yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Kindle Fire Android Development] anantshri:
cool looks like i have food for the weekend.

don't worry about my partitions they are already very much screwed but i do have 1GB reserved in ext2 for linux testing only.

once its done i might actually have 3 OS kindle stock, ICS and linux booting on my KF.

:P

Note: I would also suggest to have a look at spark http://plasma-active.org/ <- looks like a good candidate once we have proper X11 working or atleast get framebuffer to work.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashcode:
This could be due to the 2.6.35 touchscreen driver which needs to be updated.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
That's kinda what I was thinking... Got any ideas to get the stock 3.4 (or the stock 3.0.21) ilitek driver working? It compiles fine, loads fine, doesn't see the device though.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Jessical:
This is great so far! I wonder how the battery life would be under Linux. :P.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Battery life didn't seem too bad, I was installing a lot of packages and it went from 80% to 65%... Don't recall the time it took, but had to be about an hour, maybe more... At full processor load, that doesn't seem too bad to me.

In other news, I made some small mods to hash's FFF, to make use of u-boot's ramboot command to boot the linux kernel off another partition (#14 in my case, rootfs is on #13).

I would post it, but I doubt it would be useful to anyone, unless they are using the same partition mapping.

It's pretty easy to make the changes though, basically adding another menu option to hash's 3.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
I updated the original post.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] res1n:
Reminds me of the backtrack threads, they got the ARM version working on tons of phones using vnc for the display. Maybe that would work?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Sblood86:
Chroot is easy the idea here is to make the Linux OS function without any help or assistance from the android OS.

VNC is used to access the Linux image from android.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Yep, I got the display working anyway, the issue now is the touch screen.... well an issue depending on how you look at it, if you use a keyboard and mouse its a non-issue. Lol
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Hashcode:
Can you try the new touchscreen changes in this and see if it helps?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Could someone please post a boot.img with the root dir at /dev/block/mmcblk0p9?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
As a matter of fact, it does!

HOWEVER, I had to change the driver from the multitouch API to plain X/Y axes, for some reason it doesn't play well with evdev... And evtouch still crashes for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkLB0xNPmFs
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Thepooch:
this is really facinating what your working on and you are moving along quickly any chances of a future tabuntu? flashable?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Probably no flash solution, since you have to repartition... but I may come up with some kind of installer.

Any ARM distro should work though really.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] dangal:
Excellent work!!!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Two things.

1. How do i start X?

2. Now we wait for a Ubuntu rootfs. ;)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
'startx'

Though it probably won't be much use, I still need to clean up the special touchscreen driver and make a new kernel release.

Actually, if you do a little google searching, you can find an Ubuntu ARM rootfs that's just like the Debian one, it should work just as well.

I may even try doing a network install of Slackware (I use Slack on my personal laptop), just to see if it will work via USB tether (I don't really see why it wouldn't).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
I cant find a precompiled rootfs of ubuntu.. I might just be looking in the wrong places, but im at a loss...
[Kindle Fire Android Development] pokey9000:
You can always debootstrap .
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
I remember when the Google CR48's first came out there was a rootfs around for them. Perhaps one is still floating around?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
There is some info here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch
[Kindle Fire Android Development] slm4996:
Check out slatedroid gtablet section. I have a xubuntu or lxbuntu image i made over there.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Would I just dd it onto the partition?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] slm4996:
Yes, that would work.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Do I need a bs?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Every time i dd it onto the partition, it doesnt keep the ext4 fs in tact.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] slm4996:
If you dd it it won't, it will replace it with what the image contains.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
then how is it supposed to boot?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] slm4996:
Unless the original poster has crippled the kernel the file system had no effect on booting. I think I even remember a post saying that you can choose whatever fs you want... I'll report back when I finally get a chance to get my hands dirty with this kernel/fs combo.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
I updated the original post with some goodies, new kernel with working touchscreen (thanks to hash's new touchscreen updates)... As well as a new multiboot boot loader.

Still working on wifi, not working real hard at it though. lol

And yes, the kernel shouldn't care what you boot, as long as it's a proper linux environment on a supported file system.

I always compile my kernels with config support, so if you guys want the config, you could always extract it or I could post it... However, it won't work 100% with just hash's code, I made further changes to the touchscreen driver (which I will post up when it's a little cleaner).
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Oh, I'm also working on sound too... The drivers are working, and alsamixer works, but I think it just needs an alsa config set up for it.

