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[Q] Ubuntu for Android on Galaxy Nexus?

I'm very interested in getting Ubuntu up and running on my Galaxy Nexus so I can move one step closer to having both my desktop computer and my phone in one device. Does anyone know about the possibility of Ubuntu for Android on the Galaxy Nexus? Or about timeframes? Thanks!

mrdziuban said:
I'm very interested in getting Ubuntu up and running on my Galaxy Nexus so I can move one step closer to having both my desktop computer and my phone in one device. Does anyone know about the possibility of Ubuntu for Android on the Galaxy Nexus? Or about timeframes? Thanks!
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Does this work as a full desktop replacement, like Canonical demoed? If I plug it into my monitor via MHL, will it function properly as desktop Ubuntu? Thanks.

mrdziuban said:
Does this work as a full desktop replacement, like Canonical demoed? If I plug it into my monitor via MHL, will it function properly as desktop Ubuntu? Thanks.
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Well you connect to the GUI via a vince connection so its lagy compaired to what canonical demoed but I am working on native graphic accelerated GUI.
For now this is as pretty much good as you will get until they really release anyway
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zacthespack said:
Well you connect to the GUI via a vince connection so its lagy compaired to what canonical demoed but I am working on native graphic accelerated GUI.
For now this is as pretty much good as you will get until they really release anyway
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Thanks for the info. What exactly is a vince connection? Also, will I be able to use USB peripherals, like a mouse and keyboard?

mrdziuban said:
Thanks for the info. What exactly is a vince connection? Also, will I be able to use USB peripherals, like a mouse and keyboard?
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Sorry auto correct VNC connection, and yes you should be able to so long as android supports the device

Firefox OS

Mozilla just released nightlies for their boot2gecko operating system http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/ would any of the amazing developers on the One X forum be able to port it?

sounds interesting, would love to test once it's ported over to our lovely phone.

invisibleelvis said:
Mozilla just released nightlies for their boot2gecko operating system http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/ would any of the amazing developers on the One X forum be able to port it?
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It's a totally different OS. No chance would we ever see it on our One X. It's like asking for a Rom with WinMo on it - never going to happen!

What about with emulators?

Ummmm are you sure
dr9722 said:
It's a totally different OS. No chance would we ever see it on our One X. It's like asking for a Rom with WinMo on it - never going to happen!
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Really, So what obsticles does the One X face it can't overcome that SGS2 could? As the earlier version of Firefox OS, Boot2geko was ported over to the SGS2 (and a few others android phones as well I believe)

Forgive my ignorance but why????
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charmthief88 said:
Really, So what obsticles does the One X face it can't overcome that SGS2 could? As the earlier version of Firefox OS, Boot2geko was ported over to the SGS2 (and a few others android phones as well I believe)
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Pretty sure that requires s-off.
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eagerly waiting to try this one out..someday?

still waiting for this one
i gathered this is opensourced(coming from mozilla), so the same people who ports aosp to htconeX can really do their magic on this one.
or maybe thats just wishful thinking of me.

dr9722 said:
It's a totally different OS. No chance would we ever see it on our One X. It's like asking for a Rom with WinMo on it - never going to happen!
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Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard... Look at the HD2. Developers here are capable of doing anything.

Tom_H_ said:
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard... Look at the HD2. Developers here are capable of doing anything.
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I believe this is because the software of the HD2 is completely open. This enables developers to port android, meego, windows phone, and recently even Windows RT on it.
Developers can only do so much is the source isn't fully open.

Tom_H_ said:
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard... Look at the HD2. Developers here are capable of doing anything.
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Now thats the attitude people like to see here.
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Tom_H_ said:
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard... Look at the HD2. Developers here are capable of doing anything.
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HD2 has S-Off, which means it's possible to change every partition, including how the OS boots. In case you haven't noticed, we don't have access to all of our partitions because we don't have S-Off. Given that everybody apart from you is so dumb, can you tell us how to boot arbitrary OSs?

Tom_H_ said:
Thats the dumbest thing I've ever heard... Look at the HD2. Developers here are capable of doing anything.
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Came here to say this... HD2 has winmo 6.5, 7 and android

Please don't forget that HOX is nvidia tegra 3 device, and it is too hard to port drivers to it, don't forget that ubuntu touch didn't even fully worked on box devices.
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convict_moody said:
Please don't forget that HOX is nvidia tegra 3 device, and it is too hard to port drivers to it, don't forget that ubuntu touch didn't even fully worked on box devices.
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Point is it did work, at leaste in part.
If there was a team of devs on it, it could happen problem is the amount of effort it would take.
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treebill said:
Point is it did work, at leaste in part.
If there was a team of devs on it, it could happen problem is the amount of effort it would take.
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It just booted with plenty of bugs and fcs, and all beta releases of ubuntu touch are discontinued, and there is a reason for that.
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convict_moody said:
It just booted with plenty of bugs and fcs, and all beta releases of ubuntu touch are discontinued, and there is a reason for that.
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Not enough interest to port it
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treebill said:
Not enough interest to port it
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But interesting more than Firefox OS

