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[Nexus 7 Original Development] beanfarmer:
its tegra 2 not 3 will it still be compatible?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] s33d1ing:
I cant get any of these to work. Half the time when I create the ROM, TWRP restarts soon after I begin the process. The other half of the time, it just its on the page where it is supposed to be creating it and does nothing. Am I missing something?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] antp121:
are you flashing the rom or adding a rom? just hit install, not the multirom menu
[Nexus 7 Original Development] s33d1ing:
I was adding a rom. I completely over looked the instructions about flashing normally >_<
[Nexus 7 Original Development] tarunyad:
i saw plasma active is updated ..plz someoen make a flashable zip of the new build ?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] antp121:
Yeah I missed it too at first. I watched a video on YouTube and saw the error in my ways lmao
[Nexus 7 Original Development] bonzer2u:
Hmmm, you have a link???

I just checked and the 1/7/2013 image is still posted........... I saw the new video of current status though, looks much better.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] abhi0304:
How can i flash ubuntu 13.04. I see Tass uploaded it in goo.im in multirom thread. It's a .img file, not sure how to flash .img file.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] N@th_OC:
When you make "Add ROM" you have the possibility to choose Ubuntu install.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] abhi0304:
In add rom, there is option for flashing zip files. I need to flash .img format of ubuntu.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Phr³³k:
Flashing as normal zip, maybe i wasn't reading something correctly.

Well this could have be my problem too, I was adding/flashing Bodhi under MultiROM menu, but never got it to start.

Now everything looks good ;)

Great work btw

cheers phk
[Nexus 7 Original Development] xela92:
I will update as soon as I can. If anybody makes the zip before, please share it...

PS: Fedora is not working for me. If someone get it to work please share zip.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
No, it wasn't, at least not here http://download.kde.org/unstable/active/3.0/images/nexus7/

If you are reading posts on this blog, then you are a bad reader - all of the changes are in repositories, and you can download them if you so desire - it is described how to do that in those posts.

That Fedora is for Tegra 2, and for basicaly "desktop computer, just with ARM instead of x86" on top of that, so there's pretty much no reason to even try to port that.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] bonzer2u:
I bet you are lookin forward to an upcoming ubuntu tab os release.......
[Nexus 7 Original Development] xela92:
When Ubuntu Tablet is ready please share even the flashable zip for sdcard. If the chef doesn't make it, I will. Awesome stuff.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] evilmrt:
This?

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/
[Nexus 7 Original Development] xela92:
It has to be ported to multirom standard format. It is made by a system image (android style) and a data image (with all ubuntu stuff), I think it should be either a ubuntu standard image or a android standard one xD am I wrong?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
Ubuntu touch preview

Okay, I'll skip right to the instructions.

0. Requirements

You'll need MultiROM installed with recovery from at least 22nd of February. You can find downloads and installation instruction in in MultiROM's thread, as soon as you have it all installed, come back to this post.

Free space needed: a little over 1 GB.

1. Downloads

You'll need two ZIP files from this daily build page.

Base system: raring-preinstalled-armel+grouper.zip (~33 MB)

Ubuntu data: raring-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip (the biggest one, ~550 MB)

2. Installing base

Reboot to recovery and got to Advanced->MultiROM. Select "Add ROM" option. Choose these settings:

Choose ROM type: Android/Ubuntu touch

Share kernel with Internal ROM: Don't share

Install location: Wherever you wish to install it.

Click Next, then select ZIP file as ROM source, and choose the smaller ZIP file with base system (quantal-preinstalled-armel+grouper.zip). Proceed with installation. Do _not_ reboot after installation!

Installing on USB: if you get to screen which wants you to "Set up the size of disk images", set the size of data.img to something bigger - 1500mb should be enough.

3. Installing Ubuntu data

Select List ROMs in MultiROM menu in recovery, then select the ROM you've just created (probably named something like quantal_preinstalled...) and choose Flash ZIP option. Select the bigger ZIP file (quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip) and flash it. Beware, this ZIP file then can't be used to flash Ubuntu without MultiROM, as it is modified in the process to suit MultiROM needs.

