Ubuntu Note 2 - Ubuntu Touch General

So I was on the internet searching for Ubuntu mobile OS. I really like the idea of this OS,but I doubt about the viability of this OS when compared to Android. Anyways cutting the post short,I found this video on YouTube which shows Ubuntu OS running on a Samsung Galaxy Note 2
youtube.com/watch?v=gY2e0pVfJG4
Many features are not working as its not the official version,but seems to be worth a try and maybe in future it can grow a lot bigger and more functional. What are your views?

I think your looking to bump your post count. Theres already a few threads concerning the Note 2 and Ubuntu touch in the relevant section
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I have not got anything

syahrulxy said:
hopefully they release ubuntu for note 2 samsung..
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When first Ubuntu phones come out with "final" version of Ubuntu Touch I am betting there will be many attempts to port it to various Android smartphones, so try your luck then. Xda has many skilled developers so I believe they will succeed in porting Ubuntu to various other smartphones.

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uboot porting

Saw this posted inthe s2 forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680898
As we can be pretty sure 10.1 will never see jellybean, at least from samsung, would it make sense to start working on something like this for the tab 10.1? I'm hardly capable of doing such a thing but devs in here might be interested in looking into it. After this thing gets ics, we might as well have as many options as possible for future development.
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koe1974 said:
Saw this posted inthe s2 forums.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1680898
As we can be pretty sure 10.1 will never see jellybean, at least from samsung, would it make sense to start working on something like this for the tab 10.1? I'm hardly capable of doing such a thing but devs in here might be interested in looking into it. After this thing gets ics, we might as well have as many options as possible for future development.
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+1x1000 for your idea,
I would really love to see true dual booting in my tab10.1-3G
If this can be done by some dev's here:
Well, we can boot some other OS's like Ubuntu, Tizen, etc without hurting android. *Cough* I doubt windows8ARM
BTW, my tab doesn't have SDCard slot for custom partitions!
So, can the internal 16GB memory be repartitioned safely and make uboot to boot custom kernel+rootFs from newly created patition?
(I've successfully dual booted my N900(maemo5+Nemo) with uboot, its awesome)
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Firefox OS on HD2?

Well, someone work on port of the Firefox OS into HD2?
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No.
You can be first, my friend.
I prefer open WebOS on hd2
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I think, we can use http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1805282
I tried to run this, but I can't make kernels
Drivers and libs we can add from android...
that would be awesome:good:
it will be perfect.html5+ccs
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looking frwd for that
If there isn't already anyone trying to port this, I may make an attempt. However, I've never ported an operating system before, so it'd likely take a bit of time.
milesmeloro said:
If there isn't already anyone trying to port this, I may make an attempt. However, I've never ported an operating system before, so it'd likely take a bit of time.
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Yeah, Firefox OS would be nice, but I would agree that Open webOS would be a more worthwhile effort.
Honestly, I would have done it myself if only I knew how to do it.
I would do it of I had an hd2...
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cpu999 said:
I would do it of I had an hd2...
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me, too. I have the chance to buy it for 100 euros. is it worthwhile?
Simple answer...... Yes even if you don't use it as your daily phone.....Yes
OK since no one is really doing anything
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I will throw up a build in the next few days that most likely wont work. If anyone wants to test, do it and tell me if it boots or not
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This was actually something I'd thought of right away. I tried to cook a few Android ROMS so I know a little something. But unfortunately I don't know how to port Firefox OS. Though Android Kitchen has a function to help you porting the OS. Somebody who can post a link to the download? And Open WebOS?
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I tried porting the Galaxy Nexus version, but with no luck. I've spent a few hours trying different kinds of methods to make it work. I ended up flashing the thing, but then I got a bad NAND from MAGLDR. I think my boot.img (or zImage) don't work.
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Then again, I'm no developer. If a developer could guide me through porting, making/analysing (boot) files, I'd be happy to try again. For now, my try ends here.
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Though this may help a little:
Mozilla's guide to port Firefox OS: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox_OS/Porting
HTC HD2 (LEO)'s manifest: https://github.com/manhthiep/repo-manifests/blob/master/b2g_htcleo.xml
CM's drivers and stuff: https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_device_htc_leo
Tytung's drivers and stuff: https://github.com/tytung/android_kernel_htcleo-2.6.32-ics
It is very good idea. HD2 can run Firefox OS same as Android.
but I am worry about software support for this new operating system.
While that is true, Firefox OS has aimed for low budget devices. Which will probably support only small games and apps. Doesn't mean that it gets full support, but since it's based on linux also, it sure must be easier to port it to FFOS.
While we're at it. Why not try Ubuntu Touch? xD
TomONeill said:
While that is true, Firefox OS has aimed for low budget devices. Which will probably support only small games and apps. Doesn't mean that it gets full support, but since it's based on linux also, it sure must be easier to port it to FFOS.
While we're at it. Why not try Ubuntu Touch? xD
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of course. also Ubuntu is a good choice for HD2 owners.
I hope that we can have Ubuntu or Android on our HD2 devices soon.
Ubuntu and Android are both already available on our HD2's, but you probably meant the Ubuntu Touch and Firefox OS

[Q] [Ubuntu Touch] jltespr Port?