Edit:

Ok, so WIFI is working now, updated OP with modules.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
posting this from chromium on debian squeeze from my kindle fire!

btw, xvkbd sucks. lol
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
I feel like such a noob... How do I install the wireless modules?

Edit: And on top of that, how do i set up wireless?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Modules go in /lib/modules/3.0.21+/, then just modprobe wl12xx and wl12xx_spi.

I used wpa_passphrase and wpa_supplicant to configure the wireless and dhclient to get an IP, but there are other ways... like the iw tools.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
I get a

FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/3.0.21+/modules.dep: No such file or directory

when i run modprobe.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Oh yeah, I forgot.. after copying the modules, run depmod.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
This is what i get when i try to turn the wifi on.

root@devel:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
wl12xx: open_count=0, add=1, current_fw=0
wl12xx: state=0
wifi_set_power: 1
wl12xx: ERROR could not get firmware ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-4-sr.bin: -2
wifi_set_power: 0
wifi_set_power: 1
wl12xx: ERROR could not get firmware ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-4-sr.bin: -2
wifi_set_power: 0
wifi_set_power: 1
wl12xx: ERROR could not get firmware ti-connectivity/wl127x-fw-4-sr.bin: -2
wifi_set_power: 0
wl12xx: ERROR firmware boot failed despite 3 retries
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Invalid Argument
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Boy, I keep forgetting stuff. Lol

Anyway, you need to copy the firmware from the android system partition (mmcblk0p9), its in /etc/firmware... copy them all to the Linux directory /lib/firmware

Then reboot and try again, it should work... I don't think I'm forgetting anything else.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Thanks. Lol. Ill keep you posted.

She lives!!!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Awesome, good to hear someone else has Linux running besides me!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
Okay. Last question. How do you set up a WPA2PSK network?

Edit: Nevermind! All is working. Now to install X11. :)
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
All is running well!! The only problem is the touch screen is rotated with X.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ectoplasmic:
Really interesting project!

Can you install and run the linux version of VLC? Does it work? Are there any screen sizing issues?

If I could get a working minimal linux with Chromium and VLC, I would go for that on my 2nd tablet.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Daniel120201:
This project looks amazing but is there a way to install the linux and the bootloader with TWRP and keep your backups.I don't like doing messing with the partitions and would like to keep android on my kindle.

Please post a zip of your project and it would be AMAZING!
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
On a side note, when I try using chromium, it will not load any pages. But if I ping the pages, it works.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Hmm, that's weird, all work fine here.

Also, you can flip and invert the axes for the touch screen in the evdev config.

To save your backups, I would just copy them to a PC via USB or wifi (or copy the whole sdcard if you like), that way you can change that partition with out permanently losing anything.

And if you use my boot loader, you can freely boot between android/recovery/Linux... as long as the Linux boot.img is flashed to a partition named 'linuxboot'.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
This is what i get when I run

Xorg -configure

debian@devel:~$ sudo Xorg -configure

X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32 armv5tel Debian
Current Operating System: Linux devel 3.0.21+ #29 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 11 18:50:13 CDT 2012 armv7l
Kernel command line: mem=512M vram=16M omapfb.vram=0:8M omapfb.vram=1:8M omapdss.def_disp=lcd2 console_blank=0 root=179:9
Build Date: 30 October 2011 09:07:45PM
xorg-server 2:1.7.7-14 (Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>)
Current version of pixman: 0.16.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Jun 13 20:17:03 2012
List of video drivers:
nv
s3
tseng
ark
r128
mach64
neomagic
mga
s3virge
omapfb
trident
rendition
savage
sisusb
cirrus
ati
radeon
siliconmotion
chips
voodoo
i740
tdfx
sis
i128
apm
fbdev
vesa
No devices to configure. Configuration failed.
debian@devel:~$
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Yeah, x configure doesn't work for me either, I had to create a conf file for omapfb in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
How exactly? Do i need special symlinks as well?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
No, nothing special, just a conf like the one there for evdev:

http://wiki.meego.com/images/00-device-omapfb.conf
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ectoplasmic:
Do either of you two have VLC working for video?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
I don't exactly know what you mean... Lol.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ectoplasmic:
VLC:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-debian.html
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
how do i flip the axis'?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
'man evdev'

Its all in the manual lol
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jmcoffey:
i set swapaxes to on but it didnt fix anything.. how can i be sure that x11 is looking at this file?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] Ectoplasmic:
It just occurred to me that Linux apps would have to be ported to ARM. I was initially thinking Linux apps would just work, but I guess not ;-) So there wouldn't be much in terms of apps that would run on Arm/Linux is there?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] anantshri:
Debian / Ubuntu has fully functioning arm ports so if your linux version is based on any of these you have large repository to back you with.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] anantshri:
why usb keyboard and not adb

Hey is there a way in which we can use adb as our way in and not OTG cable plus keyboard combo
[Kindle Fire Android Development] seishuku:
Adb could work, but its a bit of a pain... that's why I set it up with the ethernet/mass storage/serial gadget so you could SSH into the device, or with wifi up you can get to it that way as well.

