[Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-19 Thread Eric Holmi
guys, my Nexus 4 (most recent stable version) gave me a burn that almost blistered after 15 minutes of YouTube (wifi), and went from 29% battery to 2% in that time. I think that needs to be fixed. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net U

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
landed > already. > > #2 is in progress with the Mir team right now (part of the "nested bypass" > effort). Don't expect it finished till Mir 0.16 or Mir 0.17, or later. > > > > On 20/08/15 04:51, Eric Holmi wrote: > >> guys, my Nexus 4 (most recent s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
tem. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:25 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> Thanks. Also, how do you send it back to read only? >> >> I want to know its stable, as I don't have the money to replace it >> >> >> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC > >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
Will I lose data? On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Eric Holmi wrote: > Ok. Thanks > > On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC > wrote: > >> You can either reboot to set it to read only or just write "mount -o >> remount,ro /". >> >> I don't thi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
t,rw / > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:16 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> I could try doing some of those things myself, but I don't know the >> command to make the current stable version on the Nexus for read/write. The >> one on the developer install page doesn't wor

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
ug 20, 2015 at 1:27 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> Will I lose data? >> >> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Eric Holmi > > wrote: >> >>> Ok. Thanks >>> >>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC wrote: >>> >>>> You can

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
ything. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:44 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> Cool. Does recovery mode present an ADB interface for repair? >> >> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC > > wrote: >> >>> System updates doesn't work on a per-package basi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
thing that can happen (probably) is that you'll need to > reinstall Ubuntu on your phone, I don't think there's any chance it'll > break your phone. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:40 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> And if I work to install .Deb package

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
nstalled from recovery. > > Your changes *might* be preserved if you're lucky and the update doesn't > touch any files you've changed either. Don't count on it. Luck-driven > software development doesn't end well :) > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:35 PM Eric H

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
ernel. Not sure how that works! > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:53 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> Alright. Do you know what wifi driver is used, and if it supports packet >> injection? I hope this will be my last question and I'll stop bugging you, >> but that is someth

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
d install the next one, it will do a fresh > install of your system, because there won't be any delta patch available so > it'll download the entire system image. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:30 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> Ok. Thanks. I'll start working

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Eric Holmi
n that it's pretty much the same. > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:47 PM Eric Holmi > wrote: > >> Ok. I like your profile image. Once in read/write, everything is the same >> as the desktop, right? What are the most prominent differences? >> >> On Thursday, Au

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] phone turned off during the night

2015-11-03 Thread Eric Holmi
I have the same issue with the Nexus 7 2013. Could it be a hardware flaw or design for some reason? On Tuesday, November 3, 2015, Brendan Donegan wrote: > I think it's worth noting that this is a problem I have observed on the > Nexus 4, even when it's running Android. I will find it off, but th

[Ubuntu-phone] LTE for reference hardware?

2015-11-28 Thread Eric Holmi
Good morning (or afternoon depending on where you live), As most of you know, the Nexus 4 has some limited 4G and LTE support. I know it has the hardware for LTE band 4. Does current stable Ubuntu software have support for LTE? And I believe we are still 32bit as far as the phone OS goes, so what i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] LTE for reference hardware?

2015-11-28 Thread Eric Holmi
ge via > firmware update at one point. > > I use Ubuntu exclusively on my Nexus 5, and 4G works fine on it. > > > On Sat, 2015-11-28 at 08:25 -0800, Eric Holmi wrote: > > Good morning (or afternoon depending on where you live), > > As most of you know, the Nexus 4 has so

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Read write mode

2015-12-20 Thread Eric Holmi
Thank you. The reason I asked, was because I have seen two conflicting reports. I have the nexus 4, and that command doesn't work. I read online somewhere (I fail to recall where) that you just remount it as read write, and you can flip between read and read write modes, but you lose the ability to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Meizu MX4 OTA-8 - Terminal impossible to hide the keyboard and scroll terminal page

2015-12-21 Thread Eric Holmi
Could this be related to the keyboard issue I'm having now? When using the keyboard, random keys are pressed in areas from where I'm typing. Its caused more than one rewrite of this email. On Monday, December 21, 2015, Pat McGowan wrote: > There are some good examples of first run hints like in t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch and Smart Watches

2015-12-31 Thread Eric Holmi
Well, since this is about Android wear, are there any plans to officially support some devices, such as the pebble and Moto360? On Thursday, December 31, 2015, Michael Zanetti < michael.zane...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > On 27.12.2015 10:41, Simon Fels wrote: > > On 26.12.2015 22:28, Gareth Fran

