Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-09-28 Thread Torsten Sachse
Correct. I was not thinking in other file systems as ext because I do not use FAT32 on Linux or FreeBSD. [...] Neither do I. I only keep one single HDD formatted with NTFS. Your comment, however, made me curious: does Ubuntu Touch currently support ext2/3/4 on the SD-card? If so, I'll happily sw

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-09-28 Thread Torsten Sachse
25 Sep 2015 13:19:27 From: Matthias Apitz To: Torsten Sachse Cc: ubuntu-phone Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4 Hello Torsten, I read your guide in https://askubuntu.com/questions/620740/recommended-way-to-install-regularcli-deb-packages-

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-09-24 Thread Torsten Sachse
rsten Sachse Cc: Oliver Grawert , Ubuntu Touch Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4 Hi Torsten, On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:22 PM, Torsten Sachse wrote: Hi Julia, I'm afraid not, at least not yet. I can put something like this (also inc

[Ubuntu-phone] 2 Short Questions about Ecosystem: Support Cycle and Pebble Support

2015-07-13 Thread Torsten Sachse
Dear all, I have 2 short and rather unrelated questions about the Ubuntu Touch ecosystem. 1) One thing that really annoys me about Android is the short support cycle as many phones only get one update and some don't get any updates at all. And community support runs out eventually, as it just d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] HERE app no longer works for me

2015-06-29 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015, David Planella wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Michael Zanetti < michael.zane...@canonical.com> wrote: Hi, I ran into this over the weekend. The app was working fine, at some point it just turned white, like the oxide process was killed by the OOM killer. I restar

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sreen in Console don't moves

2015-06-28 Thread Torsten Sachse
In case this helps: I also struggled a lot figuring out the new gesture and I was really annoyed at the beginning because I actually thought the developwes removed a very important feature. Please include the tutrial! Cheers, Torsten sent from my mobile On 28 June 2015 00:53:45 CEST, Niklas We

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Running arecord

2015-06-23 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hello, On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Marco A. Harrendorf wrote: Am Dienstag, den 23.06.2015, 10:09 +0200 schrieb chg 1: I'd like running arecord from console during some minutes even wen I do a phone call. Now it stops very soon. Perhaps it would be possible with some extra commands. Thanks, Cesar yo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] manually turn off sending SIGSTOP (was Re: mirscreencast from terminal app)

2015-06-23 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, nick luigi eusebio wrote: Install TweakGeek from the Open App Store. There you can set any app you want to  prevent suspending :)Also, if you really want to use micscreencast, maybe you can run your command on your laptop through adb shell? As has been said in another Emai

[Ubuntu-phone] manually turn off sending SIGSTOP (was Re: mirscreencast from terminal app)

2015-06-23 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Oliver Grawert wrote: yes, this is how apps are handled on the phone. an app that goes to background recieves SIGSTOP by the system, only system services (media-hub for example, so your music plays on if the music app is not in focus) keep running ... since the shell in which

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ r23 total off and unwilling to react

2015-06-22 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Oliver Grawert wrote: Am Montag, den 22.06.2015, 20:21 +0200 schrieb Torsten Sachse: On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Steve Langasek wrote: > The only part that should be running when not on wifi is the crash > collection. We certainly *should* be running that when not on >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ r23 total off and unwilling to react

2015-06-22 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Mon, 22 Jun 2015, Steve Langasek wrote: The only part that should be running when not on wifi is the crash collection. We certainly *should* be running that when not on wifi; you don't get a second chance to run the kernel crash handler, and we want to know about crashes that only happen when

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OSMScout && keyfile (was: Re: Launching an app from the terminal)

2015-06-20 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Matthias Apitz wrote: Does the app OSMScout needs a keyfile for activation? Is the source for OSMScout public available for inspection or is that binary only application? I can't answer the first question (althugh a "I don't think so" is the likely answer), but the source

[Ubuntu-phone] Offline routing with maps on SD-card (was Re: [Ubuntu-phone ][ubuntu-phone] Offline routing application - Publishing problems)

2015-06-19 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Frans Schreuder wrote: The problem is that the current version of Ubuntu doesn't allow read access to the SD card, unless you specify a rule in the apparmor file. [...] For now I published a version of OSMScout without the special rules, so it only allows read / write ac

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unlocking phone using passcode sluggish on Vivid

2015-06-19 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, Johan Velthuizen wrote: Op 19-06-15 om 09:43 schreef dedreuil: I also have notice this quite often as well. It looks like dbus-daemon is hogging the CPU system. It must be something to do with wifi or connectivity. as toogling the wifi on and off will sort out the problem

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Debian Chroot, was: Re: Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Oliver Grawert wrote: Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2015, 13:35 -0400 schrieb Rodney Dawes: You may have problems running chroot from within the Terminal app though, as it seems to be blocked from executing the shell in the chroot for some reason. It works perfectly fine over phabl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Oliver Grawert wrote: if you ever made your device writable, installed any debs or changed any files that are usually in the readonly space there is no guarantee at all that any update will ever work and you are pretty much on your own ... This raises the question about wh

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OTA-4 r23 && no alarm

2015-06-16 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, cm-t (aRudy) wrote: Juste when I had received the OTA-4, I saw my alarm disapper from indicators, I then opened Clock, and checked alarm: unckecked alarms, and rechecked, and then it appear on time indicator, so it rang this morning. Similar thing here: after I restored m

