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I just won one of these things and it will be here tomorrow. I saw it only has 1.6 for android on it. Is there anyway to move it to honeycomb or at least anything newer then 1.6? I just want to know before I open it cause if not I will just take it to the store and get credit for it for a diffrent one.
First, this isn't the place to be asking this.
Second, the reason that the view pad can dual boot is because it has an x86 processor. I believe there may be x86 ports to froyo, gingerbread, etc but that's not what that tablet is about. The viewpad is a windows tablet that also dual boots android.
djyellowperil said:
First, this isn't the place to be asking this.
Second, the reason that the view pad can dual boot is because it has an x86 processor. I believe there may be x86 ports to froyo, gingerbread, etc but that's not what that tablet is about. The viewpad is a windows tablet that also dual boots android.
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So android on this tablet was more of an after thought then? Ugh, windows on a tablet just sounds....weird I guess. I never thought of it as being friendly with it. But I will look into it more, sorry about posting here I saw another one here about the v10 and thought it was okay.
One questions, so your saying all the newer androids builds are x64?
no this forum is for the tegra 2 Viewsonic G-Tablet the arm based processor architechture.
Can I lock or just delete this then? I don't want to bug you mates in the wrong place.
since this was moved, can anyone help or point me?
We have 2 of them. They are decent devices for what they are. Nothing to write home about. They come with 1.6 but if you check out the x86 google group, there is a 2.2.1 for it. Looking for 2.3.x or 3.x myself. If not, I may have to make it myself.
I like it.
seraph1024 said:
We have 2 of them. They are decent devices for what they are. Nothing to write home about. They come with 1.6 but if you check out the x86 google group, there is a 2.2.1 for it. Looking for 2.3.x or 3.x myself. If not, I may have to make it myself.
I like it.
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Could you link me to this group? I'll check google like you said. Glad someone else bought one. If you do work on honey comb for it let me know if you need donations to get it going.
Found it, now looking into it more.
Froyo now available!
Finally Viewsonic have added Froyo build.
Guide and files available here:
http://www.viewsonic.com/products/vpad10.htm
(click downloads)
Not installed yet, just wanted to let you know.
Thanks mate but already sold it for a transformer from asus
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How to install win7 and android on vpad
I have upgraded my VPAD to 64gb and having a problem installing to os. When i Install win7 i boot up but when installing android things fall apart. Can some one give me a setp by step installation guide. I thisk there is a problem with the way the drive is set up.
Thanks
Remove Android??
Hi,
My android is completly out of control, so i would like to remove it from my vpad10.
Anny sugestions how to doe this propperly?
I prefer it to run on windows only
use ubuntu and gparted the disk. copy windows from cd to usb remember make usb drive bootable. follow the step.that all.
You can get it from here:
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=ke...;hb=refs/heads/android-tegra-2.6.36-honeycomb
This is thanks to Koush, who posted it here:
http://www.koushikdutta.com/2011/02/motorola-xoom-rooted.html
One thing to note though, is that he said this:
"Unfortunately the kernel was not available in the Android repositories. At first, I tried using the Harmony kernel, since they are both tegra 2 250 chips. That turned out to be major fail. As soon as I was about to give up, I noticed that AOSP had updated their tegra kernel repository with some new tasty branches for stingray. Kudos to these guys for being so on the ball! I was able to compile that up and get a working recovery to obtain root, and then get Superuser on the device."
I'm sure someone tried the same thing, and the harmony kernel didn't work on our Vega tablets, either. Hopefully this should work with little changes to implement.
But, it saves us having to wait for Advent to try and create a honeycomb rom in the future.
EDIT: Here's a changelog for the kernel source too.
http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/te...id-tegra-2.6.36
Good luck!
Anymore news on this or if anyone else is looking to port honeycomb to the vega?
Work is not being done at the moment as far as I know, for 2 reasons
Google AOSP has not released sources for Honeycomb yet
And its likely that a lot of backporting will need to take place for it to work on the vega (this will be assisted if the vega or a clone get an official honeycomb rom soon). Backporting is hard work and can take a lot of time.
