UPDATE: So here is the link to a better version of Ubuntu running on your Vibrant. I do not have much time yet to edit the original post, but take a look at the this. You should be able to get it to work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823370
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DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE TO YOUR PHONE!! YOU ARE DOING THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Ok, so for those who like to push the limits with their phones I don't think it gets better then this
I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to making this possible. We had gotten a lot of good posts.
But a big thanks goes out to danielmid84, he provided me with the link http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-nexus-oneandroid/ and a custom modified script to work with our phones, thank you!!
UBUNTU on Vibrant
INSTRUCTIONS
Prerequisites:
Root
Latest version of BusyBox
Android SDK ( and knowledge of how to use the tools, adb shell, etc... )
Understanding of Linux commands ( but not necessary )
Files needed are located here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FALJFT3L
BootUbuntu script modded by danielmid84 here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=385853&stc=1&d=1282503588 NOTE: This file replaces the BootUbuntu file located in the archive above.
VERY IMPORTANT!!!
Step 1:
Connect your phone to the computer and mount your internal storage sdcard (Not your external sdcard).
Step 2:
Now create a new folder under sdcard named "ubuntu" for instance "/sdcard/ubuntu/" and copy ALL of the files in the "ubuntu.zip" archive over to this newly created folder EXCEPT the BootUbuntu file. You will be copying over the BootUbuntu file over from the additional BootUbuntu file link provided above.
Step 3:
Now that we have all of the files in place, make sure to "Turn off USB storage" on your phone to be able t access the SD card from ADB Shell. Also make sure your "USB Debugging Mode" is check under "Settings>Applications>Developement".
Step 4:
We are going to want a windows terminal open and we are going to "cd" into your "/tools" folder, wherever that may be located. For example " cd c:\android\sdk\tools".
Once you are in the "tools" folder, issue this command "adb shell". And for linux users, you will be issuing the command as "./adb shell".
Step 5:
Once you are in ADB Shell, you should see a "#" symbol now.
You are then going to type "su" to enter superuser mode.
Step 6:
We are going to cd into the ubuntu folder by issuing the command "cd /sdcard/ubuntu".
Now that we are located in "/sdcard/ubuntu" we will issue the command "sh ./ubuntu.sh"
This command only needs to be entered once, or if you ever change the file "bootubuntu".
Step 7:
Once that is completed, issue the command "bootubuntu".
If you get the "localhost" prompt, you have just successfully installed UBUNTU onto your Vibrant. Congratulations!!!
Now mind you, this is not with a Graphical User Interface yet and but you can access the power of Linux and Ubuntu by using a Terminal Emulator.
But if you want a running Graphical User Interface to play with, keep in mind that is uses a lot of memory and continue reading and I will have that updated here shortly.
Step 8:
We are now going to install a GUI.
While still being in Ubuntu with the "localhost" prompt, issue the command "apt-get update".
Then issue the command "apt-get install tightvncserver".
Step 9:
Once that is complete, you are going to want to issue the command "apt-get install lxde". This will take a few minutes so let it do its thing.
Step 10:
Next we are going to type:
"export USER=root" then
"vncserver -geometry 1024x800" but you can change the display size to what you prefer.
You will be asked to set a password at this time for login.
Step 11:
Next we are going to add the following commands to /root/.vnc/xstartup.
Now type:
"cat > /root/.vnc/xstartup" it will seem like it is hanging after you push enter, but it is only waiting for additional input. So continue by entering
"#!/bin/sh"
"xrdb $HOME/.Xresources"
"xsetroot -solid grey"
"icewm &"
"lxsession"
Then hit Ctrl+D twice and Enter key.
Step 12:
Now open the Android VNC app on your phone with "localhost" as "address" and "5901" as "port". Enter your password as well and connect!! You will now have a GUI for your Ubuntu!
REMEMBER: EACH TIME YOU WANT TO LOGIN TO YOUR UBUNTU, YOU DON'T NEED TO BE CONNECTED TO YOUR COMPUTER. YOU CAN USE TERMINAL EMULATOR.
This is only for full phone reboots to set up Ubuntu again.
