Sony tablet s ICS no root! - General Questions and Answers

After reading 122 pages on the successful/unsuccessful root of Sony tablet my main conclusion is that more time has been spent on the user who had root prior to ICS update.
And I have to say you guys have done some amazing work.
I would like to know how much time is being spent on us non root ICS guys and whether a feasible workaround has been discovered.
Also I would like to donate to these guys for there amazing work so far. Where and how do I sent donations?
Thanks all for reading.
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This may be worth a shot. It appears other Sony Tablet S users have gotten it to work. When I tried it was late at night and think I am just missing something simple from the vpfaker or zipsinger. With one of those two not working right the auto runme bat file wouldnt work anyways. Going to give it another stab this weekend.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887447
Hope it helps

Thanks Mike,
i have been reviewing the forums also. going to try tonight. good luck with rooting your device
mikeblahblah said:
This may be worth a shot. It appears other Sony Tablet S users have gotten it to work. When I tried it was late at night and think I am just missing something simple from the vpfaker or zipsinger. With one of those two not working right the auto runme bat file wouldnt work anyways. Going to give it another stab this weekend.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1887447
Hope it helps
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Stock Rom Deodexed WITHOUT CWM Recovery

SCRAPPED!
Check out the new Odin Flashable version here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996340
Nice guide, good work. Now have a beer!
This is just asking for trouble. You are overwriting and deleting system files that are in use.
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Well Krylon I've done it several times and it works. If you actually had this phone you could try it yourself. While I can't write a custom recovery, I do have some experience with android and don't mind using unorthodox methods if it benefits my phone as much as it did.
BTW, what's with all the negative nay-saying?
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aloneinshadow said:
Well Krylon I've done it several times and it works. If you actually had this phone you could try it yourself. While I can't write a custom recovery, I do have some experience with android and don't mind using unorthodox methods if it benefits my phone as much as it did.
BTW, what's with all the negative nay-saying?
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its not naysaying, but the first person people hit up is krylon when they brick their phones, and he's just trying to limit that until they come up with a SURE FIRE way to do it. Dont take it as an insult
I wouldn't have posted it unless I thoroughly tested it on my own phone. My only thing is don't come in criticizing people who are trying if you've been gone for 2 weeks while everyone else has been trying to figure this out. It may not be the way Krylon would do it, but it works. And if for some reason it doesn't for you, by all means, flash back to stock. The risk is worth the reward.
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perhaps if you would read my tweets, you would see why I was gone for 2 weeks.
As far as being negative, I'm not. I'm saying this isn't a good idea due to the fact you are deleting proprietary system files/drivers that are currently in use, which results in a hardware failure. This poses a risk of burning/frying the hardware or causing the drivers you are copying back over to become corrupt.
Here is an easier/safer way to do this.
Download MagicISO, Download my Tar (which I think you already have), and download the deodexed rom.
Extract the tar
Open MagicISO
within magic, open factoryfs.rfs (you will need to change the drop down to look for all files)
This opens /system
delete app and framework dir's
open the deodexed /system
copy over app and framework dir's into magic
close, retar everything you extracted from the original
odin
dbl post. My bad.
Much more constructive, thank you. I appreciate the help and advice and I will make those changes later tonight.
P.S. I don't tweet so that's probably why. Tried it and used it a few times but just didn't like it.
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aloneinshadow said:
Much more constructive, thank you. I appreciate the help and advice and I will make those changes later tonight.
P.S. I don't tweet so that's probably why. Tried it and used it a few times but just didn't like it.
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ahh ok, yeah, I had personal issues I had to deal with at work, pretty much got fired, but yet still employed, they gave all my clients to other employees, so I turned in my notice. Now I'm just cleaning things up, and job searching, and collecting a paycheck for the next 25 days. hehe.
So that's why I was inactive for 2 weeks.
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ahh ok, yeah, I had personal issues I had to deal with at work, pretty much got fired, but yet still employed, they gave all my clients to other employees, so I turned in my notice. Now I'm just cleaning things up, and job searching, and collecting a paycheck for the next 25 days. hehe.
So that's why I was inactive for 2 weeks.
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hope the job hunt goes well, glad to have u on the case now, us gs4g owners need some love! lol
krylon360 said:
ahh ok, yeah, I had personal issues I had to deal with at work, pretty much got fired, but yet still employed, they gave all my clients to other employees, so I turned in my notice. Now I'm just cleaning things up, and job searching, and collecting a paycheck for the next 25 days. hehe.
