Install Ubuntu Touch On Dell Venue 8 Pro
Hi All, Is there any step by step procedures available for installing ubuntu in a DELL venue 8 pro tablet. The tablet preloaded with windows 10. I have disabled secure boot and created one bootable. Dec 06, 2013 This is the new Dell Venue 8 Pro booting Ubuntu (13.10) from USB. As of now this is only working with frame buffer, no built in wlan, no sound, no camera. However the touchscreen is working.
Most Windows tablets that have popped up in the last year tended to be on the larger side. There are a few below 11 inches, many 11.6 inchers around, and some 13.3 and 14 on the shelves.
It’s easy to understand why this is–Windows 8 tablets are supposed to be just as good for productivity as they are for play.Thing is, the bigger the tablet the less light and portable it is, so why would you bother carrying it around? Of course, if you go too small then you end up squinting, which isn’t great for getting work done.Tablets with 8 inch displays seek to hit that Goldilocks zone of compact and portable while still being powerful and large enough for people to get real work done when necessary. Dell’s new is trying for exactly that.What first struck me about the Venue 8 is the display–the 8-inch, IPS panel is bright, crisp, and beautiful.
The 1280 x 800 resolution is pixel dense enough for this size, though not as impressive as the Nexus 7. Good thing the venue doesn’t have to compete with that tablet.Like the larger Venue 11 Pro, the Venue 8 is comfortable to hold due to the curved edges and overall light weight (0.87 pounds).
I really like how it feels in the hand and the texture on the back. It’s possible to wrap a hand around it, even if you have smallish hands, and balances well in portrait and landscape.The only ports are microSD, microUSB, and a SIM card slot for 4G LTE (optional). There’s no docking connector like the Venue 11 — Dell assumes you won’t connect this up to a monitor when you’re at your desk. The keyboard accessory the company offers connects via Bluetooth. That’s not terrible, but it’s not as speedy or reliable as a physical connection.Another feature the 8-inch Venue shares with the larger model is stylus compatibility. The active pen is to thick to store inside the tablet when you’re not using it.The stylus feels like a real pen, glides across the screen well, and should satisfy most people looking to take notes by hand. I wasn’t able to fully test things like palm rejection; stroke recognition worked as well as I’ve seen on other Windows tablets.
The technology behind the pen comes from Synaptics, not Wacom, so artists might not be tempted.The Bay Trail Intel Atom processor inside means the Venue 8 Pro will likely be pretty snappy yet won’t get hot. Thus the thin profile.
I didn’t get a chance to run any robust apps during my hands-on time, but opening apps and switching between them revealed no sluggishness.With an 8-inch Windows 8.1 (not RT!) tablet with Atom inside you’re inching back toward netbook territory, which I know will make a lot of you happy. The $300 price tag also helps.
Just keep in mind that price does not include a keyboard, which will be necessary. Even on a small tablet the Windows keyboard is all in the way.If an 8-inch Windows 8 tablet is the kind of machine you dream about, the Dell Venue 8 Pro has a chance at winning your heart. On paper, and after a short hands-on time, it looks to have a good deal of potential.
Nice first attempt. I’m waiting on the second batch of mini-tablets running Windows 8. I’m hoping to see a mouse in the bezel. I don’t ink nor do I draw. Needing a battery and no place to put the pen makes it less useful.What rates can the tablet be charged via micro-USB? Can it detect a PC USB vs a dedicated USB charger as specified in the USB specs? For dedicated chargers, does it have current sensing circuits to detect if the charger can’t provide any more current and will automatically lower its power draw before damaging the charger?
