Flipped containers - what does that mean? - Ubuntu Touch Development and Hacking

Oliver Grawert wrote up a nice wiki article on how the container architecture for Ubuntu Touch actually works. If you are interested in why the container flip was made or how Ubuntu Touch works behind the scenes, go check it out:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ContainerArchitecture

Instead of booting android first it boots directly into Ubuntu.
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Virtual box pc (Android Kitchen)

So I'm in the process of getting the android kitchen setup and When I install the .ISO for virtual box and it comes up to the screen where it says "install ubuntu" and at that screen it freezes my computer and restarts it.
And ideas why?
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There's a few HP laptops with the AMD core that don't play well with linux of any kind.
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smtom said:
There's a few HP laptops with the AMD core that don't play well with linux of any kind.
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So wat should I do I have a inspiron 1512 Vista with amd CPU dual core
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I setup Cygwin inside my Win7 x64 Lenovo T420, worked great for playing with my Flyer ROM and learning how things work as far as ROMs go.
Read this, there's a great PDF that explains it complete with pictures:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=633246
If its a chromebook with the 550 series and the 3 series w chromebox theres a kernel issues and it freezes during read only stat, but fro what ive read its irrecoverable. Why im looking for a virtualbox to install my ubuntu on.

[APP] XBMC

I proudly present to you XBMC v7 Alpha tested and working on the T989.
This version is open source, free to share.
You may need to reboot after install, but I had zero issues.
Enjoy!
http://dl.miniand.com/miniand/xbmc-android/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-20120714.apk
this thing needs a better resolution... cant read a damn thing even with my glasses..
Isn't it called xbmc not xmba?
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Isn't it called xbmc not xmba?
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You sir are correct but it installed just fine on my T989 AOKP'd
I download this but what is this ?
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bikrame said:
I download this but what is this ?
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Media player I think
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Got that one right
Sweeeeeet thx for the up bro
Any specific place for themes?
Is themin this similar to crapbox version?
Not sure about themes. Sorry.
XBMC is a streaming media player, for those that asked. Its popular for self-built media centers and available on Ubuntu and newer linux distros, Windows, and now Android.
Sorry about thread title, freaking' Swype
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Its about friggin time! I've been waiting for this since the G1....now all I need is Navi-X and the HDMI out adapter and I'm good to go
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Update, needs some performance tweaks, is this open source? Was when i used it for crapbox,
Also adding screenshots, this things beautiful & for movies on SD, it actually downloads boxart etc. Which is a nice touch gonna look into the theming tho,
Fix the scaling a lil n itd b perfict, hitting thanks again on OP, you deserve it, didnt even know this was a WIP & FYI, not media player, media CENTER, its an AIO program, with native DVD playback, multi format software decoding, built in "gallery", etc, its powerful and on other systems, incredibly customizable, future builds are a garunteed must have app
Edit* wont let me hit thanks, common people show your respects lol
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Theming looks simple,
Skins are listed in "/data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/cache/apk/assets/addons/skin.{skinname}"
Only extra skin by default is called touch, so it would be:
"/data/data/org.xbmc.xbmc/cache/apk/assets/addons/skin.touch"
With an addon.xml in root theme folder, specifying multiple variables includig source texture folder,default resolution,etc
Btw, touch default res is 1280x720, that might be the scaling issue happening, hint hint
Woohoo.. another project xD
No need to thank me, i didn't work on this I just linked the apk.
Yes this is official from XBMC and its open source
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Thanks for the link!!! Love xbmc
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For those of you who wanna know more:
http://xbmc.org/
Its on their main page now
Any and all info with repos here
http://www.xbmchub.com/blog/
Enjoy and see YouTube on how to add repos
I recomond navi X, tubeplus, for starters.
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I can't find tube plus in video add ons.
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At least someone here knows how to use google
Retrieved from google pages, v0.1.1
Ok I added it but still doesn't work. Doesn't do anything when I select the link. Can't change the weather settings. Just isn't working for me
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Ok I added it but still doesn't work. Doesn't do anything when I select the link. Can't change the weather settings. Just isn't working for me
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This is a BETA, not official release (ok, well, technicly), and ur complainin something isn't working correct?
TubePlus isn't on official plugins list cuz it isn't working 100%, although somebody asked for a link so it was provided.
You could try adjusting some proxies, & playin with configurations for it, or wait for official support.
Consider urself lucky though, alls I get on my amaze is a black screen & ui sounds (HTC sucks..)
Here is the link for all on the nightlies for xbmc
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1813089
Neon version
Doesn't work on my phone. All i get is a black screen. it eats up 25% of my CPU and it's overclocked to 1836mhz.

