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Hello,
i have happily installed Debian Lenny, the Arm distro, using cdbootstrap onto a SD card. It boots (with haret), network via the usb works. Things like lynx, sshd multiple screens etc work fine and i can run a instance of Apache, serve mail etc - basically its a pretty sweet little server at the moment with its touchscreen keyboard as its control. The wifi interface seems to be recognised but I can't use it but that can wait.
But i can't for the life of me get any decent graphics on it. I've tried a couple of different framebuffers but they to no avail. Much seems to revolve around some kind of pci bus issues or similar. Is there a PCI bus emulator package that I've missed somehow or some other little trick for running on the Arm architecture?
Is this the same issues that the fellas porting Android are having - getting the graphics to work? Does anyone know of an free Arm specific Xorg styled server? All the packages for Gnome/KDE etc are all ported already to arm and I can run things like xterm and other X apps on a remote display so i know the binaries and libraries are fine.
Cheers.
farkah said:
Hello,
i have happily installed Debian Lenny, the Arm distro, using cdbootstrap onto a SD card. It boots (with haret), network via the usb works. Things like lynx, sshd multiple screens etc work fine and i can run a instance of Apache, serve mail etc - basically its a pretty sweet little server at the moment with its touchscreen keyboard as its control. The wifi interface seems to be recognised but I can't use it but that can wait.
But i can't for the life of me get any decent graphics on it. I've tried a couple of different framebuffers but they to no avail. Much seems to revolve around some kind of pci bus issues or similar. Is there a PCI bus emulator package that I've missed somehow or some other little trick for running on the Arm architecture?
Is this the same issues that the fellas porting Android are having - getting the graphics to work? Does anyone know of an free Arm specific Xorg styled server? All the packages for Gnome/KDE etc are all ported already to arm and I can run things like xterm and other X apps on a remote display so i know the binaries and libraries are fine.
Cheers.
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Hey!
There has been a change for the new saucy releases:
In the original porting guide, we had Android as the main OS, having Ubuntu separated in a container. We had that as our first solution as it's easier to just boot Android and bootstrap Ubuntu once Android is up and running (which was a base requirement for Touch). This architecture was traditionally called 'unflipped', and it's part of the raring and first saucy images we produced.
As we continued developing the platform, more issues we found with such architecture, making it harder to improve the quality for the Ubuntu side (ueventd x udev, full control of the services, upgradability of the compat layer, etc). So to be able to further improve the Touch images, we decided to flip the systems, making Ubuntu as the main host, and separating Android in a container, getting us to what we call 'flipped' images.
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wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
So it seems like just few of the ports are working at the moment! Help is needed to port the new images again.
I ask myself if i'm able to make a new port for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (3110). How difficult is it?
Greetings,
jochenh
hi guys looking for android os thats runs on raspberry pi please..
None, that are usable
Why do you want to install Android on the Raspberry Pi ? There are a lot of applications that works well on the Raspberry Pi.
However in this section there are some interesting threads like this one : http://forum.xda-developers.com/hardware-hacking/raspberry-pi/rd-android-4-4-4-t2816952
It would be great if we can install Android on Raspberry Pi
efkawe said:
It would be great if we can install Android on Raspberry Pi
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Not in a near future... maybe never. Read the existing threads.
Well with ARM 7 they might be a chance for Android with RPI 2
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Why do you want to install Android on the Raspberry Pi ? There are a lot of applications that works well on the Raspberry Pi.
However in this section there are some interesting threads like this one : http://forum.xda-developers.com/hardware-hacking/raspberry-pi/rd-android-4-4-4-t2816952
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Personally I'm more interested in the upcoming Android Auto. Android is nice because it can be easily adapted as a Car PC and there are already great navigation apps, and other apps which are all designed for the touch screen interface.
I could do linux with XBMC, which I may just do, but the Android system just seems more of a fit.
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Personally I'm more interested in the upcoming Android Auto. Android is nice because it can be easily adapted as a Car PC and there are already great navigation apps, and other apps which are all designed for the touch screen interface.
I could do linux with XBMC, which I may just do, but the Android system just seems more of a fit.
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That is exactly what I am looking to do for my car. It already have the Microsoft Sync system in it, but I think Android auto would work better for the most part. I am thinking about installing it in a way where I could have both systems and have the output from Android auto run through the speakers, and also adding a bluetooth OBD2 adapter to monitor the cars internal systems. Sync does a poor job at that. If everything is running smoothly it only says that, without going into any detail.
Get the new Pi 2 model B. Microsoft is going to be releasing a port of Windows 10 for it... Hopefully have some apps to take advantage of Microsoft Sync
5ft24 said:
Get the new Pi 2 model B. Microsoft is going to be releasing a port of Windows 10 for it... Hopefully have some apps to take advantage of Microsoft Sync
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Already ordered mine. Hopefully the 2 systems will tie together but I heard Ford is going with Blackberry for its new Sync systems and dropping Microsoft. http://microsoft-news.com/ford-substitutes-microsoft-for-blackberry-for-the-new-sync/
Hello everybody
I have a big problem. I recently bought an Asus Memo Pad 7 ME572C and I can't access to my files over my network.
