hey guys im trying to use virtualBox on my Ubuntu machine. Im trying to run windows 7. Got it all set up and loaded with no problems. Heres where I cant get passed.
Im trying to get VB to utilize the entire screen space. Ive read through all the articles about installing the additions iso. I cant seem to find a good copy. Also I cant get Odin to recognize my phone either. I have USB set up in VB and can access the files on phone but cant get Odin to recognize it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
You can install guest additions from within VirtualBox. It shows up as a mounted CD drive. Open it, & run the appropriate script.
If your ultimate goal is to use Odin, though, I don't think it will work through VirtualBox. Maybe it's possible, but I think it needs direct access to the USB. You could just dual-boot Windows & do it directly.
Thanks for the info
post-mortem said:
You can install guest additions from within VirtualBox. It shows up as a mounted CD drive. Open it, & run the appropriate script.
If your ultimate goal is to use Odin, though, I don't think it will work through VirtualBox. Maybe it's possible, but I think it needs direct access to the USB. You could just dual-boot Windows & do it directly.
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thanx for the info dude. I guess i just assumed i could get it to work in a virtual machine. Could have swore Ive seen Adam doing it...mind u he is MUCH MUCH more educated than me. That is my goal. I have a linux machine and wanna use odin to flash Adams Odin root file for the Note 2. No problem running his CASUAL program, but need to root it first and as far as I can tell it needs to be done in Windows. I guess I can always turn a spare computer back into a windows machine...just didnt wanna have to go through the headache,.
Well, you can boot off a Ubuntu install disk (or make a GParted Live USB), then use gparted to resize your Ubuntu. Set a few GB aside for a new partition, then install Windows there, instead of installing Windows in the VM. It ends up being the same thing, just a few more steps to get it running.
Just make sure you back up your grub config and mbr. I don't think Windows would make your Ubuntu install vanish, but ya never know...
BDogg718 said:
Im trying to get VB to utilize the entire screen space.
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Oh, yeah. The default command to switch to fullscreen mode is Host+F, where the default Host key is Right Ctrl (so, RightCtrl+F).
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Hi guys first post here. I just went through the headache of removing vista and installing xp so that i could flash to the latest crossbow, then put vista back on without realizing i forgot to put on the tmobile uk radio. Is there any way to install this with a cab file? The vista RUU trick doesnt work for me at all. Any help would be great. Thanks.
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Hi guys first post here. I just went through the headache of removing vista and installing xp so that i could flash to the latest crossbow, then put vista back on without realizing i forgot to put on the tmobile uk radio. Is there any way to install this with a cab file? The vista RUU trick doesnt work for me at all. Any help would be great. Thanks.
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I think you're stuck. You have to be able to access the bootloader via USB - which forces your hand with and you're stuck with XP.
You might investigate running a dual-boot machine. I run 2 x 400 gig SATA drives in Raid 0 (for speed), then partition them into 200, 200 and 400 gig partitions. The first is for Vista, the second is for XP, and the third is high-speed storage. I keep another 400 gig SATA for backup storage. This config works very well, and lets me bounce back and forth between OS flavors very easily.
It's even handly to keep a copy of Koppix Linux around - just in case you need to run a CD only OS for emergencies...
thanks man. i ended up doing just that. The dual boot setup is working great.
Rather than dual boot (which requires rebooting to switch) you can also do a Virtual Machine. VMware Player is free, and you can use http://www.easyvmx.com/ to create the files it needs. Then you just startup your virtual machine (its just a window running on your current WIndows setup) and install XP, or whatever OS on it. Now you can run XP under Vista (no reboot required) and do whatever you need.
Ah but you then cant flash your phone under a VM machine so kinda defeats the object of it! But I use a Virtual PC for testing my website templates under old IEs on XP.
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Ah but you then cant flash your phone under a VM machine so kinda defeats the object of it! But I use a Virtual PC for testing my website templates under old IEs on XP.