It might be possible but it would need to much hard work and effort to do so, since we are not only S-ON but Tegra 3, to witch it's very hard to port to...
It's just wouldn't pay off, as there might be like 100 people, like you, who would even consider installing Firefox OS OR any other non-android OS, since it is hard to do to a normal user as well...

[DEV] Open webOS for One X

Let's port the webOS(http://www.openwebosproject.org/) to One X. I'm keeping a bounty of $100 for any developer who is able to make a fully functional port.

AvishDx said:
Let's port the webOS(http://www.openwebosproject.org/) to One X. I'm keeping a bounty of $100 for any developer who is able to make a fully functional port.
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An additional $100 here.

this would be a great idea, but would it be doable?
wouldn't it be easier to port some of it's features, if it is, and improve on current htc one x android roms, making them even better and maybe ppossibly setting a new standard?

massalami said:
this would be a great idea, but would it be doable?
wouldn't it be easier to port some of it's features, if it is, and improve on current htc one x android roms, making them even better and maybe ppossibly setting a new standard?
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It is doable. You can't port specific apps or features as it is a different platform.

massalami said:
this would be a great idea, but would it be doable?
wouldn't it be easier to port some of it's features, if it is, and improve on current htc one x android roms, making them even better and maybe ppossibly setting a new standard?
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Why can't there be both if it can be done? I would like to see both a standalone port and a features added port. That would be awesome, if it is doable.
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So are any developer interested? I would love to see the webOS on HOX.

Source Code
Source code is out now. Someone please help the community

BUMP to resurrect this thread.
I used to own a Palm Pre, and i can say without a doubt, that WebOS was smoothest and most intuative OS i've ever used..the ONLY thing that held WebOS down was the horrid hardware Palm and HP put out....
Please someone, I can't pledge a whole 100, but i will certainly pledge $40....it ain't much, but if you add up what the others say, it will get you pretty damn close to a new nexus 7....and than we could beg the great dev who does it to port it to the Nexus 7...
Come on XDA, lets do this...well one of you great devs do it!! lol....i'm a great tester flasher, but i'm no dev and i don't have the hardware to build it out...

I had the Palm Pre 1 and still have the Pre 3. They're great and easy to use devices. WebOs has so much potential, it shouldn't be given up that easy! It's so innovative and full of interesting functions. I would love to see a port to the One X!!
Some of it's benefits:
really fast!!
easy to use
a great solution for "multitasking" (some say it's a useless gimmick, but they should take a look how other OS's solved this problem (!...))
gorgeous interface!
ability to play .apk's (ACL)
Opensource
and far more things I can't remember right now
To compare how good the software architecture of WebOs is, take a look at the Moto Droid (Milestone 1) and the Palm Pre. While the Droid is very laggy on Eclaire or even Froyo, the Palm Pre with the same processor as the Droid runs very very fast and smooth. Even with WebOs 2.1, which actually hasn't been released for the Pre. There's a port of WebOs 2.1 for the Pre and even then it's still so smooth and fast. Flash contents on websites are running very fast, but when I take a look at my Droid using flash contents on websites...I can count the frames...
I still belive in WebOs, because it's, in my opinion, a great OS!!

Add additional 50$
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With the lack of proper drivers (which can't be solved in this case), such a port will never be all that great.

Zhypr said:
With the lack of proper drivers (which can't be solved in this case), such a port will never be all that great.
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Wouldn't it also require soff?
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Interesting project. Do we have any dual boot software ported over to our advice?
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Should't be too hard, they both share linux roots , and kernel
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XxKU134xX said:
Should't be too hard, they both share linux roots , and kernel
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don't think it is so...

matt95 said:
don't think it is so...
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Android and open os are both based on the linux framework!
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XxKU134xX said:
Android and open os are both based on the linux framework!
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yeah i didn't mean that i meant that it isn't so easy to port it over here

matt95 said:
yeah i didn't mean that i meant that it isn't so easy to port it over here
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+50$
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chromium OS on hox will be nice too .

You probably need to email and pm devs to get people to work on this. Look for the big devs on your devices forum pm them advertise it to them as a new thing to test and how fun it will be for them to do something new, then offer them the reward.

