yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 Android NAND Development] carolinakidd:
Yea i saw it too..i got my fingers crossed that the Kernel Source Code and Binaries are released soon!!!!!!!!! Im ready to have a sense 3.0 rom or GB rom with out the glitches and non working camcorder....oh yea and 720p recording :D lol
[HD2 Android NAND Development] chippywone:
i cant wait!!!

i caNT WAIT FOR THIS hd2 does everything.. lets see wat happens
[HD2 Android NAND Development] calvinfoo:
Oh desire source almost out. Probably a few weeks.

Graphics glitches begone!

Wish all devs good luck.
[HD2 Android NAND Development] :
Hopefully the Desire update won't just be an update that patches files.. that is the worst kind of rom to start from.. (especially with the apply_patch and ".p" files..)
[HD2 Android NAND Development] carolinakidd:
Looks like the desire will be gettin GB update by end of July! #NICE!!!!
[HD2 Android NAND Development] protomanez:
A note to XDA members,

About a million posts on this forum section are comments about saying good luck to developers. Please stop spamming the forum with all these comments, as twenty other people probably said something about them being excited or grateful for our devs. Comments in the developer section should be useful with reporting bugs/ new information. Please bring your appreciation to somewhere other than a development thread as it is a pain in the ass to try and find useful information without having to have to skip posts because they're just messages about people being excited, I can understand your anxiety but please, stop.

Thanks :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] mann9211:
Hiii frndz,

i m new to android i just bought a new Galaxy S i9000 the ques. is that ho can i enable usb otg on my android device having 2.3 ginger bread plzzzzz help me.....

thank u

regards

Manish
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] petsasj:
You asked in the wrong section.

& i really dont know if usb on-the-go is available on the galaxy s. do you want to connect an external usb stick or something like that? please try and explain a bit more what you mean by "usb otg"
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] nchc:
Quick answer: No

Long answer : Yes, if a kernel dev works some magic, but not at this stage.

Refer to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=709135&highlight=USB+Host

Funny thing is that the above link was created exactly a year ago

Hope that helps as much as the search feature ;)
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Hey all,

I've installed Debian on my Xoom with the help of a few kernel patches applied to the Tiamat Sources and thought I'd share.

I can't post in the development section because I don't have enough posts. (Admin edit: Now in Development!)

[YOUTUBE]lKLLZaEeGEk[/YOUTUBE]

I've got a full writeup of the process of installation from the ground up below

I'll be uploading the rootfs and boot.img for it when I get a chance, but i just thought some people would be interested to know that it is indeed possible (without VNC or Chroot...)

WiFi works under linux when you manually run wpasupplicant, the modem is detected by network-manager automatically and I've gotten the touchscreen working so it's actually pretty usable. no sound or graphics acceleration though as they rely on binary blobs from Nvidia.

Cheers,

Matt
[Xoom Android Development] allyourbasekris:
Wow fantastic work, soon as I have some time to dedicate to this, I"m going to have a crack at it.
[Xoom Android Development] gqstatus0685:
Reserved. Awesome. Hey OP just bump this thread to get your post count up so you can post this in developement. I was looking for an alternative that didn't require vnc.
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
I've asked a mod to move it now, I think I have the required postcount now anyway.

Just to note, you should be able to install Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora etc as long as you can build the root and the initrd for it.

If you do go through with this, be sure to post here! I'd love to see some ubuntu or gentoo or anything running on people's xooms really.

Also, I'm currently uploading a video I made showing how usable it really is

Cheers
[Xoom Android Development] bilago:
maybe one day we can have a dual boot....<insert e-gasm>
[Xoom Android Development] Kippui:
Another reason xoom is a great tablet. I'm not linux savvy so I hope this becomes much easier in the future.
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Actually, you kinda can!

If you don't need 3G support under Linux, you can flash the boot.img to the recovery partition and boot it that way.

If you need to use CWR later you can just restore the partition from a backup
[Xoom Android Development] Kippui:
Can you post a pre configured build for users that dont know much about linux can use once you get sound working?
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Unfortunately it's not likely I'll get the sound working due to the proprietary nature of the sound drivers. I should be able to upload the prebuilt packages soon though.
[Xoom Android Development] kuroguy:
Isn't sound support typically built into the kernel or at least built as a kernel module? Is there something i'm missing?
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Hey,

The problem with the sound is the same reason there is no GPU Acceleration, it requires proprietary support from NVidia binary blobs that I don't have.

