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So, as far as I know, this should be able to control PC's too, and maybe PS3's. But, I've only tried this on other Android devices. Should control anything on CM7.X, or anything on any form of Android 3.0, 4.0, and 4.1.
Prerequisites(Epic 4G specific):
Has to be on an AOSP based ROM(CM, AOKP, Paranoid, etc)
Step 1.) Enable Bluetooth on your Epic 4G and other Android device.
Step 2.) Pair the devices together
Step 3.) Now, install "BluePutDroid" on your Epic from the Play Store.
Step 4.) Open BluePutDroid, hit the Start key on the top left
Step 5.) Swipe up the "Log" bar to make sure there were no errors. If there were, try step 4 again.
Step 6.) Tap the device you want to connect to(your other Android device)
Step 7.) When it finishes loading, the screen should be green. Swipe on this to move the mouse on the other android device. Tap once to click on the other device, and hold down till the screen turns red to do things like scrolling, drag and drop, etc.
If the S/W keyboard shows up, hit menu "Toggle Soft Keyboard" to hide it. If it keeps enabling itself, install "Null Keyboard" from the Play Store and set that as your input method while using BluePutDroid. Also, the H/W keyboard works great. So you can use that to type, or navigate with the Dpad
This app works on other devices as well, but I can't go into great detail on ROM compatibility and such.
If your device has CM7/9/10 or any AOSP based ROM, this will work.
This will work on the (rooted) stock ROM of some devices, such as Nexus S(all forms), Galaxy Nexus(all forms), and Galaxy S3 (all forms)
On other's it will not work on the stock ROM, regardless of root, such as Galaxy S(entire first series), and many older HTC devices(not sure of newer ones).
According to the app developer, this is kernel related and nothing he can do; if it works, it works. if it doesn't, get.cm
Thanks! I'll look into this.
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Thanks! I'll look into this.
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Thanks man!
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I can confirm that this works with windows and linux - I've been using this app for nearly a year, and it works well
But I didn't know it worked with other CM devices - that's an awesome find
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Would this work if the other device doesn't have bluetooth?
Amazing stuff though, I wish my netbook had bluetooth that would have made it even more amazing lol.
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lilajrestnom said:
Would this work if the other device doesn't have bluetooth?
Amazing stuff though, I wish my netbook had bluetooth that would have made it even more amazing lol.
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It connects through bluetooth and sends commands through bluetooth... so sure, why not?
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Lol. There is an app called WiFi Keyboard that'll let you type using your Epic, but its not near as awesome as this. And all text gets sent through in Caps lock
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zanderman112 said:
Lol. The is an app called WiFi Keyboard that'll let you type using your Epic, but its not near as some as this. And all text gets sent through in Caps lock
Posted by Mr. Z's HP Touchpad.
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I'm assuming you meant "not near as awesome as this". lol
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I'm assuming you meant "not near as awesome as this". lol
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Oops, yes. That's what I meant lol I shall fix that.
Posted by Mr. Z's Galaxy S3.
There's apps for PCs similar to this. Like RemoteDroid and gPad. I'd prefer gPad because it has many other uses, like controlling windows media player, microsoft powerpoint, and using it as a mouse/keyboard obviously. But again, it's over WiFi. Bluetooth is beta AFAIK.
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jeffreyjicha said:
There's apps for PCs similar to this. Like RemoteDroid and gPad. I'd prefer gPad because it has many other uses, like controlling windows media player, microsoft powerpoint, and using it as a mouse/keyboard obviously. But again, it's over WiFi. Bluetooth is beta AFAIK.
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This app has been around for at least a year - the benefit of bluetooth is faster response times than over wifi. I think that's partly the result of the direct connection, and partly because the wifi methods involve a computer-side server (often using vnc, which uses some processing time to send a live stream of the screen, even if the connected client app doesn't need it, such as with a remote kb/mouse app)
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I can also vouch for this on the ps3. Donate, help him out and no ads.
My wife was giving me **** "you are so techy, why can't you ruin the ps3 with your phone". So i googled and XDAed until i found this app.
