I've been reading about the motorola lapdocks, has anyone tried this with the dx2? In the description it recommends 1gb of ram. As I understand this it is because the dock runs a shell including a full version of firefox and needs the ram for it. But I'm curious if the shell could be edited, or loose the firefox app to save ram.
From what I've read, when you use the DX2 with a lapdock, the "desktop" experience doesn't load, instead it just mirrors the DX2 screen.......something about the DX2 not having lapdock software on it.
does it work
So where did you read about it? I'm curious to know if the keyboard and touch pad works cause that's all I need...
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So where did you read about it? I'm curious to know if the keyboard and touch pad works cause that's all I need...
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I read it over at DroidXforums. The keyboard and the touchpad worked.
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Call me crazy alright, but it is possible to get old 2.0 webtop on an ICS system? Flashing it via Fastboot, cwm or Rsd?I just can't get used to it and found it very disappointing specially the lack of:
-A descent mobile view.
-Full featured firefox.
-The ability to run linux and per se, a most competitive laptop environment.
-Real multi-tasking with lots of windows opened at once.
-Best integration with Lapdock keyboard and trackpad.
-Capability to run dedicated os programs like openoffice.org (not this joke of quickoffice...)
-A true laptop resolution at all for God sake!
-Many more
I know that this 3.0 is very light-weight and almost "flawless" but still not that useful for me specially coming from an Atrix with the webtop2sd mod, pure laptop experience... OMG what have I done!!! Lol!!! Neh... I wouldn't trade my razr for anything... at least in 17 months!
Have found something googling it but the info is not very useful as well, so looking for the advice from somebody here willing to point in some direction to get this working, if this it is even possible.
Thanks!
General consensus will probably be no. Until I get home tonight, I can't look at /dev/block/webtop to see if its possible. In theory, so long as the files are 100% separate, I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. Problem being, I think they tie into the system files somehow and aren't completely separate as they'd need to be.
Anyone else have any ideas on this? I plan to put ics on my clns replacement tonight, but i might not since I want the full featured webtop.
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Webtop 2.0 seems intact on ICS
I'm interested in this as well. I only acquired a lapdock post-ICS, so I unfortunately don't know exactly how things worked before.
It seems like all of the pieces are still in place for the real Ubuntu webtop. The old webtop does not appear to have been not removed in the update; mounting the /dev/block/webtop partition (ext3) reveals a 1 GB linux filesystem. I would be surprised if the Linux environment is broken, as chroot Linux environments such as "Free Linux Installer" work identically in both GB and ICS.
The big question is how the webtop is launched; I'll try and figure this out, but if anyone knows or has a copy of whatever script launched the Ubuntu-based webtop this would be very helpful!
I wanna connect my non rooted stock photon to my tv and use webtop. As bad as some people say it is, I still wanna use it and try it. Cause damnit, its a feature on my phone and I wanna try it.
Couple of questions...
After looking around, I find that you dont need the hd dock to use webtop, however the hd media dock actually puts out 1080 as opposed to just the hdmi cable, true or not true?
If so Id rather use the doc cause the tv is 73 inches and 1080p and we just cant have a bad picture now can we.
Also, I wanna use a full size BT keyboard and mouse. Will any BT keyboard and mouse do or are there ones that work and ones that dont?
I figure I got another 10 months with this beast and wanna squeeze every bit of functionality out of it...
Webtop is great but right now I don't believe webtop is accessible root or dock. I have the dock and like it a lot. Any bt key board and mouse that works with your mopho will work. But if you have the dock you can use a usb mouse and key board,i use my wireless desktop with it. Additionally it's great as a mirror for netflix.
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The HD Multimedia dock should let you do webtop. The features on motos site says you can as well as sprints accessory page for it.
I want the keyboard and mouse to be wireless because I dont want to have long cords going across my living room.
Sorry don't know exactly what I was typing there, but yes the HD dock is great for webtop and mirroring, if you were to root you could mirror without the HD dock.
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I don't currently own a Webtop enabled phone but I have wanted one for a while now. I am on Sprint and have a SERO account which I would like to hang onto so when I heard about the Motorola Photon Q I watched it with a lot of interest. As more info kept being released I got more and more disappointed. Finally I noticed that the phone won't come with Webtop.
Seems strange considering it is going to be priced like a high-end phone yet it is missing a relatively important feature most high-end Motorola phones have. Even the Atrix HD won't have Webtop but according to Motorola they didn't include it to make the phone more cost effective.
So those 2 phones won't have Webtop but on top of that the lapdocks are being sold for really cheap yet there hasn't been any announcements of a successor or refresh. The last lapdock released, as far as I know, was the 500 Pro and that came out 8 months ago. It hasn't been a year yet but that is still a really long time without a refresh to a phone accessory.
I know it is a little too soon to tell if Webtop has been discontinued and we won't know for sure till Motorola comes out and confirms it but I was just curious what others thought about it.