Start Terminal Emulator and cd into "/sdcard/ubuntu"
Then issue these commands:
"su"
"export USER=root"
"vncserver -geometry 1024x800"
and you should be able to log back into the GUI with Android VNC again.
I'm surprised that not one person is interested in this...
I think debian on the vibrant would be sick!
sadly I don't dev
Can I ask what "debain" is? For all of us new guys..
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itsjusttim said:
Can I ask what "debain" is? For all of us new guys..
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Google is your best friend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian
yeah man, I'm pretty surprised too that no one else is interested in this! I would love to see debian get ported to work on our phones
For those who are asking, debian is a version of desktop Linux. When it works on our phones, it will essentially allow you to do almost anything you can normally do on a desktop computer.
Thanks for the link! This looks luke it would be amazing.. I hope we can eventually get this...
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post videos.
freekyfrogy said:
It will essentially allow you to do almost anything you can normally do on a desktop computer.
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You mean, it'll allow you to do almost anything you can normally do on a tiny format linux desktop computer
It's all good and dandy, someone has ported Ubuntu to N1 back in a day, but the question remains:
Why would you want to run a full fledge Linux OS on your phone?
I am a linux user, and have been for quite some time, I do enjoy it on my work laptop with 14.1" of real estate, but I fail to see a huge benefit of running a complete OS on the phone.
And before everyone starts with "you know android is linux" I know that, and it is stripped down linux OS for portable devices like phones, etc. It is as good as it gets, and suits the portable device market well.
Please feel free to address my question:
Why would you want to run a full fledge Linux OS on your phone?
How about we get a port of WINE on android...
lqaddict said:
It's all good and dandy, someone has ported Ubuntu to N1 back in a day, but the question remains:
Why would you want to run a full fledge Linux OS on your phone?
I am a linux user, and have been for quite some time, I do enjoy it on my work laptop with 14.1" of real estate, but I fail to see a huge benefit of running a complete OS on the phone.
And before everyone starts with "you know android is linux" I know that, and it is stripped down linux OS for portable devices like phones, etc. It is as good as it gets, and suits the portable device market well.
Please feel free to address my question:
Why would you want to run a full fledge Linux OS on your phone?
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I was thinking the same thing. Its kinda a party piece. Look at what my phone can do. You know. I had it on my N1 and i never used it. Just like we could have windows 95 on the HD2. The only good thing i used it for on the N1 was air-crack, and i never got it to work right.
So you can compile android source on your phone, duh!
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Yeah, I find it a shame that some people think debian on a phone is simply a party peice. There are too many useful reasons to list, especially the reason to have a smart phone is to expand the abilities past just "a cellphone"
lqaddict said:
It's all good and dandy, someone has ported Ubuntu to N1 back in a day, but the question remains:
Why would you want to run a full fledge Linux OS on your phone?
I am a linux user, and have been for quite some time, I do enjoy it on my work laptop with 14.1" of real estate, but I fail to see a huge benefit of running a complete OS on the phone.
And before everyone starts with "you know android is linux" I know that, and it is stripped down linux OS for portable devices like phones, etc. It is as good as it gets, and suits the portable device market well.
Please feel free to address my question:
Why would you want to run a full fledge Linux OS on your phone?
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The real question is why not....
I'm sick and tired of all the negative posts in the xda forums.
why would you want camera on a phone?
why would you play games on a phone?
why would you read webpages on a phone?
why would you text on a phone?
why would you listen to music on a phone?
why would you want to go to the moon?
Is it affecting you in some way?
does someone sacrifice a kitten somewhere when someone wants to use a device for something it was not intended to?
do you enjoy stifling development?
jzero88 said:
Yeah, I find it a shame that some people think debian on a phone is simply a party peice. There are too many useful reasons to list, especially the reason to have a smart phone is to expand the abilities past just "a cellphone"
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good man
scrizz said:
The real question is why not....
I'm sick and tired of all the negative posts in the xda forums.
why would you want camera on a phone?
why would you play games on a phone?
why would you read webpages on a phone?
why would you text on a phone?
why would you listen to music on a phone?
why would you want to go to the moon?