Has anyone been able to find a port for our device for Ubuntu Touch? I have looked around a bit and have come up empty. I know its certainly not a daily driver but I'd love to play with it some.
There is a good thread listing what is known to be ported/in the process of being ported here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2182442
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I'm not a huge Ubuntu fan anymore but I can't wait to try this! Hope it's ported soon!
mjwhitta - Galaxy S4
I didn't know much about the Ubuntu Touch, however now I am definitely interested in it. I didn't realize that progress had even started on it yet.

[Let's port] Stock 4.4.2

Hey guys,
from reading around the forum lately, I am starting to believe it is very possible to port Samsung stock 4.4.2 from another device to our beloved S2. It should be able to run it just fine with these specs.
Take a look at this guide for example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...ide-how-to-port-sammy-4-4-2-firmware-t2750152
We have all that is needed, and if we attempt to follow the steps of that guide by of course using S2 files instead, it could be simple to get a bootable version. Remember, that is just one guide out of a hundred, there are other ways of doing this.
However, my concerns are with the bricking part. Personally I am not aware of how big the possibility of bricking a S2 is by attempting this in case it goes wrong. If this is no issue, then we might as well have fun trying.
What are your thoughts on this?
natalya said:
Hey guys,
from reading around the forum lately, I am starting to believe it is very possible to port Samsung stock 4.4.2 from another device to our beloved S2. It should be able to run it just fine with these specs.
Take a look at this guide for example: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...ide-how-to-port-sammy-4-4-2-firmware-t2750152
We have all that is needed, and if we attempt to follow the steps of that guide by of course using S2 files instead, it could be simple to get a bootable version. Remember, that is just one guide out of a hundred, there are other ways of doing this.
However, my concerns are with the bricking part. Personally I am not aware of how big the possibility of bricking a S2 is by attempting this in case it goes wrong. If this is no issue, then we might as well have fun trying.
What are your thoughts on this?
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They have done it sucessfully
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...4-2-archiport-temporary-experimental-t2748579
rahulbrand said:
They have done it sucessfully
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...4-2-archiport-temporary-experimental-t2748579
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True, they ported from Note2 which has same chipset as S3: Exynos. Our S2 has Exynos too ya know, so I am really convinced it is possible to get it on i9100!
Is it stable?
I think it's possible
A great developer has already ported xperia z2 kitkat build to 2011 xperias like arc s or xperia ray... And he's going to do the same with 2012 xperia line. But I don't know why we can't even port 4.2.2 build from s2 plus. I mean they're exactly the same right?
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It's not impossible i think
But I'll take much more work compared to the work done for the S3.....
ahmedelhofy said:
It's not impossible i think
But I'll take much more work compared to the work done for the S3.....
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If we manage to get a booting port, a lot of progress can be made as a lot will be interested in helping I am sure.
Wouldn't it be wiser to use the Galaxy S4 Zoom or Galaxy Tab 3 8.0 ROMs and Kernels to do the porting, because the SoC should be more similar to the S2 (Exynos 4210 vs 4212)?
zaidx said:
[...]. But I don't know why we can't even port 4.2.2 build from s2 plus. I mean they're exactly the same right?
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Nope. S2 plus isn't Exynos.
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that's a Great Idea. I am not a developer or an expert. but I think this is not easy. but it isn't Impossible. ( Just my idea ). so I wish you guys good luck.:good::good: I love my s2 and still don't think I am ready for a new device. :angel:
Good luck to those who will port it. I love S2 because i m not thinking to buy new phone
Hello, you think this is possible?
use guide http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245786 galaxyuser is good at port
I am sure that it is possible to port stock to our S2 Samsung 4.4.2, let's expect to see soon Kit kat in our movile. Thank you very much for giving guides to be able to port Kit Kat.
Cool idea.. is there any team involved yet ?
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if it is possible ... I can not wait yeeeeaaaah

