Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Wiping phone after testing

2014-07-02 Thread Florian Will
Am 02.07.2014 09:50, schrieb Martin Pitt: Hi, > I've heard that we have some magic with using > /cache/recovery/ubuntu_commands. There's nothing in the wiki, just > some allusions that it exists [2]. I'm sure an ubuntu recovery developer could shed some more light on this (stgraber?). AFAIK, th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Florian Will
Without long-running network connections, XMPP is at risk as well. Just like IRC, you'd need a proxy or control the XMPP server to be able to send push notifications. I guess there are a few more use cases where push notifications won't cut it. Generally, control and transparency are important to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Renaming to: Ubuntu App Launch

2014-06-04 Thread Florian Will
Hey, 2014-05-22 18:13 GMT+02:00 Ted Gould : > If you have a dependency that you know of that I'm unlikely to find, please mention it. You will probably find this sooner or later in the security tests: http://ci.ubuntu.com/smokeng/utopic/touch/mako/65:20140604.1:20140530/8401/security/1210870/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Building for HTC Desire HD (ace)

2014-05-01 Thread Florian Will
Hey, Please note that all of my Ubuntu Touch knowledge is a few months old already, so parts of this mail might be out of date. Am 01.05.2014 16:32, schrieb Adam Pigg: > Where are the other parts of ubuntu downloaded from for installation, > are they just .zip files to install from recovery? Th

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Building for HTC Desire HD (ace)

2014-05-01 Thread Florian Will
Hi, Am 01.05.2014 15:48, schrieb Adam Pigg: > 1) the file is only 27mb, i must be missing something?? That sounds about right, I have ~30MB for the Desire Z. Remember it only contains hardware abstraction layer components, no dalvik etc. > 2) the /boot on the ace i 4mb. The boot.img is 5.1mb.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] No more custom home screen backgrounds?

2014-03-26 Thread Florian Will
The fixed bug appears to be about brightness settings getting lost after screen turns off. The non-customizable background is probably a design decision because it "strengthens the ubuntu brand" or something like that. Am 26.03.2014 19:12 schrieb "Alex Chiang" : > On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 9:28 AM,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] universe vs. main packages in the image

2014-02-05 Thread Florian Will
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am 30.01.2014 16:20, schrieb Oliver Grawert: > i started with assembling a list of the packages that come from > universe today: grilo-plugins-0.2 grilo-plugins-0.2-mediascanner I've been following the grilo MIR bug - it's exactly 1 year old now.

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting]Need help

2014-02-03 Thread Florian Will
Hi Lukas, Sounds like you need to extract proprietary files from a working phone. Cyanogenmod usually has a script to pull those files via adb. I don't remember the exact steps, but Google / the cyanogenmod wiki should help. Cheers, Florian Am 03.02.2014 11:45 schrieb "Lukas Krotovic" : > Hi, >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] 154 image - mako doesn't boot

2014-02-01 Thread Florian Will
Hi Elad, 2014-02-01 Elad Avron : > If you install a valid image (one that boots) and then try to upgrade using > apt-get, next boot will again hank on the blank backlit screen. Using apt-get to upgrade is not supported (and in fact, with official "system-image" supported devices you can't even us

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting] Problems with UCM audio config

2014-01-29 Thread Florian Will
Hi, Am 29.01.2014 22:54, schrieb f69m: > Any ideas? > Anything would be helpful: how to get more verbose logging from the UCM > handlers, Maybe I can help with that: Check the exec lines in [1], works for me to get some logging at least. Well, it worked when I created those ucm files, maybe it ha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Device-Specific configs in debs

2014-01-18 Thread Florian Will
Hi, 2014/1/16 Chris Wayne > After some digging around the system, the following types of > device-specific files are currently living in our rootfs: > >- upstart jobs in /etc/init >- udev rules (in /etc/udev/rules.d and /lib/udev/rules.d) >- ubuntu-touch-session configs (basically ju

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] UT music app cannot find mp3 on desktop

2013-12-01 Thread Florian Will
Hi Sayantan, Am 01.12.2013 11:34, schrieb Sayantan Das: > How do I get the app to recognize the files, or maybe change the path of > the folder? I've never used it on the desktop, but I think I remember the music-app uses the grilo media scanner to find music (just like gnome-music does). Unfort

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [DEVELOPMENT] How to create Android/Ubuntu zip files when building from source?

