How To Properly Mount Android 4.0+ Devices In Ubuntu Using Go-mtpfs

<div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Mounting an Android 4.0+ device in Ubuntu is pretty tricky, but there is </b><b>a FUSE filesystem called </b><b><b><a href="https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs">Go-mtpfs</a>,</b> created by a Google employee because "mtpfs was very unstable" for him, which works great. Read on to find out how to use it and easily install it in Ubuntu using a PPA!</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Also see: <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/12/airdroid-manage-your-android-device.html" title="AirDroid: Manage Your Android Device Using A Browser">AirDroid: Manage Your Android Device Using A Browser</a>, however, there are cases when you can't use AirDroid. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">By default, when connecting an Android device to an Ubuntu computer, gvfs is used via gphoto2 (because gvfs doesn't have native MTP support yet). And that doesn't always work properly.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's <b>my experience with this:</b> trying to mount my Android 4.2.1 phone fails most of the time (I've experienced the same behaviour with Android 4.1 too), usually with some "Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Android": Timeout was reached" errors. It does work at times, but it's very slow and with such an unreliable behaviour, an alternative is always nice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I didn't try mtpfs but it seems that's <a href="https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs">not reliable</a> <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">any more either</a>, but <b>what I did try is Go-mtpfs and it works great under Ubuntu 12.10:</b> <b>it's fast and it works every time</b>. Well, unless I forget to unlock the phone when I mount it (it's probably something sleep-related because it doesn't always happen), but anyway.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">I've found out about Go-mtpfs from Bilal's <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">blog</a> and I figured it's a bit complicated for regular users to compile it so <b>I've packaged Go-mtpfs and uploaded it to the WebUpd8 Unstable PPA</b>. <b>Along with Go-mtpfs, I've also packed a custom Unity launcher and a script</b>, to be able to easily mount and unmount your Android device without having to use the command line.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-quicklists.png"><img alt="Go-mtpfs Ubuntu Unity quicklists" src="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-quicklists_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, while my script (which is used by the custom Unity launcher) tries to display a notification if an error occurs, it shouldn't be considered reliable for properly displaying the errors so <b>my recommendation is to mount / unmount your Android 4.0+ phone or tablet via command line </b>so you can see any possible errors. </div><br /><br /><h2>Video: see Go-mtpfs in action</h2><br />Below you can watch a video I've recorded, demoing Go-mtpfs in Ubuntu 12.10 (as well as the custom Unity launcher / script I've created for it):<br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6pelKv939N8" width="560"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pelKv939N8">direct video link</a>; subscribe to our <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/nilarimogard">YouTube channel</a> for more videos)</center><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">(<i>In the beginning, I'm showing what happens when you try to mount an Android device with without Go-mtpfs, so it's all waiting and a bunch of errors, if you want to skip to the Go-mtpfs part, skip to 2:05</i>.)</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install Go-mtpfs in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update: </b>Gvfs has been updated in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, bringing a new MTP backend which allows users to access Android 4.0 devices which do not support the USB Mass Storage. So this should work out of the box with Raring.<br /><br /><br /><b>Go-mtpfs is available in the WebUpd8 Unstable PPA, for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install go-mtpfs</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>To also install the custom Unity Launcher for Go-mtpfs</b> which lets you mount or unmount the Android device from the Unity Launcher, use the command below:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo apt-get install go-mtpfs-unity</code></pre><br /><b>Note: </b>I've only tested it in Ubuntu 12.10, using a Samsung Galaxy S II phone (with both Android 4.1 and 4.2.1).