Re: [Ubuntu-phone] init: could not import file 'init.mako_svelte.rc' from '/init.mako.rc'

2016-08-09 Thread John McAleely
I believe you should find the mako kernels used in the images in the archive, so no need to follow the porting guide for a device already ported. J On 9 August 2016 at 17:12, ujwal satish m wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the information about vivid series. I flashed boot, > recovery,System imag

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ images

2016-06-06 Thread John McAleely
from ubuntu-touch/stable/bq- > aquaris-pd.en channel and server https://system-image.ubuntu.com to > device cooler > can't flash recovery image > > Wayne > > > > On Mon, 2016-06-06 at 11:13 +0100, John McAleely wrote: > > The images are available via ubuntu-device-fla

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ images

2016-06-06 Thread John McAleely
It might be worth noting that if your handset already runs Ubuntu (and it boots) the two methods (the one I documented, and the one Victor listed) will result in the same thing, and should work equally well. The tool used to do the install is different, and people may simply prefer one over the ot

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] BQ images

2016-06-06 Thread John McAleely
The images are available via ubuntu-device-flash from system-image.ubuntu.com You need to supply a matching recovery image to work with ubuntu device flash, and those can all be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices So, ubuntu-device-flash is documented in a few places, but as a hand

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Ubuntu Touch OTA-11 released

2016-06-03 Thread John McAleely
Fun fact, I think the KRILIN in the version string is the only krillin with 1 L in the set of places the BQ E4.5 Ubuntu Edition is identified with that codename. I recall it was settled very early in the project, before a uniform spelling was settled on (not everyone knew the origin of the name!)

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [tablet] confused after connecting M10 to monitor via HDMI.

2016-04-25 Thread John McAleely
Please start opening bugs - document the monitor you experience problems with. FWIW, it works for me on a dell. https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+filebug Plug in a HDMI cable (to the HDMI port) and it should work. No display will appear if you use a collection of cables/a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MX4 and Miracast, something new?

2016-04-12 Thread John McAleely
Marco, Unfortunately we have no plans at this time, as canonical, to ship wireless display support for the MX4. At the moment our prototype requires an Android 5 BSP, and we don't have one of those for the MX4. J On 31 March 2016 at 08:40, Marco Graziotti wrote: > Hi list, > > something new ab

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] E5 OOB exerience

2016-03-22 Thread John McAleely
On 21 March 2016 at 22:01, Michi Henning wrote: > > I believe it is the expected behaviour for mobile phone OEMs to make > phones in batches, and for those batches to be sold with the software that > was current at the time of production. It's particularly expensive to > re-visit a phone already

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] E5 OOB exerience

2016-03-21 Thread John McAleely
On 21 March 2016 at 09:08, Timo Jyrinki wrote: > you. That won't happen with the new products, but if that was a recent > purchase (not known in your case) I think the factory images really > should get upgraded occasionally. I will start by breaking a small confidence. I shipped Michi the pho

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] boot splash screen

2015-12-21 Thread John McAleely
he Ubuntu one. > > > > Turning the device on, first shows the white bq splash, then turns > > black, and then unity8 appears. > > > > Br, > > Michael > > > > On 21.12.2015 16:10, John McAleely wrote: > > > The boot logo is pretty simple, an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] boot splash screen

2015-12-21 Thread John McAleely
The boot logo is pretty simple, and pretty low level. I just double-checked by doing the OTA from 209 to 210, and as you might expect, it worked for me (I still have a logo). Worryingly, that suggests that perhaps something is more subtly broken, (maybe part of the flash file system?), and fixing

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of bq/Meizu kernel sources

2015-12-18 Thread John McAleely
a lot of additional >> debugging code into the sources and boot the modified kernels on my >> krillin, so there is no point in working with old sources. >> >> Have a nice holiday! >> >> cheers, >> Simon >> >> >> Am 12/10/2015 um 12:49 PM

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of bq/Meizu kernel sources

2015-12-15 Thread John McAleely
point in working with old sources. > > Have a nice holiday! > > cheers, > Simon > > > Am 12/10/2015 um 12:49 PM schrieb John McAleely: > > They are the most recently released sources. > > > > It is a task of mine to periodically update the Aquaris ones, an

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] stuck on bq splash logo after installing 201

