[Q] Switching between Android 4.1 and 4.2+ roms - Galaxy S III I9305 (4G LTE + 2GB RAM) Q&A, Help &

Hello all,
Just lately I've done a lot of toing and froing between Android 4.1, 4.3 and 4.4, and I'm finding the whole sdcard/0 folder malarkey a complete pain. It seems as though my file structure is getting more and more messed up, and I appear to have folders called things like sdcard/0/download/0/download/0 etc. etc.
Some file explorers appear to not let you interrogate the whole file structure, and I am beginning to find it difficult to access files that I know are present, simply because I don't know what convoluted path to take.
I can't be the first person who was swapped backwards and forwards between different Android versions, and so I was wondering what the solution is?
Thanks,
Ackoman

Search for mega wipe on here.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1832326&page=3
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[BRAINSTORMING]How to effectively change radio props...

Hi all!
It seems that typical radio (ril) props don't work with our phones.
Why I think such thing?
1.- The list of emergency call codes is stored in a different prop: in generic gingerbread this codes are stored on 'ro.ril.ecclist', while in our case is stored on 'ril.ecclist'.
2.- The prop to control the 3G mode to use is 'ro.ril.hsxpa', where 0 means only UMTS (R99), 1 means only HSDPA (R5) and 2 means HSDPA+HSUPA (R6). In our phone that option doesn't work, neither ro.ril.hsxpa nor ril.hsxpa. Trying to switch between modes I allways get the same result: HSDPA and HSUPA ever working.
3.- Trying to modify certain values to enhance/modify the behaviour of the ril, ends up in the same netspeeds, checked with speedtest.net.
It seems that LGE radio library 'lge_ril.so' works different than generic 'ril.so' and the problem is that I don't know how to 'extract' the correct props from the ril library because is closed source.
Some ideas?
Apart from that, using my ROM, inside hidden menu -> Modem Setting -> RRC Version Setting, you can switch between R99, R5 and R6, but IT DOESN'T WORK!
This is not the only whing that doesn't work... in Modem Setting -> PDP Setting almost everything don't work... and there are several options inside Moddem Setting that FCs...
Can anyone try with stock unmodiffied V20N or V20O to try this settings in hidden menu? (3845#*970#)
Regards.
On? I am on hidden menu. Come to Facebook
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V20o stock is on my phone.. hidden menue startet , uses the settings that u want nothing work,
flatzki said:
On? I am on hidden menu. Come to Facebook
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V20o stock is on my phone.. hidden menue startet , uses the settings that u want nothing work,
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The mentioned settings, do them work or don't with your stock V20O?
Regards.
Huexxx said:
Sorry, I don't understand you wel...
The mentioned settings, do them work or don't with your stock V20O?
Regards.
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Not work
Doesn't work on stock 20o. Nothing happens.
Ok, then I ask to myself...
WHAT KIND OF **** HAVE LGE LAUNCHED AS GINGERBREAD UPDATE?????
I'm going to send a email (unuseful email) to LG asking for a explanation of this...
Does someone with another stock version do the test?
Thanks.
Sounds quite logical of them. Wasted nearly a year and gave us half-finished quater-thought update.
That might and most likely is the core reason of al the trouble OB developers are facing.
lol Huexxx, you know, nothing will surprise me anymore from LGE
even fm radio is not usable while in airplane mode. guess why... I tried to edit related xml file without success. If you could do it on your ROM, I'll consider you as a legend as well as I'll consider LGE as a legendary failer
I never mentionned the following before, but for some reasons I always got doubts about that GB update, and these events don't improve the situation haha
I don't know if not related, but I'm trying to help...
at O2x forum [temasek's thread (he make a kang for cm7)] they have a patched "ril99" or something like that...
here's the link to the thread temasek's thread
I don't really understand those things so I'll let you do the reading