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I love to log on while the wife is using the computer. Move the mouse as shes trying. Priceless. I use advance touchpad. Its via wifi but very responsive, and it gives me all the keys. I have to be able to windows key + p to switch to my TV.
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Keen to have a play with it..
Been testing lots of remote apps of late..
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While we wait for official Ubuntu on our phones, we can experiment with other ways to get it running unofficially.
There are numerous guides to running Ubuntu using a chroot and VNC but VNC is often considered slow.
I will suggest using this app (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14816535/AndroiX-debug.apk) instead of Xvnc. It's X window made into an app.
Start your terminal and chroot normally, then launch AndroiX. Now type in your terminal:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0
xinit
and switch back to AndroiX running your Ubuntu desktop.
This sounds awesome. Can't wait to try it out
This is cool.
How much of a speed improvement have you noticed on this versus VNC
Wow, can't wait to try :victory:
Keep getting x server errors =[
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Shoot my ROM isn't supporting terminal at this point. Will give it a try once they get it fixed.
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I like this
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Has anyone got this to work?
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Title is a little misleading, makes you think that 'Ubuntu for Android' is available now, not "run X ontop of android". D:
Doesnt work for me!
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has anyone got this to work on htc phones?
Apk link for Ubuntu ??
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hii guys can any body help me
i did not understand how to install
can any body tech me how to install or the instruction
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tmzt said:
While we wait for official Ubuntu on our phones, we can experiment with other ways to get it running unofficially.
There are numerous guides to running Ubuntu using a chroot and VNC but VNC is often considered slow.
I will suggest using this app (http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14816535/AndroiX-debug.apk) instead of Xvnc. It's X window made into an app.
Start your terminal and chroot normally, then launch AndroiX. Now type in your terminal:
export DISPLAY=localhost:0
xinit
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If you really want to make us a favor, you should add more information. Just posting an APK from some Dropbox account is not going to help users.
What is needed:
1. There is this "AndroiX" project with a Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/androix-users , which does not have a delivarable yet, and probably the APK you are refering to, has to do with that project. Can we get a proper picture as to what exactly that this APK support? Yeah, it's an X server, written in Java, that supports some X protocols. Can we get an APK from some official page?
2. Is what you mention related to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxats9ejrG0 ? It has even fewer information.
With a proper description, you will get dozens of Thanks. Or anyone who can pick it up.
Ubuntu + Galaxy Note's Huge screen = NICE!!!!
It would be awesome to use the full extent of screen and processing power of this phone... can't wait to put my claws on that!
Also the link is broken
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Nice
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You should be able to use Splashtop 2 also. It has nice frame rate.
Instead of vnc, I mean.
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Hi Guys,
I am currently developing a Pivotal Tracker application for the Ubuntu Touch.
What works as of yet:
- Login
- View projects
- Recent Activity List
- View Backlog/Icebox lists
- View task(STORY) details.
- Story/Task Removal
I am now working on both the UI (because after last SDK update layout went AWOL) and adding new functionality including:
- Assigning Tasks (Currently not bug free)
- Add new task (Story)
- Add comments
- Upload files (although I gotta wait abit for this one)
- Auto refresh
I am putting the code up on github soon but the code is on my office PC and i'm at home so Monday/Tuesday,
YouTube Video:
http://youtu.be/vojaPBYzqe4
My Website:
http://elbuntuprojects.com
Also once this app is okay and the basics are all in I will be making a GitHub app using the same base code (I,E Getting requests)
Hope you like and remember again, this is still in development so the UI and functionality will become better over time.
Exactly what i was looking for.!
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Awesome stuff!
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You should really message a mod to get this moved to the dev section.
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I have had my TF300 for a few months and like a lot of people I am not as happy with it as I thought I would be. I got the keyboard dock thinking I would use this more for school than I actually do.
What I would like to do is load the actual Chrome OS on my tablet. I dont know if anyone has even tried this or if it is even possible. I dont know if the Chrome Book OS is open like the OS for Google tabs and phones. It is just thought...