2015-12-14 Thread John McAleely
Is that something we'll need to warn people about for ota-9? 2015-12-11 13:21 GMT+00:00 Pat McGowan : > There is an apparmor update that is likely causing the delay in the first > boot as it redoes the caches. > > Pat > > 2015-12-11 4:49 GMT-05:00 Victor Gonzalez : > >> Hi Alan! >> >> El 11/12/20

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status of bq/Meizu kernel sources

2015-12-10 Thread John McAleely
They are the most recently released sources. It is a task of mine to periodically update the Aquaris ones, and a colleague looks after Meizu. As you can see, I have not done it since May, and my colleague has done a little better :-) I will look at this next week, when I return from holiday, if

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Meizu MX4 (Arale r6), impossible to use the phone, serious problem using touch screen

2015-11-16 Thread John McAleely
Ubuntu does not update silently. Assuming you are on the default settings, there has been no OS update for some weeks (The next is due soon). It will, as always, require your action before installing. Application updates are similar, but more frequent. Without knowing what applications you have,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Convergence (current status for bq devices)

2015-11-06 Thread John McAleely
It's perhaps worth being crystal clear, since I am familiar with all three handsets. There is no support (in hardware) for external monitors (MHL, slimport, HDMI, other) in: BQ Aquaris E4.5 BQ Aquaris E5 Meizu MX4 The same is true for both the Android & Ubuntu editions of these handsets. J On

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] adb not working on latest

2015-10-28 Thread John McAleely
I am also seeing this on a krillin, so I opened: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1510919 'adb not responding' On 28 October 2015 at 11:37, Andrea Cimitan wrote: > Hi Omer, > I had probably the same issue but on krillin, I had to reflash with > --developer-mode as

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Landing team 15.10.15

2015-10-20 Thread John McAleely
On Tuesday, 20 October 2015, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Dienstag, den 20.10.2015, 13:26 +0200 schrieb Olivier Tilloy: > > Is the rc-proposed channel back to normal? > > My krillin running rc-proposed says it has an update to image #152 > > that weighs 147MB, sounds like a lot for an increme

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Using 64bit Android BSPs with Ubuntu

2015-09-14 Thread John McAleely
On 14 September 2015 at 13:32, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Montag, den 14.09.2015, 12:12 +0100 schrieb John McAleely: > > I like the sound of multiarch for two reasons: > > well, if you want the rootfs to be able to actually do multiarch (not > sure if you are using t

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Using 64bit Android BSPs with Ubuntu

2015-09-14 Thread John McAleely
I like the sound of multiarch for two reasons: - It trivially guarantees compatibility for all the apps in the store today - It allows us to make use of 64 bit whenever it is useful If we forgo the second advantage, we could just boot the kernel & android container in 64 bit, and continue booti

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can't flash my Arale (tried a bunch of different suggestions)

2015-09-08 Thread John McAleely
On 8 September 2015 at 15:23, Kyle Fazzari wrote: > On 09/08/2015 09:34 AM, John McAleely wrote: > > So, for those experiencing problems, what versions of host-side software > > do you run? > > Natively I run trusty with phablet-tools etc., but I've also us

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can't flash my Arale (tried a bunch of different suggestions)

2015-09-08 Thread John McAleely
On 8 September 2015 at 14:58, Pete Woods wrote: > I'm running Vivid + Stable overlay PPA. For me, though, the really > interesting part is that even using the Android SDK tools manually is > unreliable: > > So, for those experiencing problems, what versions of host-side software >> do you run? >>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can't flash my Arale (tried a bunch of different suggestions)

2015-09-08 Thread John McAleely
It seems possible to me there are several different problems, all manifesting as 'flashing is unstable'. FWIW, I flash a *lot* of devices and flash cycles, and on two machines (Macbook Pro 10,2; Lenovo workstation; both Trusty) my experience is rock-solid. My experience is dominated by krillin/veg

[Ubuntu-phone] Using 64bit Android BSPs with Ubuntu

2015-09-07 Thread John McAleely
Folks, More and more Android devices are shipping in 64bit form. As such, I think Ubuntu needs a plan to use the drivers from such a system sooner rather than later. We have a choice, I think. We can either attempt to build a 64bit Ubuntu image for phones (broadly, an arm64 version of what we hav