<b> </b><br /><br /><b>Update</b> 13 February 2013: I've backported the latest libmtp from Raring to Quantal and Precise, the update bringing <a href="http://ppa.webupd8.org/post/43022082410/libmtp-updated-for-ubuntu-quantal-and-precise-with">support for some new devices</a>.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Why did I use the Unstable PPA? Well, <b>I've built Go-mtpfs against the latest libmtp 1.1.5</b> which is not available in the official Ubuntu repositories and while it didn't break anything, it's better to be safe. Since our Unstable PPA only has a few packages, it can easily be purged in case something doesn't work properly (but everything should work, that's just to make sure). The PPA only has Synaptic GTK3 for Precise and Quantal right now.</div><br /><br /><b>Notes: </b><br /><ul><li>Unmounting the device via Nautilus does not work!</li><li>Sometimes you may get an error if the device is locked, so unlock it before trying to mount it;</li><li>When plugging in an Android device via USB, Ubuntu will try to mount it and it's a good idea to stop this by clicking the unmount icon in Nautilus. </li></ul><br /><b>For manual installation instructions, see: <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">THIS</a> post.</b><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>How to mount Android 4.0+ phones / tablets in Ubuntu using Go-mtpfs</h2><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-nautilus.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Go-mtpfs nautilus" src="http://img.netupd8.com/go-mtpfs-nautilus_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Browing the mounted Android device using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/10/how-to-install-nautilus-36-or-patched.html">Nautilus 3.6</a><u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-go-mtpfs.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Thunar go-mtpfs" src="http://img.netupd8.com/thunar-go-mtpfs_thumb.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Browing the mounted Android device using <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/11/install-thunar-with-tabs-support-in.html">Thunar 1.6</a><u><br /></u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Installing Go-mtpfs using our PPA, a folder called "MyAndroid" is created under /media. So, <b>to mount your Android device</b>, connect it via USB, unlock it (you'll get an error most of the times if you don't unlock the device when mounting it) and mount it using the following command:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>go-mtpfs /media/MyAndroid</code></pre><br /><b>To unmount it, use:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>fusermount -u /media/MyAndroid</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you want to use the custom Unity launcher I was talking about, search Dash for "Mount Android" and add the icon to the Unity launcher. You can then right click it and and select to mount or unmount your Android device. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's also worth mentioning that clicking the launcher itself doesn't do anything (but I've got that covered: a notification is displayed, telling the user to right click the icon instead). Also, the mount / unmount notifications have a 5 seconds delay which I've added to make sure the device has enough time to mount/unmount before checking for errors.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And finally, if you're not using Unity, you can still use the custom Unity launcher with a dock such as DockX and others which come with Unity quicklists support (I've used the old Unity quicklists API so it should work even with docks that use the old implementation). To add the launcher to the dock, open a file manager, navigate to /usr/share/applications (because the icon only shows up in Unity) and add the "Mount Android Device" launcher to the dock using drag and drop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>some info via <a href="http://blog.itsbilal.com/index.php/2012/12/connect-an-android-4-0-phonetablet-to-ubuntu-the-reliable-way/">blog.itsbilal.com</a> & <a href="http://www.atareao.es/ubuntu/otra-manera-de-conectar-ubuntu-con-android-4-0/">atareao.es</a></i></div>

