[Atrix 4G Android Development] mmbika:
Some questions, please help

Some questions. Thanks in advance.

(1) If you OC phone using an android OC app/tool without fashing any OC kernel, will it help ubuntup performance?

(2) Just flashing a new OC kernel supporting zram (but not flashing any rom or webtop (osh) so no wiping/format/flash/restore etc.) will require re-process whole ubuntop installation from scratch?

(3) Upgrade from v1.1.0 to v1.3.0 will be a single upgrade zip flash or re-process whole thing?

(4) Serached 'how to mount ihpone as usb disk in ubuntu' but 'sudo gedit ...' command in lxterminal it retuns back with no action.

(5) To uninstall any package/software (annoying openoffice mailmerge dialouge for example) if i uncheck it in synaptic and then appy, will it uninstall it this way? (because it can install this way in the first place!)

(6) VLC full-screen switch and back killed top right corner menu-cum-task bar with all icons. I guess reboot will bring it back. Shoutcast playlist doesn't load in VLC and video polayback is not very smooth (720p). When I connect my Xolo (intel i386 based phone) via HDMI to lapdock, any 720p and 1080p videos come to full life with rich colour so I guess it is limited power of tegra2 on atrix 4g. Even native android apps (mobo/mx player etc) couldn't play well even 720p on tegra2 atrix4g.

(7) Can't yet fully understand space constaints cited of just 755MB total (osh partition size) on atrix phones while post webtop2sd we have GBs to play with, in my case 15GB ext3 second partiton on my 64GB class 10 micro-SD card I used for webtop2sd. Always get confused.

(8) Just get an OTA notification for 4.5.145 (atrix 4g) a few minutes earlier. I am on stock fruitcake rom with pre-installed superuser. (2.3.6 kernel/4.5.141 rom). OTA says GPS improvements etc. If I go for it, will it affect ubuntop?

Folloing is my /etc/apt/sources.list

"# deb http://ca25-webtop-mirror.am.mot.com...webtop-updates WEBtop main

# deb http://ca25-webtop-mirror.am.mot.com...m/ubuntu-ports jaunty main universe multiverse restricted

#deb-src http://ca25-webtop-mirror.am.mot.com...ntu.com/ubuntu jaunty main universe multiverse restricted

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I want to try moutning iphone as usb disk from here...

"How to Easily Mount Your iPhone As An External Drive in Ubuntu

0Damien

+September 30th, 2009

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iphone-usb-hard-driveFor those who own an iPhone/iPod Touch and at the same time is an Ubuntu (or Linux) users, here’s is a good news. You can now easily mount your iPhone in your Ubuntu without having to jailbreak your phone.

In the past, the dirty but effective way to access the iPhone from your Linux system is via SSH. This requires you to jailbreak your phone and it voids the warranty. With iFuse, you can now mount your iPhone/iPod Touch under Linux with just a USB cable. You can also view/edit/cut/copy/paste the file just like any USB disk drive.

Installation

Open up your terminal, type the following to open up your APT sources file

gksu gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

Insert the following lines to the end of the file

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonabeck/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonabeck/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

The above is assuming that you are using Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty). For any other version, simply replace the jaunty by the respective version name (hardy, intrepid, karmic etc)

Save and close the file.

Back in the terminal:

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com F0876AC9

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ifuse

Once the installation is done, connect your iPhone to your computer via the USB cable.

Open up your Nautilus. You should see the iPhone/iPod entry at the side pane. This show that it is already mounted in your system.

nautilus-sidebar

Click on the entry to view the filesystem.

Things that you can do

1. View/copy/download photos.

You can now manage the photos that you have taken with your iPhone without iTunes.

2. Create folders, upload/download files

You can now use your iPhone as a USB drive and use it for file storage. To allow confusion/conflict with the other system files, it is best to create a custom folder (and name it My Folder) and store all your files there.

3. Managing address book/calendar (upcoming)

Work is underway to sync the contact data with Conduit.

What you cannot do now

Manage your music database

Apple uses a cryptographic signing algorithm to encrypt all the music files. While you can access the music folder, there is no way that you can transfer your music over and get it to work in your iPhone.

Note:

1. iFuse is not Ubuntu-specific app. It works for most Linux distro as well.

2. Mac users can also use iPhoneDisk to achieve similar functionality."

I don't have dedit but vi works.

Can I edit my sources.list and add above lines?

Cheers,