So that's why I was inactive for 2 weeks.
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Wow, sorry to hear that man. You were working for ABD right? That's enough to put anyone one down for a good two weeks. Good luck with the search.
aloneinshadow said:
Wow, sorry to hear that man. You were working for ABD right? That's enough to put anyone one down for a good two weeks. Good luck with the search.
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ADP
here's the tar command you will want to use.
Download and install cygwin if you dont have linux installed.
move the files to cygwin/home/(profilename)/
tar --format=ustar -cf FILENAME.tar factoryfs.rfs cache.rfs modem.bin zImage
change filename to what you want the tar to be called.
OK I had the parameters wrong in cygwin when I retried it. I'll try these next.
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any word on this process?
Also Krylon,
I heard some rumors that TW may already have some ROM's ready for this phone once we get a working CWM. Is this true? and is so could you maybe give a hint to what we might be seeing from TW?
thanks for the hard work and sorry to hear about the job.
lovemysgs said:
any word on this process?
Also Krylon,
I heard some rumors that TW may already have some ROM's ready for this phone once we get a working CWM. Is this true? and is so could you maybe give a hint to what we might be seeing from TW?
thanks for the hard work and sorry to hear about the job.
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Black Ice and Frost for now. I'll have to work with Som porting over V.

[PORT][WIP][dev]ICS port [booting-w graphics] looking for devs

Hello everybody,
I am quite new to android as i just bought this phone 3 months ago and before that i had an iphone.
I know everybody is happy with the upcoming ICS and the SDK that could be used for theme's, sounds and even more. but i know some of you are looking for a port from the SDK.
At this moment i am working on a port for the Sensation, but i have little to no knowledge on porting roms and such. so it takes a little while. but good news is i got it to boot up the service ril-daemon, and as far as i can see it will take a little bit more work till it will boot up fully.
If by any chance i can get it to work i do not promise that anything will work.
but i just wanted you guys to get a heads up on what i am doing at the moment and if anyone likes to help with development you are welcome to throw me a PM..
I will be updating this thread every once in a while when i have made progression.
A lot of work has been done. and i have made something that boots but needs a lot of work.
Whats working
-backlight screen
-buttons
-volume buttons
-boots
-hw acceleration (not tested just yet)
-screen
whats not working
-touchscreen
-all the rest.
we just got the screen working but wanted you guys to know it. we will test things out and upload later on.
device has got graphics working, but a load of services are failing so we still need to fix those things and hopefully get touch working soon as well.
DOWNLOAD LINK
ICS SENSATION v0.0.3
Just for dev only at this moment.
I'm excited either way.atleast someone is attempting a port. Alot of the devs look at it as a waste of time, but I don't think it is, especially if its as useful as the nexus s port. I wish you good luck my friend and if your looking for anyone to test, don't hesitate to PM me.
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Nice to see you are making some progress with that
Keep us posted
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Glad to see someone with better ability wants this too.
I myself have been trying this just flashed my first .zip file last night have not even run a log cat on it yet. So you are way further then me. I have also been doing a lot of research through the forums and plan to expand my research to other places on the web tonight to see if might come across anything. I got a lot of reading and learning to do as I am certain you know way more about what you are doing. Best of luck to you and I will PM you if I come across anything you might could find useful.
Oh yeah by the way you probably should have posted this in the development forums, that is if you do not already have a thread there. I have not visited the development forums today yet.
Best of luck to you.
you're way ahead of me too - zips won't even flash for me (no idea why) and if I do bludgeon one into working, then logcat doesn't work
Nice, three devs working on this. I'm really happy right now. You guys should just all work together on this so our device will be the second or third to actually run the port
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unfnknblvbl said:
you're way ahead of me too - zips won't even flash for me (no idea why) and if I do bludgeon one into working, then logcat doesn't work
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I will have to go back and find the post I read it in last night but the poster named a file in the ICS system folder that they had to change to get logcat working. When I find it I will message you.
@nory82688 , Please I do not deserve to be called a dev, I am just trying to give back to the XDA community some.
T-Macgnolia said:
I will have to go back and find the post I read it in last night but the poster named a file in the ICS system folder that they had to change to get logcat working. When I find it I will message you.
@nory82688 , Please I do not deserve to be called a dev, I am just trying to give back to the XDA community some.
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well, you are porting ics to the sensation therefore helping the sensation to develop as a device therefore you are a dev, but i know what u mean tho
T-Macgnolia said:
I will have to go back and find the post I read it in last night but the poster named a file in the ICS system folder that they had to change to get logcat working. When I find it I will message you.