5. Profit

Ubuntu touch developer preview is now installed. Keep in mind that this _really_ is just a preview, so pretty much nothing will work. Looks good though.

Not much is changed, the only thing which needed to be done was to compile Ubuntu's kernel with kexec-hardboot patch. The mrom_quantal-preinstalled-armel+grouper_20130221.zip file has only different boot.img, otherwise it is exactly the same. You can use official daily builds, the patches for MultiROM are in there.

This preview is basically cyanogenmod with Ubuntu UI running in chroot, so it is really similiar to Android. I'm told that this is because the Ubuntu core and, most importantly, drivers, are not yet ready. In the future, it should be this UI running on top of standard Ubuntu core (ie. the Ubuntu raring which you already could multi-boot).
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Phr³³k:
Good work, flashes without any problem and boots straight onto the UbuntuTouch desktop,

But then it responds only to on/off button, Touch doesn't seem to work for me. Did i miss something?

Clock is working and adb connection as well so system doesn't hang...

EDIT: after reboot touch is working

any idea?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
R: [MultiROM] [LINUX] [How-to] Rom installers for sdcard

Touch doesn't work for me, also after many reboots...

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 con Tapatalk HD
[Nexus 7 Original Development] rebel1699:
Same here. No touch on boot. That is what happened using today's first new twrp. The second twrp version won't install the data portion at all. You can select the user data zip file, but the flash fails with "file or directory does not exist". Redownloading now to test again.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Lillz:
same here!
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
R: [MultiROM] [LINUX] [How-to] Rom installers for sdcard

Now touch works... Or maybe I tried to "swipe" around the screen... Not touching...
[Nexus 7 Original Development] rebel1699:
The twrp 20120221-2 is failing while installing the userdata portion. After selecting the zip, it is trying to go to path /realdata/media..........

Why is it putting "real" in front of data in the path?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] cmason37:
This is the exact same thing that's happening to me. Anyone got a link to the first recovery?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
R: [MultiROM] [LINUX] [How-to] Rom installers for sdcard

Here http://www.mediafire.com/?x8irl999re4grae
[Nexus 7 Original Development] rebel1699:
When choosing the package, don't pick it from the directory it opens to. Manually navigate to /data/media/0/ and the directory you have it in. Works fine after that. :)
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
After boot, Ubuntu shows basically a "lockscreen", so it reacts only to touch from left edge, nothing else. Give it a bit of time (30s) after boot to fully start up and then try to swipe from the left edge.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] D0ubl3_X:
Multiboot says: "Kexec-hardboot support required" after flashing Ubuntu Touch on USB device did i do something wrong?

EDIT: I used the zip File that Tasssadar posted from http://www.mediafire.com/?601808kubtbpgkq
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Jomari29:
After flashing the first one, then flashing over the data i get "Failed" flashing, just after

E: Cant open /realdata/media/ZIPLOCATION/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip

No such file or directory

Failed to install ZIP!

Erasing incomplete ROM....

Updating partition details...

Help?

UPDATE:

WORKS thanks
[Nexus 7 Original Development] J_Caselles:
I flashed all correctly, everything went ok, but when I finally choose ubuntu touch to boot, it does reboot and shows again google's logo as expected, but afterwards I get anything but a black screen... Does anybody know something about this problem?

I flashed using last recovery (20130222 3rd version)

Thanks.

Enviat des del meu Nexus 7 usant Tapatalk 2
[Nexus 7 Original Development] TRAG!C:
I have exact same problem and am running the same recovery.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] rebel1699:
Two questions. Did you install a kernel with kexec? And, did you make sure to set "don't share" when going through the options when installing base?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] MichaelMcEntire:
Same here. If I install it like a ROM it works. However if I install it through multirom it won't work. I even tried backing it up and then installing it to multirom from a back up and it behaved the same.

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OK. So if your having this problem, click do not share kernel. That should fix it.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] TRAG!C:
Yep so here is my step by step in case I am doing something silly. I was running multirom v8 n7 with Stock 4.2.2 as my base.

