Install Ubuntu Touch On Nexus 7

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Setting up your Nexus 7

Contents

1. Setting up your Nexus 7
   1. What you will need
      1. Optional
   2. Ubuntu Nexus 7 Desktop Installer
   3. Unlocking the Nexus seven
   4. Installing Ubuntu xiii.04 on Nexus vii
   5. Manually Installing Ubuntu thirteen.04 on Nexus 7
   6. First boot
   7. Having both Android and Ubuntu installed for dual boot
   8. Returning your Nexus 7 to Stock Android
   9. Troubleshooting the Install

Delight annotation every bit of 12/7/2012 nosotros strongly urge users to re-flash to Raring thirteen.04

What you volition need

• Nexus 7 Tablet (8GB, 16GB, or 32GB)
• Standard MicroUSB Cable (should come up with the device)
• Ubuntu Nexus 7 Desktop Installer installed on your evolution system
  • (Version 1.7 now supports 13.04)
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or Later

• This is a developer preview image, not intended for general users.

Optional

• Micro USB Host Cablevision (OTG Cable) - used for attaching keyboard, mouse, etc. Directions on how to get and use one of these are towards the bottom of the page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/UsingTheDevice

Ubuntu Nexus vii Desktop Installer

A simple graphical installer has been provided, and is available in a PPA. The installer has been updated to 1.7 to now back up 13.04

          sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-nexus7/ubuntu-nexus7-installer          sudo apt-get update          sudo apt-get install ubuntu-nexus7-installer

Usage instructions for the installer are provided below.

Unlocking the Nexus vii

The Nexus vii ships with a locked bootloader. You lot must unlock it in order to flash different images to the device. Fortunately, this is a little procedure, and you only need to do it one time.

Warning: Unlocking the bootloader erases all data and resets the device to manufacturing plant defaults.

1. Reboot the Android device into the Android boot loader. To do this, outset power downwards the device in the normal fashion (concur down the ability button, then select power off and wait a few seconds). From the off country, hold the book down push and press the power button. Continue holding the volume down and power buttons until y'all see the kick loader UI.
2. Plug in the device to your laptop with your micro-usb cable The device at present displays the boot loader GUI, which looks similar this:

1. Verify fastboot lists the device. In a concluding on your laptop, run:

                               * $ sudo fastboot devices              1234567891234567        fastboot

2. Offset the bootloader unlock process:

                 sudo fastboot oem unlock

3. You are prompted on screen to unlock the bootloader on the Android device screen. Follow the on-screen directions to continue. Your screen should now look similar this:

Complete the process past rebooting:

•               sudo fastboot reboot-bootloader

Or simply printing the ability button.

When the device reboots back into the bootloader (fastboot fashion), you should see "LOCK STATE - UNLOCKED" in small-scale red print. At this point your device is now unlocked.

Installing Ubuntu thirteen.04 on Nexus 7

Once all setup has been completed, the installation can start. To install, ensure the Nexus 7 is in fastboot way, plug it into your figurer (and make sure NO OTHER DEVICES are plugged in).

Find the installer in the dash (search for 'nexus'):

This will provide a Graphical Interface for installing Ubuntu. This tool will download the latest epitome automatically, and wink it appropriately. The flashing step should take nearly 2 minutes. In one case the flashing is complete, the device will reboot and cease the installation. This step can accept 10-xv minutes.

Manually Installing Ubuntu 13.04 on Nexus 7

The following instructions are for manually installing Ubuntu 13.04 on the Nexus vii. Delight refer to the Known Bug Folio prior to flashing.

Be sure to accept the ubuntu-nexus7-installer package installed so that all of the necessary prerequistes are pulled on your system.