2013-11-22 Thread Florian Will
Once your cyanogen/android parts build correctly, it's quite easy actually: flash the cm-date-unofficial.zip created during compile (it's in out/target/product/devicename/), then flash the trusty-preinstalled-armhf zip file. Then you may have to adjust all kinds of things in android or ubuntu parts

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Connect to phone from Mac

2013-11-20 Thread Florian Will
There's a good reason why Google switched from mass storage to mtp. This is even more true for ubuntu touch. For mass storage, you need a FAT partition (most devices don't support ext4 etc.). So ubuntu touch would have to switch to FAT for the home partition (or keep ext4 and make it impossible to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Porting issues

2013-11-18 Thread Florian Will
(writing from my phone) I'm not sure if this is still true, but a few weeks ago porters were recommended to just use the old "cdimage-style" flipped model. It means to just have the extractes rootfs files in /data/ubuntu and the Android system.img copied in there, which happens automatically when

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Queries about performance on some phone.

2013-10-28 Thread Florian Will
Am 28.10.2013 09:27 schrieb "François Leblanc" : > How does it run for over device? It's fluently? Responsive? Fast? On HTC vision (desire z) it's not too bad. Scrolling is not as smooth as it is in android and app launches takes a few seconds... But nothing takes 10 or even 15 seconds. And that

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-27 Thread Florian Will
Hi Rick, Am 27.10.2013 16:25, schrieb Rick Spencer: > This sounds kind of far fetched. Who would do something like this on > their phone? More than 200k android users who downloaded the app that I described. I don't think "it's a phone!" is a valid excuse for not allowing any CPU intensive task

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Thoughts on inhibiting app suspend via application lifecycle

2013-10-27 Thread Florian Will
Hi, Am 25.10.2013 19:48, schrieb Thomas Voß: > One thing that strikes me: Instead of trying to solve the problem a > lot of "won't work" statements are made in this thread, going along > with a request for removing all of the lifecycle policies. And to be > clear: With strict policies in place, it

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Installing click packages without Ubuntu-one

2013-10-14 Thread Florian Will
Hi, Additionally, I'd like to be able to install click packages using the file manager GUI. Just like apks in Android (if you enable that feature, which is also a security risk if you don't know what you're doing). Last time I tried it didn't work, but it was a few weeks ago. Cheers, Florian 20

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Porting, initramfs-tools] initrd: Couldn't find data partition.

2013-10-09 Thread Florian Will
Pass datapart=/dev/mmcblk0p6 on the kernel cmdline. See my post from a few weeks ago on this list for more info, I'm on my phone right now. :) Am 09.10.2013 02:55 schrieb "Marcel Partap" : > D'OH!.. > praise # adb wait-for-device && beep ^^ > Well so although the device is not proceeding beyond t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [ubuntu-touch][ubuntu core apps][whatsapp]

2013-09-29 Thread Florian Will
Am 29.09.2013 12:48 schrieb "Jodie Robinson" : > > I seem to remember reading a thread in this list about no app being able to run in the background, so how would WhatsApp get any messages when you're doing something else? > I'm not familiar with any touch code, but I see this as a problem, or am I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] compile error: 'RLOGD' was not declared in this scope (hardware/samsung/ril/xmm6260/libril/ril.cpp)

2013-09-28 Thread Florian Will
Sorry, I misread your post. I stand corrected. :-) Florian -- 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] compile error: 'RLOGD' was not declared in this scope (hardware/samsung/ril/xmm6260/libril/ril.cpp)

2013-09-27 Thread Florian Will
Hi Marcel, something is strange with your source tree -- android_system_core was last changed ~1 month ago (by Ricardo Salveti de Araujo), and the most recent cyanogen commit in the android_system_core ubuntu repo is from july [1]. [1] http://phablet.ubuntu.com/gitweb?p=CyanogenMod/android_syste

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [DEVELOPMENT] script/touch and saucy-preinstalled-touch-armhf.zip

