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[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
No. I think alot of the tools have not been compiled for arm yet. Also keep in mind, gingerbread and up require 64 bit systems to build. This ubuntu for n7 is only 32 bit.

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[Nexus 7 General] azoller1:
oh true, but we could still build kernels?
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
Im not sure about that one. Maybe someone with better knowledge could enlighten both of us, lol.

I would thing a kernel for a 64 bit system would have to be built with 64 bit as well, but I could be very wrong.
[Nexus 7 General] Tasssadar:
If you mean kernel for Nexus 7 (or any other android phone), then yes, and you don't even need Ubuntu booted up for that, just chroot it from android - hell, I've even compiled kernel on my old LG Optimus One, which does not have anything like nexus 7's ubuntu - the compilation itself required a lot of time, but it worked.

Compiling kernel on the device itself is actually easier than on computer. You just install gcc, make and rest of the toolchain with apt-get and then type in "make".

As for compiling the whole android - probably not. Android's build system is rather complex and It certainly is not prepared to be built on ARM, not mentioning the time it would take to build whole Android.
[Nexus 7 General] azoller1:
Will probably try this out thanks man
[Nexus 7 General] j4r3d:
it's ok to be wrong.

you can set up cross compiling. this takes lots of storage space because you still need all the source for any architecture you are compiling for.

i know this is a somewhat vague response but i'm just saying it can be done. i'd rather not get too long winded into this, but there are ways. =]

i used to compile for my sharp zaurus which had a arm cpu on my amd duron running mandrake 9. open zaurus build system used debian type packages. mandrake used rpm. i imagine using ubuntu for cross compiling and building android would be much easier to set up. seeing as ubuntu is based on debian and android is not too far off from where open zaurus/OE/open embedded left off. .ipk Itsy package. basically a simplified .deb i feel .apk isn't too far off from .ipk.

as of lately i have some time to kill and have decided to pick up my dev work again. i'd like to see if i can connect with some people from the community from 10+ years ago as well. i also hope to become a valued member of this community. i've been mostly inactive for the last several years so give me a moment to catch up and prove myself useful. thanks!
[Nexus 7 General] aftrumpet:
Does anyone know where MuiltiROM stores the Ubuntu files? In the process of removing Unity, I changed the window manager and now can't log in because the keyboard won't show up in GDM...
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
They can only be viewed in recovery, or while booted into ubuntu.Tassadar explained the reason for this in the multirom thread just yesterday.
[Nexus 7 General] aftrumpet:
Is it possible to change Ubuntu files while in recovery then?
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
View, yes. Change, I dont know. Never had the need to try. Asking Tassadar in the multirom thread is your best bet, since he is the dev of this process.

Im guessing you dont have an otg cable and kb?
[Nexus 7 General] mobgod:
Question didn't see anything while reading we are still waiting on a 32gig install correct ?

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[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
If using multirom, you do not need to wait because it shares all available memory from the virtual sdcard with android. As far as a standalone install, im not 100% sure.

EDIT- Seperate images for different sizes is no longer needed. The install automatically uses the space it is installed to. The one image covers them all. You can find it here.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-preinstalled/current/

Btw, i like your name. I used to have a gaming clan called mob. :)
[Nexus 7 General] #sadegh#:
guys i have a problem.

while installing at last part '' installing ubuntu core file system '' freezes.....

let it more an hour but nothing happened....

any solution ?
[Nexus 7 General] osi13:
I manually flashed the latest daily image, and everything booted up correctly. However, it's extremely slow, and almost unusable. Is there a more stable image 13.04 image? Will reflashing the latest daily fix my issue?
[Nexus 7 General] david279:
Anyone know if the timer at http://www.ubuntu.com has to do anything with a maybe complete version of Ubuntu for the n7?
[Nexus 7 General] GldRush98:
It certainly hints at a touch enabled version of Ubuntu...
[Nexus 7 General] zAo_:
Does this provide TV out, or is that limited by the hardware? I have a MHL cable and like my N7 to be my next 'office machine' :)
[Nexus 7 General] david279:
N7 does not support MHL. hardware limitation I believe.
[Nexus 7 General] zAo_:
Bummer, but thanks :)
[Nexus 7 General] pekeltje:
Connect to PC [Windows]

Hello,

Got it working and its pretty nice.

But how can i move files from my [Windows 8] computer to Ubuntu on Nexus 7?

