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Burning CD's with Android

So I've pretty much replaced my laptop with my transformer. Yea my laptop has a 17 inch screen, but to be honest with you its so big I never wanted to take it anywhere! Isn't a laptop supposed to be PORTABLE? I feel like I can (and should) take the TF everywhere. It seems tiny when docked, but just right when used as a tablet.
I love it.
The only thing stopping me from selling my laptop at this point is that I need to burn CD's occasionally. Is there any app out there that can access an external burner so that I can make CD's from music I have stored on my external drive?
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Probably more a matter of time, at least if there's interest in it, but might be a long time. Didn't Honeycomb just add USB host support? I don't think it would've been possible before that.

javroch said:
Probably more a matter of time, at least if there's interest in it, but might be a long time. Didn't Honeycomb just add USB host support? I don't think it would've been possible before that.
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You woukd think this would be simple enough if we had usb host. Oh how I wish I was a dev.
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seh6183 said:
You woukd think this would be simple enough if we had usb host. Oh how I wish I was a dev.
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Not necessarily at all, not all manufacturers provide Linux drivers for their hardware (Android is linux underneath it all). As well, I'm not sure exactly how Linux drivers work, but each CD burner might need their own set of drivers

If the iso drivers are in the kernel, the system will know about cd/dvd disks and drives. The issues is a program to do the burning.

NMCBR600 said:
If the iso drivers are in the kernel, the system will know about cd/dvd disks and drives. The issues is a program to do the burning.
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So I plugged in my external DVD writer, and the kernel currently is not reconigzing it.
So that is step 1, someone adding the drivers into the kernel.
After that, it is simly a matter of re-building cdrecorder and mkisofs for an ARM target and writing a little UI on top of it.

brunes said:
So I plugged in my external DVD writer, and the kernel currently is not reconigzing it.
So that is step 1, someone adding the drivers into the kernel.
After that, it is simly a matter of re-building cdrecorder and mkisofs for an ARM target and writing a little UI on top of it.
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Lets contact some dev's who might know how to do this! I can message the Dev for the prime rom. He may be able to point us in the right direction.
EDIT
Messaged him just now.
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I would dust the laptop back off......There are not enough devs or support for at least another 2 yrs to have a bug free Android OS. Also you have the first model of about 15 major tabs in the next 2 yrs! Just because it has a docking station means nothing. Don't get me wrong i love Android.....but leaving windows 7 and coming up 8????? Not to mention all the bugs because its a "beta" product. Actually i wouldn't even call this Alpha..Android OS should of release a GOOGLE laptop first with all the correct hardware specs and almost bug free before letting anyone put there OS on a tablet and sell it...Every Honeycomb tablet that has been made has issues. And its the hardware not being fully compatible.

dallastx said:
I would dust the laptop back off......There are not enough devs or support for at least another 2 yrs to have a bug free Android OS. Also you have the first model of about 15 major tabs in the next 2 yrs! Just because it has a docking station means nothing. Don't get me wrong i love Android.....but leaving windows 7 and coming up 8????? Not to mention all the bugs because its a "beta" product. Actually i wouldn't even call this Alpha..Android OS should of release a GOOGLE laptop first with all the correct hardware specs and almost bug free before letting anyone put there OS on a tablet and sell it...Every Honeycomb tablet that has been made has issues. And its the hardware not being fully compatible.
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I think you are way over thinking this.
It wouldn't take much to make android completely replace a full size os.
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dallastx said:
I would dust the laptop back off......There are not enough devs or support for at least another 2 yrs to have a bug free Android OS. Also you have the first model of about 15 major tabs in the next 2 yrs! Just because it has a docking station means nothing. Don't get me wrong i love Android.....but leaving windows 7 and coming up 8????? Not to mention all the bugs because its a "beta" product. Actually i wouldn't even call this Alpha..Android OS should of release a GOOGLE laptop first with all the correct hardware specs and almost bug free before letting anyone put there OS on a tablet and sell it...Every Honeycomb tablet that has been made has issues. And its the hardware not being fully compatible.
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If you replaced android with another operating system on your post, that can apply to any OS system on the planet. Be it windows, osx, Linux or what ever a company puts out. Not one OS or hardware is immune. Perfect software only happens when it's on the drawing board. The longer android is out the better it gets..but honeycomb has been out a very short time and is only on 5 percent of the devices running google OS. There are more then enough developers for it.