Winows 8 on your Tablet (Jump Desktop)

Jump Desktop looks very promising for a Windows 8 remote desktop. It will allow for you to essentially use the Metro UI from your desktop as if it were installed on your tablet.
Jump Desktop is not updated for Android just yet, but it is coming soon.
Obviously this it running on iOS but it definitely looks promising.
Very cool. Hope it comes soon.
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That last looks really really good. Thanks for the share.
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should be here shortly with all the amazing people here at xda!!
Jump Desktop is working on Android...I'm using it on my Nexus 7 and my Sony VAIO laptop running Windows 7 Home Premium.
Works a treat with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse connected to the Nexus
I'm am also just trying Pocketcloud instead.... Jump Desktop is slightly laggy...but it might be my connection....
Is this better than Splashtop 2?
It need to come ?
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I have Jump Desktop and it's not very usable. It refreshes every 5 seconds which is too slow.
I'm a firm believer in Jump Desktop. I use remote desktop often and this is the best I've found. Really designed for tablets in mind.
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JumpDesktop vs Slashtop2
sayeef said:
Is this better than Splashtop 2?
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I'm also curious how it stacks up to splashtop 2...
NetFlash_Heinz said:
I'm also curious how it stacks up to splashtop 2...
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as do I.
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Jump Desktop 4.0 is currently what is in the app store 5.0 will be the nice update seen in the video.
The 5.0 update adds touch support for Win8. You can essentially use the start menu as if it were Windows RT on the tablet rather than fussing with an annoying mouse cursor on a touch screen.
I haven't seen other remote desktops going that route. It is a new feature for W8 to be able to do this so the others may implement this later as well.
Jump Desktop has just been updated to version 5.0 with full Windows 8 support. I'm using it as we speak.....
going to test this it sounds awesome...
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Just bought it and installed. Hands down best rdp app out there! The best thing is that it is not a CPU hog on the PC. Splashtop would max out my old dual core but this program runs at like 40% anyone know why?
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JynxBox Android/XBMC