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XBMC Media Center 12.0 Beta 1 Released With Raspberry PI And Android Support

<div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://xbmc.org/">XBMC</a> Media Center, a free, open source digital media hub and HTPC (Home theatre PC) software has <a href="http://xbmc.org/natethomas/2012/11/15/xbmc-12-0-frodo-beta-1/">reached</a> version 12.0 beta 1. <b> </b></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Besides new features and improvements, the latest XBMC 12.0 beta 1 codenamed "Frodo" is now available on some new platforms like Raspberry PI or Android.</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12.png"><img alt="Xbmc 12 Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><b>Here's what's new in the latest XBMC 12.0 beta 1:</b><br /><ul><li>HD audio support, including DTS-MA and Dolby True-HD, via the new XBMC AudioEngine</li><li>Live TV and <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR/Backend">PVR</a> (personal video recorder) support. This allows users with a TV tuner to watch live TV, listen to radio, view an EPG, schedule recordings, and more</li><li>h.264 10bit (aka Hi10P) video software decoding for anime</li><li>64bit support in OSX to match the 64bit support in Linux</li><li>Improved image support, allowing the database to accommodate numerous additional image types</li><li>Improved Airplay support across all platforms</li><li>Advanced Filtering in the library</li><li>Advanced UPnP sharing</li><li>Raspberry PI is now fully supported</li><li>Initial support for Android</li><li>More </li></ul><br /><br />Below you can see a few XBMC 12.0 beta 1 (running in Ubuntu) screenshots:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-video.png"><img alt="XBMC 12.0 Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-video_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-video-addons.png"><img alt="XBMC 12.0 Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-video-addons_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-music.png"><img alt="XBMC 12.0 Ubuntu" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-music_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-pvr.png"><img alt="XBMC 12.0 live video pvr" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-12-pvr_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Install XBMC 12.0 beta 1 in Ubuntu</h2><br /><b>The latest XBMC 12.0 beta 1 can be installed in Ubuntu (12.10, 12.04 or 11.10) using the following commands:</b><br /><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install xbmc</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though XBMC 12.0 beta 1 comes with initial Android support, <b>there are no Android builds available on XBMC download page</b> and the XBMC Android <a href="http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_Android_specific_FAQ">FAQ</a> advices the users to compile it. But if you want to download pre-built Android binaries, <b>you can download XBMC 12.0 for Android from <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29737205">xda-developers</a></b>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Here are a few <b>screenshots with XBMC 12.0 running</b> on my <b>Android</b> phone:</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-android.png"><img alt="Xbmc android" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-android_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-android_2.png"><img alt="XBMC android" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-android_2_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-android_3.png"><img alt="XBMC Android" src="http://netupd8.com/w8img2/xbmc-android_3_thumb.png" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>For other Linux distributions, Windows, Mac OSX, iOS and AppleTV2, see the XBMC <a href="http://xbmc.org/download/">downloads page</a>.</b>

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WAcVCDWwwC8/UEh_n-UhotI/AAAAAAAAJ_Y/d8xxwWmv3s8/s1600/utorrent-for-android_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WAcVCDWwwC8/UEh_n-UhotI/AAAAAAAAJ_Y/d8xxwWmv3s8/s320/utorrent-for-android_1.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>uTorrent, the popular bittorrent client available for Windows (and <a title="uTorrent Is Finally Available For Linux (Headless - WebUI Only For Now)" href="http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/utorrent-is-finally-available-for-linux.html">Linux server</a>), is now available for Android, as a beta release.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;">uTorrent for Android is currently free and can download files directly on the device, supports RSS feeds and online torrent search, though the search results aren't displayed in uTorrent but in a web browser.<br /><br />Even though this is a native Android application, it doesn't make use of the Android / Holo style so it doesn't look too good. But it did work well in my short test.<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4wp4Xf1TO4/UEh_rIVEEMI/AAAAAAAAJ_g/uO-xH57F3kQ/s1600/utorrent-for-android_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Q4wp4Xf1TO4/UEh_rIVEEMI/AAAAAAAAJ_g/uO-xH57F3kQ/s320/utorrent-for-android_2.png" width="192" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">From the uTorrent for Android UI you can manually add torrents, view the files included in a torrent, start/pause torrents and view completed / downloaded torrents. In its preferences, you can set upload / download limits, the incoming TCP port and if uTorrent should start on device boot.<br /><br />Unfortunately, iOS users won't get a native uTorrent app anytime soon. "Right now we’re focusing on growing our Android clients" said BitTorrent Inc. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Download uTorrent for Android from <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.utorrent.client">Google Play</a>:</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="utorrent qr code" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2yKwKmNS2VA/UEh--VszMJI/AAAAAAAAJ_Q/D-tTvwc9t3c/s1600/qrcode.png" title="utorrent qr code" /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/utorrent-debuts-native-android-client-120905/">TorrentFreak</a></i></div>