I'm looking for an external dvd burner to work with the TF also. Seems like a lot of TF owners are looking too. Hopefully someone with xda will develop the software...

Not exactly what you want but it might help
Check out this product.....It adds an extra step and it would be kinda kludgy at best.......It is a standalone cd burner.
http://www.cyberguys.com/product-details/?productid=11177
They also have a DVD burner. There may be others out there as well. I have been wanting this as well and don't really want to spend extra to get the capability right now at least.

Awesome! Definitely a solid solution. And a great idea in general! Thanks for the info
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Install Ubuntu, install cd burning software, profit.

brando56894 said:
Install Ubuntu, install cd burning software, profit.
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Get the trackpad drivers working, wifi UI up and running, sound, hdmi audio, and the other 1000 not yet working things running in ubuntu then yeah, sure, profit.

DeNiMuLiC said:
Get the trackpad drivers working, wifi UI up and running, sound, hdmi audio, and the other 1000 not yet working things running in ubuntu then yeah, sure, profit.
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Lol
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DeNiMuLiC said:
Get the trackpad drivers working, wifi UI up and running, sound, hdmi audio, and the other 1000 not yet working things running in ubuntu then yeah, sure, profit.
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technically you don't need any of those things you listed to burn a cd in linux, all you need is the command line.

brando56894 said:
technically you don't need any of those things you listed to burn a cd in linux, all you need is the command line.
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I don't think he's looking to reboot into a full-blown Ubuntu environment (where nothing else works) just to burn a DVD... The whole point of this thread is to get Android-native tools to do the burning - not setup some half-working OS to do the task...
I don't see what the Unix "cdrecord" and "mkisofs" utilities can't be ported over to Android. Although, I don't have the skills to do that, so maybe it's not such a trivial task...
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seriously dude?? This thread is almost two years old. Stop necromancing.

Can someone tell me how to root vzw sg3 with mac?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

I have been searching on here and other forums and youtube and everywhere, i cant find anything! Im also new to mac and not sure how everything works so if you know how please make it so a total noob (me) could understand. Thanks, and p.s. I dont have windows on here yet

You get MAC, you get lots of trouble. It's good for surfing the net and lots of basic things. It has some good audio visual softwares, design too, which are found in Windows too. Drivers tend to be a problem.
You'll need to go through the extra steps of visualizing Windows every time you need it, if you want your MAC to be useful.
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a67543210 said:
You get MAC, you get lots of trouble. It's good for surfing the net and lots of basic things. It has some good audio visual softwares, design too, which are found in Windows too. Drivers tend to be a problem.
You'll need to go through the extra steps of visualizing Windows every time you need it, if you want your MAC to be useful.
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so is there no known root beside booting into windows?

anyone?
i know there is a way, i found one for the international version, but not vzw.

I did a quick Google search but couldn't find anything, maybe you can use vmware to run windows on your mac and root it that way, also bumping this to the top because I am curious also.

Unfortunately there is not. The only way to root on a mac is to do what I did and use boot camp to partition your hd and have windows on there as well. I believe vmware could work but I think drivers may be an issue there.
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I think that you can use this program made by Adam Outler
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29973494&postcount=197
He mentioned it works better on Mac's anyways.

I downloaded Adam's app but haven't used it yet. It does open and waits for my phone to hook up which is a good sign. Might try it this weekend.
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I downloaded it, and ran it. I did hook up my phone to it,and it gave all the options you would want.
I didn't use any though as I am already rooted and on Synergy.
Very simple to use though if it works.

You dual-boot Windows through BootCamp. That's how you root on a Mac. It's what I'm doing on mine.

well on galaxys3root.com he has found a way just hasnt posted yet, it says will post soon for mac and linux, im not starting a war but there has to be a way to do it without booting windows on a mac, i refuse to believe that not one person has a mac and a s3 and hasnt rooted using just the two.