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, John McAleely wrote: Simos beat me to it. you can grab the recovery image from the 'device tarball' for ota-4, simply untar, and look in the partitions folder. Thanks to both of you, that worked perfectly. My phone is fully operational again and all my personal data preser

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, John McAleely wrote: You need to use ubuntu-device-flash from a ppa, as advised here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/602035/how-do-i-use-ubuntu-device-flash-with-the-bq-aquaris-e4-5-and-aquaris-e5 [...] If you're feeling cautious, you could also use fastboot to flash or b

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, Nathan Haines wrote: On 06/15/2015 11:40 PM, Torsten Sachse wrote: While you can definitely use ubuntu-device-flash (you will want to skip the --wipe option) I installed the following version of the tool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe ubuntu-device

[Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-15 Thread Torsten Sachse
Dear all, about 2 hours ago (approx. 6:30 am CEST) I started the installation of OTA4. However, ever since then my phone is stuck in a bootloop. Before installing the update, which identified itself as "r23", I noticed that it was only about 230MB in size instead of the 400+MB I expected. Anyway

[Ubuntu-phone] Off-topic: why not top-post?

2015-06-14 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hi everybody, one of today's emails made wonder once more why most people on this list seem to be against top-posting as this is the way I have learnt to reply. It might not be taught that way everywhere in Germany, but at least where I grew up. What exactly is "wrong" with top-posting? If not t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Youtube

2015-06-14 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hi, On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Gareth France wrote: Today I had need to play a youtube video and found that they play but the video is plain black. I can only hear the audio. I tried downloading a different app and playing through the browser but same deal. Anyone else have this and is it a known pr

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] to make anoymous the BQ E4.5

2015-06-12 Thread Torsten Sachse
On Thu, 11 Jun 2015, Olivier Tilloy wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: El jueves, 11 de junio de 2015 16:38:50 (CEST), Simos Xenitellis escribió: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Marco F wrote: >>> Anyhow, in Ubuntu, things are stored in /userdata/. >>> >>> sudo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ4.5 damage, first report.

2015-06-12 Thread Torsten Sachse
switch to something truely open with an open community that does not have to void their warranties to achieve openness. If there'll ever be a Ubuntu phone with a hardware keybord, I'll get it straight away. Torsten On 11/06/15 20:44, Torsten Sachse wrote: > Nokia 3310 has green answe

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ4.5 damage, first report.

2015-06-11 Thread Torsten Sachse
Nokia 3310 has green answer button I'm sure. The interaction to access calls / messages on calls on ubuntu touch to me is far superior than any other phone I've used Wayne I partly agree. The only things I don't understand are 1) why the slider has to be so narrow and 2) why it is not located

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Battery drain while charging during the night.

2015-06-10 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hello everybody, This would result in some slightly odd-looking behavior, such as the charge going *up* after the user stops doing an intensive task (voltage sags under heavy load, and recovers when the load stops)... and over time the "full" charge might end up being less than 100%. But it wo

[Ubuntu-phone] Dekko not getting correct unread status from Gmail

2015-06-02 Thread Torsten Sachse
Dear everybody, I have been experiencing a peculiar problem with Dekko. I don't know when exactly it started but it happens quite frequently. Currently, according to Dekko, there are 30 unread emails in my Gmail account as indicated by the 30 next to the word "INBOX" after selecting the Gmail ac

[Ubuntu-phone] App logo missing and unable to launch (possibly connected to losing Dekko account data)

2015-05-29 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hello everybody, I'm sorry for somewhat spamming the email list lately, but today I found that my Google Calendar app is somehow half-gone. It's still listed in the "app drawer" but without a logo and I can neither open nor uninstall it. http://s13.postimg.org/za49citdz/No_App_Logo.png This is a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Dekko losing accounts and no way to back-up

2015-05-28 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hi Dan, thanks to all of you for the quick replies. On Thu, 28 May 2015, Dan Chapman wrote: On 28/05/15 20:30, Torsten Sachse wrote: today, I noticed that my Dekko had suddenly lost all account information as it said "No email account is setup yet. Add one?" I'm a bit reluctan

[Ubuntu-phone] Dekko losing accounts and no way to back-up

2015-05-28 Thread Torsten Sachse
Dear everybody, today, I noticed that my Dekko had suddenly lost all account information as it said "No email account is setup yet. Add one?" I'm a bit reluctant to add all my accounts again as I don't know what caused the problem. I have 2 questions: 1) Is there any way of backing up an app's d

[Ubuntu-phone] Any reminder not showing notification

2015-05-28 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hello everybody, I am sorry if this is a known issue, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Currently, the most unnecessary problem I have with my BQ is that, when I set a reminder, the phone just vibrates twice at the set time, shows a heads-up notification while it vibrates, and then nothing, no no

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] dict client

2015-05-15 Thread Torsten Sachse
image, i.e the chroot, on the sd card. On Friday, 15 May 2015 10:01:58 CEST, Louis Holbrook (for subscriptions only, don't use) wrote: Thanks for the tip. Sadly, however, it doesn't work with ssh either for me. I get the same error. On Thu, 2015-05-14 at 14:02 +0200, Torsten Sachse

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] dict client

2015-05-14 Thread Torsten Sachse
Hi. I had the same problem. Try turning on the ssh service using "sudo service ssh start" (if it's not running already), then ssh into your phone from the terminal itself "ssh localhost". Dont forget to add your own ssh key to authorized_keys. Then try the chroot command again. For some reason,