[Q] the way forward,,ubuntu

love my dhd , will be sad to see it go and will probably not buy htc again in protest of the ICS saga.
Anyways, seen this a good few months ago and wondering are we any closer to running ubuntu yet ?
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
For me this seems to be the way forward

Multi-core req
I also love my DHD, but i seem that the ubuntu project requires a multicore (minimum dual) so I don't think this will be posible.

jmenc said:
I also love my DHD, but i seem that the ubuntu project requires a multicore (minimum dual) so I don't think this will be posible.
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You seem to doubt the development team greatly. Whenever ubuntu for mobile become ever more popular or when a dev has the free time to work on a port it will be done.
There are many lower end devices that are not fully 1Ghz running android from its original (windows mobile) so relax and see;jelly bean and ics ports are still in swing
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anyone know when this software is coming out ?

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1957561
Its out now
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[Q] Any custom KitKat rom with HDMI working

Hello, I will like to know if there is any android 4.4.x rom for the xperia S/SL that has the HDMI output working as well both cameras, until now I had tried Paranoid android beta 4 and Carbon the first one works flawless but has no HDMI and the second one is given me a blurry and bad signal trough the HDMI output.
Before keep installing a reinstalling roms I will like to hear any advice about any stable 4.4.X rom out there or at least any rom with HD camera recording, 3d graphic and HDMI output working.
Thank you.

We are on the same page bro. Been looking for that too.
And maybe any rom that has the radio drivers installed. cant believe now that i don hav that i actually want to use it

HDMI and FM radio, as well as many other features depend on the chipset OEM (Qualcomm) drivers. They offer support up to some Android version (last stock JB?), but AFAIK KitKat is not and will never be supported. They could also open the source code/spec for the drivers, which will enable the community to fix those issues, but I seriously doubt they will even consider it.

vordhosbnbg said:
HDMI and FM radio, as well as many other features depend on the chipset OEM (Qualcomm) drivers. They offer support up to some Android version (last stock JB?), but AFAIK KitKat is not and will never be supported. They could also open the source code/spec for the drivers, which will enable the community to fix those issues, but I seriously doubt they will even consider it.
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Sad but hey the google nexus 5 also has a snapdragon inside, that means there will be no future support for the nexus 5? I doubt that, there must be a way to get us those drivers.

Can I ask why the drivers are so important?? Why they cant be ported or rewritten by some dev? Like the drivers on linux, all are free and open, wtirren by devs and users. Is it impossible to write a driver for a snapdragon?
Sorry for my questions, im a noob

UlvarinPL said:
Can I ask why the drivers are so important?? Why they cant be ported or rewritten by some dev? Like the drivers on linux, all are free and open, wtirren by devs and users. Is it impossible to write a driver for a snapdragon?
Sorry for my questions, im a noob
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It is not impossible.
What devs COULD do is reverse engineer the drivers from 4.1.2 to 4.4 or whatever, but that would be REALLY hard, and take a LOT of time and tries. It simply does not worth the process.
But I think HDMI and FM Radio should come from Sony, not Qualcomm, not sure.

Felimenta97 said:
It is not impossible.
What devs COULD do is reverse engineer the drivers from 4.1.2 to 4.4 or whatever, but that would be REALLY hard, and take a LOT of time and tries. It simply does not worth the process.
But I think HDMI and FM Radio should come from Sony, not Qualcomm, not sure.
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well, so there wasour hope ;d. I bet sony already forgot that they ever made Xperia S... Thay are making so many phones now... thats just crazy, if some1 buy flagship sony just after 2-3 months he had 2nd best of their models. thats insane. They havent even made kitkat for most of their current "flagships" yet. Xperia s [*].
BTW. Love u xda Devs, you are a little star that gives us hope to use nice phone even more efficient and cool than before .
PS. God i hate that 10post req for responding in dev-s threads... i have so many questions about my pureslim kitkat ;/.

I am tempted into sell my phone to buy a new one, but is so sad because I think Xperias in general have a pretty good hardware, my next phone will be a nexus or who knows... Maybe I will end up selling my soul to Apple at least they have longer support for any older phone...
The thing is I love to hack my phones that's why I got an Android in first place.
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yes hdmi is working on pureAosp rom alongwith wifi direct.
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vinjurr said:
yes hdmi is working on pureAosp rom alongwith wifi direct.
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Hdmi is not working.wifi direct is ok.
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i am using hdmi for last three days. thanks
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vinjurr said:
i am using hdmi for last three days. thanks
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R u using alpha2
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yes on bm native
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Could someone advise if there are any decent ROM's, suitable for daily use, with HDMI working?

whatagonad said:
Could someone advise if there are any decent ROM's, suitable for daily use, with HDMI working?
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Only 1.pure AOSP.
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