Anyone know if it's possible to sincronize an HTC Touch Dual with Linux operating system?
I use Ubuntu 8.10 and I really would like to use it, just to transfer files from sd card to computer hard drive.
card export ii
ducamie said:
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to use with usb syncro?
usb yeah. i dont think theres sync for wm yet on linux. (they're working on one though, forgot what its called).. but card export will let your sd card be detected as if it were a pen drive via usb. its the best thing ive used with linux thus far.
Tried with SynCE?
http://www.synce.org/moin/
I've been successfully syncing my HTC Touch Dual with Ubuntu Hardy for the past 6 months.
SynCE.org has appropriate instructions for setting up your system. You will most probably need to add the Opensync repos. You can then use Multisync0.90 to sync the HTC. Multisync is in the opensync repos. You must use 0.90, as the other versions of multisync don't really work.
If you need any help just let me know.
I think it's not possible yet to use SynCE with Ubuntu 8.10, but I'll give a try.
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anyone know if this can be done? I haven't experimented with syncing my phone to ubuntu since I couldn't find my usb cable will be trying it tonight though. I thought id read people had issues doing it with vista so I was wondering if its possible with ubuntu.
I would like to know how to do this to because I use Macbooks and duel boot OS X and Ubuntu. Or if anybody knows how to flash from OS X that would be awsome to.
prohna said:
anyone know if this can be done? I haven't experimented with syncing my phone to ubuntu since I couldn't find my usb cable will be trying it tonight though. I thought id read people had issues doing it with vista so I was wondering if its possible with ubuntu.
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Never had an issue whatsoever with Vista. To be honest with you use the SD card method. Sooo much faster. As far as working in Ubuntu I would doubt it without some sort of Windows emulation.
virtual software // whine ...
you can probably use a virtual software to emulate windows XP and then do whatever you want to do to ur phone
here http://code.google.com/p/htc-flasher/
the sd card method won't work right for me since I don't have a card reader.
Use the SD card method. NueSPL will allow you to reflash the boot loader from the SD and it's very easy to reflash the ROMs after that. There's a couple of ways to get the files onto the SD card without a card reader, the most obvious is to download them using the 6800 itself, saving them to the card. Or you can use the Sync connection to copy the files. Or install WMStorage and have the computer treat the 6800 as a card reader. Or set up your email on the 6800 and email the rom files to yourself as attachments.
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prohna said:
the sd card method won't work right for me since I don't have a card reader.
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$10.... well worth it.... 2gb with usb reader
prohna said:
the sd card method won't work right for me since I don't have a card reader.
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I run a wireless network at home. My computers and my titan can all communicate via the wireless network. A couple of my computers run webservers.
When I want to transfer something from a linux box to the phone without using the card reader, I just copy the file/program/whatever to the appropriate folder on a computer so that it's accessible via http. Then I turn on the wifi on my phone, connect with Pocket Internet Explorer to the IP address of the computer running a webserver, and download the file to the memory card.
Alternatively, I've seen ftp server programs for Windows Mobile. You could install one of those then ftp over wireless from computer to your phone.
Or, lets assume you don't even have a wireless network. You obviously have at least a wired internet connection, since you're posting something here. You could still install a webserver/ftp server on a machine, forward ports to it from the router (NAT), find out your public IP address, and then connect to your internal webserver from your phone using the public IP address on the forwarded port (I'm doing this with Finchsync so I can re-sync my calendars away from home).
Part of being a linux user means figuring out alternate ways of accomplishing tasks, as I'm sure you've already noticed. There's usually an answer out there, if you can step back and think about it. Sometimes it's elegant; often it's quick & dirty.
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For the record, I've never had any luck trying to flash my phone from a Windows VM inside of linux. ActiveSync could never recognize the phone right. I was using 64-bit VirtualBox, but you might have better luck with VMWare or 32-bit VirtualBox if you decide to go the VM route.
active sync is not compatable with wine. i never tried virtual box or vmware under linux. dcds kitchen wont work under wine because you cant run bat file. but the best bet is the sd card or sharing a folder on your box ( if u have wifi ) and useing an app on your phone that allows network browsing like resco. like mentioned above.
I tried just downloading the roms with the phone onto an sd card. but when I flashed the radio the phone wouldn't boot past the splash screen. how else would I get back to file explorer? after I flashed the radio wouldn't I need to rename the os rom to titanimg or whatever it is? then flash again? or is just one flash. that's the part I can't seem to understand in any guide I've found.
i was thinking...
do you think it's possible to install a linux distro on our athena's flashdrive and then use it to boot on our pc using a usb cable?
with the help of some apps like usbsetting or wm5torage, the pc will think that our athena is just like any other flashdrive.
there are many linux distro now that can be installed into fat32-formatted flashdrives.
if this is possible, then it'll be like carrying a set of swissarmy knife on our athena for recovery purposes.
let me know what you guys think.
ciao!
