Active Digest, Vol 30, Issue 21

Daniel Kreuter daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 5 19:08:01 UTC 2013 

Sounds great.

I will try to install the latest image from Ruediger Gad and if I don't get that one installed try to build one based on the release from today.

But multirom is also great since you can keep Android as is (to late for me though xD).

Cheers.

Am 05.09.2013 um 20:47 schrieb Kyriakos <kyriakosbrastianos at gmail.com>:

> Matthias Raives, 
> Vojtěch Boček aka tasssadar is working on a multiboot rom for the nexus 7 2013 that will include various Linux flavors including plasma active, ubuntu touch, etc. 
> I think this will be your best bet atm.
> http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/multirom-for-nexus-7-2013
> 
> http://tasssadar.github.io/multirom/
> 
> Some days ago he received his brand new nexus 7 2013 and already working on it:
> 
> https://plus.google.com/106544733723469872647/posts/NgWEFh61Xi7
> For further updates add him:
> 
> https://plus.google.com/106544733723469872647/posts
> 
> Maybe someone from the core team can contact him for official collaboration? 
> It will help plasma active get more visibility & valuable enthusiastic testers-users making it easier to install and use in such a popular device. 
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Greetings 
> Kyriakos Brastianos
> 
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>    1. Re: Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7 (Daniel Kreuter)
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>    3. Re: Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7 (Thomas Pfeiffer)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 18:52:47 +0200
> From: Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com>
> To: Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com>
> Cc: active at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7
> Message-ID: <1A134F0A-263D-4A17-A47F-145BF2674392 at gmail.com>
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> 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, ?ibhear <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
> > >>> > _______________________________________________
> > >>> > Active mailing list
> > >>> > Active at kde.org
> > >>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
> > >>> >
> > >>>
> > >>> 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.
> > >>>
> > >>> ?ibhear
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> --
> > >>> ?ibhear ? hAnluain
> > >>> Gibiris.org
> > >>> Dublin
> > >>> Ireland
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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> From: Matthias Raives <mattjraives at gmail.com>
> To: Daniel Kreuter <daniel.kreuter85 at gmail.com>
> Cc: active at kde.org
> Subject: Re: Installing PA (mer) on Nexus 7
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> 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, ?ibhear <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
> >> >>> > _______________________________________________
> >> >>> > Active mailing list
> >> >>> > Active at kde.org
> >> >>> > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
> >> >>> >
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 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.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> ?ibhear
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> ?ibhear ? hAnluain
> >> >>> Gibiris.org
> >> >>> Dublin
> >> >>> Ireland
> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > _______________________________________________
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> From: Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org>
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> On 05.09.2013 18:58, Matthias Raives wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Answer: When someone made the adaptation. This is a community effort:
> Adaptations happen if someone makes them happen. If you have the skill
> to do it yourself or the money/power/charms to make someone else do it,
> it can happen pretty fast. If not and nobody else has, than it will
> never happen.
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