Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7

[Daniel Kreuter]

As already said, the 2013 model has different hardware so a new adaptation of mer will be needed to support this device.

Cheers

Am 05.09.2013 um 18:46 schrieb Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com>:

> I​t seems all of the tutorials (including that one) have the same (or nearly identical) instructions​.  I'm strongly suspecting it has to do with the fact that I'm using the 2013 Nexus 7, but if anyone could confirm this, that would be great.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, you can also look at [1], maybe this helps?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> [1] http://ruedigergad.com/2012/12/21/plasma-active-for-nexus-7-running-the-touch-optimized-plasma-active-linux-distribution-on-nexus-7/
> 
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 3:15 AM, Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Neither tutorial has worked; both give me the same (aparent) problem.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> It seems the primary difference is that the tutorial you linked has me
> >> erase the boot and userdata partitions before flashing MOSLO onto my device.
> >> I could imagine the former helping, but I don't see why I would need to
> >> erase the userdata partition (it should be erased upon unlocking the
> >> bootloader anyways).
> >>
> >> In any case, I was assuming the problem was due to the fact that I was
> >> using a newer model of the Nexus 7.  Can you confirm/deny this assumption?
> >>
> >> I will try following your tutorial in the near future, and will respond
> >> with the results
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Éibhear <eibhear.geo at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Matthias Raives wrote:
> >>> > Hello,
> >>> >
> >>> > I recently posted this question to the Plasma Active forums (
> >>> >
> >>> > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=211&t=117311&sid=97ffd4496f9b20f2e0cc88d6214ab8ed),
> >>> > ans was told to ask here.  I've been trying to flash my Nexus 7 with
> >>> > Plasma
> >>> > Active using this
> >>> >
> >>> > tutorial<https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Community_Workspace/Tegra3/Nexus7/PA_installation>.
> >>> > I get to the step where I flash MOSLO onto my device:
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > sudo fastboot -c "ro console=tty1 rootwait rootfstype=ext4" flash:raw
> >>> > boot
> >>> > zImage-moslo initrd-moslo
> >>> >
> >>> > My computer reports a success, but when I press the power button to
> >>> > boot
> >>> > my
> >>> > Nexus 7 into MOSLO, it hangs on a screen showing the Google logo and a
> >>> > lock
> >>> > symbol. I don't know what the screen should look like when I've
> >>> > successfully booted into MOSLO, but even if this were the correct
> >>> > screen,
> >>> > MOSLO isn't exporting the userdata partition to a USB storage device.
> >>> >
> >>> > More information:
> >>> >
> >>> > I am using
> >>> > the MOLSO 0.0.15.3 tarball from
> >>> > http://files.kde.org/plasma/active/3.0/images/nexus7/
> >>> > , and m
> >>> > y Nexus 7 is the 32GB 2013 model.
> >>> >
> >>> >  (On a related note, would I be better off trying to install
> >>> > Ubuntu/Kubuntu on my device and then install PA from there?)
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> >  Thank
> >>> > s,
> >>> >
> >>> > Matthias Raives
> >>> > _______________________________________________
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> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> It's a long number of months since I did this, but following the steps at
> >>> http://www.muktware.com/5239/how-install-kde-plasma-active-nexus-7 worked
> >>> for me.
> >>>
> >>> On a quick glance, the two sets of instructions seem similar, but perhaps
> >>> there's something subtle in the difference.
> >>>
> >>> Éibhear
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Éibhear Ó hAnluain
> >>> Gibiris.org
> >>> Dublin
> >>> Ireland
> >>>
> >>
> >
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