2013-09-27 Thread Florian Will
Hi Francois, You may notice the touch script only checks if system.img exists, and if it doesn't (which is the case for "cdimage"-style images, as opposed to "system" images), it just skips most of the script and does this instead: # Old flipped model elif [ -d /tmpmnt/ubuntu ]; then mount --

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] touch init script update list of data partition names

2013-09-12 Thread Florian Will
Hi Patrick, Am 12.09.2013 22:04, schrieb Patrick Seemann: > What is the preffered way of handling this issue? Not sure if this is the best way to solve the issue in your case, but you could try to add the "datapart=/dev/whatever" kernel cmdline parameter. This should help with booting but still c

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Click packages and U1db.Database

2013-08-22 Thread Florian Will
For the click install, I use this: (from the top of my head) click install --force-missing-framework --user=phablet file.click Maybe that's not the officially recommended way, but it works. Can't help you with your other problem. Cheers Florian Sorry for the full quote below, I'm writing from

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Request for help: test new phablet-flash

2013-08-09 Thread Florian Will
Am 09.08.2013 13:42, schrieb Daniel Holbach: >> I'll give a try but also for HTC vision we have to extract ***.tar.gz on >> /sdcard because we haven't enough space in /data but your script extract >> it on /data... Will you do an update? > > To me this sounds like two separate issues? One being th

[Ubuntu-phone] Porting: mount issues

2013-08-01 Thread Florian Will
Hi everyone, I'm having some trouble fixing mount problems and hope someone knows what's wrong. These are the 3 main issues: * My device appears to have no UDA, userdata, USERDATA or similar symlink to the user partition device node in /dev. I only have /dev/mmcblk0p26 and a symlink "/dev/block/

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Flipped Sony Tablet Z Port

2013-07-31 Thread Florian Will
Hi Andras (sorry, my keyboard layout won't let me type your name correctly, and Thunderbird won't let me copy your name, so..), This looks like the important part in your log: > E/Adreno200-GSL(13249): : open(/dev/kgsl-3d0) failed: errno 13. Permission denied I guess you can fix it by adding a 70

[Ubuntu-phone] Flipped HTC Desire Z Port

2013-07-29 Thread Florian Will
Hi, I've ported Ubuntu Touch with "flipped" containers (booting directly into Ubuntu) to the Desire Z. First of all, thanks to #ubuntu-touch and especially Oliver Grawert for helping me with some of the issues I encountered. Device specific code is by the Andromadus team from XDA Developers since

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Minimal partitions size.

2013-07-17 Thread Florian Will
Hi, > I got some partitions size error, after a reboot or if I use apt-get > upgrade I got "error : no space left on device" See my old post [1] to this list about how to trim down the rootfs size. Also, make sure to always "apt-get clean" after an upgrade. Regularly delete stuff in /var/log in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Compiling armhf binaries for a phone target - toolchain from where?

2013-07-15 Thread Florian Will
Sorry, forgot to send this to the list as well. Second try. I've had success compiling my packaged app for armhf using pbuilder-dist. It uses virtualization, so it's rather slow. Creating a Debian source package with qt c++ compiling support involves some googling, but debhelper supports it and i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] HTC Desire Z Porting.

2013-07-03 Thread Florian Will
I can't reply to the original mail because I was not subscribed at that time. Also, I'm sorry for spamming your Inbox, Nicholas. This reply should finally go to the list. >> http://pastebin.com/7FWmRa9w Not sure what the problem is there. >> and also can you tell me if for the HTC Desire Z We ha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Trimming down initial rootfs size

2013-07-03 Thread Florian Will
Hi Sam, Thanks for your hint! And I'm really sorry for spamming your inbox. I finally noticed that I was clicking the wrong button in Thunderbird all the time. Now this reply should actually go to the list as well... Am 02.07.2013 22:10, schrieb Sam Segers: > until I found it I needed: > run_prog

[Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Trimming down initial rootfs size

2013-07-02 Thread Florian Will
, but it reduces rootfs size by almost 50mb. Of course, after installing the rootfs, a whole lot of space can be reclaimed by uninstalling the demo-* packages. These are probably supposed to be included with the official rootfs though. :-) Cheers, Florian [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~florian-will/