Installing Ubuntu Phone Demo on Galaxy Nexus from Mac OS X
Props to Mirko85 for this post which spelled it out for Windows.
STANDARD DEVICE WARNINGS: You'll violate your warranty probably, and you might brick your phone. You have been warned.
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Download these files from Ubuntu's server
- quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img
- quantal-preinstalled-recovery-armel+maguro.img
- quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img
- quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.img
- quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.img
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Plug the device in via USB
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Open Terminal and navigate to the directory you downloaded the files to
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If you haven't unlocked the device, execute "fastboot oem unlock" and follow onscreen instructions
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Power down the device
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Enter fastboot mode by pressing volume up, volume down and power buttons at the same time until you feel it vibrate
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Once in fastboot mode, execute the following commands from Terminal
- fastboot flash recovery recovery-quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.img
- fastboot flash system quantal-preinstalled-system-armel+maguro.img
- fastboot flash boot quantal-preinstalled-boot-armel+maguro.img
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Using the volume keys, select recovery mode and press power
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In Terminal, execute "adb sideload quantal-preinstalled-armel+maguro.zip"
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Wait for the command to complete (if you see "fixing fs_size in crypto footer", ignore it, it's done)
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Use volume keys to navigate to "advanced", press power, select "reboot recovery" and press power again
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Once back in recovery mode, execute from Terminal: "adb sideload quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip"
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Once the command has completed, use the volume keys to select "restart device" and press power button
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