It's possible I will be able to get it going properly once they release the next Linux4Tegra, but I'm not sure.
[Xoom Android Development] equid0x:
I've tried to get this going with Gentoo all weekend. I can't seem to get any boot.img to boot on the Xoom once flashed (just stays frozen at the Moto logo). Apparently fastboot boot is locked out as well so I am unable to get any debug info on screen...
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Hey equid0x

I'd be glad to help

Did you make sure to enable vt support in your kernel and set console=tty0 in your boot parameters?

Is it rebooting itself when you try to use your boot.img? if so make sure your initrd is being stored in the SRV4 format, you can do this by gunziping it then type file initramdisk.img which will tell you the version.

if that doesn't help let me know
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
looks like i left out a step in the kernel config section

which is "go to Device Drivers > Graphics Support > Console Display Driver support > enable "Framebuffer Console Support" " after enabling VT Support

I've updated the OP now.
[Xoom Android Development] ruqqq:
hi LIV2, interesting stuff you're working on here. i'm not sure if you're aware, if you aren't this is gonna be a good news most likely: http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?56505-Linux-for-Tegra-release-12-alpha-1-Released

I believed there are binary blobs inside the package (haven't got the time to look at it), but there might be kernel changes needed to make it work too. I'm not sure as I'm not an expert in this area. But hopefully, this would realize a full blown linux OS on our Xoom.
[Xoom Android Development] Hyperion82:
Hebrew + Easy Dual Boot + Awesomeness :)

Well aint this something !!!

Have been waiting for this type of functionality for a long time !!! This absolutely awesome !! :)

So first of all - THANK YOU !

Second of all - Is there any chance you could include hebrew package with the RTL support ?

P.S : the dual boot idea is cool, but is there a way to make the device just boot into linux with a click on an icon ? (I mean run an app from android that'll reboot the tab into debian)
[Xoom Android Development] eldarerathis:
Firstly: this is awesome. Thank you for putting this how-to together. I've been wanting to boot Linux natively off my Xoom pretty much since the day I got it.

I originally tried to set up the chroot environment on Fedora and had all kinds of weird issues with the packages. I'm not sure if it was me or Fedora, but I ended up doing it in an Ubuntu VM instead and it worked out fine. Ultimately I'd like to actually get Fedora on the Xoom (maybe Ubuntu if I can get Unity to behave; the interface could be nice with a touchscreen).

Also, a question: How did you get your wifi set up? You noted that wpa_supplicant would work but I don't even seem to have a wifi interface present unless it has a name other than wlanX. It's not the usb0 interface, is it? My 3G adapter seems like it's recognized in the NM applet but I don't have a data plan, so it doesn't do me much good.

Lastly, I'll add a picture to the collection. Nothing super exciting - this is XFCE running on top of Debian. I've never been a big fan of GNOME and I figured it might be a little snappier :P
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Awesome :)

I've compiled a kernel with the audio components from the L4T Kernel sources but they don't seem to include codec support for the Xoom, I'm still playing around with this

However that is going to hopefully help with GPU support :D

I'll see what I can find re: language. shouldn't be too difficult, it'd just be a few different steps

As for the dualboot idea, it'd be possible to do so but I'm no coder :P

All it'd require is dding the boot img from within android, not sure how the NAND would hold up to constant rewrites though

Awesome!

Something I have to add to the guide is the wifi, to do this you should have the module for bcm4329 in your /lib/modules somewhere

so to use it, run modprobe bcm4329 nvram_path=/lib/firmware/bcm4329.cal firmware_path=/lib/firmware/fw_bcm4329.bin

then you should see the interface as eth0

you'll need to make sure your wpa_supplicant conf has ap_scan=1 and fast_reauth=1 set, otherwise it won't find any APs
[Xoom Android Development] eldarerathis:
D'oh, I didn't even think to try running modprobe, I just assumed it was loaded :o That was the ticket, and wireless is working great (posting from the Debian install now!).

Looks like it's play time for me...thanks again!
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Cool!