@nory82688 , Please I do not deserve to be called a dev, I am just trying to give back to the XDA community some.
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haha thanks, but I've lost interest - although it may be handy to make this more publicly accessible information. I'm also not a dev by any stretch of the imagination
Ok I found the post I was talking about, it was in the Nexus one port thread.
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I've gotten connecting to the network working so far. SMS seems to work fine and it lists my network. I'm unable to use the data though. It just tries to connect but fails. Unfortunately system/bin/sh doesn't work so no logcat currently to see why.
EDIT: Removing /system/bin/sh and replacing it with a symlink to /system/bin/ash seems to have worked. Now I can run logcat at boot at least.
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good job
reserved for testing!
Wow i hope and pray you guys get this port working for the Sensation and i wish yall lots of luck. I know it can be done with patience and pure thinking!
cannot locate 'android_atomic_cmpxchg'...
That's the error that's preventing boot for me.
It's 3am for me so I'm done for last night (this morning) I know I don't have a perfect port such as I know my inits need work, which might add another issue once this one is figured but yeah, idk where you guys are.
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jassycliq said:
cannot locate 'android_atomic_cmpxchg'...
That's the error that's preventing boot for me.
It's 3am for me so I'm done for last night (this morning) I know I don't have a perfect port such as I know my inits need work, which might add another issue once this one is figured but yeah, idk where you guys are.
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I have no time to dev this weekend but i will work on it on monday again. There is a load of work for me tto do.. i think you need to search for the file in any rom thats working and see if it is presented within the files you have.
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tarends said:
I have no time to dev this weekend but i will work on it on monday again. There is a load of work for me tto do.. i think you need to search for the file in any rom thats working and see if it is presented within the files you have.
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Well I am pretty much stuck for the moment ass I can not get my build to even flash right now and can not figure out why........
But tarends messaged me and it seems like he is very close to a fully booting build. So hopefully when we all hear back from him he will have something that is ready for trouble shooting to get things working which I already have a lot of info that might help get a couple of things working on a build that will boot.
T-Macgnolia said:
Well I am pretty much stuck for the moment ass I can not get my build to even flash right now and can not figure out why........
But tarends messaged me and it seems like he is very close to a fully booting build. So hopefully when we all hear back from him he will have something that is ready for trouble shooting to get things working which I already have a lot of info that might help get a couple of things working on a build that will boot.
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Can you both post what you guys have so far? PM, tweet or anything? i posted mine on twitter if you guys wanna see what i have
tarends, can you post the full logcat and dmsg if possible?
jassycliq said:
Can you both post what you guys have so far? PM, tweet or anything? i posted mine on twitter if you guys wanna see what i have
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I suggest you PM tarends and ask him if he can give you a run down on what he has, I have not asked if he wants to discuss everything here in the forums yet. He would probably would not mind but I would rather ask first. I think I might have a lead on what to do to get my build to flash. I am not sure but I think I have to edit the build.prop cause it is looking for 4 mount points but only finds 3. Thanks to XDA senior Member malybru and XDA Recognized Developer mike1986 for helping to get me going in the right direction.
edude03 said:
tarends, can you post the full logcat and dmsg if possible?
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He has on posted in the "ICS Porting guide by Siulmagic", it is post #72.

[4.0] Problems (ME865/MB865/AT&T)

Let me share some first :
1. I just found that the rom can't run NFS Shift smoothly, at least in the racing part but not in the menu part.
2. I can connect my home wifi with 72Mbps (it reports...) but no data transfer after few seconds.... I'm still checking if there is a fxxxxxx guy using wifikill targeted on mine phone...
My phone is ME865 using the China leaked rom.
These are perfect examples of why you should NOT run the leaked firmwares. We have been doing this for 7 months now, and I have seen 3 different firmwares released, and EVERYTIME we get leaks people want to run the latest firmware and have issues and want help because now they can't easily get back to the way their phone was before.
YOU WERE WARNED by all of the devs in here.
Let this be a lesson to EVERYONE else in the Atrix2 forum.
Now, I know these issues don't seem so bad, but there may be more things to uncover yet, that are not working correctly.
To all Atrix2 users who read this: DO NOT INSTALL THESE LEAKS!!!!
Us devs will figure out how to get the ICS updates to the correct phones with (hopefully) some fixes to the issues BEFORE they are released to the public, but you have to give us time to do so.