I can take another look at using adb though.
[Kindle Fire Android Development] jsisaev:
touchscreen reverts

how can i solve this cause?
[Kindle Fire Android Development] freeqaz:
How did you guys get your wifi working? I've been playing around with it for a few hours now. Blarg
[Kindle Fire Android Development] freeqaz:
We need an armhf rootfs working! armel is super old and doesn't have all of the packages up-to-date that are required for some of the newer drivers to work. Been in a runaround for the last day over this. If we can get a build running from here: http://rcn-ee.net/deb/rootfs/ that has fb working... That'd be awesome. I tried very hard, to no avail. Blarg.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brockyneo:
Hi guys just a quick question does anyone know a good youtube downloaded that can download HD clips I use to use tubex which was excellent but doesn't work on ics:(

Thanks
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itsrijo:
I use tubemate on my gb note. Don't know if it will work on ics
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] priyanv:
Tubemate is the best.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] pikachukaki:
I saw this gif on net and i thought it will be a nice bootanimation..so i made it...feel freeto d/w it...if you like it! :P

http://pikachukaki.googlecode.com/files/bootanimation.zip
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tmp341:
Resolution : 240x360 :eek:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] BHDR:
thanks
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] akayhanlar:
Good

That's good thanks..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Tmp341:
Made flashable zip :D

2 version

this one for Aurora (installs /data/local route)

this one for others (installs /system/media route)

Sexy__bootanimation_by_pikachukaki_for_U8800_Aurora_ICS

Sexy__bootanimation_by_pikachukaki_for_U8800_Normal

Tested Aurora version, it worked :D use with caution :rolleyes:
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mjwiech:
Hi,

The bottom row of icons (dialer, contacts, s-note etc.) on all screens has disappeared. Only the Apps icon is left.

What can I do to get these icons back?

Kind regards

MJ Wiechowski
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] vovagershon:
Enter your menu, press the edit button, drag your icons to the dock and thats it :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 General] mjwiech:
Thanks a lot!

I feel a little stupid... It was so simple.

Kind regards

MJ Wiechowski
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andy517:
Hello everyone, I really need a help here.

I was on a MIUI GB ROM and bought a wifi router Tplink WR74ON. After a few days I could not access google.com, bing.com, ask.com... and YT behaved strangely. But I could access czech domains and "anything.google.com", which leads to google.com/anything, so no help. Oh and the Play store had no connection. Google.cz works until I perform a search... then No connection !instantly again.Yahoo and a lot of smaller sites work. I tried stock browser and Opera mobile.

So I flashed MIUI Scotland 4.0.4 and after a few hours the problem is here again. Restart of anything does not help, on notebook there is no problem and the router is set out of the box, no special settings of any kind. It pings google.com with no problem.

If anyone has any idea.... thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andy517:
And it seems that I can connect to google via IP address...
[Galaxy S I9000 General] andy517:
Huh solved... apparently there was a DNS problem, I had to bypass the router and set public DNS.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] PinkAfro:
Nice of you to give us the solution :).
[General Questions and Answers] timosmusic:
Hi

First sorry if this is in the wrong section. (I could not find a dedicated section for this phone)

I'm looking to get the Samsung Kies Air app working on a Glaxy Y Pro

(qwerty candy bar)

I can't find the app in either google play or samsungs app market

I have a Galaxy Note myself and think the app would be very useful for a friend with the Galaxy Y Pro

but so far I can't find a way to install the app on their phone or if it is even supported by the phone

can anyone help

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] timosmusic:
Sorry and thanks for moving post.

If anyone else is looking for something similar

I think I'll give "WiFi File Transfer" a try
[General Questions and Answers] nkjskj.com:
galaxy y doesn't support kies air app, but you can still share content with your friend using your galaxy note kies air app
[General Questions and Answers] seraphia9012:
our device is not very powerful to use kies air perhaps?:laugh:
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] BaconStep:
Nice

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ajster1989:
Notice:

This is the first release with the Skyrocket support, and as I DO NOT have a Skyrocket (I have a T-Mobile Hercules T989) please give me all the feedback you can.

