 IMO is the best compromise between a desktop and mobile phone OS. Although it's expandability is not quite what i would wish it to be. Possibly once more developers gear their programs for the higher resolutions and more powerful CPUs this will change. For now dual booting Ubuntu and Android would be perfect.

I'm on board with any project coming about to make this happen, and would offer up my hardware and feedback for beta testing. Hope to see a dedication in this direction soon!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gordec:
Has anyone tried the method in the xoom development forums?

Sent from HTC Inspire 4G via XDA	Premium.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach Alt:
I haven't seen the post, but I'm assuming you mean VNC?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach Alt:
Yeah, it's VNC. That's not that hard, we're talking about straight booting INTO Ubuntu.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamdata:
i have this image from my desire, which boots linux xlde (or something) i cant get it to connect to that image. Pockecloud just get Server disconnected.... maybe another image.. actually that was loading it from removable MicroSD, im now going to try copying to the internal memory "SDCARD" as that would be what the script would have orignally been setup for. I will post results as soon as this has finished pasting the files...

EDIT: still cant get this to work, seems like terminal is ending too quickly which i think means the loopback memory doesnt work, i think thats how it works anyway.

No lock with WYSE pocket cloud or android vnc, i think we need another build for honeycomb, well not so much the OS but the Tegra chip instead.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnmeister:
ubuntuforums.org

There is a thread over at ubuntuforums.org regarding this matter, though they have a different take on it.

One of the posts state:

Maybe it's not all that farfetched getting Ubuntu to run on this device, or any other Tegra2 base tablet.

The original thread can be found at:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741103&highlight=eee+pad+transformer&page=1
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dnaL0R:
looks like dual booting may be fairly difficult; I wouldn't mind soloing ubuntu touch os on mine...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZaelFaroe:
I think dual booting may be difficult, but I think chain booting (right terminology?) from Android first and then into Ubuntu would probably be possible.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach Alt:
I don't think many people understand how hard it will be to create a bootable version of Ubuntu. VNCing is easy for the most part.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnmeister:
Would it be possible to use the motorola xoom guide to get ubuntu running with vnc on the eee transformer?

Sorry for any typos. I have fat fingers, a 4" screen, a small child and a dictionary gone wild...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Magnesus:
Is the VNC version that bad? Is it very slow or the picture is not full color? I'd like to use it maybe for Open Office (or something lighter) and some programming in text editor.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonf925:
Looks like there has been significant progress on this. backtrack has been released for arm.. its a security-centric distro, but its built on an ubuntu base.

I'm downloading the img now.. dont know about dual boot though. guess someone needs to port grub over first =)

I cant post links....but a search for 'backtrack5 xoom' should get you there.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
HOLY CR@P, this look GREAT! did you had any luck getting it to work?:O:O

Let us know! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] case0:
Looks good. That's run in vnc as well though right?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
SO, any luck in getting it to work on the transformer ? :O :O

Keep up the good work!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Ubuntu? Give me Mint!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sackofnoise:
Backtrack would be the best! with all his wifi/security tools... (drooling...) :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zach Alt:
it's still VNC

Not the same at all as dual boot. VNC is slow and messy.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnmeister:
Running Ubuntu Maverick Alpha right now.

All in all very impressive, not getting fullscreen atm, which is odd, but it runs great and doesn't really slowdown Honeycomb at all.

After trying the vnc way I do see a great advantage to being able to switch between the two OS's on-the-fly rather than having to reboot for a switch.

__________________________________________

Digitallife in the sky!