[Ubuntu-phone] Preparing for larger images

2015-08-27 Thread John McAleely
As we begin to prepare for new features associated with converged devices, it seems likely that some image configurations will be *much* larger than our current phone images on system-image.ubuntu.com As an example, I've been anecdotally informed that if an OEM wanted to bundle libreoffice (a like

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread John McAleely
On 17 July 2015 at 15:56, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > I do not have / writable: > > $ mount | fgrep ' / ' > /dev/mmcblk0p6 on / type ext4 (ro,relatime,data=ordered) > It is not meaningful to know the current status of the partition. If it has *ever* been writable, something may have filled it at

[Ubuntu-phone] Made your system writeable? Is your disk full? OTA might break

2015-07-17 Thread John McAleely
With the release of OTA-4 a few weeks ago, we received a few reports of problems where the handset would get stuck in a boot loop, or refuse to boot past the initial logo. One root cause we have established is when the system partition has run out of space. Given that the supported model for syst

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] posting images to social media on 15.10

2015-07-17 Thread John McAleely
It sounds like you've moved onto one of the development channels (those are the only ones that update the ubuntu image daily), and may have tumbled over this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/webapps-core/+bug/1474356 I'm not familiar with MultiROM Manager, or the N5 image channels, but you might p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Update

2015-07-16 Thread John McAleely
Subscribers to this list are best advised to watch out for the 'Landing Team' emails for progress updates. They are currently sent by 'Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak'. We are likely to 'round up' to the nearest working day, so, for example, if we finish work late on a tuesday, we would release the OTA o

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Files to keep on userdata reset

2015-07-15 Thread John McAleely
This span out of a thread on our internal OEM threads. On those I was not in favour of preserving files across this reset process. When our phones boot for the very first time, they do so with an empty writeable partition. The intent of this reset procedure is re-run whatever code runs then to pop

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OPEN BETA: CI Train Spreadsheet Replacement

2015-07-08 Thread John McAleely
I think I may have the same problem as Alex. I did not see "Team membership: ci-train-users" during login, checked or unchecked. I see no 'new request' form once logged in. J On 8 July 2015 at 10:09, Alex Tu wrote: > Hi Robert, > I do have check box "Team membership: ci-train-users" during SSO

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Identifying image versions easily

2015-07-07 Thread John McAleely
On 7 July 2015 at 14:44, Barry Warsaw wrote: > That's supported. On an alias change, we squash the device's build number > to > 0 so it will do a full update to 50. It's just that within the actual > channel, build numbers can only increase. > What does the user see? I had build 200, and now

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Identifying image versions easily

2015-07-07 Thread John McAleely
On 7 July 2015 at 14:22, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jul 07, 2015, at 12:03 PM, John McAleely wrote: > > >My take away is that the system has the capability (via alias channels) to > >publish channels were the build numbers do make arbitrary jumps backward > or > >forwar

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Identifying image versions easily

2015-07-07 Thread John McAleely
On 6 July 2015 at 23:38, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > > I believe they can only be at '1' in a channel once. > > When an alias channel is repointed from one target to another, the sequence > numbers will change. But the number is unique with respect to the "real" > channel, so as long as the info

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Persistent notification

2015-07-07 Thread John McAleely
It sounds like this might be this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1469266 It would be interesting to know which network you see it on. J On 7 July 2015 at 08:31, Daniel Wood wrote: > Its Back!! > > The voicemail notification is back and I can't get rid of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Identifying image versions easily

2015-07-06 Thread John McAleely
On Monday, July 6, 2015, John McAleely wrote: > > > On 6 July 2015 at 17:50, Matthew Paul Thomas > wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> 2. Channel, for example "ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en" &

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Identifying image versions easily

2015-07-06 Thread John McAleely
On 6 July 2015 at 17:50, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > 2. Channel, for example "ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en" > > 3. Build number, for example "51" > > * I understand that a problem with the current "Ubuntu 15.04 r51" > sum

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Booting modified kernels on krillin

2015-07-02 Thread John McAleely
Stock instructions are here: https://github.com/bq/aquaris-E4.5/blob/aquaris-E4.5-ubuntu-master/README.md note ubuntu-master branch in that repo - we share the repo with our android sister phone and the default branch lacks the ubuntu patches. It looks like I need to update the default readme to

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] HERE app no longer works for me

2015-06-25 Thread John McAleely
Do other webapps work? On 24 June 2015 at 20:29, marcoslans wrote: > > > On 24/06/15 19:54, Oliver Grawert wrote: > >> hi, >> >> Am Mittwoch, den 24.06.2015, 14:18 -0300 schrieb Sergio Schvezov: >> >>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:53:01PM +0200, marcoslans wrote: >>> Hi From 2 week

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Aquaris E5 owners, can you help please?

