Android

hardran3 · 2011-09-17 09:36:27

Just got an Android phone, a Samsung Gio. Rooted, unlocked, and hacked to pieces within 48 hours. It is sweet except for the lack of bash. sh sucks, I want my tab completion sad Any other #!ers with an android out there? Share me some tips smile

Awebb · 2011-09-17 10:09:39

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537827

NYbill · 2011-09-17 13:11:03

I've started using FTP to push podcasts & files to my phone. Its easier then mounting it via USB. Plus, the transfer times seem faster.

Currently I'm using swiFTP on the phone and FTPcube on the computer. There is another handy ap for when you're done moving files is SDrescan. It just refreshes the SD card so all the file changes show up.

These are all free aps.

.not · 2011-09-17 15:29:26

Androiduser for half a year now, but never went further then rooting it. I'm a casual user.

hardran3 · 2011-09-17 18:06:27

Awebb wrote:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=537827

Also this.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=727566

What an awesome forum smile

Awebb · 2011-09-17 18:59:03

The forum is half awesome half crap... Awesome developers, awesome output... but millions of brainless teenagers spamming every section and every thread. I sometimes wish the board search had extended regex...

rizzo · 2011-09-17 20:56:18

I've had a Galaxy S for a while now and the DarkyROM's have kept it up to date. That said, I think I'll move to HTC for my next phone. I recently acquired an Incredible S for my daughter's use. Tis a sweet phone.

Unia · 2011-09-17 21:12:51

^ Can you ship me your Galaxy S then, pleeeeeease? big_smile

I'm stuck on a shitty HTC Wildfire... or omns, we can swap too! lol I don't even think you can root this model, it's too low end for developers to show interest roll

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scket · 2011-09-19 12:45:22

Unia wrote:

I'm stuck on a shitty HTC Wildfire... I don't even think you can root this model, it's too low end for developers to show interest

Try:
http://unrevoked.com/

My eldest son has had a Samsung Galaxy SII for a few months now and he loves it. Massive phone, almost a tablet! He ugraded from a HTC Tattoo.

Middle son has a Wildfire too, not rooted or anything though,.... yet!

Me, I've had a HTC Legend for about 18 months now. Love it. Rock solid aluminium case. Not bleeding edge but good enough for me. Just got round to rooting it (quite difficult on this phone as it had to be rolled back earlier firmware and loader). Now got Cyanogemod 7.1 RC on it and think it's even better. Only problem, WIFI does not work on my home router, does at work though!

thevdude · 2011-09-19 13:04:03

I've got a droid x. Got it through work, but rooted it first day. big_smile Hopefully I can convince my boss to upgrade me.

makepanic · 2011-09-19 14:18:47

got a Galaxy S running galnetMiui. I love this ROM so much, tested vanilla Roms, Darkys and so on, but Miui is just beautiful tongue

GuruX · 2011-09-19 14:25:04

I have the Nokia N900 with Maemo. It's more of a full linux distribution than android. I also have an android device. The ZTE Light/V9. It's a tablet but with all the phone stuff in it. Runs Cyanogen. Quite good, but android feels more like a toy OS compared to Maemo. Right now I'm looking forward to the Nokia N9 which runs MeeGo Harmattan,

Unia · 2011-09-19 14:59:23

scket wrote:

Unia wrote:
I'm stuck on a shitty HTC Wildfire... I don't even think you can root this model, it's too low end for developers to show interest
Try:
http://unrevoked.com/

Thank you, that certainly looks interesting. Downloaded it right away!

EndlessDissent · 2011-09-19 18:28:56

GuruX wrote:

I have the Nokia N900 with Maemo. It's more of a full linux distribution than android. I also have an android device. The ZTE Light/V9. It's a tablet but with all the phone stuff in it. Runs Cyanogen. Quite good, but android feels more like a toy OS compared to Maemo. Right now I'm looking forward to the Nokia N9 which runs MeeGo Harmattan,

I would definitely love to try an N9, but Nokia is doing everything in their power to keep that phone out of North America (pretty much any G8 country for that matter) so they can sell more of the WP7 versions. If I could manage to find one to import, it wouldn't be worth the cost for me. As of now, I have an Evo 4G with MIUI, and I'm content until either the Nexus Prime or Asus PadFone (look it up; it sounds awesome) are released. As long as I have MIUI, I can live with Android, but I would probably switch to Meego in a heartbeat if any Meego phones are ever released.

EndlessDissent · 2011-09-19 18:42:52

Awebb wrote:

The forum is half awesome half crap... Awesome developers, awesome output... but millions of brainless teenagers spamming every section and every thread. I sometimes wish the board search had extended regex...

Exactly. I go there a lot to monitor projects for updates, but trying to read the threads makes me want to punch myself in the face with brass knuckles. If the users of that forum read at least the last 5 pages of a thread before posting, there would be half as many posts. Instead, you get the same question asked 5 times out of 15 posts, and at least 5 of the remaining 10 are duplicate answers to the duplicate questions. The other 5 are usually random people coming in to thank the developer instead of just using the Thanks button.