I will say this now:
If you PM me because you did this, or if you post asking for help because you did this, you will end up on my ignore list!
These leaks are not supposed to be run by end users, yeah you!!!
jimbridgman said:
These are perfect examples of why you should NOT run the leaked firmwares. We have been doing this for 7 months now, and I have seen 3 different firmwares released, and EVERYTIME we get leaks people want to run the latest firmware and have issues and want help because now they can't easily get back to the way their phone was before.
YOU WERE WARNED by all of the devs in here.
Let this be a lesson to EVERYONE else in the Atrix2 forum.
Now, I know these issues don't seem so bad, but there may be more things to uncover yet, that are not working correctly.
To all Atrix2 users who read this: DO NOT INSTALL THESE LEAKS!!!!
Us devs will figure out how to get the ICS updates to the correct phones with (hopefully) some fixes to the issues BEFORE they are released to the public, but you have to give us time to do so.
I will say this now:
If you PM me because you did this, or if you post asking for help because you did this, you will end up on my ignore list!
These leaks are not supposed to be run by end users, yeah you!!!
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hey , don't be so angry...
To be honest , I think this leak is too far better than the 2.3.5/2.3.6 roms.
I have never got any problems of the Class 10 SD card problems now, which is the most important thing.
I seldom play games and I think that's exceptional one.
I'm not asking for help for this issue but I think sharing the problems will make benefits for all of whom may/had/wanna try the rom. Thanks for your very kind comment to all of us.
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socialx said:
hey , don't be so angry...
To be honest , I think this leak is too far better than the 2.3.5/2.3.6 roms.
I have never got any problems of the Class 10 SD card problems now, which is the most important thing.
I seldom play games and I think that's exceptional one.
I'm not asking for help for this issue but I think sharing the problems will make benefits for all of whom may/had/wanna try the rom. Thanks for your very kind comment to all of us.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app
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Lol, yeah you were just reporting the issue which is good. No where in there did you ask for help.on it. Thanks for the update.
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okachowwa said:
Lol, yeah you were just reporting the issue which is good. No where in there did you ask for help.on it. Thanks for the update.
Sent from my ATRIX 2 running Lithium v1.2.1
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To be honest (again) , I had said/answered something isn't working in the leaked ICS and a good guy gave me the solution. Isn't that?
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socialx said:
hey , don't be so angry...
To be honest , I think this leak is too far better than the 2.3.5/2.3.6 roms.
I have never got any problems of the Class 10 SD card problems now, which is the most important thing.
I seldom play games and I think that's exceptional one.
I'm not asking for help for this issue but I think sharing the problems will make benefits for all of whom may/had/wanna try the rom. Thanks for your very kind comment to all of us.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app
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I am not angry, I also NEVER once said that YOU asked for help.
What I am doing is trying to get everyone to understand something here. Myself and the other devs that have been here for a while are getting very tired of seeing that someone had an issue, that they caused themselves because they installed an update that they were not supposed to, from cheesecake. I am trying to get everyone to listen to reason here, and your post about issues that YOU find from installing an unsupported update, was a perfect example to use.
You have to understand that us devs do this in our free time, and we give you all 100% free support. You tell me where else you get that from.
So We have to keep everyone here doing their thing with their phones, and it seems that the ONLY thing most people listen to anymore is a little kick in the pants.
If you took some offense to my post, well then you prolly deserve some of that...
My job as a dev in here, is keep everyone from screwing up their phones.
Just wait till I am not here anymore, or that I do decide to ignore your posts, or PMs...
I know EVERYONE is VERY excited about ICS, but come on guys it will be a month or less before the official stable release comes out.
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I am not angry, I also NEVER once said that YOU asked for help.
What I am doing is trying to get everyone to understand something here. Myself and the other devs that have been here for a while are getting very tired of seeing that someone had an issue, that they caused themselves because they installed an update that they were not supposed to, from cheesecake. I am trying to get everyone to listen to reason here, and your post about issues that YOU find from installing an unsupported update, was a perfect example to use.
You have to understand that us devs do this in our free time, and we give you all 100% free support. You tell me where else you get that from.
So We have to keep everyone here doing their thing with their phones, and it seems that the ONLY most people listen anymore is with a little kick in the pants.
If you took some offense to my post, well then you prolly deserve some of that...
My job as a dev in here, is keep everyone from screwing up their phones.
Just wait till I am not here anymore, or that I do decide to ignore your posts, or PMs...
I know EVERYONE is VERY excited about ICS, but come on guys it will be a month or less before the official stable release comes out.