Is it affecting you in some way?
does someone sacrifice a kitten somewhere when someone wants to use a device for something it was not intended to?
do you enjoy stifling development?
good man
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Agreed, why not explore the possibilities...
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And why drive the nails down with a screwdriver?
There is no negativity coming from my question, I just needed to hear the reason people choose to run linux on their phones.
Developing a code for android phones on the phone running full linux, ok I failed to see the benefit, unless you get a hard-on from running a compiler on your phone while on a crapper. I would see how I might benefit from using some of the linux commands on my phone, like tcpdump, etc. but running a full raw OS on it is just overkill in my opinion.
And why drive the nails down with a screwdriver?
There is no negativity coming from my question, I just needed to hear the reason people choose to run linux on their phones.
Developing a code for android phones on the phone running full linux, ok I failed to see the benefit, unless you get a hard-on from running a compiler on your phone while on a crapper. I would see how I might benefit from using some of the linux commands on my phone, like tcpdump, etc. but running a full raw OS on it is just overkill in my opinion.
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To probably sum it all up... MOBILITY.
First, I am sure you have several games on your phone which you play frequently. Some of those which you could play on your computer, and some maybe only on the device. If you could play games on your computer, why would you want to play them on your phone?
Virtually everything you can do on your phone you can do on your computer, ten times better. The reason we have Office Suites, Calendars that sync, Games, CAMERA!!!!, Photo Editing Tools, etc. etc. etc... the list goes on and on, is to do it mobile.
No offense, but your question is pretty ignorant.
"I just needed to hear a reason people choose to run linux on their phones"
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as an answer is funny as hell if you ask me,lol.
I think if you have nothing productive to contribute other than asking meaningless questions which is plainly obvious, especially in a forum like this, then don't post anything at all.
Only my $0.02
jzero88 said:
To probably sum it all up... MOBILITY.
First, I am sure you have several games on your phone which you play frequently. Some of those which you could play on your computer, and some maybe only on the device. If you could play games on your computer, why would you want to play them on your phone?
Virtually everything you can do on your phone you can do on your computer, ten times better. The reason we have Office Suites, Calendars that sync, Games, CAMERA!!!!, Photo Editing Tools, etc. etc. etc... the list goes on and on, is to do it mobile.
No offense, but your question is pretty ignorant.
as an answer is funny as hell if you ask me,lol.
I think if you have nothing productive to contribute other than asking meaningless questions which is plainly obvious, especially in a forum like this, then don't post anything at all.
Only my $0.02
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Why my question is ignorant? I am coming from a development stand point, what android (a linux port for smartphones and mobile tablets) does not do well that the full linux OS can address? I am curious... I've seen some embeded linux systems that are running the OS that requires to complete the task - packet sniffers for instance - I am pretty sure you can run the full OS on it, but it is overkill. I understand that the smartphones are our mobile gateways when we are away from computers, and as they stand right now I failed to see what the full OS can contribute to the whole mobile experience. Games? Well, now you have the whole android community asking when the cadega becomes available on android so that you can run Call of Duty, etc. on your phone.
And as far as me not contributing and asking the meaningless questions - when you come to the development board and demand that something needs to be ported on your device a developer will ask you my question:
Why do you need it? What benefits are you looking for?
So, I still to hear the answer to these questions besides the fun factor to show your co-workers look I have a penguin on my boot screen.
Look at it from this standpoint, every major phone release has hardware that can rival netbooks and ultra-portables, when the dual-core snapdragons hit later on, they may even be on par with low end notebooks. They contain cellular modems as well as wifi so you're constantly connected on a device that can fit in your pocket.
On the software side every major mobile operating system out there is constantly evolving and adding more and more features of that you can find on any PC/Linux/OSX box in the world. Albeit they're slimmed down versions, designed to be lightweight and functional on a smaller sized screen.
Add in google voice, a service that you can have your cell phone calls funneled into a single number or have your google voice number funneled into any other phone number you tell it to, plus you have skype. Installing Debian on a mobile device doesnt change the fact its still a cell phone the only it changes is how much this cell phone can do without restrictions.
