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[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
http://zenit.senecac.on.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_ARM_Secondary_Architecture

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM
[Asus Transformer TF700] paulxpaul:
Wow. So much hate. If you really want Linux (only one on the way to being ported in this tablet is Ubuntu) you will just have to be patient. A dev here by the name Hiemanshu is working to get it to dual boot with the tablet. I highly doubt you can do it yourself as it requires a lot of Kernel work. Unless you know what you are doing, be my guest. And if you are discontent with the various features Android has to offer, you can always step down and get an iOS product. It is personal preference. This is a great tablet for me and just about the rest of the community here. Root it and install Clean-Rom. You might have something better to say next time. :thumbup:
[Asus Transformer TF700] MartyHulskemper:
+infinity

I'm not even going into these hate posts anymore. Just learn to work with what you've got -- the TF700 serves me pretty well. If you want a desktop experience (that is what you imply by referring to Linux anyway), you should have gotten a freaking laptop instead -- and put some *nix variety on it and be happy. And please do not make an effort to post in here how happy you are with your new setup: we are happy with ours as well.

@MOD: Can we get a lock, please?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
For the record, I have 2 laptops in addition to the TF700.

I fail to see what the difference is between a "desktop experience" and what Android tries to implement. I can set Linux up to everything Android does UI wise. What is the Android experience versus the desktop experience ?

I thought the whole Android thing was supposed to be superior web and multimedia functionality. My Linux devices kick my TF700 to the curb. Streamtuner, Amarok, Shairplay, faster browser (Firefox), etc.

Am I missing something ?
[Asus Transformer TF700] jrkart99:
unlock, root, go to CleanRom and shush.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Yes, you're missing:

- Touch Screen capabilities

- Form-factor (I'm sure your laptops are much larger and heavier than your TF700.

- Battery Life - I've yet to see a laptop with the type of battery life I get from my TF700+dock.

- Cheap, plentiful apps - I don't think there are nearly as many 99 cent apps for Linux as there are for Android.

- "removable" screen - let see you pop the screen off of you laptop!

There are clearly a lot of advantages to the TF700+dock over a linux laptop... Just as there are advantages of a Linux laptop over the TF700+dock. It all depends on what you want to do.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
The duo is touch screen.

The duo has a built in keyboard and hard drive. By the time you add them to the TF700, there is no size/weight difference.

These are mostly hardware advantages. I agree the TF700 rocks hardware wise. Its the OS I don't like.

My Duo came with Windows 7 and I hated it with it. Linux fixed that and now I love it. I think the TF700 would rock running Linux. It would be so much faster running apps natively instead of through the Dalvik/Java VM. Just look at how fast the Nokia N900 is.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Ok, so I was wrong about the touch screen (didn't notice you said Duo) - but all of the other advantages are still true (who would ever hook up a harddrive to the TF700 during normal use)? And the TF700 does have a keyboard (using the keyboard dock). It's still much smaller and lighter than the Duo.

Besides the hardware advantages, the Play Store is a huge advantage. Linux isn't all that great when it comes to general-purpose apps for the end-user.

I absolutely love the TF700 and it perform *great*, especially with CleanROM. Personally, I have absolutely no reason to want a linux laptop - no interest whatsoever. And I'm a Unix admin by trade! :)

The TF700 is a great device hardware and software-wise. What good is a super fast OS (Linux) without the apps to go with it? That's where Linux falls down - the availability of apps for the end-user... I don't care how fast it is, if the apps aren't there, it's not very useful, in my opinion.... On the other hand, there are hundred of thousands (I think) apps for Android - all written for touch-screen devices. How many touch-screen-enabled apps are available for a Linux laptop?

Again, it all boils down to what you want to do with the device - I like having the flexibility that Android and the TF700 provides. It's plenty fast....
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
Thanks for your replies. I'm, glad this turned into a discussion instead of people hating on me for expressing my displeasure with the TF700.

