Questions about connecting an Android device to Ubuntu. Questions targeting the device itself are better suited for android.stackexchange.com.
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Syncing pictures from Android to Ubuntu One duplicates pictures forever [closed]
I'm running Jelly Bean on Android 4.1.2 on a Samsung S3 (GT-I9100) and the Ubuntu One app to sync my photos to the cloud and to my own home server. The problem is that some of my photos get copied ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 not recognizing android phone
I have a Samsung transform ultra smartphone and I am running Ubuntu 12.10. when I plug my phone in and set it to mass storage mode nothing happens on the Linux end. I was under the impression that it ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 64bit Android source code download problem
I am having AMD Athlon machine with OS Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit OS) installed on it. I need to download source code for android for which I need to follow number of steps as shown in the link.
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Initialising the Build Environment for Android on 64-bit 12.04
I am looking to initialise the build environment for the AOSP codebase (or for that matter, any Android source), and one of the first steps in the process is to;
$ sudo apt-get install git gnupg flex ...
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Ubuntu Tablet on ASUS Transformer Prime TF201 [duplicate]
I am a grade 9 student and I use an ASUS TF201 (with a docking keyboard) that is not rooted or unlocked but I'm fed up with Android as I can't do any work on it. For this reason, I want to flash my ...
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How do I stop my PC from autoplaying media files present on my SD card on my Android Phone?
How do I stop my PC from autoplaying media files present on my SD card on my Android Phone? Whenever my USB linkage cord between my PC and my phone is wobbled just a little bit my Ubuntu 12.10 tries ...
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How to install ia32-lib on 64 Bit System?
I am new on Ubuntu and setting android environment.I googled too much for this problem but nothing is helping !! when I open eclipse and test android sample project I get a error saying "R cannot be ...
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How to Configure Micromax A68
I want to use Micromax A68 to run and test my Android application. Is any body here who know how to configure to Eclipse or drivers for that?
Thanks
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How can I see Ubuntu file system, installed on SDcard, FROM Android
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 32bit bootable on my SD card (16GB) giving 6GB for Ubuntu (4 for documents), 10 to Android (FAT32 - boot flags).
How can I open Ubuntu files from Android device?
Ubuntu ...
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“Unable to mount Android, Error initialising camera: -60: Could not lock the device” when connecting a Samsung Galaxy S2 via MTP
Whenever I connect my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone (running Android 4.0) via USB using an MTP connection one of two messages always pops up, either:
Unable to mount Android: Error initialising camera: ...
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Ubuntu One for Android without Google play
Is there a way to get the Ubuntu One apk file? My Android device is not supported by Google.
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Getting MTP to work with a Galaxy tab 2 7.0?
I'm trying to get MTP with the galaxy tab 2 7.0 working on my ubuntu installation. Such that I can access the files.
I tried to do what is described here:
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USB tethering from Ubuntu to Android
I have an Ubuntu 12.10 system on my PC and an Android 4.1 system on my Galaxy Nexus. Now I would like to share the Internet connection of my PC via USB with my Phone. I have been searching with Google ...
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How to delete sensitive data on Android phone?
I want to sell an old Android phone. How can I delete sensitive data on my Android phone with a MicroSD card from within Ubuntu, in a secure manner?
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starting android avd fails, saying it can't find emulator, but it exists
I've asked this question both on StackOverflow and the Android Dev forum, but neither got a single reply as of yet. Perhaps a direct focus on Ubuntu might get some results.
I've installed the SDK on ...
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Phone not getting detected in DDMS in Ubuntu 12.04 - 32bit
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit. I have a Micromax Ninja A87 Android phone running GB 2.3.5. My problem is the phone does not get detected. When I try on a Windows 7 PC, it does get detected.
Here are ...
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How can I share the internet connection via Wi-Fi Direct?
Android doesn't support ad-hoc wireless connections, but it does support a technology I'm not familiar with called Wi-Fi Direct:
How can I use this to access my Ubuntu laptop's internet connection?
