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Have you guys heard of this? http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
It runs Ubuntu on Android and it displays it on a monitor as a full blown desktop, while simultaneously running Android on the phone so that you still have full access to the dialer, messages etc...
Kewl!
Yeah, It was talked about here for a little bit:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1509790
I thought it would be a hot topic but it kinda just faded away. lol. I think that would be awesome. But our locked bootloaders probably wouldnt let us do it.
Our phone meets all the minimum requirements form the website. It is just a matter of it releasing I believe. THis is exciting news! I would love to be able to run this one my phone.
twobrare said:
Our phone meets all the minimum requirements form the website. It is just a matter of it releasing I believe. THis is exciting news! I would love to be able to run this one my phone.
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You dont think our kernel would need to be modified? I hope you're right. Also, it looks like they are pushing it more towards phone manufacturers and cell carriers to make it pre loaded on phones. But I hope they release it as a separate thing to anyone wanting it.
From what I understand they are working on phones that meet these specs. Our device does. I am guessing that they would have to update the kernal or at least be able to modify it a little bit to include this. I am excited to see what happens though. It would be ashame to have such a powerful device and not be able to use this.
There is an ubuntu installer ap on the market but haven't tried it
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If it's a virtual environment, I don't see why the kernel would be an issue. I'm assuming it's just like the way I run Windows as a VM inside Linux.
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I have tried the debian verison of the ubuntu installer and it runs but was difficult to use if using the gui command line was fine though
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I couldn't find a forum for this phone, if this post is in the wrong place please move it!
I have an unlocked T-Mobile (SGH-T399) Samsung Galaxy Light running on ATT. I'm looking for custom roms . I have searched around a little but have yet to find one. Does anyone know where I can find one that will work?
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No custom ROMs yet, but looks like there's root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2539232
Here's a custom recovery: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2669313
Once you root it, try installing Xposed framework and gravitybox and other modules to get a bunch of extra features and tweaks. My phone is on its way so I don't know for sure whether this will work, but I'm planning on rooting it and installing Xposed once I get it next week. Xposed/gravitybox works great on my Nexus 5 stock ROM and gives me all the features I want, so I'm thinking of sticking with the Samsung stock ROM with the tweaks on top.
How did you get it unlocked? Just curious, since I'm planning to unlock it in a couple of months.
Yeah I found the root the other day yet to try to though. I bought my phone online and just happen to have a friend with T-Mobile, I had her pug in a request for an unlock code. We got the code the next day.
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I have sort of setup an enviroment on my Laptop on trying to build a CM10.2 from Source for this Phone, Really Love this phone. Well in short i would require some help, but as soon as i get time, i will start on testing with it.
lahoreonline said:
I have sort of setup an enviroment on my Laptop on trying to build a CM10.2 from Source for this Phone, Really Love this phone. Well in short i would require some help, but as soon as i get time, i will start on testing with it.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/dev-cyanogenmod-porting-t2918432
Ok, little background here:
First, just to clarify I am not afraid of rooting my phone and have rooted all my android devices to date and JB all my Apple Devices.
Second, because Sprint/Samsung announced the Note2 was compatible with the Gear S I decided to try to set it up with my N2... Things went very badly... I spent two weeks and almost returned my GearS out of frustration (Glad I didnt, but...) ultimately, I gave up and used my upgrade with sprint to get a Note 4 since I was having some hardware issues anyway (mic was dieing). I'm loving the new phone, but am missing some features I had on my N2 because I've not rooted my N4 (and the "no root required" alternatives are... awkward, at best, and don't have most of the features I want). The main worry I have is that rooting it might somehow break compatibility with my GearS, which I use every day very heavily and spent weeks getting working.
Short version:
Will rooting my phone (Sprint Note4, android 4.4.4) cause any problems with my GearS?
I am not planning on loading any custom roms or kernals, mostly just want backup (Titanium Backup) and tethering (Galaxy Tools) possibly in the future adding an app that lets me use a BT gamepad like PS3 or Wiimote... Not planning to even remove any sprint bloatware apps since N4 lets you hide them from the app menu.