I'm working on the GPU support now, the L4T package has the relevant binaries but for some reason it's just crashing X and giving me a black screen. I think it's to do with my kernel config. I'll keep you all posted though.

eldarerathis: make sure to give florence a go, it's a great on screen keyboard :D
[Xoom Android Development] eldarerathis:
Is that the one you were using in your video? I actually meant to ask but I forgot. It looks way nicer than GOK and matchbox-keyboard.
[Xoom Android Development] ruqqq:
hmm.. this is written in the release notes:

I believe our Tegra 2 is not the Harmony chipset. It is hard to find the chipset reference for our Xoom. Though it should be in the kernel sources. Eitherway, perhaps this is why the blobs doesn't work?

btw: we do have drivers to read the eMMC/mtd right? if so, can we install the rootfs to the internal memory?
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Yep, it's what I'm using and I love it

You're probably right, what a pain in the ass! it probably explains why we're having that issue.

And yeah, eMMC works. you can mount the android rootfs with this kernel so you shouldn't have a problem booting from internal storage.
[Xoom Android Development] ruqqq:
heh. then let's just wait for Alpha 2. hopefully the drivers are there. would be awesome to have a full blown linux distro on our xoom. i'm looking at ubuntu + unity for touch screen.
[Xoom Android Development] plasmastrike:
I've got a transformer so can't completely share with this yet but awesome that somebody got linux on these devices because they are being for them with the hardware these devices have:)
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
hey plasmastrike, You'll be happy to learn that a couple of guys are working on the transformer + linux too :)
[Xoom Android Development] ppirate:
I'm on a transformer too. LIV2, the work you've done helps us all!
[Xoom Android Development] plasmastrike:
I found out about this on the transformer forum, they had a link
[Xoom Android Development] equid0x:
I will need to check my kernel config and boot params and initrd format. I'll probably give it another go this weekend when I have some spare time. I've cross compiled several different kernels -- a couple with armv7a and a couple with a different cross compiler (arm5 maybe?). 2 of them are based on the Tiamat 1.4.4 git with gnu patches and 2 of them from the Tegra Linux source at Nvidia... all compiled successfully and flashed and all stay stuck at the Motorola logo.

I emerged all the cross compilation environment from Gentoo on my laptop so I am not sure if its a kernel/config issue or a problem with the cross compilers I've built. I have very little experience with cross compiling on arm architecture in general, so I've been doing a lot of reading.
[Xoom Android Development] mazodude:
Can anyone please upload a pre-compiled boot.img

(I don't have a linux system to make it on)
[Xoom Android Development] dr_derqami:
Ok
[Xoom Android Development] coreytsd:
Gidday LIV2. Great write up mate.

Just want to run something by you that's come up. I get an error when attempting to download/install the apps from

# apt–get install xserver–xorg–video–fbdev xserver–xorg–input–evdev gdm3 gnome initramfs–tools wpa-supplicant

It's the wpa-supplicant that throws back an error. If I remove the hyphen (i.e. wpasupplicant) I'm able to push past the error and install the apps.

Would you be able to confirm if wpasupplicant is the same as wpa-supplicant?

Thanks heaps, looking forward to getting some linux on my Xoom :)
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
yeah sorry you're right, i'll fix that up.
[Xoom Android Development] damis648:
Would it be possible for someone to upload their initramfs file? I'm having a little bit of trouble. Or even just a boot.img would work too. Thanks in advance.
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
here you go that's the boot.img I'm using at the moment.
[Xoom Android Development] damis648:
Hmm... since I don't have the modules for that kernel, I tried extracting them from the ramdisk, but that didn't work... could you upload them, perhaps?
[Xoom Android Development] mazodude:
Thanks mate :D

(BTW I do have linux but I just havn't got around to fixing it :()
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
hey

I've updated the boot.img so download it again

Then download the matching modules

Cheers
[Xoom Android Development] Kh_Shad:
I wanna try to setup native Ubuntu on my Acer Iconia A500. I have a question can I use fastboot through the adb on PC and should I need unlock boot?
[Xoom Android Development] xfirelove:
ext4-fs

It hang at Ext4-fs write access will be enabled during recovery
[Xoom Android Development] xfirelove:
undervolt

when I booting its show error"failed to find undervolt for rate 170000000"

pls help me

thanks
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Odd, which kernel did you use, and could you send me your boot.img?