With android it just opens explorer with the files from the nexus 7, but that doesnt work with Ubuntu on the Nexus 7.

Looking for a easy was to move files, like it used to be for android.

Pekeltje
[Nexus 7 General] qkall:
set up network sharing and just copy via the wifi.
[Nexus 7 General] razvanwin95:
can you be more specific ?

I`m stuck with ubuntu..and i want to return back to android(i have made a backup). All i need is how to transfer the backup between pc and tablet.
[Nexus 7 General] DarkhShadow:
If you want to return, flash the stock images from Google with the script in the .zip file

Sent from my Jelly Nexus 4
[Nexus 7 General] razvanwin95:
i don`t think i can do this if i can`t transfer anything from my pc to tablet
[Nexus 7 General] Synman:
a little too "experimental" for me... onboard keyboard is b0rked in the latest build ... requires OTG to get past all the initial login stuff and the desktop background is pixelated real bad.

I'll wait a little longer... great to see them making progress though.
[Nexus 7 General] Sun3vi1:
Ubuntu is Coming Along nicely!

Ubuntu boots and works rather well on Nexus! I have mine dual booting Cyanogenmod and ubuntu nightlies with Multirom Dual boot and it has been decent so far. You can install most desktop apps and I have successfully tested java runtimes, firefox, chrome, etc. Naturally performance is only so so. However, it is tolerable and is about equal to a cheap netbook. Gimp loads in about 3 or 4 seconds etc. As of this writing, I can report that wifi, sound, battery reporting, on screen keyboard, bluetooth, screen rotation all mostly work. The few bugs I ran into were mainly touch screen related. The button 1 on the touch screen likes to get stuck down so I am using a keyboard dock and wireless mouse. Also, the on screen keyboard sucks. The sound only works after one sleep cycle. The unity launcher/lens takes FOREVER to show up. Battery life is not that great. Its about 25% shorter than usual (a rough guestimate) Device does not seem to charge while plugged. However, over all the system is relatively stable and improvements come every night with each subsequent build.

To make it usable I recommend:

getting a keyboard, mouse and OTC host usb cable (like 3 bucks on ebay), replacing unity with Gnome or LXDE. The standard gnome ui will not work, but the fallback (with no effects) works just fine. If you want to reenable effects for your UI press Alt-F2 and run compiz --replace and you will have your pretty UI back, but with better performance. To stop the frequent error messages that ubuntu pops up, uninstall apport package.

Experiments:

Libre office works perfectly, as far as I can tell. Rhythmbox, apache server, php, etc do too. LXDE seems to work just fine. Unfortunatly, there is no flash player yet, but you can still get some you tube videos from HTML 5. For internet radio, there is pianobar, a command line pandora radio client which works well on nexus ubuntu. Just for the heck of it I grabbed a copy of minecraft. It would launch, but the screen went black after downloading all the files. I imagine this is because the JLWGL needs to be recompiled for ARM, but not sure. Webcam does not yet work.

Summary:

Great for making your tablet into a cheap netbook if you have a keyboard and mouse dock and the time to make a few modifications. Stable, but turns tablet into a "netbook" at the moment. No tablet UI yet, and device still behaves identically to ubuntu desktop. Fun for us adventurous types ;)
[Nexus 7 General] DarkhShadow:
The images are flashed via fastboot from your PC while your Nexus 7 is in bootloader, it has to be done via the script as it has to re-partition it.
[Nexus 7 General] rebel1699:
He may be speaking of doing it using multirom, and not the fastboot method. Does anyone actually do fastboot instead of dual booting it anymore? I cant imagine not being able to boot right back into android.
[Nexus 7 General] Lork Scorguar:
I'm using multirom too. It's pretty cool. Ubuntu works but it depends of the builds. Some are really bugged.
[Nexus 7 General] carlz0206:
Downloaded ubuntu from the links in multirom and add rom it boots but i cannot use touch screen keyboard,screen is always glitchy,any advice how to make it work properly or how to make it usable?

Sorry for the nooby question just trying to start learning about ubuntu both in desktop and tablet

Thanks

Edit: Sorry wrong forum
[Nexus 7 General] odst0016:
I had the same issue just keep rebooting and hold it in portrait til it finally works
[Nexus 7 General] supertx2:
Hi guys, i'm thinking about buying a nexus 7, because it have official ubuntu, i think it's amazing :D, i just want to know if i can instal xampp, java, ecplise, netbeans to work. Someone can tell me?

