Hello,
I was using Samsung DeX for the Note 10+ and noticed they only have downloads available for Windows and Mac users. I've used DeX on my Windows install and I'm impressed with the desktop implementation. Is it possible to install this on a computer running Ubuntu? I saw Linux on DeX but that appears to be something completely different and would not allow me to use the phone on my desktop. I might be wrong but my understanding is Linux on DeX is just a way for you to do Linux work on the go using your Galaxy.
Thanks.
linux on dex means linux distro on samsung dex.
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SamuelBegui said:
Hello,
I was using Samsung DeX for the Note 10+ and noticed they only have downloads available for Windows and Mac users. I've used DeX on my Windows install and I'm impressed with the desktop implementation. Is it possible to install this on a computer running Ubuntu? I saw Linux on DeX but that appears to be something completely different and would not allow me to use the phone on my desktop. I might be wrong but my understanding is Linux on DeX is just a way for you to do Linux work on the go using your Galaxy.
Thanks.
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You're right, the download is only for Windows and OSX. And Linux on Dex (now discontinued... The morons) is running linux on the phone itself.
I would really like to be able to use DeX through Ubuntu as well. I've considered trying to figure it out. It is probably some sort of remote desktop like system that maybe could be replicated.
Collin80 said:
You're right, the download is only for Windows and OSX. And Linux on Dex (now discontinued... The morons) is running linux on the phone itself.
I would really like to be able to use DeX through Ubuntu as well. I've considered trying to figure it out. It is probably some sort of remote desktop like system that maybe could be replicated.
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Yeah it's just disappointing it isn't officially supported. I know about remote desktop but it's not exactly the same thing since you're controlling your phone via a USB cable which is great and eliminates the need of a RDP login. I have not tried using Wine yet though.
Any progress?
any updates, i would love to be able to use dex when i am booted into ubuntu on my laptop
Every attempt i have made to make the dex client work in wine, crashes on opening the installer
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Anyone tried rooting via Heimdall yet as opposed to Odin? Hoping for some good news before I try and brick this thing...
It doesn't work. Just follow the guide and you'll be fine.
zaventh said:
It doesn't work. Just follow the guide and you'll be fine.
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Bah... one day I will be able to use my linux laptop to do things with my linux phone.
Thanks for the heads-up.
just install VMware or Oracle VM with USB support then you can run windows inside your linux machine
AllGamer said:
just install VMware or Oracle VM with USB support then you can run windows inside your linux machine
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Yeah, I've currently got two instances of win 7, one XP and one server 2003 under Virtual Box on my laptop. Also have a few machines running under KVM on my home server. One of those ought to do the trick. Was just wondering if I could be a purist in this endeavor.
SGH-T989 Heimdall support thread is here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1370735
Posting this in the Galaxy Nexus forums, since this seems to be one of the few devices which right now has no mass-storage mode.
Everyone seems to hate on MTP, for both the right and the wrong reasons.
With MTP not really being very accessible from the command-line, I find myself using "adb shell ls", "adb push" and "adb pull" quite a lot. It works out OK, but it's not very fluent, especially for batch operations.
So I want something which does batch-operations fluently too. And since I know .NET, I figured a Powershell-provider should be doable.
I envision you should be able to do something like the following:
Code:
Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
PS C:\Users\josteink> cd ADB:
PS ADB:> copy \sdcard\*.* C:\backup\
etc.
So before I start wasting my time on this, I figured I'd poll the mood. Is anyone else interested in this, or is the Windows-crowd already feeling comfy with the tools they have?
I'm comfortable with the regular tools i have, and MTP is working fine for me.
A few may want it because of the issues that they have with MTP. Personally I prefer MTP over mass storage.
I think it would be a very cool experiment. The idea of getting access to files on my device opens up some neat scripting possibilities! My stupid Xoom also uses MTP.
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im having some trouble installing the MTP driver for my galaxy nexus on Win XP
I tried PDANet for the phone driver but I can't seem to get the MTP to work properly on XP, n i couldnt find any driver for MTP. On the other hand, the driver installed itself on my other platform thats running Win7...
I just use adb with the push and pull statements as I always have. I never really used MTP or USB or whatever back in the days with my OG. I'm fairly certain however that the average user would not use adb however! (nor would they be on xda however!)
MTP works well enough on Windows and even on osx. Whenever I do use command line its fairly simple and batching commands up as needed is also simple enough.
I'm not sure there's huge value in another way to transfer on windows, but if its something you need, then just do it.
I think a more useful project might be a file manager that uses adb instead of mtp. You could add shell extensions to it too. Something like that would have a lot more broad appeal.
It's already been done: Droid Explorer
http://de.codeplex.com/
pascanu said:
It's already been done: Droid Explorer
http://de.codeplex.com/
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Nice, but windows only again :/
MTP works well enough on windows, and support will probably only get better. Its other platforms that are a pain.
