sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place...
I'm very new to android, but I recently played with a friend's G1 running Android 2.1 and fell in love with the OS, and now I want to put Android (don't really care which version, anything is better than WinMo 5) onto my Palm Treo 750 on the AT&T network. what would I need to know in order to accomplish this?
Because my contract is up in a little under a month, I do not mind if I brick my phone that much - I can just switch back to my old Treo 650 until I can get a new phone dirt cheap when I renew.
I'm even willing to try out an experimental code that someone is trying to debug.
My one restriction is because I'm running 64-bit Windows 7, I can't directly sync my phone with my computer, I have to be able to run the upgrade to Android from a 2Gb Micro SD card.
So any suggestions?
and thanks in advance,
Odin
You could try to download and follow the instructions on: AndroidOnHtc.
I had luck just trying to HaRET.exe on different versions.
I wouldn't however ditch the CE 5.0 just yet. Without official handset manufacturer support it is unlikely to get all the features working.
Here is a List of features I have seen not working on some devices:
WiFi (actually on most)
GPS
Sound (for example on the touch pro 2)
Bluetooth (not that I care)
Screen resolution (especially if just using a Bundle designed for a different device.)
Let us know how you get on. So far I have only seen it running on HTC devices. So good luck.
Newromancer said:
WiFi (actually on most)
GPS
Sound (for example on the touch pro 2)
Bluetooth (not that I care)
Screen resolution (especially if just using a Bundle designed for a different device.)
Let us know how you get on. So far I have only seen it running on HTC devices. So good luck.
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Don't use WiFi, GPS, or Blue Tooth, so all I have to really worry about (other than bricking) is sound and screen resolution.
As for only working HTC phones, from what I've read, the Treo 750 is essentially a re-packaged HTC phone - though I cannot remember which one they cited.
Thanks, I'll check out that link and keep everyone appraised is I manage to get it up and running.
Odin5061
okay. since Android got it self a forum, i thougt we need a Ubuntu thread. I have no idea if this post belong here, but i belive it needs to be somewhere. I love to have a full Ubuntu running with WiFi at least. The Andriod and Ubuntu thread is overwhelmd with Andriod dev so here i go. If the Ubuntu developers for HD2 want to setup a thread of there own i would love it
Also read the first sticky Linux post for current info and files . Im not a developer just a user hoping for further development on Ubuntu, and i hope im not alone out there
My story so far:
I have used Ubunto now for a while with a USB hub with a mouse, keyboard, soundcard and external power. So far i found Ubunto to be a bit unstable. Feels like its easy to make it drop out. I have ended up with no startmeny and no computer icons, leaving me with just desktop pic and i have to press power/hangupp button to shut it down.
Also playing music in included music player is a bit shaky, sometime i dont get audio and need to change a couple of tracks to get it to play again.
BTW anybody have a password problem? If i want to change time as a example,i need to type a password and its not accepting "ubuntu"?
Also, anybody have managed to get landscape somehow? Would also be nice to get WiFi up and running, so if a dev has any ideas on possible updates on progress would be nice. I have no mobile usb dongle so i havent been able to try that.
So how your experience so far? Type away and lets at least share what we know.
Best regards from me.
ROM, latest NRG cookie dilink glass edition
Radio, 2,12,50
only ubuntu download link i found
gamesquare.co.uk/ubuntuh.html
wow, talkabout being the only one wanting Ubuntu on my HD2. Sorry, wont ask again.
I would definitely be interested in running Ubuntu on my HD2 - it is the OS of choice for my desktop. Is there any bluetooth support at present? I have a BT keyboard / mousepad combo and that would make it very useable for me.
ok but if i don't have a keyboard for my phone and i want to use ubuntu .. i reallt can't use it ? is there any virtual keyboard ..?
Bluetooth and WiFi is currently not working, also no sound.
BUT there is built in usb support. I went to rhe cheepest electronic store and bougt a USB HUB that has its own power adaptor, also som USB cables and adaptors.
