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mozzarellaI want to try ubuntu touch04:19
mozzarellabut I don't have a phone04:19
lotuspsychje!devices | mozzarella04:19
ubot5mozzarella: You can find the full list of devices, official images, community images, and works in progress at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices04:19
lotuspsychjemozzarella: there is an ubuntu-touch emulator for ubuntu also04:19
mozzarellalotuspsychje: where04:19
lotuspsychjemozzarella: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Emulator04:20
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jelknerDo I need to put my phone in developer mode to access it with adb shell?14:05
jelknerMy phone is connected to my computer, but adb devices shows nothing.14:06
jelknerIt mounts on my 14.04 desktop, and I see a directory named Nexus 4 that has the phone's files.14:15
jelknerI'm trying to figure out how to get GPS data from the phone.14:15
jelknerI want to work on an app that will require that.14:16
jelknerUnfortunately, I can't get passed square one :-(14:16
Laneyjelkner: Yeah, via System Settings14:37
jelknerLaney: so I set a 4 digit access key and switch to developer mode, yes?14:39
Laneyjelkner: Something like that14:40
LaneyI don't have a device handy to check exactly what it is14:40
jelknerLaney: np, thanks!14:40
jelknerLaney: that did it.  it can see my device now.14:42
LaneyNice work14:43
idiotbox_Any one ported ubuntu touch on Android one devices http://www.android.com/one/india/?17:24
daker!devices17:25
ubot5You can find the full list of devices, official images, community images, and works in progress at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices17:25
bobin891Hi guys. I´m trying to do something a bit out off my leauge. Can´t get it to work so asking for help. I have a Windows 8.1 tablet, (HP elitepad 900 g1) that I´m trying to try Ubuntu on or Gnome. I have a sdcard that boots to grub, but when i press Try ubuntu the screen just dosent load more, the tablet get stuck there. Any suggestion?17:28
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steffan_Hello. I keep checking on Ubuntu Touch periodically, escpecially the Galaxy S2 project. What's the kind of general state of things with Ubuntu Touch?19:48
ogra_steffan_, it will go on sale preinstalled before end of the year19:57
steffan_ogra_: Allright, that will probably be good for the amount of apps. What about the ports?19:58
ogra_up to the porters ... most of them didnt see any movement after their initial port to an today obsolete version though19:59
steffan_ogra_: So anything that isn't actively maintained might as well be restarted from scratch?20:00
ogra_yeah20:00
steffan_ogra_: Do you by any chance have an idea of how hard it would be to port touch to the Galaxy S2?20:01
ogra_you can surely base on the old stuff though, but apart from the nexus5 and nexus7 "deb" port i dont know of any actively maintained ones20:01
steffan_ogra_: I have a device and a few weeks of free time, so if it's doable I might get into it20:02
ogra_not too hard20:02
TassadarI wouldn't say actively maintained as much as "it didn't break yet" :/20:02
ogra_yeah, well, the two functional ports rather :)20:02
steffan_Tassadar: So how stable it the base then?20:03
steffan_*is20:03
Tassadarwhat do you mean by stable20:03
ogra_what do you mean by base ?20:03
steffan_Well I'm guessing there is some code that is universal to getting ubuntu touch to work on a device. Is that right?20:04
steffan_Or is it more like messing about in the particular kernel until you get it working?20:05
ogra_the system consists of a normal ubuntu install (like on any PC for example) and an lxc container in which a minimal android runs to provide the android HAL20:05
ogra_(binary blobs and the minimal amount daemons to use them  ... to access sensors, graphics modem etc)20:06
TassadarI'm not really using ubuntu touch very much, but they feel confident enough to start seling phones with it, so it might be at least somewhat stable)20:06
ogra_the whole ubuntu part is generic20:06
ogra_what you need to port is the content of the lxc container which is based of your android git tree (massively cut down thoug, to the level of some HW bits)20:07
steffan_ogra_: Tassadar: So just some background, I don't know a lot about phones, but I am a developer and computer science student and I know my way around Linux20:07
steffan_I'm guessing I should go read the porting guide? :)20:09
ogra_well, since we (have to) use the android binaryy blobs that is the part you need knowledge about20:09
ogra_the guide is sadly havily outdated20:09
ogra_(as the ports are ... nobody has time to update it atm until the first phones go on sale )20:10
steffan_Yeah I figured that, which is why I came straight here20:10
steffan_Hmmm. Here right away20:10
steffan_My Dutch is bleeding through a bit20:10
ogra_heh20:11
steffan_So is there documentation somewhere that you would might be relevant?20:11
ogra_generally you should start by getting a kitkat tree for your device ... the basics of the old porting guide still applies ... cut it down to the minimum ...20:12
ogra_get libhybris to work in it (that is the communication layer used to have the two systems work together)20:13
ogra_that should be a good start (and keep you busy for a while)20:13
ogra_for the S2 there is an xda forums thread somewhere for the old port20:14
ogra_!devices20:14
ubot5You can find the full list of devices, official images, community images, and works in progress at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices20:14
ogra_should be linked somewhere from a subpage of that wikipage20:14
* ogra_ needs to go ... 20:14
ogra_you will best get answers during european and US office times here20:15
steffan_Alright. Seems like a good way to start. Thanks :)20:15
ogra_good luck :)20:15
ogra_(i helped a bit with the old S2 port and would be interested to see a working new one )20:15
ogra_(i just dont have any spare time to look into it myself)20:16
steffan_ogra_: If I get anything working I'll let you know :)20:16
steffan_Or I'll try to20:17
dobeyTassadar: btw, i was able to see upgrades after i returned home and got back on my wifi. just wasn't working on 3g. weird. :-/20:41
dobeyi wonder if the "auto download" setting has something to do with that20:42
Tassadardobey: might be my server is blocked by your carier for some reason21:13
dobeyTassadar: i'm pretty sure i've installed an update on 3g before though. and the blacklist file was downloaded ok with the system-image-cli command.21:15
dobeyTassadar: anyway, i'll have to look at it later if i want to figure out why it wasn't working21:16
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