The "Welcome to XDA" Thread

sniffie62 · Feb 24, 2013

Just saying hi.I've been reading this site since November when I got my N7 .

Jean_85 · Feb 24, 2013

Hello everyone!!
Reading by some time, but now I switched from a ZTE Blade to Nexus 4, I needed to "go deeper"

johan23 · Feb 25, 2013

Hi everyone, had been lurking this forum for a long time. Just decided to make an account now. Feel good to join this community.

tanujroolz · Feb 25, 2013

Hello

Hello everyone,

Joined this site long back, but just rooted my phone. What was amazing was how I was able to root, install a new rom, install a further updated kernel with an updated rom and roll back to the previous ROM all by just reading and not having to ask a single question.

This site is amazing.

Tanuj

:victory:

Zer3s · Feb 25, 2013

Greetings all,

i'm 35, posting from germany and owning a HTC Sensation. I'm very interested in all topics about my phone and in general android development.
I'm tracking xda-forum for quite some time now. Until yesterday without an account. But not anymore

Zer3s

myeta · Feb 25, 2013

Hi there

My name is Max, 17 years old and living in Germany; I have been signed up on xda since 2011 without posting anything relevant. I used the forums to keep a track on stuff I was interested in. :good:
Now I think I got more knowledge, built some own apps etc., so I can start contributing and sharing some ideas

Greets,
Max

alinium_ · Feb 25, 2013

Just saying hello

jiawen · Feb 25, 2013

hi,i've been here for half a year:laugh:

Lt.Win · Feb 25, 2013

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I'm Done. Bye.

ramnex · Feb 25, 2013

Re: The "Say Hi" Thread.

adummm said:
Hi just boosting my post rating

That's nice, but pro tip: don't say that you are trying to bump up your post count, it's generally not appreciated, and is flamed, even though this is an off-topic thread

Sent from my GT-I9100
If I helped you, please hit the thanks button!

TheNotSoSpecialOne · Feb 25, 2013

Re: The "Say Hi" Thread.

Hi guys, been here for 3 and a half months, really enjoying the forums and the feedback from the community.

MrTomLegit · Feb 25, 2013

Sup

Guys. What's new.

inv3rse · Feb 25, 2013

Hey Guys! I just joined the forum. So far, so good. I am having a nice experience talking with the community members and browsing around the forums. Looking forward to have a good time here!

cheesecarrot · Feb 25, 2013

Greetings fellow androiders! I successfully rooted/overclocked/ROMed my phone and all w/o having to ask any Qs! All thanks to the threads here.

Nice emotes, also. :cyclops:

hellcat117 · Feb 25, 2013

Hello, and a (hopefully insignificant) question

1, hello.
2, I am working on a derivative of Ubuntu that can build Android as a live system and is stripped to the point where it hobbles. It has buggies up the wahazoo that I still need to work out, and the Sourceforge project is a long, LONG way from being helpful in terms of information on how to use it. The dependencies listed at the official Android source page for Ubuntu 10.04 are installed and the JDK installed depends on the architecture. The GUI installed only supports opening a new terminal window, the only terminal installed is xterm, there's a console-based browser and a wireless manager with a curses interface, and I don't know if I weaseled out all of the branding that can be changed. I know perfectly well that the thing, as a whole, is terrible and should not be given to lovers of the GUI. However, *gasp wheeze DEEP BREATH* does ANYONE think it would be worth their time to try it out or suggest where to post links to the fledgling project?

(I'd link to the correct page, but the forum blocks me...)

post-mortem · Feb 25, 2013

hellcat117 said:
1, hello.
2, I am working on a derivative of Ubuntu that can build Android as a live system and is stripped to the point where it hobbles. It has buggies up the wahazoo that I still need to work out, and the Sourceforge project is a long, LONG way from being helpful in terms of information on how to use it. The dependencies listed at the official Android source page for Ubuntu 10.04 are installed and the JDK installed depends on the architecture. The GUI installed only supports opening a new terminal window, the only terminal installed is xterm, there's a console-based browser and a wireless manager with a curses interface, and I don't know if I weaseled out all of the branding that can be changed. I know perfectly well that the thing, as a whole, is terrible and should not be given to lovers of the GUI. However, *gasp wheeze DEEP BREATH* does ANYONE think it would be worth their time to try it out or suggest where to post links to the fledgling project?