I'm pretty sure it wont affect the GearS, but after all the hassle I've been through I'd rather not risk it and decided to ask first to be 100% sure.
Wow... (as of now) 61 people viewed this thread and NONE of them have a rooted phone... on XDA... that's amazing! -_-*
Root will not affect your gear s
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seemles said:
Root will not affect your gear s
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Thank you
S4 rooted with a bunch of Sammy/VZW stuff frozen/removed, works just fine. I ended up grabbing the gear apk from a different market then figured out what needed to be enabled.
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While cleaning the garage, I found my wife's old nook BNTV250. She said I could have it. So, I've been trying to get a custom rom on there.
I have experience with custom roms. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 running Philz and Lollipop as well as a Note 10.1 running TWRP and Kitkat. So, I have experience with successfully installing recoveries and flashing custom roms to devices.
This one isn't as easy for some reason.
I can get a rooted stock rom by following the directions here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZyfWpBJpiE
but no matter what I try, I can't get any further than that.
When I tried to sign in with the google play store, I am told my password is bad (which it isn't). Then I get an email from google in my gmail account telling me that someone (which was me) has tried to sign in to my account but was denied because the device they were using is way too old. So, getting anything on to my device via the play store that I need, such as a terminal emulator, TWRP install, etc, is apparently out of the questions.
gapps won't flash without errors, so that is out of the question, too.
the included es file explorer won't see the internal SD card for a reason I haven't been able to figure out (yes, it has root access), so copying apk files over and installing them from there is out.
When I boot off of ann sd card, and attempt to flash custom recoveries from the internal storage, I am also unsuccessful. With TWRP, I get errors. With CWM, it says it was successful, but it isn't.
So, every road I go down to get CM on this thing is blocked.
Am I missing something, or did I just miss my window by not doing this two years ago?
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While cleaning the garage, I found my wife's old nook BNTV250. She said I could have it. So, I've been trying to get a custom rom on there.
Am I missing something, or did I just miss my window by not doing this two years ago?
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Try:
1. A factory reset
2. The instructions here---they worked for me as a noob.
That could leave you with CM 10.2. If you'd like something higher, this post might send you in the right direction after you succeed with CM 10.x, but it does become more complicated. Or you can just try to get there directly.
It can't be too late:fingers-crossed: There's life in that tablet yet!
Edit: I see that the CM 10.2 build is no longer posted over at Cyanogenmod. If you want to try it, let me know. I have the zip file.
Sorry, I haven't posted my update yet. I managed to find a solution to the problem with the included es file explorer. That allowed me to install some apk's like terminal emulator which allowed me to get TWRP on, and then the figurative flood gates were open from there.
I am disappointed. I flashed both liquid smooth kitkat, and a lollipop build. Neither are very responsive, and both seem to have great difficulties awakening from a sleeping state (the lollipop one was worse). I looked around, but couldn't find a kernel to flash. Is there a kernel we should be using to speed up these roms? If not, I think I will give up because I stand stand the slowness.
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Sorry, I haven't posted my update yet. I managed to find a solution to the problem with the included es file explorer. That allowed me to install some apk's like terminal emulator which allowed me to get TWRP on, and then the figurative flood gates were open from there.
I am disappointed. I flashed both liquid smooth kitkat, and a lollipop build. Neither are very responsive, and both seem to have great difficulties awakening from a sleeping state (the lollipop one was worse). I looked around, but couldn't find a kernel to flash. Is there a kernel we should be using to speed up these roms? If not, I think I will give up because I stand stand the slowness.
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I read through some CM11 threads and was amazed at the different experiences people had, ranging from "works great" to "really sluggish". Speaking only from a logical perspective it seems to me that the more advanced OS you try to shoe-horn into an older device, the more likely you will exhaust (or at least severely task) its hardware resources. Like trying to install Windows 10 on a machine designed for XP with hardware that just barely meets the minimum requirements of Win 10.
All I can say is that CM 10.2 works "great" on my NT. I've yet to encounter an app that I wanted which would not run (of course, my wants may not match yours). I can read the newspaper, listen to music, Kodi runs great--I can even stream a video from the NT to my TV (which has an old laptop connected) using VLCDirect. So lots of life in the thing from my perspective. CM 10.2 does get cranky once in awhile, but a reboot sorts that out. I expect many newer tablets are the same in that respect.
Let me know if you change your mind and want to try CM10.2
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I read through some CM11 threads and was amazed at the different experiences people had, ranging from "works great" to "really sluggish". Speaking only from a logical perspective it seems to me that the more advanced OS you try to shoe-horn into an older device, the more likely you will exhaust (or at least severely task) its hardware resources. Like trying to install Windows 10 on a machine designed for XP with hardware that just barely meets the minimum requirements of Win 10.
All I can say is that CM 10.2 works "great" on my NT. I've yet to encounter an app that I wanted which would not run (of course, my wants may not match yours). I can read the newspaper, listen to music, Kodi runs great--I can even stream a video from the NT to my TV (which has an old laptop connected) using VLCDirect. So lots of life in the thing from my perspective. CM 10.2 does get cranky once in awhile, but a reboot sorts that out. I expect many newer tablets are the same in that respect.
Let me know if you change your mind and want to try CM10.2
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You talked me into it. I'll give 10.2 a shot. I'm assuming that's based on Jellybean. I think every app I want to use will still work on Jellybean.
Any recommended builds? Any recommended gapps?
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You talked me into it. I'll give 10.2 a shot. I'm assuming that's based on Jellybean. I think every app I want to use will still work on Jellybean.
Any recommended builds? Any recommended gapps?
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I finally located the 10.x downloads here. I'm using the last stable build, 10.2.1 (Android equivalent 4.3.1). You should use the gapps package that is listed for 10.2 build here.
Like I said in an earlier post, I followed the excellent directions from digixmax here and while the initial boot was kind of confusing, things did sort themselves out. But that method assumes you are starting from stock. If you can't get back to there you'll need to try something else.
Once in a blue moon some app in the PlayStore will be listed as incompatible, I guess because Google can't quite figure out what to make of these modded tablets, even though the Android version is well within reach of CM 10.2. That happened recently to me with my local newspaper app. I just used this site to download the app outside the PlayStore and then side-loaded it. It installed and works just fine.
Good luck! I hope this all works to your satisfaction
Well, I installed CM 10.2. Everything works, albiet VERY slowly. I'm going to go google for a kernel now so I can do some overclocking. If I can't find one, then I'm afraid I'll have to let this go. It is just too slow and unresponsive the way it is to be productive.
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Well, I installed CM 10.2. Everything works, albiet VERY slowly. I'm going to go google for a kernel now so I can do some overclocking. If I can't find one, then I'm afraid I'll have to let this go. It is just too slow and unresponsive the way it is to be productive.
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Sorry it didn't work out well for you. It's obvious to say, but either there is a hardware issue or something did not go right in the flashing. Otherwise no one would bother with these things.
You've probably already looked at this, but just in case, under Settings/Performance/Processor I show a resting CPU freq. of 300 MHz, the governor set at "interactive, and a max. CPU freq. of 1008 MHz. Theoretically you could try playing with those if you have the same figures, but I'm not sure where that would take you.
The only custom kernel I could find for this was for KitKat, so I reflashed with that. I clocked both the minimum and the maximum to 1200 MHz. Even at that, my Antutu benchmarks score was just under 14k, or less than half of the score for my Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I never got "great" results with this device so far, but the KK with the custom kernel is the best I have got so far. I'm tempted to try this KK kernel with the lollipop build to see what happens. If I do that, I'll report my results.
This device is over four years old now. Add to this that, at the time, it wasn't exactly designed to break any speed records. All it was intended to do is read ebooks, and play a few other select apps. No GPS, no bluetooth. I guess asking it to run today's resource intense apps like Facebook may be asking too much of it. But, for some weird reason, I can't let this go now. It is kind of like an electronic pet to me. I keep it by my easy chair, and I pick it up and start doing something with it quite often.
Yeah, I was just getting ready to point you toward the kernal for CM 11 but you got there without my direction.
It's really puzzling to me that your system seems so slow. Maybe mine is too! I've never owned a tablet before (I don't count my much-modded NST e-ink reader!) and this one running CM 10.2 seems just fine to me, certainly no worse than laptops I often work with. I have an inexpensive LG smartphone I just bought to use as an mp3 player after my much-loved Insignia Pilot finally died. It runs KitKat and seems about as responsive as my Nook Tablet, maybe slightly better, so I guess a lot is what we are used to.
I am just curious as to how long everyone waited before rooting their Nexus 6P? I received mine Monday evening and I am still stock. I wanted to enjoy stock Android before rooting. I came from a Verizon Note 4 with all the bloat and garbage I just wanted to go back to basics for a bit before indulging in root. I haven't had a rooted phone in over a year because Verizon & Samsung blocked that ability. I love having the freedom of an unlocked phone and the ability to root & do as I please with my device!
As soon as I took it out of the box, had a glass of wine, and logged on to XDA!
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I am just curious as to how long everyone waited before rooting their Nexus 6P? I received mine Monday evening and I am still stock. I wanted to enjoy stock Android before rooting. I came from a Verizon Note 4 with all the bloat and garbage I just wanted to go back to basics for a bit before indulging in root. I haven't had a rooted phone in over a year because Verizon & Samsung blocked that ability. I love having the freedom of an unlocked phone and the ability to root & do as I please with my device!
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I got mine back in November and never rooted. I really like stock Marshmallow and couldn't find any roms/features or exposed modules that make me want to root. Plus, I think that I am one of the very few people who really like Android Pay and once you root, Android Pay is gone. I used to root all my devices (since the Nexus One), because there were some many issues with Android at the beginning, but now I think that Android is truly stable. I will suggest that you try stock for a while and see how you like it.
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I got mine back in November and never rooted. I really like stock Marshmallow and couldn't find any roms/features or exposed modules that make me want to root. Plus, I think that I am one of the very few people who really like Android Pay and once you root, Android Pay is gone. I used to root all my devices (since the Nexus One), because there were some many issues with Android at the beginning, but now I think that Android is truly stable. I will suggest that you try stock for a while and see how you like it.
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No ad blocking of any sort??
Within minutes of taking it out the box.
Gotta have root. Especially for titanium backup no other app is as consistent as it IMO
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No rooting and don't need it. I unlocked boatloader right away though so I can flash updates when and as I please. I'm all set.
I wish there were a 1-Click root for the Nexus 6P...I'm on a Mac and I am having a hell of a time trying to figure it out. No real tutorials for Macs
At first boot. Booted straight to bootloader ?
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Not long. Within the first few hours. I played with stock a little first before messing around with the bootloader.
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Within minutes of taking it out the box.
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THIS!
Ran stock for day of two to make sure everything was working ok then it was rooted
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After 1month just because I wanted to give Franco kernel a spin (God bless high brightness mode!). Actually, this is the first android phone (amongst the many I have owned) that lasted *that* long without root!
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2 days
Spent a good 3 or 4 months without root. Had no issues with stock, but wanted a bit more control so I gave in. Not regretting rooting at all. Battery life and performance have seen a big improvement.
I haven't rooted after 2 weeks. That may be a record for me, but I'm using Project Fi and am a little worried about messing with too much. Also, I like stock Marshmallow. Usually I go close to stock Android with custom ROMs, and it doesn't get much more stock than this!
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Immediately. I didn't want to load my phone with stuff and then have to wipe it when I unlcoked the bootloader.
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I wish there were a 1-Click root for the Nexus 6P...I'm on a Mac and I am having a hell of a time trying to figure it out. No real tutorials for Macs
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Start a thread and I'll see if I can help you out. For reference, I use OSX 10.10.5. I have unlocked my Nexus 5X and flashed December and January factory images using OSX. I have heard 10.11 is trickier to get working ADB/fastboot though.
Edit: just posted in the thread you created hours ago
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Rooted when I got mine.
First boot.