Background, I've done this many times, I currently have the latest CWM installd on my manta and I change ROMS and Kernels pretty frequently (I just like trying new things).
Recently I tried the preview build of Ubuntu Tablet and I can't get it to boot. Problem is I don't have any other zips on my internal storage to flash back to.
No problem I thought, I'll just side load using adb and the sideload function of CWM.
I've done it before and it worked perfectly but now I'm getting an error.
I do have my rom .zip in the correct foler (platform-tools) and I am running my command prompt from the right place.
If I do adb devices I do see my tablet serial number and it says sideload, just like it should.
But when I use the adb sideload MYROMNAME.zip I get an error that reads, *Can't read `sideload`*
If I try to use adb push MYROMNAME.zip /sdcard/ it says error:closed.
I tried completely removing my ADT bundle and redownloading the latest version and reinstalling everything including the google usb driver but I get the exact same error... I'm using win 7 32 bit.
Any ideas??? My tablet currently is bricked until I find a solution.
parakalien said:
Background, I've done this many times, I currently have the latest CWM installd on my manta and I change ROMS and Kernels pretty frequently (I just like trying new things).
Recently I tried the preview build of Ubuntu Tablet and I can't get it to boot. Problem is I don't have any other zips on my internal storage to flash back to.
No problem I thought, I'll just side load using adb and the sideload function of CWM.
I've done it before and it worked perfectly but now I'm getting an error.
I do have my rom .zip in the correct foler (platform-tools) and I am running my command prompt from the right place.
If I do adb devices I do see my tablet serial number and it says sideload, just like it should.
But when I use the adb sideload MYROMNAME.zip I get an error that reads, *Can't read `sideload`*
If I try to use adb push MYROMNAME.zip /sdcard/ it says error:closed.
I tried completely removing my ADT bundle and redownloading the latest version and reinstalling everything including the google usb driver but I get the exact same error... I'm using win 7 32 bit.
Any ideas??? My tablet currently is bricked until I find a solution.
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Grab one of the many toolkits from the development sections and flash the factory image. Then u can just start over. I've had to do this myself, thanks to the first release of Ubuntu for our tablets.
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newellj79 said:
Grab one of the many toolkits from the development sections and flash the factory image. Then u can just start over. I've had to do this myself, thanks to the first release of Ubuntu for our tablets.
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk HD
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Thank you very much!! This fixed it and was super easy.
Appreciate your help getting me out of a sticky situation!
So i am having a slight issue getting ubuntu installed on my nexus 10.
I followed the instructions here.
http://developer.ubuntu.com/start/ubuntu-for-devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices/
I am on 14.04 on my PC so some of this doesnt directly follow but i added the packages
So i run the ubuntu-device-flash --channel=stable --bootstrap
When i do this all seems well, then the nexus pops up with a ubuntu touch CWM based recovery. I tell it to reboot and it just goes back to standard old android. Has anyone else ran into this? Any ideas on how to get the latestest version of ubuntu touch running on my device?
Hi everyone,
since lollipop came out i've been trying to compile roms for nexus 10 and I always have the same issue,
The build finishes fine, it flashes fine in TWRP, but when I reboot I only get a black screen with nothing, and only fastboot/recovery work when I use the key combination. I have device tree + kernel + vendor folder from TheMuppets, I must be missing something else, could someone please point me in the right direction? I want to build you guys some nice roms
Anyone?
Hello. You have to build your kernel with GCC 4.7 or 4.8.
You need 4 vendor repo have you go all of them ?
Hi,
I have some free time and would like to join a group of Ubuntu Touch devs. Is this a good place to ask or should I re-post on Canonical?
You can attempt to re-post on Canonical's forums, but the Ubuntu Touch Google+ Community is pretty active with both developers that work on Ubuntu Touch and consumers. I know I've seen Canonical's Michael Hall post in there as well as a couple others at some points.
https://ubports.com
This might be the place for you. They are asking for devs.
Good luck. I hope you start with the shamu (Nexus 6)
kidhudi said:
https://ubports.com
This might be the place for you. They are asking for devs.
Good luck. I hope you start with the shamu (Nexus 6)
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I have a Nexus 5 and I want to dual boot Ubuntu with Android. There are 2 instructions on ubports.com but the one using MultiROM(to dual boot) has no link! I followed other guides with MultiROM but Ubuntu won't boot. Android's still working fine, though.
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I have a Nexus 5 and I want to dual boot Ubuntu with Android. There are 2 instructions on ubports.com but the one using MultiROM(to dual boot) has no link! I followed other guides with MultiROM but Ubuntu won't boot. Android's still working fine, though.
