I'm running XBMC-live which is an Ubuntu distro with Xbox media center (XBMC) as the default window manager. I'm trying to leave XBMC set up on tty7, as it is, and have a normal window manager on added for tty8, so I can use a web browser and stuff.
XBMC is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub for digital media. XBMC is available for Linux, OSX, Windows, and the original Xbox.
Google announced the Nexus 4 today which allows Android users to buy a phone outside of the influence of the major carriers. It turns out that freedom comes at a price: LTE.
Setting up a lan+internet with
android phone (usb)
pc1 desktop (usb+ethernet+wifi in ap mode)
pc2 laptop (wifi)
pc3 xbmc (ethernet)
pc1 gets internet from android and shares it via cable and wifi to pc3 and pc2.
All pcs will run ubuntu 12.04.
Its sort of working (wifi is erratic) but with dhcp which is not ideal.
I have a retail version of Razr M on Verizon in US. The phone is currently running an unrooted stock version of ICS (4.0.4). I am using this phone for corporate email, which requires client certificates for authentication. When Verizon JB OTA was released, I installed it on my phone and immediately lost access to my corporate email due to an Android bug in JB (Android issue 34577).
Verizon Wireless announced two new Android 2.2 phones, led by HTC's four-inch, global-roaming Droid Incredible 2 phone, which features dual cameras, including an eight-megapixel model. The ruggedized Casio G'zOne Commando, meanwhile, offers a 3.6-inch WVGA display, a five-megapixel camera, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS, as well as special field-ready apps linked to the phone's sensors....
Owners of Android devices hoping to turn their hardware into a streaming media set top box now have the opportunity to do so using popular open source application XBMC. To open the door to Android device owners, the developers of XBMC incorporated hardware accelerated video decoding into the application.
I am running "Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64)" with the XBMC application installed, and set the system to boot into an XBMC specific desktop session on boot.
I followed the guide in their wiki to configure Wake-on-USB for the MCE Remote I have.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title...wake_in_Ubuntu
Everything worked fine until last night.
I have The Shift on verizon wireless. My question is the phone is not-rooted, if I root the phone will I lose verizon service, want to get the bloatware off (Nascar, twitter, facebook, all that crap) and hopefully add tethering. Thank you
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