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It's ok. I can't agree you more. We get all of you devs free supports and all the works are great. Someone did ask for help because of the leaked roms and some others issues/threads/posts/questions you don't want to hear/see/read. I'm sorry for all of the impolite /bad feeling you feel.
Therefore, I won't talk about anything about the leaked roms in this sections from now on. If you want to , you may delete those old post which you think it may lead the problems. For the development section, if there is a mircale I found something it may help , I will translate/forward it as before.
and believe me , sticking a red color thread which prohibits something may help. It's not about the freedom of speech. Cheers.
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It's ok. I can't agree you more. We get all of you devs free supports and all the works are great. Someone did ask for help because of the leaked roms and some others issues/threads/posts/questions you don't want to hear/see/read. I'm sorry for all of the impolite /bad feeling you feel.
Therefore, I won't talk about anything about the leaked roms in this sections from now on. If you want to , you may delete those old post which you think it may lead the problems. For the development section, if there is a mircale I found something it may help , I will translate/forward it as before.
and believe me , sticking a red color thread which prohibits something may help. It's not about the freedom of speech. Cheers.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium HD app
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I think you completely misunderstand me here.... I am just trying to keep others from doing something that they can not recover from (not everyone knows how to put their phone into fastboot and apply the fxz). You should post these things, and it is good that YOU put this here....
I am just trying to keep other users safe from themselves so to speak.
ICS will be here soon enough. I was just using your post with pre-release issues, as an example to others, and again the other people in this forum only seem to listen if is in DARK RED, and says WARNING WILL ROBINSON!!.
I have absolutely no hard feelings about you or anything in this place. I am just trying to keep everyone focused on what they should be focused on.
socialx said:
Let me share some first :
1. I just found that the rom can't run NFS Shift smoothly, at least in the racing part but not in the menu part.
2. I can connect my home wifi with 72Mbps (it reports...) but no data transfer after few seconds.... I'm still checking if there is a fxxxxxx guy using wifikill targeted on mine phone...
My phone is ME865 using the China leaked rom.
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dont know why u r getting those issues but trust me i didnt got any wifi or any kind of problem not even a single fc and all the game run very smooth even nova 3
maybe u should try wiping data and cache
i have only one problem ram, ICS eat more ram compare to gb so ram goes down very quickly esp. while using browser,
socialx said:
Let me share some first :
1. I just found that the rom can't run NFS Shift smoothly, at least in the racing part but not in the menu part.
2. I can connect my home wifi with 72Mbps (it reports...) but no data transfer after few seconds.... I'm still checking if there is a fxxxxxx guy using wifikill targeted on mine phone...
My phone is ME865 using the China leaked rom.
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Wait a second.... you're telling me you're running the China leaked ROM on your AT&T phone?
I wouldn't mess with that mate.
Running a ROM that wasn't designed for you phone just seems like an accident/brick waiting to happen. Good luck though!

I am out -- Good bye

Hey everyone, It has come time for me to leave. As much fun as it has been in here for the last year plus, it is time for me to move on. I have noticed that a lot of our core group has really been moving on as well.
I will forward the information on how to fix the boot sequence for the CM based ROMs to alteredlikeness so that he can put that into the next builds for his CM based work.
I will still be in and out once in a while, and I will still be on IRC and help out the other devs in the background, but I will not be hanging out in here everyday as I have been. I have put my Atrix2 up for sale, and I am in the process of getting a galaxy nexus to run the new ubuntu phone OS on, and I am going to switch to working only on that for dev work for the time being.
It has been great and I wish everyone the best of luck and best wishes.
Well damn. Best of luck to you good Sir!!!
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What!?! Wow.. bam..
Well, take care of yourself and have fun with mobile Ubuntu! Thank you for everything..
jimbridgman said:
Hey everyone, It has come time for me to leave. As much fun as it has been in here for the last year plus, it is time for me to move on. I have noticed that a lot of our core group has really been moving on as well.
I will forward the information on how to fix the boot sequence for the CM based ROMs to alteredlikeness so that he can put that into the next builds for his CM based work.
I will still be in and out once in a while, and I will still be on IRC and help out the other devs in the background, but I will not be hanging out in here everyday as I have been. I have put my Atrix2 up for sale, and I am in the process of getting a galaxy nexus to run the new ubuntu phone OS on, and I am going to switch to working only on that for dev work for the time being.
It has been great and I wish everyone the best of luck and best wishes.