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Install ADB And Fastboot Android Tools In Ubuntu Via PPA

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JDT8rewe0vQ/UD4hNAdHr-I/AAAAAAAAJzA/uwwP4CG2vg8/s1600/adb.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="adb" border="0" height="193" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JDT8rewe0vQ/UD4hNAdHr-I/AAAAAAAAJzA/uwwP4CG2vg8/s320/adb.png" title="adb" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>A package called "android-tools", which comes with "adb" and "fastboot" command line utilities, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal repositories recently. I've got a request to upload this package in a PPA for older Ubuntu releases, so I've backported it to Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"adb" (Android Debug Bridge) </b>is a command line tool you can use to access the file system from an Android device; it can be used to send commands, transfer or receive files, install or uninstall applications and more.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>"fastboot"</b> is a command line tools that you can use to flash the filesystem on Android devices over USB.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">These tools can be found in the <a href="http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html">Android SDK</a> too; using the official package in Ubuntu 12.10 or the packages in our PPA is just an alternative and easier way I'd say, to install them in Ubuntu. Also, the packages in the PPA are available for both 32bit and 64bit, while the Android SDK provided by Google is only available for <a href="http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=904303">32bit</a>.</div><br /><br /><h2>Install "android-tools" package (adb and fastboot) in Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 or 11.04</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Like I've said above, android-tools is available in the official Ubuntu 12.10 repositories so all you have to do is search for it in Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>For Ubuntu 12.04, 11.10 and 11.04, you can install android-tools using the main WebUpd8 PPA:</b></div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot</code></pre><br />Once installed, run "adb" and "fastboot" in a terminal to see the available options and how to use these Android tools.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 1:</b> we've now backported the Ubuntu Raring builds to Ubuntu 12.10 as well as Ubuntu 12.04 and 11.10. This includes  a new android-tools-ext4-utils package (“sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils”) and <b>udev rules to allow fastboot flashing Nexus7.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Update 2:</b>  The "android-tools-adb" package now includes / installs <b>51-android.rules</b> Udev rules. This isn't available in the official Ubuntu package but only in the package available in our PPA, and is available for <b>Ubuntu Raring, Quantal, Precise and Oneiric.</b></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Thanks to Marcin Juszkiewicz for the packaging; I've only uploaded the package to the WebUpd8 PPA for older Ubuntu releases</i></div>

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Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oveev5-hasQ/UDyrO7rbOOI/AAAAAAAAJyk/Hs1cSqrYwV4/s1600/mupdf.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="mupdf" border="0" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oveev5-hasQ/UDyrO7rbOOI/AAAAAAAAJyk/Hs1cSqrYwV4/s320/mupdf.png" title="mupdf" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="http://www.mupdf.com/">MuPDF</a> is a small and fast PDF viewer that can quickly open large PDF files, even on slow computers.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>WebUpd8 reader David Reimer writes:<br /><br /><blockquote>Larger PDFs (such as those 20Mb+ ones available at Archive.org/details/texts) run miserably slowly in Evince, or about any other PDF reader/viewer I've tried in Ubuntu, to the point of being unusable. With MuPDF, they can be read (even on my aging hardware) quite rapidly.</blockquote><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the application focuses on speed and small code size, it doesn't come with interactive features like for filling for instance. Also, the user interface only displays the PDF; to navigate through the PDF file (next page, rotate, zoom, search for text, go to a page and so on), you must use keyboard shortcuts as explained <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/manual">HERE</a>.</div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF also comes with a few tools (in the "mupdf-tools" package) that allow you to convert a PDF file to a series of images (pdfdraw), repair, decrypt, and decompress PDF files (pdfclean) as well as some debugging tools that lets you extract fonts from PDF files, display information about internal objects, etc. (pdfshow, pdfextract and pdfinfo).</div><br /><br /><h2>Install MuPDF in Ubuntu</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">MuPDF is available in the official Ubuntu repositories, but that's an old version - 0.9 for Ubuntu 12.04. Many improvements have been added to MuPDF 1.0 and 1.1: better memory management, multi-threaded operation, better PDF rendering and <a href="http://www.mupdf.com/news">more</a>. If you wish to install the version from the official repositories, simply search for MuPDF in Ubuntu Software Center.</div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To install the latest MuPDF 1.1 in Ubuntu 12.10, 12.04 or 11.10, use the following commands:</div><pre class="linux-code"><code>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:guilhem-fr/mupdf<br />sudo apt-get update<br />sudo apt-get install mupdf</code></pre><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MuPDF isn't available just for Linux, the application is also available for Windows, Android and iOS:</b></div><ul><li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/mupdf/downloads/list">download MuPDF source / Windows / Android</a></li><li><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mupdf/id482941798">download MuPDF for iOS</a></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>thanks to David Reimer for the tip!</i></div>

