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[Ubuntu Touch General] clem11388:
I am looking to upgrade my phone on Verizon. But want to make sure that the one I get will be easily able to be unlocked and run Ubuntu Touch.

So in short, though Ubuntu Touch may not be ported to it yet. What is the best bet for a MODERN phone, that is well made enough to last 2 to 3 years (there are still some Nokia N900s out there going strong, so don't tell me its not possible) to upgrade to that is the most hackable? I've considered the Sam G Note 2, because of the really large screen. But don't know how "Hackable" it is in comparison to other devices.

Not the Nexus, very capable phone but won't be able to fully use desktop mode with full power. I would prefer 4G, since Verizon has stated that they will drop all other radio support in the next 2 to 3 years and only use 4G for voice and data.

Thank you and God Bless you guys and the work you do here!!
[Ubuntu Touch General] TobiH8:
There is no device except the Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus 4 which has Ubuntu Touch.
[Ubuntu Touch General] clem11388:
I'm sorry I didn't state it fully. I am looking for the most HACKABLE device that way it will be the most likely device to LATER receive a port for Ubuntu Touch. Not that it currently has Ubuntu Touch.

I backed the Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign and was willing to wait a almost a full year before receiving what I paid for. I would be more than willing to wait for a port for the same software but different device. And would donate to the person or persons that did the most work.

Pretty much has to be Quad Core of some kind, as much Ram as possible. And ability to use an SD card so storage space won't be an issue. And again, it HAS to be high quality enough to last atleast 2 to 3 year. My Moto Droid 2 has gone through 3 warranty replacements in the past 2 years. I refuse to deal with that level of incompetent hardware development. If an N900 can last almost 5 years and still go strong using various different Linux Operating systems with more capabilities than the original. Then Modern Android Manufacturers have no excuse.

Sorry for the rant, if you didn't catch that, I'm a little bit peeved at hardware companies lately.
[Ubuntu Touch General] TobiH8:
Sorry, I misunderstood you.

I would recommend you to wait for an official device to be released because the current easy hackable devices are only Nexus or Samsung (but without drivers to port custom roms).
[Ubuntu Touch General] clem11388:
I've been trying to do that, because I love most of what Ubuntu Touch has shown so far. But now the left half of the touch screen on my Droid 2 Global has now stopped working. The screen still works and displays things fine. But it won't recognize any touches. It has a slide out keyboard, which helps alot cause I can use the arrow keys to do most things and still type. And I use Button Savior since this has capacitive buttons along the bottom, the left 2 buttons (Menu and Home) also no longer work. Oh and the 3.5 mm Headphone jack hasn't worked in months. And I've only had this warranty replacement for about 1 year. I would like to wait until official devices are released. But my current device is metaphorically falling to pieces.

Now you see why I am so upset with hardware manufacturers?
[Ubuntu Touch General] TobiH8:
Oh, that's really a problem. If you don't need a high-end device asap I'd recommend you a really cheap Android device (you can keep it as a second fall-back phone). I have a Galaxy Gio as my second phone and I'd recommend that for you. It costs 40€ on ebay (I don't what it costs in your country) and has really good build quality and an active community for custom roms (you can install real stable and fast Android 4.2 on it). But it has no CDMA support.

I can't recommend you any current phone because nobody knows how they'll be working with Ubuntu Touch. Maybe the Samsung Galaxy S4...
[Ubuntu Touch General] clem11388:
Thank you [MENTION=4588879]To98[/MENTION] for all the info! I definately am going to buy a device on Ebay so I can stay OUT of a contract. Just don't know which one, and I need Verizon as I have Unlimted Data still, and I am in an area where only Verizon gets Signal. (probably their plan) I'll look into a cheap secondary device also. But the main things needed to port Ubuntu Touch over to a device is be rooted and have an unlocked bootloader correct? Everything else is just experienced dev's working out major and minor bugs that pop up on each device, and users to test them to find other bugs and so on. Am I correct in understanding? Or is there more required to run Ubuntu Touch OS?