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How do I connect to password protected servers in nautilus 3.6?
I am trying to manage my android device with DavDrive Lite, which hosts a local file server. The "Connect to server" dialog box in nautilus 3.6 doesn't have the option to type a username and password. ...
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Unable to start avd in Ubuntu 12.10 - permission denied
I am totally new to ubuntu. I installed adt(eclipse) from developer.android.com ..
It is working fine. But when I try to start an AVD it says : Error:13 - Permission Denied.
I tried to start eclipse ...
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Will “Ubuntu for Android” (12.04) work with the Samsung Galaxy S2?
I'm trying to buy a new Android phone and I own an Ubuntu 12.04 computer...
I have the choice of a Google Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S2 and an HTC Sensation XL.
I am aware that the HTC already ...
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Can't see my Nexus 4 on Ubuntu 12.10
I have just received my Nexus 4 and I want to plug it in to root it/copy files onto it but somehow I can't see it while I use
$sudo fastboot devices
I am using this version of fastboot on my ubuntu ...
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Is there an Android remote app compatible with LibreOffice Impress under Ubuntu?
I have an upcoming presentation I want to make in LibreOffice Impress on my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop. I was wondering if I could get ahold of an Android app which would act like a remote control, allowing ...
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Restoring Android
I have a Samsung Galaxy Nexus device. I tried the Ubuntu Touch out, but now I would like to go back to Android. However, when I run the command sudo ./flash-all.sh I get the following message:
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Why is FTP file transfer from Android Phone Slow?
To transfer files from my Android phone to Ubuntu, I use an app that creates a FTP server on the phone.
Copying files to Ubuntu 12.04 (same with 12.10) I get up to 260 KB/s.
Copying files to Windows ...
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Android 3D acceleration in androVM with primusrun?
I have been trying an Android Virtual Machine called androVM on an Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit laptop with Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphics configuration as the guest OS (details on the graphic cards below). I ...
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ubuntu 12.10 and android bluetooth pairing problem
I'm trying to pair my android device (galaxy wonder android version 2.3.6) to my acer aspire 4741g running ubuntu 12.10 via bluetooth, Both my phone and the laptop discover one another, but when i ...
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Can't access my Xperia mini pro (SK17i) on Ubuntu 12.10
I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on my desktop PC and my Acer Notebook. I have tried connecting my Android Device - Xperia Mini Pro (SK17i) on my Acer Notebook and it is working well. Mass Storage Mode ...
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How to share a wired Internet connection with an Android phone?
I have been trying to share my wired Internet connection with my Android phone. However I could not succeed in doing this. Has anyone of you ever succeeded?
Operating systems that I use are as ...
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Will it be possible to run android apps on ubuntu phone?
I know that the basic question of running android apps on ubuntu has already been answered, but mostly for ubuntu desktop. What I was wondering is, if there will be a way to download and run android ...
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How to get Rhythmbox to sync album cover art to Android?
I have Rhythmbox syncing quite well with my Android phone. It automatically transcodes from FLAC to M4a and keeps the correct directory structure and track file names. So far so good.
However, the ...
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On-the-fly conversion of FLAC to MP3 when syncing with Android?
I have a large collection of FLAC music files which I would like to sync to my Android phone. However, the FLAC files are very large...and before I bother to create a seperate MP3 music library it ...
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df shows all space taken, but du doesn't add up
I'm having a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is the second time I've encountered this problem in the last 3 weeks.
The first time is described in this closed question on StackOverflow.
The TL;DR ...
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Android Developer Tools (ADT) installation gives GTK errors when not run as sudo
I installed the Android Developer Tools (ADT) bundle, which includes the Eclipse platform, using the official instructions. When I run the program from the command line I see this message 8 times:
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How can I share my Internet connection through USB?
Is there a way to share an Internet connection from PC (wlan0 interface) with an Android Phone connected through USB (usb0 interface with usb-tethering)?