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I have had my TF300 for a few months and like a lot of people I am not as happy with it as I thought I would be. I got the keyboard dock thinking I would use this more for school than I actually do.
What I would like to do is load the actual Chrome OS on my tablet. I dont know if anyone has even tried this or if it is even possible. I dont know if the Chrome Book OS is open like the OS for Google tabs and phones. It is just thought...
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ChromeOS is built partially from Chromium, which is open source. There was another post about this a while back, and I don't think it went anywhere. Tegra 3 isn't well suited for running ChromeOS if I remember the discussion correctly.
running it on our tegra 3 is something I wasn't sure about. I think most of the chrome books have an atom processor. It would be nice to have.
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rbellis said:
running it on our tegra 3 is something I wasn't sure about. I think most of the chrome books have an atom processor. It would be nice to have.
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Ubuntu is close to working though... its a much more powerful standalone OS than chrome is. I was thinking of going that route soon myself.
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pyraxiate said:
Ubuntu is close to working though... its a much more powerful standalone OS than chrome is. I was thinking of going that route soon myself.
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How close to working are we talking about and where is it posted? The only information I can find in the development section are a few preview builds with very poor hardware support. I bought this tablet with the hopes that I could at least dualboot with ubuntu, so if it is working I would really like to know so I can try it out.
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How close to working are we talking about and where is it posted? The only information I can find in the development section are a few preview builds with very poor hardware support. I bought this tablet with the hopes that I could at least dualboot with ubuntu, so if it is working I would really like to know so I can try it out.
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Well i run linux dual boot on my tf101, tf300t and tf700 lol and they all work great, the tf300t needs a bit more attention, but its definitely worth doing, sound is the issue on debian based distros on the tf300t, but on arch linux it works fine.
These three videos of mine demonstrate where we are with the tf300t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHXsG2G3c8 ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzV4K11YNMY ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdo5CMLg6oY xubuntu
didnt have time to do arch but its probley the further along in terms of funtionality.
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Well i run linux dual boot on my tf101, tf300t and tf700 lol and they all work great, the tf300t needs a bit more attention, but its definitely worth doing, sound is the issue on debian based distros on the tf300t, but on arch linux it works fine.
These three videos of mine demonstrate where we are with the tf300t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHXsG2G3c8 ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzV4K11YNMY ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdo5CMLg6oY xubuntu
didnt have time to do arch but its probley the further along in terms of funtionality.
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I'm impressed and I'm totally in. Where can I get a build to install on my TF300 or do I have to build it myself? I don't have the Android SDK installed on my laptop, so I would probably need a few hours while Gentoo compiles it, but as soon as it finishes I will happily get on it.
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Most chromebook uses exynos processor found in samsung phone, I dont see why it cant run in tegra
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Duckman5 said:
I'm impressed and I'm totally in. Where can I get a build to install on my TF300 or do I have to build it myself? I don't have the Android SDK installed on my laptop, so I would probably need a few hours while Gentoo compiles it, but as soon as it finishes I will happily get on it.
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Well have a look in the xubuntu thread in development, basiclly you need to be on android 4.1(only stock/ stock based rom work atm) and unlocked. Download the xubuntu kernel and rootfs. extract the xubuntu rootfs to /data/media/linux and make sure its called "rootfs.img" then flash the kernel to the staging partition with "dd if=*name of kernel* of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" (after you reboot, the tablet will flash the kernel)
from there you shoud get an option to boot into android or linux (it boots linux by default)
if you prefer ubuntu you can download the the install script and rootfs from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2014759 follow the instructions in the thread, but before you reboot open up the built in terminal in twrp and flash the xubuntu kernel with the above command.