4.2.2 Discussion Thread

Any conversation having to do android 4.2.2 goes here. If the ROM you want to talk about has a thread. Then go there!
Here is my PAC rom. can someone please test this? Just flash it like any other 4.2.2 rom. wipe then flash rom and then GAPPS. Please tell me if it boots and if you have time could you obtain a logcat?
http://d-h.st/9jb
Mobile Data seems on my version seems to be connected, but instead of toggling Mobile Data on and off the H just keeps appearing and disappearing.. But it says AT&T in the notification drawer. I will flash your version and try it out once its done downloading.
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camo_flage said:
Here is my PAC rom. can someone please test this? Just flash it like any other 4.2.2 rom. wipe then flash rom and then GAPPS. Please tell me if it boots and if you have time could you obtain a logcat?
http://d-h.st/9jb
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First try, stuck on bootscreen.. flashed rom, gapps then 6/30 kernel, will try reflashing with just rom and gapps initially.
Whats the easiest way to get a logcat? I'm still not too sure how to make those of use but I know they are handy
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Second try, sticks at bootscreen for +10min still. Flashed rom then gapps.
Here is my version that boots, mobile data doesnt work but I can send and recieve texts, and WiFi works... Also no storage.
http://d-h.st/qYQ
Flash ROM zip then gapps, booted within a few minutes for me.
calikevin said:
Mobile Data seems on my version seems to be connected, but instead of toggling Mobile Data on and off the H just keeps appearing and disappearing.. But it says AT&T in the notification drawer. I will flash your version and try it out once its done downloading.
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First try, stuck on bootscreen.. flashed rom, gapps then 6/30 kernel, will try reflashing with just rom and gapps initially.
Whats the easiest way to get a logcat? I'm still not too sure how to make those of use but I know they are handy
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Second try, sticks at bootscreen for +10min still. Flashed rom then gapps.
Here is my version that boots, mobile data doesnt work but I can send and recieve texts, and WiFi works... Also no storage.
http://d-h.st/qYQ
Flash ROM zip then gapps, booted within a few minutes for me.
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Damn must have did something wrong
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camo_flage said:
Damn must have did something wrong
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Well I think you should contact albinoman to help sort out the issues...for now I will try to build AOKP because you seem to have PAC covered
Also I am going to switch devices to the amaze for the port because the Vivid and the Amaze are 99% the same internally. Unfortunately, the Amaze does not have a PAC rom . Dang I wish homeslice would come back to the Vivid and help us out with this.
Log cat...
Connect to PC
Make sure adb works...
Type adb logcat
Orrr
Type adb logcat > yourfilename
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Calikevin I think you have to start building from source now if you want to fix the issues in PAC
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I have built CM10 itself from source, but I have no idea how to go about combining source from the port I want into the CM source, that's still a little advanced for me but I will try and figure it out nonetheless
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Yea that's what I was worried about too.
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I am currently syncing the SlimBean repo right now to get started on combining the source but if anyone has any useful links or advice I would greatly appreciate the input
You guys taking requests?
I'd love to see Vanilla Rootbox...
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rignfool said:
You guys taking requests?
I'd love to see Vanilla Rootbox...
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I don't see why not, I've got a few ideas of my own already, I'm this close to having BAKED holiday built, then I would like to see about Illusion.. I did see Vanilla Rootbox too, I'll check it out.
I'm happy that the Vivid development is still alive. Installed the rom, and its running smoothly. Rogers variant.
arzzzae said:
I'm happy that the Vivid development is still alive. Installed the rom, and its running smoothly. Rogers variant.
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Check the link in my sig for the most updated Slim release
calikevin said:
Check the link in my sig for the most updated Slim release
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Will do! Anyways, how do I decrease the overall font size for 4.2.2? It seems missing from the settings.
Edit: Seems like the whole "display" under the settings is missing.
Edit #2: Nevermind, I'm stupid. Found it.
Yea, still working in figuring out the Display force close, it would seem that an entire chunk of android 4.2.2 is missing from the ROM, probably has to do with the vivid.. 4.2.2 has Daydream, and its there in this ROM too but you usually need to go to Display settings to see the options and ours isn't there, but I was able to access the Daydream settings by going through the DashClock settings. Very odd, hopefully sultan or albinoman have some ideas about that
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android1234567 said:
You can delete the useless device trees by modifying the default.xml file (platform manifest) located in .repo/manifests