It is likely we will see Honeycomb, but don't expect anything soon.
I must say I rather thought the AOSP would have been released by now. I wonder what the hold up is....
The dual-form nature of this item would fit a dual-boot scenario perfectly. Boot into Android when used as a tablet, boot into Ubuntu when docked. Just curious as to the possibility of this.
As far as I know, Ubuntu supports ARM architecture, so the Tegra 2 chip should work well with it. Ubuntu 11.04 was just released with the integrated Unity interface, which looks wonderful with the touchscreen: http://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/utouch/
The Unity 2D interface should fly on the Tegra 2, even if the Unity 3D mode lags.
Now I know that on the Xoom, we were able to run Ubuntu on a VNC server and connect to it locally, but that is obviously not an ideal solution, due to VNC's weakness, and the general inefficiency of it.
Are there any devs working on something like this so far? I am sure there would be a very sizable audience for something like this. I'd be happy to do any necessary testing, and I'm sure more will as well. I also wouldn't mind taking this as an opportunity to get involved with the dev community (I have a thorough background in CS, just no experience with this specifically), I'd be happy if anyone were to take me under their wing. =)
You're not the only one hoping for this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1053641
I was just thinking about this yesterday. Dual booting Ubuntu and Android would make this the perfect device for me.
i would also love the ability to run linux on mine
I'm tempted to wait until this is guaranteed to happen before buying this thing. I need a new portable device for developing on the go, and I also want and need a Honeycomb device for testing apps and casual content consumption.
At the same time though, if anyone knows of a site or thread dedicated to making this dual-boot happen (similar to the dedicated Toshiba AC100 page here http://tosh-ac100.wetpaint.com/page/Ubuntu ), I wouldn't mind learning all about it and potentially help if I can, so please share.
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There are some devs who definitely pulled this off on the Atrix and I had Ubuntu on my phone so I'm sure we can get it on the transformer. I'll try to find them and see if similar methods can be used.
It'll take years but I don't see why it wouldn't work. If I can do this on my old ass wm6.5 phone then it's possible on the TF!
Maybe it wont take years, but more of these tablets have to hit the market. Still so many people waiting on their preorders, me included.
I think that there might be quite the interest in making this happen. I remember reading somewhere that Ubuntu allready runs on the Tegra2, so why should it be far into the future before we see it running on the Transformer?
Sorry for any typos. I have fat fingers, a 4" screen, a small child and a dictionary gone wild...
here's to hoping
So far i'm quite impressed with this little tablet. It crunches bytes as fast as i can throw them, and customizing it was easy enough. Although with the dock station and Tegra 2 it does feel more like a netbook than a tablet.
Android 3.0 IMO is the best compromise between a desktop and mobile phone OS. Although it's expandability is not quite what i would wish it to be. Possibly once more developers gear their programs for the higher resolutions and more powerful CPUs this will change. For now dual booting Ubuntu and Android would be perfect.
I'm on board with any project coming about to make this happen, and would offer up my hardware and feedback for beta testing. Hope to see a dedication in this direction soon!
Has anyone tried the method in the xoom development forums?
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Has anyone tried the method in the xoom development forums?
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I haven't seen the post, but I'm assuming you mean VNC?
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I haven't seen the post, but I'm assuming you mean VNC?
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Yeah, it's VNC. That's not that hard, we're talking about straight booting INTO Ubuntu.
i have this image from my desire, which boots linux xlde (or something) i cant get it to connect to that image. Pockecloud just get Server disconnected.... maybe another image.. actually that was loading it from removable MicroSD, im now going to try copying to the internal memory "SDCARD" as that would be what the script would have orignally been setup for. I will post results as soon as this has finished pasting the files...
EDIT: still cant get this to work, seems like terminal is ending too quickly which i think means the loopback memory doesnt work, i think thats how it works anyway.
No lock with WYSE pocket cloud or android vnc, i think we need another build for honeycomb, well not so much the OS but the Tegra chip instead.
ubuntuforums.org
There is a thread over at ubuntuforums.org regarding this matter, though they have a different take on it.
