Hacking the Vega? Post your progress!

[Guest griff_dai]

Paul,

In your considered opinion, worth every penny of the £250 or not?

How easy would it be for a newbie to Android to buy and route and then get all this working on the Vega?

Regards

Dave

[Guest removed-14]

Is this the right place to ask how?

All that will come in time. Let Paul work his magic.

[Guest Paul]

Alrighty, flashed my device to 1.0.3 now so i'm working with the latest version.

Now have Live Wallpapers showing properly in the market (they weren't before).

Getting there!

[Guest Paul]

Paul,

In your considered opinion, worth every penny of the £250 or not?

How easy would it be for a newbie to Android to buy and route and then get all this working on the Vega?

Regards

Dave

I think it's pretty good for the price personally!

I'll make sure the process is newbie friendly... B)

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[Guest removed-14]

I think it's pretty good for the price personally!

I'll make sure the process is newbie friendly... B)

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Best news all day! :)

[Guest Paul]

I now have it displaying all apps!

:)

It's now 100% working (IMHO), I just need to work out how to package it up for you luvverly lot! B)

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[Guest JingleManSweep]

I just need to work out how to package it up for you luvverly lot! B)

Legendary! Truly amazing!

Cheers Paul for all your hard work. I will definitely renewing my MoDaCo subscription when it expires. I've sourced all my information and roms from MoDaco for all three of my devices (Blade, Pulse and Vega).

Thank you!

[Guest Paul]

Time for a Clockwork Recovery mod ? B)

Nice idea, BUT... we don't have a way to boot into recovery yet!

I haven't found the key combination...

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[Guest JohnMetz]

Nice idea, BUT... we don't have a way to boot into recovery yet!

I haven't found the key combination...

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So the sequence from the full_system_flash_instructions.pdf :

Place the Advent Vega into recovery mode by:

o Turn the Vega off by holding down the POWER button for 6 seconds

o Once off, hold the BACK button down for 2 seconds

o Then, whilst keeping the BACK button held, press and hold the POWER button for 2

seconds

o Then release just the POWER button but keep holding the BACK button for a further

2 seconds

o Release the BACK button

does not work then (my Vega has not arrived yet, so I can't try)?

John

[Guest Paul]

It does, but that's not recovery in the conventional sense (that we can use).

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[Guest Bisto321]

Well done that man. Many smiley face's all over the country I am sure.

I noticed that USB HID support seemed to be enabled in the config, but I think I rember a post saying that mice and keyboard did not respond?

Anyone else tried it?

[Guest]

Hi folks,

Long time listener, first time caller.

I'm looking to pick up a Vega having been keeping an eye on some of the new tablets coming out such as the Notion Ink, Novatech nTablet etc ... but they all see seem to have a similar spec/concept.

The one thing I did notice about the Novatech is that you can get it without any OS so you can stick anything you want on it, such as a touch friendly/lite Ububtu distro. Will we able to do anything like that with the Vega? Or is Android the maximum we can expect (not that it is a bad thing) ...

Thanks

[Guest lnux9898]

The one thing I did notice about the Novatech is that you can get it without any OS so you can stick anything you want on it, such as a touch friendly/lite Ububtu distro. Will we able to do anything like that with the Vega? Or is Android the maximum we can expect (not that it is a bad thing) ...

Someone managed to run Ubuntu on their Tab. Should be able to do the same on the Vega. Have a look at:

[Guest removed-14]

Someone managed to run Ubuntu on their Tab. Should be able to do the same on the Vega. Have a look at:

Is that running natively or is it a bit of a cheat?

[Guest emergant]

Just going through the Kernel config (should have made notes)

We have ext2/3 but not 4 and the fat stuff

USB networking. Useful for tetherring I'd guess. Perhaps part of the software update? Wild speculation

Firewall stuff is there I think

No USB printing it looks like

It looks like no frequency scaling. I dont get that at all. Maybe I'm missing something?

I'm no developer and I only scanned it so feel free to correct me

[Guest lnux9898]

Is that running natively or is it a bit of a cheat?

It runs as a sub-system using CHROOT.

[Guest rferrett]

B)

Wow this is all looking very promising. Hopefully my Vega will have been delivered by the time I get back from the big smog and I will get to have a play!

How exciting!

[Guest removed-14]

It runs as a sub-system using CHROOT.

So not native then? What I would want in that case is to switch on my tablet/phone and it boot into Ubuntu. No work arounds.

[Guest Paul]

Uploading the addon pack now, should be online this morning! B)

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[Guest swarrans]

Uploading the addon pack now, should be online this morning! B)

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I for one will be subscribing to compensate you for all this hard work on our behalf Paul (assuming I get my Vega today that is!)

Simon

[Guest Paul]

B)

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[Guest randomelements]

Awesome stuff Paul.

Wanted one of these when they were first announced but then was underwhelmed when the news about no market/google apps etc. came out.

Seriously want one again now B)

Anyone want to buy a kidney :)

[Guest removed-14]

Great work Paul as always!

[Guest Paul]

It's here! B)

http://android.modaco.com/content/advent-v...online-kitchen/

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[Guest English Haze]

It's here! B)

Amazing work! You may just have saved this purchase from being a return within 7 days!

A donation to your Leukaemia Research fund is on it's way!