Using TWRP i flashed kernel_kexec_422.zip

Then using multirom I

Add ROM - (Android/Ubuntu touch / Don't Share / Internal Memory) - mrom_quantal-preinstalled-armel+grouper_20130221

Successful

Add ROM - (Android/Ubuntu touch / Don't Share / Internal Memory) - quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf

Sucessful

Reboot and in multirom I can now see 3 roms

Internal

mrom_quantal-preinstalled-armel+grouper_20130221

quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf

So I select mrom and then it goes to a black screen and doesn't progress
[Nexus 7 Original Development] MichaelMcEntire:
The second zip is being done wrong. After installing the first zip, go back into advanced and list ROMs. Choose Ubuntu and then the "flash zip" or "add zip", whichever it is. That should hook you up.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] TRAG!C:
Perfect, thanks for the help worked first time after I knew what I was doing :)
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
Good news - kexec-hardboot compatibility patch was accepted into Ubuntu Touch n7 kernel, which means that as soon as daily images start going, I won't have to change anything and you'll be able to install ZIPs directly from Ubuntu, just as you can with desktop Ubuntu images.

If Ubuntu touch is not working for you, read at least this post again, throughly - it's not that long. Did you flash both ZIPs in correct part of recovery? Did you select "don't share kernel" option?

As for kexec-hardboot support error message - the message tells you what is needed. You need kernel with kexec hardboot support, the easiest way is to grab one in second post of MultiROM's thread and flash it using "Install" option in recovery's main menu.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] bonzer2u:
schweet, i think i will wait for things to mature abit.....
[Nexus 7 Original Development] land.apfel:
I tried to install Ubuntu Touch onto my Nexus 7.

What I did:

TWRP -> Add ROM -> mrom_... -> Success

List ROM -> Flash ZIP -> quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip -> Success

But whenever I'm trying to boot Ubuntu I get the following error:

Does someone know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

land.apfel

Edit: I know what the problem is, but where do I get an appropriate kernel from?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] J_Caselles:
I'll explain exactly my procedure flashing: first, I do have stock kernel 4.2.2 with kexec, downloaded right from OP. To be sure, I've just boot without problems Paranoid Android and Ubuntu raring to check. Then, my procedure:

Recovery -> advanced -> MultiROM -> Add ROM -> Android/Ubuntu touch + Don't share + install to Internal memory -> zip file -> mrom_quantal_preinstalled-armel+grouper_20130221 ==> Succesful

without leaving recovery, List ROMs -> mrom_quantal-preinstalled- -> Flash ZIP -> quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip ==> Succesful

Reboot and try to boot mrom_quantal-preinstalled ==> reboot, shows Google logo, then black screen back light on. I've posted the full adb logcat during kernel loading few post back. It seems to abort when loading sensors...:

[...]
/SensorService( 130): nuSensorService starting...
E/MPL-storeload( 130): Cannot open file "/data/inv_cal_data.bin" for read
E/MPL-storeload( 130): Could not load cal file - aborting
E/MPL-storeload( 130): Could not load the calibration data - error 107 - aborting
I/Sensors ( 130): accel config: (977, -1169); (1118, -879); (1513, -1315);
I/Sensors ( 130): HAL:Set accel bias through inv_set_accel_bias() by AccelLoadConfig().
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Gyroscope
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Accelerometer
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Magnetic Field
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Orientation
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Rotation Vector
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Linear Acceleration
I/SensorService( 130): MPL Gravity
I/SensorService( 130): Lite-On al3010 Ambient Light Sensor
D/SensorService( 130): nuSensorService thread starting...

after this lines the logcat stops.

what is wrong with me!!! :eek:

Ma

---------- Post added at 02:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:00 PM ----------

Second post of this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34577851&postcount=2

Flash it from Recovery -> install, not from MultiROM
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
That happend to me when Ubuntu Touch had wrong kernel. Can you do this?

adb root
adb shell
cat /proc/version

And tell me what is the output.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] J_Caselles:
root@android:/ # cat /proc/version

Linux version 3.1.10-g44af61a (tassadar@nymeria) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #40 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 21 20:28:05 CET 2013
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
That is correct. Dunno what to tell you, it looks like you did everything right, and for other people it works okay. But I saw people at #ubuntu-phone having the same problem with official installation process, so I don't really know what could be wrong.

