[Ubuntu-phone] GPS Location

2015-08-15 Thread Gareth France
Is it just me that is seeing worse GPS function recently? I have noticed the scopes reporting me as being in Millbank or Cheapside in London. This is over 30 miles away from me. OSMScout can accurately pinpoint my position though. My settings are for the most accurate location settings (wifi, 3

[Ubuntu-phone] Facebook not working after OTA6

2015-09-04 Thread Gareth France
I am using the unofficial facebook app by Szymon Waliczek. After OTA 6 only the top bar loads, instead of the main content I get the loading 'circle' which freezes after a few seconds. Is anyone else getting this? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu phone experience

2015-09-15 Thread Gareth France
On 15/09/15 22:29, Kevin Gunn wrote: On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Wayne Ward > wrote: I bought a BQ on the second flash sale and seen the progress, but the few problems it holds which somebody must be able to take control of is what everybody wants, I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Not working features in stable OS

2015-11-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/11/15 20:42, Krzysztof Tataradziński wrote: Hello, Question about placing unfinished/not working features in OS. If we look in example at Youtube or Soundcloud Scope, there is a login option, but it doesn't working (for Youtube there is also option to enable it in System Settings -> Accoun

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Alarm clock doesn't ring time to time on nexus 4 rc-proposed

2015-12-15 Thread Gareth France
On 15/12/15 09:25, yoann piconcely wrote: It happened to me two times that the alarm doesn't ring (which is quite annoying), did this happen to anyone of you ? I use nexus 4 with rc-proposed. I have been having this issue for some time on the BQ. It intrigues me that a number of people today s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Phone vs. Sailfish OS (for history fanboys), and Windows phone

2015-12-16 Thread Gareth France
On 16/12/15 23:23, Peter Bittner wrote: - The gestures seem to be more well-designed in Sailfish (e.g. left-handers have a harder time to access the launcher on Ubuntu Touch, true in fact!) Not true at all. My only issue accessing the launcher is the lagging. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.

[Ubuntu-phone] Compatibility issues

2015-12-22 Thread Gareth France
I am not at all certain my posts are reaching the list so please could somebody reply? I have just been to the photography shop Jessops to have some of the photos printed that are stored on my phone. They have kiosks there designed so you can plug in your memory card, phone or other device to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Compatibility issues

2015-12-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/12/15 15:55, Dave Morley wrote: If they are using a linux base in the kiosk then I assume it just does recognise it not sure there is anything we can do about that, you may have the same issue on android too though. Well, their system is designed to connect to android and apple phones so I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Compatibility issues

2015-12-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/12/15 17:26, dedreuil wrote: Hi i tried recently in boots and I can report that it worked. However their usb cable was of such poor quality that it was very intermittent. Did you make sure you unlocked the screen? Thibaut Naturally I unlocked the phone but to no avail. I did consider

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Compatibility issues

2015-12-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/12/15 18:26, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Gareth, Thanks for the detailed mail and persevering with Jessops. Sorry it didn't work out for you. Alan, The frustrating thing is I'm unable to tell if their system is in some way only able to work with the big OS's or if there was some sort of fault w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Compatibility issues

2015-12-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/12/15 21:29, Wayne Ward wrote: I was going to say i would save to the sd card then you can pop it out and put it into the machine - im pretty sure they are formatted fat32 so should just plug in and display the pictures also if you have developer mode enabled in the settings it might disp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Compatibility issues

2015-12-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/12/15 21:45, Wayne Ward wrote: ah well if the meizu had a dual sim with convergance in white id buy one now for sure im due a new ubuntu phone, im just waiting to see what comes out in the next spell but they should supply a tablet as well so happy now i have the pebble connected i just n

[Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch and Smart Watches

2015-12-25 Thread Gareth France
I recently saw some posts about using the pebble smart watch with Ubuntu but the launchpad link in them does not appear to work. I have taken the plunge today and bought a cheap and cheerful smart watch (knowing full well it probably won't work.) Having paired it I can confirm that nothing wor