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Have a good one Jim. Thank you for all of your hard work! Live long and prosper my friend.
alteredlikeness said:
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Well, take care of yourself and have fun with mobile Ubuntu! Thank you for everything..
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Yeah this was a really hard decision, and after thinking on it for most of the holidays and then Ubuntu making their announcement, I knew that is what I was really after, and where I really would LOVE to spend my free time.
I am in no way abandoning you or anyone here, and I will still answer my PMs, because I will still be participating on XDA, I will just be focusing on the ubuntu phone OS instead. As I said I will still hang out in our IRC rooms and check in here every so often, but I am sure it will be less and less as time goes on.
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Have a good one Jim. Thank you for all of your hard work! Live long and prosper my friend.
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Thank you! Same to you.
I am hoping to see some of you guys on the Ubuntu side of the fence soon. I saw several people note that they were excited, and a used Galaxy Nexus is not very expensive right now, and it has an HSPA+ radio just like this phone, so.... it should be pretty close, but that it is more like the SGS3 in hardware, and it is fully unlocked like the SGS3. I am also keeping the SGS3 and going to work to get that on Ubuntu too, so for those that have that phone too, I will still see some of you over there, with hopefully some great ubuntu work that I will be doing.
I decided this after my last attempt at killing the bootloader on this phone frustrated me so much, and the fact that I have 2 devices that are unlocked right now that I can do anything I want with, that this was my only real reason for doing this (freedom).
I have also noticed that the dynamic has changed in here as of late, and that just gave me the extra push to move forward.
Again, you all have fun and keep the good stuff flowing in here and I will speak to everyone soon I hope.
Thanks!
Thanks for all you work!
I recently purchased 2 lapdocks to use with my Raspberry Pi. While waiting for my HDMI adapters to show up from China [still waiting], I got bored and bought an atrix2 this past weekend and was excited to find that you had done some great work with WebTop.
Sadly my atrix2 was already OTA ICS as I was stoked to have a real desktop OS running on this phone. However, I understand the need to move on.
Looks like I'll need to pick up a Galaxy Nexus soon!
I think it's a wise move on your part.. all of us, and especially you, are limited by Moto's lockdown.. and I too am really looking forward to Ubuntu for phones.. they are going to change things and contribute to mobile OS's in a big way. Good things will come of this, and I will definitely be joining you in dev'ing it in the future...
Without being too dramatic - we will keep pushing forward with the foundation that basically you alone put together here.. until we all eventually move on to other devices... sigh.. everything's so fleeting..
Thanks again, Jim! Ttyl..
Sent from my paranoid phone's mind
Good luck Jim and thanks for your help. I understand all your frustrations with this phone. I've been burnt out on it for quite some time now. That's why i haven't been more active here in the community. Take care and thanks again.
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Its a very sad day for A2.. :/ My genuine heartfelt thanks for everything youve done for this phone, one of my decisions to get this phone was because of such dedicated and talented devs like you. Will always be grateful man. All the best and I hope you'll drop in once in a while.. Cheers
Btw, even i'm contemplating getting a Galaxy Nexus.. maybe in a month when the salary comes
My best regards to you Jim, one of the best around.
Will certainly miss you sir, and all the hard work you've brought to this community.
Does your supersekrit CM10 builds feature the work that you had done towards webtop, or should I simply enjoy the devices that I have au natural and not worry about being on bleeding edge of cool?
Thank you again, and enjoy your new toys.
Regards.
^+1. Yah we'll miss u Sir! Have a great time
life!
Motorola pretty much made it impossible to do anything proper with this phone, which is sad because hardware wise it's about as solid as they come. It's been an uphill fight since day one, and we couldn't have had a better fighter for our cause. Like many others, I want to say thank you for helping us along keeping this phone up to par. I'm due for an upgrade, so I'm sure I'll be bugging you in another forum before you know it. :laugh: Thanks Jim.
jimbridgman said:
I am in the process of getting a galaxy nexus to run the new ubuntu phone OS on, and I am going to switch to working only on that for dev work for the time being.
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I saw that ubuntu, why not get a nexus4, I guess its as unlocked as the galaxy nexus is?
I dont understand it myself why they used it on the demo vid.
Adieu
My signature says it all I pray the dreaded boot loader gets cracked wide open & the best part what I like is "I will still answer my PM's" Cheers!
RAD7 said:
My signature says it all I pray the dreaded boot loader gets cracked wide open & the best part what I like is "I will still answer my PM's" Cheers!