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if nobody had any experience on installing linux on athena's memorycard (or microdrive), then that might leave me no choice but to be the first one to try it
the default drive that USBSetting (which i am using because wm5torage isn't working for me) is the microdrive. i would want to change it to use the memorycard instead, so that it'll be easier to repair just in case anything happened.
if this become successful, my athena would be an ultimate repair/recovery tool for pc's
ciao!
I like your thinking! There's a way to install BartPE onto a FAT32 USB stick. I'm far more familiar with BartPE, so I'll be going down that road.
I'll post back about how I got on.
i just needed to backup my entire microsd contents so i can reformat it and test it.
i wish i have 2, lol.
I have a Toshiba Satellite L505, running Windows 7 Home Premium (dual core 1st gen i3).
Recent events have made me need to run android-only programs on a semi-daily basis. Combined with the cool factor, I am seriously considering buying a Honeycomb tablet. However, money is limited and I can't really afford it, so I would most likely wind up with a rooted nook color, or just upgrading my phone (LG Vortex). Not terrible options, but my sister has suggested something that would work just as well, if not better, for free.
I know there's at least some version of android that is compatible with x86 processors, and i could get my laptop to dual-boot W7HP and Android, that would be wonderful. Obviously I would want 3.0 Honeycomb, but I would be willing to install 2.4, 2.3, or 2.2. if something newer is not available.
The problem is, I have scoured google and found nothing about this, at all. I have heard of people installing android on their laptops, and some netbooks/laptops are even sold dual-booting, so I know its possible. Now, how on earth would I go about installing android as a secondary OS on my computer? So far I have only been able to find instructions to create an Android Live CD/SD/flash drive, but i need something permanently on my computer, where i can actually save my work and apps to the hard drive. WiFi, keyboard, trackpad, and USB drivers are required, CD and SD would be greatly appreciated as well.
How would i accomplish this? Any and all help would be massively appreciated.
um, hello? anyone?
Yeah thats because only google has a bootable version of their os on a pc. They implement their virtual tool with sdk tool so thats how they want you do it its crazy..There is probably a way though you just have to modify the boot.ini file on your hard drive thus pointing it to the android os. First youll probably need a new hard drive if it can be done on a usb it can be done on a hard drive plain and simple. Dual booting is done through the bios. The bios is what loads the HD which loads the boot.ini file telling it what to boot. Not sure if that would work but its a start there might even be a windows app that will help you do this. Like I said if people are making bootable usb drives its the same process on a hard drive the bios is whats booting that usb so if you direct the bios to an extended hard drive thus booting the android os. Its the same process as it would be on a usb that would make it permanent and there is a program called EasyBCD which easily allows you to change the boot.ini which will basically allow you to have the selection of both operating systems on boot you can choose between the two once you get it working!
Actually it is so much easier. The Android x86 project uses grub. You can boot it and run from livecd, usb or install android to your home pc. I started doin this today to see what the performance benefits would be from a developer point of view.
Installation is pretty straight forward, with loads of tutorials on the website. Have a look at it here http://www.android-x86.org/
I have installed Prime OS classic 0.4.5 works fine on my L505-LS5014
Anyone using CM10.1 managed to use DriveDroid? I'm trying to boot Ubuntu but Windows just say that I need to format the driver, I don't know if it's a CM related, MTP or my issue :cyclops:
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Don't look at what Windows thinks of the disk. Windows doesn't recognize the structure of the disk, so it suggests to format it.
What does matter is whether your bios recognizes the disk as bootable. The structure of the disk is usually not the problem if you downloaded the image from DriveDroid: it is the same as anyone else downloading the image. If booting from your phone does not work it usually has something to do with timing/the software on your phone (ROM/kernel). If you indeed can't boot from your phone, I'd suggest to do the following:
Go to preferences of DriveDroid.
Turn off UMS and turn it back on again.
Reboot your phone.
See whether that helps. It worked for some people, but it doesn't have a 100% successrate.
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Anyone using CM10.1 managed to use DriveDroid? I'm trying to boot Ubuntu but Windows just say that I need to format the driver, I don't know if it's a CM related, MTP or my issue :cyclops:
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Same here. Really disappointing it doesn't work. I can't tell you how often I thought about boot an image from my phone. In fact, I think I posted the question on XDA a few years ago.
Hey guys, developer here. A few things that might help:
The ISOs that are in DriveDroids downloadlist are all hybrid. This means they are specially crafted to be compatible with USB as well as CD. This is great, because at the moment Android devices only correctly emulate USB drives.
When selecting such an image, Windows will show it as an USB disk. However, Windows does not recognize the format that is used on the disk, because it's hybrid. Therefore Windows suggests to format the disk with a filesystem that Windows recognizes (FAT or NTFS). Do not do this, it'll just blank out the image, which isn't what you want.