It sounds like it's an issue with the tiamat overclock capabilities, but mine doesn't have that issue and I'm not using the overclock feature either.

Cheers,

Matt
[Xoom Android Development] xfirelove:
I use Tiamat-AOSP-Tiamat-Xoom-20b310c to compile.

Tiamat Xoom 1.4.4 "Full Throttle Baby! 1.7G

can you post your Tiamat-AOSP-Tiamat-Xoom ?

Thanks
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
There's a link to mine on page 2, download my boot.img and modules package and use them
[Xoom Android Development] dirtymindedx:
i wonder if you can install grub loader now and then load win 7 on the sd card or something this would be amazing.
[Xoom Android Development] Djhg2000:
AFAIK, Windows 7 can't run on ARM without QEMU. It wouldn't be very useful.
[Xoom Android Development] rstat1:
Your boot image seems to be a tad bit too big to flash to my Xoom sucessfully.
[Xoom Android Development] Girvo:
LinuxInsideV2? :)
[Xoom Android Development] bigrushdog:
Me and solarnz have been doing some work with wpa-supplicant and brcmfmac. We should get together and share war stories. I think our works may be crossing paths. Hit me on irc when u can. Thanks and great job. I think i'll fire up this distro and take it for a test drive.
[Xoom Android Development] Salpula:
Altered the quote to read in a way that might be a more realistic possibility.

edit: Windows 8 is supposed to support ARM, for those who may not be aware.
[Xoom Android Development] ralle.gade:
need a bit help

could you please give us th source code for exactly your kernel on github as it's pretty hard (at least for me) to get the kernel patched

and i am not able to use your precompiled image...

in advance thanks :)
[Xoom Android Development] Kevterminator:
Can it be done with Tiamat Katana? :(
[Xoom Android Development] tonyb15re:
Have to say I would be interested in a Dual Boot with Windows 8 Tablet being one of them, there are some apps that I have that will only run on Windows unfortunately...
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Yeah that shouldn't be an issue, I just didn't originally do this because I haven't got the time or the patience to keep the branch up to date when newer kernels come out.

But I guess that's the beauty of branches, you guys can then branch it :P
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
Girlvo? :P
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
I've been away for a while, how did you go with the install?

I'm idling in #xoom now, but I don't think you're online
[Xoom Android Development] ralle.gade:
hey liv2 thank you :) you don't need to keep the branch up to date, i'll do that if you would like me to.

aswell i have my own source, just got problems with compiling it... it's strange cause it's the same problems i get with the aosp source code so it's going to be my toolchain which is fu***d up.

would you like me to share the source? and hey pop me a personal message if you want to collaborate

regards from ralle.gade ;)
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
I'll sort out the sources this weekend, I don't have access to my Debian install on my PC at the moment.

If anyone is looking for me, I'll be idling on #xoom
[Xoom Android Development] rebill:
There'll be two versions of Windows 8. An arm version and an x86 version. The arm versiin will not be able to run regular windows programs. You'd need a regular pc, laptop or x86 tablet for that.
[Xoom Android Development] LIV2:
I've forked Tiamat and patched it, you can find it here:

https://github.com/LIV2/LIV2-Xoom-GNU

The branch I've worked on is Tiamat stock GPU
[Xoom Android Development] ralle.gade:
Nice

Hey liv2 nice work :)

going to compile and get it sorted out as soon as i get home
[Xoom Android Development] ruvort:
Amazing work going on here :) I really want to give this a try for sure..
[Xoom Android Development] Elvenblood:
Great work

Being a novice in the linux area, I can't really say if this might be of any use:

developer.nvidia.com/content/linux-tegra-release-12-alpha-1-released

But as far as I can see it should contain drivers for the Tegra 2 chip.
[Xoom Android Development] tallnerd1985:
I was wondering if anybody here has any built rootfs for ubuntu that they can upload?
[Xoom Android Development] joe ferreira:
I was hoping someone would have made this available in CWM. I really want to try it but my linux box is dedicated as the primary buildbot for the atrix-dev-team's cyanogenmod work.
[Xoom Android Development] me11o:
Any word yet on getting GPU support?
[Xoom Android Development] devilsden:
Can someone please upload initrd.img.gz, System.map and kernel as I cannot compile no matter what I do
[Xoom Android Development] devilsden:
Error when flashing boot.img

Flashed image is larger than partition size

Error 2

Is there a way to increase the boot partition size

I'm on MZ601
[Xoom Android Development] ruqqq:
hi LIV2,

Ventana drivers are now available. http://developer.nvidia.com/linux-tegra

Any chance on helping to make GPU accel and sound work?
[Xoom Android Development] ustrucx:
LIV2 this is some great work, you should make a market app for this and then make a paid version for the people who feels like donating.

