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[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
I installed 13.10 on my N7, but video drivers have not yet been worked out, as normal operation in unusable. Once installed and booted for the first time, the initial setup takes place, and all user info can be entered successfully (name, password, time zone.....). But once it tries to enter the normal ui for os run, that is where it falls. A few things that are noticable is that the mouse and touch interface has been greatly improved. Dragging your finger across the screen, the cursor follows perfectly. Just that alone is very exciting. Mark Shuttleworh was quoted as saying that 13.10 would be primarilly aimed at refining ubuntu mobiles touch ui. I'll keep watchimg the dl page for the newest builds. March 2nd build is the only 13.10 available so far. I am pretty sure it is the initial release.

"What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing. He has already been told twice."
[Nexus 7 General] FitAmp:
After installing the latest 13.10 image via multirom, I was unable to activate onscreen keyboard, so I couldn't get passed initial setup...

Currently redownloading and trying again :thumbup:

17 year old automotive technician/android hobbyist
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
Your download was fine, as I could not access on screen kb either. I used my usb kb for setup as an alternative. You must remember, this is the initial build of a brand new version. Alot of things will be broken.
[Nexus 7 General] farmerbb:
Yeah, it's probably best just to stick with the stable 13.04 for the next couple months, unless you really like living on the bleeding edge :p

I'm sure they'll be further optimizing Ubuntu like crazy during 13.10 as they continue to get ready for the launch of Ubuntu Touch. But for now, 13.04 is very usable on the Nexus 7 and Unity actually performs pretty decently compared to how sluggish it was before. (LXDE is still the best for pure, raw speed though :D )
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
Thats for sure. Hopefully, they are going to be packaging it with the host mode charging capable kernel that they were testing. That would be the cherry on top, for me anyways. Come to think of it, I did not test that the first time. Dangit! Now I have to reinstall! lol. I just used a basic otg, and left my host mode cable out of it. I will report back with results.

"What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing. He has already been told twice."
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
ok, so I could not find out if host mode charging is supported yet, as battery display wont appear till after setup. However, the usb devices were working with the host mode cable in use, which is more than 13.04 would do. so all in all, it looks promising.

In an attempt to test the capability, I was looking for a way to get the screen clear long enough to see. In doing so, I found the main problem reported was the executable "usr/bin/onboard". I replaced the file with the one from 13.04, but it made very little difference. What I would like to try is get lxde installed to see if that would help any.

My other idea is that having 13.04 and 13.10 installed at the same time could be causing issues because of using the same init, located in "data/media/0/multirom/ubuntu-init". Am I right in thinking this could be a problem?

"What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing. He has already been told twice."
[Nexus 7 General] FitAmp:
I just did a upgrade from 13.04 to 13.10 .... Bad idea

17 year old automotive technician/android hobbyist
[Nexus 7 General] eduard.caliman:
just installed the raring version. works great

I just installed the raring version and with a couple of modifications works great. I am not sure about you guys but for me any version was very laggy and that was because of the desktop environment which is called unity. It is very nice and eye catching but it has huge requirements (1gb ram) if you want a smooth experience you need to change it. I tried lxde and it is fabulous. It is even faster than my computer (1.7 ghz, 512ram), I could never make the processor run more than 40% and ram more than 500. All you need to do is to change the desktop environment from unity to another one (lxde is the fastest). That can be done from any youtube tutorial (it is a linux, it acts like a linux). I managed flash working but only partial (youtube and some annoying advertisements on the sides) and for that you need to install mozilla and then the flash for it from synaptic package manager and then you can copy to chronium directory manually
[Nexus 7 General] farmerbb:
Not sure if this is what you're using but for Flash sites I use Gnash. Seems to work very well except for some major slowdowns on Flash YouTube videos (HTML5 YouTube performs a little better, but you can't play it fullscreen). Just install the "Gnash SWF Viewer" and "browser-plugin-gnash" packages from the software center.

Regarding Unity and it's memory requirements... here's something I found out today... Unity on the Nexus 7 seems to use quite a bit more memory than Unity on the PC version.