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After adding an htc holiday device folder to the .git folder and trying to run git commit -a I keep running into this same error, any idea?
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fatal: 'git status --porcelain' failed in submodule device/htc/holiday
calikevin said:
After adding an htc holiday device folder to the .git folder and trying to run git commit -a I keep running into this same error, any idea?
Code:
fatal: 'git status --porcelain' failed in submodule device/htc/holiday
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Don't mess with the .git folders. The only file you have to modify to alter the entire source is .repo/manifests/default.xml
You can add and remove device trees by modifying that file, and you can change where existing device trees are fetched from (i.e. you can make an existing device tree be fetched from a different GitHub account instead).
android1234567 said:
Don't mess with the .git folders. The only file you have to modify to alter the entire source is .repo/manifests/default.xml
You can add and remove device trees by modifying that file, and you can change where existing device trees are fetched from (i.e. you can make an existing device tree be fetched from a different GitHub account instead).
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Thank you!
So for instance.. this is in the default xml for Baked-
Code:
<remote name="baked"
fetch="git://github.com/TeamBAKED/" />
If I change that address to my github address, I will be able to repo sync and git commit from my own repo, and be able to upload the device trees you were trying to take a look at?
And it's safe to take out every one of these except holiday since that's all I'm building for?
Code:
<project path="device/htc/m7ul" name="device_htc_m7ul" remote="baked" revision="jb-4.2" />
My wife has and A&T HTC Vivid phone. She is a huge Instagram fan and was quite excited to see the new video clip feature that was recently introduced to the application. Her phone was running stock ICS and, unfortunately, Instagram video is not functional for anything less than Android Jellybean (at least that is my understanding). The video button doesn't appear in the application under ICS. I don't like messing with my wife's phone but I was forced to make the move to Jellybean.
First stop was PAC-man 4.1.2. The video option shows up in Instagram and videos can be recorded. However, when trying to apply filters the video won't play back properly (either dosn't play back, choppy, or pixelated) and 90+% of the time it ends up causing the phone to freeze/reboot. Not good.
Next stop was the new CM10.1 AOSP 4.2.2 rom. I noticed that video recording had been fixed with this rom. The video option shows up in Instagram and videos can be recorded, same as in PAC-man. The good news is that filters can somewhat be applied and the video will play back better with this rom. There are still issues with the play back causing some of the frames to dance around the screen, however, it no longers crahes the phone. It has crashed the Instagram application but, in general, things can somewhat work but not to the degree to which they should (and definitely not to the degree my wife would find acceptable). I have recorded and played back video using the stock camera app and everything functions smoothly with no hiccups so it is seems that the problem lies in how Instagram is interfacing with the playback capabilities of the phone, using a series of calls that the playback mechanism doesn't quite like. What, if anything, can I do to provide feedback to the developers of CM10.1 that would give them some indication of how Instagram is trying to work with the play back capabilities of the phone? Would a logcat give some indication? What kind of debugging would I need to turn on (if any)?
As a frame of reference, I use CM10.1 4.2.2 Maguro on my Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone. I have the Instagram app installed and the video recording capabilities work smoothly and without an issues within it. Applying filters to videos works perfectly and I haven't had a single crash. I know that this is different hardware but if there is anything that can be leveraged from that rom please let me know.
I must say that development of CM10.1 is moving along at a very rapid pace and, for the most part, it is functioning extremenly well and stable on my wife's phone. The only thing I noticed was that CM10.1 lagged only slightly when compared with PAC-man when responding to screen swipes. I'm sure this will improve with time and I am quite thankful to those developing it for breathing added life into this phone.
Again, I would like to get Instagram working smoothly with the HTC Vivid so suggestions as to what I need to provide to the developers would be greatly appreciated. I haven't made enough posts to the xda-developers forums so I am unable to post to the development threads. Any feedback I create will need to go thru here so hopefully I can get some assistance to get it to the right developers.
Edit: the new 0715 cm 10.1 has fixed the instagram video issues when applying filters to a video. Everything seems to be running smoothly now. My wife is asleep and doesn't know this yet, but I'm sure she'll be quite happy in the morning. Many thanks to the developers. Great job!
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Screen flicker with New GMapps 7.0
Am getting a screen flicker 80% of the time during maps session (not lighting, actual flicker of maps). It is to the point of not being able to use maps at all. Anyone else?
Assuming not alone:
Appear to have solved it with "Disable HW Overlays", so can only assume this is related to the soft reboots, and associated memory map issue, as I would be surprised that GMaps wouldn't play well with 4.2.2.

