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[INFO] File transfer on OSX and Linux

I know some people have had issues with transferring files to OSX or Linux distros with their tablet, this is because only windows has MTP drivers by default which honeycomb now uses instead of USB Mass Storage protocol. This is so the tablet can use the internal storage even while being mounted on the PC.
Android file transfer for OSX:
link
This will give you a simple file transfer interface for OSX, just run the program with the tablet connected by USB.
gMTP for Ubuntu/Linux:
link
if gMTP doesn't work for you or if you prefer having storage show up in nautilus:
link
gMTP is actually made for managing music on PMP devices but it will let you manage files as well.
Hope that helps.

Wow! I just found Android file transfer minutes before you posted this. I wish there was a way to see the removable media folder.
Sent from my HTC Eva 4G using Tapatalk

Jocelyn said:
Wow! I just found Android file transfer minutes before you posted this. I wish there was a way to see the removable media folder.
Sent from my HTC Eva 4G using Tapatalk
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I've actually posted it in several topics, so I got sick of reposting it and made this thread. Hopefully it gets stickied or referenced in a sticky so people will be able to easily find this info since it's pretty critical.

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Jocelyn said:
Wow! I just found Android file transfer minutes before you posted this. I wish there was a way to see the removable media folder.
Sent from my HTC Eva 4G using Tapatalk
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You can see the removable card, it's in the MicroSD folder WITHIN the Device Storage root folder.

seshmaru said:
I know some people have had issues with transferring files to OSX or Linux distros with their tablet, this is because only windows has MTP drivers by default which honeycomb now uses instead of USB Mass Storage protocol. This is so the tablet can use the internal storage even while being mounted on the PC.
Android file transfer for OSX:
link
This will give you a simple file transfer interface for OSX, just run the program with the tablet connected by USB.
gMTP for Ubuntu/Linux:
link
gMTP is actually made for managing music on PMP devices but it will let you manage files as well.
Hope that helps.
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Anything special need to be done, or extra packages need to be installed to get gMTP working in ubuntu Natty. Installed via cli and then plugged in my device and nothing. is there some sort of trigger on the device? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Matchstick said:
You can see the removable card, it's in the MicroSD folder WITHIN the Device Storage root folder.
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But the default mnt point is /mnt/sdcard and I can't get to /mnt Do I need to be rooted to get to access or is there anyway to collapse to /mnt so I can get into mnt/recovery???

rockcrawler said:
Anything special need to be done, or extra packages need to be installed to get gMTP working in ubuntu Natty. Installed via cli and then plugged in my device and nothing. is there some sort of trigger on the device? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Bump..... anyone?
Sent from my CM7 Supersonic

rockcrawler said:
Bump..... anyone?
Sent from my CM7 Supersonic
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Mine instantly worked on 10.10, so I wouldn't know sorry.
EDIT: I did find this however http://www.xoomforums.com/forum/mot...ussion/691-mount-internal-storage-ubuntu.html

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/i386/gmtp/0.9-1 this is the one for natty i believe.
edit: nothing comes up when i plug it in. i get no devices found

I'm not having much luck with this either on natty.
I rooted and added custom recovery with mine, and now I can't get it to work even with adb. Tablet works fine, I just can't get to the internal memory from my pc anymore.
Does the vendor id change after adding cmw or rooting?
What is the correct vendor id? I used 091E

ogg1e said:
I'm not having much luck with this either on natty.
I rooted and added custom recovery with mine, and now I can't get it to work even with adb. Tablet works fine, I just can't get to the internal memory from my pc anymore.
Does the vendor id change after adding cmw or rooting?
What is the correct vendor id? I used 091E
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If you run lsusb, you should see this line:
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0b05:4e1f ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
The vendorid is 0b05.

I am trying the method using mtpfs (Nautilus) and I'm getting this error when trying to create a directory on the Transformer:
Code:
Error creating directory: Software caused connection abort
And this error when copy a file over to the /sdcard/Pictures folder:
Code:
Error stating file '/media/Tablet/Pictures': Transport endpoint is not connected
Any ideas?
EDIT: I'm rooted with blob v5.