A regular pc keyboard, mouse, mobile internet dongle etc. Everything being USB can be used. And i also found in a drawer of mine a usb stick soundcard. So basicly as it is now, all works with some cheep usb tec, but as stated, i have no mobile internet so dont know if it works.I did get to borrow a dongle for like 5min and it found the internet supplyer etc so should work i guess.
Now i realise for some that they might go banana because they cant use Ubuntu without USB gadgets. But thats one reason to try to get the developers attention. If you get to connect some usb stuff(mouse being the least, no k-board if you want to just try it out, i belive you will get hooked on the idea and trying out stuff of your own. I find it fun connecting all old USB stuff i have lying around.
Next step is to add my 1TB usb drive, maybe get to watch some movies.
So, its Ubunto is its birth at least crawling. But with the full attention on Andriod it seems Ubuntu is getting forgotten, hence this thread, so they notice us, and while we wait, try it and report here in lack of space, only wish this could be a sticky or a seperat dev Ubuntu thread because, were drowning in the Android happiness going on.
I will keep testing its 0,1 beta further to se what makes it tick. But im no developer, just a concernd fan, but im having fun, so i report my findings, fun to be in the edge, or birth of something so comon, bring out the dea...ops, i mean bring out your USB gadgets and play, who knows, you might have fun as i.
..oh, sorry for missing one reply here. Found no virtual keyboard so far, this password thing is my biggest concern atm, its like admin rights i need.
Some touch screen implementation is in there, so you can use your fingers to move around and dubble tapp opens SOME stuff and menys. Not very presise but it works if your patient.
Heres a list of USB gadgets im using atm.
HUB: Plexgear, 4 usb ports + 1 data port (its where you plugin you HD2) + power adaptor (Incl in the package)
Mouse: A old Microsoft 2.0 wired mouse and a reaaally sheep wirless mouse, just tried if wireless mouse would work, and i can confirm it does.
Keyboard: A mini keyboard named Zippy with built in blue lights, got to type in style =)
Sound: A no name usb stick not much larger then the usb reciver for a wirless mouse. All it says on the stick is " USB Audio Controller. I belive i heard somthing they going for the amout of 17$ or somthing.
Harddrive: Tryed my 1TB drive, maybe its to large to get recognized or something, but i cant find it atm.
BTW Anybody have a small USB HD lying around they could test?
Nakazul said:
okay. since Android got it self a forum, i thougt we need a Ubuntu thread. I have no idea if this post belong here, but i belive it needs to be somewhere.
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'HD2 Android Development' naming is erroneous for that reason. I vote we rename the forum Linux and Android development.
-Most elementary progress is seated in the kernel - which has nothing to do with android in the first place. The kernel is Linux and not android.
-Android is not the only userland usable. As seen here there is ubuntu and other stuff.
edit: Find a thread discussing this issue here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=654560
I can fix you ubuntu 0.2 with wifi and all kinds of stuff soon.
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wow, talkabout being the only one wanting Ubuntu on my HD2. Sorry, wont ask again.
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cant wait to boot up ubuntu on my hd2. But still cant even boot up with v0.1.
dcordes, ur great man! love how the team actually progresses to achieve the current state.
just would like to ask issit possible, technically, to tap on gprs while running ubuntu? Was thinking bout it but not technically sure.
wangiles said:
dcordes, ur great man! love how the team actually progresses to achieve the current state.
just would like to ask issit possible, technically, to tap on gprs while running ubuntu? Was thinking bout it but not technically sure.
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you're welcome. yes that's possible I'm working on it as we speak.
speedwie said:
cant wait to boot up ubuntu on my hd2. But still cant even boot up with v0.1.
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Hmm, thats bad. I read the read me file and it booted up nicly. Are you using stock rom or somthing? What happent for you?
What i did was basicly just extract the folder "Ubuntu and copied it to storage card so the Ubuntu folder was in the root of the SD. First try i had no hub or mouse or anything connected just to se if it worked.
