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Tool Lets You Easily Install Ubuntu Touch OS on Mobile Devices

posted by martyb on Tuesday October 25 2016, @03:33PM   Printer-friendly
from the easy-is-good dept.

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The tool is developed by Marius Quabeck [of UbuntuFun.de] and is called magic-device-tool. The first stable version, magic-device-tool 1.0, is now available to everyone and promises to offer a simple and easy-to-use batch tool for installing Canonical's Ubuntu Touch mobile OS, as well as Android, Cyanogenmod, or Phoenix OS.

In other words, you'll be able to replace your mobile operating system on your device with any of the following: the latest Ubuntu Touch release, Cyanogenmod--with or without the GAPPS (Google Apps) package, the factory Android image, as well as Phoenix OS. Please note that you'll only be able to run one of these OSes on your mobile devices [at a time].

[It] has been successfully tested with BQ Aquaris E4.5, BQ Aquaris E5 HD, BQ Aquaris M10 HD, BQ Aquaris M10 FHD, Meizu MX 4, Meizu Pro 5, LG Nexus 4, LG Nexus 5, Asus Nexus 7 2013 WiFi, Asus Nexus 7 2013 LTE, Asus Nexus 7 2012 3G, Samsung Nexus 10, OnePlus One, and Fairphone 2 (FP2).

magic-device-tool is also good for creating backups, restoring your device, locking or unlocking the bootloader, and installing TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) recovery.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 25 2016, @06:21PM (#418661)

    Man is that XDA forum a shit show.
    First the forum software itself is crap. Painful, tedious, barely fit for purpose crap.
    And the people there are almost all self-taught hobbyists which means they have their own vocabulary that only rarely overlaps professional software development terminology (and sometimes even contradicts it). It reminds me a lot of reading the forums for mini-dish pirates. Everything they learned was empirical so they made up their own words to describe it. But if you have even a little professional experience with the technology it makes it even harder to figure out what the fuck they are talking about,.

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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:38PM

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday October 25 2016, @08:38PM (#418704)

    Terminology? I just assumed they're functionally illiterate.

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