GMTP Lucid 64
After trying mtpfs with no luck, I got gMTP to work with Ubuntu Lucid AMD 64 bit. I think the trick is you need to compile it yourself.

[Q] Rooted NST not recognized by PC

Apologies if this duplicates an old thread, but I couldn't find another one...
I rooted my Nook Simple Touch using Touchnooter 1.1, and now it can't be recognized by my PC. I can't copy files to it.
I bought several Google eBooks recently that I'd like to read on my NST, but they can't be loaded, as Adobe Digital Editions can't see the Nook (or doesn't recognize it). Google Books doesn't work, either. It just stays on a rotating 'loading' icon forever, never loading the book.
Any thoughts?

Not recognized? You mean on USB? No volumes mounted?
You can certainly transfer your books over ADB on WiFi if that's working.
If you can get to a shell on ADB try a "mount" command.
The last two lines should be like:
Code:
/dev/block//vold/179:6 /media vfat rw ...
/dev/block//vold/179:17 /sdcard vfat rw ...

DoomMunky said:
Apologies if this duplicates an old thread, but I couldn't find another one...
I rooted my Nook Simple Touch using Touchnooter 1.1, and now it can't be recognized by my PC. I can't copy files to it.
I bought several Google eBooks recently that I'd like to read on my NST, but they can't be loaded, as Adobe Digital Editions can't see the Nook (or doesn't recognize it). Google Books doesn't work, either. It just stays on a rotating 'loading' icon forever, never loading the book.
Any thoughts?
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Using a root method that enables ADB over USB can mess up the drivers on Windows and make the Nook partition inaccessible.
There are two options:
1: Re-root with a ramdisk that enables ADB over WiFi (might not help)
2: Properly install Google drivers for ADB over USB (search this forum)

Dammit. It's so darn complicated. I was hoping to recommend this method to my non-geek friends so they could have simple little tablets too, but this all is just too much work for them (and for me). This is why people buy Apple.
If I go back to a rooted Nook (I returned to stock) I'll look into this stuff. Thanks for the tips, folks.

Oh! Check what driver you have on the Windows machine.
Under "Device Manager" if it shows Android anywhere then you have the Android ADB USB drivers loaded.
This would prevent the USB Mass Storage driver from being loaded.
Did you load the ADB USB drivers?

God, I have no idea if I loaded the ADB USB drivers. I just did the normal TouchNooter1.1 install, which includes basic Google Apps.
Then when my PC didn't recognize the rooted NST, I gave up and went back to stock! I'm not a true rooter.

@DoomMunky: Aw, don't get disheartened. Soon you'll be rolling your own kernels!
So you got your Nook to be recognized by your PC now?

Only by reverting to stock firmware. I'm running basic 1.1 now, no Android anything, and it's fine.
If I end up re-rooting in the future, what steps should I take to ensure my PC still allows simple book transfers to my Nook Simple Touch?

MTP on Ubuntu/Mint/Debian

With many devices not supporting mass storage anymore Android seemed to have moved from mass storage to PTP and MTP
With Windows supporting MTP by default and Mac OSX with an application there isn't any native support in Linux.
There are a few work arounds like gMTP but that didn't really work for me.
There also is another work around that requires you to edit some files.
To make it easier for others I wrote a little bash script, that does most for you.
Step 1 : sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs
Step 2 : Plugin your device
Step 3 : Open up a terminal
Step 4 : Type in : “mtp-detect”
Step 5 : Write the PID and VID down, you will need this later
Step 6 : disconnect your device
Step 7 : Download the script and execute it by sudo ./mtp (don't forget to make it an executable first)
Step 8: Follow the instructions on screen and after it's done reboot and plugin your device
Step 9: Use the command "android-connect" to mount your device and "android-disconnect" to dismount
It's not much, but I hope it helped someone.
Please let me know if it worked for your device/distro.
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Tested and working on the P3110 and P5110.
EDIT 1:
(First) time mount can take up to 1-2 minutes, have had where it would mount in a few seconds, others half a minute. Be patient.