Thanks and Sorry for my poor English :s
[Nexus 7 General] bigdog_nick:
Haven't been keeping up with the bug reports but Bluetooth seems to have been fixed in 13.04. I just updated and bluetooth was on by default.
[Nexus 7 General] taffypride:
Standard x86 Java will NOT install. Best bet with Java is to wait to see if they release a version compatible with our device....I think we need ARM support....
[Nexus 7 General] supertx2:
With this it will not work?

http://jdk7.java.net/fxarmpreview/index.html
[Nexus 7 General] br0adband:
I gave this a shot on my N7 the other day and was extremely disappointed in just how freakin' slow and laggy it is - I have the 8GB N7 so I know it's not a ton of space available but even so, I expected it to perform far better than it actually did/does.

I'm still interested in giving Ubuntu a shot on the N7 but, if it doesn't improve in terms of actual performance then I'll just have to pass on it sadly.
[Nexus 7 General] Culex316:
It's laggy because of the Unity desktop. If you install Lubuntu by going to the terminal and typing "sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop", it will install and it will run MUCH quicker than with Unity, but the only drawback is that autorotation doesn't work in Lubuntu so whatever mode you have the tablet in is the mode it will be stuck in with lubuntu.

Does anyone know how to enable autorotation in lubuntu somehow?
[Nexus 7 General] PVL_93_RU:
I believe that GSM connectivity (Mobile Data) doesn't work on Ubuntu?
[Nexus 7 General] Raudi1:
I don't know if it works on ubuntu, but it does work on plasma active. http://ruedigergad.com/2013/01/28/plasma-active-on-nexus-7-with-3gumts/
[Nexus 7 General] PalaXDA:
anyone know how to install my fully graphic and processor? Because all packages like wine or dropbox the package installer says wrong architectur.

Best regards,

Pala
[Nexus 7 General] Raudi1:
You can only use binaries for ARM. So unless there is an ARM version of the application, or the sourcecode, it wont work. Regarding dropbox: afaik there is no official ARM version available. But there are third party clients which should work.

Regarding wine: Right now wine on arm is not really usable yet, since it needs to emulate a x86 processor with QEMU for normal windows applications to work. For more info: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI5MzM
[Nexus 7 General] PalaXDA:
thanks for the info... ;)

Do you think in the future our nexus7 ubuntu will have fully support of most programs and all drivers? For example crossover or other apps from ubuntu store? Nvidea Fully supported by games.

Best regards,

Pala
[Nexus 7 General] sizanx:
Ubuntu Tablet preview will be released this week: http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/19/ubuntu-for-tablets-revealed/ :)
[Nexus 7 General] PalaXDA:
Are the images ubuntu 13.04 or 12.10?
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
12.10 and I wouldn't bother wasting your time installing that.. It barely functions and 100% useless..
[Nexus 7 General] Silverbullet09:
Wath is about this??

Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Daily Build

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-preinstalled/current/

is this currently the tablet version? It was uploadet today!
[Nexus 7 General] PalaXDA:
I did install now the newest from ubuntu page but it is the 8 gig version :( Any one can tell me how to make it to 16 gig version? without reinstall it please?

Best regards,

Pala

---------- Post added at 06:24 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:15 PM ----------

that one works pritty well.

Best regards,

Pala
[Nexus 7 General] Silverbullet09:
thanks for that info @Pala

i would test this built.
[Nexus 7 General] jawonder:
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[Nexus 7 General] Bsanborn:
Do we know if this is the official tablet version? I want to install this but would hate to have to wipe again tomorrow to install the official tablet version.

I'm guessing it is based on the notes for the file, but I was more looking for someone who had tested it already. :)

TL;DR Anyone install this? Thoughts? Feedback?
[Nexus 7 General] mjs2011:
Just wondering why you deleted that link? It looked like the official Nexus 7 build.
[Nexus 7 General] heat361:
Engadget has a hands on here