Its the people who push software and hardware to there limits and into places they were never designed to be, that push the technology world and push the companies to do new things. There the pioneers who are trying to marry the inevitable before anyone else is ready. Those are the people who make companies like Google, Nokia, Intel, etc etc realize that there is potential in a risk, when there is a community ready to back them up. If it wasn't for the indie developers out there trying to minimalize linux to be used on cell phones we wouldn't have our beloved Android today.
You ask why, I'll answer because its inevitable. You can join the front lines or you can wait.
I have an actual WP8 device that I've backed up to skydrive (contacts and sms). I would like to be able to pull that down into the WP8 emulator which I have installed and running fine.
Am I correct in that you can only restore a WP8 from skydrive backup on the first cold boot after a reset?
When I try to reset the emulated phone via the Settings/About page, the emulated phone shuts down and restarts, but hangs when it restarts.
1. Is there a way to get the emulated phone to restore from skydrive without doing a full reset?
2. Is there a way to make the emulated phone do a full reset and bring up the initial first boot screens so I get the restore options?
Thank you.
The Emulator does not support setting a Microsoft-Account which also means that SkyDrive access, Backups or Marketplace Downloads don't work.
Well.. That's unfortunate.
No way to mount the flash and hack on a xml/etc file? Also, I was mistaken about the emulated phone hanging on restart after the reset. It does come back up after about 5 minutes. and I very briefly see some text on the screen right before the windows start screen, but it flashes by so quick I can't make it out. It looks like it may be the initial welcome information, and the emulator is automagically bypassing it?
The emulator can't do anything other than eating away at your resources and fool new developers into buying new hardware to support hyper V. The only useful thing you can do with them is check how the layout looks under different resolutions.
When you re/start it, you need to have the entire OS image do a complete OS boot. It takes so long because it is emulated (obviously, on a phone is a lot faster). It also uses different architectures (x86 compared to ARM on actual devices)
As I said, you can't do anything useful with it other than basic stuff like UI interaction and UI display.
Ehh I dunno about new hardware. Runs just fine on my i7 windows 7 gaming machine in a win8 vm in vmware
But yeah, completely ridiculous that it needs hyper-v and win8.
Hmm probably worthy of a different post, but do you know of a way to pull backed up sms from skydrive onto a PC?
As Long as you don't work with the Camera of NFC the Emulator actually works quite well. You can also simulate bad Network connectivity and so on which you can't do properly on the phone. The UI sometimes seems rather slow in the Emulator but actually it does outperform the phone quite a lot with CPU bound code (at least on my Core i7). Having Multitouch Support implemented in the Emulator is also a nice Addition.
I don't know of any way to Access the SkyDrive backup from anywhere but an actual device.
StevieBallz said:
As Long as you don't work with the Camera of NFC the Emulator actually works quite well. You can also simulate bad Network connectivity and so on which you can't do properly on the phone. The UI sometimes seems rather slow in the Emulator but actually it does outperform the phone quite a lot with CPU bound code (at least on my Core i7). Having Multitouch Support implemented in the Emulator is also a nice Addition.
I don't know of any way to Access the SkyDrive backup from anywhere but an actual device.
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You forgot SD cards, media elements, any sort of audio playback, umm...well thats about it xD
Has anyone successfully gotten Ubuntu running on this bad boy? Being a amateur programmer, I would love to see this happen ?
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royredman said:
Has anyone successfully gotten Ubuntu running on this bad boy? Being a amateur programmer, I would love to see this happen ?
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Unfortunately not. Tegra 4 has so much power but too little development. I tried to port linux but I don't have enough knowledge to do that. Also my tablet's UART (that very important to development) killed by f****** Chinese UART-USB adapter.
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Hmm, after writing answer I got an idea.
I have another usb-uart converter, and why don't use it instead of internal serial port. I recompiled the kernel with usb serial console support and get it! Now I have debug connection, and even more! I've run simple Linux on it!