Home Server / Mediacenter core i3

Asus eee Pad Transformer

Samsung Galaxy S

... All in wonderful sync
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonf925:
Yep ..it is vnc indeed..got excited when i saw the download was an img file..doesnt look like its anything new..though, these are mostly the type of native linux apps im looking to run anyway. My transformer is a bit laggy..hopefully a custom kernel with overclock support isnt too far off.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] case0:
Tried downloading backtrack but it keeps cutting out mid-download. Where can I find the arm version of Ubuntu? I only see 32/64bit on the website? Is it easy to set up? Thanks :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnmeister:
Look here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=987740
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] case0:
Yeh I spotted that thread earlier! My installation seems to have messed up though, gui seems all screwed up :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jairuncaloth:
This is certainly something I'm going to be looking into. I have a few ideas rolling around in my head at the moment. There are a couple ways to do this. Back on the G1 we had debian running in a chroot environment with a x-server and a vnc server which you connected to from inside android via a vnc app. It was slow, but it worked. I would suspect this would be much more effective on the much faster hardware of the transformer. (edit: this looks to be how they are running ubuntu in the other thread)

The other way would be to boot your distro of choice from an sdcard or somesuch. Does anyone know if fastboot is supported on this device? If so it's fairly trivial to boot with a custom kernel command line. The downside to this is that it requires an other computer to run the fastboot commands on. This is the method I used to get debian booting on my N1 and worked pretty well.

Can't wait to get mine next week and start hacking!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jhinta:
porting ubuntu to this thing will be easy ,, dont have my device yet , +/- 1 Week.

compile source with CONFIG_VT

make a boot image with correct ramdisk ( for booting ubuntu )

and know what the mount point are and boot ubuntu

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1045910&highlight=ubuntu
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ViViDboarder:
Yea. Simple as that! :rolleyes:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] int_19h:
I think that running Linux in a chroot jail is a more prospective direction than dual-booting. It would give you direct access to "full size" desktop apps like OpenOffice without need to boot back & forth. Also, you'd be using Asus kernel, which you know has all drivers and stuff to work efficiently on this hardware.

The main problem with this method right now seems to be slowness of VNC. Ultimately, we shouldn't really need VNC - it is entirely possible to write an X server that runs on Android, and have apps connect to that. That would be an interesting project.

The other thing is the complexity of setting things up right now. Ideally, we'd want an app which you can install from the Market, point it at the image on sdcard and say "Run me this" - and which would add a notification that can be used to shut it down. It's also entirely doable.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZaelFaroe:
I think booting natively into Ubuntu instead of chroot is much better personally. It means Ubuntu has access to all the resources of the tablet instead of losing some of those resources to Android.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] case0:
Is there a way to get synaptics running on it though (the chroot vnc version)? Pretty useless without it, I just want to install openoffice on there..!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jairuncaloth:
The X server could easily be provided by ubuntu in the chroot environment (and is for those connecting via VNC). The part we need is a client that runs on top of android. I find it interesting that VNC is slow on this. It was almost usable on my G1.

Two days.... can't wait!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdcrzylazy:
It would be amazing if this worked.

I think it'd be great to have this work without vnc so no resources are shared.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garnmeister:
I'm running Ubuntu in chroot environment using vnc to connect, and its not slow at all.

Sorry for any typos. I have fat fingers, a 4" screen, a small child and a dictionary gone wild...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jairuncaloth:
One potential way to get a true dual boot would be to flash the recovery partition with a boot image that boots ubuntu. There is a pretty obvious downside to that though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ZaelFaroe:
I personally think the best way to do it is the same way some of us used to use Andboot to try and get Android working on our old WinMobile phones. Boot into Android first, and then go into Ubunutu when needed. Not as scary as messing with the bootloader or recovery.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bschrib:
Talking out of my hat here, but wouldn't it be possible to convert recovery to some form of GRUB? Then just have the device boot to recovery by default, and choose which OS to load? I'm really only mentioning this because I see that from inside CWM you can choose to reboot recovery or reboot android.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jairuncaloth:
I've read in android docs that it is possible to chainload bootloaders. So it would be theoretically possible to have recovery bring up grub. I've never played with it though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iamdata:
i would be interested i this, im going to start working towards it too. Can we expext a full version of ubutu 11.04?/ linux mint, something which looks and acts as the real thing.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plasmastrike:
magldr for the hd2 allows the phone to boot into multiple os's, might have to be on windows mobile though so it probably wouldn't work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893618

you might want to try to install arch first. you would install it in steps so when a problem arises you would know where it is, and you could easily look up troubleshooting information. arch would also be smaller and faster:)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LIV2:
Hey guys,

Just thought I'd let you know I've had some success with this on a Xoom.