1. Download the ii Raring daily build files (.bootimg & img.gz) from: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-preinstalled/current/

2. gunzip the img.gz
3. Adhere the nexus in flash mode
4. Verify that the Nexus7 is identified properly via fastboot
5. Issue the following:

          $sudo fastboot erase kicking                    erasing 'boot'...          OKAY [  0.027s]          finished. total time: 0.027s

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$sudo fastboot erase userdata

          erasing 'userdata'...          OKAY [  1.077s]          finished. total time: 1.077s

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$sudo fastboot flash kick /path/to/*.bootimg*

          sending 'boot' (8192 KB)...          OKAY [  1.055s]          writing 'boot'...          OKAY [  0.280s]          finished. total time: ane.336s

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$sudo fastboot flash userdata /path/to/unzipped/*.img

          sending 'userdata' (679937 KB)...          OKAY [ 87.024s]          writing 'userdata'...          OKAY [ 30.850s]          finished. total fourth dimension: 117.875s

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$sudo fastboot reboot

          rebooting...                    finished. total fourth dimension: 0.020s

* The tablet will now reboot and boot into the Ubuntu installer.

First boot

During starting time boot, the initial configuration will begin. You volition be prompted to connect your device to a local Wifi Network followed by the time zone, keyboard layout, user name & password, arrangement name and some additional options. Subsequently all of these steps have been completed the user will be presented with the desktop.

Do not worry about a messed up desktop background during the configuration/installation, as shortly as your final desktop gets started, you go a correct background.

In some cases the onscreen keyboard does not piece of work. It displays but the characters typed do not appear in the input fields. To go on, connect a PC keyboard (USB wired or not-Bluetooth two.4 GHz wireless with USB dongle) with an OTG adapter cable. Later on the installation the onscreen keyboard volition work and you can besides configure Bluetooth keyboards.

Having both Android and Ubuntu installed for dual boot

If you desire to try Ubuntu only not lose your Android, you can use a dual-boot setup. There is a working solution for Ubuntu 13.04 on the XDA mobile developer forum. Y'all need at least version 7 of MultiROM and the corresponding Recovery version. Too make sure that after installing the Ubuntu image that you go into the ROM list, click your new Ubuntu entry, and in the menu appearing then disable flash-kernel, otherwise Ubuntu updates would overwrite the boot sector. Meet also issues 1078391.

Returning your Nexus 7 to Stock Android

Alarm: Disconnect ALL other mobile devices continued from your computer or they might go erased also. This will erase ALL DATA on your Nexus 7.

In case anything happens while developing, the organisation image for Nexus 7 can be found here: https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/nakasi-jdq39-manufactory-c317339e.tgz

Please besides check for updated Nexus7 (nakasi) factory images likewise.

After downloading the above tarball, uncompress it with the following:

          tar zxvf nakasi-jdq39-factory-c317339e.tgz

Then, place your auto into fastboot mode and run the resulting script:

          cd nakasi-jdq39/          sudo ./wink-all.sh

You may get the following warnings, which yous can ignore, the restoration will continue anyway.

          archive does not comprise 'kicking.sig'          archive does not contain 'recovery.sig'          archive does not contain 'organization.sig'

And so you may lock the device once again after another reboot into the fastboot style:

          sudo fastboot oem lock

Troubleshooting the Install

If you accept problems installing the image, delight use the following troubleshooting steps:

1. Detach the USB cable, restart the tablet back into fastboot manner, and re-attach the USB cable.
2. If issues persist, reboot your host PC.
3. If you lot notwithstanding take bug, try a dissimilar USB cablevision.
4. If y'all have a 16G tablet, try using the 8G image.
5. If you withal take problems afterward doing all this, render the image to stock using the directions above and re-effort.

6. If none of that works, ask a question on Enquire Ubuntu using the mobile tag, or ask for aid in the #ubuntu-arm channel on freenode. If you believe information technology's a bug, file a bug against ubuntu-nexus7 in Launchpad.

Nexus7/Installation (concluding edited 2013-06-30 07:eighteen:10 past e8hffff)

Source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/Installation

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