With my old tab, I'm so use to mount documents with SSHFSAndroid app. So I can read my Ebooks and watch my pictures and videos like if they were onto the tablet (for music files I have a MPD server). But SSHFSAndroid doesn't work with this tablet (actually, I didn't get it to work). I tried Mount Manager and CIFSManager with a NFS server and same result.
So I come to ask some help and to know if someone else tried to do the same things and get a fix or a solution.
For me, this is a huge regression and I'm thinking to exchange or pay back this beautiful tab.
I do really love it (huge resolution, speed, lightweight, lollipop soon, maybe CyanogenMod), but I missed so much to read and watch with a tablet without any download (Since many years I already do it with my laptop thanks to GNU/Linux and SSH). Please, I'll really appreciate some helps.
Sorry for my poor English, I'm French
PS: Do you know which Android is It ? arm or x86 ? Because Atom processor inside is 64 bits and some apk I download were x86 package.
Hi, welcome to me572 users community !
Your issues are not hardware, thus asking a refund for those considerations seems irrelevant... Same thing for architecture : android is not arm or x86, but the underlying system it is running on is (architecture dependent), and bus length (32/64 bits) is another thing... Regarding x86 architecture, that has been there nearly since the beginning, we make a difference between 32 and 64 bits capable CPUs, thus having x86 and x86_64 architectures.
To me the right thing to say is that this tab uses android kitkat on a x86 architecture, thus using a x86 kernel and x86 system binaries : here we dont say x86_64 but it is implied as tablets/android didn't existed since we switched to 64 bits. As 32 bits cpu are gradually disappearing, the x86 name more and more refers to 64 bits capable cpus...
Anyway I don't understand the concept of arm or x86 applications as there shouldn't be any adherence with the architecture : android is "just" a java framework precisely intended to alleviate devs from those kind of considerations, unless it is a "system interfering" app like xposed or busybox installers... That's why vendors have to play an important part in the system that is delivered to you : they have to adapt the underlying os (gnu/linux kernel and binaries) to have the android framework to work properly on the device through specific drivers (system libraries and kernel modules). Whike doing this they also develop apps, bloatwares, benchmarck cheats, or other interfaces and add-on like ZenUI for Asus (Sense for HTC,....) in an attempt to make a difference and/or develop users loyalty like apple : that's actually the most visible but smallest part of their work on a ROM...
At last, I think I may help here : have a look at "owncloud", it allows to browse and download files and even keep contact/calendar/photo sync through a simple server, it even have its own http interface, windows and linux clients. You can host it yourself or find free online hosting, and use specific android clients apps like owncloud and DAVdroid among many others. It can also be used as a network filesystem under linux, and is way more stable and faster than sshfs...
hello
Thank you for those explanations. I understand. With Android we use x86 for 64bits because 32 never exist. My misunderstood was because on GNU/Linux processor 32 exist so there is x86 and x86_64.
For now there is some apps and games not yet compatible with x86, for example République or Banner Saga.
You say that sshfs is slow and unstable. I'm not ok with that. We don't care about speed when we use a mount point. And That was speed enough for watch movies or read comics.
Es explorer can watch Movies like a streaming without download cache (I don't now how It does) but for comics, pictures and music it entire download it.
For a long time I use sshfs with Linux at home and over the worldwide web and It'd not unstable at all. It's pretty easy and efficient to work with your files away from miles as if they were in your local device.
I will give a try to owncloud/webdav if they manage network mount.
I'd like to use my Galaxy Note 9 to work on a tiny image of Linux that I've set up via Windows 10's Hyper-X. The VM itself is only about 512 MB max.
Is there software out there that allows you to run a VM within Android? I would be doing this all with my DEX and probably a Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad. I couldn't find any YouTube videos out there which support this idea, unless they're worded in a way that I don't expect.
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I'd like to use my Galaxy Note 9 to work on a tiny image of Linux that I've set up via Windows 10's Hyper-X. The VM itself is only about 512 MB max.
Is there software out there that allows you to run a VM within Android? I would be doing this all with my DEX and probably a Bluetooth keyboard/touchpad. I couldn't find any YouTube videos out there which support this idea, unless they're worded in a way that I don't expect.
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https://wiki.qemu.org/Main_Page
apparently people have ran xp on it according to:
https://android.stackexchange.com/q...run-windowsxp-as-a-virtual-machine-on-android
i know this is not as requested to run full blown linux on an android vm but still interesting if it works.
but dex has already LoD so...
https://www.linuxondex.com/
its arm so no x86 / x64 native linux apps can be installed. so only those compiled towards that cpu.(which is the 64 bit version of arm if im not mistaken)
there is even discussion in the dev thread of actualy booting linux off of android rather than emulate it but its a work in progress and requires to root and id think the same arm caveat would apply even once a fully working build arises.
so all in all that build you have would at the very least be arm based if it would ever have a chance to work on android.
in the end having a VM in the cloud or on a pc at home with a port forward and using vnc or even better using the great remote desktop manager app and running it on dex is the easiest way to simili achieve your goal.
https://remotedesktopmanager.com/
@bober10113, I'm actually programming a tiny distribution of Linux to work on a machine that I believe is x86 but I'm not sure, honestly. I plan on basically making the image and writing out instructions to re-create it. I'll take a look at the links provided when I have a moment. Thanks.