The logcat doesn't really show any error, it just stops :/

Just to be sure, how much free space do you have (you should have more than 1gb free prior to installation), which bootloader version do you have and is it 3g or WiFi version of Nexus 7?

Other than then I can't really help more than "try again", which is kinda useless, sorry.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] J_Caselles:
Thanks for everything anyway! bootloarder 4.18, WiFi 8GB version. Not sure available space, now with it installed I have only 400 mb...

I'll try redownloading the files. I'll may have better luck with next updates!
[Nexus 7 Original Development] land.apfel:
Thank you very much. Worked like a charme!
[Nexus 7 Original Development] J_Caselles:
Well, I finally got it booting! :victory: Turns out, as pointed by Tassadar, you need at least 1 GB (maybe less, but more than 400mb) of free space after flashing Ubuntu Touch, or else a presumed bug in the CM kernel used by this ROM wont let you boot.

Thank you Tassadar!
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
Does anyone know how to make bluetooth in PLASMA ACTIVE working?

I've found a page about this...here

but I have not yet understood how to do...Help please
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
Ok, I managed to get bluetooth working

If can be useful...

- Firstly do an update with

zypper ref && zypper up

- Then write

su

and the pass, then

-

zypper install nexus7-fw-installer

-

/usr/sbin/nexus7-fw-install

- follow the displayed instructions
[Nexus 7 Original Development] deyna:
This thread is full of so much win! Tried Plasma Active the other day without a dual boot. It's fun to mess with and I'll be sure to use this method next time.

I love seeing Arch up there. That's been my distro of choice for a while now and I'll put it on my tablet as soon as I get an OTG adapter.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Silesh.Nair:
Bodhi installer 2

Anyone succeded in installing bodhi installer - 2.

I get a assert failed error.

assert failed: run_program("tmp/extract.sh") == 0

Status 7 error.

edit : Looks like the rom_info.txt file is missing from the "rom" folder.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ikslawlok:
Hi.

There is a page, where we could download "current publication"

Ubuntu Touch Preview Daily : daily-preinstalled/current/.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] stadicon:
Yes, but tasssadar made it clear that it won't work with multirom yet, so we should wait for a couple of days.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ikslawlok:
OK thank you

Envoyé depuis mon Nexus 7 par Tapatalk HD
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Culex316:
I just flashed the latest nightly from this site: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/

using the method explained by Tassadar here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38300214#post38300214

and it worked perfectly, now you can run Ubuntu Touch with MultiROM on the Nexus 7

But in my opinion, I find the Ubuntu raring desktop build to be MUCH more useful on my Nexus 7 since it effectively makes it into an ARM netbook....the Ubuntu touch preview is nice but I'd rather have it on my Galaxy Nexus.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] minipot:
Does the raring desktop one still exist or has it been completely replaced by Ubuntu touch.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] cmason37:
It does. Google search it.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] instanton:
I am using the latest TWRP recovery (20130302) and tried to flash the latest daily build of Ubuntu Touch into a USB stick plugged into the OTG cable. The smaller zip flashed successfully but it took a very long time. According to Tassadar's instructions, I should not reboot after flashing smaller zip but need to flash the larger zip instead. However, when selecting List ROM->USB->Ubuntu Touch (that's the name I renamed the smaller zip before flashing), the usual pop menus did not appear, the screen remain the same as before I tapped on Ubuntu Touch. So there is no way of going on flashing the larger zip. By long pressing the power button and then rebooting into recovery again, I redid the List ROM -> USB and on process and this time it allowed me to flash the larger zip. Finally, after it said that the flash was successful, I chose to reboot system. Choosing Ubuntu Touch while booting, I ran into a black screen and Ubuntu Touch refuses to appear. This is not my first time flashing Ubuntu touch. Before the daily builds began to appear, I have tried Tassadar's modified zip and it worked. But that time the recovery was the 20130222 version. So, I am wondering why this time I failed to make Ubuntu Touch booting. Is it a consequence of the change in recovery, or is it a problem of the daily build? I used the latest daily, i.e. that of the 20130301 build.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] stadicon:
Yes, that's because on the meanwhile, they applied the required patch on daily build, so since Thursday (I think) the daily builds are working with Multirom.

