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Hi, I have recently moved away from windows to ubuntu as i hate the thought of being bound to it.
I often flash ROMs and always use the MTTY format tool before i flash.
I could probably fudge running MTTY from the microsd to format but the trick would be how to remove the nbh file so that i could put a rom nbh onto it.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Cheers
am i the only one on ubuntu?
oh well i suppose i can use a micro sd adapter. cheers for the input guys.
I am an avid user of Ubuntu. It seems the major "windows" based phones around here, kind of prohibit users from being Ubuntu capable.
I have recently tried flashing my TP2 from VMware running XP on Ubuntu. I cannot get "task 29" to run from SDcard, and was looking for some MTTY help to send it the command or something.
I run Ubuntu 10.04 on all my machines now, and had found a XP HDD laying around in the past to flash my TP2 to firestorm. I just did not format. My friends TP2 with identical firestorm(he has slightly newer radio and ran task 29 before flashing) runs like lightning to my phones thunder. Don't have windows anywhere now...
Meanwhile the newest firestorm supports MP4's...
Either or, if you could leave me some insight on flashing from mtty in Ubuntu, I'd love to be able to continue flashing.
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Easiest way is to copy the NBH to mem card, and flash via SPL if you all ready have H-SPL, if not, flash H-SPL at a friends house and then flash NBH Rom
Good Luck
Badwolve1
same here
is there any way we can flash using ubuntu.. im using ubuntu 10.10.. Im using htc diamond and my internal memory is broke.. any way i can flash from ubuntu? thanks.
same here
sorry double post.. slow conection, i thought it didnt go thu.. after refresh double post.. please help on ruu that works on ubuntu 10.10 thanks.
I've noticed people saying to make sure your battery is fully charged when flashing the stock sbf. How long does this process usually take. Going to flash it back and root the new ota and I was wondering how long ill be off the grid for.
mudd_cat23 said:
I've noticed people saying to make sure your battery is fully charged when flashing the stock sbf. How long does this process usually take. Going to flash it back and root the new ota and I was wondering how long ill be off the grid for.
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This is not a development question, and should be in the Q&A section.
It takes about 5-10 minutes. Having done the process about 35-40 times now, I have the entire flash 1.26, root, update to 1.57, reroot process down to about 20 minutes.
Well, for me, I have a really fast core i5 Sony Vaio, but I can't flash any phones with it because I always get errors (something not working right on Win7) so I have to use my old 2006 Sony Vaio with first gen core 2 duo (Centrino Duo) on XP. And with that said, it takes about 45 minutes on that POS.
So the speed of it is really all in the power of your computer.
amd quad core with win7 takes about 10 min
BravoMotorola said:
Well, for me, I have a really fast core i5 Sony Vaio, but I can't flash any phones with it because I always get errors (something not working right on Win7) so I have to use my old 2006 Sony Vaio with first gen core 2 duo (Centrino Duo) on XP. And with that said, it takes about 45 minutes on that POS.
So the speed of it is really all in the power of your computer.
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You know that you may need to shorten the file name length; you call name it what ever you want, just don't have any space in the name or change the .sbf file extension. Also, a good idea to make sure the file path doesn't have spaces in it as well; just put the .sbf in the root c:\
Swiftks said:
You know that you may need to shorten the file name length; you call name it what ever you want, just don't have any space in the name or change the .sbf file extension. Also, a good idea to make sure the file path doesn't have spaces in it as well; just put the .sbf in the root c:\
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Do this.
I have an i7 with 8 cores and 8 GB of RAM running Windows 7...it's not your processor, it's RSD. Doing this worked for me.
I use my netbook with 2gb ram and its crappy little 1.nothing ghz processor atom processor and it only takes about 10 minutes
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the time it takes to flash the default spf has nothing to do with your computers speed. ie cpu ram blah blah.
the person that says it is taking 45 minutes has a pc with usb 1.1 not usb 2.0
that is why it is slow.
on any normal pc expect 5-15 mins.
It took me about 10-20 minutes on the atrix both times.
hey i am not sure where to post this but i kinda did in mutiple posts ..after using RSD lite and toke the .sbf file.. it says failed flashing process and giving me the (0x7100). i dont know how to get out of "starting RSD protocol support"
I am kinda PANICKING RIGHT NOW!! I AM SCARED WHETHER MY PHONE IS BRICKED!
please help me out!! much appreciated!
takes me 14 minutes 27 seconds (yes I timed it) to flash 1.2.6, root, and update on a 3ghz amd quad with 8gb, and I have no problems with rsd with the file anywhere and any name length
ymmv, as with any software, I would be concerned if a single flash took more than 20 minutes though
Problem:
anirudh15891 said:
hey i am not sure where to post this but i kinda did in mutiple posts ..after using RSD lite and toke the .sbf file.. it says failed flashing process and giving me the (0x7100). i dont know how to get out of "starting RSD protocol support"
I am kinda PANICKING RIGHT NOW!! I AM SCARED WHETHER MY PHONE IS BRICKED!
please help me out!! much appreciated!