This is the kind of stuff i would use to work on the go, I am a web designer and I need real text editors like gEdit and the chrooted way doesnt quite cut it. I cant try it out now my linux box is away, does usb host work for usb mouse/keyboard? How about hdmi out?

LIV2 I hope you kep this project going as it is very usefull for a whole bunch of people! Think about the market app, I would buy it instantly.
[Xoom Android Development] gaganpattanayak:
Hi one of the requirements is

"A running install of Debian, Ubuntu might work too"

I have a windows xp machine is there any way I can have linux on my xoom. I am an end user and slowly getting fascinated by these things
[Xoom Android Development] joe ferreira:
CWM?

does anyone still use this and could upload boot.img and system.img files for this?

I will create a CWM package if possible.
[Xoom Android Development] tmeklr:
Just do it please

yes... create a thead and sure it will be a stcky verry soon... i also try to do it but i can't compile the kernel i have no idea why i cand' no matter what i do.
[Xoom Android Development] ilanp13:
doing all this on ubuntu

thanks for this guide! was looking for something like this for long time...

i've got a question:

i'm trying to do this on my ubuntu 12.10 (you said it might work on ubuntu too).

and in the very begining - when i try to run this:

sudo /usr/sbin/debootstrap ––foreign ––arch armel squeeze deb_arm/ http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian

i get the error:

E: No such script: squeeze

i've installed squeeze (sudo apt-get install squeeze) - but again with no change.

now it's prolly some n00b thing - but i am after all, a n00b in this part.

thanks in advance!
[Xoom Android Development] illuminate7:
Awesome --- keep it up!

awesome awesome awesome +

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

:good:

So what is the current status on this project?

What is working and what not? ....

Sound, Camera 1 / Camera 2, UMTS, USB, GPS, WLAN, BLUETOOTH??

Can anybody please drop a few lines here on that and give us an update?

The XOOM is very nice and handy since it has UMTS right away build in.

Now we need to get rid of the

nasty GOOGLE spy crap

and

can use that device as productive as possible

.

I have read somewhere that someone was doing this but on a different device and just made a symlink to the ALSA device driver and got it working this way.... :confused:

I would really love to see debia etc. working on the Motorola XOOM and like to donate, too........
[Xoom Android Development] Mjamocha:
Project/Thread Status: Two years old - Not Active
[Xoom Android Development] iPWNtehNOOB:
I'm extremely sorry to bump such an old thread, but I was wondering if anybody had a working boot.img for this? I've tried making my own for the past two days now, however it's too large to flash. I also tried the one posted earlier in this thread, but that was too large too.

E:/ Figured it out. Use a Honeycomb boot.img as it is smaller. All working fine.
[Xoom Android Development] armido:
When you say all working fine, what exactly are you saying?

What is working? What is not working?
[Xoom Android Development] armido:
Since Cyanogenmod Big Part project has enabled xoom users to enlarge the root partition to 1 gigabyte, what's the probability the original boot.img and steps provided in this thread will work on a xoom with a big part partition?

Anybody?
[Xoom Android Development] matt4321:
it won't work
[Xoom Android Development] anvarxda:
i have followed the instructions in thsi thread but unable to find the resulting xorg config after exiting chroot. where is xorg config saved when chroot creates the deb_arm codes?
[Xoom Android Development] anvarxda:
igonore my last email. xorg is on the first page as part of instructions to download.
[Xoom Android Development] tarikkaya:
Please write the current script. to install in windows environment. Update links. The links are dead. and the topic is still being followed.
[Xoom Android Development] ZakathXIII:
need some help

i for the life of me can not get this to work i get a lot of errors. i have tried everything i can with no avail it wont spit out a zImag file i have the deb_arm ready but no way to get the boot file. any help would be accepted