Want to develop my own ROM, but don't know where to start.

I have been using custom roms on my Nexus 6 for a while now, but really want to try to develop my own. I have some programming experience, but would like to know if anyone has any guides on how to get started. I would mainly like it to be for my personal use, with only the features I need. I would like it to be AOSP based too. If anyone could offer any help it would be much appreciated.
Learn to build AOSP for your phone first, and how to use git, then go from there.
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@wilder_mason
1st, get a Linux computer if you don't already have one.
2nd, go here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2974055
cam30era said:
@wilder_mason
1st, get a Linux computer if you don't already have one.
2nd, go here > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2974055
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Thanks. I am installing ubuntu right now.
The hardest part is troubleshooting a build failure. You can find step-by-step instructions on the internet, but going through logs and troubleshooting is a PITA. You have to start somewhere and going through the troubleshooting process will give you loads of experience. I've seen people progress very fast once they get their feet wet. Good luck :good:
wilder_mason said:
Thanks. I am installing ubuntu right now.
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Many of us prefer Linux Mint. Close to Windows and stable. There are many good tuts for building from source. Look for tuts from Scrosler, FHEM and Syko. They all enter twined and and do tuts for N6.
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I dual boot Mint and Win 10. No problems even after upgrade from Win 8.1 to Win 10.
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FHEM also has a tut I think for building your own GIT.
prdog1 said:
Many of us prefer Linux Mint. Close to Windows and stable. There are many good tuts for building from source. Look for tuts from Scrosler, FHEM and Syko. They all enter twined and and do tuts for N6.
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I dual boot Mint and Win 10. No problems even after upgrade from Win 8.1 to Win 10.
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FHEM also has a tut I think for building your own GIT.
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I went from Ubuntu to Mint. I think I prefer Ubuntu. In fact Mint makes me want to buy a new laptop and stick windows on it.
danarama said:
I went from Ubuntu to Mint. I think I prefer Ubuntu. In fact Mint makes me want to buy a new laptop and stick windows on it.
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Using to build roms and kernels we found Mint to be more stable. Been running it for months. Had to rebuild Ubuntu every few days. Lol
prdog1 said:
Using to build roms and kernels we found Mint to be more stable. Been running it for months. Had to rebuild Ubuntu every few days. Lol
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Never had an issue building on Ubuntu at all. Built on many versions since Gingerbread. I never set mint up as a build environment. Mint is basically Ubuntu anyway so they should build identically. But I find Mint unstable in everyday use. Particularly the use of browsers

Android N preview supposedly being released March 9th 2016?