By itself, yes. With the dock, not by much. And there is a new Duo coming out, with an i5.

What does the Google Play have that Fedora doesn't have in its repositories ? Games come to mind, but I'm not a big gamer. I'm running some of the same apps on my TF700 than I use on the rest of my Linux machines. VLC, Firefox, etc. I WISH that Play had a lot of things I take for granted in Linux, like Stream Tuner, Amarok, etc.

Please tell me more about this. Why does it run faster with CleanROM ? I'm at the point where I need to seriously consider installing it.

- Being able to use any USB sound device you want.

- Ssh (-X!) without rooting.

- Having BusyBox (and more) without rooting.

- yum.

- KDE 4.9 with multiple desktops.

- Dolphin.

- Libre office <--- without this, the TF700 is a multimedia surfer, not anything more.

- Having access to ALL the plugins for Firefox

I dare you to install Fedora 17 KDE on a laptop and experience it for yourself. I didn't mean to turn this into a Linux versus Android debate, but I see way more missing from Android than missing from Linux.

What apps are you speaking of ?

Most any app runs quite well on a touchscreen in KDE with the appearance setting tweaked for larger fonts. And there is Plasma-Active, specifically designed for touch devices. In Linux you can switch back and forth between a desktop optimized UI and a touchscreen optimized UI.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
Android (and iOS and Win Phone) and all its a app market is designed for tiuchscreen our for our large fingers while desktop experience with windows 7 or linux are about app needing very precise and small mouse/touchpad actions. I don't know about any linux distrib that has a "fingers-oriented" GUI, the same for linux applications who are using menus, buttons, ... all too small for my fingers. .... Unless i'm wrong. Unless you use keyboard and mouse, but this is imho the exact contrary to standard use of touchscreen tablets.

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It's not only font size that makes app touchscreen capable, it's the entir e way the GUI is designed. So i don't believe that kde ans app you list are that really fine on touchscreen : they works but this is natural using
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
I must be doing something wrong because "normal" apps work just fine on my Duo touchscreen.

And then there is this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulcizzAj-N4

For those that aren't aware, Plasma is a window manager scheme available in KDE.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
The plasma demo is very nice but it'll about specific plasma app (web browsing, mails, photo viewer, word & sheet viewer) and no classic linux app like firefox thunderbird, the gimp, ...

Myself i'm sometimes using my android tablet to connect to my win7 pc and that i use win7 and app like chrome, thunderbird, office and i constantly have to zoom in/out to use menus or choose in lists. Not very comfortable
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Agreed - just because you *can* do something, doesn't mean that it's the best way to do something (or even practical). There is no way that apps which aren't designed for touch screen devices will be as productive as apps that are specifically designed for touch screens... The Linux app ecosystem is not anywhere near as robust as the Android app ecosystem, especially for end users - not even close. Linux OS strengths are geared towards being used as a server operating system - not an end-user operating system.

Have you looked at all of the apps available in the Play Store? The are all written specifically for a touch screen device, unlike Android apps.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
No linux is fine for end-user, gnome or kde or other linux desktop are nearly as much easy to use than any other os desktop. But the same than for win ok mac osx they are for keyboard/mouse use.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
My Infinity is sucking less lately. An update to Firefox helped immensely. I still find Android clunky compared to Linux, but its liveable. I am going to test Plasma Active on my Duo. I'll report back on how I like it.

As far as apps having to be specifically designed for a touch interface versus a mouse interface, yes and no. I run regular Linux apps on my Duo with the touch screen without any issues. What is the difference in touching an html link on a web page versus a menu item in an app ? Nothing.

