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Root Ubuntu for our phones?

I think it could run on here maybe no 3d. But this phone can run as a mid entry or whatever they call it. And I might even try and port it myself I may not get it I just like to try stuff.
 
Yea I haven't seen a lot of devs to excited to try and port it. But I'll probably give it a try. Im not on a super developing level yet but imma still try...maybe
 
It shouldn't take TOO much work...From what I recall, there are minimum requirements to run it...but their goal is to make it work with most phones...We'll see though...

What would be NICE is if it was like their sources for desktop OS...Oh your WiFi is missing the appropriate source? Download here, and type "make" in terminal. Reboot. Enjoy.

Wishful thinking I suppose.
 
Ubuntu will probably be something you flash in recovery or do you think they will have some other kind of way to install it.
 
Knowing them, who knows. I'd ASSUME it would be an image that needs to be flashed in recovery...but time will tell
 
i watched some videos. it looks cool but does it offer anything we don't already have ? i feel like we already have pretty much everything its got. is ubuntu for phone same as desktop ubuntu ? mb video output can make it a phone "desktop computer" ?
 
One thing that I love about it is the notification bar. Idk why but thats one thing that I look at in ROMs but I like how they got it where you can go to messages and what not just by sliding or however they got it. And desktop version I believe they said that would only be on "super phones" or whatever they call it. If Ubuntu comes to our phone I'd probably run it and Neva look at android again....well maybe once or twice
 
"super phones" would probably just be flagship phones. would be no good if consumers cant use it. who knows , mb by the time it comes out we will already have a better version android and no one will look at it haha
 
only a test image, probably only the hardcore would go for it. "The finalized software is expected to be available sometime later this year" i would probably have a cheap VM version of S3 then
 
optimusv45 said:
only a test image, probably only the hardcore would go for it. "The finalized software is expected to be available sometime later this year" i would probably have a cheap VM version of S3 then
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Yea, but according to the article that I linked Ubuntu for phones won't be out until 2014.

ramjet73
 
I saw that article to but I think they saying the 1 phones that ship with Ubuntu installed. This year it should be bringing Ubuntu to phones that already have android running on it
 
I've done it, here are screenshots, a flow diagram of how it works, and tips for my customizations -

http://androidforums.com/cdma-evo-3d-all-things-root/387978-ubuntu-linux-3vo.html

The generalized method going around that everyone talks about is the same thing.

You don't flash it in recovery and you do run Android at the same time.

It requires - a decent, high speed sd card with plenty of free space (2.5 GB was enough for me) and a kernel with loop device support (and that's the key).

Once you have that, following my tips, the Evo 3D runs it like a boss, don't see why the V wouldn't. Read my thread for proof if you don't believe it. ;)

Although the XDA thread is no longer supported, check there for my script that resizes your image for you, instead of leaving you locked to just one size. Your sd card must have double the image space for temporary storage for the process, nothing a pc backup / restore won't fix.

Sorry, don't know about kernels for the V but I hope that this helps! :)
 
EarlyMon said:
I've done it, here are screenshots, a flow diagram of how it works, and tips for my customizations -
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So if I understand the diagrams correctly that is running a VNC client on the phone to access a PC running Ubuntu as opposed to actually running Ubuntu on the phone? My understanding is that once Ubuntu for phones becomes available you will actually be booting it and running it on the phone with both mobile and desktop interfaces available.

Is that correct?

ramjet73
 
Oh great.
Just when I was barely beginning to understand Android, the next big thing comes along.
I now understand the saying "A day late, and a dollar short".
 
ramjet73 said:
So if I understand the diagrams correctly that is running a VNC client on the phone to access a PC running Ubuntu as opposed to actually running Ubuntu on the phone? My understanding is that once Ubuntu for phones becomes available you will actually be booting it and running it on the phone with both mobile and desktop interfaces available.

Is that correct?
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Nope. My diagram shows Ubuntu running on the phone, and I was booting it with both the mobile and desktop interfaces a year and a half ago.

To clarify, let's review -

Android = Embedded Linux + Dalvik Virtual Machine + apps that run within the Dalvik and access Linux services.

Ubuntu-runtime-engine on Android = Embedded Linux + Ubuntu running inside of a virtual machine created by the kernel loop device + a VNC access service

Ubuntu-runtime-access on Android = Android + Android VNC app that accesses the Ubuntu-runtime-engine (running as above)

Ubuntu-runtime-access on PC = Android running Ubuntu with a PC app that accesses the VNC server via your network.

As some of my screenshots show -

Here's Ubuntu running on my phone, with the display services on a Mac. During this time, the phone was displaying Android and I was also making phone calls and doing browsing on my phone while, my Mac was accessing Firefox inside of Ubuntu on my phone and it was browsing -

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In these two screenshots, I was running Open Office and GIMP, 100% on my phone, these are a 3vo screenshots here, no PC involved at all -

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To switch between Android and Ubuntu on the phone, just long-press home and choose either the Android VNC client (accessing Ubuntu) or an Android app. (Although, as memory serves, I was actually using QuickDesk Beta as a better app switcher at the time, but a rose is a rose.)


So - no need for a mobile Ubuntu interface when with the right keyboard (Hackers) and the right window manager (icewm) you can get everything you need.

The ultimate mobile Linux interface is Android anyway, yeah?

Let me know if that clears it up. :)
 
Ok - it's official.

In my spare time, I'm going to find a server and host my completed image and instructions somewhere.

I'm busy doing 20 things at any one time, so no ETA on that, and if anyone has a hosting server to recommend, let me know.

Plus - I reserve the right to get bored or decide that someone else is already doing a better job and you don't need my version. ;)

Hope that's fair enough. :)
 
Kamau said:
Oh great.
Just when I was barely beginning to understand Android, the next big thing comes along.
I now understand the saying "A day late, and a dollar short".
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You're doing fine and in the right place, compadre. :)

This isn't new, I was doing it a year and a half ago and people were doing it a year before me.

We find you the right kernel on a rooted Evo V and you can do this, so you're certainly not a dollar short - and the Ubuntu party never ends, so you're never late. ;) :)
 
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