[Ubuntu-phone] US

2016-01-05 Thread Eric Holmi
Is there currently a plan to add a United States phone that is officially supported? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [development] LUKS whole hard drive encryption

2016-01-08 Thread Eric Holmi
I haven't heard of any, but if you make it, either release a port with it installed and active or release an app, because I'd like it as well On Friday, January 8, 2016, Ms Johnson wrote: > Are there any plans to have Ubuntu Touch allow LUKS encryption of a mobile > device's entire hard drive li

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [development] LUKS whole hard drive encryption

2016-01-08 Thread Eric Holmi
Any official support plans? I'm a little nervous that an update will break it or it will break the update. I use this as my main device and I'd rather not lose the data On Friday, January 8, 2016, Chris Croome wrote: > Hi > > On Fri 08-Jan-2016 at 09:01:17PM +0100, Ms Johnson wrote: > > > > Are

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
Is there a potential work around to make the device send X server output to both the micro USB and display simultaneously by modifying the X server config files, or by modding the display configuration files? On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Nathan Haines wrote: > On 01/12/2016 04:21 PM, Wayne W

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
Is there some fancy software workaround that we just haven't thought of yet? I have a hunch that because you can do micro-USB to HDMI on ANY android drvice, that it is just a software thing (even though it may exclude the GPU entirely and rely on the CPU) On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:12 PM, Peter Bit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
o > we can wait for that. > And to be honest, current phones except maybe MX4 won't really be good to > use for convergence :) > > > On Wednesday, January 13, 2016 9:19:07 AM PHT, Eric Holmi wrote: > >> Is there some fancy software workaround that we just haven

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
t; There is no X server on the phone. > > However, this issue is that the hardware is not enabled at the hardware > level. There is no working around that in software. > > > On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 19:45 -0500, Eric Holmi wrote: > > Is there a potential work around to make the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
e not wired up to support MHL. There is no way to enable MHL > through software when there is no hardware to support it. > > > On Tue, 2016-01-12 at 21:35 -0500, Eric Holmi wrote: > > Ok. Now Im confused. How can there be graphics without a graphics or x > > server? Besides, c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
wireless > video streaming, when support for it lands in Ubuntu. > > You can't add MHL to a device which doesn't have hardware support for > it, in the same way you can't add Bluetooth LE support to a device whith > doesn't have the hardware for it. > > > On

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
You can do it any way you want, even if its not designed to do it that way, as long as it works On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Eric Holmi wrote: > Sure, but its a machine. It will do what you say, however you say to do > it. Can't you just format or optimize it however you want and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-12 Thread Eric Holmi
at 9:59 PM, Eric Holmi wrote: > You can do it any way you want, even if its not designed to do it that > way, as long as it works > > On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:58 PM, Eric Holmi wrote: > >> Sure, but its a machine. It will do what you say, however you say to do >> it.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-13 Thread Eric Holmi
Well, is there another theoretical work around through a different piece of hardware? On Wednesday, January 13, 2016, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Dienstag, den 12.01.2016, 22:06 -0500 schrieb Eric Holmi: > > Ignore the specs to a degree, and work with them to make someth

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-13 Thread Eric Holmi
While connected to Wi-Fi, could you send a packet containing screen information to the default loopback address and have the CPU forward that to the USB output? On Wednesday, January 13, 2016, Eric Holmi wrote: > Well, is there another theoretical work around through a different piece &

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Hdmi cable

2016-01-13 Thread Eric Holmi
Thank you On Wednesday, January 13, 2016, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Wednesday, January 13, 2016 a las 12:24:17PM +0100, Oliver Grawert > escribió: > > > hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 12.01.2016, 22:06 -0500 schrieb Eric Holmi: > > > Ignore the specs to a degr

[Ubuntu-phone] Driver issues

2016-01-17 Thread Eric Holmi
Hello. I have read that the Nexus 5 port can't use Bluetooth and has poor battery life. As I am buying one, I have 2 questions. 1) is Bluetooth nonfunctional because Ubuntu base or kernel not using a driver stored on the chip as firmware? 2) are there any other issues with that port? Thanks. -- M

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 29.01.16

2016-01-30 Thread Eric Holmi
Have y'all been working on the devel time issue? Because its annoying that everytime I restart my phone, it is march 1971 again, which means that Google's security certificate is 'out of date' On Friday, January 29, 2016, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak < lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello ever

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GPS

2016-02-08 Thread Eric Holmi
I realize that GPS has improved, but it still takes over 10 minutes to get a A-GPS location for a single app On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Felipe De La Puente wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a place where I can find documentation about the current API > available to consume the location-service from

[Ubuntu-phone] RTM apps

2016-02-28 Thread Eric Holmi
I have recently installed the latest version of Ubuntu touch RTM on my Nexus 5. I realize this is not an officially supported port. Devel and devel-proposed versions do not boot, other than devel version 6. Now that I have installed RTM version 23, some apps (including terminal, document viewer, an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen cracked again!