The Verizon Galaxy Note 2 cost around 500 to 600 on Ebay right now. Not a cheap device, but with an Otterbox case or something like it to keep it safe it should last a long time right?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2272066This thread here Shows Adam Outlers easy way of both rooting and unlocking the bootloader of the Verizon Galaxy Note 2 (first typed Nexus, sorry got my thoughts mixed up). And it includes a method for Linux Users!! Which is great for me since I don't use Windows at all. :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] RumoredNow:
[MENTION=3297855]clem11388[/MENTION]

The largest hurdle for you is CDMA. It's a notoriously closed system of driver sets and thus far there is not one CDMA model with a working cellular radio under UT. Even the Verizon variant of Galaxy Nexus is left out in the cold... Verizon has joined the Carrier Advisory Board so maybe there will be a push for CDMA models, but I would bet any amount that it won't come until 2014 and the build of dedicated Ubuntu Touch Hardware,

For a further look at what is being worked on by the community, here's the official device list. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices Note 2 is on there in the GSM variant only.

As far as hackable and open... Nothing beats the Nexus line of devices.
[Ubuntu Touch General] clem11388:
Ah, I thought I had heard there was work being done on the Verizon version of the Note 2, must have been the GSM instead :(

I know of the open'ness of the Nexus line, for many months I was debating on to go ahead with the Verizon Galaxy Nexus. But the limited ram, slower CPU (compare to what is coming out now), and of course, no SD card slot, made it a No Go for me. The Galaxy Note 2 has a Quad Core 1.5 I believe, 2 GB of ram, and an SD card slot. And even if Ubuntu Touch is never officially supported, I can help the devs if they decide to tackle the driver problems, and Canonical have stated they will continue to develop "Ubuntu for Android" where you run Ubuntu desktop ontop of Android with a dock. So I will have a sort of "Convergence" device at least. Just wish the Ubuntu Edge would have reached its goal!! 700 for a top of the line phone with dual booting UT and Android would have been the perfect fit!!
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
You could also look for the Note 3 if you want to buy such an expensive device.

If you want a cheap UT capable device you can buy every device with an ARMv7 and above processor. But don't expect any CDMA device to have Ubuntu Touch in the next years. Nobody knows if there will be a version with CDMA support.

I doubt that we'll see Ubuntu for Android soon because Canonical has to develop Ubuntu Touch and advertise the OS.

Btw: Ubuntu Touch support has saved my Galaxy Nexus which I had replaced with the Oppo Find 5.

Interesting... I use no Windows, too... ;)
[Ubuntu Touch General] RumoredNow:
If you do settle on a device you can always explore installing Ubuntu under chroot...

CDMA wouldn't matter then.
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
That's a bad alternative. Chroot is a completly different thing. You have no sound and you have the desktop Ubuntu.
[Ubuntu Touch General] RumoredNow:
But it allows dual use and beats the alternative of a device running only UT with a dead cellular radio due to CDMA drivers being closed source and therefor unavailable.
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
That's true but you won't have the UT feeling because it's Ubuntu for Desktops and this is a complete different system.

But I think we can stop discussing about this because I think everything is said to chroot, isn't it?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Esteway.619:
I actually had a question. Since Ubuntu touch is running on top of a cyanogen mod ROM can't we use a cm base ROM for the Verizon nexus and get 3g and calls working with that?
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
Ubuntu Touch is not running on Android anymore. It's a completely different OS.
[Ubuntu Touch General] RumoredNow:
To98 is right... Back in early summer they "flipped the container." Ubuntu Touch started out booting into a CM shell, then running the Ubuntu bits inside that CM shell. Then the container was flipped and devices booted into an Ubuntu shell. The CM bits were hooked in to run inside the Ubuntu shell. (My simplified, layman's take on what has been happening.)

Theoretically, either method allows for use of CM code...