You may not like it but W8 is not falling flat at all but steadily increasing In the first few months alone the Windows tablet market went from near zero to over 3.3%, which means an increase of 700% from when there were only W7 tablets available, and it has continued to gain market share since then. Sure, it’s not a smashing runaway success but that’s to be expected for a brand new OS that makes major changes. Besides, adoption rates for a new version of Windows also averages just over 3 years This was the case for XP, as it was for Windows 7 So anyone predicting dire straights for W8 when it’s only been a year clearly is projecting what they want to happen rather than actually analyzing anything! Much of the hate is total BS anyway, the vast majority of people haven’t even tried it yet, with Read more ». First, my figures come from both NetApplications and StatCounter.
In both, Win8 has moved ahead of all versions of OSx combined. It’s also growing faster than OSx 10.8.
Linux doesn’t even rate a mention – it’s just lumped into other. Besides, we’re talking tablets and Linux support is in its infancy.As far as Win8, I agree that Metro stinks. The only Metro apps I use are Overdrive for reading books, Zinio for magazines, and the Daily Show.However, except for the start button (which is easily replaced) I can have the full Win7 experience by switching to the desktop.
Plus, Win8.1 will bring back the start button and allow me to boot to the desktop.The “hate” for Win8 is overblown. There’s also some built in hidden options For example, you can Right-click on the taskbar, go to Taskbars in the context menu, then click New Taskbar. When an open folder window pops up, type the following:%ProgramData%MicrosoftWindowsStart MenuPrograms This produces the Start Menu Programs pop up menu in the taskbar, just unlock the taskbar and you can drag it to where you want, like next to the Start Button, and you’re set 8.1 also puts a lot of features under the right click menu Including the Start Button, which gives you some power options and quick access to the Shutdown/Reboot options There’s actually quite a bit you can do once you actually figure out how to do it with Windows 8 before even really needing a 3rd party solution. But W8 is a work in progress Similar to XP, which took two SP releases before it was even considered a Read more ». Touch screens are becoming standard, even low cost devices will be getting them soon and then the point will become mute! Also, Intelligence has nothing to do with preferences, which is what you’re basing your judgment upon!
Anyone, who wasn’t biased would know there are advantages and disadvantages to every menu system ever devised! Just because you can’t see the advantages doesn’t mean they’re not there!
Like it or not the old start menu was never going to last forever, since the way we use computers was never going to stay the same forever! The old start menu didn’t even work for everyone in the first place. The whole reason they had the word “START” on it all the way from when they introduced it till Vista was because most people had to be taught what it was for and how to use it!
It took over a decade but Read more ». We’re talking about mostly mobile devices here! The article itself is about a 8″ product!While you’re again confusing your opinions with reality, fact is touch screens are becoming standard. Like it or not they’re here to stay!So guess what, you just added more proof that you’re the one without a clue!Worse, pointless insulting of others just makes you look more the fool. So even people who may have agreed with your dislike of MS and Win8 will have little recourse but to distance themselves from you, lest they too look like fanatical haters!
Active digitizer is the most flexible of the pen options, though Synaptic has a pretty good Stylus option that makes for more accuracy than you would normally get from a capacitive touch based solution. Magic gathering 1997 isoc. Though, bringing back the optical mouse track point that some UMPCs used (along with some other devices like the Blackberry phone prior to the touch screen introduction) would make for a good solution as you can easily use it while holding the tablet and just thumb the cursor around, with either tap or actual mouse buttons to provide the same control as you would get from a mouse but built into the tablet. It’ll also be cheaper than the pen/stylus solutions and you won’t have to worry about losing it especially, since many of these tablets have nowhere to store the pen/stylus and even the MS Surface Pro magnetic solution isn’t great as the pen can Read more ». Any bias against BB shouldn’t apply as it was a common solution for multiple mobile devices like UMPCs, which were one of the first mobile devices to run full desktop OS in a 5″ to 7″ screen devices.