mussieonlinux said:
With many devices not supporting mass storage anymore Android seemed to have moved from mass storage to PTP and MTP
Tested and working on the P3110 and P5110.
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Thanks for this. I think I have tried all this before and it has not worked, but will try again. A few things come to mind though. First, I think you have to turn USB debugging off, right? There is another thread where several of us are able to see the tablet, but not really get any files. Also there is a way to get the tablet to share PTP or MTP and that changes things too (PTP lets me see the top level but no subdirectories).
Will report back if this works or not.

I think USB debugging has to be on, at least for my phone. Mine is always on on all my devices.
Yeah you can see it in the file manager (1 for each SD card) with MTP but you can't access the files.
I am not sure about the PTP.. However for the MTP I just made a new folder in on my other SD card named extSD since MTP shows all directories of both sdcards in one directory.

mussieonlinux said:
I think USB debugging has to be on, at least for my phone. Mine is always on on all my devices.
Yeah you can see it in the file manager (1 for each SD card) with MTP but you can't access the files.
I am not sure about the PTP.. However for the MTP I just made a new folder in on my other SD card named extSD since MTP shows all directories of both sdcards in one directory.
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Nope doesn't work with or without USB debug. I think the issue may be due to some problem with mtp-tools on 64 bit Linux. Are you running 32?
The mtpfs mounts but any attempt to list the mounted directory just hangs.

I am using 64bit, did you do the reboot and android-connect? If you are using nautilus you wont see your device under "Devices". You will see it above your filesystem.
Can you tell me what isn't working?

mussieonlinux said:
I am using 64bit, did you do the reboot and android-connect? If you are using nautilus you wont see your device under "Devices". You will see it above your filesystem.
Can you tell me what isn't working?
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Well I'm using Kubuntu so no Nautilus. And I'm just looking at the mount point. My udev rules already have an entry for the mtd device. I also grabbed the latest libmtd and built it from source.
The fuse mount seems to work but any ls on the mount point just hangs forever.
Very strange.

At times like this I miss ubuntu
On my Arch (+XFCE), I use gMTP (uses mtpfs ofcourse). Most of the times it works, and then there are times when it is a pain in the a##. Gets stuck, does not respond, fails to copy what not.
I find the only reliable way is using adb.
Gosh! I push and pull everytime! :silly:

yeah, after a couple of days I found it not very stable at all, so I too switched over to ADB, it's not the fastest method. But we gotta get around, don't we?

I am also waiting for a permanent fix... Just switched back to Ubuntu from Windows 8 Preview, and I love it!!!
The only issue I have at the moment is the fact that I cannot connect directly to the PC from the Tab, although transfer speeds are better by removing the memory card and inserting it into the computer directly. Would be nice to use Rhythmbox to manage my MP3s.
I've tried a few solutions and nothing seems to work fully. I'll give the ideas mentioned above a try.

I have found my peace finally with qtADB.
By far the fastest, and most efficient app for this job.
qtadb[dot]wordpress[dot]com

Worked on my Galaxy S2 (i9100G) with cm10 nightly TY!

Worked only once! i get this...

Hello, this worked greatly on my ubuntu machine. Would this work on an ArchLinux headless PC? I'm willing to try it out if this doesn't mess anything up.

I can confirm this does not work on virtual box not sure on vmware as i dont have it so idk.

