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Simply amazing!!! Enjoy XDAers..
http://code.google.com/p/live-android/
if you want to use VirtualBox to run it: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Can i run hero on my PC? I got 4Gb ram thats waiting to test this.My Cpu is a P9800 i think 2.4GHZ, is that enough? Cant forget about the Nvidia 260GtX with enough power to play crysis maxed out
But you have to give props to Microsoft for their superb OS's(Win7/Vista) and some to dell for their great quality and prices...Well im sold here..
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Can i run hero on my PC? I got 4Gb ram thats waiting to test this.My Cpu is a P9800 i think 2.4GHZ, is that enough? Cant forget about the Nvidia 260GtX with enough power to play crysis maxed out
But you have to give props to Microsoft for their superb OS's(Win7/Vista) and some to dell for their great quality and prices...Well im sold here..
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There is absolutely nothing good about Windows Vista.
Macmee said:
There is absolutely nothing good about Windows Vista.
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+1. Window's Vista sucks, had to get rid of Vista all together and run Ubuntu 9.10. But this is a neat idea running android on your computer. Might have to partition my hard drive and test it out.
I loaded this as a livecd. Hmmm Either it don't work or don't do much. It loads the exact same thing as an emulator basically. My computer looked like a blown up version of my phone. The mouse didnt work. When I tried to move the mouse, the homescreen changed to a different one. The top even had a roaming symbol on it. Guess I don't see the point.
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+1. Window's Vista sucks, had to get rid of Vista all together and run Ubuntu 9.10. But this is a neat idea running android on your computer. Might have to partition my hard drive and test it out.
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When I can install Ubuntu on my home PC with the same or less amount of problems as Vista, then I might consider it.
With that said, I am a big fan of Mint. All of the love from Ubuntu, refined. And yes, Mint runs very well on my home PC.
Here's a link to another project called Android-x86, similar to the live android posted above
http://www.android-x86.org/
To install apps: http://code.google.com/p/live-android/wiki/howtoinstallapps
Using the Wiki is very useful as well in case you are running into any type of issues, mine is working fine good people : http://code.google.com/p/live-android/w/list
Hello,
I am looking for an app that will allow me to access my music/video from my Mac to my EVO. I installed LogMeIn last night but that may be overkill for what I am trying to accomplish, I do not want full control of the cpu from my phone. Which brings me to Home Pipe. Any thoughts on which would be best for my situation?
Thanks
DropBox !
i've been using homepipe for a while and i've had some issues with it. the host on my desktop keeps disconnecting for no reason. Currently i'm using Orb which works quite well with music. i haven't tried it with videos or pictures yet.
Keenon53 said:
Hello,
I am looking for an app that will allow me to access my music/video from my Mac to my EVO. I installed LogMeIn last night but that may be overkill for what I am trying to accomplish, I do not want full control of the cpu from my phone. Which brings me to Home Pipe. Any thoughts on which would be best for my situation?
Thanks
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What do you mean by "I do not want full control of the cpu?"
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What do you mean by "I do not want full control of the cpu?"
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I only want access the music and videos on my cpu, I don't need to do much extra from the device.
Thanks you guys
Orb works pretty decent. I have logmein and that's for computer control which you don't need.
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DropBox !
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I just did my homework on this and it seems to be the best one mainly because it seems as though your cpu does not need to even be on to access your files. Only thing is that monthly charge for more storage but it seems to be worth it.
Gmote is what you are looking for.
I've used orb on my g1, bb, ming, iPhone, some crappy Samsung touchscreen, and evo. It's worked great on all of them. I highly recommend.
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I use PhoneMyPC. A thrid of the price of LogMeIn.
orb seems to be what your looking for. and they do have a mac client.
Keenon53 said:
I only want access the music and videos on my cpu, I don't need to do much extra from the device.
Thanks you guys
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Do you mean your desktop computer? You know your phone has a cpu in it, which you already have access to since you have it in your hand.
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Do you mean your desktop computer? You know your phone has a cpu in it, which you already have access to since you have it in your hand.