ubuntu

So, I have decided to compile and get ubuntu running on our devices. I have the TMO Note 4.
If anyone has a donor device, or can give me some pointers I want to get all this running nicely.
No goal is unobtainable.
I will like to see this if we can get dual boot [emoji14]
and what about miui 6? there is recently released miui 6 patchrom. Do you know miui? I am asking you this because we are two and we want to port it but we have weak knowledge. Maybe you can help us
and this is how miui 6 look like
http://en.miui.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=34895&extra=page=1&page=1&mobile=no
and there are some of thousands official themes for miui
http://en.miui.com/thread-112322-1-1.html
First of all i don`t think it`s nice of you to come in here and state there's no real custom roms out there for the Note 4, there's a lot of movement in the threads and developers work their butt off providing the latest and the best experience for the device. That said, let`s say i`m willing to give you a N910F donor device for development purpose, what have you got to show for it? Being a newbie ( at least your XDA account shows it ) there doesn`t seem much that shows anything worth to mention.
You sure this ain`t a cheap way of getting yourself a Note 4?
intheair86 said:
Let's face it, there are too many touch wiz roms, and nothing really "custom" out there for the Note 4.
So, I have decided to compile and get ubuntu running on our devices. I have the TMO Note 4.
If anyone has a donor device, or can give me some pointers I want to get all this running nicely.
No goal is unobtainable.
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intheair86 said:
Let's face it, there are too many touch wiz roms, and nothing really "custom" out there for the Note 4.
So, I have decided to compile and get ubuntu running on our devices. I have the TMO Note 4.
If anyone has a donor device, or can give me some pointers I want to get all this running nicely.
No goal is unobtainable.
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if you already have a TMO n4, why would you need a donor device?
and if dual boot works it's even easier to try it all
but porting Ubuntu does sound like a fun project, maybe you can use cm12 stuff to speed up the porting :fingers-crossed:
and i would love to help but i have no idea about porting and i'm already busy with n4 and s6 edge development
good luck though! :good:
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patensas said:
First of all i don`t think it`s nice of you to come in here and state there's no real custom roms out there for the Note 4, there's a lot of movement in the threads and developers work their butt off providing the latest and the best experience for the device. That said, let`s say i`m willing to give you a N910F donor device for development purpose, what have you got to show for it? Being a newbie ( at least your XDA account shows it ) there doesn`t seem much that shows anything worth to mention.
You sure this ain`t a cheap way of getting yourself a Note 4?
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My apologies, you are correct about custom roms. What I meant is we don't have MIUI, Firefox, etc. Yeah skinned versions of Android, yet some people like them.
I want to do something no one else has done, and bring something to the table.
intheair86 said:
My apologies, you are correct about custom roms. What I meant is we don't have MIUI, Firefox, etc. Yeah skinned versions of Android, yet some people like them.
I want to do something no one else has done, and bring something to the table.
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I've only ever worked with twizz roms before but have now got a dedicated linux machine. I was trying to teach myself to compile from source but Ubuntu sounds very interesting and would love to be involved but not sure how much help I'd be
sawdoctor said:
I've only ever worked with twizz roms before but have now got a dedicated linux machine. I was trying to teach myself to compile from source but Ubuntu sounds very interesting and would love to be involved but not sure how much help I'd be
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That's all I have now is my ubuntu laptop.
What I found out is ubuntu touch is based on cm10.1.
They don't have 3g/4g/let working for some systems.
I am reading about how to compile. Hensel why I need a donor device, just in case I super brick. Bricking out my only phine would suck.
I haven't figured out how to pm, so if anyone can talk to me like via Skype, and help me learn. PLEASE!
intheair86 said:
That's all I have now is my ubuntu laptop.
What I found out is ubuntu touch is based on cm10.1.
They don't have 3g/4g/let working for some systems.
I am reading about how to compile. Hensel why I need a donor device, just in case I super brick. Bricking out my only phine would suck.
I haven't figured out how to pm, so if anyone can talk to me like via Skype, and help me learn. PLEASE!
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Why would I donate you a Note 4 to brick it? lol.
Sounds like a fun project according to me. Did not heard ubuntu ported since note 2.
But have not enough money to give away a note 4.
NOTE 4 running Ubuntu/Windows10
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
Xcion54 said:
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
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If you are being serious, I have have a N910V and I am trying to get my name out in the dev world. I am willing to help you in your project and confident in my experience at recovering a bricked device enough to say that I would sacrifice my phone for this project. I am still new to compiling sources but with a little guidance I am sure I can help you.
Xcion54 said:
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
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Casper1619 said:
If you are being serious, I have have a N910V and I am trying to get my name out in the dev world. I am willing to help you in your project and confident in my experience at recovering a bricked device enough to say that I would sacrifice my phone for this project. I am still new to compiling sources but with a little guidance I am sure I can help you.