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Swiftks said:
You know that you may need to shorten the file name length; you call name it what ever you want, just don't have any space in the name or change the .sbf file extension. Also, a good idea to make sure the file path doesn't have spaces in it as well; just put the .sbf in the root c:\
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Swiftks said:
You know that you may need to shorten the file name length; you call name it what ever you want, just don't have any space in the name or change the .sbf file extension. Also, a good idea to make sure the file path doesn't have spaces in it as well; just put the .sbf in the root c:\
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Yes, I do that. You see, shortening the file name only makes the 'start' button to where I can click it (where it's not grayed out). When I try to start it it gives me an instant error which I've looked up several time but cannot find the solution to. I had some old Motorola phone (like the ZN5) I used to mod, and flash with SBFs, and those would go through fine. It's weird, and I still don't understand why I get this error.
So i've been wanting to try out Ubuntu lately and ran it off of a USB drive i have. I liked it a lot but i don't want to lose my stuff from W7. I was watching a vid on youtube that involved installing it to HDD and then when you start your system, is asks which you'd like to boot; Ubuntu or W7. I want to make sure that it will always ask for this input when starting my system because i would like to change between the two frequently.
Thanks in advance.
Dual booting you mean?
I installed mine in a different partition. GRUB will let you choose which one to boot.
Sent from my Captivate. Andromeda 3, Onix 2.0.5 @ 1.2Ghz
Yes, dual-booting.
Doing the extra partition will leave my W7 untouched though right? And i can do this through Wubi? Also, will my setting and all that save to ubuntu if i change back to W7 then back to Ubuntu again? sorry for all the questions.
DeriquedeCoux said:
Yes, dual-booting.
Doing the extra partition will leave my W7 untouched though right? And i can do this through Wubi? Also, will my setting and all that save to ubuntu if i change back to W7 then back to Ubuntu again? sorry for all the questions.
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Yes.
Yes you can.
Everything would be saved.
And you can access your W7 partition from Ubuntu , but not the other way around.
Sent from my Captivate. Andromeda 3, Onix 2.0.5 @ 1.2Ghz
Partitioning can corrupt your drive. If recommend wubi first (make sure to get to 11.04 one)
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yup, try wubi, it's way safer and more comfortable.
and you can easily uninstall it if you didn't like it
yeah i did it through wubi.. it comes with the download of ubuntu (or kubuntu in my case)
maybe y'all can help me with this: i was wondering, because i plan on getting a 1Tb HDD and then also like a 320Gb EHDD, if i can throw kubuntu onto the EHDD and just run it off there? like will it still ask which i'd like to boot to during startup?
brilldoctor said:
Partitioning can corrupt your drive. If recommend wubi first (make sure to get to 11.04 one)
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Does it now?
Had screwed up the masterboot record a few times before, but nothing else besides that.
thats what I meant to say
Note: Please keep this thread restricted to Atrix-specific and general issues. Threads for other devices are referenced at the top of the main webtop2sd thread.
Discuss webtop2sd here (the other thread will be kept clean for announcements, FAQs, etc.).
Before you report an issue:
Make sure it's not on the Known Issues list first!.
Basic debugging, since these are going to be questions I ask anyways:
If you hit problems with the Android webtop2sd application, you'll need to tell me the error, and give me the last few lines of adb logcat. Run this adb command, which will filter out most of the unimportant lines:
adb logcat ActivityManager:i AndroidRuntime:i webtop2sd:i *:s
Are you actually booting from your SD card? You can find this out by checking the Diagnostics tab in webtop2sd, under "Currently mounted webtops". If mmcblk1p12 isn't listed, you're not booted from your SD card. If this is the case, report what ROM you're running from.
Is the webtop configurator application showing, but not running successfully? If so, plug your device into your dock and run a terminal (either locally or adbWireless + adb shell) and run the following:
su
/usr/bin/sudo -H -u adas bash
export DISPLAY=:0
python /usr/local/bin/webtop-configurator.pyc
I'll need whatever output shows up.
great! thanks for making it so much easier.
haven't actually tested it b/c i sort of figured out how to do that a few days back, but still need to manually install it.
maybe i'll test your app next time i decide to reinstall my ubuntu.
btw, which script are you using to mount /osh? for me only /data/logging.sh works (it's safer anyway).
I suspect that what I'm doing isn't rocket science by any means. But, what I do seem to be pretty good at is packaging semi-complex things up for people into a manageable form with a fairly solid level of reliability. You couldn't imagine the things I'm happy that I managed to accomplish with this app, because they're so... quirky.