2015-06-25 Thread John McAleely
On 25 June 2015 at 08:07, Jelmer Prins wrote: > doesn’t it have the same specs as the 4.5 ? > Broadly yes. The main points of difference are: - LCD (higher res, physically bigger!) - Camera (more megapixels) - 16GB storage (vs 8Gb in the Ubuntu Edition E4.5) - A bigger capacity battery (I

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] OTA-4 r23 && no alarm

2015-06-16 Thread John McAleely
This is the bug for this issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1465806 On 16 June 2015 at 20:09, Torsten Sachse wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, cm-t (aRudy) wrote: > > Juste when I had received the OTA-4, I saw my alarm disapper from >> indicators, >> I then opene

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread John McAleely
On 16 June 2015 at 13:55, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Torsten Sachse > wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jun 2015, John McAleely wrote: > > > >> You need to use ubuntu-device-flash from a ppa, as advised here: > >> > >> > &

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bootloop after installing OTA4

2015-06-16 Thread John McAleely
You need to use ubuntu-device-flash from a ppa, as advised here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/602035/how-do-i-use-ubuntu-device-flash-with-the-bq-aquaris-e4-5-and-aquaris-e5 Unfortunately, the version in the trusty archive has not been updated in a long while, and the --recovery-image option ne

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Meizu MX4

2015-05-29 Thread John McAleely
There is now a stable channel for the device we know as 'Arale' on system-image.ubuntu.com, but it contains no images. We expect the first will be placed there when we believe Ubuntu versions of the MX4 are in customers hands. (We want to make it as good as possible before then!) In the mean time,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] reboot loop bq aquaris ubuntu ed.

2015-04-29 Thread John McAleely
Stephan, There are multiple reports of very similar symptoms. For what it's worth, we currently believe the problem is not directly related to ota's, but rather that the handset has some unrevealed problem, and the act of upgrading & rebooting triggers the boot loop symptom. We're tracking what w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Bq Aquaris and Nexus 4 power button - screen wakeup issue

2015-04-16 Thread John McAleely
Thank you for taking the time to write that up, and to point out the bug. I've certainly seen this recently on my krillin. Seeing the write-up finally crystallised the behaviour as a bug for me. Here's hoping Ricardo's right and this has been fixed in ota-3. J On 16 April 2015 at 19:30, Michael

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Aquaris no longer showing icons after upgrading to r22

2015-04-15 Thread John McAleely
On 15 April 2015 at 09:08, Gerhard Gonter wrote: > After switching my Aquaris E4.5 to the channel > "ubuntu-touch/rc/bq-aquaris.en" and upgrading to r22, the start screen > and all > scopes no longer display any icons. What procedure did you use to do the channel switch? J -- Mailing list: ht

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] My new bq Aquaris 4.5 useless after OTA update today

2015-04-02 Thread John McAleely
Ari, That does sound unfortunate. From the evidence of our sever logs (and lots of reports seen of success), I am hopeful your situation is very rare. A couple of questions if I may: - Had you experimented with making the image writable? I don't think the effects should be as catastrophic as yo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Glibc regression

2015-03-26 Thread John McAleely
What was the build number of the last known-good vivid image, before the glibc commit? J On 26 March 2015 at 09:28, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Donnerstag, den 26.03.2015, 10:15 +0100 schrieb Albert Astals Cid: > > There was an email on March 20 to ubuntu-devel > > > you mesan the one with

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] bluetooth keyboard : pairing OK but disconnect afer few seconds

2015-03-25 Thread John McAleely
The release image does not support HCI profiles for keyboards, so I wouldn't expect this to work. Hopefully someone more familiar with our blueZ implementation can comment if the command line you tried should work. We're working adding support in a future update! As well as this list, the askubun

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] cron

2015-03-25 Thread John McAleely
> > also what version of ubuntu touch does the official ubuntu phone ship with. The Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu Edition phones come flashed with images from this channel: ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en Currently that's at build 20, and if your phone was built before that image was available to the f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can't assign revision in ubuntu-device-flash

