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[General Questions and Answers] Dalekmun2010:
Hi,

I have an 830 and a Razr i, I've tried to get chroot running on both when I first got each of them, but didn't finish the things. I'm pretty sure if I gave it a few more hours I'd be able to get it running, but as of now no luck.

I will tell you the progress I made though.

You've probably heard of linux on android or complete linux installer http://linuxonandroid.org/, and I'm sure you worked out pretty quickly the version of busybox they gave you, along with the images, where for arm.

It might pay to message, but let's be honest, in this case WE are the developers, and unless one of us is willing to send them one of our devices we'll have a hole lot more luck trying it ourselves.

Busybox x https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitcubate.root.busybox.complete&hl=en can install an x86 binary, and it certainly runs, but I had some issues that may be related to how it was compiled, or just me being an idiot.

You say you've been playing with linux for 10 years, so I know you probably already know this, but just in case, and for others reading this, it's probably worth explaining. chroot isn't a VM nor is it a system for traditional duel booting. It will allow you to run a linux userland from the already running linux kernal on the device, alongside android. It works by specifying a directory or image with a linux install in it, then telling the kernal to start that **** up, as if it where the kernal in the instalation.

Now, onto my progress. I was able to run chroot, so it was obviously an x86 binary, I was also able to mount an image of an x86 debian install made with debootstrap (What linux on android uses to make their ARM images) on my SD card. The first problem I had was android doesn't give stuff on the SD card execute permissions, and stuff got messy, but I eventually got that working. Do as you see fit.

I had numerous other issues, but the one I finally got stuck on was chroot not being able to find /bin/bash in the debian install directory.

I played around with the boot scripts you get with linux on android, but I don't think chroot evern ever ran from there. Neither was I able to run a plain "chroot /mnt/debianimagemounted/", I kept getting the "can't find bash" thing. I'm guessing this could have been because the linux for android scrypts made aliases before running chroot. Read them for yourself to see what I mean.

This all could be as simple as redirecting the linuxonandroid program from the arm version of chroot it uses to an x86 copy, or it could be more difficult.

Actually, I'll email them now, I'll post any response I get here.

I don't think there really are many people talking about this, I mean your post was the first google hit for "x86 android chroot", so this is probably gonna take some effort on our part.

I'm pretty busy with study right now, but in 2 weeks or so I'll dedicate a few solid days to getting this running.

As far as I can tell all we need is some good hard trial and error.

Can't wait to hear from you.
[General Questions and Answers] Dalekmun2010:
One other thing, I forget where but heard that you should try to stick to i386 binaries only, and that i686 ect could cause problems, but I don't know this for sure. Again, use your own discretion.

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Sorry, last time I post, but I found this, you might want to check it out:

http://sven-ola.dyndns.org/repo/debian-kit-en.html
[General Questions and Answers] danharris:
Yup, from what I've found, Debian-kit seems like the most promising project. Heres a link with a little more insight.

wdowiak.me/debian-kit/index.html

For anyone else who gets here... this is what I used to root the 830

androidfilehost.com/?fid=23578570567714700

then I got Debian-kit from fdroid because it has a newer version, but the one from google play works fine too. get your connect bot and RDP client and ur off to the races.

***sorry for the non linked links, Im not allowed to post real links yet
[General Questions and Answers] vt-xda:
Dan, I think wdowiaks kit in your link is newer than the fdroid version and installs Wheezy. It definitely has good install info. I rooted my new a1-830 yesterday and installed the wdowiak version in the initial install version (not the one on the external sdcard). I had a little problem with the Iconia not mounting the external card formatted to two ext2 partitions, so the install was to internal memory aas a first try.

But today I removed the deb installation and reformatted the external card to 3 partitions with vfat on the first, and ext2 on the other two, and Android mounted the first partition where the deb script was located. So I'm hoping to install tonight. I was surprised the ext2s werent mounted automatically. But this might be a gtood thing, since there are warnngs not to let Android apps write data to them anyway.

Anyway, wanted to thank you for the above Debian info.:good:
[General Questions and Answers] vt-xda:
Some notes as I'm installing the wdowiak debian-kit-1-6.shar:

I'm installing to the third partition on the sdcard (which shows up as /dev/block/vold/179:53)

At first I had trouble using the command:

mk-debian -i /dev/block/vold/179:53

I had to issue it as:

/data/local/deb/mk-debian -i /dev/block/vold/179:53

but even then it threw an error saying it couldn't fdisk 179:48 .