Sorry if this has been discussed before but I did a search and couldn't find anything.
Android 4.0 doesn't use webtop anymore because it just switches into tablet mode when plugged into a tv or external monitor via hdmi.
As long as I can run my phone at higher resolution through an hdmi cable, who cares what they call it?
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Android 4.0 doesn't use webtop anymore because it just switches into tablet mode when plugged into a tv or external monitor via hdmi.
As long as I can run my phone at higher resolution through an hdmi cable, who cares what they call it?
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Is it that way with all android phones using 4.0 that have video out? Thought most android phones that can do video out just did screen mirroring without switching to a tablet mode.
Anyways, the main reason I am interested in Webtop is because of the lapdock. I wouldn't use Webtop on a TV or monitor but the lapdock would be the sole reason for me wanting Webtop. I know I could get a cheap android tablet but I'd rather have a lapdock since it is laptop-like and it would contain everything on my phone. Don't really want 2 separate devices.
As far as I know the lapdock will only work with Motorola phones that have Webtop. Correction welcome if that assumption is wrong.
You don't have to do tablet mode, you can choose to just mirror your display.
The thing is that despite webtop was based on linux, you only had one desktop program, Firefox, and better resolution.
The only difference at ICS is that you will use either the android version of Firefox, or just the Chrome. It's a faster solution, but it lacks at the flash support part.
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No, sorry, thats not the only diffrrence!
Its much bigger. With the real Webtop you have got a real Linux system so you can use libreoffice, gimp and so on.
With tablet mode you have an fuc* android on an untouchable lapdock display.
With linux you can get n programs on the screen. With android you have only on. To change through the open programs, you get illness...
There re many differences!
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I have my Atrix now 1month and searched for a option to flash real ubuntu to our Atrix. I saw videos, threads, mods and many many more but there is no real Ubuntu on the Atrix.
Video how i want to use my Atrix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6eEDZva1W8 (Yeah i know Atrix 2 but there is no real differents to our normal Atrix?)
Nexus 7: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation
AC100 (Tegra 2): https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/TEGRA/AC100
I know we need many skilled Devs but i think its possible and would make better use of our Atrix then a webtop 3.0 or normal webtop. I just want to say i want to install my programms (example: Chromium) out of the applications market like the real ubuntu.
What are u guys thinking ? Is it worth to have such "dreams" for our Atrix or is it just hopless that i should just forget it?
Have u ever tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726916
I installed it yesterday, and i'm not mastering it, but it's way better than normal webtop.
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Have u ever tried this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1726916
I installed it yesterday, and i'm not mastering it, but it's way better than normal webtop.
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Sadly yes. But its not better then other webtop mods. After installinge and setting up it really is the same. Watch the first links from my post and u can see its really works with the latest Ubuntu version with Chromium.
Well a few things.
A) The atrix 2 is quite a bit different from the atrix one
B) saying that it would quite likely be possible to port however there is no source for the Ubuntu for android set up.
C) The nexus 7 is a native set up and would require a lot of changes to be ported to other devices just like all the other native ports.
D) I plan when I have the time to look at improving on the current web top versions of Linux, and of cause always improving our current chroot based method
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Okay thanks for the reply. So that means it is only make able with the perfect source? The AC100 is a tegra device its not possible to modifie it?
About the Webtop mods I use some but I can't even use some cheap programs that's my only problem.
Thanks for some great information.
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hi there
i have droid razr gsm phone and planning to take a lapdock have few questions
1. which lapdock model should i take ? why ?
2. will the lapdock allow me to watch xbmc through my mobile ???
3. i have jellybeans on my droid razr so if i connect to lapdock what mode it will show on lapdock ???
4. can i chat on whatsapp through my lapdock ??
5. shall i take a lapdock or a cheap tablet what will u recommend ???
thanks & regards
Cheap tables are bad... dont bother with them. The lapdock makes sense if you are going to use it for typing. The OG lapdock looks better, has better battery life, but the typing experience isnt as good as the 100 or 500, those are crafted from plastic as the OG is magnesium(or aluminum).
From what I've read JB works fine on the lapdock(same webtop 3.0 as ics), keep in mind other JB motorola phones no longer support lapdock, the picture is cramped.
Ofc you can use any app with it, and in CM roms you have alot of languages and keyboard localizations.
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Cheap tables are bad... dont bother with them. The lapdock makes sense if you are going to use it for typing. The OG lapdock looks better, has better battery life, but the typing experience isnt as good as the 100 or 500, those are crafted from plastic as the OG is magnesium(or aluminum).
From what I've read JB works fine on the lapdock(same webtop 3.0 as ics), keep in mind other JB motorola phones no longer support lapdock, the picture is cramped.
Ofc you can use any app with it, and in CM roms you have alot of languages and keyboard localizations.
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i have a similar doubt which would be :
is it still worth buying a lapdock og or 100 if on jelly bean ?