[Linux] [Dev] [WIP] Ubuntu Touch on the TF101 - Alpha

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

jholtom said:
Can you get a list of working / Not working? Don't be afraid to say not testable, not tested....I don't mind.

Yep sure, couple more better lock screen pics

http://localhostr.com/files/rm8FrIj/WP_000064.jpg

http://localhostr.com/files/LtpxAS7/WP_000067.jpg

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Touchscreen: Working (Unsure about multi-touch, couldn't zoom a pic though)

Power Button: Successfully turns off the screen, and when turned back on greets you with the lock screen

Wireless: Not working at all, there is an icon but it sees no networks

HW Acceleration: At a guess, not working, slideshow effect but usable

Cameras: Not working from camera app

Will continue to test

Another pic of some settings
http://localhostr.com/files/c0R4bKA/WP_000070.jpg

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Battery shows 98% - no indication of charging / discharging

Brightness control: Not working but seems pretty bright

jholtom · Feb 28, 2013

play around with it unplugged and plugged in, see if it changes on the battery. Thanks very much.

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

jholtom said:
play around with it unplugged and plugged in, see if it changes on the battery. Thanks very much.

Will do

Sliding left and right reveals the nav bar

Pic
http://localhostr.com/files/xeRzpiN/WP_000072.jpg

RonSykes · Feb 28, 2013

I can' t get it to boot. I'll have to wait until I'm home so I can see what's going wrong.

I'm not even a developer. Imagine, going to all this effort for something that (for me) isn't much more than a fancy slideshow presentation. I need to get my priorities in order. I'm just impatient I suppose.

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

RonSykes said:
I can' t get it to boot. I'll have to wait until I'm home so I can see what's going wrong.

I'm not even a developer. Imagine, going to all this effort for something that (for me) isn't much more than a fancy slideshow presentation. I need to get my priorities in order. I'm just impatient I suppose.

I had EOS4 running, I wiped System, Dalvik Cache and Cache, flashed the 50MB one, wiped both caches again, then flashed the 480MB image, wiped caches again, then hit reboot and in less than a minute I was at the lock screen

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jholtom said:
play around with it unplugged and plugged in, see if it changes on the battery. Thanks very much.

Looks like tablet battery indicator is working, down to 93% (Was at 94 just as I started typing this)

Will test charging (No charging indicator, but is charging, back to 94% now)

EDIT - Charging indicator is working, just takes a while

EDIT - Charges from dock battery too

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Better quality pic from my camera instead of phone

http://localhostr.com/files/k7RG3tP/GEDC1205.jpg

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jholtom said:
Also doesn't look too bad, except for the resolution, have you tried the fix in the 3rd post yet?

Oop didn't see this post!

This is where you'll need to give me a hand, I'm limited in my knowledge of adb commands, I can see the tablet in adb, I can open adb shell and see the FS, but can't find the dir stated in post 3

Nor would I know how to edit

Anyway, its after 3:30am here, I`ll get some shuteye and return fully charged for tomorrows session

Leave me some instructions on how to edit the display settings and I`ll set to it in the morning

garyngkt · Feb 28, 2013

Thanks jholtom for bringing this to TF101. Will prob wait a while for more things to be fixed for example critical ones like Wifi.

RonSykes · Feb 28, 2013

*Detection* said:
I had EOS4 running, I wiped System, Dalvik Cache and Cache, flashed the 50MB one, wiped both caches again, then flashed the 480MB image, wiped caches again, then hit reboot and in less than a minute I was at the lock screen

That's odd, I'm coming from EOS4 as well, followed the same process but I just get the black screen with the backlight on. Now I'm intrigued.

bfmetcalf · Feb 28, 2013

*Detection* said:
I had EOS4 running, I wiped System, Dalvik Cache and Cache, flashed the 50MB one, wiped both caches again, then flashed the 480MB image, wiped caches again, then hit reboot and in less than a minute I was at the lock screen

---------- Post added at 03:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:53 AM ----------

Looks like tablet battery indicator is working, down to 93% (Was at 94 just as I started typing this)

Will test charging (No charging indicator, but is charging, back to 94% now)

EDIT - Charging indicator is working, just takes a while

EDIT - Charges from dock battery too

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Better quality pic from my camera instead of phone

http://localhostr.com/files/k7RG3tP/GEDC1205.jpg

---------- Post added at 03:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:04 AM ----------

Oop didn't see this post!

This is where you'll need to give me a hand, I'm limited in my knowledge of adb commands, I can see the tablet in adb, I can open adb shell and see the FS, but can't find the dir stated in post 3

Nor would I know how to edit

Anyway, its after 3:30am here, I`ll get some shuteye and return fully charged for tomorrows session

Leave me some instructions on how to edit the display settings and I`ll set to it in the morning

What recovery are you using?

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

RE: [Linux] [Dev] [WIP] Ubuntu Touch on the TF101 - First Build PrePreAlphaBeta

Im using TWRP 2.3.2.3 I think thats the version, the latest one available for the TF101 anyway

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bfmetcalf · Feb 28, 2013

That's odd. I'm doing exactly what you are doing and it's been a no go so far. Went 30 mins without booting, went back and wiped caches again even after wiping before I rebooted the system after flashing. Maybe got a bad download I guess.