I guess it's possible with squid, but I don't ...
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Ubuntu Touch running on Android Emulator
As Ubuntu Touch has an underlying Android/CyanogenMod Layer, I would like to ask if it's possible with reasonable effort to run Ubuntu on the Android Emulator which is part of the Android SDK.
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Stream and Control Music from Ubuntu to Android
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 12.10, and an Android 2.3.4 (Samsung Galaxy Fit). I connect my Android to a speaker far away from me.
I want to stream music from my laptop using Rhythmbox to my phone. ...
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Android Apps (Google Nexus 7) [closed]
Okay this might be a stupid question but I want to make sure Ubuntu will be able to everything I want before installing as I am quite happy with my CM10.1. Basily I want to know if standard apps like ...
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Can an Android phone control Ubuntu like a remote?
I am looking at making a budget media centre. I am new to Linux and have not yet installed it but think I can manage. I want to use Ubuntu and would like to use my Android phones to control or work as ...
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Sharing internet between mac mini (with ubuntu) and android
I have an old mac mini on which I istalled Ubuntu. It works quite fine except for few issues.
One of the issues is as follows: I used this Mac Mini as a hot-spot for sharing ethernet -> wi-fi ...
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Nexus 7 installer gets stuck on 'Erasing Boot Partition" help what to do next?
I have tried installing the Ubuntu Touch with the Nexus 7 Ubuntu Core installer on Ubuntu 12.10 64bit in a VMWare virtual machine.
It looks like its stuck on Erasing boot partition.
I have read ...
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Connecting Galaxy Note: Unable to mount Android Error initializing camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device
I'm running cm9 ics on my Galaxy Note and i tried anything i could find googleing around but to no result, if i look on the phone in usb settings there is the option for mass storage but it's grey and ...
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Is there a way to share my computer's Internet connection with my Android 2.2.1 through USB?
Is there a way to share my desktop Internet connection with my Android 2.2.1 using the phone data cable?
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Ubuntu phone android tv tablet?
I am a bit confused (about Ubuntu touch/phone/android/tv/tablet).
Is the Ubuntu OS for phone the same as Ubuntu for Android
If I have a phone with Ubuntu (touch) on it, how do I use it to connect it ...
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Ubuntu how can i send my audio output, to the mobile which is connected using bluetooth?
My mobile running Android which is using bluetooth connected to my Ubuntu 12.10 64-bit.
My goal is to have following step:
in my Ubuntu desktop i am running music from YouTube
Mobile phone is ...
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Will the Ubuntu tablet OS be flash-able from zip files?
Is it available for nexus only now? Will it be available for other tablets as well in flash-able zip files? Just like custom ROM for android flash from cwm twrp?
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Error when installing ubuntu touch developer preview
I installed Ubuntu Phone OS on my Galaxy Nexus. At the last steps an error occured:
Pushing /home/cesare/Scaricati/phablet-flash/95/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip to /sdcard/
protocol failure
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How to mount an Android Jelly Bean phone if there's no option?
I can't mount the LG Optimus P700 (running the Android Jelly Bean OEM image) on my Ubuntu 12.10.
Other phones always have a selectable "Mass Storage" menu, but this one has no menu option for it when ...
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Re-install Android adb [closed]
Tried to install android but adb says its waiting for phone though adb is able to find phone. Tried manual recovery but my is phone hanging.
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Ubuntu SDK does not install on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit?
Trying to install the ubuntu-sdk on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit using instructions at http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ and I get the following errors:
Some packages could not be installed. ...
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Black screen on First startup of Android Emulator using Eclipse Indigo on 12.04 LTS [closed]
I installed Android Developement Tools.
DELL INSPIRON 15R N5520
i3 3rd Gen, 500 Gb HDD
4 Gb ram , UBUNTU 12.04 LTS, Switchable Graphics Ati+Intel 4000m
As soon Launched my first AVD of API level 8 ...
