Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7

[Matthias Raives]

I dont recall anyone saying this, but thanks for confirming my suspicions.
 Do you guys have an estimate on when PA will be ready for the 2013 nexus 7?


On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Daniel Kreuter
<daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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-7worked
>> >>> 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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