Here's what I see when running the "free" command right after a fresh boot of 13.04 inside a VirtualBox VM with 2GB RAM:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 2064792 526888 1537904 0 49224 237212
-/+ buffers/cache: 240452 1824340
Swap: 2095100 0 2095100

And the same thing on the Nexus 7:

total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 995380 879328 116052 0 37020 229136
-/+ buffers/cache: 613172 382208
Swap: 497680 0 497680

As you can see under "-/+ buffers/cache" the Nexus 7 is using over twice as much memory. Why is that? More services (i.e. wifi/bluetooth) running on the Nexus 7?
[Nexus 7 General] eduard.caliman:
in terms of flash, yes it seems to be gnash,but the latest version works well for me in full screen youtube at any quality. In terms of the memory, it is a known issue of the unity for the moment and as long as I work on most dead end devices I do not bother too much with unity so I use lxde. It is much much faster and the facilities are the same. If you want to try it, you won t have memory problems at all. It still consumes too much 300-400mb in comparison to my pc which is 70 ram but it is more than enough for any application you will use.

to get it just type in terminal:

sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop

after you finish log out and befor enter the password change to lubuntu from the close corner settings near the username.
[Nexus 7 General] farmerbb:
Interesting, I wonder if you're actually using Lightspark instead of Gnash. I tried Lightspark which is supposed to give you hardware acceleration for Flash content but I couldn't get any YouTube videos to show up with it and it caused problems with other Flash sites.

Yup I've used LXDE before but just recently switched back to Unity for the more cohesive experience it brings. I didn't know you could install Lubuntu though, I will definitely have to give that a try!
[Nexus 7 General] blmvxer:
I tried lubuntu, its fairly smooth. :) but screen rotation disappeared sadly.

Also anyone have a fix for some HUD buttons and dash buttons from freezing? I can still use the onboard mouse but inconvenient. :)
[Nexus 7 General] eduard.caliman:
press log out, leave the tablet in landscape mode, (it will rotate), log in but press lubuntu again even if it is default and you will have the landscape mode.
[Nexus 7 General] blmvxer:
Running xfce and its beautiful.

Also setting onboard transparency to 75% for active and inactive and undocking onboard makes the desktop super easy to use. :)
[Nexus 7 General] blmvxer:
Also for whatever session you are running. I set a hot key for super + q to logout incase the mouse button becomes unfocused

The command

"DE-session-logout --logout"

DE=Desktop environment. Gnome, xfce4, unity, etc...
[Nexus 7 General] HEADEKBATEH:
Hello guys,

I have installed Ubuntu 13.04 to my Nexus 7 16 gb wifi. But after the initial setup when it rebooted there was only a messy background. In some time few popups came and there was path to unity something and few others. Don,t remember the errors. Only things I remmember is that there was some execution problem.

I have reflashed stock rom now and it stuck few times.

Please if you have any ideas give them.

Thanks.

P.S. ah and i wasn't able to enter in console to see dmesg.
[Nexus 7 General] rockerblood:
but where to get apps and the store if your on ubuntu os?

Sent from my Nexus 7
[Nexus 7 General] gianmarco957:
Maybe I will try this.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 con Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 General] -Johannes-:
not really usable for me :(
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
The main problem i am seeing is the old download location for 13.04, is now the location for 13.10, which is not a working release. At the end of the download url, change "current/" to "last-good-image/" and that will take you to the working raring 13.04 download location.
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
The download section for ubuntu is now totally gone. Even went to the top of the directory tree, and there is no sign of it. Did they abandon it alltogether? All that is left from what i can see is ubuntu touch dailies and the ubuntu touch preview. The desktop for N7 is just gone. Hoping I just overlooked it.
[Nexus 7 General] ylixir:
I thought it was gone too but I found it

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/raring/release/

The installer is broken. Couldn't get it to work even by manually downloading the files. Manual fastboot works fine though
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
Nice job tracking that down. Thanks! It appears the 13.10 saucy release from may 02 has been totally pulled. No big deal, since it was unusable.
[Nexus 7 General] blmvxer:
Even the last-good-build page has a 404.
[Nexus 7 General] automechcanic:
nexus 7 ubuntu

Has the ubuntu image for the nexus 7 been removed/discontinued? Was hoping to try it.
[Nexus 7 General] blmvxer:
Use the link two/three posts up. :)
[Nexus 7 General] evobb10:
I'm tryung to flash ubuntu now. Using twrp recovery through grouper.zip and phblet.zip

Will see what happen?