Quickly Open Large PDF Files Even On Slow Machines With MuPDF

MuPDF is a small and fast PDF viewer that can quickly open large PDF files, even on slow computers. WebUpd8 reader David Reimer writes: Lar...

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Tomdroid 0.7 Beta Adds Support For Creating And Editing Notes, More [Android]

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CQq_MMfVTCs/UC45fXmoKkI/AAAAAAAAJsw/A1FVhgzRL4M/s1600/tomdroid.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid" border="0" height="192" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CQq_MMfVTCs/UC45fXmoKkI/AAAAAAAAJsw/A1FVhgzRL4M/s320/tomdroid.png" title="tomdroid" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The stable <a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2011/04/tomdroid-tomboy-notes-comes-to-android.html">Tomdroid</a>, an application compatible with <a href="https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/tomboy/">Tomboy Notes</a> that you can use to sync notes between your desktop computer and Android device, works in read-only mode for now so you can only read the notes created on your computer, but you can't edit them or create new notes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But there's some good news.<b> Tomdroid 0.7 beta was <a href="https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+announcement/10445">released</a> recently, adding support for editing and creating new notes along with other new features. </b>The new beta version isn't available on the Android market (Google Play), but you can download the apk from Launchpad.</div><br /><a name='more'></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PzVyTF8xcx0/UC45oMPJw5I/AAAAAAAAJs4/LEoxZR1MW_Y/s1600/tomdroid_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid edit note" border="0" height="192" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PzVyTF8xcx0/UC45oMPJw5I/AAAAAAAAJs4/LEoxZR1MW_Y/s320/tomdroid_2.png" title="tomdroid edit note" width="320" /></a></div><br /><b>Tomdroid 0.7 beta features:</b><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>basic tablet support</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>two way sync along with the ability to create, edit and delete notes</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>rich text editor</b></li><li style="text-align: justify;">automatic renaming of notes with duplicate title</li><li style="text-align: justify;">automatic note saving on pause</li><li style="text-align: justify;">ability to revert changes</li><li style="text-align: justify;">note conflict resolution screen when notes are of different date and both older or newer than last sync date</li><li style="text-align: justify;">automatic authentication - if you use Ubuntu One, pressing "Sync" on first launch is enough to authenticate and sync</li><li style="text-align: justify;">updating progress bar with information on current task, number of notes</li><li style="text-align: justify;">switching sync services/servers doesn't clear notes database anymore</li><li style="text-align: justify;"><b>Preference tweaks:</b> change base font size, back up notes to SD card, remove all notes from remote service, show/hide note templates, clear local notes database</li></ul><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0i3MEafZ5o/UC45uuUqumI/AAAAAAAAJtA/cm1SthtOVqk/s1600/tomdroid_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid" border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-D0i3MEafZ5o/UC45uuUqumI/AAAAAAAAJtA/cm1SthtOVqk/s320/tomdroid_3.png" title="tomdroid" width="192" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jiknsLSiahg/UC45vAFvIII/AAAAAAAAJtE/yQuPqsLes-g/s1600/tomdroid_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="tomdroid" border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jiknsLSiahg/UC45vAFvIII/AAAAAAAAJtE/yQuPqsLes-g/s320/tomdroid_4.png" title="tomdroid" width="192" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>You can download Tomdroid 0.7 beta "House of Fun" from <a href="https://launchpad.net/tomdroid/+download">Launchpad</a> (apk).</b><br /><br /><i>This is a beta release, so you'll probably find bugs - report them @ <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/tomdroid">Launchpad</a>.</i>