I downloaded a couple books in PDF format on my Infinity. It was EXCELLENT at that. LOVE the form factor and the screen. I played with a Samsung 10.1 tablet the other day and I'll take my Infinity over it any day. On the downside, the USB adapter is clunky and constantly falls out of the port, making it nearly unusable.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
I'll be very interested in your report about kde plasma. On linux, i've always been a gnome user and a kde disliker ( i tried many times but never liked it). Maybe plasma could make me like kde at last ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Sh0X31:
I hope and wait for ubuntu on my Infinity
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
When was the last time you tried KDE ? Recent versions of KDE are miles better than even the early 4 series. The late 3 series was feature laden but surely not polished. I find the recent KDE releases to be super polished and very functional. I run 6 desktops with multiple activities. I know of no other desktop environment that can match it.

If you were turned off aesthetically, I am too with some of the KDE themes. I am running the Androbit desktop theme, with 2 panels, one of the top for the desktop and app managers and one at the bottom for program icons.

Its not the prettiest desktop, its pretty vanilla, but it works for me. I could easily improve it if I spent more time. I purposely run a boring desktop wallpaper so that I can easily find icons. Fedora has some great wall papers but they are too busy for my taste.

Having said all that, I'm already running Plasma on the Duo. I'll be testing Plasma Active in the near future.

This is on a 30" Dell U3011. 2560x1600 IIRC, so the icons and text are not as small as they may seem in that picture.

And yes, I have 19 Firefox instances running...
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
My last try of kde was 1 month ago but it was a very quick test on a low machine. I'll give another try and i'll tell u here.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Linuxguy1:
Fedora KDE Live on a USB stick is a quick and easy way to get a feel for things, though it will run slower and it won't be customized at all.

You have a choice of Fedora 17 or 18, which is now out in beta now.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_Live_USB

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD

http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

Plasma Active is available too, for some machines.

http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/Installation

Fedora KDE just built Plasma Active for x64 machines and put it in the testing repository. I'll be testing it as soon as I get a chance.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jazee:
arketeTa answer

Well let me through in a comment from the opposite end of the spectrum (the guy that doesn't think his tablet should run like his laptop.)

In my early 40's now, been a coder/gadget geek for many many years. Tired of waiting for jailbreaks to come out for our iOS devices. But with 2 kids, 1 PC, 3 notebooks (all Windows - ain't paying twice as much for same hardware to get an Apple logo), 3 iPhones, and an iPad, iOS has it's advantages as my life isn't completely consumed by intalling custom OS/ROM/etc. BUT, I just got rid of the iPad and was debating to go with refurb iPad3, Nexus 10, or TF700. Really want to give Android a try and don't don't mind modding the device as long as I don't have to spend all frickin day wrestling with it. Was going to spring for TF700 based on Engadget review, plus Nexus 10 has no dock option. I'm not one of these people that assumes latest is greatest and all gaga over Nexus 10. But I must admit this thread with referencing to rooting and installing cleanrom has me a bit worried. So in other words, the TF700 and other newer Android tablets don't work well right out of the box like iOS devices? That's a shame. Not that I'm surprised. Being a jailbreaker in the iOS world (although just for my own iPhone, not for wife or kids's devices), I should have no problem, as long as I can easily get back to stock wrong for warranty purposes if necessary.

Nothing's perfect. Including our decisions to buy things we think fit our needs best and then it doesn't quite work out the way we want it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ghorin:
No the android devices are working well right out of the box. My wife has an android phone (samsung galaxy SII) and she never tried to root , unlock it or install any alternate ROM. She also never tried to install tierce-partie app market (like amazon) and never tried to do customizing more complicated than background image and icons/widgets on screens. And she's happy with her phone that is doing what she wants (phone, internet, apps for her and daughter).

Consider that people here in XDA are not standard users but are mostly high-end users that want to "play" with their android device to do more/different than out of the box. But people like that (like me) are a very small part of end-users (maybe 1% ?) and all other people (99%) are not goin on technical forums like XDA, they don't even know that it's possible to modify the android configuration of the device and in fact would not understand what it would be useful for.

