Hi All,
I've been reading a lot and I can tell you honestly that I do not understand some of the things being discussed here. What I would like to know is that, does Ubuntu Touch only works for specific types of phones? (ofcourse the nexus phones and all) I have a local phone Cherry Mobile Flare S3, and I would like to know if it's possible to install Ubuntu Touch on it?
I've tried the dual boot but no luck as the forums of Ubuntu support states that its not supported yet. I've been looking for other work around to make this work..
Please share some light.. TIA!
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Do you think it is possible to port Nokia's MaemoOS (www.maemo.org) from the new Nokia N900 to hTC devices?
Thanks for answers.
Sopis said:
Hello
Title says it all.
Do you think it is possible to port Nokia's MaemoOS (www.maemo.org) from the new Nokia N900 to hTC devices?
Thanks for answers.
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Hi,
What are the difference with it and Winmo, Android,...?
that's hot!
im curious too about maemo...
i've taked a look on the web,but i found nothing....
It's Debian based running Hildon-Desktop on top...
With enough devs doesn't seem too hard to port, we already got Linux Kernel running on some PDA's it's mostly an Hildon-Desktop doing the rest.
Would be interesting indeed, I am currently waiting for Android to the HD, but Maemo would be nice too ! And I think I am not the only one.
Sopis said:
Hello
Title says it all.
Do you think it is possible to port Nokia's MaemoOS (www.maemo.org) from the new Nokia N900 to hTC devices?
Thanks for answers.
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There is community driven edition of Maemo called Mer. It is fully open source and it should in theory be possible to run it on blackstones at the moment. But it is not that usable/fully polished as Maemo 5 on Nokia n900. HTC Touch Pro is already mentioned on http://wiki.maemo.org/Mer/Status.
PS. I'm following UPS delivery of my n900, will have it on monday
Don't forget that the N900 is a really powerfull device with alot more "oempf" then our HD's.
I think that as an linux distributable, android is allot more qaulified for our HD's then Meamo will ever be
Thank you all for very good replies
I did not think that this would make such an interest...hope more people will read this and maybe some DEVs too
probably yes, but given the time and effort required, it would be easier to just have people buy an n900. poeple choose a blackstone because they want winmo/tf3d or whatever
i like to think it like this - if someone found a way to attach a coffee machine to a blackstone, id be interested, but given the time and effort required to get it to work (not to mention practical) i wouldnt be too fussed. anyone who wanted coffee machine functionality might have bought the wrong device
id say lets android working first then maybe work on other linux OSs would be easier
A couple of things:
By default Mer uses LXDE as its desktop but you can switch to Hildon (the n900 UI) using update-alternatives (Google it).
However Hildon uses Clutter which uses GL, and it all runs on Xorg, so unless there's a hardware 3D driver for Xorg for your device you're going to be out of luck I think (unless you like horribly slow and jerky UIs). Afaik there isn't an accellerated 3D Xorg driver for Raphael. Not certain but pretty sure.
I wonder if this could come out. If so, that would be amazing. I'd like to see a port of Jolicloud come out for the TP. Can any devs touch on this?
well jolicloud is actually ubuntu so im guessing its possible
this question has been asked before, and it's something I'm interested in as well, it would seem that it would work however the answer I saw before is no because jolicloud has no support for arm based devices. HOWEVER, I am following the development of rasberrypi, and on their forums one of there devs said that jolicloud is porting a version over with arm support, so I believe real soon we will have a version that will work.
I've looked into porting this myself based on the instructions provided from Jolla's website (found here https://sailfishos.org/develop/hadk/), it seems pretty straight forward. However apparently (according to Jolla) it cannot be done on a 32bit system even if I use Linux (which I do). I was wondering if anyone has entertained the thought of porting it, as there's a 2.0 version of the OS out now and I really want to try it. Kind of missing it from when I used to play around with it on my Nexus 5.
Conversely, if anyone knows a workaround to using a 32bit system, or if they have knowledge of it actually being possible on a 32bit system (could be Jolla is being overly cautious in requiring a 64bit system, but I believe it has something to do with working with MER), your advice would be forthcoming. Willing to put in the work, I just apparently don't have the tools according to Jolla and can't afford a new computer. My two Linux systems (one running Kubuntu, one running Backbox) are very capable. This is just the only prerequisite I don't meet.
As far as multirom, I'm curious if anything special has to be done besides the instructions from Jolla to make it compatible as a secondary rom at least.
Thanks in advance for all responses and patience. I may be a low contributor/noob to this site, but given the proper tools and advice I think I can pull it off. I haven't found anyone that's working on this for the Nexus 6, so if there is someone, obviously I'm willing to help or test.
Special note to Tassadar if you happen to see this: Multirom is the best thing that's happened to android since custom kernels. lol Big ups for your creation!
Awesome I hope more are interested too, I don't have resources to help either besides a test.
I can say that I have never been more impressed with a UI than the one I flashed on my n5 called Sailfish, Same as you I think.
To others of you have what's needed and haven't seen the ui please check it out. I thought it was minimal, sleek, and I believe it used mostly touch commands.