Just used that one click and worked like a charm. thank you

Root a google based phone with a apple PC?
Have you seen the suing?
This is madness I tell you MADNESS.
Well I don't know how. Apple must want you to buy a iphone to go with your new mac then.

ilovemysg3 said:
well on galaxys3root.com he has found a way just hasnt posted yet, it says will post soon for mac and linux, im not starting a war but there has to be a way to do it without booting windows on a mac, i refuse to believe that not one person has a mac and a s3 and hasnt rooted using just the two.
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I have am S3 and a Mac...But I still know for a fact that as of now you need to have windows in order to root which is why I have it with bootcamp. =/ Sorry dude unfortunately for the time being you would either have to wait for a new method to be released or get windows some how. Or use that tool Adamoutler posted. I have it right now (but have not tried it yet) It is suppose to work on a Mac
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Ohleo said:
Just used that one click and worked like a charm. thank you
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Hey I got a question. Did all of your data get deleted when you used it? or was your phone the same after it was done thus you did not have to reinstall anything?

ilovemysg3 said:
well on galaxys3root.com he has found a way just hasnt posted yet, it says will post soon for mac and linux, im not starting a war but there has to be a way to do it without booting windows on a mac, i refuse to believe that not one person has a mac and a s3 and hasnt rooted using just the two.
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Did you ever try Adam's program. If you read back to when he originally posted about it he said it works great on Linux and Mac. In any event good luck.
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for those affraid to try it out,i jus did and worked like a charm....im backing up rite now/.....thanks a lot for the info...i used a macbook pro

OP did you even read through your own thread? I posted last night, a link to Adam's program. He designed it to work on both windows and Mac. He was having some bugs supposedly on windows but works well on a Mac since that is what he uses. The program will root, unroot, flash recovery. Very easy to use.
So you can use this program or have fun waiting on someone to make another program to do what this one can already do.

denpad2010 said:
for those affraid to try it out,i jus did and worked like a charm....im backing up rite now/.....thanks a lot for the info...i used a macbook pro
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Lol well im here just asking if it erases all of the data from your phone thus leaving me to reinstall my apps from the play store and stuff haha. even if it does id probably bite the bullet and do it anyways but I want to know wat happens before hand.

Adam's one click uses GS3DebugFSroot so it shouldn't erase anything because it uses your stock setup and roots the phone no flashing of another image onto it.
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4ktvs said:
Root a google based phone with a apple PC?
Have you seen the suing?
This is madness I tell you MADNESS.
Well I don't know how. Apple must want you to buy a iphone to go with your new mac then.
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Yup, just look at Adam's tool mentioned in this very thread, bud.
I love my MacBook Pro Retina and my phone works perfectly with it.

Samsung's new phone, A Galaxy S III Running Windows Phone 8

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...s-ativ-s-worlds-first-windows-phone-8-device/
Specs look to be identical.
Any chance we'll see a port? I know people will ask, "Why would you want to run Windows Phone?".
Well, just to see if we can of course.

Not bad
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bbeelzebub said:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...s-ativ-s-worlds-first-windows-phone-8-device/
Specs look to be identical.
Any chance we'll see a port? I know people will ask, "Why would you want to run Windows Phone?".
Well, just to see if we can of course.
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Lol. So true. I'd flash it for fun.
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bbeelzebub said:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57...s-ativ-s-worlds-first-windows-phone-8-device/
Specs look to be identical.
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Specs don't look quite identical to me... But hell, I'd give it a shot just to try something new. That is provided a LTE version ofthe phone comes out since this is HSPA+

I wonder if Samsung will add TW "TouchWin" on top of Windows Phone 8, like they do w/ Android? Hehe, TouchWin sounds like a great wrapper for WP8 on an iWin device

newuser134 said:
I wonder if Samsung will add TW "TouchWin" on top of Windows Phone 8, like they do w/ Android? Hehe, TouchWin sounds like a great wrapper for WP8 on an iWin device
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Microsoft won't allow it.
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I'd run it just to say I can as well!

fusiongalaxy said:
I'd run it just to say I can as well!
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Great, so how do we port it over here to our unlocked VZW SGS3? I'm kinda excited now, even though I'd switch right back to android as soon as I know I got WP8 to work on it.

newuser134 said:
I wonder if Samsung will add TW "TouchWin" on top of Windows Phone 8, like they do w/ Android? Hehe, TouchWin sounds like a great wrapper for WP8 on an iWin device
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If they do I will know it as TouchFail....as usual

Reminds me of my last phone, the HD2, and ALL of its possibilities
...I'd love to see it eventually. Bounty?

bobloblaw1 said:
Specs don't look quite identical to me...
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1.5ghz dual-core Snapdragon S4
1GB ram (though the verzion s3 has 2GB)
4.8" Super AMOLED (presuming same exact res)
same spec camera's
16GB or 32GB internal memory
looks exactly the same except for the battery

Its most likely like almost 80% sure we can get a port somehow. Unless it has changed the chipsets like using a different wifi chip or radio chip. Sure it'd probably boot and all that jazz but some stuff might not work because it doesnt use a linux kernel I dont think.

tonu42 said:
Its most likely like almost 80% sure we can get a port somehow. Unless it has changed the chipsets like using a different wifi chip or radio chip. Sure it'd probably boot and all that jazz but some stuff might not work because it doesnt use a linux kernel I dont think.
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Great, can't wait to see the blue screen of death and fatal errors on my phone, together with all the other instabilities that come with windows. Oh, and a registry editor.