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Hmmm. I've seen a couple of posts here where people have flashed from a virtual machine (or claimed to have done this). I haven't tried this myself though.
neonkoala said:
Ah but you then cant flash your phone under a VM machine so kinda defeats the object of it! But I use a Virtual PC for testing my website templates under old IEs on XP.
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actually it can be done as that is how ive been doing it for weeks now. Using VMWare workstation and activesync 4.5
Alright, decided to install debian in a virtual box so I could play with the kernel over the weekend. Usb debugging, adb functioning in Windows, Usb mounted in virtual box, however adb doesn't detect it. Ideas?
Did you download the Android SDK for Linux? link
Yeah. Hence me saying adb didn't detect it.
I think you need to enable usb passthrough or whatever you call. That may be in the addons pack that come with Sun Virtual Box
USB capturing is enabled, and both the USB port [0100] and HTC Android Phone (on port [0100]) are both captured.
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Alright, decided to install debian in a virtual box so I could play with the kernel over the weekend. Usb debugging, adb functioning in Windows, Usb mounted in virtual box, however adb doesn't detect it. Ideas?
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Before you pull too much hair out, you REALLY need to make sure you have a really recent kernel. I had that exactly problem on Centos 5.3 and upgrade that box to fedora 12 or 13 whatever the latest one.
Have you tried installing Ubuntu using WUBI? It doesn't actually install it... it just puts the files on your Windows partition, and adds an entry for Ubuntu to the bootloader. That might be easier than trying to work out problems with Virtual Box.
This is my mom's computer, so I'm doing VB. Otherwise I'd just through Sabayon back on and dualboot, which is what I plan on doing when i get back to my computer.
I've seen VirtualBox act flaky about passing a USB device over to the hosted OS properly, especially USB-class devices.
Perhaps you could try uninstalling the device as detected by windows and then allowing it to be re-detected before you retry passing it to the VB. Might not work at all, but I have had to 'wrestle' some devices into properly passing-through to the VirtualBox-Hosted OS on more than one occasion.
Good luck either way!
Since this is my last day here, I think I'm just going to wait until I get back to my PC.
I appreciate everyone's help though.
Ok I know this isn't the right forum for this but I know how good the developers in this forum are. What's happened basically is I installed Android on my pc on the same partition as windows xp. But it doesn't work properly and now when I boot it loads grub but windows Isn't listed as an os. So how do I boot into windows and remove android and grub. I've looked everywhere and I can't find how to do it. Plz if anyone can help I will be very grateful.
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Dion.
I'm not an Android expert but I can't imagine, that it's really possible to install Android on the same partition as XP ?!
Edit: OK, maybe it's possible, but it's not a good idea at all..
However...
-Boot with your XP CD
-Press R
-Enter "fixmbr"
That should help you..
It won't be easy removing grub. What you can do is have grub show Windows. Grub will load the Windows bootloader, which in turn will load Windows.
You can also set it to automatically boot the Windows bootloader, so you can delete the Android partition (don't delete grub!).
I don't think there are any Android specific guides available for this, but if you can get into a shell (which I doubt you can't), follow this: h t t p://supergrubdisk.org/wiki/Howto_Boot_Grub_from_windows
Also, I think running fixmbr or something similar from a Windows recovery console (using a DVD) would work (h t t p://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392).
Hope this helps.
Thanks I will try the supergrub link as its a netbook I haven't got a cd drive so ill let you know how I get on. Thanks for replying.
P. S.
Luvin swiftkeys.
Ok thanks I fixed it. I used the grub console to boot into windows then I used something called testdisk in windows to restore the windows boot partition. Thanks
I had to post in the Q&A since i'm a newb here, but my transformer is bricked, and i tried the unbricking method seen in the development thread and I keep getting stalled at "waiting for bootloader to initilize"
does anybody know how i can fix this and get a stock rom on my transformer incase i need to rma it.
I am also running VMware as i do not have a windows pc at the moment, so i don't know if that has anything to do with it.
Any help is much appriciated, thank you.