(I'd link to the correct page, but the forum blocks me...)

I'm not clear on what you're trying to do. You're making a custom version of Ubuntu. Is it designed for PCs, or mobile devices? When up and running, this special Ubuntu will be able to build a live Android system? Like, a VM? So, you want to be able to run Android apps in special Ubuntu? Or did I get you all wrong?

hellcat117 · Feb 25, 2013

post-mortem said:
I'm not clear on what you're trying to do. You're making a custom version of Ubuntu. Is it designed for PCs, or mobile devices? When up and running, this special Ubuntu will be able to build a live Android system? Like, a VM? So, you want to be able to run Android apps in special Ubuntu? Or did I get you all wrong?

Um, well, when running, you can download the branch of the Android source you want (limited by whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit environment), build it, and then do what you like with the new ROM you just made. Part of the point of it is that Ubuntu is stripped to the barest minimum needed to operate correctly (networking, package management, little things in the terminal you'd miss but might forget if you didn't check first), then rebuilt with the packages listed as prerequisites for building Android (or anything else, really) and extras that you want for using the live system (such as a GUI of varying fancyness, additional tools/utilities, and the like), and the resulting live system will (usually with me) be smaller than what you started with. If someone convinces it to run on an Android device, I would probably faint from shock.

And, erm, no, it wouldn't be Android in a VM unless you told lunch you wanted the emulator version. Also, I have no idea how one would try running Android apps directly in Ubuntu. But that's me.

Now, holy bleurghy bleurgh time to see about squishing more of the problems in what I have...

post-mortem · Feb 25, 2013

hellcat117 said:
Um, well, when running, you can download the branch of the Android source you want (limited by whether you have a 32-bit or 64-bit environment), build it, and then do what you like with the new ROM you just made. Part of the point of it is that Ubuntu is stripped to the barest minimum needed to operate correctly (networking, package management, little things in the terminal you'd miss but might forget if you didn't check first), then rebuilt with the packages listed as prerequisites for building Android (or anything else, really) and extras that you want for using the live system (such as a GUI of varying fancyness, additional tools/utilities, and the like), and the resulting live system will (usually with me) be smaller than what you started with. If someone convinces it to run on an Android device, I would probably faint from shock.

And, erm, no, it wouldn't be Android in a VM unless you told <i>lunch</i> you wanted the emulator version. Also, I have no idea how one would try running Android apps directly in Ubuntu. But that's me.

Now, holy bleurghy bleurgh time to see about squishing more of the problems in what I have...

So it's a PC tool to make building Android ROMs easier, right? How big is it (how much HD space is needed to install your special Ubuntu)?

faxmanloveswaffles · Feb 25, 2013

Hello!!!!!

hellcat117 · Feb 25, 2013

post-mortem said:
So it's a PC tool to make building Android ROMs easier, right? How big is it (how much HD space is needed to install your special Ubuntu)?

.....It doesn't install. It's a live operating system derived from Ubuntu, specifically the Ubuntu Mini Remix flavor. I left out Ubiquity (Ubuntu's installer), thus the OS is live only. Thus, if you burn it to CD, you will then boot from the CD, find and mount an extX partition (parted can be used if needed), then proceed to download, manipulate, build, and further manipulate the source code. It's limited by which architecture you download: x86 has the Sun Java 5 JDK installed and will only build FroYo and older, whereas x86_64 has the Sun Java 6 JDK and will only build Gingerbread and newer. And "easier" depends on if you decide to remaster the ISO file and install build-helping utilities that work with Ubuntu.

Let's see if I can recap all of that: It's a live OS that can't be installed and can build Android, limited by which architecture you're using.

It would be good if you have spare room on your hard drive that can be formatted, but don't want to install Ubuntu just to build ROMs and nothing else.

So...... does that explanation work?

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