---------- Post added at 07:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:21 PM ----------

Successfully flashed . as normal rom. But it's not daily drive for me .
[Nexus 7 General] blmvxer:
For Ubuntu Desktop you only install Ubuntu-preinstalled-desktop-blahblahblah. You were installing Ubuntu Touch(Developer version).
[Nexus 7 General] Remcotjuuh:
So if I understand it well, this thread is about the "real Ubuntu" developed for our Nexus 7 and the touchscreen DOES work?
[Nexus 7 General] farmerbb:
Yes, the touchscreen works just fine, but I would highly recommend using it with a keyboard and mouse.
[Nexus 7 General] Remcotjuuh:
I already have a bluetooth keyboard and USB mouse and a tablet stand and USB OTG cable are on their way while typing this :)
[Nexus 7 General] SquireSCA:
So what's the latest on this? Is there a TWRP flashable file yet to try the tablet version of Ubuntu out yet?

Development on this seems really slow... They made a lot of noise about it when they announced it, but not a lot of progress since then?
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
TWRP flashable? Yes. Multirom supports the .gz format the download is in. Plus, you don't have to lose your android system, since multirom is a multiboot solution. It has been that way for 7-8 months. And, development seems slow........because it has been discontinued (providing that you are talking about the desktop version of ubuntu made for the N7, which is what this thread is about) and all efforts merged into the newer Ubuntu touch.

The last working Ubuntu desktop for N7 was a 13.04 nightly, on April 24th. The only 13.10 they ever released was never bootable beyond the setup gui. Never made it to the desktop after that.
[Nexus 7 General] SquireSCA:
Ah, I see. Is Ubuntu Touch workable enough to use as a daily driver? I have never used MultiRom before, and won't go to the trouble unless it is worth it. hehe
[Nexus 7 General] sgt. meow:
Nope. Ubuntu Touch hadn't made it past the alpha stage last I checked. But that was quite some time ago.
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
They have nightlies, but nothing I would install. Still mainly placeholders in action. Seems like Ubuntu team puts too many irons in the fire lately, and does not get much done. Just my pointless view on it, though.
[Nexus 7 General] luminoth:
hey guys how are we all. just found this thread! what have i missed out on!

im currently running 13.04 on my n7. im yet to face any major problems.

im currently running a wireless mouse, keyboard and a 1tb hdd from a 4 port usb connected through an otg cable.

also the past few days ive been tinkering with the pogo pins. ive wired the pins up for charging and it all seems to be going well.

it doesnt so much charge, it more maintains voltage levels. lol which is quite fine by me.

any tips and tweaks for general use? or any hidden goodies you guys wanna share haha :D
[Nexus 7 General] gmadvanced:
help me

im entering the codes post on the links to download the installer and the terminal tell me that one file processed and imported but i cant find it (im new user of ubuntu :laugh: )
[Nexus 7 General] seuf:
Hey !

I've tried to install GNOME 3 on 13.04 on my n7. But it didn't work. I think there is a problem with the tegra driver and xorg.

Does someone have make GNOME shell working on nexus 7 (grouper) ?
[Nexus 7 General] diesburg:
http://android-files.com/index.php?dir=grouper/. Tear some bandwidth up there's my mirror, not the fastest but I've got several terabytes of bandwidth and that's the image that works NP with multirom.
[Nexus 7 General] AqCwW:
good battery drainer lol
[Nexus 7 General] diesburg:
http://android-files.com/index.php?dir=grouper/ is the mirror now, just changed the domain I had it on
[Nexus 7 General] fulldaykg:
Aaaaahhhh, makes me wanna put Gentoo on my N7... Now I'm gonna go on an Internet browsing tangent!
[Nexus 7 General] diesburg:
After putting lxde or xfce on it, its a lot better with Ubuntu, if you haven't, give it a shot.
[Nexus 7 General] fulldaykg:
Will do :)
[Nexus 7 General] 1adamek:
Im looking for a Zip file of Ubuntu for Nexus 7 (not Touch version). because Installation will be easier with CMW. Anobody have a link or can make backup in CWM recorvery ?
[Nexus 7 General] ronedogg:
Any chance of getting a new download link?
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
Just get it from here