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

2015-12-26 Thread Gareth France
On 26/12/15 00:17, Michael Zanetti wrote: And will it work with my generic >watch? No. >If not is there anything that can be done to encourage two way >communication between the watch and phone? I would require writing something like Rockwork, suited for your watch model, probably something A

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

2016-01-02 Thread Gareth France
On 31/12/15 18:27, Michael Zanetti wrote: I would be really surprised if AndroidWear would only use Profiles specced by the Bluetooth SIG. AFAICS there is not too much except the notification and heart rate stuff in the standard. All the goodies like watchapp/watchface management and even things

[Ubuntu-phone] The unbreakable device!

2016-01-08 Thread Gareth France
Until recently I prided myself on being the only person in the universe who doesn't own a smashed phone. Unfortunately my BQ let me down a few months back and now has a minor crack in the cover glass in an area that doesn't matter, where you can barely see it. Being a parent with a rather diff

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The unbreakable device!

2016-01-08 Thread Gareth France
On 08/01/16 21:41, vampireechidna wrote: It's very odd, that I read this on the very day I acquire a BQ phone myself. Personally I have been avoiding the BQ due to the way it looks. It's not as expensive looking as the Mezui MX4. I've found as a rule the more expensive the phone, the more frag

[Ubuntu-phone] Weird contact/sms behaviour

2016-01-23 Thread Gareth France
I was wondering if anyone could explain how my phone has spontaneously sprung and empty contact called 'phablet' or why it sometimes randomly receives texts claiming they are from the number 000? I now have about 5 different conversations from 5 different people all contained within this on

[Ubuntu-phone] Remote control phone?

2016-01-26 Thread Gareth France
So, my BQ has finally died as I knew it would. That little crack has become a spiders web across most of the screen and it took 80% of the digitizer with it. I can answer calls and toggle the bluetooth but that's about it. The replacement screen has been ordered but may take as long as until

[Ubuntu-phone] When is a ubuntu phone not a ubuntu phone?

2016-01-28 Thread Gareth France
Is anyone aware that when searching for 'BQ phone' in google and selecting the ubuntu.com page relating to these the links contained are directed to the standard android editions on the bq page? Is it actually still possible to just buy a ubuntu phone direct from BQ right now? -- Mailing lis

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 released

2016-01-28 Thread Gareth France
I thought everyone was supposed to get the update within 24 hours but the announcement was made before 11am yesterday and I'm still on ota8.5 and it keeps saying no new updates. Am I wrong? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsu

[Ubuntu-phone] Continuing bluetooth woes

2016-01-28 Thread Gareth France
OTA9 was very important to me as it promised to bring an end to the bluetooth issues which created the one and only showstopper bug on my phone. For me the ability to have handsfree in the car is crucial and I have had to physically hard wire a jack lead behind my dashboard as the bluetooth qui

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Continuing bluetooth woes

2016-01-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/01/16 23:34, Francisco Pina Martins wrote: Same phone, similar issue. But everything was working with OTA-8 in my case. Someone really needs to nail these bluetooth issues. This is the sort of thing that begins to look embarrassing when you're showing someone what a great phone you've got

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] When is a ubuntu phone not a ubuntu phone?

2016-01-29 Thread Gareth France
On 29/01/16 09:36, Vic G wrote: Already reported to link both BQ products with the new url's :) You can get Ubuntu phone directly in our web by selecting the language at the bottom of the page. Note that "global" option is for other EU countries and "Worldwide" option is for non-EU countries.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu tablet news

2016-02-04 Thread Gareth France
On 04/02/16 21:23, Mark wrote: Joey Sneddon said on OMGUbuntu: "No new phone has been announced today, but more hardware announcements are due in the coming weeks." Cryptic... Interesting, however I think for the moment I shall get my poorly BQ repaired and aim perhaps to buy the tablet. I'd l

