Hey guys! Recently having heard, Canonical is working with Ubuntu to release an image for the Galaxy Nexus, as a mobile OS. Now people think this is a great idea, at least for those who own a Galaxy Nexus. But what if you want it on your phone too? That's where Canonical and XDA would merge together, asking the developers and users of XDA, since most of them are knowledgeable,(trust me, you need to have some know-how to not get flammed), and have them beta for maybe several different phones, to get Ubuntu on a wide variety of phones sooner! And well, why wouldn't they do this? They're already taking a leap of faith and opensourcing everything and carriers/OEMs don't like that. So they should be able to take a smaller leap of faith and ask the users of XDA to be able to help them out with the distribution of Ubuntu for other smartphones. This would help them in getting more stable releases out to the public maybe faster for their device. Wouldn't this be a miracle? So please show support and sign! Thanks for your time!
https://www.change.org/petitions/ca...evelopers-com-as-testers-for-ubuntu-for-phone
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but\ isn't ubuntu open source? can't we just port it anyway?
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Its open source, but it isn't going to be as simple as the same files working on all devices my friend
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Maybe, but it'll be easier if Canonical were to work with XDA users/developers hand in hand to make porting easier
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Great idea. I came here looking for their build but then I see this and realize not yet. So yes let's get the ball rolling!
I honestly just want to be able to dock my phone and use it as a PC from time to time like the original Motorola build i remember seeing in the past.
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I've signed, I love the idea of the XDA community playing a somewhat important role in the development of a potentially up and coming mobile OS.
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XDA developers are amazing. Thinking of a world without xda-devs, what would we have on our phones? Since the days of windows mobile and developers here make miracles without them, phone developement by all companies would've been far slower in my opinion.
I encourage everybody to sign the petition as the outcomes would be unquestionnably great.
Thanks guys! There's no harm in trying!
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Try and note this as a newsworthy thread to get more attention!
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Signed.
Let's make the miracle comes true
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Signed !!
signed
Just signed.
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signed, can't wait to get good news on this.
ubuntu & xda-developer will rock the world :fingers-crossed:
Great idea, I signed!
SIGNED!!!
but still just 89
SIGNED!!!
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Signed, shared in signature!
Signed.
I hope we will get enough people to sign to be noticed and taken seriously.
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I haven't forgot about you guys. Today we had a meeting with XDA owners via telephone. Were just getting everything ready before we make a huge announcement. I told you guys I'm NOT going to let you guys down. Just be a little patient.
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yay!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the update. It is appreciated.
Thanks for the update!!!
By the way, before this thread becomes full of just thanks, I suggest that a mod close this?
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Glad you decided to chime in my friend. Read my twitter I just sent to you. G'night.
This is like a dream come true.
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How about a teaser while we wait?
Me being neagtive about samsung (hey, I have good reasons) I'm taking almost nothing of this. But hey suprize me samsung, do it.
I dare u O.O
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Nice. Appreciate the update.
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what's a "TELLY FON"???
hope this is what i think it is. would like to buy a sammy phone again but its gonna take something good at this point
Would rather hear about a froyo source release for our phone than a official froyo release to be honest. Our devs do way better work with source than what samsung would release as official froyo. Look at the amazing work that noobl has done without source for froyo and we have an awesome dev that even has released work of an miui port (which I am most excited for coming from an htc incredible with a fully working port).
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Thanks John.
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Good to hear.
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Glad to see the community making way to greener pastures..
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Glad to see the community making way to greener pastures..
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lol maybe not greener, but at least slightly more mature
Regardless of the announcement I'm just glad to see there's some communication going on.
I don't even like frozen yogurt
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Hopefully it'll have Touchwiz 4.0 like the Galaxy S II. If not, I'll just stick with Launcher Pro .
Thanks for the update!!
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Please be GB
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Samsung John, thank you so much for making a connection with the people at XDA and being less transparent with the end user. However even if you are coming out with an announcement, could we have at least an eta. After a while of hearing nothing but coming soon, something along the lines of coming in a month, 6 weeks, 2 weeks, whatever would be much appreciated with any announcement. I am not even talking about froyo, I am talking about anything in general. But again thank you for coming and creating this channel with XDA.
So I want to try and learn how ROMs work. Or maybe that's a little bit too much to start with, maybe mods and hacks and stuff. Is there any tutorials on how to start anything that has to do with development that someone has actually used and learned from and worked with him that you can point me out to? Or at least can someone tell me where I should start to be able to learn all that I need to know?
I've done some theming and editing .xml files and decompliling and stuff so its not that I don't know anything, just don't know enough.
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So I want to try and learn how ROMs work. Or maybe that's a little bit too much to start with, maybe mods and hacks and stuff. Is there any tutorials on how to start anything that has to do with development that someone has actually used and learned from and worked with him that you can point me out to? Or at least can someone tell me where I should start to be able to learn all that I need to know?
I've done some theming and editing .xml files and decompliling and stuff so its not that I don't know anything, just don't know enough.
