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[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dvhh:
without nvflash on sbk2 , I guess it is pretty difficult ( the near impossible kind ), the chance of bricking you devices are too high. You'd better stick to a chroot one.

Without nvflash:

- no repartition possible, that mean using an existing one( risky ), or a Micro sd card (slow !).

- if troubles occurs, restoring is again difficult.

- Risk of bricking up a device is pretty high.

- I don't think any dev here got an sbk2 device ( but I think they would gladly accept a couple as a gift for testing ).

- The transformer prime unlocking, pushed the legacy device into low priority (if it would come one day).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
Repartitioning is possible on an SBKv2 device, its risks make it impractical and well outright dumb to do :) this is where the biggest part of the brick risk comes from.

I don't have an SBKv2 device, but that is irrelevant because an SBK leak is an SBK leak and it will just work.

Transformer Prime is not even on my radar at the moment, I do not have a Transformer Prime and as such I cannot support the device, but with the current theory of how the unlock will work, it will not help.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
I could be wrong, since it's been a while since I did it, but I believe nvflash doesn't support images larger than 4 GB. The annoying thing is that this is a trivial bug to fix, but nothing can be done about it because nvflash is closed source.

For a workaround, you can create the partition under nvflash/OLiFE then use dd under Android to write the image from a SD card / USB drive / network path / SSH connection / etc.

If you're working with a custom image you're unlikely to run into that problem though, since it's faster to simply flash a minimal installation and use apt-get to install the rest than to create the image using QEMU on a desktop.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tanguita:
I understand what you say. I did have ubuntu and revolver installed.... i just want to have cwm as well. Thats why I wanted to create these files.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jazztrmpter:
Oh, okay. Look back a page or two, somebody gave a way to flash cwm and dual boot.

ASUS Transformer tf101 32gb + dock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jonah!:
Can i substitute ubuntu with an another distribution (debian), taking the image of the OS and renaming it "ubuntu.img"or this one provided has special tweaks, patches?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
yes and yes

i am working in debian image, you can just rename it as ubuntu.img and it will work with olife, but yes, there are many tweaks you will have to do in order to make it work properly. I don't have so much time rigth now, i won't be able to work deeply in this till mid february, but if you wan't to give it a try i sugest to use armhf architecture instead of armel. It's optimized for this hardware.

For now i don't know why but i have only been able to make work wifi in ad hoc mode or managed without encryption. And adb does not work in debian either for now.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
actually no, there isn't that much needed, the only reason debian has some troubles with the touchscreen is because evdev does not have support for full multitouch, and the touch driver is full multitouch only.

adb doesn't work because you haven't added the daemon and init.d script to start it
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
thanks for the tip, and the issue with the wifi? I can't understand what happens. I am using the same driver, the same firmware. Damm it! i've also tried to clone /etc and /lib/firmware folders from your ubuntu image with no results. I am missing something...
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
yes, you have to do it manually, the patch to the driver is for network manager
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
do you mean it doesn't work with iwconfig command?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefunkygibbon:
just installed this after putting it off for months... little bit disappointed with the general sluggishness of it to be honest. as may well have said a few times before, it might have been an option to port lubuntu instead , it may well run a little better. (unity is horrid anyway, in my opinion)

ace job though lilstevie

also i know theres gunna be loads of stuff that doesnt work.. not tried sound/video etc yet. but is there any way of suspending? its a touch impractical to shutdown each time you want to save some battery.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jazztrmpter:
Try updating to 12.04, then change your desktop to the old Gnome setup. 12.04 Alpha fixes the built in battery meter, showing both the dock and the tablet's battery. You don't have to update to get the old Gnome desktop back; I just think the 12.04 update is progress, and progress is great. When you type in your username, click the settings icon next to the login box, and change to Gnome. It will run faster, and will probably be easier to use on the tablet.

Also, if you want it to run even faster, download and install Light Desktop Environment from the software center. I haven't tried LDE, but I have heard it runs great. Read about it here.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blk_jack:
I run XFCE4 myself with 11.10 and it's a lot faster than unity.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thefunkygibbon:
cool, yeah thats what lubuntu has as its desktop, LXDE.

How do you propose updating to 12.04? I assume one cannot just update from within the ubuntu environment given that i thought this build of ubuntu was tailored specifically for the transformer by lilstevie?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eLar19:
i've upgrated to 12.04, but the cpu usage is 99%-10% alternatively between 1° and 2° cpu :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jazztrmpter:
Backtrack 5 Networking

I've re-flashed my Transformer with BT 5 and Prime 2.1, and it's great. BT5 runs fast, and boots up faster than Ubuntu 11.10/12.04 did. Even Prime starts up much quicker for some reason.