For Arch it takes a bit longer but you get better i.o performance and you can get sound working, follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38874272&postcount=429
if you need more help with this open a new thread, goodluck
JoinTheRealms said:
Well have a look in the xubuntu thread in development, basiclly you need to be on android 4.1(only stock/ stock based rom work atm) and unlocked. Download the xubuntu kernel and rootfs. extract the xubuntu rootfs to /data/media/linux and make sure its called "rootfs.img" then flash the kernel to the staging partition with "dd if=*name of kernel* of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" (after you reboot, the tablet will flash the kernel)
from there you shoud get an option to boot into android or linux (it boots linux by default)
if you prefer ubuntu you can download the the install script and rootfs from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2014759 follow the instructions in the thread, but before you reboot open up the built in terminal in twrp and flash the xubuntu kernel with the above command.
For Arch it takes a bit longer but you get better i.o performance and you can get sound working, follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38874272&postcount=429
if you need more help with this open a new thread, goodluck
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Xubuntu looks faster. Likely because Unity is a resource hog >.> Reminds me why the first thing I do on ANY ubuntu rig i put together is remove it
Personally im waiting to see how much more work is done then jump aboard. I use my Tf300 at work mostly for iheart radio..... so .... Audio is a must Question though. Are you Dual-Booting Android and nix? I read up on how other devices were dualbooting by replacing recovery with the Ubuntu kernel. Is this similar or is the Android kernel replaced by a linux kernel that loops to the android system ( Via grub/lilo or something similar )? Just wondering
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Xubuntu looks faster. Likely because Unity is a resource hog >.> Reminds me why the first thing I do on ANY ubuntu rig i put together is remove it
Personally im waiting to see how much more work is done then jump aboard. I use my Tf300 at work mostly for iheart radio..... so .... Audio is a must Question though. Are you Dual-Booting Android and nix? I read up on how other devices were dualbooting by replacing recovery with the Ubuntu kernel. Is this similar or is the Android kernel replaced by a linux kernel that loops to the android system ( Via grub/lilo or something similar )? Just wondering
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Yes im dualbooting but we still have our recovery. If we all had access to nvflash wec could modifiy the recovery partition and have linux boot from that, the adavantage of this is better i.o performance, the disadvantage oviously we would lose recovery(this is how the tf101 used to dualboot, but the recovery can be temperally flashed over the linux kernel). We are using a dual init system, the first init will load android processes(and boot android) and the second loop mounts the rootfs.img and boots it.
Yeah sound as far as ive tested on the debian-based linux isnt working, it looks like a kernel issue somewhere that freezes alsa restore, the same thing happens on archlinux but if you remove the restore daemon it works fine (you just have to enable some sound channels, hense what alsa restores jop was)
how far off are we from being able to have this as a day-to-day driver? Sound is very important as I use my tablet for netflix and youtube.
I have never used Linux or pretty much anything other than Windows and now Android. IS this close to an actual OS and not like a mobile Chrome or iOS? I dont know if that makes sense.
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rbellis said:
how far off are we from being able to have this as a day-to-day driver? Sound is very important as I use my tablet for netflix and youtube.
I have never used Linux or pretty much anything other than Windows and now Android. IS this close to an actual OS and not like a mobile Chrome or iOS? I dont know if that makes sense.
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Netflix doesn't work ATM for Linux. It uses silverlight which wouldn't be so bad, but the Linux implementation lacks DRM. You need to run Wine to get Netflix, but it doesn't support running x86 code on our arm processors. So no netflix on your Linux tablet regardless of sound. YouTube is a whole other can of worms. While the code for chromium and Firefox are capable of decoding h.264, it violates patent law to distribute compiled binaries. So incomplete support for all the videos. Sorry.
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Netflix doesn't work ATM for Linux. It uses silverlight which wouldn't be so bad, but the Linux implementation lacks DRM. You need to run Wine to get Netflix, but it doesn't support running x86 code on our arm processors. So no netflix on your Linux tablet regardless of sound. YouTube is a whole other can of worms. While the code for chromium and Firefox are capable of decoding h.264, it violates patent law to distribute compiled binaries. So incomplete support for all the videos. Sorry.
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Which is why you dual boot with android. Or just use android. Android can do all of those things. I actually don't see a huge advantage for using Linux. Sure there are other apps and capabilities but if you have the know how to put Linux on it you probably have a computer running Linux already. Why not use splashtop or teamviewer for remote desktop? Those work 100%. Somebody change my mind. So far I see only cons to using Linux on our tablet.