As for it's usability, I couldn't agree more with you, although Ubuntu's performance, compared to Bodhi's, is not the best. Have you tried any other desktop environment than unity on Ubuntu, because E17 isn't really working with the touch screen (and it's outdated)?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] minipot:
Thanks although maybe I phrased my question wrong what I meant is will they continue to support it or will they drop it eventually?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Culex316:
I've tried Lubuntu and Xfce as well as Kubuntu...they all work and Lubuntu is the best since it is so lightweight and not a resource hog like Unity.. It actually runs as good as Bodhi.

The only bad thing is that automatic screen rotation doesn't work in any other desktop other than Unity and even doing the xrotate command in the terminal only rotates the image but the touchscreen still acts like it's in portrait mode (I click on the toolbar but nothing happens since the touchscreen "thinks" it's in portrait mode if ya know what I mean)
[Nexus 7 Original Development] tarunyad:
ubuntu touch have tablet ui on nexus 7 or the phablet one (as was in developers preview ) ?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] cmason37:
I don't think they will. I think when it's time they'll merge the raring base with the Ubuntu t touch ui.

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No. I think nexus 7 will have tablet ui when it releases next year.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] kvl19:
How do I flash the Ubuntu touch zip files? "Add Rom" option only allow me to flash the image file, not the zip file.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ikslawlok:
lol :D :confused::confused::confused:

Did you read the OP ?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] kvl19:
My bad. I did not see the /Ubuntu Touch option last night. I chose Ubuntu, thats ehy it did not allow me to flash the zip file.

Thanks
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ikslawlok:
And about this:

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

94e2c14046cbdfb9911a351ba069f2df *raring-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+nexus7.bootimg Preinstalled desktop image for Asus/Google Nexus7 Tablet computers (combined Android bootimage)

0732ef89a2ed948ed7288b84a8c151fc *raring-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+nexus7.img.gz

Is it possible to install it?

Edit :

I installed raring-preinstalled-desktop-armhf+nexus7.img.gz (It took about 25 minutes)

But impossible to see anything other than the splash screen.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] instanton:
Automatic rotation in Unity is one of the things I "hated" because it always rotates the display so that one can only read with comfort in a sitting position. If I was lying in bed, I dearly hope the screen will remain un-rotated so that I can control the way of holding the tablet. Tried Lubuntu interface and I am glad that the screen no longer rotates and will remain in the position as it was when logging in.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
R: [MultiROM] [LINUX] [How-to] Rom installers for sdcard

Flash the latest recovery.

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 con Tapatalk HD
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Culex316:
Yeah if you log into Lubuntu in portrait mode it will stay that way but it's more useful in landscape for me.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] rwmanos:
Can anyone compile the latest open webos with the custom lunasysmgr ?

It would be of great help .

thanks :)
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
Here: webos_20130303.zip.

It is made from prebuilt images on this page, so I really don't know if it contains the stuff you want or not. It feels a good deal smoother though.

PS: pressing power button will still freeze it.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] rwmanos:
That was fast :D

Thanks for sharing the link for the prebuilt images too, I still can't figure out the errors it pops me while compiling.
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
alexbailon made testing port of Tizen OS for Nexus 7: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2146977
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ikslawlok:
Here is a new version of Plasma active : Files.kde.org

"plasma-active-nexus7-testing-mer-latest-2013-03-12.tar.gz"

Any chance to install it with MultiROM ?
[Nexus 7 Original Development] Tasssadar:
Here you go: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzZdFm5P1VJuRzZ0QWRySE1BVnc/edit?usp=sharing

I have not tested it at all, it is just ZIP file built by my script (in the same way as previous plasma ZIP).
[Nexus 7 Original Development] ikslawlok:
Thank you : it works great !
[Nexus 7 Original Development] bonzer2u:
thx....
[Nexus 7 Original Development] lebrac:
R: [MultiROM] [LINUX] [How-to] Rom installers for sdcard

Any changelog for new plasma active? Someone tested it?

Inviato dal mio Nexus 7 con Tapatalk HD
[Nexus 7 Original Development] tincanman:
Personally, i think plasma active is much better than regular ubuntu. the user interface is much more friendly for nexus 7 and everything seems very smooth.