[Ubuntu-phone] Tablet and DualBoot

2015-08-15 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
I stumbled upon this wiki page and was interested by it. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/DualBootInstallation I like the idea of being able to switch back and forth between Ubuntu and Android, etc. Is anyone working on this? I would like to be involved, if nothing else help testing or more if p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tablet and DualBoot

2015-08-16 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
Google is your friend... There is an xda thread that discusses how to install it, it is not for the faint of heart. You should run backup saved off the device before you do anything! I would say that if you are not worried about getting an unbootable device and wiping your system out from the Boo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Tablet and DualBoot

2015-08-16 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
The first thing I did was to backup my tablet as suggested here: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices/#save-android-data I then went to the Play store found the app and watched the video, in my case it installed with no obvious issues, it also appe

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Owncloud App?

2015-08-17 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
There have been news items and other posts discussing replacing the click packaging with Snappy (or snaps) as part of the new Ubuntu Core. When this happens this may resolve itself, assuming that Snappy is still Snappy... Considering the Ubuntu Core is being used in the IoT the multitasking issue

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Mutitasking (was Owncloud App?)

2015-08-17 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
ok so I am mixing threads... Will apps be able to continue running in background or at least be able to keep a socket open when not active? Tom On 08/17/2015 11:32 PM, Nathan Haines wrote: > On 08/17/2015 08:13 PM, Thomas A. Moulton wrote: >> Considering the Ubuntu Core is being used i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Multitasking

2015-08-18 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
It is very tricky and what makes it hardest is the app behavior depends on the skill of the development team (or person) to write an app that manages the phone's resources properly. I wonder if we are mixing short term and long term goals. Many app, like games, utilities, etc do not have need to d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Overheating

2015-08-20 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know it goes without saying, but it is worth saying anyway! BACKUP BACKUP!!! On 08/20/2015 07:34 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > No, it won't disable them and they *might* still work, but just as > likely they might break, leaving you with a system

[Ubuntu-phone] Lock Screen

2015-08-22 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
I am using the dev-proposed version on a Nexus 7 (flo) Tablet. When the tablet is locked what is supposed to show in the Circle? (and what is that area called?) On the ubuntu web site I see "33 minutes of talk time" in there but do not see any other use of that area Tom -- Mailing list: https:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Lock Screen

2015-08-22 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
Found out the answer on IRC... Circle Messages... apps can put things up there... On 08/22/2015 04:04 PM, Thomas A. Moulton wrote: > I am using the dev-proposed version on a Nexus 7 (flo) Tablet. > > When the tablet is locked what is supposed to show in the Circle? > (and what

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Lock Screen

2015-08-23 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
; > 2015-08-22 23:13 GMT+02:00 Tom Moulton : >> >> Actually, Indicator may be the correct term >> >> "Thomas A. Moulton" wrote: >> >>> Found out the answer on IRC... Circle Messages... apps can put things up >>> there... >>> >>>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Miracast/MHL/other on MX4

2015-08-24 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Searching for MX4 and MHL shows Meizu forums with others asking about this support and finding it does not work and is not supported. tom On 08/24/2015 07:32 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > > Am Montag, den 24.08.2015, 11:01 +0200 schrieb Krzyszt

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Preparing for larger images

2015-08-27 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
>From watching the various updates my Tablet (flo) has received, aren't the OTA updates deltas? If so, then would it be expected to have >500MB of changes between updates often? In the most recent update I think I saw about 148MB downloaded. Could this be a temporary problem, because aren't we go

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Preparing for larger images

2015-08-27 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/27/2015 06:55 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: (snip) > yet, but i think it is worth to mention that snappy is in the > process of getting rid of system-image and turn everything into a > snap (rootfs being its own snap, device tarball becoming a sna

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] If Gmail can, why other apps can't?

2015-09-12 Thread Thomas A. Moulton
On 09/12/2015 06:32 AM, John Lenton wrote: > actually, google does now offer push service. Somebody needs to do > that work (and host an intermediary server). A third party server getting my push notifications (or polling for them) sounds just wrong to me. How does it work in android? (afaik go