I patched the kernel using this to allow X11 access to /dev/fb0

it's at codereview.chromium.org/6672056

I also had to add VT support to the kernel, and as it's a xoom I added SDCard support so I could run my rootfs on the SDcard

I've had no real problems, I haven't gotten the touchscreen working yet but that's a configuration issue im sure, and the same goes for bluetooth. also there is no sound since the tegra requires some proprietary stuff to make the sound work.

I've got no real dualboot solution at the moment, I just flashed my boot.img with an initrd generated by mkinitrd and the custom kernel with the root= option appended to the commandline.

Not sure if the Asus has fastboot, but the xoom does so it's pretty easy to switch back and forth really, and I can just dd the boot images from within debian or android.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] slseed:
Can you post some instructions on how to set this up. I'd like to try it on my Transformer but I also don't want to trash my device. How do I get the patched kernel installed? How can I tell if I have fastboot? Are you booting straight into Ubuntu?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yshrsmz:
I don't know if this has already been mentioned, but there are some apps in the market which says it installs linux on the device ( https://market.android.com/details?id=com.galoula.LinuxInstall )

Has anyone tried this kind of app?

I am planning to try if there is no critical error.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
That's only a chroot installation - it'll be very slow. If you want to dual boot, look at the thread by lilstevie.
[myTouch 4G General] Geoi1006:
Thoughts on how soon we'll see this? Apparently it was announced today for Nexus S devices.
[myTouch 4G General] :
As soon as the nexus s gets it we should to. It should work on cyanogenmod. Since it uses proper api.
[myTouch 4G General] ags29:
Hopefully the ffc camera quality isn't as crappy as the back one with CM. This sounds great though. Third party camera apps are hit or miss and the other user must have that app installed too. At least everyone has Google Talk on their phone :-)
[myTouch 4G General] G1-evolve:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1055591&page=2
[myTouch 4G General] rei165:
sweet. thanks for the link. gonna test it now. =)
[myTouch 4G General] :
In class but this should work.

Created a new folder called 'system' in c:\android-sdk\tools. Obtained the odexed framework folder and placed that in the system folder. Then created a folder called app in the system folder and placed the Google talk app and talk odex inside.

c:\android-sdk\tools\system\app

baksmali.jar -d ../framework -x talk2odex

This produced an out folder will all the decompiled .smali files etc. From there I was able to get to the Launcher.smali that i wanted, but to recompile to a classes.dex file you simply run the following command: smali.jar out

This produces an 'out.dex' that you can rename to 'classes.dex'

You would still have to push the correct libs as well. Let me know if it worked.
[myTouch 4G General] nephroid:
http://imgur.com/peQin
[myTouch 4G General] :
You can get the app to work. That's all this thread is about not installing the update.
[myTouch 4G General] rei165:
i thought it was a just a simple as installing the .apk. sounds like you need to manually push all files via adb?

EDIT: straight installing the .apk doesnt work. just gets application not installed. gonna try root explorer method.
[myTouch 4G General] :
Yes or root explorer most likely work
[myTouch 4G General] G1-evolve:
You got to get it to run with the Kernal and such I believe..
[myTouch 4G General] rei165:
makes sense. tried both methods and it failed me. hurray for nandroid backup.
[myTouch 4G General] G1-evolve:
I am testing this out now.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13321615#post13321615
[myTouch 4G General] G1-evolve:
Tested: It works. =]
[myTouch 4G General] Christopher3712:
Just to clarify, you actually made a video call and it worked?
[myTouch 4G General] :
I tested it myself it works thanks to hazamatic
[myTouch 4G General] rei165:
looks like it installed perfectly. if anyones willing to help me with testing it out, my gtalk is tdheeroyuy. thanks in advance.
[myTouch 4G General] RikF:
FCing on my CM 7 (latest) release. Can see that people are online with video, and make a call - call rings at their end but Talk FCs on me.
[myTouch 4G General] androph:
Opens for me but then I get endless loop of it trying to connect....this was same for both deodexed app and .zip install through recovery
[myTouch 4G General] :
Try formatting the whole system installong from scratch should work.
[myTouch 4G General] RikF:
Did a phone wipe and install - still FCs when I try to make a call
[myTouch 4G General] androph:
Works(app opens and text chat works)...thanks..

