** Work-In-Progress: Ubuntu Touch Preview is just that.. a PREVIEW. Do not complain about missing features, etc. The OS isn't nearly ready for primetime. **
Curious as to how the Ubuntu Touch Preview looks? Why not load it on your Droid 3 and see for yourself.
Instructions:
1. Make a Titanium Backup and/or backup in recovery of your current Android (or just keep it on a different slot). This preview is fun to play with but not a replacement for something as developed as CM 10.1
2. Download the Droid 3 Mini-Android base for Ubuntu Touch and place it on your device:
[03/01] http://goo.im/devs/Hashcode/solana/ubuntu-phablet/ (use the newest one)
3. Download the latest Ubuntu Touch Preview Filesystem .zip from Ubuntu:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip
If the above link is broken, use this link for a full listing of the current build files (download the quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip .. soon to be raring-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip):
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/daily-preinstalled/current/
4. Reboot into Safestrap. Create a NEW 2GB ROM in the #4 slot.
IMPORTANT:
4a. Install the quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip FIRST, and then the phablet-2013xxxx.zip SECOND.
5. Reboot and Enjoy
FIRST BOOT TAKES A LONG TIME. AND THERE'S NO BOOT ANIMATION. BE PATIENT (MAYBE 3-4 MINUTES).
WHAT WORKS:
Display
Touch screen
Wifi
Audio
WHAT DOESN'T WORK:
There's so much that is still being implemented into the Touch version of Ubuntu, that this list could get pretty long.
Due to memory issues, the device gets VERY laggy after just a little while of use. This means the swap mem is full. I hope they work on the amount of memory used and how it's freed over time.
Barely any sensors other than touchscreen work. IE: no rotation, etc. Ubuntu WIP issue.
No HD codecs (still being worked on) Ubuntu WIP issue.
No screen timeout / auto blank -- becareful when walking away from the device. Need to press the power button to turn the screen off. Ubuntu WIP issue.
RELATED UBUNTU TOUCH LINKS:
(Some of these describe how to install it on devices -- you can ignore those instructions and follow the above)
Ubuntu Touch Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/
Release Notes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes
IRC Channel on freenode.net: #ubuntu-touch
Re: [ROM] Ubuntu Touch Preview [02/28: Alpha Update #1]
Neat. I had to battery pull to get it to boot, bootlooped until I did. It feels like unity, for my phone. It'll be interesting to see how it performs on our device when it's complete
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Fine!, downloading and booting in moments! i was wondering about this in the forums, some days ago! Hash, you're the best!
Glad to see an alternative for our devices...who knows...maybe this could lead to a fully functional rom...
EDIT: Sadly, it doesn't boot at all...same issues as latest CM10.1, but after a while of black lit screen, the phone turns off...trying later something else
Re: [ROM] Ubuntu Touch Preview [02/28: Alpha Update #1]
FrankieDedo said:
Fine!, downloading and booting in moments! i was wondering about this in the forums, some days ago! Hash, you're the best!
Glad to see an alternative for our devices...who knows...maybe this could lead to a fully functional rom...
EDIT: Sadly, it doesn't boot at all...same issues as latest CM10.1, but after a while of black lit screen, the phone turns off...trying later something else
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I had the same until I battery pulled
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Looks pretty cool. I think I could get used to that interface pretty quickly. I did have a little trouble getting back into SafeStrap to boot into the stock ROM (or CM10.1 in slot1).
I used both the power button and battery pull to restart, I got the SafeStrap menu, chose boot to recovery, and in a few minutes I get the Ubuntu screen back. I finally got into SafeStrap by holding VolUp & VolDown while powering on and choosing BP Tools (bottom option).
I'll have to go back through the flash process and test a few things. Sorry that it's messing w/ some of your devices.
3/1/13 Build worked fine for me but I do have one of the older CPU's since all the kexec builds have worked for me, first boot time was only like 20 seconds and it still worked pretty quickly (but I only used it for about 10 minutes), seeing something different was refreshing and it took me about a minute to realize there was no lockscreen, most definitely a developer preview but it looks promising.Thanks Hashcode for the preview build and all the work you do, I'll keep testing them when they come out.
oh yeah the safestrap problem persisted for me as well had to hold the volume buttons to get back to Rom selection. No biggie
Hi
I tried phablet-20130301-cm_solana.zip and it worked better than I expected, I could even make calls.