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/raring/release/

You only need the 573Mb nexus7.img.gz. Then, install multirom and multirom modified twrp. You can install Ubuntu very easily and still keep android. Multirom was made for this.
[Nexus 7 General] dexviajiboy:
http://d-h.st/search?search_by=1&search_for=ubuntu
[Nexus 7 General] diesburg:
Sorry, I had a server issue and the file is gone now. I will get it back up soon though because it is way faster than dev-host or goo.im.
[Nexus 7 General] Silver-1:
inverted mouse

has anyone figured out how to fix the mouse curser problem?

in several programs the mouse curser becomes completely inverted.

right - left switched,and upsidedown.

programs i've noted this in.

Aisleriot solitaire

Flare

Battle for wesnoth

haven't seen the problem anywhere else.
[Nexus 7 General] Nevynmk1:
Hey there. a bit of a long shot here. I have a rooted and unlocked nexus 7 WiFi (2012) and want to put it back to stock. But when in bootloader I get unknown on windows. And when I connect to do the same using Ubuntu it just keeps saying waiting for device. Is there any way of fixing this. I am using android 4.3.
[Nexus 7 General] dadangle:
this could help..

hey guys, i wanted to put ubuntu desktop on my nexus a while back and this tutorial was pretty awesome. - http://makethebestof.weebly.com/how-tos/how-to-dual-boot-linux-on-nexus-7.
[Nexus 7 General] texasice:
http://d-h.st/sau
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
Going against

And there was about 80MB+ additional updates to download and install... lets see what happens (installing atm) :p
[Nexus 7 General] Sarvatt:
Don't do it, it requires the nux and unity in the PPA that the image was created from, which were superseded by newer versions in -updates. It will be fixed soon but its guaranteed breakage now.
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
Ah, well I wasn't using Unity atm (on Gnome Classic), but I had some touchscreen issues right after the update finished (maybe related to that button1 held down bug).

Rebooted, and all seems ok so far, on Gnome Classic anyway.
[Nexus 7 General] Sarvatt:
http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/8GB/boot.img

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/8GB/rootfs.img

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/16GB/boot.img

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/16GB/rootfs.img

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/32GB/boot.img

http://hwe.ubuntu.com/uds-r/nexus7/32GB/rootfs.img
[Nexus 7 General] noneabove:
On the note of lack of hardware-accelerated graphics, would it be safe to assume that that is something they would look into? I mean it may not be top priority, but definitely something that would be very helpful to everything
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
Yeah I'm pretty sure it would be something they would look into. Hardware-acceleration alone would make the entire user experience a lot better, along with allowing more programs to work too, even games :)
[Nexus 7 General] rohan32:
Thank you very much!
[Nexus 7 General] Sarvatt:
Graphics are "accelerated" with proprietary tegra 3 drivers from nvidia there, it's as good as it'll get. Note that they don't implement opengl that would make normal games better, just opengles.
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
No driver, and it's using fallback for the experience; both of which shouldn't be happening if the driver existed
[Nexus 7 General] Sarvatt:
Unless mutter/cogl on arm in 12.10 was compiled for OpenGL support instead of OpenGLES (note: it's a compile time option and if you pick one you can't use the other so its highly possible that it is messed up,) which I have no clue about. What does es2_info from the mesa-utils-extra package say? If EGL_VENDOR is NVIDIA it's accelerated and a problem higher up in the stack there. Also this was only created for unity so I wouldn't be surprised if there are issues in gnome-shell/fallback.
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
Hmm, looks like it does say NVIDIA for the VENDOR.

Running glxgears complained about some RGB thing. Running glxinfo gives an error of "couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig"
[Nexus 7 General] McMichael96:
Is their java for ubuntu on ARM devices? I was wondering because it'd be cool to play the full version of minecraft on this
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
It is.