So I found this going through the portal of xda and thought I would share the info and this cool new device nothing to much to do with the SGS3
Take alook at this http://jynxboxandroid.com/# also I have just installed xbmc for android on my At&T SGS3 phone and spent about an hour messing around with it so far pretty cool.. check out this site and I installed it from here http://www.xbmcandroid.com/2013/01/...iendly-release-of-xbmc-for-android-must-have/
And mods if needed to be moved please do so
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Also if anyone tries this out would to hear some reviews tips. Etc.. And if anyone gets the jynxbox
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Review will be posted on blog in a near future
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blorro said:
Review will be posted on blog in a near future
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Look forward too it
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Do we get the neon or non neon version (googled around but no luck)
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I did none neon
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JynxBox
Purchased the Jynxbox and was somewhat disappointed at first. The wifi antena is horrible, you want to use a cat 5 connection for this TRUST ME regardless what the box says your connection speed is, it is NOT!
Once you have it setup, immediately root it which you can do from the recovery screen. Careful, once your in the recovery screen, there is no way out of it till you root. So back everything up first.
Install MX Player, MX Player Codec arm6 & arm7
Launch MX PLayer, within settings select decoder: check mark S/W decoder (local, Network) Un-check S/W Audio. Now for CPU Core limit, set it to two as the Jynxbox is dual core. Color depth choose 16bit since we are using S/W decoding.
Now navigate to xbmxhub and locate the xbmc android download. Install this, and run it for the first time.
This should help you get the best 1080 resolution till someone tweaks XBMC to use hardware decoding on android.
Within Android settings, I specified the standard display screen size which for my gym screen its 720. I also set the Audio to RAW. This will help you TONS in regards to voice dropping out during playback.
Hope this helps,
John.
garayjoh said:
Purchased the Jynxbox and was somewhat disappointed at first. The wifi antena is horrible, you want to use a cat 5 connection for this TRUST ME regardless what the box says your connection speed is, it is NOT!
Once you have it setup, immediately root it which you can do from the recovery screen. Careful, once your in the recovery screen, there is no way out of it till you root. So back everything up first.
Install MX Player, MX Player Codec arm6 & arm7
Launch MX PLayer, within settings select decoder: check mark S/W decoder (local, Network) Un-check S/W Audio. Now for CPU Core limit, set it to two as the Jynxbox is dual core. Color depth choose 16bit since we are using S/W decoding.
Now navigate to xbmxhub and locate the xbmc android download. Install this, and run it for the first time.
This should help you get the best 1080 resolution till someone tweaks XBMC to use hardware decoding on android.
Within Android settings, I specified the standard display screen size which for my gym screen its 720. I also set the Audio to RAW. This will help you TONS in regards to voice dropping out during playback.
Hope this helps,
John.
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Damn thanks for the info. Did you order direct front the site
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I have a couple videos of the jynxbox i will be getting some 4gb versions with better wifi connection soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUorf3T4t3E&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Jynxbox Android XBMC
I purchased this unit and I absolutely love it. it was very frustrating at first to get it working just right. There is not a lot of information out there quite yet, but it is growing rapidly.
It certainly doesn't work out of the box as everyone states. Now that I finally got it all tweaked it is a great little device. I am looking forward to the future when all the developers jump on it and start tweaking it even more.
The gyro remote is very difficult to get used too, but once you do, it is quite nice. There are times it doesn't respond like it should.
BrianTopper said:
I purchased this unit and I absolutely love it. it was very frustrating at first to get it working just right. There is not a lot of information out there quite yet, but it is growing rapidly.
It certainly doesn't work out of the box as everyone states. Now that I finally got it all tweaked it is a great little device. I am looking forward to the future when all the developers jump on it and start tweaking it even more.
The gyro remote is very difficult to get used too, but once you do, it is quite nice. There are times it doesn't respond like it should.
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What was some off the not so easy set ups. How's the Web browser
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Do we get the neon or non neon version (googled around but no luck)
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If you install the non-neon version it prompts you to install a plugin for mxplayer for the neon compatible one. I'm using all neon mxplayer and xbmc and all is great
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Whole lot cheaper to get a Raspberry Pi and get Raspbmc, a Xbmc distribution for the Pi
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What was some off the not so easy set ups. How's the Web browser
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The Web Browser works fine, I also have facebook and twitter set up on it and many other programs and games. They all work great.
The biggest issue I found with getting XMBC to work properly was the "playercorefactory.xml" file. Most websites I went to recommend using the MX Player Free. I was having a lot of problems using just that player. So I downloaded Archos, TPlayer and WonderShare also. I set up my playercorefactory.xml file to use TPlayer as default.
I am using the following firmware:
last_update_Hiolux_20130205
And this is the version of XMBC I am using:
xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-2013-03-05-full-neon-a4e1e953d9cbfdc0b4d6b3624cdf289dd2ebf60e
Like I said, out of the box, it was very frustrating and unfortunately their isn't much information as of yet on the internet in regards to this little box. But I have noticed just in the past couple of weeks their is more and more people jumping on it. Once you get it running it is a great media player.
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I am using the following firmware:
last_update_Hiolux_20130205
https://nuskunetworks.box.com/s/967fut46ambfscz8j98i
And this is the version of XMBC I am using:
xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-2013-03-05-full-neon-a4e1e953d9cbfdc0b4d6b3624cdf289dd2ebf60e
http://code.google.com/p/xbmc-andro...d9cbfdc0b4d6b3624cdf289dd2ebf60e.apk&can=2&q=
Awesome that you have shared you issues and fixes. Still waiting to move so I can get it. And I saw the raspberry pi that looks cool also
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Awesome that you have shared you issues and fixes. Still waiting to move so I can get it. And I saw the raspberry pi that looks cool also
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Pi is $35 and works flawless with Xbmc
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Pi is $35 and works flawless with Xbmc
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Where do you buy it.. I look into the threds
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Adafruit.com. and the support and info is at raspberrypi.org
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help jynxbox hd
ok so i setup the jynxbx hd but its not as great as it should be i cant get my exturnal hd to show any were on it or get my windows network to show up or get in to my pcs i went to the play store it ask me to sign in so i did and i play a game called taped out the simpsons on both my jynxbox and gnex on my gnex its great on my jynxbox i keep getting some other persons game i cant start a new game i factory reset
5 times uninstalled the app reinstalled same bs any thoughts on this ****

Java on galaxy note 8?

So recently ive been trying to visit Keepvid.com on my tablet, only get the following message:
" Java is not installed or has been disabled. Get Java here:*http://keepvid.com/java*and enable it in your browsers plugins if necessary."
I have adobe flash installed which I thought would cover these internet features, but apparently my understanding of java and flash are completely off.
My question is:
How can I view java content on my Galaxy Note 8.0?
I use "Internet", "Chrome", and "Firefox".
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Remote desktop such as VNC, Splashtop, Chrome Remote Desktop, etc.
It is possible to do Java _software_ on Android in a chroot. A debian chroot for ARM supports a fairly full JDK. But Android web browsers DO NOT support Java....and very likely never will.
Spidey01 said:
Remote desktop such as VNC, Splashtop, Chrome Remote Desktop, etc.
It is possible to do Java _software_ on Android in a chroot. A debian chroot for ARM supports a fairly full JDK. But Android web browsers DO NOT support Java....and very likely never will.
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yes it is possible to run java jdk in chroot and it even runs well on newer devices. See link for scripts to run and readme for full instructions;
https://github.com/S0AndS0/Debian-Kit-Mods
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S0AndS0 said:
yes it is possible to run java jdk in chroot and it even runs well on newer devices. See link for scripts to run and readme for full instructions;
https://github.com/S0AndS0/Debian-Kit-Mods
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Welcome
Just got JDK hard float install script tested too; so both forms of Linux are supported to install Java's JDK.
We can now run full Java on devices over six years old!
I'm using LilDebi app for Hard Float and Debian Kit app for Soft Float Linux testing.
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