You would need some knowledgeable Devs to explain why CDMA isn't being folded in yet either officially, or by the community.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheAtheistOtaku:
we all know that we can flash roms from the i9505 forums by now, but i havent seen anything about flashing recoveries from their forums. is it safe? i saw philz touch recovery over there and it seems pretty awesome
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ktetreault14:
Was wondering the same rging
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheAtheistOtaku:
bump, just need a yes or no
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dragon-son:
I tired it, but I couldn't get it to actually boot into recovery. Reverted back to CWM touch for now.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dragon-son:
I sincerely apologize, I had previously tested an older version about a week ago. This older version was unable to boot into recovery.

Just tested with the latest release and it was able to install with no issues and boot into recovery. Looks like the newest version is indeed working on the T-Mobile variant. This was also confirmed in the i9505 thread by another T-Mobile user as well.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheAtheistOtaku:
sweet monkey jesus thats great news
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] ktetreault14:
Is there a flushable zip?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Hellstyrant:
You're supposed to zip after you flush.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] dragon-son:
Here are the files. Use the philz_touch_5.06.0-i9505.zip file. It's flashable from recovery, that's how I did it.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] TheAtheistOtaku:
flashed and works wonderfully
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S 4] Cal-El:
Seriously just spit I laughed so hard. Good times. :)
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ayo234:
Whenever I use onavo extend I am not am to use the Web. I get a timeout error. I contacted their support team and they said it was my custom rom or kernel that I had installed that was causing the problem. I am on Xylon aka UKG and I am using faux kernel. Is there anyone that uses onavo extend with those things and has it working? If so can you help me out?
[Huawei Ideos X6] unr34lm4x:
Hi...

Is there any CM/Cusrom Rom that support FM-Radio without installing third-party application for it?

I am using Axioo Vigo 410

Thanks
[Huawei Ideos X6] reversegear:
Straight answer NO No nO no
[Huawei Ideos X6] unr34lm4x:
Hmmm somehow i knew the answer already though :crying: but i wonder ...

Okay thanks for make it sure for me... :fingers-crossed:
[Huawei Ideos X6] chinmay_oak:
no..

Unfortunately......:(

no FM radio.......
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] srivmanu:
Recently i stumbled upon this problem all off a sudden, i mean my device was working perfectly, play store downloading apps perfectly. Then suddenly, since day before yesterday, anything downloaded from the play store is not installed and my device says "package file is invalid"

Anyone can help?
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] Ben Ling:
do you have enough space?

and try to clear data & cache at Settings>Apps>Play Store
[Sony Xperia P, U, Sola, Go] draganz:
It's a problem of your access point settings.

Settings>more>mobile network>access point settings > clear proxy & port value to "not set"

It will working now :eek:
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] nit3hawk:
Does anyone know what is the usable internal storage of International Samsung Note 8? I have read from Internet (can't remember where) that it is impossible to move videos, music and document onto microSD. Is this true for non-root Note 8 device?

Thanks a million!
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] hertsjoatmon:
I dont see how that can be true? We had someone on here who had heard the same thing from some forum. The only thing that cant be stored on the microSD on a non rooted device is apps and apps data. All other documents and files can be stored where you like. If that wasnt the case, there would be no point included a microSD slot with the device.

Whether or not files purchased through Android applications can be transferred or not is dependant on the individual app. If an app will only allow music (for examples) to be played from a specific folder or not I can not say as I purchase my music on my laptop and transfer it to my microSD as and when I need to.

My girlfriend bought an album with play music. The file names are generic. ie song 207 making it difficult to identify what track is what song when looking at it in a file explorer. As such we are just going to avoid the play store for music in future as neither of us use it as a media player.
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] wase4711:
dont believe anything you read on the internet...I have all my music, vids, and pics on my external sd...
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] nit3hawk:
May I know how much internal storage was available to you on your note 8?

Sent from my GT-N7100
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] Taifun:
I'm also wondering, because setting schows me internal memory with 9,78 GB not something like 16 GB ?:confused:

Regards Taifun
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] wase4711:
well, after putting about 160 programs on this thing, I still have over 5 gigs of space available on my internal card; with the low price of external sd cards now, (I think I paid less than 20 dollars for 32 gig card) there is no reason to not get one, and store all your media, documents, etc on the external card, insted of filling up your internal storage.