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In this situation I'm definitely not referring to my phone as the cpu. I'm only 1/3 geek so excuse me if I'm not technical enough lol
share what all things you can do with your atrix. let others know how you are using your device. guide them to unleash the beast inside their atrix.
i connect my atrix to usb hub, tv, pendrive, ext hdd, mouse and keyboard......
Atrix - Neutrino Rom 2.6, Faux 1.45GHz Kernel. CM7 2.3.7
I'm kind of strange.........I use my Atrix as a phone!
I use it as a game console. connect it to my HDTV and use a wiimote classic to play snes. I also use it for Netflix and movies. Most recently I've been using it at work to save information quickly.
I use it to do my marketing homework cuz I'm cool like that.
Nice topic...
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It collects dust until cm9 is 100% complete for it.
I only used hdmi mirroring a few times like in hotels to watch Netflix. Now I just use my ipad2. Only played stupid games on it, nothing like gta3. That's what my ps3 is for.
I use mine for games and all the usual stuff but mostly as my mobile office
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I use it for a mobile office, games, mp3 player and Webtop sometimes sms etc
I am now up to 7 months of using nothing but my atrix/lapdock when not in home/office.
This includes some long trips when I needed to be able to connect back to the office and do real work.
When out of touch I can do some dev locally on it (most of my work is just C code, fairly light weight). But in general I can just VPN home and all works fairly well.
Worst case is when I have to RDE into a Windoze VM back on my office system. Slow, but works.
Sometimes I even use it for phone calls
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I'm kind of strange.........I use my Atrix as a phone!
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+ 1 and for web surfing and video watching
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I use my atrix for mostly the communication part of the phone for school and work. Like email, messaging, calls, and Lapdock. The phone calendar is the thing the keeps me on task. I use the atrix almost like a business tool.
.......the you have all those fun apps you have to try......
That's a whole other story.
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anybody tried full ubuntu inside atrix and connect to an HDTV?
I use my atrix for...
Well this is my first "power-phone" I've had. I don't consider my iPhone 3gs a power-phone. So tonight I will attempt to install backtrack Linux on it (Debian variant) for pen-testing remotely. Should be interesting. The hardware can BY FAR support it, and there are multiple ported arm versions available. Wish me luck. If anyone else has done it, regardless of distro please pm me you're experience!
I always use my Atrix to watch Despicable Me all over again!!
I use my Atrix as a pocket notebook (springpad), music player and mobile browser.
I also have offline navigation map installed, but never used it.
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Well this is my first "power-phone" I've had. I don't consider my iPhone 3gs a power-phone. So tonight I will attempt to install backtrack Linux on it (Debian variant) for pen-testing remotely. Should be interesting. The hardware can BY FAR support it, and there are multiple ported arm versions available. Wish me luck. If anyone else has done it, regardless of distro please pm me you're experience!
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I run a debian made from scratch via debootsrap and it works fine and was fairly easy to do.
If you are just running this as command line (no X), it is fairly easy to do. Just follow any standard ubuntu chrooting guide (or look up "ubuntu on android"). From a 'droid terminal chroot over and you are there.
One catch, if you run as a non-root user you must be in grouup 3003 (it's in the 'droid kernel) to use IP sockets. 3004 to use raw sockes, and 3001 if you care about bluetooth (took me an entire day to find that comically stupid issue).
If you need an X interface, there are 2 ways to go. Either use the Moto webtop ubuntu to get X up, then chrrot over to your stuff over. Or run a VNC server in your 'nux and use the android VNC viewer.
As I presume you know what you are doing on the linux side, this will not be difficult.
There are a few threads over in the dev section that go into a lot more detail.
Design icons in inkscape? Build websites? Contact anyone any time? Considering its 960 landscape it also allows you to easily browse almost any webpage. Its a damn awesome phone.
I just wish they'd done webtop right as opposed to than weird virtual thing its doing. Ubuntu screams on a 1ghz processor with 1gb ram. Webtop however sort of whimpers =/
Needs room to grow I guess.
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Thanks for the advice your setup looks like exactly what i need. Command prompt and a root user, the rest is trivial and ill play with it for giggles. Thanks again for the reply.
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Design icons in inkscape? Build websites? Contact anyone any time? Considering its 960 landscape it also allows you to easily browse almost any webpage. Its a damn awesome phone.