Anyways, I've been using /system/bin/mountosh since the beginning. I need to tweak the copy I'm using right now, since my goals have expanded beyond what I initially wrote it for. On the other hand, it'll mean that I can separate out my "personal" Ubuntu versus my "debugging" one, and that should be quite helpful.
These advances with linux customization in webtop have turned me on to Ubuntu in general. I just dumped windows xp on my desktop server and now run ubuntu super OS and studio. This takes a phone to a new level. Thanks OP!
i would love to try this out but i'm on a mac.. can you partition through disk utility?
I would complain that you beat me to it, my initial post here, except it looks like what you created is way more advanced and polished than anything I could do.
I will check it out right now. Oops, i see it is only a shell at the moment. Well I am very eager to try it.
A few questions then:
1. I assume this is similar to your last mod, in that you have just moved the Motorola environment onto the SD card, no chroot or other tricks?
2. Is the dependency problem better? Are we able to replace the motorola packages?
3. Are we still stuck with jaunty or is there a possibility to upgrade to a supported version of ubuntu?
I know this might seem like a useless question (installing regardless), but your previous work was based off the 1.5.7 firmware, would this app be supported/functional on the current 1.8.3 firmware?
Oh, and...
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD
-djazin
Yes I believe the most important questions here are:
1 - which version will it work for? .83? .57? or just up to .52?
2 - If the Ubuntu version could be upgraded to, say, 11? Probably not, but hey...
Regardless, your work is the only reason why I'm buying myself a lapdock and replacing my netbook, so thank you very much for this hobby of yours =)
Looks great, thanks for the hard work
Sweet!! I just bought a 32 GB card the other day. Happy Fathers day to me.
Looks like no sleep week.
n1ckr0th said:
i would love to try this out but i'm on a mac.. can you partition through disk utility?
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Possibly; I'm not sure. At least one person I talked to said that it should be possible via command line utilities, but I'm not the best person to ask about this particular issue, not having convenient access to Mac OS X...
krkeegan said:
I would complain that you beat me to it, my initial post here, except it looks like what you created is way more advanced and polished than anything I could do.
I will check it out right now. Oops, i see it is only a shell at the moment. Well I am very eager to try it.
A few questions then:
1. I assume this is similar to your last mod, in that you have just moved the Motorola environment onto the SD card, no chroot or other tricks?
2. Is the dependency problem better? Are we able to replace the motorola packages?
3. Are we still stuck with jaunty or is there a possibility to upgrade to a supported version of ubuntu?
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Heh. I've actually been planning this for over a month, after some pointers from eval- - I had a rough version running, but I wanted to make something that users would be able to take advantage of easily. Oddly, it's the UI that's been the difficult part - actually having it do stuff is (relatively speaking) the easy part.
1. Yes, this is moving the Motorola environment to the SD card. Nothing special otherwise.
2. Not really - nothing's changed on that front. I'll be tweaking some of the package states on the filesystem to make upgrades less liable to completely blow up, but if we want to keep some of the niceties that Motorola added, I'll need to port those changes forward (which I have no particular problem with doing).
3. We're stuck with Jaunty for now. Unfortunately, it looks like information I had previously in regards to a version upgrade for Ubuntu don't apply to our phone, so I'll likely start working on an upgrade to 10.04 LTS after this stabilizes.
Djazin said:
I know this might seem like a useless question (installing regardless), but your previous work was based off the 1.5.7 firmware, would this app be supported/functional on the current 1.8.3 firmware?
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Viamonte said:
Yes I believe the most important questions here are:
1 - which version will it work for? .83? .57? or just up to .52?
2 - If the Ubuntu version could be upgraded to, say, 11? Probably not, but hey...
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This is the fun part. Since this is an Android application and not a script, this part should work with any version. I'm currently running 4.1.57 on my phone (I never did get around to upgrading), but once I verify it works there properly, I'll be upgrading to 4.1.83 and testing there as well. There are no issues that I'm aware of that would prevent this first application from running, and the second application (the Python/Gtk one I have planned) should be able to handle any differences between the various ROMs out there.
And the Ubuntu version upgrade question, I answered just above this.
everything is greyed out when i try to use the app..
Epic Sogarth
The ui looks nice though can't wait to test it on 1.8.3 been on 1.5.7 with v2 awhile now updated to 1.8.3 installed the app played with the setting everything looks sweet cant wait for the go ahead XD wouldnt mind testing anything.
-Djazin
dicksteele said:
Sweet!! I just bought a 32 GB card the other day. Happy Fathers day to me.
Looks like no sleep week.
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32g class 10 has proven to fail on the atrix
it corrupts. Lets hope you didn't spend the extra money for the class 10
n1ckr0th said:
everything is greyed out when i try to use the app..
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Greyed out? I know that the "Go!" and "Uninstall" buttons tell you that it's not implemented yet, but nothing should be grayed out?