One of the posts state:
Re: Asus Eee Pad Transformer
I plan to get one (not available in my region yet, plus I hear there'll be a 3G version next quarter) and install Ubuntu on it, albeit with KDE/Gnome instead of Unity.
There's not technical reason it can't run Ubuntu, it's just a matter of getting the boot loader working. The instructions seem simple enough, although dual booting with Android might be a little more challenging.
If anyone does get one and install Ubuntu on it, please let us know how it goes.
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Maybe it's not all that farfetched getting Ubuntu to run on this device, or any other Tegra2 base tablet.
The original thread can be found at:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741103&highlight=eee+pad+transformer&page=1
looks like dual booting may be fairly difficult; I wouldn't mind soloing ubuntu touch os on mine...
I think dual booting may be difficult, but I think chain booting (right terminology?) from Android first and then into Ubuntu would probably be possible.
I don't think many people understand how hard it will be to create a bootable version of Ubuntu. VNCing is easy for the most part.
Would it be possible to use the motorola xoom guide to get ubuntu running with vnc on the eee transformer?
Sorry for any typos. I have fat fingers, a 4" screen, a small child and a dictionary gone wild...
Is the VNC version that bad? Is it very slow or the picture is not full color? I'd like to use it maybe for Open Office (or something lighter) and some programming in text editor.
Looks like there has been significant progress on this. backtrack has been released for arm.. its a security-centric distro, but its built on an ubuntu base.
I'm downloading the img now.. dont know about dual boot though. guess someone needs to port grub over first =)
I cant post links....but a search for 'backtrack5 xoom' should get you there.
EDIT 08/11/2011
So I came across a Tegra driver package "Linux for Tegra release 12 alpha 1" that was released on June 29 2011, within this zip file were files with the word "Harmony" slapped all over the place..
I guess I'm just curious to know if this driver package is related to the Tegra 2 drivers that we've been anxiously waiting for.
It would be wonderful if one of our fantastic developers here on XDA would be kind enough to browse through this package and weigh in as to whether this is what we're needing to make the G Tablet unleash its full potential.
Linux for Tegra release 12 alpha 1
Any reply would be greatly appreciated..
Thank you and God Bless.
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I ran accross these articles today regarding the MeeGo!
Seems like VERY GOOD news for TEGRA II Devices like our beloved G Tablet
Have a read!
http://www.meegoexperts.com/2011/07/nvidia-meego-battle-ground/
http://www.slashgear.com/meego-tegra-2-drivers-could-end-android-monopoly-on-nvidia-soc-27167704/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashgear+%28SlashGear%29
Very interesting.
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I ran accross these articles today regarding the MeeGo!
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+1 for introducing me to the Trim-Slice, tekrhino. I'll be keeping an eye on that bit of hardware. Way better than this one.
hmm... meego would be interesting on the gtab.
rajeevvp said:
+1 for introducing me to the Trim-Slice, tekrhino. I'll be keeping an eye on that bit of hardware. Way better than this one.
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Holy Mother of Mary.. The Comm64 is Back??.. Wow!.. I remember beggin my ole man for one of these WAY back in the day!
*lol*
Viewsonic in discussions with nvidia and tapntap
From facebook and my twitter:
#Viewsonic asks us to be patient, in.discussions with #nvidia and #tapntap about #drivers for #gtablet
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=58738271675&topic=18716
all I can say is SWEET
tekrhino said:
Holy Mother of Mary.. The Comm64 is Back??.. Wow!.. I remember beggin my ole man for one of these WAY back in the day!
*lol*
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My first computer... thanks Grandma.
I'm in I.S. now
I hope someone grabbed those meego drivers before nvidia takes them back.
Quick bump
Quick bump!
tekrhino said:
Linux for Tegra release 12 alpha 1
Any reply would be greatly appreciated..
Thank you and God Bless.
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Slowest... download... ever. I'm not at all the person to look at these and figure anything out, but I figre maybe it's a good time to learn.
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Slowest... download... ever. I'm not at all the person to look at these and figure anything out, but I figre maybe it's a good time to learn.
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10.31mb took about 5 seconds on my gtab.
Hope maybe! Drivers support harmony & ventana on flashable board
tekrhino said:
EDIT 08/11/2011
So I came across a Tegra driver package "Linux for Tegra release 12 alpha 1" that was released on June 29 2011, within this zip file were files with the word "Harmony" slapped all over the place..
I guess I'm just curious to know if this driver package is related to the Tegra 2 drivers that we've been anxiously waiting for.
It would be wonderful if one of our fantastic developers here on XDA would be kind enough to browse through this package and weigh in as to whether this is what we're needing to make the G Tablet unleash its full potential.
Linux for Tegra release 12 alpha 1
Any reply would be greatly appreciated..
Thank you and God Bless.
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I ran accross these articles today regarding the MeeGo!
Seems like VERY GOOD news for TEGRA II Devices like our beloved G Tablet
Have a read!
http://www.meegoexperts.com/2011/07/nvidia-meego-battle-ground/
http://www.slashgear.com/meego-tegra-2-drivers-could-end-android-monopoly-on-nvidia-soc-27167704/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashgear+%28SlashGear%29
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I took a look at both the drivers and the Linux for Tegra release 12 Alpha 1 Release page date 29 Jun 11 http://developer.nvidia.com/content/linux-tegra-release-12-alpha-1-released. The release notes clearly state that is supports the Tegra 200 series soc:
"Tegra Linux Driver Package supports development of platforms running:
NVIDIA® Tegra™ 200 series computer-on-a-chip"
The driver package scripts have code for flashing the system and bootloaders for both harmony (ours) and ventana (newer) tegras. The tegra drivers appear to include numerous codex and the libs contain libnvmm_video.so, libnvmm_videorenderer.so, libnvmm_graphics.so all dated 29 Jun 11.
I don't know enough about linux/android to tell if these are newer drivers or the same as our curent Froyo drivers, but now that we know that these support both harmony & ventana, I'm hoping someone who knows more about linux/android drivers/libraries/kernals could look & tell us if this is what they need to continue development on HC!!!!
Al
Best Android development Website EVER
You guys rock, and good looking out with these drivers. As long as everyone can stick together and pass on information, roms for our android device will just keep getting better and better. Cheers!!!!
Has there been any progress on this? Its seems as though just as I received my gTablet the devs enthusiasm towards it has declined drastically(understandably).
I remember reading a few days ago about a project that was having quite a lot of progress with writing their own drivers, but since then I was unable to find it.
Can anyone give me some info, or at least point me in the right direction, about this project, or any other current Honeycomb project. I know I saw another project on a parallel device with working camera, I wonder if its the same one as the original.
bump to your "where did all the enthusiasm go" post. where are all the honeycomb devs? only one rom has been updated in the last 2 months.
this is a linux kernel, it needs porting across to android.
there's been a lot of progress using it to boot xubuntu etc etc
I want to port it to my hannspad, but with kernel.org down its a bit tricky getting a vanilla .38 kernel to diff against.
You know the Dell Streak 7 has Honeycomb 3.2 fully functional and they use the same CPU. Why not pull the driver files from their rom?
Dvalin21 said:
You know the Dell Streak 7 has Honeycomb 3.2 fully functional and they use the same CPU. Why not pull the driver files from their rom?
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See Roebeet's answer here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14780501&postcount=31
They are almost done with a kernel here though:
http://www.slatedroid.com/topic/21135-kernel-12-native-hc-kernel-development-92111/
I checked out the specs of the newly-announced $249 chromebook, and I realized what an awesome android device it would make, if only android was successfully ported to it....
I know at the same price point we can get a n7 32gig, but the larger 11.6" LED HD tempts me, though the res at 1366 x 768 is not that great. also, all the hands-on reviews have heaped a lot of praise on the high-quality keyboard-touchpad on the device, which is even more tempting and would make up for the lack of touch input on the device...
Its config is pretty identical to a flagship android phone/tablet with two cortex-A15 cores on the Exynos 5250, 2gig RAM and 16GB onboard storage with an expandable mem slot, 2 full usb ports and a full HDMI out, with the usual WiFi a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 3.0.