Not sure, but does VMware support USB devices?
it does, or at least it shows apx mode when it's plugged in. I may need to just try it on an actual windows computer though :/
EDIT: for some reason it worked right after i posted that. I didn't really do anything different, htc-hd2 is just good luck i guess!
Running VMWare on what machine? A Mac ?
Can't you dualboot Windows 7 with BootCamp ?
I dont have a mac, just going on what I have heard
VMware is probably your problem. Boot up a Linux live CD and run this: Stock Honeycomb 3.2 (Actually if you have a mac you can run this too, just run extract the archive and run the bash script from the terminal)
It's a tar ball that I put together that contains the files needed to flash a stock image of 3.2 via nvflash. The archive is about 300mb IIRC.
I just wanted to start this thread for anyone who needs help with the s3 on linux whether its mounting sd/mtp or help with heimdall. I use Arch linux and let me tell you mtp is a pain in the butt, I ended up having to use a ftp server, and for my sd card I use a root ap called SG USB MASS STORAGE ENABLER by Mohhamad Abu-Garbeyyeh.
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Bierce22 said:
I just wanted to start this thread for anyone who needs help with the s3 on linux whether its mounting sd/mtp or help with heimdall. I use Arch linux and let me tell you mtp is a pain in the butt, I ended up having to use a ftp server, and for my sd card I use a root ap called SG USB MASS STORAGE ENABLER by Mohhamad Abu-Garbeyyeh.
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I'm using Ubuntu but there's no way I'm playing with my phone on it - I have a Windows partition just for that sort of thing. Maybe if it weren't my daily driver, I'd be willing to give it a shot but, while I use Linux for just about everything, it's just easier to have a Windows partition for some things. This being one of them.
Hats off to you though - takes guts (& knowledge) I don't have!
Need to be on stock. Doesn't work without stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33491516&postcount=11
It worked for me on ubuntu 13.04
sjpritch25 said:
Need to be on stock. Doesn't work without stock.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=33491516&postcount=11
It worked for me on ubuntu 13.04
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I'm rooted and ROMd with Carbon. Love my AOSP!
Bierce22 said:
I just wanted to start this thread for anyone who needs help with the s3 on linux whether its mounting sd/mtp or help with heimdall. I use Arch linux and let me tell you mtp is a pain in the butt, I ended up having to use a ftp server, and for my sd card I use a root ap called SG USB MASS STORAGE ENABLER by Mohhamad Abu-Garbeyyeh.
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A couple of things I have found:
1. While MTP did not work with my Mint 15 system and stock android 4.1.2 on my phone, once I rooted, unlocked the bootloader, and installed cyanogenmod, it worked like a charm.
Before, when I plugged in my phone, I would get multiple error windows saying the MTP system wasn't available. I had to use windows (yuck!) and odin to get root and unlock the bootloader (although I did not try the virtualbox windows until after I had done this). I installed the most recent version of cyanogenmod and now the Mint system recognizes the MTP just fine. No error windows or anything.
2. I was able to get a virtualbox windows machine to recognize the phone, although it required different usb filters for download mode and for typical mtp.
This required going into download mode, selecting the appropriate filter in virtualbox, unplugging the phone, booting up the virtual machine and then replugging the phone. After this, odin recognized the phone. I did not attempt to flash anything further, though, since I had already done so from a windows system.
I think Ubuntu ships with mtp and its libraries now
I used to use arch Linux. Such a fun distro. Then work started using a TS gateway and it started become too much a hassle. Installed Windows 8, no longer fighting the system :screwy:
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lazarus0000 said:
I'm using Ubuntu but there's no way I'm playing with my phone on it - I have a Windows partition just for that sort of thing. Maybe if it weren't my daily driver, I'd be willing to give it a shot but, while I use Linux for just about everything, it's just easier to have a Windows partition for some things. This being one of them.
Hats off to you though - takes guts (& knowledge) I don't have!
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What do you mean you have a windows partition? I have a laptop that's quad booted with Windows 7, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Pear OS 8. I want to take Windows out of the picture but I need it for things like this. Could you give me more details on this like does it act like a windows system? It'd be much appreciated.
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