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu tablet news

2016-02-04 Thread Gareth France
On 04/02/16 21:47, Mark wrote: Well, I've been re-evaluating the idea of getting a Nexus 4. Not my idea of an ideal phone, but I'd really like to try out Ubuntu, and they're selling on Gumtree for around £70-£100... When a BQ can be had for so little more why not choose the benefit of a new ph

[Ubuntu-phone] Rotation issues after screen replacement and OTA9

2016-02-06 Thread Gareth France
As several of you will know my screen died recently and I've just had it replaced. While I was awaiting the repair OTA9 was released and installed. Now the new screen has been fitted I realised my screen no longer rotates, it is stuck in portrait mode. Is this an issue caused by OTA9 or have t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Rotation issues after screen replacement and OTA9

2016-02-06 Thread Gareth France
On 06/02/16 19:12, Ed Kapitein wrote: Please check with SensorStatus if x is stuck at 19.xyz. If so, it is a known and unsolved bug. ( let met know, i will get the bug report for you ) How do I do this please? -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@list

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] new Dekko rocks

2016-02-07 Thread Gareth France
On 07/02/16 10:56, Matthias Apitz wrote: I updated yesterday to the new Dekko 0.6 and I'm deeply impressed by the new look&feel and more even functionality. Thank you, Daniel, for you good work. Matthias It looks good but one apparent bug is that if you choose a picture in the gallery and sh

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] new Dekko rocks

2016-02-07 Thread Gareth France
On 07/02/16 12:57, Dan Chapman wrote: I've just merged the fix for this and will be in the next update. It is a real credit to the project that it is damn near impossible to find an issue that hasn't already been reported. It feels great knowing everything is in hand. -- Mailing list: https:/

[Ubuntu-phone] Phone not rotating part 2 and sound issues

2016-02-08 Thread Gareth France
Well, I went back to the repair shop today to ask them if they may have somehow disconnected the accelerometer without meaning to but they were so hung up on the fact that the android buttons on the screen don't work that they were really having a different conversation to me! For some reason t

[Ubuntu-phone] 'Almost' a Bq e5

2016-02-12 Thread Gareth France
Today I was discussing Ubuntu with someone I met in passing and showing them round both my phone and laptop. During this tour I realised he had two phones, a windows phone and a BQ e5. Upon closer inspection I realised the volume and power buttons were reversed, the charging port was on the top

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 'Almost' a Bq e5

2016-02-12 Thread Gareth France
On 12/02/16 19:44, Andreas Pokorny wrote: Maybe like this? http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B017IG7DLC/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=ce-de On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Gareth France mailto:gareth.fra...@gmail.com>> wrote: Today I was discussing Ubuntu with someone I met

[Ubuntu-phone] Sub standard screens?

2016-02-15 Thread Gareth France
As I'm sure several of you will recall I have been struggling with my phone sans digitizer recently and ordered a replacement screen using the ebay link shared on here. It has been fixed now for a little over a week and the screen seems a lot less responsive to touch now than it used to be. Al

[Ubuntu-phone] Only 5% remains on internal storage

2016-02-17 Thread Gareth France
I'm getting the above error message but tapping on it takes me to 'external storage' or SD card management and the only options seem to be formate or safely remove. How do I go about cleaning up the internal storage and what could possibly be using that much space? -- Mailing list: https://lau

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] "glory hole" case for the Meizu Pro 5

2016-02-26 Thread Gareth France
On 26/02/16 12:18, Alan Bell wrote: will there be a case for the Meizu Pro 5 like the BQ one with the hole for the circle on the lock screen? Alan. What acolourful description. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] gmail notifications

2016-02-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/02/16 09:36, Hans-Peter wrote: Hi to All I don't get notifications if new mail arrives in my gmail mailbox. I'm pretty sure, I got them when the phone was new (around OTA7). gmail is still enabled in system settings/notifications. Is this something I messed up or is this a know issue? Che

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] gmail notifications

2016-02-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/02/16 10:30, Dan Chapman wrote: This is because the poll daemon only queries for unread messages with "is:unread category:personal in:inbox" [1] so you will only get notifications for mail gmail has categorised as personal and not for *all* new mail. Cheers This would be fine if they we