Bioses however should be able to recognize the USB disk as a bootable one.
The USB-disk emulation is what in Android is called UMS (USB Mass Storage). On oldish devices this was used to share the SDcard with the PC. DriveDroid uses the same mechanism, but not on the SDcard, but on files (ISO/IMG). Downside is that this mode isn't by default enabled on modern devices, so you usually have to switch from MTP (the system in use to share SDcard in modern devices) to UMS. Such an option is available in DriveDroids menu. However on some devices this switch does not work correctly atm. I have no idea why, but from others I have heard that you can make the option work on these devices. You'll have to rapidly switch the UMS option on and off and end with UMS being on. It *should* popup on your PC when you have a USB cable plugged in. For others it helped to reboot the phone too, but I'm not too sure why this works.
Hopefully that helps solve the problems.
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You'll have to rapidly switch the UMS option on and off and end with UMS being on. It *should* popup on your PC when you have a USB cable plugged in.
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Funny you suggested this. Last night while trying to make it work (thinking the image didn't download correctly the first time), I did the same thing.
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Funny you suggested this. Last night while trying to make it work (thinking the image didn't download correctly the first time), I did the same thing.
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Oh were you also one of the people who send me a support email about this by any chance? I learned about this from those.
In any case, good to hear another confirmation on the method. It's weird, since I'm not too sure why this works yet (it just enables and disables UMS on my device), but I'll put something in the next version to emulate the same behavior.
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Oh were you also one of the people who send me a support email about this by any chance? I learned about this from those.
In any case, good to hear another confirmation on the method. It's weird, since I'm not too sure why this works yet (it just enables and disables UMS on my device), but I'll put something in the next version to emulate the same behavior.
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No, I didn't send the report. I tried it on a whim, but didn't it work.
I installed Remix 2.0 (32-bit) onto my Dell Mini 10 (1012) netbook. So far, everything seems to be detecting perfectly, except for one thing. The touchpad is supposed to be multi-touch but it doesn't function as such. It is worth mentioning that, on Windows, I required special driver software to be able to utilize the multi-touch capability. Considering I've seen some Chromebooks automatically have their multi-touch touchpads detected, I figured Remix would do the same for my Dell. That doesn't seem to be the case.
Anyway, if any of the Jide developers are reading this, I have the driver software available for you. Follow this link. The software was developed for Windows 7 by Elantech (ELAN Microelectronics Corp.) but is being supplied by Dell. The one the Dell Mini 10 has is a Capacitive Touchpad (Smart Pad).
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I can't get passed the splash screen on my Dell mini. Was your install straight forward?
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I can't get passed the splash screen on my Dell mini. Was your install straight forward?
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Are you trying to run off USB, or install onto the internal hard drive? Make sure you're using the 32-bit version, as the 64-bit wouldn't boot for me.
FYI, as you may know, the Mini doesn't like any HD video, so unfortunately very few Android games will run properly.
Thanks for getting back to me. I tried installing on hard drive via Linux using the most recent beta. I've upgraded the ram to 2gig and installed an ssd but not sure if that would cause issue.
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Thanks for getting back to me. I tried installing on hard drive via Linux using the most recent beta. I've upgraded the ram to 2gig and installed an ssd but not sure if that would cause issue.
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I used 2GB RAM and an SSD as well. So that shouldn't be an issue. But the procedure I used was different than simply installing it onto the hard drive with another computer.
Don't install using a separate operating system. It doesn't seem to work that way. You need to load it onto a USB and install onto the hard drive using the Mini. The procedure for this is, when you come to the Guest/Resident mode screen, you press TAB, then add "INSTALL=1" to the end of the grub command. This will bring up the android-x86 install menu, which will allow you to install the OS onto the hard drive the same way as using another computer. Make sure the SSD is formatted to NFTS and is completely empty prior to doing this. You can alternatively try formatting it to EX4 instead.
When prompted, install GRUB, do not install GRUB2, install debug (wont work w/o idk why). Unfortunately, you will be left with the maximum internal storage after the install, so you need to go back and use the IMGTools procedure to enlarge data.img to whatever size you want your internal storage to be.
Thats what worked for me, anyway.
That worked brilliantly, thanks very much. Have you had any success with dual boot after intalling Remix first?
Janoflan said:
That worked brilliantly, thanks very much. Have you had any success with dual boot after intalling Remix first?
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Haven't tried it. But if you use a NTFS format, you should easily be able to shrink the partition after install. You would also need to edit the GRUB menu to choose which OS you want to boot with, which I have no experience doing. However, I know the new beta version of Remix does have an install tool that does this for you. So if you were intending to dual boot Remix/Windows, then it is possible to install Windows first.