That seemed odd. But it didn't stop there and went on to query if I wanted to format 179:53 or " (A)bort " I decided to go ahead and typed a "Y" and was brought back to a prompt.

That didn't seem to work, so I tried again by just hitting <ENTER> . But that had the same result. Finally I figured out that the response it wanted to proceed was lowercase "e". That worked and the partition was formatted -- the install is going on now.

One other note -- though I originally partitioned as ext 2, the mk-debian command seems to be re-formatting to ext 3. There is a suggestion earlier that if it is to be a journaling format, rather than ext2, to turn journaling off. This reduces the number of writes and therefore extends the life of the sdcard.

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More notes:

I got a lot of error messages from debconf about needing a certain screen size during:

apt-get install andromize

Nevertheless it proceeded through. I'm now at the stage in connectbot where Ive logged into my user through ssh and am adding the lxde desktop via

apt-get install andromize-lxde

That's a pretty big chunk of realestate for a desktop -- almost a gig unpacked -- I'm used to Puppy Linux which is about 100 megs total for everything, including OS, desktop, and a full suite of apps!

I'm hoping that with some experience w/Wheezy on the a1-830 I can try getting an Intel Atom optimized version of Puppy linux on board.
[General Questions and Answers] ishaang:
Hi...I don't know much about this at all to be honest, but its an interesting thread and I found some links which will hopefully help you a little bit, though you may already be aware of them:

http://www.android-x86.org/

http://www.in.techradar.com/news/so...stros-to-choose-from/articleshow/38781789.cms

https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active

All the best!
[General Questions and Answers] vt-xda:
Thanks ishaang.

The middle link was pretty interesting, though I wish they had elaborated on their installation method:

My own interest is in Puppy Linux, which is generally accomplished from an ISO live CD session running in memory (on most computers). You run the CD then install to HD or USB stick.

For a so-called "frugal install" (the kind I use) there's another option besides making and running the LiveCD, You can just extract three files from the ISO, place them in a folder on the HD and point a stanza of GRUB's menu.lst to them. Typically the files are:

initrd.gz

vmlinuz

puppyversion.sfs

and an example GRUB menu.lst boot stanza for the Racy 5.5 version of Linux located on sda5 of a hard drive would look like this:

title Racy 5.5

kernel (hd0,4)/Racy55/vmlinuz PDEV1=sda5 ro

initrd (hd0,4)/Racy55/initrd.gz

boot

So I'm wondering how this translates to an alternative OS boot on the Iconia tablet? -- I could easily put those three files on an external sdcard, but how do we point the boot process to it on the a1-830?
[General Questions and Answers] madhits45:
Any update to this since 2014, I know i'm resurrecting a old thread. Hoping to breath new life into an x86 android 4.2 device.
[HTC Droid DNA] warpurlgis:
My power button has stopped working as of the other day. I can get it work for brief increments of time but other than that nothing. Luckily I keep eye on the charge of my phone and have STW/DTW enabled so I can function with this.

Has anyone run into this problem before? If so was there a fix?

I'm trying to avoid having to replace the board the button is on.
[HTC Droid DNA] Uzephi:
I didn't find a fix for my DNA. HTC was going to charge me $250 to swap the board out. I stupidly let it die and it won't accept a "adb reboot" command when connected to my PC.

Either get it fixed or never let it turn off.

I don't know why it happened. It was working perfect, I did nothing. I put it on the charger for the night and the next morning it would just bootloop (acted like I held the button down) for a few hours then the button stopped working. I sent my DNA to another user so he could swap the main board out of his with mine, but it got lost in transit :(
[HTC Droid DNA] DanielWEWO:
This was happening to me the other day. The first time it happened I just messed around with the power button and it stopped. The second time it didn't seem to stop, and I let it die. I plugged it back on the charger and it continued to bootloop. I then started smacking the top of the phone on my desk lightly and it stopped. I guess I disengaged the power button a little bit?
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakBB:
Hey, my problem is the following: I have internet on my PC, not on my phone, no, I don't want reverse tethering, I just want to be in the same connection!

The problem is the connection on my PC goes away if I do that!

Halp!
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] compiro1:
Use Connectify s/w and create a wifi hotspot. For this you will need Wifi dongle for your pc.
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakBB:
Yes, that is the problem, I need to buy something...