[Ubuntu-phone] BQ 4.5 freezing

2016-02-29 Thread Gareth France
I thought the 9.1 update was supposed to deal with the freezing up of the UI on the phone. I'm still seeing the phone locking up when I make calls sometimes. When this happens I also get no sound at all, it's extremely infuriating. Is anybody else seeing this still? Or just me? -- Mailing list

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ E4.5: keyboard/mouse per bluetooth

2016-03-01 Thread Gareth France
On 01/03/16 20:11, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Any recommendations for a keyboard/mouse to connect to our BQ E4.5 via bluetooth? Best would be (for me) some device in laptopstyle, i.e. having the mouse integrated as a touchpad into the keyboard. Thanks for any hints matthias I'm so gl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ E4.5: keyboard/mouse per bluetooth

2016-03-01 Thread Gareth France
On 01/03/16 23:19, Alan Pope wrote: I use a Logitech K480 and a ThinkPad Mouse. I've seen a Lenovo keyboard though which I'd quite like as it has a TouchPoint:) http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/itemdetails/0B47187/460/60AC6A0372B14F5BA7B12F1FF88E33C7 A nipple mouse? In 2016? Really??? Fantastic! I t

[Ubuntu-phone] Screen cracked again!

2016-03-05 Thread Gareth France
So, here I am, about 3 weeks since my phone was repaired and yet again the screen is totally smashed! I'm convinced the people who repaired it didn't fit it correctly. At least the digitiser still works this time though. So how much was it that BQ charge to do the job properly? I think I'll h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen cracked again!

2016-03-05 Thread Gareth France
On 05/03/16 19:20, Michael Zanetti wrote: Oh wow... that's bad luck man... My BQ's cover starts to look like a rasp by now because I dropped it so often on stone. Yet the screen is fresh as new... Ah yes, well my cover has bitten the dust. Three of the corners have snapped off so the phone won't

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Screen cracked again!

2016-03-05 Thread Gareth France
On 05/03/16 21:31, Eran Benjamin wrote: Q E4.5 repair is ~110 euro including return shipment if you live in EU (if you live in Spain it's probably cheaper). A new one is 140 + shipment. Waiting for my second screen repair now... I'm gonna try that protective rubber cover they sell, will update

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] gps not working since OTA-9.1

2016-03-07 Thread Gareth France
I'm on ote 9.1 on the e4.5 and it's working fine. However my accelerometer isn't showing any readings at all which was presumed a fault caused when the screen was replaced. I wonder... On 07/03/16 08:17, Marco Graziotti wrote: Hi, I have the same problem, uNav don't work after installing OTA

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can't unlock...

2016-03-07 Thread Gareth France
On 07/03/16 23:27, Mitchell Reese wrote: Balls! Just cracked the screen on my BQ4.5 - now can't unlock it. Dev mode is enabled, but normally I need to unlock it in order to ssh into it - how do I gt around this and unlock the damn thing? Mitchell Buy a converter and plug a mouse in. http://

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Outgoing call makes phone freeze

2016-03-08 Thread Gareth France
On 08/03/16 10:19, Martin Bolte wrote: Hi, has anybody experienced this bug? When I make a call, the telephone screen freezes and I can press no buttons. I have to kill the app after connection is established and it recovers automatically (via a green bar that appears in the upper part of the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Difficulty Sending Messages to this List (was Re: (no subject)

2016-03-19 Thread Gareth France
On 18/03/16 18:17, Rodney Dawes wrote: may be that certain e-mail providers often have more spam sent through them, and thus, your e-mail address may be identified as spam. These sort of issues are exactly why I stopped using gmail for anything important and got my own domain. I hate spam filter

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] E5 OOB exerience

2016-03-21 Thread Gareth France
On 21/03/16 07:20, Michi Henning wrote: Still, if if the USB issue turns out to be VMWare related, the other points I reported still don’t make for a good user experience. It is well established that Ubuntu is not yet ready for prime time on phones. My handset has not lived up to the bar you se