Tomdroid 0.7 Beta Adds Support For Creating And Editing Notes, More [Android]

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Android-X86 4.0.4 (ICS) RC2 Released With ARM Translator, More [Android For Netbooks Or Laptops]

<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TG9TVsry5dA/UAWQbnkoROI/AAAAAAAAJSc/B8Tmu1FbSEE/s1600/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" border="0" height="239" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TG9TVsry5dA/UAWQbnkoROI/AAAAAAAAJSc/B8Tmu1FbSEE/s320/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_3.png" title="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><i>The <a href="http://www.android-x86.org/">Android-X86</a> project provides Android optimized for X86 so you can install Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich on your netbook or laptop just like any other OS.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Android-x86 4.0.4 RC2, based on Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 has been released today with a few exciting changes, like an ARM translator that lets you run some ARM applications on Android-X86.</b></div><br /><a name='more'></a>Changes in Android X86 4.0.4 RC2 (since<a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/android-x86-40-rc1-released-android-ice.html"> Android-x86 4.0 RC1</a>):<br /><ul><li>Kernel 3.0.36 with more drivers and bug fixes.</li><li>Enable Dalvik JIT compiler support which should make apps faster</li><li>Support some 3G modem.</li><li>Ready to run arm translator. (You still need to install Intel’s libraries manually)</li><li>Physical keyboard layout selection.</li><li>Support two cameras.</li><li>Fake SD card is replaced by internal storage support.</li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since the latest Android-X86 uses an ARM translator, <b>not all ARM applications will work</b>, for instance, Google Chrome won't work. Angry Birds (as well as Amazing Alex) on the other hand, worked in my test using a custom Android-X86 build in VirtualBox, though it was kind of slow (probably because of VirtualBox):</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9tX3zSQllm4/UAWQi-fmgaI/AAAAAAAAJSk/p29z9iUBPio/s1600/android-x86-angry-birds.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2 angry birds" border="0" height="246" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9tX3zSQllm4/UAWQi-fmgaI/AAAAAAAAJSk/p29z9iUBPio/s320/android-x86-angry-birds.png" title="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2 angry birds" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm sure there are readers who are wondering if Netflix works with this new Android-X86 release, but unfortunately I can't answer to this question because Netflix doesn't work in my country so if you try Netflix with Android-X86 4.0.4 RC2, let us know if it works in the comments!</div><br /><br /><b>Here is a video and a few more Android-X86 4.0.4 RC2 screenshots:</b><br /><br /><center><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CoVUEQiiSJQ" width="420"></iframe><br />(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoVUEQiiSJQ">direct video link</a>)</center><br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8L8ESh1HHx4/UAWQne-TuWI/AAAAAAAAJSs/YqdNyPlR46Q/s1600/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8L8ESh1HHx4/UAWQne-TuWI/AAAAAAAAJSs/YqdNyPlR46Q/s320/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_1.png" title="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wSUpy6IY_Nk/UAWQoEHGK_I/AAAAAAAAJSw/LNlaXUjFohk/s1600/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" border="0" height="238" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wSUpy6IY_Nk/UAWQoEHGK_I/AAAAAAAAJSw/LNlaXUjFohk/s320/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_2.png" title="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x5leyvvBY3Y/UAWQo3WCA4I/AAAAAAAAJS4/F7IwS5bQrWI/s1600/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" border="0" height="239" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x5leyvvBY3Y/UAWQo3WCA4I/AAAAAAAAJS4/F7IwS5bQrWI/s320/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_4.png" title="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KfcsROeznAY/UAWQpkFme5I/AAAAAAAAJTA/Ld8OlQ52_3k/s1600/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KfcsROeznAY/UAWQpkFme5I/AAAAAAAAJTA/Ld8OlQ52_3k/s320/android-x86-4.0.4-rc2_5.png" title="android-x86 