As a resume, I would say : with android you can do the same than with iOS (usability out of the box) but with android, you can do more if you want (high-end users).
[Asus Transformer TF700] csrearte:
Linux

If you're talking about ad-games and trimmed down versions of desktop software, then yes, Linux lacks those. But I can't see any alternative to Inkscape, gmusicbrowser and GIMP listed in Google Play. Linux (in my case LinuxMint) is simply a full-blown productivity OS, which Android isn't. It works very well in smartphones, though.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
Hello everyone,

I just bought a Verizon Galaxy S3 and I am in the process of rooting it. Im kinda freaking out because things really arent going that well for me. So far what I've done is root and unlock bootloader. Here is where the problem starts. When I try to reboot into CWM recovery it just boots me into the normal android recovery. Is this normal? every video I have watched shows people manually rebooting straight into CWM. The only way I can get it to work is if I go into EZ recovery and press "Flash" then "Reboot Into Recovery" buttons.

My second area of confusion is regarding the IMEI backup. Is this something everyone does when flashing roms on this phone? I am very confused as to what I'm supposed to do. Do I use the adb or download a terminal app from the play store? If someone could clarify that would be great ! :)

Sorry if these questions are pathetic but this is my first time doing this and it's a learning experience I geuss. :p Here are the links to the guides I used for what I have done so far.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1762709

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1852255

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] apacseven:
I recently saw someone have a problem getting custom recovery persist, and another member pointed out a step you needed to do to get it to stick. I'll see if I can locate that post and add it to this post.

As far as IMEI goes, you only need to back it up once, and then you are good to go. Perform step a followed by step b in the backup thread.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
Alright thanks, so for most people once they flash it once it should stay every time they reboot into recovery? I have probably the noobiest question of all time, what does flashing CWM recovery even do? is it like flashing a rom where it just gets baked in to the OS permanently? Or does it actually provide a backup of data because I thought thats what nandroids were for.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] apacseven:
Havent found exactly what I was recalling as far as the recovery problem, but I found something in a thread below this that makes me think maybe your bootloader wasnt unlocked properly. What version (if any) of ez recovery did you use?

Also, flashing CWM (ideally, at least) replaces the stock recovery with the clockworkmod recovery. Then, when you boot into CWM, that is where you make a backup (nandroid) of your current ROM. Once you have backups made you can quickly switch between ROMs by restoring the nandroids.

I hope I understood your question correctly and also answered it properly.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
Yes you did, thank you so much. In the tutorial I used it was saying that the newer versions of EZ unlock were having problems so I downloaded version 1.2. How do I proceed if my bootloader was unlocked improperly? Also, I went in to EZ recovery and flashed CWM and made a nandroid backup if this matters.

Thanks so much for your help.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] apacseven:
If you used version 1.2 then my point was moot. So you can only get into CWM if you install CWM from ez recovery and then hit reboot into recovery? If you do the hold vol up + home button while powering on it always takes you to stock recovery?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
Yep its very weird. Not sure what to do.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] apacseven:
Someone else will likely be able to chime in on how to correct this, unfortunately (or fortunately? lol) it hasnt happened to me so I havent had to deal with it. Its not a huge deal so I wouldnt worry about it.

Personally I use TWRP recovery. You can try that and see if it will stick, you can always go back to CWM later. Try it in ez recovery, or Goo manager from the play store (I use goo manager). If you want to try installing it from goo manager, install the app, hit menu, then select install open recovery script.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
K cool. So would it hurt me if I just used ez recovery to flash and reboot everytime I need to get into CWM? Also for goo manager does that install the one you were talking about or CWM?
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] apacseven:
Goo manager is only for TWRP recovery. And as long as the backups are being stored and you can access them the next time you get into CWM, it doesnt matter. Like I said, hopefully someone will be able to tell you how to correct this issue and we will both learn a thing or two from it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Biker1:
Did you follow Step 12 in Section 2 in the first link you posted?

You have to make sure to go to CWM v6.0.1 in the drop down and install that version of Clockwork Mod Recovery.