I just wish they'd done webtop right as opposed to than weird virtual thing its doing. Ubuntu screams on a 1ghz processor with 1gb ram. Webtop however sort of whimpers =/
Needs room to grow I guess.
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Hrm.. webtop seems to run nice for me. Streaming movies or youtube is lag free. My vnc sessions seem fine. Not sure. I am writing some more advanced html5 web apps to test with webtop to see how well it utilizes the newer functions. But then again it is firefox, i expect it to pass with flying colors.
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Finally got Ubuntu to run on this hench Note!!
willrider said:
Finally got Ubuntu to run on this hench Note!!
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at the risk of this being a dumb question: how come you still have the android notification bar?
makanimike said:
at the risk of this being a dumb question: how come you still have the android notification bar?
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Most likely running under vnc
yep!! chrooted and vnc'ed into it.
everything seems smooth... except when unmounting
May have to give this a try
I can upload my script if it helps.
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I can upload my script if it helps.
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There are several apps such as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid which automate the process of setting it up. Might be worth checking out for anyone interested.
nicely done!
Ok... perhaps I'm being dense.. but the original post seems to be claiming he has Ubuntu running *ON* his Note. Which to me means 'I've overwritten Android and am using Ubuntu as the operating system on this tablet'. VNC should have NOTHING to do with it. (Which brings us back to 'why is there an Android menu bar at the bottom?)
If you're running VNC and just remoting to computer using Ubuntu, then it's not running on the tablet, you're just remoting in - which would work with Windows or MacOS just as well.
The other possibility, which also doesn't need VNC is if you got VirtualBox or some other emulator running and were running Ubuntu on that - which would be pretty cool, although not THAT spectacular.
So?
Which is it?
I read about this a while back and can't remember exactly how it worked, but apparently it does run on the phone/tablet along side the Android operating system and you do indeed have to VNC into it.
Also, I heard back when people first started doing this that it wasn't a spectacular experience due to VNC controls on a touch screen being poor.
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I read about this a while back and can't remember exactly how it worked, but apparently it does run on the phone/tablet along side the Android operating system and you do indeed have to VNC into it.
Also, I heard back when people first started doing this that it wasn't a spectacular experience due to VNC controls on a touch screen being poor.
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Weird... I'm not quite sure how that would work - you'd be multitasking the OSes.. which is brutal.
Oh well, time to do a little digging.
We need a native port of Ubuntu because this will transform our tablet into a more productive product then tablets with Win8 .
An alternative would be "Ubuntu for Android", but again, is not available.
The VNC thing is lacking pressure sensitive controls, the protocol does not support this.
how to install？
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Ok... perhaps I'm being dense.. but the original post seems to be claiming he has Ubuntu running *ON* his Note. Which to me means 'I've overwritten Android and am using Ubuntu as the operating system on this tablet'. VNC should have NOTHING to do with it. (Which brings us back to 'why is there an Android menu bar at the bottom?)
If you're running VNC and just remoting to computer using Ubuntu, then it's not running on the tablet, you're just remoting in - which would work with Windows or MacOS just as well.
The other possibility, which also doesn't need VNC is if you got VirtualBox or some other emulator running and were running Ubuntu on that - which would be pretty cool, although not THAT spectacular.
So?
Which is it?
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the note runs a ARM image of ubuntu, using chroot and VNC into it (localhost or127.0.0.1).
it would be pretty pointless to show it running off a pc.
So based on my understanding, you installed ubuntu on your galaxy note 10.1 (which runs in parallel with the android OS) and the only way to access it is through VNC at the local port? Is my understanding correct?
If yes, does this run GIMP like other ARM linux devices?, cause this might make me want to buy a note 10.1 more (Still on the fence since I can only buy it on December). Could you also post the resource links/scripts so that other members with their notes can try? I'd also like to ask how is the performance over VNC? Does it lag a bit?
You can install GIMP and other apps that are not architecture dependent. However it is not for everyday use as it is rather slow. I haven't tried image editing yet. Vnc doesn't support pen pressure and all that.