Maybe a launcher will be developed for android, kinda like Launcher 7. It won't be the full WP8 experience, probably won't be able to do hubs and stuff like that, but better than nothing.
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newuser134 said:
Great, can't wait to see the blue screen of death and fatal errors on my phone, together with all the other instabilities that come with windows. Oh, and a registry editor.
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You got me crackin up over here. Oh and be sure to have your drivers updated for your drivers so when you plug into your PC your updated drivers will install your drivers :good:

newuser134 said:
Great, can't wait to see the blue screen of death and fatal errors on my phone, together with all the other instabilities that come with windows. Oh, and a registry editor.
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I haven't had a blue screen of death on a Windows product since Windows ME. I think it's time for you to come forward from 1998.

bbeelzebub said:
I haven't had a blue screen of death on a Windows product since Windows ME. I think it's time for you to come forward from 1998.
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I've had a few since then.

bbeelzebub said:
I haven't had a blue screen of death on a Windows product since Windows ME. I think it's time for you to come forward from 1998.
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It's happened to me on Windows7 on a dell pc a few times, it looks a little nicer and restarts after a memory dump, but it's basically the same, you just don't have to manually press the reset button.

I think being able to Multi-boot JB, iOS, and Windows 8 Mobile would be the coolest damn thing in the world.
The specs do look similar, and I wouldn't put it past the people in this community to have Windows 8 mobile running on the GS3 or the GN.
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bbeelzebub said:
I haven't had a blue screen of death on a Windows product since Windows ME. I think it's time for you to come forward from 1998.
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I got 3 Blue screens while running Windows 7 on a virtual machine...in one day.

bbeelzebub said:
I haven't had a blue screen of death on a Windows product since Windows ME. I think it's time for you to come forward from 1998.
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I haven't either.
Properly setup windows machines don't really do that anymore.
I use an I7 SLI tower setup I custom built when I'm home and it runs flawlessly with windows 7 pro.

[ROM] WebOS - Untethered [Download]

Hey guys,
got a brand-spanking-new N7 for Christmas and saw on a news site about a WebOS port.
Now, I'm not sure if any of you have seen the Nook Color forums but I'm gonna tell you, they hacked a 2010 $250 e-reader to run every version of Android and Ubuntu. I'm a tinkering kind of guy and decided to give this ago.
So pretty much I took instructions from here:
http://www.webos-ports.org/wiki/Nexus_7_Build_Setup
And installed to the device here:
http://www.webos-ports.org/wiki/Testing_Nexus_7
It is moderate-hard difficulty, especially for people who have never tinkered with this kind of stuff before. There's only so much I can do for you guys, but I have simplified the install process quite a bit.
I DO reccomend building it yourself if you can, because it provides a learning experience plus you can get the build fresh out of the oven.
Note: This is work in progress, some stuff may not work, alpha, blah blah most of you have heard it.
Without further ado, I present to you:
WebOS Installation Guide - Nexus 7 Edition​
Windows:
1. Download Windows.zip
2. Extract all to one directory, make sure Nexus is plugged in & ADB on
3. Run "Boot.exe"
4. Wait.
Linux version to come; Mac i'm not so sure about.
Credits: ALL credits go to WebOS-ports for making this port in the first place. I just made it easier for the common user to test this thing out. You can thank me if you like but please remember to do so to WebOS-ports as well.
Notes:
-This is an alpha build, according to the dev. It's nothing you could use everyday as an OS but this stuff is fun to play with
-I nor WebOS-ports take responsibility for your device in anyway! I don't care if your cat dies because it ate your N7 running WebOS, or you caused WWIII, or whatever. Please take caution.

Looks interesting and I am the tinkering kind of guy myself. Down to check it out. Oh, and I always wanted to say it.....FIRST!

Wouldn't you be second cuz he was the first guy to post something
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I tested this out and its alright but definitely not ready for daily use yet.
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Alright, the download is up.
You are very correct this is not something to use everyday, but it's something.