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] E5 OOB exerience

2016-03-21 Thread Gareth France
On 21/03/16 07:28, Michi Henning wrote: I don’t dispute that Canonical has achieved a lot, and has done it with very few people and in record time. But that doesn’t change the fact that, had I paid money for this phone, after the experience I just had, I would have returned it to the store the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] E5 OOB exerience

2016-03-21 Thread Gareth France
On 21/03/16 07:34, Michi Henning wrote: Given what just happened to me, I’d say this is quite a long way from ready. If we want to be taken seriously, we had better lift our game. The big question for me is this. You were obviously running the system with quite old software, the OTA update has

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] E5 OOB exerience

2016-03-21 Thread Gareth France
On 21/03/16 07:30, Mitchell Reese wrote: I get your point, but I disagree - I think touch is ready, and getting better every day. Have temporarily switched back to android due to a broken bq screen - I can't wait for my replacement to arrive! With all the quirks, difficulties, and missing apps,

[Ubuntu-phone] Is it time to flash my phone?

2016-03-21 Thread Gareth France
Following the discussions about one user's E5 experience I've been thinking about the state of play on my phone. It is slow, it is unresponsive and it has an attitude. Every month I eagerly download another update that promises to fix the problems but never does. How much of my issues is down to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 18:47, Neil McPhail wrote: On 22/03/16 18:43, Gareth France wrote: I'm about to try reflashing my phone and in another thread was advise of what to back up. However now I've come to do it I've realised connecting my phone to my laptop gives me Documents, Downl

[Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
I'm about to try reflashing my phone and in another thread was advise of what to back up. However now I've come to do it I've realised connecting my phone to my laptop gives me Documents, Downloads, Music etc with no way to get to the root directory. Accessing via SSH does but I have no idea h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 19:20, Neil McPhail wrote: If you go in to your system settings, click "wifi" then press the little arrow next to your access point name, it will show your IP address. BTW, you'll also need to make sure you log in as your phone user, so the correct syntax for my device just now wo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 19:29, Neil McPhail wrote: On 22/03/16 19:23, Gareth France wrote: On 22/03/16 19:20, Neil McPhail wrote: If you go in to your system settings, click "wifi" then press the little arrow next to your access point name, it will show your IP address. BTW, you'll al

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 19:29, Neil McPhail wrote: You had mentioned you could access you phone by SSH. I didn't realise you could do that over USB, beyond running phablet-shell. Have a look at https://gurucubano.gitbooks.io/bq-aquaris-e-4-5-ubuntu-phone/content/en/chapter1.html for how to enable for wifi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 19:46, Matthias Apitz wrote: Dekko can save attachments to ~phablet/Documents; just say you want it to open with doc viewer and it will save it there with some name like ~phablet/Documents/dekko-attachment-gi5011-.. make somehow sure, that neither the transport nor Dekko is mang

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 19:40, Nathan Haines wrote: On 03/22/2016 12:35 PM, Gareth France wrote: On 22/03/16 19:29, Neil McPhail wrote: You had mentioned you could access you phone by SSH. I didn't realise you could do that over USB, beyond running phablet-shell. Have a look at

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to backup

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
The flash is now completed and my files restored, however contacts are still empty and my call history worked. I wonder what's happened there? I can confirm that at first glance my system is a lot snappier than it has been recently. Though there is still a massive lag while attempting to load

[Ubuntu-phone] No contacts after flash

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
So my phone was wiped and restored as planned. After placing my backed up files where they belong the calls history is working however the contacts are missing. I tried adding a contact into the blank contacts app and now have a contact called 'Test' but this has not affected the data in the ad

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No contacts after flash

2016-03-22 Thread Gareth France
On 22/03/16 23:28, Nathan Haines wrote: On 03/22/2016 04:06 PM, Gareth France wrote: So my phone was wiped and restored as planned. After placing my backed up files where they belong the calls history is working however the contacts are missing. I tried adding a contact into the blank contacts

