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ok i have a question. i was looking in quadrant under system information and the processor is listed as a ARMv7 processor rev 2. Is that right? i thought it was an A8 or are they the same thing?

Its a modified version of an A8. Called the arm blah blah
Sent from my phone so excuse the spelling errors

ok thanks for the info

Welcome to ARM, where everything has two or more names. Cortex-A8 is a core supporting the ARMv7 instruction set. Just be glad it's not on of the earlier ones where the cores were numbers too. ARM7 core -> ARMv4 instructions, yay.
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Unhelpful said:
Welcome to ARM, where everything has two or more names. Cortex-A8 is a core supporting the ARMv7 instruction set. Just be glad it's not on of the earlier ones where the cores were numbers too. ARM7 core -> ARMv4 instructions, yay.
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lol well i do thank you for that. just wanted to make sure i didnt get screwed lol you know.

Ubuntu 11.10 running on Dell Streak 7 natively.. WIP

1. This thread should be in development thread, but I'm new to xda-developer and I don't have permissions to post there. I appreciate if someone could forward this thread to the dev forum.
2. This is NOT a chroot ubuntu. It's booting Ubuntu natively.
3. Please allow me a few days to clean things up and publish it.
Surprisingly, you can use the touch screen, but you might need a bluetooth keyboard to type.
Here is a photo.

Very cool. Any updates? Any chance for, dare I say, dual boot?

Any updates, would really like to get this runing on my streak
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It's more annoying than I thought.
I'm blocked because I'm getting unaligned access traps, which is perfectly legitimate for the Tegra CPU. I don't know why.
I believe I'm hitting a bug either in the CPU, or in the kernel (I'm using a kernel based on the one in gingerbread)
I get a question: can you guys run fastboot on streak 7 which has the latest (honeycomb) rom? I can try to update the kernel to see whether I can work around the bug.

In my Linux partition fastboot don't recognize my streak and windows doesn't recognize mynstreak running 3.2 but i can access, just doesnt show a serial number
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Anything yet.... I mean how's it coming a long...
Check this out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHWLY0l4p54&feature=youtube_gdata_player

XDA, ive got a challenge for you!

I've got an old Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570. It won't start, It goes into Download Mode, Not into CWM Recovery. I don't care about this Phone, and it's in crappy condition. But, It would be amazing to see if someone actually could install another OS on it. I only know a Three alternative Phone OS, which are iOS, Android and Firefox OS. (If you know another one, name it.)
I'm Shure iOS won't run on it, so we can count that one out. I don't want Android on it either, so count that one out too, Which leaves us down to FireFox OS.
So, Whos interested in making this thing work?
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I think you can't install another OS, but you can install custom Rom based on it, like iOS rom, windows 8 and others. If you don't want android os, you shouldn't have bought it in the first place

I bought it 2 summers ago, it was my first Android Phone.
I'm a Noob when it comes to ROMs, I usually like what it out-of-the-box.
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Just a complete guess, but I would think as long as the hardware supports whatever you're trying to run on it, it will accept any OS. Just like you can install Linux or Mac on an old windows computer, all you really should need is the framework. As far as I know hardware isn't necessarily specific to software. In theory it should be possible. :beer:
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Stryke_the_Orc said:
Just a complete guess, but I would think as long as the hardware supports whatever you're trying to run on it, it will accept any OS. Just like you can install Linux or Mac on an old windows computer, all you really should need is the framework. As far as I know hardware isn't necessarily specific to software. In theory it should be possible. :beer:
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You're right, but I was talking about his Galaxy Mini
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raensoe said:
You're right, but I was talking about his Galaxy Mini
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you're wrong, it is possible to boot ubuntu or windows on android phone, and it is also possible to boot firefox os, only no one did it yet

I agree the problem is how to start with it
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Johan_hallgren said:
I've got an old Samsung Galaxy Mini S5570. It won't start, It goes into Download Mode, Not into CWM Recovery. I don't care about this Phone, and it's in crappy condition. But, It would be amazing to see if someone actually could install another OS on it. I only know a Three alternative Phone OS, which are iOS, Android and Firefox OS. (If you know another one, name it.)
I'm sure iOS won't run on it, so we can count that one out. I don't want Android on it either, so count that one out too, Which leaves us down to FireFox OS.
So, Whos interested in making this thing work?
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Did you mean Gecko OS ? Wow, you don't want Android heh... why ? Android has better customization than both Firefox, and iOS.
If you don't want Android then why you run Android X86 on your PC, :sigh: people these days...