BB actually used a track ball type solution before they opted to the optical mouse and then finally they gave it up in favor of touch screens for the BB10 devices. But an optical mouse can also be easily integrated into the bezel and would look little different from another optical sensor, like the usual light meter sensor, or at works it could be mistaken for another front facing camera as long as they don’t put a border outline on it to make it stick out. Though, there are alternatives like putting a touch pad on the back of the tablet where the fingers can easily rest while holding the tablet in Read more ». It’s not BlackBerry bias that I’m talking about, it’s bias against anything that seems “old fashioned”. In a perfect world, manufacturers would include a feature because it’s useful and good.
But if you think that’s how they actually make decisions. Sorry that you’re misinformed? Yes, usefulness for the end user is an important thing, but they also have to sell this stuff and not just to enthusiasts. Thus we get a slew of not so useful features that.sound.
good and not all of the features that actually.are. good. You’re kidding, right?
Sure, there are plagues of bad design choices but practicality has always been a factor too. Really, why do you think they’re even bothering pushing accessories like keyboard docks in a market dominated by slates and phones? The Acer Iconia W3 was the first 8″ Windows 8 tablet, but they made sure to advertise the keyboard accessory that was more than a size larger than the tablet itself and for practical purposes let you dock it for easier carrying in a bag hardly a design choice for cool factor! While the Asus Transformer Book T100 is a budget offering but it includes the keyboard dock by default because practicality does matter too! Ditto with the trend for giving mobile devices game controllers because touch screen only control is just too limiting.
Same is true for Windows and mobile devices The desktop needs precision in order to use Read more ». The Asus T100 is a 2 in 1 hybrid, which makes the “Included” keyboard dock part of the design! While the Acer example also was specifically advertised with the keyboard, you actually had to look up the fact it wasn’t sold with the tablet, but that shows the intent of the message the company wanted to get across!
Really, keyboards aren’t the number one mobile device add on for nothing! And they’re not pushing 2 in 1 systems for the heck of it but because that’s the compromise for practicality. Tablets aren’t that good for productivity, so they adopt a compromise solution that allows them to be better used for productivity! Even the rise of phablets is because of functionality influencing design choices! Do you think holding a phone that’s nearly the size of a tablet and talking on it is cool and not embarrassing? Yet phablets are one of Read more ». Sorry but repeatedly you’re showing yourself to be the only idiot because you confuse your opinions for facts and you don’t even know what you think you know.
For example, Windows UI is modifiable! And no, you don’t just choose the UI you want to use in Linux either! Say, you’re one of those people who hate Unity for Ubuntu You still have to uninstall Unity and install an alternative This is no different than getting a 3rd party utility to modify Windows UI! The only difference is there’s a lot of proprietary and closed code for Windows. So there are some things you have to work around or outright replace but it still can be done. The PC market was also already in decline before Windows 8 came out and for your information, Apple’s OSX based product sales have also gone down and they obviously have nothing to Read more ».
Install Ubuntu Touch On Dell Venue 8 Pro 5830
First off UNITY SUCKS ASS and so does metro!!!! Second Canonical can GO SUCK IT for all I care because THEY SUCK ASS!!!
Well that and putting amazon on unity is unacceptable. Yes desktop sales were going down steadily HOWEVER M$ Windows 8 and 8.1 made go down FAR MORE than they would of if M$ make Windows 8 the RIGHT way with NO metro.
I see you don’t get it DUMB M$ FANBOI!!!!! Wrong people are willing to pay a start menu DOUCHE FOR BRAINS which is UNACCEPTABLE and should NEVER happen if a software company IS ACTUALLY doing ITS JOB but M$ is not and DUMBASS FANBOI’S LIKE you are making it Worse. Just let M$ and Metro DIE ALREADY and people will be happy.