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/ubuntu-dev-preview-hands-on/
[Nexus 7 General] Bsanborn:
Ok, I couldn't wait. Installing now. Will post results.
[Nexus 7 General] mulletcutter:
O m g, can we just get a hands on video and not a bullchit session...just click stuff and more and show us how it is. Even the official video I can't watch.
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
Eh.. I was going to install it tomorrow but after seeing that I'll skip it.. It's an unfinished sterile, hollow product and they are hoping developers fill in a lot of the blanks for them. I'm curious how many legitimate developers will jump aboard to use resources (man power) to develop for a product with no projection of how many hands the finished product will actually end up in. No details about exactly what apps and how many will be able to run on both mobile and desktop. No Debian packages to piggy back on this time, they actually have to do it themselves with the mobile version. "Here is a blank template, please help! Kthx, your pale, Shuttleworth"
[Nexus 7 General] heat361:
OK here you got your wish :) http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/2/20/4010412/ubuntu-for-tablets-hands-on-video
[Nexus 7 General] Bsanborn:
This still feels like really early beta or alpha stage using the link provided here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-preinstalled/current/

I hpoe tomorrow they release something a little more Stable. This version is really buggy...after spending forever finally getting past the user setup screen (had to restart a bunch of times), I finally got into the OS. I have a bluetooth keyboard installed and the keyboard on-screen keeps popping up. Hopefully the version they release "tomorrow" is different than this one and is actually a release version and not something that seems early beta/alpha stage.

Anyone else install the version from that link?
[Nexus 7 General] Pirateghost:
I thought that was the desktop version they have been testing for the last month or so, not the tablet/phone version that is being released tomorrow?

Did it look like regular Ubuntu or was it like the phone/tablet previews we have seen?
[Nexus 7 General] igotlostintampa:
anyone here notice the official bug report page hasnt changed since this was originally released a few months ago? >.> just saying.
[Nexus 7 General] Pirateghost:
because its not the same OS?
[Nexus 7 General] Bsanborn:
I think it's still the desktop version then. :( I haven't been following this closely. I just saw something about it yesterday and started looking into it. I can't wait for tomorrow, this version I have is basically alpha.

Any recommendations for a good Linux distro for this tablet? The Bodhi version sounds pretty good. Maybe I'll just wait until tomorrow.
[Nexus 7 General] Logan_M:
If you install MultiROM you can dual boot it. It's really easy, you flash the MultiROM zip and a modified version of TWRP.

I dual booted Ubuntu. but it was pretty much useless, full of lag and didn't work right.
[Nexus 7 General] Bsanborn:
Yea, I have multiRom installed. Pretty awesome I must say and really easy to setup. However, I'm in the same boat as you. Just booting into Android as Ubuntu is laggy and worthless and crashes all the time. Hopefully tomorrows release will be better.
[Nexus 7 General] ssmr2t:
Yeah, I love how easy multirom was to install :good: I was more intimidated by the whole size/ instructions in the thread lol
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
Well, its Feb 21st and their website is saying to "Come back on Feb 21st". hmmmm
[Nexus 7 General] hovercraftdriver:
For god's sake, there is like 15.5 hours left in the 21st day of Feb(at least in my timezone)...chillax. Honestly, kids today :D
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
When it will be released:

11AM US Eastern time

8AM US Western time

5PM Central European time

3AM 22nd of February Australian Eastern time
[Nexus 7 General] hovercraftdriver:
LOL, if that is supposed to be current U.S. time, that is WAYYYY wrong :confused:
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
Thats the release time, about 1 hour and 15 minutes from now.
[Nexus 7 General] jawonder:
Post it in the MultiRom Thread and they were saying it's not it , i got it from twitter where some developers were testing it .
[Nexus 7 General] tinchomey:
If I don't wan't to install multirom, will be easy come back to Android when install Ubuntu for Tablets?
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
I'm honored if anyone would think I'm still a kid! Thank you. Made my day :cool:
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
We'll know more in about 20 minutes or so. Ideally, they won't be touching the bootloader, and maybe not even recovery, which will make it easy to return to stock.
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
Depends on your definition of easy.. Those comfortable around fastboot, adb and backed up properly can be back on Android with their exist apps in 10 minutes..
[Nexus 7 General] BurnRubber90:
500 Internal Server Error. Hmmm..
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
The page is getting murdered right now by all the frantic F5-ing going on.
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
Its out:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install
[Nexus 7 General] BurnRubber90:
Is it me or the install process is for Linux only? :c

I regret deleting Mint from my HDD now ._.
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
Zips

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/
[Nexus 7 General] 5m0k3:
Device Specific Issues

Nexus 7

Runs in portrait mode by default. (no side stage)

Camera, video decoding and audio output do not function.

Greeter screen is misaligned.

No multi-user login.
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
11:22 EST-

found it cool
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
Yep, it can only be done through an existing Ubuntu build.