Minecraft didn't work for me though:

Main error was that it couldn't load the liblwjgl.so file because of a architecture mismatch "(Possible cause: can't load IA 32-bit .so on a ARM-bit platform)"

Edit: Installing lwjgl from software center and transferring it's liblwjgl.so to minecraft's folder fixed that issue, but now it stops as "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: getPointer"which I assume means that it has an issue with trying to find the mouse pointer (pointer is pretty weird). Trying out OpenJDK 6 now (was on 7)

Edit: OpenJDK 6 throws the same error...
[Nexus 7 General] devilsrogue:
This is actually extremely useful, as you can use the office apps with it, I love this even though its not really touch optimized but hey I cant complain, I have libre office with something akin to excel.

I hope they enable graphics accel...it will be so smooth and buttery then

I dont know where to start but I would help enable the graphics acceleration if I can
[Nexus 7 General] Rxpert:
How do you snap screenies with it?
[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
There's a program called Screenshot I believe. My N7 is off at the moment on-charge, but on Gnome it was under Applications > Accessories > Screenshot I think.
[Nexus 7 General] Rxpert:
Last question:

How the hell do I access my SD card? It wont connect to my computer, even when mounting as USB in recovery (TWRP). I want to nandroid back to my previous setup
[Nexus 7 General] life02:
Your SD card is gone. It was re-partitioned when you did the Ubuntu install.
[Nexus 7 General] joemegahertz:
Man, this is awesome. I remember using linux on my old Visual land tablet, once things got figured out it ran ok, The 7 is way more powerful so hopefully it will get buttery smooth. My big hope is somebody sets up a build server and starts recompiling software like they did raspbian for the rasberry pi. I would imagine you would see quite a performance boost being able to switch to ice or lxde.
[Nexus 7 General] :
I've somewhat bricked my Nexus 7 (16GB model)

It gets stuck when I try to flash rootfs.img, I've tried resetting the PC, Nexus, anything else I could think of few times, made no difference.

I can't even go back to stock image, it gets stuck too when I flash system.img.

Flashing boot.img (regardless of what it is, Ubuntu's boot image, stock boot image) works.

Recovery is still intact and I can boot into it just fine, but the issue is that I can't mount internal SD card when inside it, and because of it, I have no way to restore the nandroid backup I have saved on my desktop.

So basically I'm stuck with a Nexus 7 with recovery as the only thing that's functional, what do I do at this point? I've tried everything.

edit: I can't seem to write/format/erase bootloader and maybe system/userdata. I get "FAILED (command write failed (unknown error))"

edit 2: disregard this post, got it working now.
[Nexus 7 General] sunshean:
the rootf.img download very slow
[Nexus 7 General] azoller1:
So now that we got Ubuntu what things can we actually do on it, build kernels? Roms? what are the main features of having it?

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[Nexus 7 General] espionage724:
Yep. The contents of the SD were wiped upon installing Ubuntu; and Ubuntu itself doesn't seem to be able to have the USB mount when plugged into a computer.

As for transferring stuff between a computer and your tablet; you could use either the network, or an external drive (I've had success with a 500GB external drive in NTFS).
[Nexus 7 General] sprogurt:
Whatever you use Linux for normally. I've been able to use GIMP and gnome shell pretty successfully so far, will try a few more things when I get chance.
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
I honestly can't think of one useful thing for having it installed except to say "I have Ubuntu installed on my Tablet".. It runs so painfully slow. It's truly awful. Someone said ditching Unity helps things but... Yeah.. I'm not really sure what Ubuntu's end game here is. It's the least pleasant experience you could imagine. It's about as fast as running a live CD on your PC.. No one is going to compile source on their phone or tablet.. "Compiling my new ROM now guys! It'll be done next month!!"
[Nexus 7 General] azoller1:
Yeah and it would be really cool if we could use wine but then again we can run executive.programs from our nexus....

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[Nexus 7 General] bwassef:
i think this is a huge step for our tablets, but i won't be installing it on my nexus 7. when (if) they release it for other tablets, I'll be using it on my acer iconia A500 so I have a full size usb and an hdmi port
[Nexus 7 General] sert00:
like i did me for months with the transformer...

2 questions:

-i'm on mint maya 13...anyone tried with that version,or only on ubuntu last version?Anyway mint last is based off ubuntu 12.04.i'll try when completed download

-to return back it need a reflash of stock images from fastboot,or i can directly flash via cwm a zip rom?

thanks for the replies
[Nexus 7 General] azoller1:
Just tried fastboot flash of a stock image and it worked to revert from Ubuntu

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