That can't be that I can not set up a connection between my pc and android via usb...
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokesh.3440:
Follow steps from this link :

http://fasttechbuzz.com/creating-wifi-hotspot-network-in-windows-88-1-using-command-prompt/
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakBB:
No, the problem is I dont have a wifi dongle!
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lokesh.3440:
You don't need dongle for it,,,you have a wired broadband connection right ?
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] comezon:
you can try this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pmoYJrTgnM
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JakBB:
Doesnt work on my device, no one of the reverse tethering stuff works!
[Moto E Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neo.ank:
There's a s/w called 'Android Tool'. It works on rooted device only and requires xposed. You can try that if you're rooted.

Search in the xda forums or if you wish I can mirror it for you.

Tapatalk with RAZR HD
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nexus11:
Can or has someone made a way to hide the blue highlight in dual window so apps have a good blend with each other ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charlie_Boy:
Hello, this is my first post and I don't know much about phones, but a Chinese contact of mine has given me the ROM for the A9 MT6589 phone, Land Rover knock off. Quad core I believe.

I just wondered if anyone has any use use for the files? The files are 329MB zipped so would have to be uploaded somewhere.

I don't own this phone, I own the Octa Core version, I couldn't get the ROM for that, not available.

So if anyone wants it please let me know where to upload.

Cheers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Patrick Futch:
yes please

I was just debating buying that phone. I just bricked a zug 3, (which no one is interested in working on and I'm too dumb to fix it myself), so I would be grateful for a copy of the stock a9 ROM . please let me know what I need to do for the download.

Cheers!

Patrick
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fhutapea:
Rom for alps a9 aka landrover a9

Couple month ago i have the same problem like you bro.. then found it in russian forum

I already uploaded the rom on needrom.com here

needrom.com/download/alps-a9-or-a9-octa-core-backup
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
Alps ( land rover ) A9+ mtk 6582 - rom

Hi , I broke my phone ( software ) ,

can someone upload me original A9+ Mk6582 1gb rom , firmware ( rar ) for flashing - tool . ? ( that from needrom is not my version , only 1 alps A9 is there and its 6589 )

regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
still no one have ? :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokolo:
hello, i have A9 with 6582, stock rom here

4shared.com/zip/O3FFOmq4ba/A-9_141014_backup_150326-10383.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
Thank you :) , will try it now :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
I managed to format and put new rom . but , wont turn it on still... maybe because before I tryed with wrong version of mobile rom :) , and this scatter wont let me format bootloader also . is there some trick how to format bootloader so I can put this new wersion ? ;)

I can only enter now in Up volume + power to get anything on screen ..

or shuld I now somehow flash it with memory card ? so it will work ? ;)

or maybe Manual format ? what to put in manual format ?

OK ... its not problem in Format...

Now noticed , with flash tool and that scatter , load only system 40-50mb ... something is wrong maybe with scatter that he not put whole system of 300-500mb ? ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
anyone know where is problem ? :( ... still no solutions ... did I do something wrong ? tried all things :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
up ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grigoriya:
Did u resolve it

Could you resolve it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
still nothing , mobile gathering dust until someone upload good firmware
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
any new info guys ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
https://docviewer.yandex.com/?url=y...MT6582_150211_ForFlashtool.rar&c=56c5d7f9e532

https://docviewer.yandex.com/?url=y...MTK6582_Files_to_FlashTool.rar&c=56c5d73130c5

rooms but not working for me ;) . it works but not have touch drivers for my display

if anyone have with another touch driver.. please upload

its for mtk 6582 rom ., founded on 4PDA forum
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani:
any news for LK.bin , for 845x480 resolution ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sykul:
I have a problem with my Alps A9.

I could not find the ROM with Android 4.2. (for MTK6582) I also could try any other kind of ROM expect stock ROM for FlashTool

Is here Anyone who is using this device? Please contact me.

For others reading this thread: The above attached ROM are working on my A9, but I have to use the other preloader file.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hellbani2:
did other preloader file fix that problem with screen and touch ? can you upload it ...
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinkick:
Hi guys,

I live in an area with very weak 4g and 3g service. So I picked up a verizon network extender. It works, but I notice the phone after a while starts getting hot and it looks like the data is jumping around, so to speak, The phone is hot and very slow so I know its confused trying to swap from the extender to maybe what I think is very weak 4g service.