Better ways to root, flash cwm, and anything else you can think of.

Also if you want to help me get a skyrocket so I can better support, then donate to me.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pakxelaos:
Thank You

Wow..

This will make a lot easier for many skyrocket owners.

Thank You

Yep...

I just sent some little $ for your work

Name: Jim Southisane :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] john9:
Thankyou for making this app!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] blade7840:
how do you install it.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] pakxelaos:
Extract it.

You'll see file SGSIIToolkit2.4.msi Click to install.

Mine location is C:\Program Files (x86)\Ajster1989 © May 2012\Samsung Galaxy S II Toolkit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] UZ7:
I have EMBRYO 3.1 (UCLE2) installed with ClockworkMod Recovery v5.8.1.3 but the toolkit detects the Current Recovery as stock?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ajster1989:
It will change when you flash a recovery with the toolkit

Thrown far across the web with the power of Hercules and Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] UZ7:
Ah alright just tested it and works fine, really helpful tool, thanks a lot! :D
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] A_Mateen10:
Sweet! awesome job, truly, this is something i have been waiting for especially with so many apks of mine, Thanks a TON!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] blade7840:
this installs on the computer
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] OFWGKTADGAF:
wish this was around when i first got my skyrocket.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] LordGeek:
Excellent idea of a program .. however, Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit .. utility does NOT run !!!

Application shows up in the Task Manager / Processes as SGSIIToolKitV2.4.exe *32 .. but nothing shows on the screen !!

*** EDIT .. stand corrected .. MUST RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR in order for it to work.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ajster1989:
Run as admin if you have problems, if you launch it from the Icon it puts on the desktop it should default to admin

Thrown far across the web with the power of Hercules and Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 32dave:
It keeps installing keis even though its already installed same with usb drivers using a Win7 ultimate X64 machine and yes i tried right clicking and running as Admin
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] ajster1989:
That is odd, I will check it out, I had no problems, and am currently running windows 7 x64,

Thrown far across the web with the power of Hercules and Tapatalk 2
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] rezadue:
Which option should Rogers customers with 727R use? The AT&T option, or Other?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] 32dave:
Thanks and great tool kit
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket SGH-I727] drichter12:
You may try disabling anti-virus before installing drivers and see if that helps.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] chew2293:
First sorry for my bad english...

I use the software name called swf2video create the bootanimation..

and i zip all the folder and file as usual (part1 and part2 folder and desc.txt)

but i put it into system/media folder but my boot screen is black...

can i know anything wrong with the zip folder?

and i tried downloaded bootanimation from xda forum,and i put it into system/media,and everything work perfect...

but after i extract the bootanimation.zip that i download from xda forum,and i re-zip again,i put in the same location in system/media,unfortunately boot screen is black..i curious what's wrong with the windows zip...

anyone can tell me what i done wrong?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] SpaceCaker:
Same problem i sometimes also have when i make my own bootanims from scratch
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] MicroLizard:
I'm using this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1234611

always work.:D
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] SpaceCaker:
Tried that when i made pngs with photoshop

But also gave black screen
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ondense:
is that possible?

i mean, is possible to creat your own bootanimation for Android ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] SpaceCaker:
Sure whynot ?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Thatgrass:
Make sure you numberd right and that the zip is compressed in store method
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] dxppxd:
Try using 7zip to compress, store compression.

Sent from the other side... of the screen
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] DrizztDWX:
do you set good permissions?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] michiuco:
And this doesn't have a bad impact over the boot time?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] Thatgrass:
Could be, depends on how long you make it
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] ts_firehawk:
Zip it using WinRAR or 7zip, using Store compression method.

Make sure your desc.txt is consistent, eg if you only have one folder then only one entry should be used on desc.txt.

Bootanimation is consisted of images (for me seems that OP is trying to make a boot animation using videos), I mostly use PNG and JPEG/JPG.

A new boot animation doesn't increases the boot time, unless you use a super awesome boot animation that has 50+Mb size. Try to keep it small.

I don't know if this will change something, but I've never used a interlaced PNG file. So, don't save PNG as interlaced.

Remember to set the correct permissions on phone!

I think this should be enough for your bootanimations to work :D Also, check this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1678540.