If you want, you can use AirDroid to manipulate your files on a Wifi Network!
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If you want, you can use AirDroid to manipulate your files on a Wifi Network!
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I use AirDroid for media files. those non-media files or large data files, I prefer WiFi File Explorer PRO, which is better than AirDroid.
mingtaoh said:
im having some trouble installing the MTP driver for my galaxy nexus on Win XP
I tried PDANet for the phone driver but I can't seem to get the MTP to work properly on XP, n i couldnt find any driver for MTP. On the other hand, the driver installed itself on my other platform thats running Win7...
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Do you have WMP12 installed?
I had a hard time finding XP driver for GN, and I once read somewhere that WMP12 includes the driver needed
I installed it then plugged in my GN, and after loading for a while XP recognized it as a MTP device and I can move files to and from GN
Hope it works for you
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Not done yet, not by any means, but I have started.
Following is a screenshot of actual running code
The syntax will become better after a while. Just for now I'm working on bolting the technical bits together and learning how Powershell components are built
momomok said:
Do you have WMP12 installed?
I had a hard time finding XP driver for GN, and I once read somewhere that WMP12 includes the driver needed
I installed it then plugged in my GN, and after loading for a while XP recognized it as a MTP device and I can move files to and from GN
Hope it works for you
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I'm using winxp so I dont think I can install WMP12, but I have WMP 11 installed should I uninstall and reinstall it again?
Still quite a bit of way to go, but at least now "Get-item" parses stuff 100% correctly, and I have "ls" working too
After a bit more work (and learning some more powershell)
I now have rooted devices like (SDCARD) working correctly as well
Edit: It seems rooted devices act a bit wonky and should be looked into, but now I can add CD to the list of things working too.
So im guessing this is the reason i cant access my backed up apks on my sd card?
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So im guessing this is the reason i cant access my backed up apks on my sd card?
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Yeah. That doesn't work over MTP.
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Jumped in on this late-- looks like you decided to go forward -- I think there is a need for a powershell provider for MTP. ADB can get information to/from the device, but not in any way that powershell likes... It would be great to have the MTP system mountable as a psdrive. You can 'adb shell ls /sdcard/... ' but what you get back has to be captured and parsed. It's frustrating that MTP is a file system that can be browsed graphically but not as a true file system available to the entire OS (and the command line/powershell). Although I'm getting the impression from my reading elsewhere that the storage is entirely ext fs and Windows has never played nice with Linux-ish file systems.
Pretty straightforward question. I'm looking at going from a Windows laptop to a macbook and want to make sure some of the programs I use frequently work. Will Odin work via Windows on a Mac? Thanks.
Anyone? Really want to pull the trigger on this MBP, but want to ensure I can still tinker with my android devices...
i just used Odin and it would not work on my MBP with Parallels Win 7. I had to drag out my PC and then Odin worked fine
red321red321 said:
i just used Odin and it would not work on my MBP with Parallels Win 7. I had to drag out my PC and then Odin worked fine
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How about boot camp? Do you think the issue has to do with drivers? Not familiar with Mac OS yet... My current laptop is the only windows machine I own and don't want to get rid of it in lieu of the MBP in case some of my programs don't work...
Haven't tried boot camp
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Sent via PM, but finally realized why it wasn't posting in the forum (links)
...So posting here since someone else may need/want this at some point:
1) You'll want vmware fusion; there's a trial. You can easily install and uninstall it on a mac if you don't want to pay. Vbox and parallels won't work.
2) You'll need the Samsung USB drivers for phones exe from Samsung's website. You'll probably also want to separately get the Kies binaries (both windows bins).
3) MS offers pre-made VMs in virtualbox format (ova's); these aren't activated and expire in 30 days, but will still sorta work after that (they'll shut down after about 30-60mins after that point). Easy enough to just reimport; not sure how often you plan on using Odin. Kies itself is generally ok on a mac, but nothing else is (aside from like graphics-tab apps, and generic usb file stuff). You'll want to get Win7 vm images. These should work but if not you can google; MS doesn't make a secret of their VMs, they're made for developers to check compatibility between different versions of IE. Get all of these and then decompress, and you'll get an .ova file (links to Win7-IE10 VM archive files removed as I don't have 10 posts yet).
4) In VMware Fusion, you'll want to import the .ova file (.ova's are technically virtualbox images, but vmware will easily convert them to its own format). Once you've imported it go into the VM's settings and allocate 2gb of ram or so to the VM (I wouldn't go much below that; if you have a later mac that shouldn't be a problem; you might be able to get by on 1.5gb though I haven't tried). You'll also want to go into the vmware usb settings and make sure to be prompted when you add a device instead of just attaching it to one or the other or you'll wind up with issues, possibly, later on.