If you want to be involved in something...Here is the thread from galaxy gio...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1827571
when it's ready you'll only have to port it

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Did you mean Gecko OS ? Wow, you don't want Android heh... why ? Android has better customization than both Firefox, and iOS.
If you don't want Android then why you run Android X86 on your PC, :sigh: people these days...
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1. I like android.
2. I want to try something new.
3. I run android x86 along with Ubuntu and Windows, so its not my only OS.
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yackovsky said:
you're wrong, it is possible to boot ubuntu or windows on android phone, and it is also possible to boot firefox os, only no one did it yet
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Oh I see
I just thought that we can't do it since mini is a low end device.
Didn't thought it was possible
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It is very possible to B2G in our Galaxy Mini. But I have no idea how to.
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jamesmuking5 said:
It is very possible to B2G in our Galaxy Mini. But I have no idea how to.
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Get idea!
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US...ites#Have_a_compatible_phone_or_use_emulators
- http://blog.techno-barje.fr/post/2012/10/27/firefox-os-bootstrap/

First i want to know if there are Any Other Phone OSes that are worth trying. I litterly don't give a single **** if theres "No apps" or if "Android is Waaaaaaay better".
Dont hestitate, name it.
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You could try bada
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Johan_hallgren said:
First i want to know if there are Any Other Phone OSes that are worth trying. I litterly don't give a single **** if theres "No apps" or if "Android is Waaaaaaay better".
Dont hestitate, name it.
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Try BRICKED OS ! It's better !

F4uzan said:
Try BRICKED OS ! It's better !
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I have it on my mothers iPad. It rocks.
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Johan_hallgren said:
I have it on my mothers iPad. It rocks.
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Haha you destroyed your iPad ? Great, i hate Apple with Steve Jobs bite mark on it.
Mini can run :
1. Debian
2. Ubuntu
3. Android
4. Windows 95
5. Windows 2000
6. Windows XP SP1 / SP2
Meaning of these color :
- Orchid : Can run without any simulated platform, overclock, and flashing things. That means it's was "firstly there, and always there"
- Dark Green : Need a simulated platform, but no need to overclock and flashing things. That means it's was "secondly there and maybe there"
- Light Green : Need a tougher simulated platform, need a overclock feature + kernel. That means it's was "maybe there, and sometime there"

So give him Java, symbian, bada and meego. Just joking
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[Q] Windows 8 on tegra 3 system

Hi,
We need to port windows 8 to Lg optimus x4 HD, someone working on that ???? Let's begin ???
Thanks
Alex

we have to wait for unlocked bootloader with JB, without that we won't do anything man.
and windows 8 phone is bullsh*t imo, it's better to port Ubuntu OS for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtcj7FdIYA

damn the ubuntu os look damn good to me
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god damm leroy =] W8 ?? Should you buy an nokia ...

Who needs Windows if he can use Linux?
I don't cripple my phone. No way! :sly:

Yes my vote is for ubuntu. Win 8 is too boring.
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would we be able to run stream apps from Ubuntu mobile?
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The mobile version of ubuntu lags more than android before gingerbread, i dont see any reason to get it
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You can't even think to port Windows on there.... (and leave apart that it would be FUGLY).
WP8 is based on the NT kernel, the same kernel that Windows (the PC version) is using.. and it is totally closedsource.
The previous PocketPC/Windows Mobile/Windows Phone versions were using the Windows CE kernel that was shared-source.
No way. At all.

reas0n said:
we have to wait for unlocked bootloader with JB, without that we won't do anything man.
and windows 8 phone is bullsh*t imo, it's better to port Ubuntu OS for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLtcj7FdIYA
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Very cool and beautiful OS .. I love it so much

can we get the rom anywhere?
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Windows Surface runs on a tegra 3 so it might be possible? That would be a nice addition but I think we would be better off trying to get Ubuntu mobile on our O4Xs first!

juanacevedo said:
Windows Surface runs on a tegra 3 so it might be possible? That would be a nice addition but I think we would be better off trying to get Ubuntu mobile on our O4Xs first!
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You didnt read kholks post, did you?
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You didnt read kholks post, did you?
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There is nothing.