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The bootloader will never be unlocked, Jim was the only real hope it would ever be unlocked.
Sucks we aren't getting liquefied jelly beans, you said give it a couple weeks...
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The bootloader will never be unlocked, Jim was the only real hope it would ever be unlocked.
Sucks we aren't getting liquefied jelly beans, you said give it a couple weeks...
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There might still be one or two things I have hidden up my sleeve that I may still release soon.
As far as the bootloader goes, yeah that is not getting unlocked. I tried for a little more than a year. I know when to finally call it quits. I really had a good one there with the rootkit and booting off the sdcard, but there were still checks that moto has for that too, so....
As I said earlier in this thread, my time in here is going start to taper off slowly and over time I will just fade off into the sunset... LOL.
jimbridgman said:
There might still be one or two things I have hidden up sleeve that I may still release soon.
As far as the bootloader goes, yeah that is not getting unlocked. I tried for a little more than a year. I know when to finally call it quits. I really had a good one there with the rootkit and booting off the sdcard, but there were still checks that moto has for that too, so....
As I said earlier in this thread, my time in here is going start to taper off slowly and over time I will just fade off into the sunset... LOL.
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Hey, what happened with kexec? I never tried it as you said it hard bricks the a2.. I do remember seeing a thread where you said it was working and we just need c coders now.. if kexec dosent hard brick, I guess a little can be ported from RAZR.. also now that retail phones have jb, maybe we can use the boot img from it for att phones as well..
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Ravikirancg said:
Hey, what happened with kexec? I never tried it as you said it hard bricks the a2.. I do remember seeing a thread where you said it was working and we just need c coders now.. if kexec dosent hard brick, I guess a little can be ported from RAZR..
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Porting does not work on the A2. We have NEVER been able to successfully port any ROMS to the A2, but don't let me stop you from trying, if you can get it too boot and all the hardware and a kernel working, more power to you! I gotta say that would be pretty sweet, but since we have figured out the secret of compiling and using our kernel as a base, and compiling open source roms like that, we/you can have any roms you basically want now, with the stock kernel still on the phone.
Yes kexec works, since I helped with kexec. There was a post that I did post about it. We do not have any ROMS that take advantage of it though.
you are the best dude!! Thanks for the ROMs:crying: but hope u change ur decesion

Ubuntu Touch

Just wanted to know if any of the devs would be interested in porting the Ubuntu Touch over to our One XL's. I'm not a dev at all (I know absolutely zero coding), but came across this post on the XDA homepage. Thought it would be kinda cool for us to have Ubuntu touch ported over to our device as well.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/porting-ubuntu-touch-is-as-simple-as-building-cm/
Would love to see it if anyone knows how to get it ported over.
Thanks in advance to anyone that does!
djsikhbeatsz said:
Just wanted to know if any of the devs would be interested in porting the Ubuntu Touch over to our One XL's. I'm not a dev at all (I know absolutely zero coding), but came across this post on the XDA homepage. Thought it would be kinda cool for us to have Ubuntu touch ported over to our device as well.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/porting-ubuntu-touch-is-as-simple-as-building-cm/
Would love to see it if anyone knows how to get it ported over.
Thanks in advance to anyone that does!
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Hmm... I may just do this. I've got a machine available that could make quick work out of it. Just need to install Ubuntu on it first, that's the challenge. I'll update in a little while.
AJerman said:
Hmm... I may just do this. I've got a machine available that could make quick work out of it. Just need to install Ubuntu on it first, that's the challenge. I'll update in a little while.
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That would be awesome if you could. I have a computer sitting around, but as I mentioned, know absolutely zero coding. Wish I could help. Let us know if you get a chance and get it working though!
Thanks!
djsikhbeatsz said:
That would be awesome if you could. I have a computer sitting around, but as I mentioned, know absolutely zero coding. Wish I could help. Let us know if you get a chance and get it working though!
Thanks!
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They make it seem pretty simple to get set up so long as you have CM10.1 working for your device, so hopefully that's the case. Ubuntu is installing right now, fingers crossed it doesn't have any issues along the way.
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They make it seem pretty simple to get set up so long as you have CM10.1 working for your device, so hopefully that's the case. Ubuntu is installing right now, fingers crossed it doesn't have any issues along the way.
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Man this is a great day infobar iida and maybe ubuntu touch
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Just a heads up, it looks, unsurprisingly, like Ubuntu's servers are getting hammered right now. I'm only getting about 150 KBps from the, though it could also be my sometimes flaky internet connection here too. It's gonna take a little while to pull everything at this speed.
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Just a heads up, it looks, unsurprisingly, like Ubuntu's servers are getting hammered right now. I'm only getting about 150 KBps from the, though it could also be my sometimes flaky internet connection here too. It's gonna take a little while to pull everything at this speed.
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Considering you're trying and know a lot more than many of us on here know with regards to compiling it, the wait will be worth it if you can get it booting!
I would be all over this!
Thanks djsikhbeatsz!!
Just remember it is a developer preview, that is pre pre pre alpha. Lol. I installed it on my nexus 7 last night, many things do not work, but I really like the direction they are heading
xallinvaynex said:
Just remember it is a developer preview, that is pre pre pre alpha. Lol. I installed it on my nexus 7 last night, many things do not work, but I really like the direction they are heading
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Yeah, it sounds like it's barely even able to work as a phone. We'll have to see how quickly they are working on it. Hopefully it'll be actually usable before too long.
Unfortunately, I'm STILL trying to pull the source. I mean, it's ridiculously slow. I'm under 100 KBps now. I was hoping to get something running today because I don't know that I'll have time to work on it over the weekend. We'll have to see.
Update: Yeah, some 5-6 hours later we're STILL downloading. Nothing for today. I'm going to try to get back to it tomorrow or Sunday if I have time. Hopefully by then it will have finished downloading, haha.
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Yeah, it sounds like it's barely even able to work as a phone. We'll have to see how quickly they are working on it. Hopefully it'll be actually usable before too long.
Unfortunately, I'm STILL trying to pull the source. I mean, it's ridiculously slow. I'm under 100 KBps now. I was hoping to get something running today because I don't know that I'll have time to work on it over the weekend. We'll have to see.
Update: Yeah, some 5-6 hours later we're STILL downloading. Nothing for today. I'm going to try to get back to it tomorrow or Sunday if I have time. Hopefully by then it will have finished downloading, haha.
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Where are you downloading from? Why not go to the Ubuntu site and get the official torrent?
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads
Try that...it wil definitely be faster
djsikhbeatsz said:
Where are you downloading from? Why not go to the Ubuntu site and get the official torrent?
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/alternative-downloads
Try that...it wil definitely be faster
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he's most likely talking about pulling the needed repos to build, not an ubuntu distro.
djsikhbeatsz said:
Just wanted to know if any of the devs would be interested in porting the Ubuntu Touch over to our One XL's. I'm not a dev at all (I know absolutely zero coding), but came across this post on the XDA homepage. Thought it would be kinda cool for us to have Ubuntu touch ported over to our device as well.
http://www.xda-developers.com/android/porting-ubuntu-touch-is-as-simple-as-building-cm/
Would love to see it if anyone knows how to get it ported over.
Thanks in advance to anyone that does!
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been waiting to clone repo for over 6 hours
freaking SLOW
I grabbed the source yesterday since I knew their servers would be screwed today
For anyone hoping for an easy port btw, look elsewhere, it doesn't seem to be finding our RIL along with a few other stuff.
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I grabbed the source yesterday since I knew their servers would be screwed today
For anyone hoping for an easy port btw, look elsewhere, it doesn't seem to be finding our RIL along with a few other stuff.
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hmmm fun!
Zarboz said:
hmmm fun!
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fun indeed... T_T lol
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I grabbed the source yesterday since I knew their servers would be screwed today
For anyone hoping for an easy port btw, look elsewhere, it doesn't seem to be finding our RIL along with a few other stuff.
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Jeez Rohan, there's no getting anything past you is there? Lol...you get a headstart on all the greatest roms / ports it seems! Good work though, thank god for ppl like you! Thanks man!
Wow, this dropped all the way to page 4. I didn't even realize this section was that busy, haha. Well, I unfortunately didn't get any time to come in and mess with this over the weekend, but my source pull failed before completing, and now every time I try to start it back up, it just fails again saying the remote end hung up unexpectedly. I'll check back later and see if they get it fixed.
Wait so is there going to a Rom?
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Wait so is there going to a Rom?
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At the moment, I've gotten back into a busy cycle at work, and my computer is broken at home (I'm down to an iPad and my phone), so I haven't been able to play with it. Hoping to get my computer up and running as soon as I can get some parts ordered. I can't really be upset, I've been using that system for over 5 years now and it's been running like a damn champ! Goodbye ridiculously old Opteron 165. Maybe one of these other guys might have an interest in getting it running.

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