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You will likely need to look into the official Ubuntu Dualboot solution and adapt that for the hammerhead. Ubports ROMs are intended to be installed via the ubuntu-device-flash commands only and are likely not supported under MultiROM easily.
That said, if you have an UBports system image installed via MultiROM, and it appears via multirom, you can always check /proc/last_kmsg after a failed Ubuntu Boot (while in multirom's boot manager) to see where the boot went bad, you could also open the ROM under MultiROM's recovery and hit Patch init and see if that helps.
Other than that, I'm afraid the only supported installation method for the community ports are the instructions listed on the page. You may also have some luck looking for KDE Plasma Mobile tutorials (which use a standard Ubuntu Touch image for their basic installation, not sure if they do the same thing as ubuntu-device-flash though).
One last thought, have you tried MultiROM manager? It may have images for your system (I recommend going no further than rc-proposed, devel does not run many apps from the Store and is based off Xenial, sp there's some library incompatibilities with apps installed from the Ubuntu Store. Devel branches are also not guaranteed to boot, however rc-proposed and stable should at least boot for you unless their builds are fundamentally broken, in which case, you should bring it up with the maintainer)
Thanks, but now Ubuntu Touch worked. I installed the dual boot app and added the channels for hammerhead. But now Everytime I boot into Ubuntu it removes my custom recovery. Instead of booting into the recovery, it boots into Ubuntu Touch, and it only happens if I reboot into Ubuntu Touch, so I basically have to reinstall recovery after using Ubuntu, which is very inconvenient.
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Thanks, but now Ubuntu Touch worked. I installed the dual boot app and added the channels for hammerhead. But now Everytime I boot into Ubuntu it removes my custom recovery. Instead of booting into the recovery, it boots into Ubuntu Touch, and it only happens if I reboot into Ubuntu Touch, so I basically have to reinstall recovery after using Ubuntu, which is very inconvenient.
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I replied on the G+ page too, but figured I'd post here as well so others may benefit if I'm right here. -SNIP-
Edit: I just realized how the dualboot utility works.. It is likely the application overwriting your recovery image. If you want to keep MultiROM, I'm afraid you'll need to reinstall Ubuntu with MultiROM manager as the dualboot utility writes Ubuntu's boot.img to the recovery partition to boot Ubuntu.
Yeah, thanks, but it only works with the dual boot utility. I have my issues with MultiROM if you've read the first post on G+. But now I restored my system to a previous state when there was no dual boot utility so I don't want Ubuntu Touch anymore. Linux Deploy would do the trick, but now even IT has problems installing trusty. After the installation, I reconfigured it from the Linux Deploy menu and when I start it, it failed to start the VNC server and I don't know why. Is it the architecture of Trusty that i chose?
I did see your post, my apologies that MultiROM isn't booting for you, I ran into this weird issue myself on the Flo, normally it can be solved from trying other revision numbers in either the stable or rc-proposed channel. Sadly, through the Dualboot installer, there's no way around this (bar writing an /etc/init.d script for Android that automatically flashes the TWRP image when Android boots back up)
It may very well be the architecture of trusty. I would recommend trying vivid, saucy, wily or xenial. (any of the more recent versions, trusty is rather old at this point and you would've been getting Vivid [15.04] via Ubuntu Touch)
That said, you'll get much more performance using XServer XSDL from the Play Store and setting Linux Deploy to use it (X Server -> Use XServer XSDL), it also allows you to use any X application remotely or locally (on a remote machine you'd do export DISPLAY=[Tablet IP]:0)
As for Ubuntu Touch, if you go back through and attempt MultiROM again, start with the latest revision (I recommend staying far away from devel and devel-proposed unless you are purposely wanting to develop applications for Xenial, most applications targeting Vivid here don't work.) and then if the latest fails to boot, try the next one down the line. Another issue here could be a kernel that doesn't properly support KEXEC, have you tried MultiROM with a different KEXEC compatible kernel? I honestly can only recommend two different configurations, the singluar installation (Ubuntu being the only OS, gives you the most storage space) or MultiROM :\ I don't have much experience with the Dualboot app.
Hey, so I flashed my Nexus 7 2012 3g with the custom ROM from here and also installed the modified bcmon apk and the boot image from here. But still, when I try to start the app, I'll just get a white screen and if run RFA afterward I'll get the error message asking if i installed bcmon the right way.
Can someone help me run bcmon?
Yea please me too the same problem
take other os, cm 10.1