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I also have a N910T and am willing/would love to be a part of this and help get Ubuntu working on my Note 4. I will help in any way I can.. I have been searching for a port of Ubuntu for some time now so I was VERY excited when I saw your OP. I know this might sound odd but the main reason I wanted to run Ubuntu was for native development. In the same situation as @sawdoctor I have also been trying for about a year to compile a kernel but for some reason I just can't figure it out ha. I don't have my computer with me during the day but I have my phone and plenty of time so I was looking for a way to compile the kernel source with my device. And although I obviously don't know that much about development, I figured what better way to start that running Ubuntu. It's crazy to me i couldn't find one single guide or post about how to build a kernel with the phone you want to run it on. Seems like it should be easy ha. I have have tried termux, gnu-root, cc-tools, kbox3,........you name it and I have a TB of it ha. So all rambling aside, just let me know what or if you need anything
Casper1619 said:
If you are being serious, I have have a N910V and I am trying to get my name out in the dev world. I am willing to help you in your project and confident in my experience at recovering a bricked device enough to say that I would sacrifice my phone for this project. I am still new to compiling sources but with a little guidance I am sure I can help you.
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Your Help would be greatly appreciated, currently I'm working in the graphics, the note 4 has a high pixel sensitivity and the Items are very small, resizing things isn't working too well so I'm trying to figure out away to enlarge buttons and Icons
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noob4598 said:
I also have a N910T and am willing/would love to be a part of this and help get Ubuntu working on my Note 4. I will help in any way I can.. I have been searching for a port of Ubuntu for some time now so I was VERY excited when I saw your OP. I know this might sound odd but the main reason I wanted to run Ubuntu was for native development. In the same situation as @sawdoctor I have also been trying for about a year to compile a kernel but for some reason I just can't figure it out ha. I don't have my computer with me during the day but I have my phone and plenty of time so I was looking for a way to compile the kernel source with my device. And although I obviously don't know that much about development, I figured what better way to start that running Ubuntu. It's crazy to me i couldn't find one single guide or post about how to build a kernel with the phone you want to run it on. Seems like it should be easy ha. I have have tried termux, gnu-root, cc-tools, kbox3,........you name it and I have a TB of it ha. So all rambling aside, just let me know what or if you need anything
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I have created a kernel that works ok for now I'm still working on audio and other small glitches that are probably being caused by the kernel I will post kernel and rim soon that way you guys can help me debugging!
Xcion54 said:
Your Help would be greatly appreciated, currently I'm working in the graphics, the note 4 has a high pixel sensitivity and the Items are very small, resizing things isn't working too well so I'm trying to figure out away to enlarge buttons and Icons
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I don't suppose ubuntu has DPI optimizations like android does it?
Casper1619 said:
I don't suppose ubuntu has DPI optimizations like android does it?
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Not at all, Ubuntu isn't sizing things properly and it's almost impossible to use the touchscreen to click buttons, can only be used with a mouse, just getting otg to work was a pain to plug in a mouse, there's some options In Ubuntu for resizing but they don't help that much.
Xcion54 said:
Not at all, Ubuntu isn't sizing things properly and it's almost impossible to use the touchscreen to click buttons, can only be used with a mouse, just getting otg to work was a pain to plug in a mouse, there's some options In Ubuntu for resizing but they don't help that much.
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Hmm. Well maybe resizing everything could be an acceptable approach but if windows and android have different "skins" maybe we could make a custom gnome launcher that works better with the small screen, but as far as the drivers and the kernel, is it stable, and what model have you compiled it for?
Xcion54 said:
Ladies and Gentleman,
John here, I have spent at least 5 days trying to port windows 10 to the Note 4, (turns out its not possible) windows 10 requires secure boot and bypassing this is a pain in the ass, so I've given up.... it is 5/12/2017 and I've arrived very late to this thread but I got my note 4 out of the drawer and decided to turn it into a portable Linux pc, I spent 4 weeks porting Ubuntu to the note 2 in 2015 and dropped the project because there was many issues getting all the drivers to work but so far porting Ubuntu to the note 4 is working well but it needs quite a bit of glitches to be fixed, im trying to get the 4G gsm module to work and the sound but soon this will be working great and I will share my finished product.
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if you finished your project, i'd love to try it on my device.
Hey bro. Any progress? i just ran across a kde plasma active installer for nexus 7 that uses multirom to flash linux to ext sd. Would it maybe be possible to adapt the script to our device being that we have EFIDroid and Multisystem?
I've been working on porting Halium (needs for Ubuntu touch now) to my device, I haven't gotten the graphics to work yet but with the work I've got done so far we could get the graphics working then get other OSes that support Halium working (I.e. plasma os, sailfish, and possibly even post market os) if your still trying to get this working let me know and I'll contribute what I can to help, I still DD my n910p cause I like the form factor of my note 4, hate the glitchy issues that sprint forced into its software though. I have gotten Ubuntu to boot to a headless system setup, but that's not useful for what my end game is, its just a step in the right direction.

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