I've heard that RootzWiki is better, but we'll see how long that lasts. XDA was awesome until it got popular. When it got popular, everyone from teenage girls to grandparents were going there to root their phones and find cool ROMs, and of course, the teenage girls and grandparents can't be bothered to read anything or search to see if their questions have been answered. Instead, they go through the trouble of creating an account and typing out their question, and then waiting several hours (days, even) for a reply when they could have had an answer in <5 minutes with only the hassle of typing a keyword into a search box. Then, when they're told they should have read one or two pages of the thread instead of making a new post, their reason is that they didn't have time. They didn't have 5 minutes to read so they spent 10 minutes creating an account and posting the question, then waited hours for an answer? The stupidity on that forum amazes me.

Sorry for the rant. I really want to like XDA, but the members of the forum make that difficult.

hardran3 · 2011-10-14 15:53:34

Debian on my phone. Apparently it is the future.

That's better. Maybe I should crunchify it now smile

dubois · 2011-10-14 16:06:34

^ That looks mighty fine! Makes me wonder about doing something to my still vanilla Nexus S...

Tunafish · 2011-10-14 16:26:29

^^ That might be a reason to buy a smart phone at last...

merelyjim · 2011-11-29 06:27:00

Got a Samsung EXHIBIT II the other day, and still playing with it. Don't see the advantage in rooting it just yet, but maybe soon...

But the Nook color I bought a few months ago, that's going to get rooted to full Android as soon as I can find where I left my microSD card. If Ubuntu pulls off their whole "take back ownership of your mobile devices" strategy with Unity, may have to try that as well.

BoredOOMM · 2011-11-29 07:44:50

hardran3 wrote:

Debian on my phone. Apparently it is the future.

6 years ago it was deblet on Maemo ....mine is packed away....:|

nato · 2011-11-29 13:21:29

i have a galaxy s 2, rooted, cyanogenmod rom, i love it, and i put debian inside mine too big_smile i've seen graphical environments done, real lightweight ones like lxde, but i havent managed that myself.

dubois · 2011-11-29 13:34:14

I was reading this http://glandium.org/blog/ last night. Scroll down to September 14th, 2011: Building a custom kernel for the Nexus S, where he introduces the topic by saying

There are several reasons why someone would want to build a custom kernel for their Android phone. In my case, this is because I wanted performance counters (those used by the perf tool that comes with the kernel source). In Julian Seward‘s case, he wanted swap support to overcome the limited memory amount on these devices in order to run valgrind. In both cases, the usual suspects (AOSP, CyanogenMod) don’t provide the wanted features in prebuilt ROMs.
There are also several reasons why someone would NOT want to build a complete ROM for their Android phone. In my case, the Nexus S is what I use to work on Firefox Mobile, but it is also my actual mobile phone. It’s a quite painful and long process to create a custom ROM, and another long (but arguably less painful thanks to ROM manager) process to backup the phone data, install the ROM, restore the phone data. And if you happen to like or use the proprietary Google Apps that don’t come with the AOSP sources, you need to add more steps.
There are however tricks that allow to build a custom kernel for the Nexus S and use it with the system already on the phone. Please note that the following procedure has only been tested on two Nexus S with a 2.6.35.7-something kernel (one with a stock ROM, but unlocked, and another one with an AOSP build). Also please note that there are various ways to achieve many of the steps in this procedure, but I’ll only mention one (or two in a few cases). Finally, please note some steps rely on your device being rooted. There may be ways to do without, but I’m pretty sure it requires an unlocked device at the very least. This post doesn’t cover neither rooting nor unlocking.

NOTE -- emphasis mine

hardran3 · 2012-01-19 04:14:46

.I just got an Asus Transformer (TF-101 32 GB) and keyboard dock as well. Android 3.2 is great, and I have been using it as my main machine for a couple weeks, but it can also run Ubuntu natively. Not being a huge Ubuntu fan I hope I can ram a Debian testing install on here instead of Ubuntu, and then crunchify it. I'll report back if I have any success.

mynis01 · 2012-01-19 05:39:33

TBQH, it's kinda hard to search for things on the XDA forums. I've never resorted to posting on there, but sometimes it takes me hours to find what I'm looking for on there, even if I know exactly what I'm looking for. And when I do find it, it's with google and not with the forum's built in search engine. And even then, I find it in a link within a post within a post within a post. If there wasn't some teenage girl on there that posted the original post I found on google, it wouldn't be as easy for me to find what I'm looking for most likely.

jotapesse · 2012-02-23 09:54:24

hardran3 wrote:

.I just got an Asus Transformer (TF-101 32 GB) and keyboard dock as well. Android 3.2 is great, and I have been using it as my main machine for a couple weeks, but it can also run Ubuntu natively. Not being a huge Ubuntu fan I hope I can ram a Debian testing install on here instead of Ubuntu, and then crunchify it. I'll report back if I have any success.

Hi, hardran.

I also have an Asus Tranformer TF101 32GB. I'm also interested in running Debian on it. That would make it almost perfect! smile Count me in, perhaps we could work together on this.

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