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There's tutorials all over these sub forums for the Samsung Epic 4g
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There's tutorials all over these sub forums for the Samsung Epic 4g
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I understand that, but I was hoping someone could point me to one that they actually did learn from because I tried reading 2 different ones and got confused.
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lilajrestnom said:
I understand that, but I was hoping someone could point me to one that they actually did learn from because I tried reading 2 different ones and got confused.
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I can teach you. What do you want to port? Blur? Touchwiz four? Xperia UI? Something less challenging?
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Yes young padawan. You have much to learn in the ways of the force.
No disrespect to the OP or anyone else, but if you have to ask how then you aren't ready.
Do some research: take apart zips, find out how things work. Learn about Android as a whole (helps to also learn how 'nix) works also, Android is of course based largely on it), and most importantly trial and error.
The force is strong in this one, I can feel it. But he must complete the trials in order to fully understand the true nature of the force.
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He must face his fears in the cave of 7zip.
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Also, I can teach you to build from source too. I'd love to be a source based rom guy, but unfortunately, I feel that most open source roms are the same (Gummy, AOKP, CNA, and CM9 look and feel identical to me) so I don't waste my time.
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Also, I can teach you to build from source too. I'd love to be a source based rom guy, but unfortunately, I feel that most open source roms are the same (Gummy, AOKP, CNA, and CM9 look and feel identical to me) so I don't waste my time.
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Can you teach me
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Can you teach me
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You want to know from source right?
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I plan on making my own aosp ROM. Going to merge all my favorite mods that roms have. The audio makeup of CM9, customization of aokp and so on ans so forth. I've already said too much.
uBERROm
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Well maybe I should be searching and doing things on my own but that's what I did when I started to theme a little bit and it worked out well. But I started by seeing one of travis' tutorials and with the help of shane with a lot of things.
So basically I need some help that's all.
And I too see that CM7/9, AOKP and all those are the same. Especially the 2 versions of MIUI. So I would like to start my own thing kind of like sence and blur. Sence would be something I would be interested in doing since I loved my htc phones before this one, but since its already started I will try and work on something else.
Ill pm you xboxfanj and we'll see how I can start working on it. And thanks for your offer =).
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ÜBER™ said:
I plan on making my own aosp ROM. Going to merge all my favorite mods that roms have. The audio makeup of CM9, customization of aokp and so on ans so forth. I've already said too much.
uBERROm
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I've done it before. It is hard to keep updated.
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lilajrestnom said:
Well maybe I should be searching and doing things on my own but that's what I did when I started to theme a little bit and it worked out well. But I started by seeing one of travis' tutorials and with the help of shane with a lot of things.
So basically I need some help that's all.
And I too see that CM7/9, AOKP and all those are the same. Especially the 2 versions of MIUI. So I would like to start my own thing kind of like sence and blur. Sence would be something I would be interested in doing since I loved my htc phones before this one, but since its already started I will try and work on something else.
Ill pm you xboxfanj and we'll see how I can start working on it. And thanks for your offer =).
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AOKP/CNA/Gummy is kinda like Sbrissen mod for touchwiz gingerbread roms on steroids. Like xbox said, the AOSP thing has been done to death on ICS. All we're getting at this point is some pointless fragmentation between the roms.
UBER/Biggorn/Big Goron or whatever name your using these days , I wish you luck with that endeavor. I tried to do my own for a couple months and realized that I was updating it every other day thanks to what was getting merged in on the other roms. Too much of a PITA for me so I went back to theming.
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I've done it before. It is hard to keep updated.
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I got the time .
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marcusant said:
I've done it before. It is hard to keep updated.
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Marcus, how about ACS ICS and MarcusantRom? Those were TW; were they hard to keep up to date?
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Marcus, how about ACS ICS and MarcusantRom? Those were TW; were they hard to keep up to date?
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TW is very easy to keep up to date since we only got a few GB updates. Those other ROMs get updates and merges every few days.
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You want to know from source right?
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Yea
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I wanna learn too. Become a real developer. See if I gots any skillz.
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I wanna learn too. Become a real developer. See if I gots any skillz.
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Haven't you made a rom for the Epic?
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Will the Nexus 7 be receiving official MIUI or CM support anytime soon?
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I haven't seen anything guaranteed, and I don't expect to either ( these are community built ROMs and the last thing I would expect is guarentee) however this is a nexus device and will also have a huge user base with a greater than normal percentage of people willing to try custom ROMs , so I think on a practical note this device will get those builds as well as somany different flavors of android you won't be able to keep track of them all
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Haha I'm only worried about getting at least a nightly for CM10 until MIUI pops up.
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guys dont waste any time asking eh?
you realize that people are JUST NOW getting these in their hands? give it a little while....hell, CM10 is alpha on other devices that have BEEN OUT for a while...
patience appears to be something everyone has lost these days.....
I'm just a little curious as to whether or not anyone has any info. That's all, haha.