Thanks, gonna use this later... Seems cool. WebOS is HP's operating system right??

anerik said:
Thanks, gonna use this later... Seems cool. WebOS is HP's operating system right??
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Yes it is. But because it was not popular they release their sources to the public.
It's why we have now webos ported on several devices

I'm compiling right now mine...many thanks for the point out with proper porting howto!well done!
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Thank you for this good news.
It takes a few days, for those who do not know / can not compile, for try this system.
grrrrr!!!! Enjoy :laugh:

Does anyone know if you can use it with multirom?

sert00 said:
I'm compiling right now mine...many thanks for the point out with proper porting howto!well done!
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Thank you for this good news.
It takes a few days, for those who do not know / can not compile, for try this system.
grrrrr!!!! Enjoy :laugh:
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Yeah it is a bit hard to compile. Good luck to both of you.
If you get stuck, there's a reason I posted this

not working for me. it pushes the images, reboots to fastboot/bootloader and gets stuck there. nothing happens.

fix-this! said:
not working for me. it pushes the images, reboots to fastboot/bootloader and gets stuck there. nothing happens.
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Same for me, maybe I wasn't patient enough but i just restarted it and will try another day when I have more patience

will we ever be able to flash this like a basic ROM later down the road?
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lightninbug said:
will we ever be able to flash this like a basic ROM later down the road?
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I hope so.
I'll test this one more time, I *may* have left something out in the windows zip

Would be curious to see any screenshot
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jamesst20 said:
Would be curious to see any screenshot
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YouTube webos nexus 7..........
Or if your even lazier .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwrE9UGie0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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For me it's stuck at "booting downloaded image".

I started compiling this last night at about 11:00. Its 1:00 pm now. This morning when I went to bed the terminal said 'preparing run queue' and had for about two hours. This morning when I woke up terminal reads 'Currently 1 running tasks (1801 of 4600): 0: webkit-webos-1.3-0.54-r10 do_compile (pid 9944). Been this way for a long time now. When i scroll up the terminal window I see some warnings. Repeated several times is QA Issue: package qt4-webos contains bad RPATH and repeated several times before that is QA Issue: No GNU_HASH in the elf binary: Am I on the right track or is something screwed up? I'm using an older PC running Ubuntu 12.04 with core 2 duo and only 4 GB of ram so I figured it would take a while. When I started the build I also got a message in the terminal saying this build has never reportedly been done on my machines configuration and to let them know if it works. Something along those lines.

Re: WebOS - Untethered [Download]
Looks cool
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[Q] Replace Android with W8.1

Has anyone replaced the Android ROM with W8.1 Successfully? If so where would we find the W 8.1 ROM.

There hasn't been any progress with this yet as it calls for a person to literally open their phone and dump the entire os and then more than likely adjust the partitions and such for the regular m8s. There's already a few threads on this subject with this information in them. If we do see any type of port it will probably be a while before we see anything from it.

I'm excited. I hope the devs are successful.

Just wondering why on earth anyone would want a windows phone?

sco77 said:
Just wondering why on earth anyone would want a windows phone?
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Hey now, no judging.....
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sco77 said:
Just wondering why on earth anyone would want a windows phone?
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Its mostly just having the option of going back and forth. I hate wp but I can't say I wouldnt dual boot if presented the option.

Reminds me of the HD2 days.

I think it'd be really cool to have the option.

sco77 said:
Just wondering why on earth anyone would want a windows phone?
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Simple. I'd like to try it out, without having to commit.
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Lodingi said:
Simple. I'd like to try it out, without having to commit.
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My thoughts exactly, I have only ever played with WP in the store and that doesn't give you a feel of what every day life with the OS would be like.

Definitely would love to give it a shot
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I used to have a 928 and I loved it... I used to switch between my HD maxx and that all the time it would be cool to swap back and forth on the same phone

sco77 said:
Just wondering why on earth anyone would want a windows phone?
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Windows phones and Blackberries (older ones, don't know about newer ones nor do I know about iPhones) have working, functional, usable email clients which, so far, has totally eluded Android. Email is important to me, not enough to give up my Android phone but maybe to some it is?
There may be other reasons but for some people having a working email app is huge!
Android email apps fall into two classifications:
1. Totally Sucks and
2. Worse than Totally Sucks.
NOTE: All the above applies to POP3, IMAP works OK on any phone but that's due to the nature of IMAP, not to the email client.