I will upload the script once I clean it up a bit and plug a few holes
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how to install？
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Easiest way is this app, it has links to prebuilt ARM images and all that good stuff.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zpwebsites.linuxonandroid
Anyway, for people who are confused, all chroot does is essentially let you start up Ubuntu userspace stuff on top of the Android kernel, since it's just a Linux kernel anyway. The main benefit is to be able to run any ARM linux software, although graphical stuff is fairly useless because currently there isn't any complete port of X11 to Android so you have to use VNC to run graphical stuff which becomes generally pretty slow no matter the device. You can also SSH into the Ubuntu install which I find more useful for eg. running a web server development environment, or just to have git/ssh/other proper Linux utilities rather than having to use busybox stuff. Personally I think the most useful thing is if you're a vim/emacs user and have a bluetooth keyboard, you can get a lot of work done that way. My emacs-fu is weak so I haven't really used it that much to be honest.
So the performance with gui sucks as of now. Oh well I'll just wait for the official ubuntu OS to be available:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_for_Android
Based on initial data, these are the system requirements:
According to Canonical a phone needs the following requirements:[6]
Dual-core 1 GHz CPU
Video acceleration: shared kernel driver with associated X driver; OpenGL, ES/EGL
Storage: 2 GB for OS disk image
HDMI: video-out with secondary framebuffer device
USB host mode
512 MB RAM
Hope someone ports the official builds on the ubuntu phones and makes compatible drivers for the wacom and touchscreen.
It honestly is pretty impressive and interesting that we are able to use a full "desktop OS" on our phones on the go.
But I was reflecting on the state of things, and could not think up many reasons to really use it.
I WANT to use it, it looks like a lot of potential. But I want to use it to do some useful / interesting things with it. Not for the gimmick.
Important point 1:
I know that probably there are a lot of coding/hacking/network stuff you can do with it but I am NOT interested in that, not even outside Linux, DeX, or anywhere. I am a game designer/planner (and player of course) and also enjoy 3D modeling, and general audio and visual media / games / art stuff.
Important point 2:
Please refrain from suggesting stuff that can be done on regular Android mode DeX, like for instance Word/Excel/Office documents editing, or web browsing etc.
I could only think about using GIMP, and Audacity?
Anything really nice for productivity and/or fun, that requires Linux mode?
Please share your opinions!
gamekill said:
It honestly is pretty impressive and interesting that we are able to use a full "desktop OS" on our phones on the go.
But I was reflecting on the state of things, and could not think up many reasons to really use it.
I WANT to use it, it looks like a lot of potential. But I want to use it to do some useful / interesting things with it. Not for the gimmick.
Important point 1:
I know that probably there are a lot of coding/hacking/network stuff you can do with it but I am NOT interested in that, not even outside Linux, DeX, or anywhere. I am a game designer/planner (and player of course) and also enjoy 3D modeling, and general audio and visual media / games / art stuff.
Important point 2:
Please refrain from suggesting stuff that can be done on regular Android mode DeX, like for instance Word/Excel/Office documents editing, or web browsing etc.
I could only think about using GIMP, and Audacity?
Anything really nice for productivity and/or fun, that requires Linux mode?
Please share your opinions!
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Someone in another thread on xda mentioned they got Blender up and running. Don't know if that helps. Plus of course as you mentioned, Gimp, Audacity etc.
Imo, the Office difference is not trivial. The android apps (at least MS) are still limited on features. LOD browser allows use of Office online, which is not possible on the android browser.
If you need even more, can use Libre Office on Linux which is a full fledged office suite largely compatible with MSO except for some complex formats and vba.
Most other stuff works fine on plain DeX. Suppose that's why Samsung seems to be aiming this mostly at developers.
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Someone in another thread on xda mentioned they got Blender up and running. Don't know if that helps. Plus of course as you mentioned, Gimp, Audacity etc.
Imo, the Office difference is not trivial. The android apps (at least MS) are still limited on features. LOD browser allows use of Office online, which is not possible on the android browser.
If you need even more, can use Libre Office (...)
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Thanks!
Gonna try and find out if Blender runs decent enough.
Office programs, I barely use any features, very basic usage only, so I guess that is why for me it seems like the same.