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

RE: [Linux] [Dev] [WIP] Ubuntu Touch on the TF101 - First Build PrePreAlphaBeta

You sure you're using the right 50mb download? Sounds the same issue as the old one

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bfmetcalf · Feb 28, 2013

It could be. I downloaded it around noon today (10:35 now). I'm going to redownload and give it a shot

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

RE: [Linux] [Dev] [WIP] Ubuntu Touch on the TF101 - First Build PrePreAlphaBeta

Im a sucker for gadgets, its 4:45am here and im still watching the thread from my phone, should probably put it down and sleep

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RonSykes · Feb 28, 2013

*Detection* said:
Im a sucker for gadgets, its 4:45am here and im still watching the thread from my phone, should probably put it down and sleep

Sent from my Windows Phone using Board Express

I'm the same. I know I'm not even going to try again for about 2 hours but for some reason I'm still watching. I don't even know why I want this on my TF101? I've seen it on other things, I'm not a developer, I know it's currently unusable... what the hell is wrong with me?

danielholm · Feb 28, 2013

Sv: [Linux] [Dev] [WIP] Ubuntu Touch on the TF101 - First Build PrePreAlphaBeta

RonSykes said:
I'm the same. I know I'm not even going to try again for about 2 hours but for some reason I'm still watching. I don't even know why I want this on my TF101? I've seen it on other things, I'm not a developer, I know it's currently unusable... what the hell is wrong with me?

Same here!

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danielholm · Feb 28, 2013

Could you please share your manifest.xml and cm.dependencies? I'm having some diffuclity regrding none CM git repositories.

RonSykes · Feb 28, 2013

I got it to boot. Good work. The only different step was the extra cache wipe that Detection suggested. So it must be important:

Wipe Data, wipe cache, wipe davlik cache > Install Ubuntu-touch-tf101.zip > Wipe Cache > Install quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip > Wipe Cache > Reboot.

*Detection* said:
This is where you'll need to give me a hand, I'm limited in my knowledge of adb commands, I can see the tablet in adb, I can open adb shell and see the FS, but can't find the dir stated in post 3

Nor would I know how to edit

I changed the pixel density with little trouble. Do the following (as root):

adb shell
ubuntu_chroot shell
vi /usr/bin/ubuntu-session

Find and edit the values for the following entries (there are two entries for each:
GRID_UNIT_PX=10 (as suggested)
QTWEBKIT_DPR=1.2 (looks best to me by trial and error)

Reboot and the resolution should be better.

---------- Post added at 10:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:13 PM ----------

I've had a quick look around and I don't think we're going to have any trouble running this on the old TF101 as long as we have people like Jholtom doing good work, pulling it all together.

The main issue for me is the wifi. Without it, I can't install nano and without nano I can't configure the wifi (I can use vim but I hate it and that means I can't concentrate on the problem.

Although it looks like the network adapter isn't recognised at all so it might be beyond my ability anyway.

Camera is also not working for me. I don't think anything else is supposed to be working so it's not really worth commenting.

EDIT: I found a few videos in the /home/phablet/videos folder that are linked to some of the movie titles on the videos page. There's no picture but the audio for the videos works.

danielholm · Feb 28, 2013

RonSykes said:
I got it to boot. Good work. The only different step was the extra cache wipe that Detection suggested. So it must be important:

Wipe Data, wipe cache, wipe davlik cache > Install Ubuntu-touch-tf101.zip > Wipe Cache > Install quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip > Wipe Cache > Reboot.

I changed the pixel density with little trouble. Do the following (as root):

adb shell
ubuntu_chroot shell
vi /usr/bin/ubuntu-session

Find and edit the values for the following entries (there are two entries for each:
GRID_UNIT_PX=10 (as suggested)
QTWEBKIT_DPR=1.2 (looks best to me by trial and error)

Reboot and the resolution should be better.

Do I have do to anything else then plug-in the USB between my laptop and the tablet? No device is found when trying to use adb. While Ubuntu booted up on the tablet, that is.

*Detection* · Feb 28, 2013

RonSykes said:
I got it to boot. Good work. The only different step was the extra cache wipe that Detection suggested. So it must be important:

Wipe Data, wipe cache, wipe davlik cache > Install Ubuntu-touch-tf101.zip > Wipe Cache > Install quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip > Wipe Cache > Reboot.

I changed the pixel density with little trouble. Do the following (as root):

adb shell
ubuntu_chroot shell
vi /usr/bin/ubuntu-session

Find and edit the values for the following entries (there are two entries for each:
GRID_UNIT_PX=10 (as suggested)
QTWEBKIT_DPR=1.2 (looks best to me by trial and error)

Reboot and the resolution should be better.

---------- Post added at 10:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:13 PM ----------

I've had a quick look around and I don't think we're going to have any trouble running this on the old TF101 as long as we have people like Jholtom doing good work, pulling it all together.

The main issue for me is the wifi. Without it, I can't install nano and without nano I can't configure the wifi (I can use vim but I hate it and that means I can't concentrate on the problem.

Although it looks like the network adapter isn't recognised at all so it might be beyond my ability anyway.

Camera is also not working for me. I don't think anything else is supposed to be working so it's not really worth commenting.

EDIT: I found a few videos in the /home/phablet/videos folder that are linked to some of the movie titles on the videos page. There's no picture but the audio for the videos works.

Ok, so I got as far as the last command you posted, but not sure how to navigate or edit those files, could you give me a command by command walkthough ?

I'm at this prompt

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danielholm said:
Do I have do to anything else then plug-in the USB between my laptop and the tablet? No device is found when trying to use adb. While Ubuntu booted up on the tablet, that is.

Make sure you don't have any other USB devices plugged in apart from keyboard & mouse, I just had the same problem because my phone was plugged in too

danielholm · Feb 28, 2013

*Detection* said:
Make sure you don't have any other USB devices plugged in apart from keyboard & mouse, I just had the same problem because my phone was plugged in too

Nope. Nothing else at all connected. Using a laptop.

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