help needed with ubuntu (chroot) on my device - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hey all i have an alps u89...
this phone http://cwelltech.en.alibaba.com/pro...quad_core_android_4_2_Star_mobile_phones.html
and i am unable to get ubuntu running on it via chroot method
i am wondering if anybody else has had it running on this phone, or if anyone may know what the problem could be...
after installing needed apps from market and downloading ubuntu image i try and run the setup in cmd and it just seems like nothing wants to work
i have googled every combination to try and find some answers but to no avail...
i have also tried every ubuntu installer app the market... none seem to work... i dont know if my device supports loop devices which is a requirement, but it says that if it dont support loop devices it simply wont boot into ubuntu, but im unable to get it to even start installing...
so any help is greatly apprieciated...
and if anyone is able to assist me in getting it to run on my phone, i am happy to buy them a drink or two as i have near enough given up any hope of having a nice ubuntu running
one last note, i did have a very primitive linux distribution running(gimp) had very limited functionality and it wasnt what i was after...
i cant remember which of the market installer apps i used for it but i am after ubuntu to be as close to the pc counterpart as possible
whats that i hear? challenge accepted??
i hope i heard right

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[Q] dual-booting android 2.2 or higher on my W7HP laptop?

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

[Q] Toshiba As A Rooting Device

Hi there,
I'm wondering, has anyone managed to use the toshiba tablet as a rooting machine - as in connecting other devices and rooting them using the tablet?
I'm currently shopping for a tablet/notebook, and thought that it would be nice if i could connect another android device to the folio and root those devices using the folio.
Is this achievable and has anyone tried this?
It *might* be possible. Ubuntu seems to be running quite well by now, so you would need to compile the needed binaries for arm. I don't know if the adb source is availlable, but cross or even native compilation of fastboot should work. Then you cold flash stuff and use adb.
But to be honest, many devices can easily bee rooted with a sufficiant app like z4root.
In the whole it will be a lot more work than just getting a netbook, but it could be fun to try
mblaster said:
It *might* be possible. Ubuntu seems to be running quite well by now, so you would need to compile the needed binaries for arm. I don't know if the adb source is availlable, but cross or even native compilation of fastboot should work. Then you cold flash stuff and use adb.
But to be honest, many devices can easily bee rooted with a sufficiant app like z4root.
In the whole it will be a lot more work than just getting a netbook, but it could be fun to try
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Interesting... I'm not a developer, so it does sound daunting and intimidating to try...
I'm just looking to buy a device that can help me root - i did think about a netbook, but i want my next purchase to be an android tablet, so i was wondering if i could kill 2 birds with one stone...
Use SuperOneClick
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Any Root options on a Mac??

I did an extensive search and have checked the Noob thread with no luck. Im aware of the Heimdall option for non US S III devices but not for US versions.
Is there something Im missing, or is there in fact no way to root a GS III on a Mac computer. I have emailed Heimdall and hopefully hear something soon.
Please advise if there is an option that I am not realizing. I do not have a Windows machine, but may have to find one if this holds true.
Thanks much.
already a few open threads on this bro. short answer the only way to get it working right now would be to dual boot windows or run in virtual unless you have access to a windows machine or until heimdall releases an update

Android SDK Problems

Hello all...I have the Android SDK set up on my Dell Dimension 4600 running Windows 7 and ADB IS set up correctly as well as my environment variables. So today I go into my Android SDK to run an update and install API packages that I don't have yet and was getting some weird stuff going on. I go to college full time for computer networking and was installing all the API's just fine on my computer at the college today(actually my removable hard-drive in a computer). I got home and decided to run the same on my home computer to keep things up to date and was getting error messages. Has anybody else ever had this problem? Thought I'd ask the question and seek help from the forums. Any help from anybody is greatly appreciated. I have posted my a docx file to take a look at my screenshots and verify that I have the correct files and all. Thanks be to all!
[EDIT] So I found my answer to my problem. When going into Android SDK Manager you must right click on it and run it as an administrator for it to work and download API's correctly. Don't know if anybody else has this issue but there's your answer! Hope it helps out somebody!

[Q] Chroot question

This might be a weird one, but has anyone has come up with the notion of chrooting android x86 inside a pc linux distro. The reverse is quite common ( linux deploy, lil debi etc bundling a debian environment inside a linux device ). I was googling my day to something describing this as something common yet, nothing ( it can be done almost casually on android devices an likewise on major linux distros ).
Has it crossed anyone else's mind ? Whould anybody be interested in postinge something I might have missed or stopping me from trying ( providing sound reasons for not doing so or shouting "this is madness" for maximum drama effect ) .
Whould anyone find it interresting if..... should..... maybe.... provided that i succeeded I post the proccess ?
Hi, yes I thought about this too and spend way too much time looking for a solution like that Plase post if you find anything or even manage to do something on your own. This would totally rock, as I don't want to use any proprietary OS but would like to play some Android games on my computer.
I found a thread where someone managed to do this, but running on the Android kernel. It's still different from running GNU+Linux chrooted, because on the Android kernel runs GNU+Linux and then Android chrooted (kinda complicated ). I asked whether it's possible to have the GNU+Linux kernel running isntead of Android's, you can check it out here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1780378
Also, maybe we can just copy from Chromium/ Chrome OS when they are done implementing support for natively running Android Apps on the OS (which they announcend on Google IO 2014). Hmm, probably not so great (fast) since it will run inside the browser...
A google search got me here. What you guys what to do is a lil different then what i want. I have a really neat device an ASUS TRIO an intel atom powered device.
It has android 4.3 and a windows 10 in the keyboard. The problem is the android 4.3 is so dang old. Id love if it had an update available but only the french tablet asus made that copied the trio tablet only (not dock) got an update to android 4.4. So it got me thinking could I run chrome os on this tablet and gain back more of the support ive lost since the android is so old. That led me to chroot and I know I can run debian but like I said Id love to run chrome os but no one is working on this or I cant find it. Suggestions?
I do not get why this should be a problem. You simply can not chroot into different architectiute (PC is x86 or x86_64). But you can use emulator to provide "bridge" between those architectures. Its called Qemu. You can use qemu binaries for chroot into another architecture. But I do not think that what you want, you area talking about gaming a android games on PC. Thats possible too but I think its not called chroot but its again emulator (not qemu but android emulator) for example AnBox.

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