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No contacts after flash

2016-03-23 Thread Gareth France
On 23/03/16 02:06, Renato Filho wrote: Hey Natham, Which channel did you flash? We recommend to use rc-proposal for developers that want to work in the edge. The devel proposed is very unstable and you should avoid that for now. As far as I know it was stable. At least I hope it was! -- Mailin

[Ubuntu-phone] FAO: BQ - A little help, please

2016-03-23 Thread Gareth France
I'm sure many on here are familiar with my story: Smashed screen ordered replacement android version paid local shop to fit local shop broke/disconnected my accelerometer and refuse to accept this BQ offered through this forum to look at it for me and figure out what they have done I declined as

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Some good words about BQ.

2016-03-24 Thread Gareth France
On 24/03/16 06:48, Eran Benjamin wrote: After smashing my screen for the second time, I sent it again to Spain to BQ, the repair costs 100 euro (inc shipment to my location) plus cost of shipment to Spain. Even though a new one only costs 130 (ex shipment), I prefer to repair when possible as

[Ubuntu-phone] M10 launch

2016-03-28 Thread Gareth France
Well, I've got my order in for my M10 tablet (is that going to be covered here or separately??). Does anyone know when they will be shipping them? I haven't seen an actual launch date anywhere. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net U

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] M10 launch

2016-03-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/03/16 14:58, Filip Dorosz wrote: Hi. They will start shipping second week of April. So you (and me, I already ordered FHD version) will get devices around 3rd week of April. Regards, Filip Dorosz W dniu 28.03.2016 o 15:55, Gareth France pisze: Well, I've got my order in for m

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] M10 launch

2016-03-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/03/16 15:01, Matthias Apitz wrote: El lunes, 28 de marzo de 2016 15:55:40 (CEST), Gareth France escribió: Well, I've got my order in for my M10 tablet (is that going to be covered here or separately??). Does anyone know when they will be shipping them? I haven't seen an act

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] M10 launch

2016-03-28 Thread Gareth France
On 28/03/16 21:51, Mitchell Reese wrote: > I've still got to pay to have my E4.5 fixed somehow! What's wrong with it? Just ordered a new screen for mine - will replace myself. Unfortunately I don't have the tools to replace myself these days. The person I paid to replace the screen has dam

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] FAO: BQ - A little help, please

2016-03-29 Thread Gareth France
Cheers, El 24/03/16 a las 17:10, Julia Palandri escribió: Hi Gareth, I fwd your email to someone in BQ, but I think it's national holidays in Spain today and tomorrow so it may take a while to hear back from them. Best, On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:19 PM, Gareth France mailto:g

[Ubuntu-phone] So how will this tablet thingamie work then?

2016-04-01 Thread Gareth France
Ok, so my tablet is on order, brilliant. Can't wait. The only problem is I'm joined at the hip to one device, my laptop. So how exactly am I going to make hopping between devices sane? I've got notes in Tomboy I access regularly, a scattering of files I often use and my email accounts (not a probl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu one

2016-04-01 Thread Gareth France
On 01/04/16 23:34, Wayne Ward wrote: I just read a post before about the sync stuff I agree that the system should now have a cloud sync option without the messing about with rsync and messy owncloud etc why did they drop ubuntu one? Streamlining the workforce I believe. It wasn't profitable and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu one

2016-04-01 Thread Gareth France
On 01/04/16 23:48, Wayne Ward wrote: i think if you asked the people on thelst if they would pay for this and mainly the people who swich very soon between the three devies they would pay even if somebody was to set a service for this people would pay if it was intergrated for instance id pay a y

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] ubuntu one

2016-04-01 Thread Gareth France
On 02/04/16 02:45, Rodney Dawes wrote: I don't think syncing is the answer. For example, I am using 400 GB of space in my home directory on my workstation. That's more than 10 times the total amount of space my phone has. It would obviously be impossible to sync it. As I said before I don't parti

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Issues in uNav (I think from the system)

2016-04-03 Thread Gareth France
On 03/04/16 14:11, Costales wrote: Hi, There are several issues in uNav that IMHO they are comming from the system. 1. White screen: I think it is because a high process and oxide kills the page. I was thinking it could be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/oxide-qt/+bug/137

[Ubuntu-phone] How to develop an app

2016-04-17 Thread Gareth France
Whilst I'm waiting for my tablet to arrive and my phone to get fixed I need a project to work on. I have tried to write a simple app for the phone before but even just following a guide to write an example app didn't go smoothly. I'm wanting to create one of the many 'not quite an app but just

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to develop an app

2016-04-17 Thread Gareth France
On 17/04/16 21:18, Joseph Liau wrote: Hi Gareth, You can start with the webapp generator https://developer.ubuntu.com/webapp-generator/ If there are any other good tutorials then pleqse let us know. Joe Excellent! 'In theory' I have just created Ubuntu's first electric car charging station l

[Ubuntu-phone] Introducing Zap Map

2016-04-17 Thread Gareth France
I have finally managed to publish something in the software centre! I can now announce that Zap Map is up and available, only a simple web app but it's a start. Zap Map offers a service to locate your nearest electric car charging points in the UK. Unfortunately I don't seem to be able to get

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to develop an app

2016-04-18 Thread Gareth France
So, does anyone have any tips for going beyond a simple web app? How would I go about designing something native and packaging it? On 17 April 2016 at 21:18, Joseph Liau wrote: > On Sunday, April 17, 2016 12:55:42 PM PDT, Gareth France < > gareth.fra...@gmail.com> wrote: > >&g

[Ubuntu-phone] Issues creating emulator within SDK

2016-04-19 Thread Gareth France
I am attempting to set up the emulator and have created an i386 instance and booted it. Once identified I try to autocreate a kit, a pop up says ' There is no compatible chroot available on your system, do you want to create it now?' I select yes and the following is produced: Traceback (most

[Ubuntu-phone] Just how much can the M10 do?

2016-04-21 Thread Gareth France
I'm looking to use my tablet as a replacement for my laptop in day to day use as much as as practically possible. I'm planning to do a lot of software development work/experimentation in the near future, so will the SDK run on it? Can I develop Ubuntu touch apps on Ubuntu touch? -- Mailing list: h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Just how much can the M10 do?

2016-04-21 Thread Gareth France
On 21/04/16 18:03, Zoltán Balogh wrote: I am working on to port the SDK IDE and DevKit to .click package what can be used on a tablet or even on phone. Excellent, thank you for all your hard work! My tablet should be here in a week or so, so I'll check it out. -- Mailing list: https://launchpa

[Ubuntu-phone] It's arrived!

2016-04-25 Thread Gareth France
Well, finally after much anticipation I am able to type this to you on my new tablet. And surprisingly the only criticisms I have been able to find so far are that my bluetooth trackpad is really naff and when using the keyboard to delete mail in Dekko it does not automatically select the next mail

[Ubuntu-phone] M10 issues, surprises and why does this list not like me?

2016-04-26 Thread Gareth France
Firstly, I have already posted this from my new tablet and it never arrived. Sometimes I can post fine and other days you lot all ignore me. So why does the server seem to have this love/hate relationship with me? Now on to the good stuff! I have some issues with the new tablet and I'm very please

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Aquaris M10 playing movies

2016-04-26 Thread Gareth France
I have tried playing video for the first time just now and for both mp4 and avi the media player comes up with a blank black screen and just sits there. Any ideas? 2016-04-26 6:01 GMT+00:00 Vic G : > Yes, here it is: > > > h

[Ubuntu-phone] Bugs, where to file?