Im using latest NRG rom from 24th, cookie Dinik version with 2.12.50 radio, i have 575MB activated.
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I can fix you ubuntu 0.2 with wifi and all kinds of stuff soon.
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woooo, lovly, cant wait to try it out.
linux distro
wich linux distro would it be better for android?
i would say the ubuntu netbook remix
but thats only me...
i can't wait to use it, the kernel its almost done anyway (android), also wouldn't it be possible to swap between the 2 of them? (android and linux) i know you can with a piece of software change between gnome and kde or other in ubuntu, i already used it.
cheers
linux
in android you just can't keep up with the thread, speak of linux and nobody cares, ndo they know what we are on about?
i don't think so...
I've been using Ubuntu linux as the only OS on my laptop I use for everything (school, work, personal stuff) for about a year now. I absolutely love it, and if it weren't for games and some work stuff, I would also switch to Ubuntu with my desktop. One thing that did give me a lot of headaches on my laptop was my phone though: I've had lots of trouble with the combination of my HD2 and ubuntu/linux (obviously, since M$ does not support linux at all).
But still, I don't really feel the need to have ubuntu on my phone. I'm happy with android because that is supported well by my ubuntu laptop, but I don't see how an OS that has been made for screens of 7" or bigger (taking into account the netbook edition, otherwise I'd say 12") and input by mouse/keyboard can be really useful on a 4" mobile phone.
If you want a debian-based distro that is useful on your phone I'd look at Maemo/Meego: these distro's are more open and desktop-like than android but have been made for usage on a phone (touch)screen. I just have no idea how much work it would be to port one of these OSes.
I respect that people want to tinker around with ubuntu and try to get it to work, but personally I think it is best to have as many as possible developers working on Android itself rather than not-so-useful side projects...
ah well, just my two cents
port linux
to port ubuntu or any other distro to a mobile all you need is the kernel, for htc hd2 its almost ready, on top of the kernel you can put whichever linux u want, maemo android linux whatever u want.
I know that, I was talking about the portability of the OS itself... the software on the OS has to communicate with the right drivers and stuff. Since android runs on HTC devices with similar software, a lot of stuff can be copied. Maemo normally runs on a Nokia device, Ubuntu is mainly developed for x86/x64 hardware, that's why I think they're more of a job to port.
yeah should be quite a challenge but i believe that is what drives this guys, anyway ubuntu is already running on hd2 my concerns are actually the distro to be used that makes it usable, i mean if i have to carry a keyboard and mouse to make it work its not very practical. i rather have a choice to use it or not, regarding the os communicating with the drivers it should be quite straight forward since ubuntu is pretty much plug and play at the moment, it will detect your hardware (drivers).
Hi guys.
Have you guys heard if anybody is working on getting Android x86 to support the hardware in the shift?
maybe that : http://www.androidx86.org/screenshots.html
Anybody try this? It support the samsung q1 ultra, and it is similar to our shift...
I have it running on my shift as we speak, (well it was till the screen turned off, now it won't turn back on again though didn't really expect the power management to work tbh)
Wifi : Not working
bluetooth : Not working
3g : Not working
Screen : Res 640 x 480 x 16 works nicely
Touchpad : works
Volume keys : works
Haven't tried anything else as it is not very stable,
I used this build http://android-x86.googlecode.com/files/froyo-vm-20100812.iso which works if you write to a disk using unetbootin and boot using the Vesa mode then choose 640 x 480 x 16 mode.
I would have thought that it should be perfectly possible to get the touchscreen working as we can now get ubuntu with touchscreen working 100% and I'm sure the htcpen drivers could be adapted for android. Don't know about the wifi or 3g though as there still are no working drivers for ubuntu.
I would love to have android on the shift, tbh probably would prefer on the winmo side and ubuntu on the x86 side, but even on the x86 side it will make an amazing tablet.