[email protected]:~$ android-connect
fuse: bad mount point `/media/GT-P3100': Transport endpoint is not connected
[email protected]:~$
As you can see above, i tried this for P3100. Can someone tell me what am i doing wrong here? I really want to handle my device from Ubuntu 12.04.

hi there,
in newer kernel - at this thime for example debain testing jessie - is kio-mtp implemented. this compinent load your nexus 4 mtp device autmotically like in windows. can access device via filemenager without doing steps in console before. in long time support distribution - example debian stable wheezy - this is not implemented yet. you can compile own your own to get this working
kio-mtp is for kde
gnome-vfs with mtp is for gnome

Works on Kali Linux with 3.14 kernel - HTC One with 4.4.3. Thanks a lot

MTP, Mass Storage, Linux

So I have my Nexus 7. It ran fine when I was under Windows. Now that I'm back to running linux again (Arch Linux) the mass storage isn't working anymore. After a bit of reading around it's apparently because it using the MTP protocol which is a Microsoft based protocol. I understand that there are hacky libraries that I can install that may or may not make it work properly, but that's not what I want. I just want to be able to go back into mass storage mode like it used to be. I don't want to have to deal with some janky proprietary protocol when it isn't necessary. Is there any way to get back mass storage mode like the way it used to be, or are people over android 3.0 just S.O.L? Is there an option is CyanogenMod or is it something they may be working on at some point? The open standards, flexibility and freedom was the entire reason I chose to use android over ios in the first place.. this is really unfortunate.
Not trying to come off as an entitled twat, but this is really frusterating :/

I've never get it to work in Linux. I've tried updating MTP to the latest subversion/cvs and just couldn't get it to do anything.
I have to use adb to transfer anything!

On Ubuntu, I've managed to get it working with mtpfs and gMTP. Not sure how useful that is for Arch though...

rowanparker said:
I've never get it to work in Linux. I've tried updating MTP to the latest subversion/cvs and just couldn't get it to do anything.
I have to use adb to transfer anything!
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This is what I do as well.
There are ways to get it working but they (for me) were a pain and for some reason yielded super slow transfers.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

HawkiesZA said:
On Ubuntu, I've managed to get it working with mtpfs and gMTP. Not sure how useful that is for Arch though...
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I use mtpfs and it works, ish.
The bigger the file, the longer it sits there after I use cp, and then after a bit [maybe 10 secs for 350MB file, much longer for bigger files], it will say something about preserving timestamps not being implemented, and it looks like it finished copying. But it has only just started. So I use du to see how big the file is, and for me I get around 14MB/s once it has started transferring. Not too shabby, but the overhead is ridiculous. I want mass storage mode too!

Hi!
I've made a little solution for mounting Nexus 7 to Linux pc.
Using mtpfs was laggy, don't know why, so I used similar tool, called go-mtpfs for that (project link) with some changes (see here).
Just untar attached archive, and run install.sh.
It uses udev to automatically mount and unmount device on plugging/unplugging. (no non-root unmounting though)
Checked on Ubuntu 12.04, but must work with others versions and distros, i guess.

thanks to everyone for your comments and responses. the way everyone is talking it seems really grim... are we really just stuck with trying to make mtp work? there's no way to have it go back into mass storage mode?
i even tried to mount my sd card in cwm and that didn't even work. later on i'm going to try installing twrp to see if that'll allow me to mount my drive properly.

well, neither cwm nor twrp allow me to mount the sdcard. i did a lot of scouring around and i think I may have found why it won't work in recovery either.
It's true that Galaxy Nexus doesn't support UMC because the sdcard is a subfolder of the data partition instead of independent, like in the Galaxy S2. But I was talking about OTG, it is mounting an usb pendrive to save cwm backups there.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/archive/index.php/t-1500008.html
i know this is a different device, but i don't see why it would be any different. i'm gunna start mixing and matching kernels with recoveries to see if i can make that work. and if i truly and honestly can't get it working in mass storage mode i'll just stick with adb push.

vpupkin said:
Hi!
I've made a little solution for mounting Nexus 7 to Linux pc.
Using mtpfs was laggy, don't know why, so I used similar tool, called go-mtpfs for that (project link) with some changes (see here).
Just untar attached archive, and run install.sh.
It uses udev to automatically mount and unmount device on plugging/unplugging. (no non-root unmounting though)
Checked on Ubuntu 12.04, but must work with others versions and distros, i guess.
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Forgot to mention that you have to restart udev

I am finding it's just less hassle to use Airdroid.
gMTP is the only acceptable method I have found in linux but it seems to hang a lot for me.