Install Android On Dell Venue 11 Pro
So what I would have to uninstall the UI I would do that anyways because UNITY SUCKS and GNOME SUCKS ASS!!!! Wrong little Read more ». First, I’m no Fan Boy and you can’t even spell correctly!Second, Ubuntu is the closest thing to a mainstream distro for GNU/Linux Period! A decade of Market shares don’t lie and since most users have to actually choose to install it then the only one who thinks it is junk is you!So try to get a clue about what is reality from your distorted egotistical warped imaginations!With absolutely nothing to back anything you say besides your biased opinion, you just keep proving the only Fan Boy and fool is you! Linux tablets have existed for a decade, the intel core based current gen tablets can run linux (and there was an unverified youtube video of a surface pro hackintosh, theoretically feasible as its been done on ultrabooks and they are essentially the same hardware). Clovertrail (current gen atom tablets) cannot run linux, hardware locked to windows 8 but intel have confirmed that baytrail is not locked and will be capable of running linux etc. Many linux desktop managers have touch modes, ubuntu unity, KDE, enlightenment.
Could easily whack linux on one of these little babys. Bit of a long delay on my reply here, disqus only just notified me. Windows 8 models sold on store shelves use secureboot and UEFI, however it is a microsoft requirement before allowing OEM’s to bundle windows 8 that these be possible to disable anyway (probably so no-one sues them for vendor lock in, although apple seem to get away with it). There is work on a UEFI linux bootloader regardless, but windows tablets with 2 exceptions (getting onto that) can run linux no problem.
Exception 1: ARM tablets running windows RT. They cannot have UEFI removed, supposedly. However someone has found an exploit on the asus vivotab RT where it may be possible to boot an unsigned image from it but it hasnt been fully explored. ANother alternative being looked into is a technique which has been used on otehr systems where you allow windows to boot, then have Read more ».
First of all I’d like to say Hurray! This doesn’t run that foul dog RT! I’m thinking the stylus is maybe similar to the Ntrig stylus on my Sony Duo 11 (also has a battery and also is not quite as good as a Wacom.) Actually it works pretty darn well and is 1000 times better than a crummy capacitve ‘detached pinkie’ stylus.
This seems like a cool thing to achieve, a full Win8 machine in such an ultra compact package. I can’t really see this being that well adapted to any use I can think of though. Having a Win8 convertible for a while now I don’t find the ‘tablet’ interface very useful. Not sure why you would ever really want to use that over Android or an iPad unless you had to. The apps just aren’t there. I don’t think most people would want to use the desktop Read more ». I am crossing my fingers that a similarly speced and priced Windows tablet will come out that dual boot with Android.That way I don’t need to buy a tablet and a laptop.
I can get both at the same price.Android will be faster than Windows on a tablet and Windows will allow more functionality.On top of that I would hope that Windows could run iTunes and I could plug in an iPod Touch. That way I could buy the latest iPod Touch and have a laptop I could plug it into. (Sadly you still need a computer to make full use of iOS devices)(Also someone needs to make commenting ob this site easier with iOS devices- some sites are really difficult for some reason and this is one of them).
I would like to change the touch swipe gestures for a Dell Venue 8 Pro. Similar to this quesiton: however the hardware does not support the synaptic driver. It is some windows internal device (no driver listed under the HID touch screen device).I know there must be a way to do it. I could write my own software to record and monitor each mouse movement, but I'd really rather just hook the existing swipe gesture which occurs at the driver level.Ultimately I want to connect this to a progam called Dexpot which can be configured to work with any keystroke. This will allow application switching (something which is currently impossible with Win 8 (I'm not using metro apps and have pretty much uninstalled most of the metro charm garbage).
I'm trying to switch between apps which would normally be found in the taskbar; however hidden by the on-screen keyboard.I did try to contact Dell, I doubt they understood what my request was, so until they get 1,000 similar calls I think updating the driver officially is a dead-end. I've come across this. This software does not create gestures rather it creates file file that would serve as the input file to some other paid program.
The next problem is that this is some metro crapp. The next problem is that it is selling to user what they would already get for free from a Synaptic driver update (if dell had not have prevented that driver). The next problem is that it is implemented at the software level not driver level (so I might as well write it myself). But I do appreciate you looking into it!–Aug 13 '14 at 3:43.