Anyways, there seems to be lots of configuration to be done. Wireless doesn't work; Network manager or Wicd aren't even installed in the image! There is no Preferences or Administration menu under System like in the desktop version. No synaptic package manager either.

If I can't get the wireless function enabled by the end of tonight (~10 more hours for me)...I'll ask for some help.

I am probably wrong, but I will try first to install either Wicd or Network Manager from a package I'll download on another linux computer. Any other ideas?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jazztrmpter:
Here's another member's post from a few pages ago about updating:

ASUS Transformer tf101 32gb + dock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jazztrmpter:
Backtrack 5 ARM on Transformer

Here are some pics of my tablet running BT5, just to confirm for others seeking the same installation. Once again, this is not the chroot/vnc method. This is flashed with OLiFE, and booted upon start-up:

This picture is of the System menu. There are literally no options to configure system settings anywhere, like there are in the desktop version.

I'm still not getting any progress with wireless setup. lshw shows that the two network interfaces that should be used are disabled. Is there something I'm missing that's super easy and right in front of me?

Output of lshw:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
Find me on freenode in #asus-transformer, I am happy enough to help get this running, and maintain an image for download but I will need someone to help with testing
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jazztrmpter:
That'd be great. Let's do it!

ASUS Transformer tf101 32gb + dock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Well... if you are willing to run an unstable/experimental mix:

xserver-xorg-input-evdev (1:2.6.99.901-1) experimental; urgency=low

[ Timo Aaltonen ]

* Remove obsolete .manpages.

[ Cyril Brulebois ]

* New upstream release candidate, with multitouch support.

* Update build dependencies:

- Add libudev-dev and libmtdev-dev.

- Bump xserver-xorg-dev and x11proto-input-dev.

* Add patch to fix udev/libudev detection:

- 0001-configure.ac-Fix-udev-libudev-dependency.patch

Ubuntu 12.04 is using xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.6.99.901-1ubuntu3, so as long as the multitouch support is not in the "ubuntu3" patches, then it should be possible, right? :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
multitouch was introduced into ubuntu at 11.04 and is part of the ubuntu overlay to evdev
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
It's working perfect, i've tried it in my debian armhf and debian armel images and works good, you can try it if you want. i've posted in my thread a link. That image is small, and doesn't have any desktop enviroment but it has xserver-xorg installed with experimental package for input-evdev. That way you only have to flash it run postinstalation.sh and apt-get install lxde gnome kde-plasma-netbook/desktop or whatever you want to try.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stark0:
I would like to put a 3.2 rom but I don't know how to do this without the custom recovery.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] commandersafi:
Take a look at post 61

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=16150275&postcount=61

The last command has a little typo in it. Change from:

./nvflash --resume --read 9 image/system.img #system

to:

./nvflash --resume --read 9 images/system.img #system

Also, I'm having a problem going between Ubuntu and Android. After booting into Ubuntu when I shutdown and start up again to get to Android it automatically boots into Ubuntu again. To get back to Android I have to boot up holding vol. down and let it go to the wipe data menu then press vol. down again to cancel wiping and it boots Android. Is it supposed to work that way?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whiskeycoke:
It depends on which flash you used. Looks like you probably used flash-linux.sh to default to Ubuntu. Hold power and volume down to get to the boot loader and immediately press vol. up before your 5 seconds are up. This will take you to the non-default OS.

lilstevie has mentioned being able to flash new android roms but I as I recall he's working on a script to give us CWR to flash the new rom and then another script to get back to the Android/Ubuntu boot option. I'm sure there is a manual way of doing this but I haven't figured it out yet. I may have misunderstood though so take it for what it's worth.

And, if you simply what to get back to Android only, one of the last two scripts will get you there. I'll have to give those a try and see how they work.

flash-purelinux.sh for a pure ubuntu setup, this is no android

recovery is ubuntu single user mode.

flash-linux-android.sh for installing android and linux dual boot

with android as the default OS. To boot into linux hold power+vol-down

until prompted on screen to press vol-up.

flash-linux.sh for installing android and linux in dual boot with

android and linux, linux is the default OS, to boot into android

hold power+vol-down until prompted on screen to press vol-up.

flash-android.sh for installing android only, no linux, use this to restore

back to a android only state, this will retain the blobs-be-gone enhancement.

restore-default.sh for reverting to a factory state, this restores the emmc

layout back to how it was before running any of the scripts in this pack.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] commandersafi:
I used flash-linux-android.sh. And I know it's set up correct as Android as default and Ubuntu as non-Default since by booting holding vol. down then pressing vol. up it takes me to Ubuntu as it should.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcarrz1:
I have the same issue, worked once or twice (properly).

used flash-linux-android.