I found gMTP to be very slow, appearing to hang at times. So I set up Samba and use ES File Explorer on the tablet to access my shared mount points. It's possibly not as fast as AirDroid but is an easy solution, though it means controlling everything from the Nexus 7.
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Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2

I simply use adb. I was recently turned onto QtADB which is adb with a gui and some other cool features. I would highly recommended it.
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I use gMTP on ubuntu. I really don't have any complaints about it. It does act like it's hanging at times but I've always found it to recover just fine without any additional issues. It's not wicked fast but it does what I need. I often utilize samba and airdroid for specific uses but sometimes I find gMTP to be an easy wired based solution.

mentose457 said:
I simply use adb. I was recently turned onto QtADB which is adb with a gui and some other cool features. I would highly recommended it.
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+1000 for you. That solved all my problems working with my files and my android devices.

adb worked perfectly for me! Download the android SDK and then under platform-tools directory,
./adb push <local> <remote>

fgoyti said:
adb worked perfectly for me! Download the android SDK and then under platform-tools directory,
./adb push <local> <remote>
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Yes but how fast (slow) does it transfer? 1MB/s?
Sent from my SCH-I500 using xda app-developers app

I transferred 500MB in 1-2 minutes. Sorry, didn't record anything more specific but even at 2 min, that works out to 4MB/s which ain't bad

As many have suggested, just read up on adb and use that. If you need to get something off the N7 and dont quite remember were it went to.. adb shell and cd to the sdcard and ls the dir. It'll print everything cd in to the next folder you think it may be in ls.. it'll show the contents. If you dont like having to put things into the android-sdk-linux/platform-tools and then having to cd into that dir everytime. Just add the platform-tools to your PATH and you can issue commands through any directory. It is very unfortunate that MTP leaves us Linux users in the dark.

Also, if you have a rooted kernel such as Siyah for the Galaxy S2, it lets you force mass storage mode. I haven't tested this but it looks like it should work for linux

ÜBER™ said:
As many have suggested, just read up on adb and use that. If you need to get something off the N7 and dont quite remember were it went to.. adb shell and cd to the sdcard and ls the dir. It'll print everything cd in to the next folder you think it may be in ls.. it'll show the contents. If you dont like having to put things into the android-sdk-linux/platform-tools and then having to cd into that dir everytime. Just add the platform-tools to your PATH and you can issue commands through any directory. It is very unfortunate that MTP leaves us Linux users in the dark.
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Well, with some little configuration, it's not a big thing to configure MTP or even automount-MTP on Linux systems. A small introduction you can find in my blog http://anddisa.blogspot.de
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Linux native on acer iconia a series (a200)

Hello to every body
I tried to post on the > Acer Iconia A500 > Iconia A500 Android Development > seccion but it says that I do not have permissions.
Expecifly to this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158260. So this is my post:
I found an boot.img file that I was flash with fastboot on my a200, this modified boot allow me to diseable the boot from mmcblk0p0 partition on my internal storage device, and boot from mmcblk1p2 partition on my external sdcard.
I was try with ubuntu 10.x first time, I can get input device support and touchscreen support, when I connect the usb keyboard do not work.
So I was try debian test edition, I was get usb support for keyboard and mouse device. I can get support for touchscreen.
I can get support for wireless card, the firmware for it appear to be on the kernel but lshw -c network show me that wlan0 is disabled and I can get to up it. so I can get update or upgrade the system, I will try to install some .deb manually download its depends one by one.
Libre office works perfectly, I get more memory support, I mean on android I get 700 Mb of RAM memor, on Debian I get about 900 Mb.
I just have a 2Gb sdcard so I can not install so much aplications right now.
Can somebody help me get wireless support for my device?
Thanks

montolla said:
I found an boot.img file that I was flash with fastboot on my a200, this modified boot allow me to diseable the boot from mmcblk0p0 partition on my internal storage device, and boot from mmcblk1p2 partition on my external sdcard.
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I am trying to do the same thing right now. I found that the rootfs in "option 1" of this posting works:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158260&page=36
Can you tell me where you found the boot.img file you mention? The one I have tries to mount a non-existent partition. I have to connect a USB keyboard and type the commands to mount mmcblk1p2.