Factory cable
Maybe with the lg factory cable we can format, the problem is to program the phone to run like a computer bios...

\o/
Guys look at this :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2110181

alexslama said:
Maybe with the lg factory cable we can format, the problem is to program the phone to run like a computer bios...
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Perhaps you don't get that the kernel needs to initialize the board and that if you haven't got its source you can't implement your board-specific initialization.

I think Android I such a customizable system so if you want to have the style of windows 8 or ubuntu so get it! For some functions of other systems there are apps or roms which have or add these features (for example ubunto sidebar app) and yes I know that it's not the same like a whole mobile system but it's a little bit more windows or ubuntu for them who wants this

Fedora F19 on Nexus 4!

Yep thats right try it here
Mako only for now
NOTE: have a network connection, preferably WiFi.. on first boot, it will try to install X11, gnome-desktop (!),

sound s really interesting thanks a lot for the info

What is this if you don't mind me asking?
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blankit said:
What is this if you don't mind me asking?
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Basically this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Project_Wiki.

Can you post some screenshots.?
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hubba
uh... well (from softpedia)
"Owners of unlocked Google Nexus 4 smartphones out there can now get a taste of a new Linux OS for their devices, as a Fedora 19 installer is now available for download for them.
The software enables them to easily install Fedora 19 for ARM on this Google phone, though it should be noted that this is not an official Fedora Linux project.
As phoronix notes, the installer comes from Rob Clark, who has been working on enriching the Freedreno Gallium3D graphics driver, and who used the Qualcomm A320 graphics in Nexus 4 for that.
The Fedora 19 installer that he wrote in the process is now available for download on GitHub as freedreno/nexus4-fedora, but might not receive support moving forth.
For enthusiasts, however, it might prove an interesting software to take for a spin on a Nexus 4, that’s for sure."
So, if you know Ubuntu touch preview - you know what this is
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Sounds quite interesting
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Screenshots?
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Anybody run it? install-rootfs not work for me

I'd love to hear some feedback on this before installing
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I'd love to hear some feedback on this before installing
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can't get read-write on device, have root and can mount rootfs as rw in explorer but can' get it in adb shell

This is really interesting. I'm a long term Fedora user, and I've just bought a Nexus 4 with the intent of installing cyanmod on it. But for various reasons I would like to run a full Linux distro.
So my first question is this: Is there a phone app and a sms app available for any Linux distro? The closest thing I could find is gnokii, but it isn't for on the phone its self (at least that is my understanding). Would I have to write the phone app myself?
My second question is: Does it run well? (I mean Fedora on the Nexus 4) Or do need to find that out myself?
Thank you,
Christopher
PS. I've been searching the internet all day to try and answer these questions.

Doesn't chroot/ loop device not work on 4.3?
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cjb_ said:
This is really interesting. I'm a long term Fedora user, and I've just bought a Nexus 4 with the intent of installing cyanmod on it. But for various reasons I would like to run a full Linux distro.
So my first question is this: Is there a phone app and a sms app available for any Linux distro? The closest thing I could find is gnokii, but it isn't for on the phone its self (at least that is my understanding). Would I have to write the phone app myself?
My second question is: Does it run well? (I mean Fedora on the Nexus 4) Or do need to find that out myself?
Thank you,
Christopher
PS. I've been searching the internet all day to try and answer these questions.
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From what I gather from reading the README on github. This is NOT a ROM (not even close). This is absolutely not something to use instead of cyanogenmod, stock android, etc. And although I don't know positively (have not googled), I would guess no, there is not a phone or sms app for a desktop that is going to work. Not to mention how many other key components needed to make this a working android substitute.
What it is, is a kernel (a Fedora based kernel instead of an Android kernel). And you don't even flash the kernel... you load it and run it temporarily through adb. And then the installer will download and run an x11 display server (instead of the android surface_flinger server), and a Gnome desktop and other parts of Fedora.
It's not something that's ready for use as a phone OS. Far from it. It is just the beginnings of a start (though mad props are in order).
If you've tried the latest Ubuntu touch preview... and seen all of what's NOT ready in that project... then understand that this Fedora project is not even close to that stage of development yet.

Hi,
has anyone tried it recently?
It did not boot for me and got stuck at the "Google" logo.
ADB was working, but without wifi it is useless.
Regards
user