You never have 16 gigs "available" on your internal card, since the system files take up alot of space, plus cache, and data from files still use that space. Supposedly, Samsung is releasing some firmware that will allow you to put your apps on the external SD once again, but that was always problematic on their devices, so it still remains to be seen if that will work properly once they do...

Here again, no need to make a big deal about space, just get an external SD card, and put everything else on it..
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] hertsjoatmon:
I have the same amount of internal space. The rest is taken up by the operating system and system apps. I have 25gb of apps installed currently though by using folder mount to move the data to the microSD card (rooted)
[Galaxy Note 8.0 (Tablet) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooti] gesamgr:
how did you manage that? :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] wpshooter:
The following link gives instructions for re-rooting a Nabi 2 tablet when using a computer that utilizes Ubuntu Linux operating system.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2016463

Can these same instructions be used if my computer is using Linux Mint 13 instead of Ubuntu ?

Thanks.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fatfei:
Hi All,

I'd be greatful if someone can advise me. My phones counter has changed to 1 annoyed because i wasn't on custom firmware or rooted at the time, i just reset my normal official firmware and the counter went up to 1. i need to change it back to 0 but it seems to be much harder than previous when ive done this.

I rooted the s3 and have a custom firware on it just so i could install triangle away and reset the counter but the counter wont go below 1 anymore.

i have tried to pull the battery just before the samsung logo s3 but its not working this time. I understand a stock recovery/bootloader would enable the counter to set to 0 without having to try and pull the battery. I am currently running team win recovery project 2.3.3.0.

Anyone know where i get the stock from or any helpful tips?

Cheers

Fei
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Al the information is in the General forum stickys faqs and guides.

jje
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fk.gregor:
Hey everyone I know theres a transformation pack out there to change the camera and keyboard and gmail etc. I was curious to know if there was and individual file for each that could be flashed then updated. Im on 4.1.2 and i want the updated keyboard but I cant update to the latest through the play store. Any ideas?

edit: i extracted the files and deleted the gmail .apk

hopefully this works.
[Xoom General] integramodder:
So I've been trying a few different ROMs lately and it seems that when I wipe and reflash the Xoom takes the files on my SD card and puts them in a 0 folder. Since Ive done this several times, I've probably got 10 0 folders deep....

Is this normal?
[Xoom General] san_dro:
Same probem switching from EOS ROM to CM 10.1

I did a Format of everithing except external SD card (I removed it before format) where I copied the rom and the GAPS.

Then I installed from external SD card.

Now everything's good.

(I'm sorry forma my english, I'm italian....:o )
[Xoom General] matt0301:
Just use the twrp 2.5, and that problem will finish
[General Topics] Swifty:
Hi all,

I'd like to use pocket msn messenger on my XDAIIs over my wifi connection, but for obvious reasons i don't want the screen to be on if i'm just idling and not chatting to anyone.. is there any way of getting the screen to sleep (like you can when playing music with PocketPlayer or Pocket Music) but keep the wifi connection alive ?

At the moment i have to turn off the auto sleep feature of the device and keep everything turned on to keep the wifi from going off when the device sleeps.

Cheers

Neil
[General Topics] NightmarE:
use SPB Pocket Plus it has the toggle acreen button, u can do it at today by click on "Add/Remove Items..." > select "System" category > check "Screen Toggle". after that u can click on it and the screen go off but the process still ON "like Media Player or Camer"

laters 8)
[General Topics] Swifty:
Nice one :)

Cheers mate, I hadn't ever noticed that because i always turn off the today plugin of Pocket Plus :roll:

Thanks

Neil
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
I am trying to upgrade my phone from ICS to JB. I flashed Stock GB27 through the odin one-click and every loaded/booted fine. Now I wanted to flashed tdunham's rom "Recalked in Jellybean". In order to flash the rom I have to use EL26 or EL29 cwm kernel to flash it. I used the odin one-click of EL26_Stock_CWM5 (Christ 41 G) and it rebooted. But now it is stuck at the boot screen with a yellow triangle. I'm not sure really what to do at this point to fix it. I've found videos online but they all show the phones going past the boot screen to actually get rid of it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdsingle76:
Reboot into recovery by holding down power button and volume up. That will get you into cwm. From there, wipe data, cache, dalvik, and flash rom. Reboot, enjoy
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
Thanks that got me into cwm but for some reason the power button will not let me choose any options. Not sure if it is lagging or being unresponsive. The volume up and down buttons at least work.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdsingle76:
Lol, that's because the select button is home button by default. Press up down up on volume to enable power button
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
I have done that but the power button still does not allowed me to select any of the options after using the volume up and down buttons to choose one.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdsingle76:
Reboot into recovery again....at the first screen, press volume up, down, then up again, it will activate the power button. Or stay where you are and use the home key(does the same thing as power button)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
So now for some odd reason the power button is working now..... Quick question: I did not load tdunham's rom onto my phone yet. If I can not get past the boot screen after wiping the cache/dalvik what should I do then? Re-install the stock GB27 rom to get the old kernel back? I'm assuming the wipe data will do a factory reset so that would re-install the old kernel itself?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
That explains that -_-. It has been a year since I flashed anything which you can already tell...... I try not to use odin if I can since I've used cwm to flash all my modems and roms. Also this five min waiting between post is why this post will be a bit late.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdsingle76:
Td's rom has cwm. If you get bootloop, reboot into recovery wipe everything, and try again. Still getting boot loop, probably bad download. Dl again using computer instead of phone then save to phone before flashing again
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
Did a data wipe and still have a bootloop with the yellow triangle at the bottom. I'm guessing it is the el26 kernel that is causing it. This is from his OP page:

3. Install EL26 (Chris41G) kernel or EL29 Directboot kernel.

They can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1662295

( Look for: GB - Stock EL26 Repacked Kernel or GB - Direct Boot CWM )

Note: For success, EL26 & EL29 kernels are recommended for flashing this rom!

I used the EL26 one and it seems to not to be working with the stock GB27 rom (At least through the odin method). I've read that Stock rooted JB kernels for some reason do not play nice with custom JB roms. Am I able to get into Odin mode safely from the boot screen and can I just used the one-click Stock GB27 again to reinstall everything back to stock?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdsingle76:
Sure you can, and it sounds like a bad download. His Rom is solid. Try downloading it, and matching md5, and its not the el26 either. It's a work horse for flashing, and solid as the day is long. Sounds like bad dl. Don't give up :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
I have his rom downloaded but I have not flashed it yet. When I meant stock GB27 I meant this: [ROM][ODIN][TAR]SPH-D710 GB27 (GB27 Modem/Kernel/ROM - Root/Stock) from http://www.sxtpdevelopers.com/showthread.php?t=166. That is the one I wanted to re-flash in odin to see if it will let me reboot back but I do not know if re-flashing with a yellow triangle will screw things up. I have not clue why I needed to flash a EL26/EL29 kernel to flash his rom though which is how this all started.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Cabhills:
Well I re-flashed the Stock GB27 again and everything work with the yellow triangle gone. I guess I have to put custom rom and Jellybean X2 Format utility on my phone before I flash the kernel. Just sucks the counter is going to go up cause of odin -_-. Welp lets try this again. Thank you for all your help jdsingle76.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jdsingle76:
Don't worry about the counter. Triangle Away after you're settled :). And you're very welcome. Glad I could help.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Spark91:
Instead of using PC Odin. You can grab Mobile Odin lite 3.65 by chainfire and flash the

DirectBoot EL29 Recovery Kernel.

You mentioned you don't know why you need the

EL26/29 Kernel recovery. It's a safe recovery

to flash roms and recommended to do so.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Stryke_the_Orc:
Use PC odin, the directions provided are a stable sure fire way to fix the problem. If you're going to go the Mobile Odin route, get the pro version. The lite version requires you to find and download an extra file, which can complicate things if you're unsure, and flashing the wrong one WILL cause a brick.

Trust the more experienced users here and it will save you time, trouble, and possibly a device:good: