Hello,
I am not sure if this is even possible, but, I want to ask the question anyways: Is there a way to completely erase android from a device and install Raspian on it instead?
Here is the basis for the question. I have 2 old android devices, one is so crappy that it usually freezes just after turning it on, and has since I purchased it. Right now it is just a paper weight taking up space. I have been trying to figure out if this is even possible before just saying to heck with it and just tossing it. Could someone please let me know if this is even possible.
Thank you in advance.
How is this relevant to the title? The title says "android into a raspberry pi", which means, android (the mobile os) on the raspberry pi, which is possible.
What you're asking is if you can erase android and install raspian on it instead, far away from the title.
My answer: You can, if you are a software engineer for your device, because you'll need a different bootloader that is capable of booting anything else than android, and you'll actually have to compile it for your device (if there is no device tree or sources for your device, guess what you have to do). So just stick to installing something like slim rom instead.
Thank you for the reply, however, the title states clearly "Android INTO a raspberry pi" so the question is relevant to the title as it's asking if an android box could be turned INTO a raspberry pi essentially. Furthermore, if this is the way you answer all posts you reply to it's a wonder how you became a senior member with the attitude your reply conveyed. I'm not an android programmer yet, but I'm trying to learn, figured I would start with Linux fist, so I'm not an idiot, just not as well versed in hacking android.
silverdragon608 said:
Thank you for the reply, however, the title states clearly "Android INTO a raspberry pi" so the question is relevant to the title as it's asking if an android box could be turned INTO a raspberry pi essentially. Furthermore, if this is the way you answer all posts you reply to it's a wonder how you became a senior member with the attitude your reply conveyed. I'm not an android programmer yet, but I'm trying to learn, figured I would start with Linux fist, so I'm not an idiot, just not as well versed in hacking android.
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Android is an operating system btw. I'm glad you're starting to learn Linux etc
You become a senior member after being a junior member for a while, so just wait a months or so and you'll become one as well
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hello every one!!!!
i am proud owner of SGS from last one year.
no of times i flashed custom ROM and researched for info on internet
got almost all the information from this forum but still got some question.
i got the tutorial for setting up the development environment.
but still not got the satisfactory ans/tutorial/guide for android development.
i am not from programming background but still i am very much interested in android development and i know that with interest i can learn any thing.
i am very much interested in ROM development.i know it involves very much knowledge/patience/coding etc.
could anybody tell me what are the steps involved to develop for android platform so i can research and learn to do it.
help will be appreciated!!
hey,
other than searching on google for code sample/example, i refer to the following to answer some basic information: http://developer.android.com/index.html just one thing to note is...the code they provide on their website may have bugs ( i have run into a few myself as i was starting to code on android platform)...
You probably know this one, but maybe not
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17254660 via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=816994
Hi swapk007,
Setting up an android development environment is a little complicated, so instead of trying to list the steps here, I'm going to give you some advice. This is coming from someone who also started android development about a month and a half ago, so the following advice is something I'll stand by.
If you don't have a programming background, try and tinker around with some basic Java. I've gone to school for Computer Science, so I got enough Java experience that I could jump right into Android, but it is something I would recommend to others who don't have that exposure.
Next, check out Commonsware. It is a site/service/set of online books run by a guy named Mark. I purchased the books back when I started and they have been HUGELY helpful. He explains in detail how you should set up your development environment, and then walks you through the different parts of the development process. Furthermore, he does "office hour" chats once or twice a week, so if there is something extra complicated that you can't figure out you can talk with him. He is really friendly and helpful.
Once you get a handle on developing some apps, be they basic or advanced, then you'll be able to get into Rom development.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
fastindy said:
hey,
other than searching on google for code sample/example, i refer to the following to answer some basic information: http://developer.android.com/index.html just one thing to note is...the code they provide on their website may have bugs ( i have run into a few myself as i was starting to code on android platform)...
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Janzomaster said:
You probably know this one, but maybe not
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17254660 via http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=816994
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bkensey said:
Hi swapk007,
Setting up an android development environment is a little complicated, so instead of trying to list the steps here, I'm going to give you some advice. This is coming from someone who also started android development about a month and a half ago, so the following advice is something I'll stand by.
If you don't have a programming background, try and tinker around with some basic Java. I've gone to school for Computer Science, so I got enough Java experience that I could jump right into Android, but it is something I would recommend to others who don't have that exposure.
Next, check out Commonsware. It is a site/service/set of online books run by a guy named Mark. I purchased the books back when I started and they have been HUGELY helpful. He explains in detail how you should set up your development environment, and then walks you through the different parts of the development process. Furthermore, he does "office hour" chats once or twice a week, so if there is something extra complicated that you can't figure out you can talk with him. He is really friendly and helpful.
Once you get a handle on developing some apps, be they basic or advanced, then you'll be able to get into Rom development.
If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
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thank you all...will definitely go through all this n reply..
I´m not a android developer, sometimes i do some OOP in C#, and I would suggest you should start coding some apps (games, toys etc.), maybe just for PC´s, before even start thinking about developing custom rom´s - just start reading JDE stuff and if you finaly know what your doing, you will not have to ask for thinks like "how to code ROM´s", but just start coding...
...would you start building a house, if you even didn´t know how to do a wall?
will definately do it tomrof!!!
Hi there everyone,
I need some serious help with porting any FOSS Operating system viz debian to playbook. I tried to post franticly in crackberry forum, initial posts were cool. later when i started to throw too much info in hope of reply i got few replies or responses.
wish someone from here can help me. Because i am dead serious about porting debian to this device. its lovely.
thanks to RIM for screwing it up completely. i got fed up and decided to do the dirty job because to whoever i ask about a custom rom i got a depressing answer.
i am already ready to port. who else is helping me. or planning to help me.
please let me know. thanks.
-paul
p.s. i am a few steps away from getting the x-loader.bin signed, i got it signed with omap3, but i would like to sign it with omap4 and i am working on it. and secondly i got the source for the bsp from sonic foundary and i was successful in building it. but i need more help from users with more valueable output than "show me a different rom" or "thats too tragic, no one has been successful as of now." very few expressed their support. most of them seem to be waiting anxiously for BB10. sad. sigh! a few supporters are there and 2-3 folks gave extremely valueable information.
i hope to find some folks here who is willing to share the workload. and i shall try to co-operate my level best. thanks again for reading this post and wasting 10 mins of your life's time.
p.s. 2 i am planning to port coreboot the arm arch and debian, but this doesnt mean i will not try to help in the android process.
2 most valueable feedbacks which i got are,
nickstarmaster -> "For a OS that is specifically designed for a single kind of hardware, it got TOO MUCH exceptions/errors."
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synerworks -> "Even if all the boot source code was released and built verbatim, without the correct signature it would not be seen as valid at launch. Without a JTAG, pushing your own firmware onto the device will not happen with the existing locked bootrom. Maybe if the bootrom had some unhandled exception that was exploited, an image can be generated to overwrite it but none exists to date. The only downside to attempting to clobber a soft-bricked Playbook is that it can potentially be rendered a doorstop if development tools can no longer manage further firmware updates. At least a bricked Playbook will be recoverable when a BB10 image is released by Blackberry whenever they get around to it. "
thats all the help i got with respect to porting. can anyone help me with the rest? team work? there i felt alone.
DIY
I might not have looked in the right place and this may be the wrong forum but I wanted to seek the advice of our amazing and more experienced android devs for this topic. Ive been pondering the possibilities of completely changing the OS on my tablet to try windows. I don't know if this is possible (I'm just a junior software developer.) so I thought I would put it here and see what you all could tell me.
Highly unlikely to this possibility due to the differences in the chipsets used. Windows won't have the drivers to make anything work right or even boot.
Hello everyone,
At first, as a new member, let me congratulate you for this amazing forum and the community that is built around it. A lot of useful and interesting stuff can be found here, and I know that it takes a lot of hard work to boost and maintain a forum to this high-quality level, create a community and share knowledge, so thank you for that and keep up the good work.
To get to the point, I recently became the owner of a Google Nexus 5 and 3 days ago I upgraded the preinstalled Android 4.4 to Android 5.0. Before that, I used a Nokia N900 phone with Maemo 5 and ArchLinux (desktop Linux Distribution), and this Nexus became my introduction to the Android operating system for the first time.
So as a newbie to Android, I want to ask toy a few questions on how to make some things done.
While I had my Android rooted before, after the upgrade it probably needs rooting again, so I'd be grateful if someone points out a link to a tutorial that describes this process. I also need to install an anti-theft application, and from what I've seen, Cerberus just does what I want, but I need to install it in a way that even if someone restored the phone to its default settings or even format it, the application woud stay in place. From what I've read, it is possible, right? I don't know how, maybe it has something to do with the ROM, which brings me to my next question. Custom ROMs, what are they? How do they get installed and which one do you suggest for Nexus 5?
As for now, those are my questions. I know that I could use Google to find out more about those stuff, but I really want to learn how they work, not just how to accomplish them, and all my searches in Google result in different ways to achieve the same thing, a fact that confuses me instead of teaching me stuff. That's why I ask here.
So, if anyone could point out some links or explain to me how to do the things I want, I'd be very grateful.
Also, besides all those things, any suggestions you might have of any nature, I'd be glad to hear them and they'll be much appreciated!
Than you very much in advance. I appologize to the forum and its moderators if I posted this in a wrong category or broke any rule. I assure you that if I did, it was not intetional.
Best regards,
Elias
Should I post this over to the Google Nexus 5 forums?
[SOLVED]
Ok, after a lot of reading, I finally understood the whole concept of ROMs and Recovery.
For anyone having trouble with his first steps on those issues as well, the following links would be very useful:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/faq-to-android-read-post-root-t2508292
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...ide-nexus-5-how-to-unlock-bootloader-t2507905
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...olkit-wugs-nexus-root-toolkit-v1-8-3-t2517778
http://forum.xda-developers.com/goo...nux-universal-nexus-linux-toolkit-v2-t2528616
Good luck!
Hello everyone. I recently bought a new hp chromebook 11- v020wm for the sole purpose of running tails on it. After getting tails onto my usb I have been unable to find an answer on how to boot from usb. Theres loads of info out there on how to do this for every other make of chromebook besides HPs version and rather than risk bricking my new chromebook with the wrong commands I thought I would ask for some experienced help. Thanks, sorry I'm a noob lol.
I am looking to do the same thing on a 14" hp. Just started looking and figured i check here.
Don't try the HP site. Anything other than the issued software is a no no, including discussions on developer mode. A post will get locked quickly with a snippy remark from one of the monitors. BTW, did you find the solution?