Since I'm on kitkat, i cant disable LTE when I'm home. Any other things you can think of to fix this issue? It's driving me crazy!:confused:
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jolly_roger_hook:
I have a network extender and I dont have this issue where I live I have very weak 4g signal as well might be your phone
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] keynith:
Yeah the extender shouldn't be able to do that to the phone. You might have to send your phone in

Sent From My Galaxy Note 3
[Verizon Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donc113:
The extenders aren't real good thru walls or floors and are only good for about 30 feet from your phone. If you have a lousy home internet connection...you could have issues also
[Xperia Z3 General] hyelton:
Shouldn`t this be in Themes & Apps?
[Xperia Z3 General] IgorEisberg:
It's basically an announcement that you can get Z3 firmwares from XperiFirm, the bootanimation is just an extra.
[Xperia Z3 General] hyelton:
Ahh Okay.

Even though We can get it from XperiFirm theres no way to make a FTF from it yet. :(
[Xperia Z3 General] IgorEisberg:
You don't need an FTF. You need "Bundles -> FILESET Decrypt" and then "Sin Editor -> Extract data" for system.sin. Then you can open the output file with "ext2explore" and extract the system files.
[Xperia Z3 General] hyelton:
You need an FTF to flash it. I was wanting to go ahead and create FTF files for flashing for when it does come out. But I'll just wait til Flashtool updates and more firmwares come out.
[Xperia Z3 General] IgorEisberg:
Why? It'll be already installed when it's released, maybe even a newer version...
[Xperia Z3 General] Mazellat:
Bootanimation didn't work fully on Z2
[Xperia Z3 General] dkionline:
U can do an FTF after flashtool gets updated.
[Xperia Z3 General] AndroPlus:
I could create FTF with 0.9.18.1, but no device to flash:p

https://mega.co.nz/#!agB2jYqB!ymk_3pO4gcJ1WUsWhCi0ZwLwxzg4he1COrfzinTn2EU

[EDIT]

loader.sin is same as Z2.

Maybe possible to flash Z3 ftf on Z2, though it's too dengerous..
[Xperia Z3 General] hyelton:
Yea thats what I was waiting for. I was gonna upload them to my server Like I did for the Z1
[Xperia Z3 General] Gjole86:
[MENTION=1879618]IaguCool[/MENTION], u r the best!

possible to add Z3 Compact? D5803 and D5833

EDIT: damn im blind .... its there
[Xperia Z3 General] Jhon998:
So we maybe have a opportunity to try it out, hope the root and recovery work.
[Xperia Z3 General] RedSkyRoad:
Thanks for this. EXT2EXPLORE is definitely the best thing I've discovered this weekend :)
[Xperia Z3 General] JohnFOrozcoM:
Z3 Firmware on Z2

:crying: I Downloded the firmware for the z3 23.0.A.2.93 Generic for latin america and also tryed with global from Xperifirm and installed it with the flashtool but when the phone turns on the tuch sreen dose not work wont go past the language screen wont let me press anything. what am i doing wrong :confused: can someone help me im am new at this
[Xperia Z3 General] IgorEisberg:
You flashed it? On which device exactly?
[Xperia Z3 General] JohnFOrozcoM:
i flashed it on the Z2 D6503
[Xperia Z3 General] IgorEisberg:
You flashed a Z3 firmware on a Z2 device? You're lucky your device isn't permanently hard-bricked. Return to a Z2 firmware as soon a possible.
[Xperia Z3 General] JohnFOrozcoM:
I alrady did, im back on the carrier firmware. so this is not posible to do or what?
[Xperia Z3 General] AndroPlus:
Some people got hard-bricked Xperia when they flash older Xperia FTF to newer one (e.g. flash Z1 FTF to Z1 Compact), you are lucky:D

If Z3 can use Z2 .314 kernel like you used Z3 kernel on Z2, it is really easy to root Z3.
[Xperia Z3 General] Anoxymoron:
Does anyone know if/when the Z3 firmware is coming to the Z2?
[Xperia Z3 General] novidadesandroid:
News about Root?

I have the Xperia Z3, but i cant even install a benchmark :(

Sorry for my bad english.
[Xperia Z3 General] AndroPlus:
It is caused by PrototypeProtection.apk, so you have a Prototype Z3?:cyclops:

Maybe Z3 can be rooted by flashing Z2 17.1.2.A.0.314,

but it has dangerousness to hard-brick your Z3.

Can you run

adb pull /system

to dump your Z3 system?