5) Boot the Win7 vm, install VMware tools, reboot, install samsung drivers, and then install Kies if you want Kies as well (Kies may also bridge some driver gaps, I can't remember; I do remember I had a bit of trouble with correct device recognition; I'll keep an eye on this thread and if you have a problem post publicly and I can message you with the proper driver set otherwise this should work afair); the problem, if I recall, was in detecting the specific USB devices/hub, if anything. DO NOT plug in your tablet until all of these drivers have been installed and you have rebooted the VM. You've been warned.
6) Boot the VM, plug the cable into the tablet, and then the other end into the Mac. If you've set up the USB prompting properly (btw make sure you set it to 2.0 not 3.0), you should get a prompt asking if you want to attach it to the Mac or Windows; choose Windows. The drivers should do there thing in a few minutes and eventually recognize the tablet. You may or may not want to reboot the VM one last time at this point before opening Odin, but at this point it should all work.
* A note: you'll probably want to enable a shared folder via VMware with the contents of anything you want to flash and the exes to flash them with; this is pretty straightforward in the VM settings. You'll want to copy/paste from that shared folder to the VM, not run from it; Odin and other stuff tends to hang if you try to run it directly from the share. I just keep everything I need or might want to use in the future on the VM and suspend it til I need it again, but you can just as easily shut it down and it'll retain all of the data, etc; just be mindful of the 30 day limit if you're using one of the precompiled VMs (as I said, they'll still work, but it can get naggy and shut itself down if not in use (or maybe if it is, but I haven't had it bomb out on me mid-flash (yet, knock wood)).
Good luck and enjoy.
not a single problem with parallels windows 8 or xp. while i flash 4.4.2 via odin i surf the web on mac safari.
supremekizzle said:
Pretty straightforward question. I'm looking at going from a Windows laptop to a macbook and want to make sure some of the programs I use frequently work. Will Odin work via Windows on a Mac? Thanks.
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VMware should do.
It works very well on Linux.
That's interesting...
jpl69 said:
not a single problem with parallels windows 8 or xp. while i flash 4.4.2 via odin i surf the web on mac safari.
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Mind if I ask what release of OSX and hardware you're on? I know I was having some USB recognition problems with the other two, but that was 2 point releases ago on Mavericks (on 10.9.3 now, haven't tried again). It could be a MBP thing also. I wouldn't mind using Parallels (I have a licensed copy) if it worked for this; as it stands I use parallels for OSX, vbox for *nix and android, and vmware for windows OSes for various reasons.
Macbook Pro 13.3 2012. Mavericks updated, parallels updated with latest version. Windows 8.1 work fine with odin, but i use mainly windows xp. both configure with usb 3.0 driver.
12GB ram, 512GB SSD samsung evo (this is just for show off not relevant to update our tablet) .
i used vmware sideways with parallels but find that parallels it's more faster, reliable and more crash proof.
after you connect the tablet to mac you get the option to connect to mac or virtual machine. afterwards you allways have the option to connect/disconect the usb periferic.
rsd2000 said:
VMware should do. It works very well on Linux.
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That's what I use; until Ben Dobell can fix Heimdall for Linux for the P60X series I've just been booting into Win7 via VMWare from my Linux machine.
jpl69 said:
Macbook Pro 13.3 2012. Mavericks updated, parallels updated with latest version. Windows 8.1 work fine with odin, but i use mainly windows xp. both configure with usb 3.0 driver.
12GB ram, 512GB SSD samsung evo (this is just for show off not relevant to update our tablet) .
i used vmware sideways with parallels but find that parallels it's more faster, reliable and more crash proof.
after you connect the tablet to mac you get the option to connect to mac or virtual machine. afterwards you allways have the option to connect/disconect the usb periferic.
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I'm on a late 2013 13.3 MBP. I think back when I was trying to debug the problem I'd read that USB 3.0 and how it's handled on the latest MB might have something to do with it, but I can't recall correctly. I should probably retry just for sh*ts and giggles; was always on the most recent Parallels, VMware, and VirtualBox. That said, I've found VMware in general to be more stable on my particular machine, and quicker to boot/suspend/unsuspend. It could very well just be my imagination or preference though, nosing its way in.
And talking about hardware is never showing off, as long as you're making good use of it. OS wars, however, is another story.
There is some way to run samsung dex on ubuntu like we can run it on windows? Tried installing the app for windows on ubuntu using wine but couldn't. Thanks.
Hi, I am trying to connect my 1P7T to Windows 7 and 10, both in Virtualbox guests. But I cannot get the prompt to come up on the phone. It connects just fine to the Linux host, but not to Windows, it has worked before when I had my system on a different version of Linux but not now. Unless there is some better way to run fastboot commands on my phone in Linux, I am all ears. But I would really like to just use the All in one tool in windows.
Thanks
Got it all figured out, first I had the wrong Virtualbox extension pack installed. I still could not get it to work when set to USB 3.0. I set it to USB 2.0 and the phone is now connected and authorized.
Glad I figured it out on my own, but also good for someone else to know.