This thread is kinda in the wrong forum. Should be in q and a or general discussion.
But yes I would love to see this on my phone
First, don't post Q&A in development forums. Second, the first step in the guide states the device must be officially supported with CM 10.1.x, which this device isn't. Unless they just haven't updated their guide this will never be possible until it's updated to something based on Lollipop.
nuevosean said:
I've looked into porting this myself based on the instructions provided from Jolla's website (found here https://sailfishos.org/develop/hadk/), it seems pretty straight forward. However apparently (according to Jolla) it cannot be done on a 32bit system even if I use Linux (which I do). I was wondering if anyone has entertained the thought of porting it, as there's a 2.0 version of the OS out now and I really want to try it. Kind of missing it from when I used to play around with it on my Nexus 5.
Conversely, if anyone knows a workaround to using a 32bit system, or if they have knowledge of it actually being possible on a 32bit system (could be Jolla is being overly cautious in requiring a 64bit system, but I believe it has something to do with working with MER), your advice would be forthcoming. Willing to put in the work, I just apparently don't have the tools according to Jolla and can't afford a new computer. My two Linux systems (one running Kubuntu, one running Backbox) are very capable. This is just the only prerequisite I don't meet.
As far as multirom, I'm curious if anything special has to be done besides the instructions from Jolla to make it compatible as a secondary rom at least.
Thanks in advance for all responses and patience. I may be a low contributor/noob to this site, but given the proper tools and advice I think I can pull it off. I haven't found anyone that's working on this for the Nexus 6, so if there is someone, obviously I'm willing to help or test.
Special note to Tassadar if you happen to see this: Multirom is the best thing that's happened to android since custom kernels. lol Big ups for your creation!
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Please read the Forum Rules on posting, Moved here...
FYI, android also has needed to be built on 64 bit only for several versions now. I think since Ice Cream Sandwich.. 32 bit just isn't cut out for it.
Sorry to raise this thread from the depths, but why haven't any devs pursued this?
I would love to try sailfish os on the nexus 6!
A $200 budget device was released just a few days ago in India that runs sailfish os natively, which is why i started looking into it for shamu.
Thought about picking one up, but the cellular bands aren't great for use in the U.S., and spec-wise doesn't hold a candle to shamu.
Through a little searching, it seems one person with the handle of mad_fitter on merproject irc attempted a port back in March, but never finished it afaict. Apparently, the fact that he had an intel chip prevented him from completing the final steps somehow...
This is an old post, but i love my phone and have dabbled with sailfish os before. If it could be ported that would be great and according to the the HADK documentation you can now use a cm 12.1 image instead of 10 to build it, whih was available for shamu. Someone could get the image from archive.org and use that. I have no experience with porting roms so i wouldn't be able to do it but if someone else could it would be great for the few of us that want it.
I would love to try this on my shamu, as well.
Has there been any development on this?
I've been considering getting into Android development for quite awhile now. I've read multiple tutorials/guides around the internet and would like to jump into it. I would like some input as to what my first project should be as well as any advice you guys may have. I've used the desktop version of Ubuntu multiple times in the past. Although it's not my favorite desktop Linux distribution, I'm quite interested in trying Ubuntu Touch on my N910T. On the other hand, I really like straight up Vanilla AOSP. So what do you guys think?
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I've been considering getting into Android development for quite awhile now. I've read multiple tutorials/guides around the internet and would like to jump into it. I would like some input as to what my first project should be as well as any advice you guys may have. I've used the desktop version of Ubuntu multiple times in the past. Although it's not my favorite desktop Linux distribution, I'm quite interested in trying Ubuntu Touch on my N910T. On the other hand, I really like straight up Vanilla AOSP. So what do you guys think?
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well i doubt you would get many users for ubuntu and aosp takes years of development to work properly on any branded devices sooooooooo lol
I vote Ubuntu touch becuase. Ive seen a million AOSP roms. Ive seen 0 ubuntu touch roms
Ubuntu!
I still want to see AOSP with the TW camera and sPen ported. I figure its near impossible otherwise someone would have done it by now but I am still hoping.
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Yeah, I was leaning more toward Ubuntu Touch. There's no reason not to try at this point. As part of that, does anybody know any good tutorials for setting up the source repositories? I was able follow the CyanogenMod build guide without any issues, but I'm still trying to understand the build environment structure. Thanks for the feedback.
anybody have ubuntu touch roms for the droid 4? i cannot find them anywhere, all links are broken now.
Hey I don't have the images for you, but surprised to see someone still using this phone, would like to know if i could PM you to share some files or tips for this phone?
Never really used JB or safestrap before.
I remember a while back I searched for ages to find the files required to set up Ubuntu Touch, but gave up in the end. It didn't sounds like it ever really got to a usable state anyway.
I'm more that happy with Sailfish for the time being, and hopefully it won't be too long before PostMarketOS and Maemo Leste are usable on this device as well.
just an update, i talked to the original developer and he could not find them all over his old computers. unfortunate, but anyone with info still would be awesome