I'm not sure if that's the cause of your issue, but you may want to check into that ;)
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
Yep i did that :(
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] logammo:
Can someone please help D:
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] torpedo mohammadi:
hello .

I want to flash an ics ftf file . and I searched and found this :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1916419&highlight=ftf+roms

I have some questions .

1- what's the different between st25a & st25i ?

2- CAN I flash the rom for st25a on st25i ?

3- does the rom support Persian language ?

4- Can u introduce me an ics that has Persian language and is for middle-east territory ?

THANKS IN ADVANCE
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] neectron:
1.st25a is american and st25i is international.I think baseband is different.

2.You can,but you need exclude baseband.

Here is ftf for ST25i,http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1918920.Check it out.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] torpedo mohammadi:
so does it support Persian ?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] neectron:
It might.Try it.
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] shahrukh480:
Xperia U flashing error

Please help!!

Unable to flash my Xperia u , Tried many times its giving this error. Flashtool log is given below

24/035/2013 00:35:44 - INFO - Selected ST25i_4.0.4_Indian Firmware.ftf

24/035/2013 00:35:44 - INFO - Preparing files for flashing

24/035/2013 00:35:51 - INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode.

24/035/2013 00:35:52 - INFO - Opening device for R/W

24/035/2013 00:35:52 - INFO - Reading device information

24/035/2013 00:35:59 - INFO - Unable to read from phone after having opened it.

24/035/2013 00:35:59 - INFO - trying to continue anyway

24/035/2013 00:35:59 - INFO - Start Flashing

24/035/2013 00:35:59 - INFO - Processing loader

24/035/2013 00:35:59 - INFO - Checking header

24/036/2013 00:36:00 - INFO - Ending flash session

24/036/2013 00:36:00 - ERROR - Error in processHeader : 995 : The I/O operation has been aborted because of either a thread exit or an application request.

24/036/2013 00:36:00 - ERROR - Error flashing. Aborted

24/036/2013 00:36:00 - INFO - Device disconnected
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] geelu:
Try to disable any antivirus software.

At my pc Bitdefender wanted to delete flashtool and it showed same error.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nickn269:
I am changing the PowerOn.ogg file of my Galaxy Note from the annoying AT&T "ding...ding...DING...ding" to the sound of the original Alien computer "Mother" booting up at the beginning of the movie. It's about 24sec long and it only plays about 10sec worth. Is there a time limit or a setting I can modify to play the whole 24sec sound?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] s89281b:
It is limited by the time it takes to boot up. Why would you want want to take 24 sec to boot?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] nickn269:
Hehe. The sound is just too cool. :)
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] tyler.durden:
I know there is probably nothing that can be done, but it's worth a shot to ask...

The other night when I was texting on my phone at work, I got a random notification that said something to the effect of "SD Card has unmounted unexpectedly". I just cleared and figured it was no big deal. Later on, I noticed that I couldn't access any music or pictures that were saved so I restarted my phone, and still nothing showed up. I went to recovery and it wouldn't mount my SD card(external 16GB, by the way). When I look at my SD card in root explorer, some of the stuff still shows up but they all say "0 bytes". And now, I just have this constant notification that says "SD card blank or has unsupported file system". I click on it and it gives me the option to "Format" or "Cancel". My question is, is there any way to recover what's on the SD card before I format? I don't understand what caused this at all. I've never had a problem with my SD card on any of my EVOs before, and now it suddenly gets 'corrupted' or something? I don't get it... But I really don't want to lose every picture and song on my SD Card, if possible.

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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] metalfan78:
Did you try putting it in your pc to see if your files were there? I don't know if anything can be recovered. You probably don't want to hear this, and not to be a jerk, but that's what Dropbox and other backups are for. Someone might have an idea for helping out though, that really sucks if you lost it all. I'm always afraid of that happening.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] clavin78:
This happened to me. I downloaded "test disk" to my PC and recovered everything

Edit: its a free program.

Sent from my EVO