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I'm just a little curious as to whether or not anyone has any info. That's all, haha.
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trust me....the N7 isnt going to slip by without some serious work done to it.....
did you ever see the amount of work that went into the TOUCHPAD? i can guarantee that this tablet will get CM10, AOKP, and probably MIUI....just give it some time. until then, enjoy Jelly Bean as it is....its not bad now....
Alright, I believe you. I don't even have mine in my hands yet
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I don't see why not as this is a NEXUS device.
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If you been to the site lately you might have noticed the countdown clock, well it hit zero about 45 min ago. And Engadget just posted this
www.engadget.com/2013/01/02/ubuntu-for-smartphones/ which I think is pretty cool. Hope to see it action soon.
if you want to see the phone its about 6 min in the video.
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hmm where can we download a copy....
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hmm where can we download a copy....
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I was looking for it as well but I can't seem to find it. I'd really like to give it a test run.
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A Galaxy nexus release will come in a few weeks. And more to come the following weeks
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Its only available for galaxy nexus in a couple weeks. It will be a while before roms will implement some of the features.
I think it looks awesome though, im hoping google buys them out.
Ubuntu desktop while docked finally going to be mass deployed... it was fun on the atrix line.... going to run crazy on these power monsters out now
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johng75 said:
Ubuntu desktop while docked finally going to be mass deployed... it was fun on the atrix line.... going to run crazy on these power monsters out now
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Aaaaaah snap....Android's got another rival. What yaw think is gonna happen? I'm already thinking of ditching Android for this D:
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Aaaaaah snap....Android's got another rival. What yaw think is gonna happen? I'm already thinking of ditching Android for this D:
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Forget it
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Justinchi said:
Aaaaaah snap....Android's got another rival. What yaw think is gonna happen? I'm already thinking of ditching Android for this D:
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I hope they actually go somewhere. Because stuff like this causes innovation. Makes Android, Windows and iOS try harder if they want to stay in the race. As long as apple does not sue everyone out of business first haha
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And if Ubuntu is smart they will not allow carries to add their custom flair to it. Even though it is open source. It would get rid of the hectic of waiting for updates. If carries really want to have custom skin. Make it like ADW launcher where you can add it if you want it.
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And if Ubuntu is smart they will not allow carries to add their custom flair to it. Even though it is open source. It would get rid of the hectic of waiting for updates. If carries really want to have custom skin. Make it like ADW launcher where you can add it if you want it.
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Hmm...good point. From what the guy said in the the video, it seems that the updates would be pushed straight to the device just like Ubuntu Desktop. Otherwise, he pretty much lied and it's not just like the desktop version with "frequent updates."
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Eagerly waiting to get this baby on my Galaxy Nexus
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And if Ubuntu is smart they will not allow carries to add their custom flair to it. Even though it is open source. It would get rid of the hectic of waiting for updates. If carries really want to have custom skin. Make it like ADW launcher where you can add it if you want it.
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Canonical cannot "make" carriers do anything. The kernel and the majority of the OS will be licenced under apache. And thus open source. Networks will be free to add whatever UI tweeks the like.
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Canonical cannot "make" carriers do anything. The kernel and the majority of the OS will be licenced under apache. And thus open source. Networks will be free to add whatever UI tweeks the like.
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Well it be nice if they just let it be. But you're right, they will because they want their device to stand out from the others.
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Do you guys think this can run on note 10.1 one day? ^^
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Do you guys think this can run on note 10.1 one day? ^^
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This can run on any device, it should be easy to port aswell, as all the existing android drivers can be used
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Imagined that,so pretty good news for the future ^^
Hi guys. I don't post here much but have been on XDA for a few years with different devices. Now on the gs2 on cm10.1 with dori 9.3. My phone is faster and has more features than my ladies gs3. Having a nose around the forum there are lots of new ROMs popping up. This is no bad thing but they all seem very similar, borrowing feature sets and bases from more established ROMs. Most of the cm based releases perform the same.
I'm not complaining (far from it) I just think we need some sort of injection of innovation to make things exciting again. Ubuntu promises a bit more fun but is a while off being a daily driver.
Do you think android is getting stale as an OS or do we have lots to look forward to?
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+1
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No one else?
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Have you taken a look at Rootbox? You'd be blown away by all the ways to tweak it
I'll take a look. Thanks.
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Hi guys. I don't post here much but have been on XDA for a few years with different devices. Now on the gs2 on cm10.1 with dori 9.3. My phone is faster and has more features than my ladies gs3. Having a nose around the forum there are lots of new ROMs popping up. This is no bad thing but they all seem very similar, borrowing feature sets and bases from more established ROMs. Most of the cm based releases perform the same.
I'm not complaining (far from it) I just think we need some sort of injection of innovation to make things exciting again. Ubuntu promises a bit more fun but is a while off being a daily driver.
Do you think android is getting stale as an OS or do we have lots to look forward to?
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I fully agree with you.
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