Hi Wayne, sorry to hear about the bad experience you're having right now.
FWIW, this site seems to have replacement screens available for 15€. They have the android buttons on them and I don't know whether they ship to your place. But maybe still worth a shot... We're working on the performance problems introduced in OTA-6. Br, Michael On 15.09.2015 22:31, 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, IE facebook, google notifications, skype or some > kind of video / conference type interface, instagram and a owncloud or > some kind of document sync. The upgrades have been good but the last OTA > update seemed to have killed the experience for me and made my phone > just hard to use and just a bad experience messaging being unusable and > the phone just generally being slow. I can see the videos of people > running native ubuntu apps IE firefox, chrome. > I can only think that there must be some way of somebody managing this > and building some kind of container that you can install and run some > native apps and maybe take control of getting on to the big companies > like intagram and skype to get some kind of feedback to see if they will > make the packages or at least say yes or no then pursuing making a open > source version etc. > The last worrying part is, i bought a BQ ubuntu 4.5, ok a accident > happens and we dropped one cracking the screen, the screen isnt > available on ebay like most screens to replace yourself or by a local > phone company. After contacting BQ.. the replacement is 89 euro, then 20 > euro for shipping with no gurantee. A new phone of the same version is > around 140 euro. 30 euro more. > > so bad performance, lack of apps and easy cost effective replacements > makes me wonder what the hell im doing. Im a life long hardened linux > fan and loved the idea of the ubuntu phone but its not going the way i > hoped. > > ill probably buy a new ubuntu phone to replace the broken one and stick > with the phone and struggle without notifications and the apps that i > would like and hope that somebody actually takes on these major > flaws....... > > No offense intended, its just blowing of steam I guess? - Thoughts > please........... > > Regards > > Wayne Ward >
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