PAulyhoffman said:
32g class 10 has proven to fail on the atrix
it corrupts. Lets hope you didn't spend the extra money for the class 10
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That's good to know. Luckily they were out of 10's, and I got a four. Already formatted 16 GB fat32 the rest ext3.
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Greyed out? I know that the "Go!" and "Uninstall" buttons tell you that it's not implemented yet, but nothing should be grayed out?
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Now that I really look at it mine is also. So I'm guessing that's due to 1.83, or GladiAtrix. That's what I'm using.
I'll post a screenshot if you need.
I could go to stock 1.57 upgrade to 1.83 but not until tomorrow night
Thanks for the answers, Sogarth. And congratulations on your gift man, because your sum of intelligence and dedication sure is one. I'll be installing this on my Atrix as soon as it has been stabilized (and, well, actually made useful xD)
I am on Gingerblur 4.5 only things greyed out are Partitioning section, both 'Device to partition' and 'Webtop partition size' items if "Partition ext. storage" is not selected. Also under "Locations" 'Delete filesystem file' is grey if 'Source webtop' is set to 'internal storage'.
All of these being grey makes sense if you read what they are doing......
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I am on Gingerblur 4.5 only things greyed out are Partitioning section, both 'Device to partition' and 'Webtop partition size' items if "Partition ext. storage" is not selected. Also under "Locations" 'Delete filesystem file' is grey if 'Source webtop' is set to 'internal storage'.
All of these being grey makes sense if you read what they are doing......
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Unchecking the Partition ext. storage option "ungreyed" the Locations options and Advanced options. Didn't think about doing that since that was one of the goals of this app.
Since I manually partitioned already I should have thought of that.
Just got my nexus 6 yesterday, I've downloaded the latest Android USB drivers as well as the SDK and the phone is successfully recognized.
I have a problem when transfer a file larger than 4GB (eg. HD videos) from my windows laptop to my Nexus 6 via MTP
It just hang and not responding. No issues if file size is less than 4GB.
(my device rooted and non-encrypted btw)
I think it's not the file system problem as it was ext4 and I can have a single file that larger than 4GB available in the device.
For now I just fix it by zip the file into several parts, transfer to n6 and decompress it, Which is really annoying.
Tried some wireless transfer like AirDroid, SuperBeam but the speed is not satisfied, it takes about half an hour for a 4GB file
I think the problem is MTP. Is anyone else facing this issue?
Any Solution? Please Help.
Thanks
OngOngoing said:
Just got my nexus 6 yesterday, I've downloaded the latest Android USB drivers as well as the SDK.
Have a problem when transfer a file larger than 4GB from my windows laptop to my Nexus 6 via MTP
It just hang and not responding. No issues if file size is less than 4GB.
I think it's not the file system problem as it was ext4 and I can have a single file that larger than 4GB available in the device.
For now I just fix it by zip the file into several parts, transfer to n6 and decompress it, Which is really annoying.
I think the problem is MTP. Is anyone else facing this issue?
Please Help. Thank you :fingers-crossed:
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why are you transferring those files to your phone? they are files that need to be installed in your computer/laptop.
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why are you transferring those files to your phone? they are files that need to be installed in your computer/laptop.
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I usually have boring times when travelling to my workplace (It takes so long because of traffic jam in rush hour)
I think it would be great to watch a movie in n6 as my laptop is too heavy to bring outside. But most of HD movies are >4GB.
Do you have the same issue? I wonder is it just me facing this problem.
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My (Gaming)Laptop is too heavy to bring outside. I think it would be great to watch movies in n6 as it has large screen with high resolution and also easy to stream on TV. But most of them are >4GB.
Do you have the same issue? I wonder is it just me facing this problem.
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i believe that you are limited to anything under 4GB for a file transfer. of course you can try adb sideload or adb push.
movies i understand, but why transfer the sdk and drivers to your phone is what i dont understand. and i never installed the whole adk, just adb for dummies, which was only 36mb.
simms22 said:
i believe that you are limited to anything under 4GB for a file transfer. of course you can try adb sideload or adb push.
movies i understand, but why transfer the sdk and drivers to your phone is what i dont understand. and i never installed the whole adk, just adb for dummies, which was only 36mb.
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Thank you for the suggestion, I'll try:fingers-crossed:
Sorry if I make a misunderstanding in my words. I didn't transfer sdk to my phone,
I just give a background that I've installed all the SDK and drivers to clarify that my device is successfully connected and recognized.
Just tested transferring the same file with my friend's Samsung Galaxy S6 and Nexus4( KitKat ParanoidAndroid ROM )
And things are working fine, I can transfer the file(~6GB single file) to both S6 and Nexus4 without any problem/hang using MTP.
So I think the problem is not MTP anymore.
Is the issue is about N6 file system or is it just my device having this issue?
Any help?
Thank you.