I want to compare if there is a difference between real prototype and FTF.
[Xperia Z3 General] novidadesandroid:
Yes my Z3 is a prototype, yes i will do it for you
[Xperia Z3 General] juni0313:
Sir it doesnt found in xperifirm. (1286-2777) R9B
[Xperia Z3 General] juni0313:
plz send me LOLLIPOP FTF for z3 (1286-2777_R9B) bulit number 23.0.A.2.93
[General Topics] sriss:
100% Working method to UNBRICK ANY PHONE

PLEASE NOTE !!!!

THIS METHOD ONLY WORKS IF YOUR PHONE IS ABLE TO BOOT !!!!

IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO BOOT INTO RECOVERY !!!

ALSO NOTE- THIS ERASES ALL DATA ON PHONE.....

THIS WILL TEACH YOU TO BACKUP REGULARLY :p

THINGS REQUIRED !!!!

1) A BRICKED PHONE ABLE TO BOOT INTO RECOVERY....

2) {OBVIOUSLY} A BRAIN....

METHOD:

STEP-1: USING THE POWER BUTTON AND THE VOLUME-UP BUTTON, BOOT INTO RECOVERY...

(KEEP HOLDING VOLUME-UP UNTIL RECOVERY SHOWS UP)

STEP-2: WHEN YOU ARE IN THE STOCK RECOVERY, FAMILIARIZE YOURSELF WITH THE NAVIGATION AND SELECTION BUTTONS IN YOUR DEVICE.. (EITHER THE VOLUME-UP OR POWER BUTTON...)

STEP-3: SELECT DELETE CACHE OPTION AND CLICK YES....

STEP-4: SELECT THE FACTORY RESET OPTION AND CLICK YES IN THE OPTIONS....

STEP-5:CLICK THE "REBOOT-NOW" OPTION TO REBOOT INTO A BRAND NEW DEVICE WITH YOUR STOCK ROM !!!!!!

P.S IF YOUR DEVICE WAS STUCK DURING "UPDATING GAPPS" DURING ROOTING, YOUR PHONE WILL BE ROOTED WHEN YOU BOOT !!!!!

THIS IS A VERY EASY WAY TO UNBRICK ANY ANDROID DEVICE !!!!!

THIS MAY NOT WORK ON A FEW DEVICES ..... I REALLY DONT KNOW BUT IT PRACTICALLY SEEMS POSSIBLE TO UNBRICK ANY DEVICE...

EDIT

After a few people mentioned that this method can only be used while using a stock rom....

i kinda thought about it and realized it.....

Sorry for this, but this will work on devices running stock roms......

IF THIS WORKED PLZZZ HIT THE THANKS :good: BUTTON !!!!!!
[General Topics] prashant13b:
Btw you are a kid if a person has made changes to rom or bricked while making changes while making changes to rom it gonna do nothing as factory reset only deletes all user data it gonna un brick if you bricked it while using xposed module or something like that so remove this non sense post
[General Topics] armin75:
And you have to have a working Stock Rom :) on your device
[General Topics] Maduro78:
Phone isn't bricked if it works under the listed requirements though
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
I'm using the s5 now and while it has a beautiful screen and camera, I'm not to impressed with how battery life and ui fluidity. My friends offering me his g3, is it worth switching out based on those metrics? Has the g3 improved in usability with every update or is it just a hopeless mess?
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Japultra:
Try it for yourself. The lag to me is not really an issue. There ARE slip ups here and there but generally, it performs completely fine and fluidly. It also depends on what is important to you. The G3 is only slightly larger than the S5 but the screen is .4" larger and also sharper (though in most day to day operations, it's not noticeable). The G3 also looks nicer and the software is not nearly as bloated as the S5.

Battery life on the S5 will be better but the G3 can definitely last me a day with no issues. For some people, it will even last two days. If you have access to a charger at work/home, then it's really not an issue at all. I've never been in a situation where I've run out of battery and didn't have access to a charger, not even once.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahapederdon:
Not sure about the s5 but I had the 3 and 4 and liked my HTC m8 way more. And the g3 even more than that. I'm actually impressed with the stock launcher.
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shpotik:
Its worth it! Don't wait until he changes his mind:)
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofthebraves:
I'm shocked anyone would pick the g3 over the mighty one m8 lol
[G3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mahapederdon:
Haha. It's a sweet phone. I gave it to my 8 yr old. He's running cynogen 11 and it's perfect. I always buy phones on impulse. Without bootloader being unlocked it's kinda a Bummer but I'm playing with my new arduino and that keeps my flashing rom addiction under control.