The experience is quite nice and it seems Ubuntu Phone OS is very promising!
Thanks
taksan said:
Hi
I tried phablet-20130301-cm_solana.zip and it worked better than I expected, I could even make calls.
The experience is quite nice and it seems Ubuntu Phone OS is very promising!
Thanks
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Are you on GSM?
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I didn't even try calling. I didn't expect it to work
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Right now phone function is only implemented for GSM. The GSM RAZR has working voice calls. I didnt think D3 would work either but in theory it could.
(I occasionally activate a 3g SIM for testing, but didnt for the preview.)
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taksan said:
Hi
I tried phablet-20130301-cm_solana.zip and it worked better than I expected, I could even make calls.
The experience is quite nice and it seems Ubuntu Phone OS is very promising!
Thanks
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I tried dialing one call to one of our office lines while I was booted into Ubuntu . It dialed and rang ok but I couldn't hear the receptionist when she answered and she couldn't hear me.
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Yes, I'm on GSM. I didn't expect it to work either, but I just thought I'd try.
The problem is that it usually doesn't boot and keeps "boot looping". The first time I pulled the battery and it worked, but now it is not working anymore.
I'm trying a reinstallation.
Even though it is quite crude, it worked better than CM10 (the droid 3 version), because the CM10 phone service crashed on start and I couldn't make
calls and neither connect to WiFi
I got it working once again, but after a while it froze. I tried rebooting the phone and it isn't booting anymore.
Ok, booted and tried, it works really well for an early alpha, who knows...this could be the base for a fully functional rom? i'm a dreamer...
Anyway i'm on GSM and calls are lagging of 1-2 rings, and voice seems to be broken, anyway, good work! as usual
Very nice! Works great for being so new. Could not do much as it would not connect to my work WiFi but expected with such an early build. Looking forward to future updates.
Being based on the CM kernel is it safe to assume we will not see any camera function for this unless it first gets worked out in the CM 10 builds?
thanks yet again Hash !
Installed as per the first post.
First boot - no longer than one min I reckon.
Wifi works, got on to FB with browser and even posted
Today showing work mate, dialled his number (without any hint of cell network / settings) and to my amazement not only did it dial, upon answering we could hear each other fine, maybe a tad lagged half a second or so but honestly worked fine!!
May have imagined things but it also appeared to get faster again after 5-10mins of being powered on, reboots no issue.
Just no idea how to power off correctly lol, seems like holding power button puts it in sleep (saw today image very dark but certainly there), then could not wake (happened yesterday also the can not wake part), so I just battery pull, again reboots no issue
Cheers
Ok man im trying to install this on my droid 3 to see how it works and then i was going to try and port ubuntu to the k1 tablet but on part 3 when installing it it will get almost done and by then my phone is very hot as well and any way it will get almost done installing and the phone will go black and i will have to pull the battery to even get the phone to do any thing so im asking what am i not doing right? I will like to get this booted on the droid 3 to get a fill of how this works befor i port to the k1 tablet.
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leerpsp said:
Ok man im trying to install this on my droid 3 to see how it works and then i was going to try and port ubuntu to the k1 tablet but on part 3 when installing it it will get almost done and by then my phone is very hot as well and any way it will get almost done installing and the phone will go black and i will have to pull the battery to even get the phone to do any thing so im asking what am i not doing right? I will like to get this booted on the droid 3 to get a fill of how this works befor i port to the k1 tablet.
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I got it installed i had to install in slot 2 not 4 to get it all the way installed i dont know y this matters but o will any way i tested it in the other slots and it will not work in them ony 2
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Just got it from Ubuntu:
Known Issues
Power Consumption
Currently the devices can not be shutdown from within the UI or by pressing the power button. Even if you use the power button long press your battery will be drained.
To shutdown a device completely there are two options:
Remove the battery and replace it. (Not an option if battery is not removable)
Stop it from the adb shell by executing the following commands:
adb root
adb shell reboot -p
Memory Usage
Memory usage has not yet been optimized for the devices. It is possible to experience application crashes due to having too many applications open at the same time. A workaround is to close apps that are not being used.