2016-03-05 Thread Eric Holmi
At least you're not using the Nexus 4. It's the weakest thing ever. The 3rd time it's screen broke was when it was in my pocket, and I put my 1lb laptop on my lap. They didn't even hit each other. On Saturday, March 5, 2016, Gareth France wrote: > So, here I am, about 3 weeks since my phone was

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No contacts after flash

2016-03-22 Thread Eric Holmi
The devel channel has an issue like that occasionally. The other thing that fails is Google contact sync. It downloads and then instantly deletes all contacts. My solution was to flash rtm then upgrade via computer flashing (without wipe). On Tuesday, March 22, 2016, Nathan Haines wrote: > On 03/

[Ubuntu-phone] source?

2016-04-14 Thread Eric Holmi
Good evening, I have been attempting to download the source to build my own images. So far, the files have never downloaded from github to my desktop correctly. I have so far been unable to download "CyanogenMod/android_external_koush_Superuser" and any recovery mode source. Is there another locati

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Very new to Ubuntu phone ...

2016-04-16 Thread Eric Holmi
I have had similar issues with some channels. Make sure you are using the current rc or stable channel. I know for a fact that those apps you mentioned do not work on hammerhead (I know its a port) for any vivid or utopic channels. The same goes for flo, so I'm assuming its not just the port that i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SD card access for third party apps

2016-04-27 Thread Eric Holmi
What about making it a privileged service? Like allowing an application location access or camera access. The user could choose what apps store what where. On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Stefano Verzegnassi < stefano92@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > At the moment, only core apps (and syste

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting ubuntu touch: flashing system.img

2016-06-19 Thread Eric Holmi
I'm creating my own port for the Nexus 5, and when I tried to flash the boot image with "fastboot flash boot boot.img" I had no issues. Try the phablet tools software. I will say, that rootstock has taken 3 hours so far, and I am curious if it will work. On Sunday, June 19, 2016, Panagiotis - Dimi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting ubuntu touch: flashing system.img

2016-06-19 Thread Eric Holmi
covery.img $ bzr branch lp:project-rootstock-ng $ cd project-rootstock-ng/ $ ./rootstock-touch-install '/home/user/Documents/vivid-preinstalled-touch-armhf.tar.gz' '/media/user/Data/6/08/2016/phablet/out/target/product/hammerhead/system.img' On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 9:48 AM, Eric

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting ubuntu touch: flashing system.img

2016-06-19 Thread Eric Holmi
ng the > kernel for the particular device. > > I cannot figure out if this is really my issue, (so I should go about the > device specifics), or if I should first figure out how to boot into the > recovery while having ubuntu's boot.img installed. > > any ideas? > > Th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting ubuntu touch: flashing system.img

2016-06-19 Thread Eric Holmi
I should probably mention that I'm assuming that my boot img works, and that's a huge assumption On Sunday, June 19, 2016, Eric Holmi wrote: > I'm kind of new to this and I'm actually trying this for the first time, > so I'm probably not the best person to ask fo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Canonical branded phone?

2016-09-11 Thread Eric Holmi
That logic holds true for users that are not USA based. For those of us who are, we run into the following series of troubles. 1) All of the Meizu phones are not FCC licensed and therefore can't be used in the USA. 2) The Nexus 4 is too fragile for everyday use. I ran through 4 $125 screen replacem

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Canonical branded phone?

2016-09-12 Thread Eric Holmi
Unfortunately and painfully, I must agree that the project may be ending. I must disagree with the "if you build it they will come" logic. I know many people who love my phone and what to work on making convergence based apps, but won't because of the lacking infrastructure. And, this project has t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is ubuntu phone resistant to vault 7 attacks?

2017-03-11 Thread Eric Holmi
Does Ubuntu phone have rkhunter and clamav installed and running (either during runtime or on boot) by default? That could be a great addition. On Mar 7, 2017 2:54 PM, "Bruce" wrote: > And I'm thinking "no." > > I am not aware of a firewall being ported to Ubuntu Phone. Perhaps ufw is > built in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No disk space issue

2017-06-01 Thread Eric Holmi
I had a similar issue a while ago (like months ago). One thing I tried, is to try using command line apt to repair stuff. I had use apt and apt-get to fix it. So, run apt update && apt full-upgrade -y && apt-get autoremove -y, then try individual stuff. Use apt purge and apt install, apt-get check,