2014-11-18 Thread John McAleely
On 18 November 2014 09:35, YC Cheng wrote: > Hi, I got hit by a bug > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/goget-ubuntu-touch/+bug/1393699 > > I can't assign revision in ubuntu-device-flash. > > This block me as I need to do some compare across revision. > > What is usually done to work ar

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

2014-01-17 Thread John McAleely
On 17/01/14 17:04, Oliver Grawert wrote:> hi, > Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 16:47 + schrieb John McAleely: >> I think that is a genie we would rather not let out of the bottle. As >> you note, there are already 7 cases where device specifics are needed. I >> assume that

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

2014-01-17 Thread John McAleely
On 17/01/14 16:38, Oliver Grawert wrote: > our whole system is currently designed around the android lxc container > and libhybris for hardware interaction, once something else comes around > we can indeed change this (but will also need to change code), for now i > would say hardware support equa

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

2014-01-17 Thread John McAleely
On 17/01/14 09:50, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Freitag, den 17.01.2014, 10:44 +0100 schrieb Oliver Grawert: >> building the android package takes around 1h and requires you to >> download a ~250MB source package, building lxc-android-config takes 2 >> minutes and requires you to download 25KB

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Multiple versions of apps in store

2013-12-16 Thread John McAleely
On 16/12/13 13:48, Martin Albisetti wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Roberto Alsina > wrote: >> Well, on iOS people just support the latest because it has ~80% device >> coverage in weeks. If we can do that, then it will not happen here. > > Yes, this is the plan. Apple stopped executi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Best Way Of Reloading A Screwed System

2013-09-16 Thread John McAleely
On 15/09/13 21:56, Phil wrote: Hmmm, don't seem to be able to use phablet-flash to do this. In the recovery console adb devices detects it, but sudo phablet-flash ubuntu-system just gives INFO:phablet-flash:Device detected as /system/bin/sh: getprop: not found ERROR:phablet-flash:Unsupported

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The Nexus 4 coma condition

2013-08-20 Thread John McAleely
On 19/08/13 15:07, Pat McGowan wrote: Can you check the output specs for the chargers? This seems to vary quite a bit. The Nexus 4 charger I have does 5V at 0.7A, the Nexus 10 charger does 2A. Would not be surprised if this makes a difference. The two chargers I can compare are both 'made' by

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The Nexus 4 coma condition

2013-08-19 Thread John McAleely
On 13/08/13 12:12, John McAleely wrote: On 13/08/13 11:32, Michael Zanetti wrote: I think it's worth mentioning that you need to use the original wall charger I've tried two different original chargers (One new from Google Play, and one from a colleague who had it supplied with a han

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] The Nexus 4 coma condition

2013-08-13 Thread John McAleely
On 13/08/13 11:32, Michael Zanetti wrote: I've ran into this yesterday after leaving the Nexus 4 untouched on my desk for a whole week. I think it's worth mentioning that you need to use the original wall charger and cable to revive it again. (Of course some others might work too, but chances ar

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Nexus 7 2013 Port

2013-08-12 Thread John McAleely
On 12/08/13 16:54, Oliver Grawert wrote: how did they work around the fact that using any of the drivers is competely illegal ? (not even google can release them which is the reason there wont be factory images released by google for this device) https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/im

[Ubuntu-phone] [Development] What is the plugin scheme (if any?) for the welcome/greeter screen?

2013-07-19 Thread John McAleely
Folks, In the demos, there are screenshots of the screen the users sees on wakeup (welcome screen?) showing items like '20 tweets received' How do I offer the user the chance to select a data feed from my application/service? Is it planned that an application can do this? J -- Mailing lis

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GSettings schemas for phone/tablet settings

2013-07-18 Thread John McAleely
On 18/07/13 16:29, Marc Deslauriers wrote: FYI, App developers will not be able to use GSettings in the current version of the SDK because of application confinement. Although we do have a solution for the future, support for GSettings for applications isn't targeted at the moment. Where do I

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

2013-07-15 Thread John McAleely
Hi, I have some C/C++ code that (eventually) I want to run on an Ubuntu Touch phone or tablet. This may be some sort of interim step before achieving Qt/QML nirvana, or this may be a subsystem a Qt app will depend on (I'm doing some early experimentation, and may yet be chasing the wrong ide