Timezone
The timezone needs to be manually set from the command line. Valid values for timezones can be found in the /usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab file. Run the following commands ( specifying your own time zone choice ) with root permission to set your timezone:
Access your device through SSH
Then on the terminal connected to your device run:
echo "America/New_York" | sudo tee -a /etc/timezone
sudo dpkg-reconfigure --frontend noninteractive tzdata
Networking
The Developer Preview has support for Wi-Fi networking via the new network indicator, which supports basic Wi-Fi connections (Open, WEP and WPA Personal). It is possible to configure more advanced settings, however at this time this requires working directly with Network Manager system connection files.
The following network features are not yet included in the Developer Preview:
Airplane Mode/Wi-Fi Power Control
Advanced Settings (e.g. Hidden SSIDs, Manual IP, VPN…)
Bluetooth
Hot Spot/Tethering
Telephony
The Developer Preview currently only supports limited voice and SMS over GSM.
The following Radio technologies are not yet included in the Developer Preview:
CDMA
LTE
Airplane Mode
Settings ( eg. APN choice, 2G only, … )
Mobile data is not supported, data is available via Wi-Fi only.
These Call features are not yet supported:
Emergency Call Support ( ie. ability to dial emergency numbers without a valid SIM card ).
PIN/PUK support for locked SIMs
No SIM filesystem support
Speakerphone
These SMS features are not yet implemented:
MMS
Send error handling
Delivery Reports
leerpsp said:
Ok man im trying to install this on my droid 3 to see how it works and then i was going to try and port ubuntu to the k1 tablet but on part 3 when installing it it will get almost done and by then my phone is very hot as well and any way it will get almost done installing and the phone will go black and i will have to pull the battery to even get the phone to do any thing so im asking what am i not doing right? I will like to get this booted on the droid 3 to get a fill of how this works befor i port to the k1 tablet.
Sent from my K1 using xda app-developers app
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I got it installed i had to install in slot 2 not 4 to get it all the way installed i dont know y this matters but o will any way i tested it in the other slots and it will not work in them ony 2
Sent from my K1 using xda app-developers app
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Got it working it tuck 20 m of living the phone on lmao
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I've reflashed my new Nook HD+ with CyanogenMod 10.1.3 stable and for the most part it's working great. However, occasionally when using the Apps screen, for some reason I get "stuck" there. The Nook button and soft Home button stop responding and won't take me back to the Home screen. Has anyone else seen this? When this occurs, is there anything I can do to get some debug info for the developers? Thanks.
PS: While I'm very technically competent in most computer areas, I'm a complete noob to both Android and CM, fair warning! I do know Linux though.
Try a different launcher like ADW or Nova.
Sent from my Nook HD+ running CM10.1 on emmc.
Hey guys,
Long time lurker and follower of the site but my first post and I need some advice-
The screen on the kindle fire HD sometimes becomes unresponsive. The buttons like power and volume still work fine, just the touch screen itself seems to be the issue. It only seems to occur when memory/processor load starts to climb (like it's being dumped for space or something) and I can sometimes, SOMETIMES, hit the power button to lock it and unlock it to gain control again then I have to immediately close out of what ever app I'm in and close all running tasks.
While watching the memory available the lowest I've seen it drop to is around 125mbs and still not have an issue, or maybe it's spotty. Not fully out, but getting there.
This is also unrelated to the power issue I've seen posted, that when it's plugged in it can occur as well. Doesn't seem to care too much if plugged in or not.
This started on stock rom so I flashed it and installed cm11 which has definately improved the problem but not solved it.
So, just polling the minds of people here to see if anyone has a suggestion.
Latonya1 said:
i had same problem and what i did is i opened battery from the device and inserted its again and did a factory reset on my device
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Removing the battery on the kindle isn't an easy feat. Are we talking about the same device, or did you attempt this on a phone? Because if this worked with the kindle, I am more than happy to put the time into trying but I want to make sure.
Thanks for the reply.
dlenoxx said:
Hey guys,
Long time lurker and follower of the site but my first post and I need some advice-
The screen on the kindle fire HD sometimes becomes unresponsive. The buttons like power and volume still work fine, just the touch screen itself seems to be the issue. It only seems to occur when memory/processor load starts to climb (like it's being dumped for space or something) and I can sometimes, SOMETIMES, hit the power button to lock it and unlock it to gain control again then I have to immediately close out of what ever app I'm in and close all running tasks.