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Which is why you dual boot with android. Or just use android. Android can do all of those things. I actually don't see a huge advantage for using Linux. Sure there are other apps and capabilities but if you have the know how to put Linux on it you probably have a computer running Linux already. Why not use splashtop or teamviewer for remote desktop? Those work 100%. Somebody change my mind. So far I see only cons to using Linux on our tablet.
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Because it's there. Same reason people climb mountains.
There are practical reasons, though. It allows it to be much more of a general purpose computer. I like my Linux laptop, but the only reason I get it out anymore is to burn DVDs ( does android have DVD +R drivers?). I miss it, though. If I have Linux running on my tablet, it would allow me to run to my regular desktop applications. I could run a full office suite on my tablet I could browse the web with a full browser, I could do a lot more things than I currently can. It would make me a lot more productive. Combine that with the incredible battery life of a tablet and I think you have a winner.
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Hmmm. I don't know. I'm not really convinced. You can have full office apps for tablets, and you can do everything in the browsers on tablets that you can on PCs.
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Hmmm. I don't know. I'm not really convinced. You can have full office apps for tablets, and you can do everything in the browsers on tablets that you can on PCs.
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I have three of the major office suites for android installed on my tablet right now (Polaris, OfficeSuite 7,and Documents to Go) . They are NOT complete. There is a lot you cannot do, especially in the word processing software (rotate text, anyone?). What you can do is rather awkward. It's not quite the same.
As for browsers, I miss my chrome plug-ins. Firefox allows a subset of the plug-ins to work, but doesn't integrate well with the rest of Android.
I miss these things, but not enough to get out my laptop and power it on. My tablet is "good enough." If it ran a native Linux environment, however, I would not need to make these tradeoffs.
I do like your splashtop viewer idea, though. It's one I've toyed with. I just need to get around to installing Ubuntu on my home server. Not everyone has a PC that they can run 24/7, though.
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I was under the impression that Netflix moved to HTML5. Remember reading article upon article about how Linux users finally got Netflix. I've been running Linux for years, but up until recently, I havent been using my desktop because I had either an android phone or tablet; it was just more convenient than to run to my aging emachine and boot up slack or gentoo. Correct me if I'm wrong about the html5 thing though lol
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I was under the impression that Netflix moved to HTML5. Remember reading article upon article about how Linux users finally got Netflix. I've been running Linux for years, but up until recently, I havent been using my desktop because I had either an android phone or tablet; it was just more convenient than to run to my aging emachine and boot up slack or gentoo. Correct me if I'm wrong about the html5 thing though lol
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You're right on the html5 move for netflix but wrong on it working under linux. Still no support for linux because even though theyre moving/moved to html5, theres still other things it uses that arent available in linux browsers yet.
http://liliputing.com/2013/06/netfl...ows-8-1-still-nothing-official-for-linux.html
If you dont see the point in linux on the tf300t, try it out for an hour then reboot back into android and feel how restricted it feels. These devices have the capability of running a full desktop operating system so why not? the key thing here is multitasking (and the ability to move windows around the screen)
As for html5 it is really terrible on the tf300t, if you look on page 13 of the xubuntu development thread u'll find a working arm flash plugin taken from a chromebook, it work very well, youtube is even usable
I have a brand new Note 3 and I'm loving it! I had a crazy idea today and I think it might just work. I use a Java program at work called ASDM. It's a Cisco firewall utility and it runs straight from java. I've ran the program on windows and copied the jar files over to Linux and on Mac and they work fine after a little tweaking of the start command and switches. I'm wondering if these phones have a full legitimate version of Java that would be capable of running such a program. I'm not looking to install it as an android app, I just want to have a shortcut to the file and run it.
Thanks in advance for the help.
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Has nobody tried running java programs ?
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Nope, but im interested
Ok. From what I've found java isn't natively implemented on android. Can anybody else confirm? I know the browsers have java support. Is that functionality embedded into the actual browser?
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