I'm updating my xubuntu VM right now to do it.
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
adb pushing a 513mb file.. FFS.. This is stupid.. I should have stuck with my original plan to not bother with this..
[Nexus 7 General] narlynarwhal:
I'm guessing these can be installed like a normal android rom?
[Nexus 7 General] BurnRubber90:
NO.
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
Someone just need to see what the script "phablet-flash -b" does. Then I am sure we can do it without ubuntu.
[Nexus 7 General] narlynarwhal:
Alright. It's a good thing I asked then.
[Nexus 7 General] azoller1:
This looks awesome will probably try it later on with more updates coming in and see how well it develops
[Nexus 7 General] BurnRubber90:
It's not a ROM :good:
[Nexus 7 General] bpye:
It would appear, and this is just guesswork, that the boot and recovery images obviously need flashing to the respective partitions. The two zips are certainly flash able, and I think it should be the grouper one and then the generic one, but I am not certain. I am going to try now.
[Nexus 7 General] r00t4rd3d:
Here is the contents of phablet-flash

http://pastebin.com/ktrNfjcv
[Nexus 7 General] hooligan007:
Uh oh Ubuntuu
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
Welp.. I'm running a quick sunspider test then back to Android.. It's neat to see something different on my tablet but I'm not digging how you get around what so ever. It's sorta convoluted and not the friendliest way to around. Just way to much going on and we don't even have the side stage yet.. Got laggy too.

Development preview is being kind. This is a rough alpha at best..
[Nexus 7 General] lamaboy99:
can someone post the imgs im stuck on windows
[Nexus 7 General] 5m0k3:
It says the Nexus 7 is portrait by default. Why don't you poke around and see what it takes to get it in landscape, and see if that allows you to use sidestage.

Also, screenshots or video of it running on N7 would be very helpful
[Nexus 7 General] lamaboy99:
nevermind found the link from earlier
[Nexus 7 General] styckx:
Not even worth the trouble at this point..
[Nexus 7 General] FattySparks:
Apologies if this has already been asked, I tried searching to no avail.

#1.) Will this ever be able to be flashed through recovery, or will that not work because of the 2 completely different sources?

#2.) If I am currently rooted, is it easy to flash this, then return back to my previous set-up by re-flashing android and restoring my nand backup?

Thanks guys! (and girls)
[Nexus 7 General] bpye:
I've successfully installed from windows, here's how:

1. Flash the boot image from fastboot

2. From CWM flash the grouper zip - I used sideload

3. From CWM flash the generic zip - I again, used sideload

4. Run Ubuntu on your Nexus 7.
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
Developer Preview -> pre-alpha -> alpha -> beta -> RC -> release.
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
Forgive my ignorance, but can the system, boot and recovery images found on this page- http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/

just be flashed via Fastboot like normal images? I also see 2 zips on that page, one called quantal-preinstalled-armel+grouper.zip (which looks like a normal ROM), and another called quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip which I'm not even sure what is. Thanks
[Nexus 7 General] blackhand1001:
Any chance of multirom support. I know that regular Ubuntu is supported so it can't be too difficult to get working.
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
the generic zip, meaning that 451mb one? "quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip" ?
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
Anyone have a mirror up yet for the images? I'm looking at 16hours+ right now, as the cdimage server is getting hammered.
[Nexus 7 General] ninthsense:
Looking for the same. But I guess would have to wait some time before somebody figures it out.
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
Which images are you looking for?

Ill Upload an mirror now
[Nexus 7 General] evilmrt:
That's because a dev preview is a pre-alpha :good:
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
The 451MB one: quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip
[Nexus 7 General] bpye:
Yes, that is the one I mean.
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
Since the regular site is getting hammered right now:

Mirror of all the Grouper files
[Nexus 7 General] AlexDeGruven:
Awesome. Coming down 10x faster for now.

I've got a 50GB box I'll dump them up to as soon as I get them pulled down.
[Nexus 7 General] ericksoncl23:
nvmd
[Nexus 7 General] tucstwo:
Hmm, I tried it this way and was met with nothing more than a black screen.

From bootload, flashed boot.img

entered recovery, wiped out my data, cache, etc

via sideload flashed grouper.zip and phablet.zip

rebooted

black screen. Weird :confused:
[Nexus 7 General] O2Blevel:
This might help some people

http:// https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z13pwpxrtpb5ezpv323dw5jr5kuzf5yhz04