And the USB port? Does it work?
did any one tested Froyo?!?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=872186
i wanted to know that on v1.6 does sound and graphic work? i mean that in live cd or installing Android,....... drivers doesn't support android
can any one make call on Androd os? does it support simcard?
maybe mine is dead (i'm sure because the power is burned)
and what about UBUNTU 10? i can not test that.if ant body knows plz answer
there are News?
I am currently typing this on my shift running Ubuntu 10.10. Everything works fine except the wifi/3g but I got a mini dongle which works perfectly.
i am using a X86 tablet with android X86 1.6
no channel for x86 version
I am using ICS 2-28-12 build and almost everything works on sandy bridge laptop. I still have some graphics glitches. Wish they had more recent builds
N3Ti said:
I am using ICS 2-28-12 build and almost everything works on sandy bridge laptop. I still have some graphics glitches. Wish they had more recent builds
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please man colud you get me the iso link for that bulid please to use it in bootale usb
and is 3g work in shift with that ulid
thanks
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android x86 persistent live
Hello everyone. I found a way to make persistent live USB on x86 Android without installing anything. I have done so
I opened universal usb installer, and I created a live usb with Android 4.4
then I took the toporesize-app for windows and I have created a data.img in ext3 filesystem and copied to the usb live
In conclusion, I set the initial setup I installed the app restarts, and various apps and settings are preserved.
Here's the story: I've had a Fujitsu Lifebook T4020D http://www.small-laptops.com/fujitsu-lifebook-tablet-t4000d-t4020d/ for just about 2 years now, and I love the little thing (although I'm using my asus 17-incher atm) and I've decided to take a crack at running android on it. I've managed to get 1.6 and also 2.2 to boot on it. Everything seems to work just fine on 1.6 (including wifi) and 2.2 runs okay, but I keep getting an error for wifi under wireless settings (can it be fixed?). The big thing that I would like to accomplish is to be able to utilize the tablets touchscreen (active digitizer, I believe) and I have no idea how to or even if it's possible to port the drivers to android. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Here's the story: I've had a Fujitsu Lifebook T4020D http://www.small-laptops.com/fujitsu-lifebook-tablet-t4000d-t4020d/ for just about 2 years now, and I love the little thing (although I'm using my asus 17-incher atm) and I've decided to take a crack at running android on it. I've managed to get 1.6 and also 2.2 to boot on it. Everything seems to work just fine on 1.6 (including wifi) and 2.2 runs okay, but I keep getting an error for wifi under wireless settings (can it be fixed?). The big thing that I would like to accomplish is to be able to utilize the tablets touchscreen (active digitizer, I believe) and I have no idea how to or even if it's possible to port the drivers to android. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Maybe the GUI in the android 2.2 build that you have doesn't support wifi properly - (Maybe it has a bug). You could check this page to get one which does: http://www.android-x86.org/. Hope this helps.
Hello , I have recently upgraded my phone to HTC One X but wish to use my HD2 for use of my camera as a remote shutter / remote focus app.
I notice various people have made free / paid for apps to do this on android providing you have host mode
I have installed various additions of ICS onto the device but cant seem to get the camera to be detected (i understand i have to power the usb cable as the hd2 doesnt output power), i can get the free shutter release app to work on my touchpad but do not wish to pay for the full app until i can get it to work on my hd2 (which i will just keep in my camera bag) , does anyone know of any rom that does have host mode working, or has anyone used any apps that do what im looking for on the HD2
assuming its not possible , does anyone know of a cheap small android device that would support it?
Set everything up, try the pro version, and then if it doesn't work then get a refund?
Well i cant seem to get the shutter release to work and the description says to test if it will work use that first (which it doesnt) so im wondering if anyone has got host mode working / camera linkup working and what rom was used etc.
Try different ROM/kernal.
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Try different ROM/kernal.
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Do you haven any suggestions which one may work (i have tried various ones with no success)
Look for the thread on development of USB Host mode in the NAND Development section. Normal, daily use kernels do not support USB Host...
Swyped from HTC HD2 using xda premium