I think it was all the previous failed versions I installed.

Worked right away on my other phone....

Now can someone tell me how to make a video call...
[myTouch 4G General] :
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056793 this method should work to. You can also use root explorer
[Samsung Mesmerize] veteranmina:
Okay, I have android 2.2, the SuperClean 2.9.2 (or whatever new rom version it is), with voodoo activated. and the iamnuts_50_voodoo kernel on my phone. I am reading up about radios on the phone and if I understand correctly certain roms need certain radios to work. First off I cannot find what radio version I have and also I need to know if I need a certain version of radio for this current rom that I am using. Thank you.
[Samsung Mesmerize] defenestrado:
Go to Settings > About phone and your radio is the last part of Baseband version. If you haven't specifically flashed another one, it's probably EC10. If you're running the version of that rom that was fixed for the Mesmerize, you're fine. If you're not, your phone should not be working. People who have flashed the newer EC01 radio have to use Fascinate roms because it's a Fascinate radio.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1037918

This probably explains it better than I can.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dachau:
Hi, I got the stock JVB running with supercurios hacked kernel and ext4 lagfix applied. I want to flash Juwes ROM 4.1 now. There are 2 versions, one with WIPE and one without WIPE. I am planning to flash the NO WIPE version to keep my apps and settings.

Do I have to undo the ext4 lagfix before flashing? Juwe says "to make sure", that does sound kind of optional...

I already did a lagfix-undo once and I experienced FCs after it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dachau:
Just installed it without lagfix-undo and without any wipes. everything seems to work fine so far.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gazzaingichki:
i m using foryo 2.2 on mytouch slide and haqve recently made a hard reset to my phone then after the hard reset my phone screen is off and it wont show anything. it didnt faal down or dont have any other mistake plz heeeeeeeeeeeeeelp:confused:
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bunu:
1) turn the phone on

2) charge the phone, then turn the phone on

3)Please learn how to type in English

4)see if you can get into bootloader (press and hold back button and power on)
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gazzaingichki:
i did all but still facing the prob the phone is start and it start but screen is off :(
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sturm28:
dear friend if we could understand more about what going on would be glad to help when you dont get real discriptive its hard to understand whats going on with the phone first off what are you running just 2.2 or offical 2.2 are you s-off or on what recovery you running if unoffical 2e rec if offical 3e these are all very important factors also have you messed with hboot or fastboot hell are you rooted or not lol please reply back with some more detailed info and i would be glad to help you with whatever i am pretty good with adb and android so let me know emails go directly to phone hit me up if your still having issues thanks
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tuvan03:
Does anyone have any idea why a Hero would for no apparent reason while sitting on a charger go into a reboot cycle only bringing up the htc sign and then the phone with triangle and exclamation point and do nothing else? the phone has never been rooted or anything just did that on its own.

Would running the Regawmod rooter exe possibly fix this?

Also i have another Hero i was given that i have tried to run the rooter on but everytime i do i get the error "Necessary HTC drivers are missing".

i have tried three different versions of HTC sync since i don't know where to get the drivers seperately. all with the same result. any help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] laie1472:
Tap my avatar or search the hero dev section for my thread on how to install adb. Try those drivers and see if they work for you. If they do then try the hero rooter or run the ruu.

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