I don't have a CB, nor am I going to get one. But I have to give props to your effort despite it's irrelevance to myself!
[DEV HACK IDEA] Porting over Android to the new Chromebook..??
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I don't have a CB, nor am I going to get one. But I have to give props to your effort despite it's irrelevance to myself!
Booting !!!
Ok got it booting.....but locks up after about 1 Second.....cant tell what works and what doesnt....also it appears as if it some how corrupts the Chrome OS partition ( which i'm not to happy about since chromeOS is my main OS..) which in turn requires a full system restore resetting the UBoot and Dev BIOS back to stock..keep you guys posted.
Ok got it booting.....but locks up after about 1 Second.....cant tell what works and what doesnt....also it appears as if it some how corrupts the Chrome OS partition ( which i'm not to happy about since chromeOS is my main OS..) which in turn requires a full system restore resetting the UBoot and Dev BIOS back to stock..keep you guys posted.
No news?
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Boot.img needs to be modified...without that ....dead in the water.
If this actually got going, it would be all I needed to buy one. But hopefully the new lenovo will have a better processor
Android Port For Chromebook
As Linux (Ubuntu) is working then surely an android port can't be hard. And if all that is needed at the moment to get it working is a tar ball of android for it, if someone gave the dev who is working on this some help it could be done soon. Also just quoting a freind I asked but:
"If Ubuntu (12.04 or later) has been ported, you should be able to drop a android user-space on top of the kernel without major issues.
Check out and android source tree, and use an appropriet cross-compiler setup to make the userspace."
"Alternatively if ubuntu is already running, you can install the build tools there to build your userspace."
Don't know how much sense this makes but hope it gives some One some help
Looking forward to this, if this is possible then I would definitely buy a chromebook.
Keep up good work!
As Linux (Ubuntu) is working then surely an android port can't be hard. And if all that is needed at the moment to get it working is a tar ball of android for it, if someone gave the dev who is working on this some help it could be done soon. Also just quoting a freind I asked but:
"If Ubuntu (12.04 or later) has been ported, you should be able to drop a android user-space on top of the kernel without major issues.
Check out and android source tree, and use an appropriet cross-compiler setup to make the userspace."
"Alternatively if ubuntu is already running, you can install the build tools there to build your userspace."
Don't know how much sense this makes but hope it gives some One some help
Looking forward to this, if this is possible then I would definitely buy a chromebook.
Keep up good work!
I just ordered my Samsung ARM Chromebook and a 32 GB SD card for putting chrubuntu on it. I would love to add Android to that lineup so I wouldn't need to defer to my phone to do many common tasks. Plus while I'm a much bigger fan of the laptop than tablet experience, I love android.
So, would porting Android over to the Acer c7 chromebook be any different?
I ask because I see a lot of people talking about the Samsung chromebook and not the Acer.
I ask because I see a lot of people talking about the Samsung chromebook and not the Acer.
Ubuntu chromebook
As far as installing ubuntu on the arm chromebook goes, using the guide at http://craigerrington.com/blog/crouton-script-from-sd-card/ allows for running chrome os and ubuntu at the same time. it workes great for me.
As far as installing ubuntu on the arm chromebook goes, using the guide at http://craigerrington.com/blog/crouton-script-from-sd-card/ allows for running chrome os and ubuntu at the same time. it workes great for me.
This is the first time I've seen my blog linked to on XDA - glad it helped you !
-Craig
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Yes, it would be pretty substantially different. The Samsung chromebook runs an Exynos processor using the ARM architecture. The vast majority of Android devices utilize an ARM based processor. The Acer chromebook uses an Intel Celeron processor using the x86 architecture. There is a port of Android to x86 (very cleverly named Android-x86), and due to the use of the Dalvik VM apps should work. But you'll find that even if you get Android to work on an x86 machine you will run into a lot of problems with applications.
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4Booting !!!
Ok got it booting.....but locks up after about 1 Second.....cant tell what works and what doesnt....also it appears as if it some how corrupts the Chrome OS partition ( which i'm not to happy about since chromeOS is my main OS..) which in turn requires a full system restore resetting the UBoot and Dev BIOS back to stock..keep you guys posted.1started..
OK...I was able to get into the uboot portion of chromeos and managed to load uvboot ( unverified boot )which will allow the booting of non chrome os kernel's. however it seems its looking for something else. I already got Ubuntu loaded on it so maybe I'll try to get it booting off the SD first so I don't brick my cb.....keep you guys posted.1
This is the first time I've seen my blog linked to on XDA - glad it helped you !
-Craig
Sent from my Nexus 4 using xda premium
