Well... They did it... not sure what their real goal is... but Unity is unusable in my mind. Its not that it doesn't "work"... its that it won't work for what I do. I can't find the 5+ different windows of the same app I'll have open on multiple desktops. I upgrade to 11.10... and after a week of using it... found that I'm more frustrated that ever with it. This is the same reason... I can't work with MacOSX. Windows 7 with my limited uses of it... does seem to actually have a method which might possibly work with this new design for desktops... but I have no way of knowing for sure... since I've yet to see multiple desktops on them. Gnome Shell might not have the same flaws as Unity in this respect... however with Ubuntu going full steam into their Unity desktop. I split the jobs I have at hand between 5 desktops on my current laptop. Work Email + Random simple tasks on desktop 1, development tasks on desktops 2 and 3 (separate projects), Music/entertainment stuff on Desktop 4... and whatever else comes along for desktop 5. This is what works for me... and forcing me to change... means I'll find something else that won't. So... I reinstalled my desktop yesterday to ubuntu 11.04... I will stay there until I find a suitable replacement... which will probably be Straight up Debian again. (I ran Debian Unstable on my desktop back in high school) But... I hate to say it Ubuntu/Cannonical... you probably will loose any and all recommendations from me. My laptop is not a Tablet, nor a Phone, I still have a laptop because I need to really work on it. My phone is NOT a replacement for it, and won't be for the foreseeable future... eventually probably... but not yet. That is all.
October 1, 2011 Posted by mitch |
android, G2x |
I said I was going to write about my experiences with this... and never came back to it. I've been running custom ROM's since my first post about rooting my G2x. However, I honestly was a little unsure about the whole process so I didn't want to write about the other bits. I went back through and upgraded ClockWorkMod Recovery again, this time it was a little less unnerving so, I will write down my steps here.
First... I'm following bits from this xda thread
I downloaded the rar file and pulled out the bits needed for ClockWorkMod (CWM) 5.0.2.0, so I could flash it from linux. I originally had a script that I used to flash this... my appologies I don't remember where, nor do I want to claim it as my own... I will include it however at the bottom of this post. Anyway, here goes. After grabbing the files above and the nvflash bin and a script, I put all of this in a CWM-5.0.2 directory
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ ls -l
total 5008
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 3563520 2011-09-06 20:58 CWM-5020.img
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 4080 2011-04-21 00:40 E1108_Hynix_512MB_H8TBR00U0MLR-0DM_300MHz_final_emmc_x8.bct
-rw-r--r-- 1 mitch mitch 1024992 2011-04-21 12:00 fastboot.bin
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mitch mitch 125 2011-10-01 15:59 flash-recovery.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mitch mitch 526131 2011-10-01 15:58 nvflash
Before running the script, you need to connect your phone, follow these steps:
- pull the battery on my phone
- plug USB cable in laptop
- Hold Volume Up AND Volume Down
- *WHILE* holding #3, plug in USB to phone
This should result in a PCI connection to your phone... Your phone will not do anything.
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ lspci
....
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11)
15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
From there, you run the flash-recovery.sh script.
mitch@kraven:~/g2xroot/CWM-5.0.2$ ./flash-recovery.sh
Nvflash started
rcm version 0X20001
System Information:
chip name: unknown
chip id: 0x20 major: 1 minor: 3
chip sku: 0xf
chip uid: 0x02884207417fe4d7
macrovision: disabled
hdcp: enabled
sbk burned: false
dk burned: false
boot device: emmc
operating mode: 3
device config strap: 0
device config fuse: 17
sdram config strap: 0
downloading bootloader -- load address: 0x108000 entry point: 0x108000
sending file: fastboot.bin
/ 1024992/1024992 bytes sent
fastboot.bin sent successfully
waiting for bootloader to initialize
bootloader downloaded successfully
sending file: CWM-5020.img
| 3563520/3563520 bytes sent
CWM-5020.img sent successfully
At this point... you phone will be showing a "software upgrade is in progress" screen...
even after it completes... the above output took around 15 seconds to play out... and they say you can
unplug right after this.. I left it pluged in for another 30 seconds... cause it makes me nervous... (probably
unfounded...)
Download files here