http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/9/11185872/android-n-developer-preview-features-report
The first preview build of Android N will be released to the public today with new features including a native split-screen mode, according to a report from 9to5Google. Citing an article from Ars Technica that was pulled after publication, 9to5Google says that the preview version of Android N includes a redesigned notification panel (with notifications that span the full width of the screen, and an edit button for quick changes), and improvements to the operating system's Doze feature, which will reportedly save battery whenever the screen turns off.
THERE'S ALSO A 'PICTURE IN PICTURE' MODE REPORTEDLY COMING
The biggest addition though, seems to be a new split-screen mode for multitasking. This reportedly works on both phones and tablets, and, like other features included in the preview, will be given to developers to test before it's released to the public later this year. 9to5Google says that Ars Technica also reported the existence of a new "picture in picture" mode which sounds similar to that in iOS 9, letting users shrink windows to a corner of their screen while browsing other apps.
The original Ars story also reportedly said that the preview will be available for the Nexus 6P, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6, Pixel C, Nexus 9, Nexus Player, and the General Mobile 4G. Google is also said to be launching a new "Android Beta Program." All of this information is extremely provisional at the moment, but if the Ars Technica report is true, we can expect to hear more about Android N — and its new features — some time soon.
I would be surprised if it actually releases today, but one can hope!!
It's out! http://storage.googleapis.com/androiddevelopers/shareables/preview/shamu-npc56p-preview-54b13c67.tgz
Currently unlocked bootloader and running twrp 3.0
That being said how would I go about installing this image? The same way as the other images? Also, if I do this, will I be able to revert back?
Developer preview? It's still functional as a phone?
Awesome, thanks! I just downloaded the Shamu preview from http://developer.android.com/preview/download.html. Has anyone extracted and installed the images on their rooted 6.0.1? I'd rather not be the first, lol!
Official Release Page:
https://developer.android.com/preview/index.html
Having an OTA of the N preview is Awesome! I want to try it as soon as the site is availble, but I'm not sure how friendly the N preview will be for project fi this early. anyone else on Fi going to try the preview?
Flashable zip or it isn't true
matthew2926 said:
Flashable zip or it isn't true
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give some time someone will make one
Cobra11Murderer said:
give some time someone will make one
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Haha yea, I just wish I knew how to make one myself...oh well
I wasn't expecting that, well safe to say this will be last of the preview for us. Safe to say folks with the OG Nex5 won't get android N
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Any changes to the launcher?
This flashes just like a regular Nexus image right ? aka unzip, fastboot, etc, etc..............
md1008 said:
I wasn't expecting that, well safe to say this will be last of the preview for us. Safe to say folks with the OG Nex5 won't get android N
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Any changes to the launcher?
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eh probably but it can be ported over just like any other rom
mikeprius said:
This flashes just like a regular Nexus image right ? aka unzip, fastboot, etc, etc..............
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Yup, the usual img`s flashed in fastboot
mikeprius said:
This flashes just like a regular Nexus image right ? aka unzip, fastboot, etc, etc..............
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In suggest wait for sometime and someone will surely give flashable zip... Then give a try.... Rest your own wish.....
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Probably the coolest features, for me anyway, is built-in options to calibrate the display color (in System UI Tuner) AND change the DPI (in Display settings). I'm not sure if these will make it to the final build, but I really do hope so.
PS: you need to sign up for the android beta program to actually receive OTA updates https://g.co/androidbeta
as stated here: http://developer.android.com/preview/overview.html
deeplyyoung said:
In suggest wait for sometime and someone will surely give flashable zip... Then give a try.... Rest your own wish.....
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I don't mind if I have to fastboot it vs. TWRP as a .zip, but I've been flashing out the yin-yang and I still have a few ROMs I want to try LOL. I'll get to this eventually....see how the feedback is first....plus I "need" root, not want...."need"...................LOL
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I don't mind if I have to fastboot it vs. TWRP as a .zip, but I've been flashing out the yin-yang and I still have a few ROMs I want to try LOL. I'll get to this eventually....see how the feedback is first....plus I "need" root, not want...."need"...................LOL
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mind that it will encrypt your device
The build.prop wifi tether method doesn't seem to work with the N preview at least in the traditional way. Has anyone managed to get it to work?