Now, more detail. Kernel build by default CM tree. Some features were added to kernel (just usb console support and virtual console and devtmpfs support). I don't use any initrd. Rootfs based on minimal ubuntu and it works! Pretty unstable and only in text mode via serial console, but works. Now I am trying to start system with graphical support. But I don't know what I should do. I tried out anything through framebuffer, but it didn't work, nevertheless command cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 works and fill screen by color noise. Also I tried load X server, but it don't work too. I think I need some drivers, or maybe firmware from android's /etc/firmware but I'm not sure. I think if anyone helped me this tablet would get a full Linux!
If anyone has interest, kernel in attachment and rootfs (compressed by squashfs) here https://mega.co.nz/#!HlwxXC6L!NkCc6vLrApfNeGfMf7ZjaHqsmzzN_DODeehoyEReImM
A little better. Today I had try to see any screen output. I enabled framebuffer console in kernel and while booting I have seen a penguin in few seconds but nothing more. Then, when linux booted I tried to start X server. And it works, i think. I mean there are no error in serial console, so I'm sure X server works, but there is no screen output because something interrupt the output. I don't have ideas.
i intend to run lumia 535 on my laptop can anyone guide me and give me the required details
I'm tempted to start this comment with a snarky suggestion about seeing your psychiatrist... The short version is that what you are asking for is not really possible. First of all, nearly all phones (including Lumias) run on an ARM processor, which executes ARM instructions; PCs run on x86/AMD64 processors, which execute x86 instructions. The two are completely incompatible; the CPU in a computer will have no idea how to execute code from a phone ROM. Next, phone ROMs are carefully customized for their target platforms, and don't include drivers for anything not present on the phone in question (this saves storage space and boot time, among other advantages); even if you could get the OS to begin booting, it wouldn't know how to drive your PC's display, or read from its USB ports or touchscreen (if it has one), or access its network card, or... you get the idea. There are probably other issues you'd run into, but those should be quite enough to demonstrate the problem.
Now, if you just want to test out WP8 apps and make sure web sites will render correctly on a Lumia 535, you can do that using the WP8/WP8.1 emulator that comes with the Windows Phone Development Kit (free download from Microsoft via http://msdn.com). The emulator is actually running x86 code, nor ARM code, so it runs at native speed on a PC, and it's only *most* of the WP8 OS (some stuff, like the ability to download Store apps, is missing), but it works well enough for the purposes it's intended for. If you just want to run WP8.x apps on your PC (the way Bluestacks lets you do with Android apps), you may need to wait for Windows 10; Windows 8.1 can run PC/tablet *versions* of some recent WP8 apps (and if you buy the app on either platform, you can access it on both) but most phone apps, especially the older ones, don't have a PC/tablet version yet.
Doesnt he mean project my screen?
Then he just need to download this aplication
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1GzY4evB5M
Is there a way to run Rasbian on my Android phone - it was made for a ARM processor? It would be cool to boot Rasbian directly with a Android or other phone. I am running Ubuntu on my Winbook 8" tablet in a virtual machine (vmware) which works quite good.
rsktkr1 said:
Is there a way to run Rasbian on my Android phone - it was made for a ARM processor? It would be cool to boot Rasbian directly with a Android or other phone. I am running Ubuntu on my Winbook 8" tablet in a virtual machine (vmware) which works quite good.
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Rasbian is just a Debian fork made specifically for the rasberry pi...
there were projects for it a while back, but a quick google search shows they've been dead for a while,
probably because no one found a use for them...
which brings me to this, why do you want Debian on your phone?
rsktkr1 said:
Is there a way to run Rasbian on my Android phone - it was made for a ARM processor? It would be cool to boot Rasbian directly with a Android or other phone. I am running Ubuntu on my Winbook 8" tablet in a virtual machine (vmware) which works quite good.
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i've previously used this :https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid
but i also found this... and this sounds a lot more interesting. It looks like (from first glance) you might be able to run (albeit via chroot and vnc like above) singular apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=x.org.server
In my opinion the best APP capable of running Linux in Android is
"Linux Deploy"
It needs root because your Linux distribution runs in chroot,
but you can configure it to run almost everything.
(Debian, kali, ubuntu, arch....)
I use it myself with my nexus 5 and you can do the same as with
a raspberry, but faster (Software side, gpio output ia not possible)
For example, a minecraft Server runs very well :good: