Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Getting ubuntu_stamp file

2013-07-28 Thread Omer Akram
"adb pull /system/ubuntu_stamp $LOCATION" LOCATION is the place where you want that file. Thanks On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:30 PM, John Kim wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to help reporting bugs. After reading the Contribute wiki > page, I will need an Ubuntu_stamp file and the output of a co

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-08-07 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 7:38 PM, leon lee wrote: > I think ubuntu's marketing people are targeting the wrong segment. Yes, > ubuntu edge seems to be innovative, but it's not enough for the high end > market. With poor branding in mobile and pc desktop market, normal high end > people would

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Edge (the Ubuntu handset)

2013-08-07 Thread Omer Akram
ricing etc. would reflect such a target. > If you argue ubuntu edge is for anyone, I wouldn't say anything but wish > it all the best. > 4 phones are clearly not for everyone. > > > -- Original -- > *From: * "Omer Akram";

[Ubuntu-phone] Sound recorder in core-apps

2013-08-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hey everyone, I think a sounds recorder app is a very common thing that comes on smartphones theses days but I have not seen anyone working on that. Did we forget it as a core-app or was that intentional. Maybe anyone for the App showdown can work on a simple audio recorder. Thanks! -- Mailing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sound recorder in core-apps

2013-08-22 Thread Omer Akram
nyone wants to >> develop this, hit me up on email >> >> >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:53 PM, John McCormack >> wrote: >> >>> Yep, good idea. It's a standard feature for mobile devices. >>> >>> John McC >>> On 21 Aug 2013

[Ubuntu-phone] [design] scrolling in apps is not accelerated

2013-08-29 Thread Omer Akram
Hey everyone, The scrolling in the apps is not accelerated i.e. if we scroll multiple times while a list is scrolling that does not fasten the scroll. This is different from all other phone OS that I tried. I am not sure if its a bug or not but I have seen this issue for a while now and didn't kno

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [design] scrolling in apps is not accelerated

2013-08-31 Thread Omer Akram
nt >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:10 PM, Omer Akram wrote: >> >>> Hey everyone, >>> >>> The scrolling in the apps is not accelerated i.e. if we scroll multiple >>> times while a list is scrolling that does not fasten the scroll. Thi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enabling mir on the latest builds

2013-09-13 Thread Omer Akram
cool thanks. I think we need to change it to be -c instead of --channel or change system-image-cli to use --channel argument. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Chris Wayne wrote: > phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel daily-proposed > > > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Omer

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Enabling mir on the latest builds

2013-09-13 Thread Omer Akram
hey Is there a way to flash the daily-proposed image through phablet-flash ? maybe an argument for phablet-flash ubuntu-system ? On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Sergio Schvezov < sergio.schve...@canonical.com> wrote: > From now on, the latest builds coming in can have mir swapped in instead >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] error while flashing using ubuntu-system

2013-09-21 Thread Omer Akram
Did you unlock the device first? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install#Step_2_-_Device_unlock On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Sayantan Das wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting the following error while flashing > > INFO:phablet-flash:Restarting device... wait > INFO:phablet-flash:Restarting devic

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Switch off device

2013-09-21 Thread Omer Akram
I agree with you on that, there needs to be a power menu of sometime but I think its pretty clear that's not going to happen at this point of the release cycle. Can you open a bug report for that and we'll add ubuntu-ux project to that. Thanks On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:42 AM, Carla Sella wrote

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Omer Akram
The trick is to move away from that app to the Dash and then focus the app again. Works always for the Terminal app for me. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer < gustavo.nieme...@canonical.com> wrote: > Are there any known tricks when the on screen keyboard refuses to show up? > >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Keyboard not showing up

2013-09-24 Thread Omer Akram
can >> > fix? Against ubuntu-keyboard source package in ubuntu. >> > >> > >> > On 09/24/2013 12:22 PM, Omer Akram wrote: >> > >> > The trick is to move away from that app to the Dash and then focus the >> app >> > again. Works always for the

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is pragmatically taking a screenshot possible?

2013-09-29 Thread Omer Akram
You could also use this small tool. http://ubuntuone.com/7KQ1GdgJQjglgMORs6YJuH Just copy it to /usr/local/bin/ on your system and run it globally while the phone is connected with the cable. On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman < fen...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > screenshot

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] camera-app vs. webbrowser-app autopilot dependencies

2013-10-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hello! webbrowser-app-autopilot depends on ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autopilot which provides reusable emulators(helpers) to easily interact with different components of the ubuntu-ui-toolkit while writing autopilot tests. The dependencies come from there. Many other apps depend on ubuntu-ui-toolkit-autop

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-10-30 Thread Omer Akram
I think this is something that should be looked into, this cycle. We really nned faster startup for apps :) On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Michael Zanetti > wrote: > > On Monday 17 June 2013 07:43:26 Thomas Voß wrote: > >> thanks for bring

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu SDK simple touch ui

2013-11-03 Thread Omer Akram
I think that's a compiz problem, can you report that for compiz with the steps to reproduce the issue. On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Nekhelesh Ramananthan wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > I have noticed that issue as well. When I run the .qml file, it open a > blank window. However on resizing the windo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] AOSP based phablet branches

2013-11-15 Thread Omer Akram
Hello! On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo < ricardo.salv...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jani Monoses > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > for those wanting to base their ports on AOSP instead of CyanogenMod > there > > are now work in progress branc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 5

2013-11-16 Thread Omer Akram
I was wondering about that as well, its something I would really like to know before considering one. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Wil Neeley wrote: > Will ubuntu touch be officially supported on the Nexus 5? > > > > -- > Wil Neeley > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone

[Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Vertical scrolling in dash is hard to grasp

2013-11-29 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! While using Ubuntu on the phone I am faced a constant problem i.e. I am not able to find the app I want to run in the Dash, even though its clearly infront of me. The reason for that is the type of scrolling that we have in the dash makes the position of apps icon unpredictable. Expand the 'I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Help needed with autopilot tests for ubuntu-system-settings

2013-12-19 Thread Omer Akram
Hello! Not really sure why but it seems move_to_object() and click() are not working well together. I replaced them with click_object() and it worked for me. I also suggest you to make sure when you click in the search box it really gets the focus before trying to do anything i.e. assert if search

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] wifi not detected on Nexus 4, build 121

2014-01-12 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! This happens when you install Ubuntu on a phone that has android 4.4 so now you need to first flash android 4.3 on that phone and then installing Ubuntu should have no problems with your wifi. Thanks! On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Sayantan Das wrote: > Hi, > > I installed Ubuntu Trus

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] AOSP 4.4.2 based images are finally available via the trusty-proposed channel

2014-02-24 Thread Omer Akram
I had android 4.4.2 installed on my phone so I did: phablet-flash ubuntu-system --channel trusty-proposed -b -d mako --revision 205 it did all its voodoo, and for 1-2 minutes rotating android screen came but on reboot, it started back to android 4.4.2, i.e. no Ubuntu. Thanks! On Sun, Feb 23, 2

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] AOSP 4.4.2 based images are finally available via the trusty-proposed channel

2014-02-24 Thread Omer Akram
Just tried with ubuntu-device-flash and android is still not replaced. ubuntu-device-flash -channel=trusty-proposed -bootstrap=true -revision=205 (did that from bootloader) On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Montag, den 24.02.2014, 13:55 +0500 schrieb Omer

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 25.02.14

2014-02-26 Thread Omer Akram
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 1:37 AM, Bill Filler wrote: > > > 5. gallery-app (Bill) > > It seems there is a timeout (and a flaky test) on that one (passed on > > a rerun, but not yesterday nor today on first run): > > > gallery_app.tests.test_album_editor.TestAlbumEditor.test_album_title_fields > > .

[Ubuntu-phone] [Design] Tabbar height is too much to be usable

2014-03-06 Thread Omer Akram
Hola list, I am a full time user of the Ubuntu on my Phone and with time and by comparing to different OS out there I have realized that the height of the tabbar is a bit too much, its taking a good part of the screen space. I believe its something that needs to be discussed and the height needs

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 7 problem

2014-03-09 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! If adb is not enabled you can go back to android from fastboot. First download the factory images for your Nexus 7 from here https://dl.google.com/dl/android/aosp/nakasi-kot49h-factory-5e9db5e1.tgz and extract it. Make sure you are in Bootloader mode (fastboot) then just exectute './flash-all

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Incoming call pop up too small and too high!

2014-03-10 Thread Omer Akram
One thing I would like to mention here is with my use of Ubuntu on my phone for a few months now, I have many times mistakenly picked up or declined the call while trying to get my phone out of my pocket, because I happened to tap on "that' part of the screen On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Rache

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 20.03.14

2014-03-24 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 5:59 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote: > On 24.03.2014 13:24, David Marceau wrote: > > BUG #1 > > I noticed when I press the power button to wake up, the clock display is > > a couple of minutes behind and then it takes about 5 seconds before it > > refreshes to display the correct

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 25.03.14

2014-03-25 Thread Omer Akram
Ok so I have done the investigation and proposed a solution. There are two problems one is that the sample video for the tests is not really being played due to some missing codecs, the other is that the mediaplayer app seems to think its playing a video even if its not able to play the video due

[Ubuntu-phone] trying to find the right package for the Nexus 4 earpiece bug

2014-05-28 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! The max sound level in the Nexus 4 earpiece is too high that anyone sitting in the same room can listen everything clearly. Even it feels the earpiece may even burst. That is not a problem when I am using android on my phone. Could anyone tell me which package should I report a bug for that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] trying to find the right package for the Nexus 4 earpiece bug

2014-05-29 Thread Omer Akram
Thanks for your response, I have reported the bug and assigned that to you. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/1324678 On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo < ricardo.salv...@canonical.com> wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Omer Akram

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] trying to find the right package for the Nexus 4 earpiece bug

2014-05-29 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! thanks for the response. The problem at hand is the volume in the phone's built-in earpiece not for headphones. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:25 AM, Selene Scriven < selene.scri...@canonical.com> wrote: > * Omer Akram wrote: > > The max sound level in the Nexus 4 earpi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 05.06.14

2014-06-05 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak < lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hello everyone! > > Still no promotions and still more firefighting. This means we are > officially entering TRAINCON-0 again meaning: no more blind landings > happening until we're back to norm

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 05.06.14

2014-06-05 Thread Omer Akram
Hello again, On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:13 PM, Omer Akram wrote: > > Hi! > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak < > lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> Hello everyone! >> >> Still no promotions and still more fi

[Ubuntu-phone] adb not working on latest

2015-10-28 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! On channel ubuntu-touch/rc-proposed/meizu.en adb seems to not be working, I enabled it from the 'Developer mode' settings, the USB connection gets re-initialized but 'adb devices' shows nothing, I also tried -proposed. Anyone else seeing that, any help appreciated. Thanks! -- Mailing list:

[Ubuntu-phone] How to check if internet is connected

2016-03-20 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am writing a very simple utility in which I need to check if a network connection is currently established or not. For example if wifi or data connection is connected. At the same time I would also like to know if I can use a signal for change in network connectivity e.g. when wifi is connec

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-20 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I would like for our platform to be more strict about apps doing network operations in the main thread. This is something that would largely help our apps stay smooth and snappy. As an example Android does not allow developers to do network requests on the UI thread, any such attempt results i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] How to check if internet is connected

2016-03-20 Thread Omer Akram
Thanks Dan for the link, can you please point to a client implementation of this API ? that will help a lot. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Dan Chapman wrote: > On Sunday, 20 March 2016 09:50:18 GMT, Omer Akram > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I am writing a very simple

[Ubuntu-phone] alternative to XMLHttpRequest ?

2016-03-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am writing a soundcloud client and the issue I am seeing right now is that the response with 302 status is automatically redirected, this is fine in most cases but for me, it ends up downloading the whole track to some unknown location. I don't want that since I want to stream the track and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] alternative to XMLHttpRequest ?

2016-03-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! Yes, I am familiar, not an expert though. Can you share some kind of example maybe that I can use ? Thanks! On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Roman Shchekin wrote: > Hello > > Are you familiar with C++? Redirection can be easily handled with it. > > 2016-03-21 12:09 GMT+0

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-22 Thread Omer Akram
Thanks Mike, QNetworkAccessManager did the trick and it really is convenient. On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Michael Terry wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Omer Akram wrote: > >> Perhaps we could provide some sophisticated API for the developers so >> that they do

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SDK planning

2016-03-22 Thread Omer Akram
Hi Zsombor, While implementing network operations I went with the QNetworkAccessManager as I was doing other stuff in c++ as well, but will take a note about WorkerScripts. Thanks On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Zsombor Egri wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Omer Akram wr

[Ubuntu-phone] App crash on QMediaPlayer object creation

2016-03-26 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am trying to use QMediaPlayer in my app to play internet streams. The reason I am not using the QML MediaPlayer component is because due to some reason the MediaPlayer.play() halts the app for the time of initial buffering. So I am wanting to use QMediaPlayer for playback but it seems as soo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] App crash on QMediaPlayer object creation

2016-03-28 Thread Omer Akram
t be causing your > crash I can help you dive a little deeper in figuring this out. > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:39 AM, Omer Akram wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I am trying to use QMediaPlayer in my app to play internet streams. The >> reason I am not using the QML Medi

[Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use Flickable+Column+Repeater combination to have smooth scrolling, that worked and is currently what I have implemented in my app but I always thought th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
> mailing list. > > Br, > Michael > > On 18.04.2016 12:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > Hi! > > > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested to use > > Flick

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Andrea Bernabei < andrea.berna...@canonical.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Omer Akram > wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced >> was stutt

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] POC: Recycling ListView items

2016-04-18 Thread Omer Akram
On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Alberto Mardegan < alberto.marde...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 18/04/2016 13:57, Omer Akram wrote: > > While working on a pet project[1] for the Phone, an issue that I faced > > was stuttering scrolling in listviews. QML tips page[2] suggested

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Libertine - user folders

2016-04-28 Thread Omer Akram
Hi Stephen, While it would be really great if *all* the apps were updated to scale properly on all kind of screen resolutions, I am afraid that's not something we can expect to happen. What we could try is to use a similar technique as of gnome and scale everything 2X, then use xrandr' scale+pann

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Confirmation of Galaxy nexus (non) support

2014-09-19 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! Development on Galaxy Nexus have been stopped. That entry in the wiki page was just not updated/removed. So, no, you cannot upgrade anymore :) On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:43 PM, Michel RENON wrote: > > I know that Galaxy Nexus is not supported anymore (and mine had no updates > since 2014-02-

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Application startup

2015-08-06 Thread Omer Akram
Hey! I remember you started a thread[1] a while ago, re: app launch time. Did you investigate that time into this? Perhaps that mechanism could be adapted to current Ubuntu ? [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037303.html On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Alberto Mardegan

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Store username/password

2016-05-19 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! if you are the owner of the web service, I would suggest to change the authentication to token-based. If its a third-party service, then you might probably want to check if the service supports a more secure way to authenticate/login. If the web service really only supports basic authenticatio

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The eternal promises

2016-07-27 Thread Omer Akram
This person have been quite disrespectful in their non-constructive criticism for a long time, its a bit offensive for me and many like me who work to make Ubuntu better. I kindly request the list admins to either send a warning or remove this person from the list. a longtime Ubuntu member. Thank

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Unable to reflash, please help!

2016-09-29 Thread Omer Akram
Probably try with a different usb cable and it should be good. On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 2:29 AM, Gareth France < gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk> wrote: > > > On 29/09/16 22:28, knitzsche wrote: > >> I believe that is a bogus (and misleading) error message. >> >> So you can probably wait for it to c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] HP opens WebOS

2011-12-09 Thread Omer Akram
Ubuntu phone should be based on Ubuntu, i dont want Ubudroid :-D On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 1:32 AM, Thomas Mashos wrote: > On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Abraham Farani wrote: >> What about the new possibility of the Ubuntu Phone being based on >> WebOS? It's far more open than android, and it h

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Flash without Ubuntu

2013-02-21 Thread Omer Akram
from here http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch-preview/quantal/mwc-demo/ 1. unlock your android device with fastboot on any OS(fastboot oem unlock) 2. Download the recovery img specific to your device, also download the device specific .zip file and also the big 481mb file from the link above. 3

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Installation] Doubt about ClockworkMod Recovery Backups

2013-02-21 Thread Omer Akram
Yeah, flash Ubuntu and then you can reflash your android backup without losing any settings. That worked fine for me when I tried. Ofcourse don't wipe cache/factory reset in clockworkmod. On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:26 PM, Douglas Camata wrote: > Assuming my gnexus is already unlocked and I made

[Ubuntu-phone] [GUIDE] How to flash Ubuntu touch using Windows

2013-02-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hi all, I don't have access to a windows system right now but I did flash a lot of android devices using different OS over the past couple of years so here is a little guide for windows user to install Ubuntu Touch on their phones. How to Flash Ubuntu Touch using Windows. maguro is Galaxy Nexus

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Who's installed already?

2013-02-21 Thread Omer Akram
Hi! I am assuming all our flashing process don't alter the bootloader so technically the chances of hard bricking your devices are pretty low. Thanks! On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:43 PM, Vladimir M. wrote: > Those with Nexus 7, note: if smth goes wrong, and you end up with a broken > bootloader

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [GUIDE] How to flash Ubuntu touch using Windows

2013-02-21 Thread Omer Akram
Yeah, that should not be a problem since the basic purpose is to just flash. so it can be done with custom recovery. On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 12:48 AM, Douglas Camata wrote: > Do you know if I can keep my custom recovery instead of flashing Ubuntu's? > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Request] Update Port Information

2013-02-28 Thread Omer Akram
Hi Jacob, Great to see the newly added support for the Transformer. That's a wiki page which you can edit yourself, you just need a launchpad account. On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Jacob Holtom wrote: > Hello, > > I have successfully booted Ubuntu Touch on the TF101 > I'm already on the Tou

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Reporting and tracking user facing bugs in Unity Next

2013-04-08 Thread Omer Akram
So what becomes of the existing Unity bugs that we have in launchpad? From what i know the launchpad project for Unity is going to be the same i.e. launchpad.net/unity so new bug tracking will become difficult to handle. Should we discuss something on that ? On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 6:28 PM, John L