Linux on DeX

The private beta for the Linux on Beta just opened.
Started this thread so we could post about the app in one thread.
I got the email to download the app and then it sent me to the Play Store where it said the app was not available probably because I wasn't given access to it. I don't know if they prematurely sent out the download notices.
bogdi1988 said:
I got the email to download the app and then it sent me to the Play Store where it said the app was not available probably because I wasn't given access to it. I don't know if they prematurely sent out the download notices.
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The link I got sent me to the beta registration page online so I could become a beta tester then it linked to the play store.
I've attached the APK, not sure if it will work unless you're part of the beta but it's worth a try.
https://webview.linuxondex.com
There's the site that has the special Ubuntu release for use within the app.
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Looks like the download is finally active!
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They just took a while to turn on the beta program
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Edit: interesting, if you're not on ARJ5 it won't work.
Is the app crashing for anyone, when you try to open it in DeX mode?
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Is the app crashing for anyone, when you try to open it in DeX mode?
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Yep , I had to disable DeX Labs and DeX developer mode. Dunno if disabling either of them would have been enough.
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So it is indeed a container. Pid 1 is a bash shell. Graphics is done via VNC, so slow and unaccelerated. I guess that's the reason Unity was disabled and it boots to "classic" Gnome (with gnome-panel). Audio appears to work out of the box.
The image appears to be a bit dirty... there's plenty of orphaned packages, changes to /etc not reflected anywhere else, unpackaged files, and a strange "lod_daemon" whose purpose I couldn't guess. But I assume loading up other distros is not entirely out of the question.
Any luck getting the custom Ubuntu package to download. Mine either goes super slowly or quits before it even gets halfway
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javispedro said:
Yep , I had to disable DeX Labs and DeX developer mode. Dunno if disabling either of them would have been enough.
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I had everything disabled, but the DeX developer mode. I totally forgot about that option, anyway turning that off fixed it. You have my thanks.
For what I needed (Visual studio code and dev tools in chrome/chromium) this container will do just fine, but it is really slugish and I mean it. Without GPU acceleration it feels like a computers from a couple of decades ago. I think that people will be disappointed, because they expect to do everyday stuff with Linux on DeX and it just not gonna happen. But personally very happy to have the option.
Password for dextop?
Did anyone figure out what password for dextop is? I never set one and it asking for it when I try to install a package through the terminal
When it downloads the container image, is it an installer ISO? Meaning would we be able to install a different OS in the container?
alec66317 said:
Did anyone figure out what password for dextop is? I never set one and it asking for it when I try to install a package through the terminal
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"secret". Without the quotes. As mentioned on the Linux On Dex website ;P
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unknownbeing said:
When it downloads the container image, is it an installer ISO? Meaning would we be able to install a different OS in the container?
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It's an ext4 image, and no; no different OSes. This is just a Linux container, there is no virtual machine involved. (Nor emulation). So you could do other Linux distros, but no other OSes.
alec66317 said:
Did anyone figure out what password for dextop is? I never set one and it asking for it when I try to install a package through the terminal
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The password is "secret"
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javispedro said:
"secret". Without the quotes. As mentioned on the Linux On Dex website ;P
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It's an ext4 image, and no; no different OSes. This is just a Linux container, there is no virtual machine involved. (Nor emulation). So you could do other Linux distros, but no other OSes.
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Hm, so theoretically I could image a red hat (just an example) install and load it into this?
unknownbeing said:
Hm, so theoretically I could image a red hat (just an example) install and load it into this?
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An ARM aarch64 redhat install, yes ...
Possibly needing a bit of selinux relabeling, plus whatever this lod_server thing is doing.
javispedro said:
An ARM aarch64 redhat install, yes ...
Possibly needing a bit of selinux relabeling, plus whatever this lod_server thing is doing.
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I'd be very interested to see if we can get the ARM build of Windows running on this thing
unknownbeing said:
I'd be very interested to see if we can get the ARM build of Windows running on this thing
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No other OSes are possible. This is not a virtual machine.
Envoyé de mon SM-N960F en utilisant Tapatalk
Is it possible to use KVM on this container? How about removing SELinux and compiling Kernel with KVM support? (The Exynos 8890 platform natively supports KVM)
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@javispedro Can you compile Kernel with KVM support?
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javispedro said:
No other OSes are possible. This is not a virtual machine.
Envoyé de mon SM-N960F en utilisant Tapatalk
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KVM is amazing on GNU/Linux
When I open the app I just get a message to "Update your software" "Linux on DeX requires your device to have the latest software to support some features."
Sure would be nice if it mentioned which software it wants updated. Anybody else getting this?
Has anyone tried this with a keyboard and mouse or HP Elite X3 lapdock? For some reason my backspace keys not working properly and only responds after multiple presses.
I'm on pie and I keep getting this message. Not sure what I'm doing wrong? Also, it keeps telling me to put the image in "/Internal Storage/LoD/" but whenever I do, it then tells me that I can't already have an LoD folder, so either way I get some sort of an error.
maxnik1 said:
I had everything disabled, but the DeX developer mode. I totally forgot about that option, anyway turning that off fixed it. You have my thanks.
For what I needed (Visual studio code and dev tools in chrome/chromium) this container will do just fine, but it is really slugish and I mean it. Without GPU acceleration it feels like a computers from a couple of decades ago. I think that people will be disappointed, because they expect to do everyday stuff with Linux on DeX and it just not gonna happen. But personally very happy to have the option.
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I really like the option, but without GPU acceleration it's kind difficult for me.
I use my Note 9 as my main computer and I really like to have Linux. Its amazing to have the ''real'' chrome with the extensions...but its reaaaally slow.
Hope samsung can ''fix'' that.
Edit: but at the same time, its amazing have linux inside my phone...
dex still running even when I'm on linux. I can minimize and go back to Dex any time.

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