4.0.4 RC2" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><h2>Get ARM translator to work in Android-X86 4.0.4 RC2</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To get the Intel ARM translator working in the latest Android-x86 4.0.4 RC2, you need to download 3 libraries from <a href="http://www.buildroid.org/blog/?p=198">Buildroid</a> and copy them into the system folder (so make sure you select to install the /system directory as read-write while installing Android-X86!):</div><br /><ul><li>Download <a href="http://www.buildroid.org/Download/libhoudini.so">libhoudini.so</a> and copy it to <i>/system/lib/</i></li><li>Download <a href="http://www.buildroid.org/Download/libdvm_houdini.so">libdvm_houdini.so</a> and copy it to <i>/system/lib/</i></li><li>Download the <a href="http://www.buildroid.org/Download/houdini_armlibs.tgz">arm libs</a>, extract the downloaded archive and copy the files to <i>/system/lib/arm/</i></li></ul><br /><h2>Download for VirtualBox</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The official Android-X86 builds do not have Ethernet support, so you won't have an Internet connection while running Android-X86 in VirtualBox. You can, however, use a custom Android-X86 4.0.4 RC2 build that adds Ethernet support: <a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/t5a3aj">DOWNLOAD</a> (thanks to <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/YmWjtOLLdDs/discussion">Ron M</a> for this build!). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This build has the ARM translator libraries build-in. This is a debug build so a red frame is displayed sometimes - the only way to avoid this is to <a href="http://www.android-x86.org/getsourcecode">compile Android-X86 from source</a> and apply the <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/YmWjtOLLdDs/discussion">Ethernet patch</a> yourself (or search for a different Android-X86 4.0.4 RC2 ISO with Ethernet patch).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Important: </b>if the mouse isn't working, select from the VirtualBox menu: <i>Machine > Disable Mouse Integration</i>.</div><br /><br /><br /><h2>Download Android-x86</h2><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Android-x86 4.0 has been tested / it should work on AMD Brazos (MSI 110W), Asus EeePC or some Asus laptops/tablets and Tegav2 / Viewpad 10. These are the officially supported devices, but Android-x86 should work on others too. An old list of supported devices / hardware can be found <a href="http://www.android-x86.org/hardware-list">HERE</a>.</div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-x86/downloads/list">Download Android-X86 4.0.4 RC2 </a></div><br /><br />Also see: <br /><ul><li><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/02/android-x86-40-rc1-released-android-ice.html">Android-x86 4.0 RC1 Released (Android Ice Cream Sandwich Optimized For Netbooks / Laptops)</a></li><li><a href="http://www.webupd8.org/2012/03/how-to-dual-boot-android-x86-and-ubuntu.html">How To Dual-Boot Android-x86 And Ubuntu (With GRUB 2)</a></li></ul><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>via <a href="http://www.android-dev.ro/2012/07/16/android-x86-4-0-4-ice-cream-sandwich-rc2-is-released/">android-dev.ro</a></i></div>

Android-X86 4.0.4 (ICS) RC2 Released With ARM Translator, More [Android For Netbooks Or Laptops]

The Android-X86 project provides Android optimized for X86 so you can install Android 4.0.4 Ice Cream Sandwich on your netbook or laptop ju...

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