Boy, you're good at copy and pasting!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
did either of you try to boot to recovery from the android power option. I have a feeling that doing that may set something in a boot parameter somewhere that does not get unset with the ubuntu kernel
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
ok so a few of you are wondering what the blobs-be-gone enhancement is, this maps the kernel so that it can be flashed with a standard method. nothing uses it as of yet outside of the experimental flash kernel support in ubuntu, but you can flash your kernel like any other android device from userland. blobs still work with this, it just gives you another option
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
If you have no idea how to use Linux, I suggest that you don't install it on your Transformer until you do. Remember that this is still a work in progress, meaning a lot of things don't work. If you have no idea what you're doing, there's a good chance that will make it a lot harder for you.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jcarrz1:
thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to know.

As far as the booting problem, after the first couple boots (and maybe after dist-upgrade, i don't know) it flipped so that in order to get into android I have to do volume down then up. Ubuntu is supposed to be triggered by volume, and android is default; this only happened a couple of times (for me at least)

Thanks for all your hard work
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
it is something that has been really hard to diagnose, I have not been able to reliably reproduce the issue, but I have reproduced it once, under different conditions though
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salamandar:
Having awesome fun with this, got wifi working at home, did a system update, rebooted (sucker boots FAST!) and did some installs and tinkering, added putty, attempted wine lol! VLC works just slow frame rate but i'm sure it will be better when we have hardware acceleration. Still tinkering with work wifi did some searching on wpa_supplicant.conf settings and found some good info. I will report back success failure tomorrow night.

Thanks again lilstevie, really can't express how useful a tool the TF101 is to me already and now I get Ubuntu? Looking forward to the PPA (and bluetooth), rock on!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] konrad1337:
I have to go to the wipe menu as well to get back into Android even though android was flashed to be default. I do remember hitting a reboot to recovery flag. Was thinking of reflashing just the boot.img to see if that helped straightened things back out but haven't had the time as of late.

lilstevie, if you are in need of someone to test anything in regards to this issue, i am more than welcome to help as reproducing this issue isn't hard for me at this point.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aligatro2010:
how did you make vlc work? Mine just shows blackscreen. :confused:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Djhg2000:
My guess would be that he changed to something like the X11 video driver, but I don't have Ubuntu in my transformer yet so I haven't tested which is the fastest working one.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aligatro2010:
I tried all of the options and none of them let me see video image.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Djhg2000:
Oops, accidentally hit the "Thanks" button instead of "Quote" :eek:

Can you please try mplayer from the command line with the -vo x11 option?

If that doesn't work then please also try substituting x11 for sdl or caca?

Hope this gets us somewhere, I thought X11 was the most fail safe of all drivers but now I know that isn't the case, at least not for VLC. I guess in that sense you do deserve a thanks :cool:
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aligatro2010:
Tried VLC from console this time with -v X11 flag and still no luck. Mplayer work without any options, but colors are messed up. Red is blue, skin color is blue. -vo x11 makes no difference.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salamandar:
My apologies gents just tried to play a number of files and now VLC won't even launch, yet movie player and banshee show the stop motion picture I previously described. I suspect when I played a video before my finger must have pressed banshee instead of VLC without realizing it. Although Movie Player and Banshee are equally encouraging. I would like to stress that video playback is not a concern of mine (I set up dual boot and android plays my videos just fine with some amazing battery life, something i doubt Ubuntu on the Eee pad can match). My true giddiness stems from my ability to use this as a work tool. My job requires I write to, format and clean (fsck) SD cards, do remote log in sessions, and execute scripts remotely. when you mix in some putty goodness, gedit and scripts and I have a fully functional lightweight device I can use in the field!
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djUniversal:
Question on partitions A1 vs B1

Just a quick question.

I have the 32gb version. When you partition with nvflash is it set up for 16gb or 32gb version? and what are the partition sizes/types?

Just want to make sure I'm not going to lose 16gb in the process of putting ubuntu on my transformer.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
the flash config is adaptive, /data will fill all but the last 4.4gb for ubuntu
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
Did you also install xserver-xorg-core from experimental? It is supposed to already have the official multitouch (MT) support. We're still missing MT support in gnome... but that may be merged in around March [1].