I'm a noob when it comes to creating ports and ROMS, but I guess it would not be such a difficult task for the awesome dev community out here to manage that feat. Maybe we need to wait for an actual android device with the exynos chip inside to release, whose android ROM we could use as a base to port to the chromebook...
windows 8 RT would be more awesome, but seeing that its a licensed OS, porting it might amount to piracy/illegal hacking, so its not something that I would discuss/encourage here....
Chromebooks boot with UEFI (Basically a modern BIOS), so the Android source code would have to be heavilly modified to be bootstraped from UEFI. Not to mention drivers and custom kernels (which isnt much of a pain if the hardware has documentation, all eyes on you Samsung.)
And I dont think we will ever see Windows on a chromebook unless someone creates an emulator for ChromeOS... Which I dont think is possible, but dont quote me on that.
i know it would take a ton of modding to find a workaround for it, but enabling the developer mode on the chromebook allows booting of an unsigned linux installation off the external memory (eg. gentoo ubuntu) on the x86 chromebooks currently available (Cr-48 etc..)
trying something similar for booting android off an image on the mem card might be a possible way...
UPDATE : https://plus.google.com/109993695638569781190/posts/b2fazijJppZ a google employee has already begun work on porting ubuntu..!!
drivers would be difficult, esp for the SoC as there is no device currently on the market with it. but maybe after Samsung releases a couple of phones/phablets running the A15's, porting of the drivers could be attempted...
I was wondering the same thing and figured I would come here to see if anything was planned. I just ordered the new one and was curious if there would be much interest in modding this thing. Guess in due time!
rumors say the upcoming google nexus 10 tablet is running identical hardware (exynos 5 dual omap15 / 2gig ram) which is gonna run android 4.2
once its out, MAYBE porting the ROM to the chromebook may become a teeny bit easier...
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rumors say the upcoming google nexus 10 tablet is running identical hardware (exynos 5 dual omap15 / 2gig ram) which is gonna run android 4.2
once its out, MAYBE porting the ROM to the chromebook may become a teeny bit easier...
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If I'm not wrong Nexus 10 will have exactly the same processor than the new Samsung Chromebook. If someon manage port android to this new latop I won't hesitate to buy it.
there is a developer board with same hardware and as far as I know it has android source codes, you can check the website http://www.arndaleboard.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
Wasnt this done a while back with the CR-48 thanks to Hexxeh?
http://hexxeh.net/?p=328117655
Just got to find a way to port it over to the new Chromebook, then port Android.
Since Android was ported to the HP Touchpad I'm pretty confident that it can be ported to this device... I mean the touchpad was the last thing I thought Android would run on and it runs like it was made for it... COME ON DEVS!
Following this thread with anticipation.
Well seeing as this device uses the same SoC as the nexus 10 i would be hopeful someone will manage to port android. I for one would be keen to have this option!
Touch Chromebook?
If this article on Android Community turns out to be accurate and Google release a touch chromebook any time soon, I would throw some money at a kickstarter to get android on it. Would be cheaper than an N10 - and probably quicker than waiting for a keyboard dock...!
Can't link because I'm new... androidcommunity.com/google-reportedly-plotting-12-85-inch-touch-chromebook-20121126/
Very hopeful!
^ here's a +1 form me
started..
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.
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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.
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great work! i'm still waiting for my chromebook the stock's very erratic, and i cant find anyone willing to ship it to my country...will try to help as soon as i lay my hands on one!!
Ok ... DD'd the system.img from the stock N10 factory image and created a new BOOT partition. Booting the Chrome OS kernel worked ( which should be fine due to the fact that the CB and N10 have the EXACT same ARM SOC ) it seems the boot partition need to be re-written to work with the UEFI. im going to keep digging until I find something ( or someone lends some expertise dealing with UEFI and BOOT ).Happy New years !!
Kernel boots..just has a hard time mounting the ROOTFS...any want to shed some light on this.
Thanks
Super stoked for this!! Have been thinking this would be good to have Android on from the minute I got it!! Looking forward to this!!