While watching the memory available the lowest I've seen it drop to is around 125mbs and still not have an issue, or maybe it's spotty. Not fully out, but getting there.
This is also unrelated to the power issue I've seen posted, that when it's plugged in it can occur as well. Doesn't seem to care too much if plugged in or not.
This started on stock rom so I flashed it and installed cm11 which has definately improved the problem but not solved it.
So, just polling the minds of people here to see if anyone has a suggestion.
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This happened to me once...however it was solved with me wiping the whole kindle in recovery(dalvick etc) and flashing the kindology rom.....good luck man :thumbup:
sent fro my rooted kindle fire hd 7 with twerp and kinology rom installed
Seems like I have had that problem before, was because I had to many background processes running. I try to keep my ram so only about 60-70% of it is in use when using it, and I also stopped using dolphin web browser, that is a nice browser but man does it use up a lot of resources. On another note I noticed one time my kindle had around a GB left on the internal storage it started getting sluggish so that's another thing to look out for, but I doubt it's the root of your problems. Kinda find it annoying that android uses as much ram as it does, its based on Linux but on a desktop is on my PC with 2gb of ram, it idles at 20% on Ubuntu(which would be like 40% on a kindle because it has half as much ram), whereas android idles at around 60%.
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itouchables said:
This happened to me once...however it was solved with me wiping the whole kindle in recovery(dalvick etc) and flashing the kindology rom.....good luck man :thumbup:
sent fro my rooted kindle fire hd 7 with twerp and kinology rom installed
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I should have read over what kinology was before flashing it.. I'm sure it's a great rom, but I'm wanting something more android-e. Went great though, as far as the install- and thanks for the tip. Worse case I'll have that file to fall back on.
stunts513 said:
Seems like I have had that problem before, was because I had to many background processes running. I try to keep my ram so only about 60-70% of it is in use when using it, and I also stopped using dolphin web browser, that is a nice browser but man does it use up a lot of resources. On another note I noticed one time my kindle had around a GB left on the internal storage it started getting sluggish so that's another thing to look out for, but I doubt it's the root of your problems. Kinda find it annoying that android uses as much ram as it does, its based on Linux but on a desktop is on my PC with 2gb of ram, it idles at 20% on Ubuntu(which would be like 40% on a kindle because it has half as much ram), whereas android idles at around 60%.
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As I've been doing a bit more testing trying to figure out what is going on, it does seem to happen more often when under 100~75mg of memory available. Idling now at 550 memory available now, thanks to a few tweaks here and there which has almost erased the problem when doing things like browsing the internet, youtube, netflix, etc. It's just happening now during games. Not as much- but still, in the middle of a game of Kingdom Rush it's a little frustrating to all of sudden have no control. And currently I've still got almost 7 gigs of space available as far as harddrive goes so that doesn't seem to effect it by much (at least for me).
Setting the I/O to noop, overclocking to 1500 (leaving the minimum to 350), and setting the zram compression to 28% were the tweaks. Also having Task Killer by rechild set to kill tasks when screen off has been a great fix when I do lose the touch pad controls as it'll free up some memory when I turn it off, leave it off for a minute, then turn it back on without really interrupting progress in several apps.
Still searching for a true, 100% fix so tips are still welcome and I'll keep everyone posted if I run across anything myself.
So I just recieved a pretty sweet present, my brother in law got a new ipad for his birthday and has chosen to give me his old Kindle Fire HD that has some issues.
It was previously rooted, but in an attempt to unroot it, he slightly messed up the kindle's top bar.
The device functions very well for performance, but although all the google aspects are gone off the device from what I can tell, the bar at the top continuously disappears for up to a couple minutes at a time. I'm not sure what kind of root he used back then or how he got rid of it, but I do see SuperSU still installed along with ES File Explorer.
I currently am charging the device and its at 30% since I just got it this morning, but any suggestions would be greatly greatly appreciated!!
Honestly at this point I'm looking to do either 1 of two things.
-Re-root and fix the kindle so Its rooted and status bar is back to normal (to keep as my own, I <3 google apps too much to convert)
OR
-Flash or reboot the kindle to Day 1 install so it looks, feels, and acts like it did straight out of the box (for resale on craigslist).
Its a Kindle Fire HD 8.9" with version 8.4.3_user_4308820.
If more information is needed just let me know!