EVen though I am a long time Debian supporter, I'm not sure it is worth the added effort at the moment. Ubuntu is focused on supporting ARM officially and they are doing a great work optimizing everything [2]. According to their official page [3]: "The primary difference is the ISA and instruction set targeted in Ubuntu (ARMv7 mostly Thumb2), rendering nearly all packages incompatible at a binary level", so it's possible that their packages are more efficient than Debian's.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0NTc

[2] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_omap4460

[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
yes, i did install xserver-xorg-core from experimental, but i also tried to to mixe it with unstable/wheezy xserver-core because i installed a couple of nvidia-tegra unofficial packages with tegra libraries and xorg driver wich don't support the latest ABI.

It didn't work anyway, although the Xorg log was kind of "hoping?" it found screen but non usable, loaded modules and everithing, i think it may work with chrome os kernel, i was using asus kernel so...

In the other hand, ubuntu's efforts are being reflected in debian, a lot of people say that ubuntu steals work from debian and do not retribute it but, it's not true, (at least is not right now).

So, ¿debian or ubuntu? well, i don't really now right now, obviusly all the changes in ubuntu they are going to be in debian later than in ubuntu, but right now ubuntu seems a better choice if you are thinking just about the present and you want it easy and "plug and play", but (there is always a but) debian works a bit faster (personal opinion) and there are more packages than in ubuntu's repository.

Also we have to keep looking at the new upcoming armhf architecture. I think it will be the best choice in the future, i've been trying it with lxde and if you are medium (or more like you) experienced user it's a really good option.

EDIT: have you been able to install and run uboot with chrome os kernel? i want to give it a try to those tegra drivers
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vhda:
I'm not even running Linux in my TF now. I got stuck on the uboot stuff some months ago and did not touch this since then. I'm hoping to look into that this weekend.

lilstevie: any updates from your side?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3n1g:
I've seen so many ways of isntalling ubuntu (and onther distros) that I'm pretty much confused at this point.

Wich is the better/stablest way to get it working?

Oh btw I have CWM with Revolver and I don't have linux on my pc, but I could get a live cd so that isn't really an issue. My main concern really is beeing able to run android and ubuntu (or other distro) even if to boot one and another I have to go to the recovery, but as I understand it I would lose CWM if I install ubuntu.

Oh and ofc, how hard would it be to return to android only if needed (if it doesn't go that well)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
It's safe an easy if you have an sbk1 device because this requires nvflash.

Yes, you will lose CWM, return to android it's as easy as install ubuntu, you have that option in OLiFE script.

If you have an sbk1 device it's safe. You will only lose data.

EDIT: and yes, you will have (if you want) dualboot, i am running revolver and debian
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 3n1g:
Yeah, just learned that my device is SBKv2.

So I guess I cannot run OLiFE because of that right?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaola:
rigth

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[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blaskovic:
So there is NO chance to get it work on SBKv2?

Is there anyone, who have it?

I have B80 (SBKv2), rooted, revolver rom.. I would love dualboot android vs ubuntu :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
Asus announced that they would offering an unlocked bootloader for the Prime, and later the original Transformers. This would probably allow the use of nvflash and therefore OLiFE, but I can't say for sure since I don't know the technical details.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
1) They only said prime, I saw no mention of the TF101 in that statement.

2) This will most likely be a fastboot solution and not an nvflash solution, leaving it incompatible with OLiFE, but not necessarily impossible.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
1) The version I read mentioned the TF101, though it's likely that it got distorted as it was passed along. Assuming that's the case, can the technique used to find SBKv1 be applied to SBKv2 devices?

2) Fastboot doesn't appear to have an option for repartitioning, just for flashing different partitions. I'm thinking dual boot could be accomplished with a loop mount easily enough, although the lack of repartitioning would be rather annoying for those who just wanted to run Linux.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
You can repartition through fastboot the gt540 uses fastboot and i remember making a custom .mbn for it and flashing that through fastboot to give me more user data space because i had slimmed down the system.

Shouldnt it be the same principle for the tf if they give it fastboot?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilstevie:
1) if by the same technique you mean can someone inside asus leak the SBK, then yes, the same technique can be used. :p

2) this is correct, fastboot on tegra does not appear to allow repartitioning of any form.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdnetto:
So that's how it got out. I always thought someone reverse engineered an Asus update program or something.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Danzano:
So it's a custom tailored fastboot for tegra with alot of limits?? Thats not cool hopefully you will find a fault/exploit lilstevie and crack it right open :D

I can't see why they would do that though if you are giving up your warranty you want to be able to do everything not everything in there little box. If they are only giving partial control then shouldnt they still give a partial warranty lol