2016-04-26 Thread Gareth France
I have stupidly left my laptop charger behind so tonight I'm sans laptop and so sans bookmarks. Since I haven't yet transferred anything over to my tablet I don't have access to the link I use for bug viewing/searching/adding. Could anyone help me out here? Cheers -- Mailing list: https://launchp

[Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-26 Thread Gareth France
It seem that tagger is behaving weird, the image is displayed the wrong way up making it near impossible to centre on what you want to scan as it always moves the opposite way and messes with your mind! I haven't been able to scan a single code yet, it just doesn't pick them up. It was very quck o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bugs, where to file?

2016-04-26 Thread Gareth France
I've never seen that before, thanks. Tagger isn't on there though. On 26 April 2016 at 20:00, Joseph Liau wrote: > > > On 2016-04-26 12:54 PM, Gareth France wrote: > > I have stupidly left my laptop charger behind so tonight I'm sans laptop > and so sa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
This is on the M10, on my E4.5 tagger works beatifully. On 27 April 2016 at 08:34, Olivier Tilloy wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 10:22 PM, Gareth France > wrote: > > It seem that tagger is behaving weird, the image is displayed the wrong > way > > up making it near im

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
AM, Michael Zanetti > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 27.04.2016 09:37, Gareth France wrote: > >>> This is on the M10, on my E4.5 tagger works beatifully. > >>> > >>> On 27 April 2016 at 08:34, Olivier Tilloy < > olivier.til...@canonical.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
Any ideas why mine might not be? On 27 April 2016 at 10:51, Olivier Tilloy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Gareth France > wrote: > > I have raised another bug as I have discovered my inability to decode > QRs is > > a separate thing. I have tried using examp

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
upgrade to OTA-10 or are you still on the initial release > (OTA-9.5)? There were some issues in the initial release which prevented > some things like screenshotting (and with that prevented tagger from > reading the image programmatically). > > > > On 27.04.2016 12:02, Gareth

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
ng android or ios can read them just fine. I have attached one of these codes to the bug. Could you please take a look for me? On 27 April 2016 at 11:26, Gareth France wrote: > I'm on 10.1. I'm having to scan codes displayed on my desktop screen for > work. I've been looki

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tagger not working?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
https://bugs.launchpad.net/tagger/+bug/1575552 On 27 April 2016 at 16:06, Olivier Tilloy wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:15 PM, Gareth France > wrote: > > I have now transferred a file directly onto the tablet and that will > read, > > this suggests that trying to rea

[Ubuntu-phone] Were is my spreadsheet?

2016-04-27 Thread Gareth France
This morning I created a spreadsheet on my tablet and saved it in documents, all good. This evening I created another and when saving it only gave the the options of saving it in home or desktop, no other folders displayed. Now when I go to locate the file it isn't there in file manager or when

[Ubuntu-phone] One week with the M10

2016-04-30 Thread Gareth France
And what a frustrating week it has been. I think I've discovered the rough edges and I'm not ready to let go of my laptop just yet. So here's a list of issues I've been dealing with: 1. Using my bluetooth keyboard with trackpad is a real pain as whenever I go to move the mouse cursor it immedi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] One week with the M10

2016-05-02 Thread Gareth France
On 02/05/16 08:50, Olivier Tilloy wrote: That should work in the stock web browser (if it doesn’t it’s a bug, please file one). I assume you’re seeing this in firefox, right? I don’t know whether that would work for legacy apps running in a container under XMir, but I think firefox needs to learn

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] One week with the M10

2016-05-02 Thread Gareth France
On 02/05/16 09:20, Michael Zanetti wrote: Hi Gareth, mind filing those issues on launchpad? Will do. Does that keyboard behave the same when you connect it to your laptop? Good question, I haven't used it for more than the briefest test on my laptop so I'll give it a go. Alt+F4 should

[Ubuntu-phone] Where to buy a phone?

2016-05-05 Thread Gareth France
Unfortunately BQ have diagnosed my phone's condition as terminal. They have been kind enough to offer me a discount on a replacement but their website doesn't seem keen to offer Ubuntu phones up and the link for the e4.5 on the ubuntu website is dead, the e5 is out of stock. So does anyone hav

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