boot.img
Hello
I found the modified boot.img on http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158260, more exactly on http://www.mediafire.com/?p32l949n2s7la43.
So I put my acer on fastboot mode (poweron with volume down press and where brivate and show acer logo, move the lock rotate screen tow or tree times to get fastboot mode) and use fastboot.exe (windows, on linux fastboot.sh....) from the sdk of android and run this command: fastboot flash boot newrec.img.
So the fastboot.exe show write file and rebooting.
the device will reboot and you show on it the kernel booting (no boot screen is showing).
The next step you can found it on the thread. but is more or less format the sdcard, create a ext3 or ext4 partition small ass primary and boot, create a second one on ext3 or ext4 and put the rootfs or linux kernel on the second one.
I use the android app that allow to run linux chroot on android to install the debian core, its depends and the lxde desktop.
But fisrt of all you need to back up your boot.img from your device, you can use clockworkmode to make a nandroid back up, in the folder of the back up you can find your boot.img file to run android again.
you can use fastoot to get the actual boot.img but you need to find on google.
Good look!
Thanks for reply
chappell said:
I am trying to do the same thing right now. I found that the rootfs in "option 1" of this posting works:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1158260&page=36
Can you tell me where you found the boot.img file you mention? The one I have tries to mount a non-existent partition. I have to connect a USB keyboard and type the commands to mount mmcblk1p2.
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Hello to everybody
I was installed Debian "native" on my acer a200 16Gb one.
I used lxde with lightdm as desktop environment.
I get working my WiFi module and connect to my personal network.
At first time I get the correct firmware but for some reason it says that the hardware bottom is locked and I can not execute "ifconfig wlan0 up".
I move the lock screen switch and surprise! the WiFi interface works. The lock rotate screen switch seems to be the WiFi disable button on the laptop.
When I reboot the systems and boot again the WiFi just gone. I need to power off and turn on manually to get work again.
I can get the touchscreen device work. It seems to be recognized but the xorg.conf not work.
I try on gnome but my 2Gb sdcard class 4 can contain it. I need a 5 Gb one. I do not have enough money right now.
the a200 just have one usb port, so I can not use my usb keyboard and mouse at same time. I will need a USB switch perhaps.
The Bluetooth device seems to be detected but the lxde do not have support right now for it. I will try on gnome later.
So I need to work on touchscreen, Bluetooth and gps (I do not know hot to do that on Linux....).
The nvidia-tegra 2 seems to be detected but I do not how to tested.
Next I need to install directly on a200 internal storage and put android on the sdcard.
So how can I put Debian on internal storage? can I create a new partition table on it and create a swap partition, a /(root) partition on ext4 and home partition on external sdcard?
I will try lubuntu and ubuntu on the a200 later.
Thanks

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montolla said:
Hello to everybody
I can get the touchscreen device work. It seems to be recognized but the xorg.conf not work.
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according dmseg the only i see is regcognized is gyro, mic jack and usb port. where did u seen touchscreen, it could help me get it working
i dont know if its a good ideo to store debian on internal memory....first partition on sdcard should work if u can modify the boot.img
thanks for the hint with lockscreen alias wifi switch

A kernel Dev has arrived...
If anyone is still interested, I have compiled a bootable kernel with TOUCHSCREEN driver to run native linux on the Acer Iconia Tab A200. This kernel mounts the rootfs from the 2nd partition of the external SDcard (mmcblk1p2). I've posted it here on dropbox >>URL= https:[slash-slash]dl[dot]dropboxusercontent[dot]com/u/183913275/linux/neoboot-TSdebug2.img

Hello
I was install bedian permanently on my iconia a200.
But I need to use the emmc device but I can figurate how can I do that?
I can access fast boot or recovery. Justa start debian, no android etc.
Thanks