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[Ubuntu Touch General] tallnerd1985:
Not at all because most of the core programs have yet to be made by either Canonical or the open source community. Like previous interviews with Mark Shuttleworth, he stated that the goal of Ubuntu Touch is be as much developed by the community as possible.
[Ubuntu Touch General] adambala:
CRUP CRUP CRUP.....EPIC FAIL..... i know its a demo alpha den release but they could make a rom that works.....smooth...and what about the missing calls and sms???lol demo prev but erase all the crup inside....going back to android....
[Ubuntu Touch General] RonSykes:
Its for development, not daily use! What don't people get about that? If you're not an app developer its going to serve you no purpose!
[Ubuntu Touch General] Garner:
Op can you please add this to the the first post,

THIS IS A TOUCH

DEVELOPER

PREVIEW AND

IS NOT CONSUMER READY

JUST YET SO STOP CRYING ABOUT THINGS NOT WORKING!

Seriously guys why cant anyone understand that its for development purposes only, if you want a daily driver go back to Cyan or what other custom rom you choose to use and stop wasting peoples time on having to explain the above in red!
[Ubuntu Touch General] salahmed:
Ok I am going to unsubscribe from this thread because it is eating my battery and my brain...
[Ubuntu Touch General] josteink:
OP SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION THAT YOU MUST TURN OFF SIM LOCK IF YOU WANT GSM TO WORK.

(Which I found out when trying to log into Gamil with 2-factor auth)

So yeah. Ive flashed back to Android and now back to Ubuntu. Yay :p

Edit: Phone works now, but still can't get any SMSes. Does this required any magic?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Ghelfalath:
Does not require any magic at all!

I'm receiving them quite well :)

As easy as it is to install and get back to android, I'll problably be installing every version they put out just to see new stuff :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] gummie:
Damn it Canonical Dev ppl. You teased my brains out so badly! Now I want Ubuntu so badly I want to buy a Visitors Pass on WMC.
[Ubuntu Touch General] savantist:
sorry for noob question, but...

how to take screenshot? :confused:

I'm using standard method (volume down+power), and of course it didn't work... :D

anyone know how?
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
I wouldn't expect that to work at this stage :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] josteink:
So probably APN/provider-settings related then. And my provider is not in their preconfigured list, I guess.
[Ubuntu Touch General] urko95:
In case of Cyano, I will have to flash the whole ROM, right? Has anyone Cyano Kernel extrated from the ROM?

Thank you jesco! :thumbup:

Regards,

Urko

EDIT: What recovery are you using? CWM or TWRP?

Enviado desde mi Galaxy Nexus usando Tapatalk 2
[Ubuntu Touch General] slayr76:
This Ubuntu preview just proves android has nothing to worry about, who were canonical kidding.
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
I agree, **** the UI was confusing as ****. I really tried to like it, but.... not yet. A lot more needs to be done. I have a big ass list of things that I really hate and a small list I liked.

The number one thing I noticed was, the gesture thing in the notification bar to go to several settings and such as not accurate and confusing.

I really liked the smoothness overall, sometimes on par with iOS and WP.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Rusty!:
And I expect if you'd played with a developer preview of Android, you'd have said Symbian had nothing to worry about...
[Ubuntu Touch General] julian_fern:
The full release will be released on October 2013, not 2014. The full release is Ubuntu 13.10.

From an interview I made with one of the lead designers of the project:

I also recall reading somewhere, in another interview, that we will have an updater just like we have on Ubuntu for desktops. Actually, in the developer preview, you can add the Ubuntu for phones PPA and update it with apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade.
[Ubuntu Touch General] DaRk_dOg:
As long as people can really understand the purpose of this release, only then they will stop complaining.

Great ideas are included in this OS and it looks like its owning the future. :)

Through ddms (included in Android SDK)
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
Microsoft has a hard time getting marketshare with their windows phone, and you expect Ubuntu do get past Microsoft?
[Ubuntu Touch General] sparx180:
Its a developer preview, its for developers to get a grips on the basic workings of the operating systems and its a platform to try out apps they develop with the SDK preview. Its basically a model of what is to come so people can have a look around not for people to develop into a final build for them. Windows 8 did this exact thing as well with developer and consumer previews to get the ball rolling with apps and programs before release. It has nothing to do with Ubuntu not having the developers or money, its so people can start to contribute apps not make the operating system. So please can people just accept this and stop condemning it, its a DEVELOPER preview. If your not a developer and don't want to develop for this OS, the preview won't be for you.
[Ubuntu Touch General] urko95:
In 2014 is expected to be realased an Ubuntu Phone, I mean, a smartphone with Ubuntu Phone OS preinstalled.

Regards,

Urko

Enviado desde mi Galaxy Nexus usando Tapatalk 2
[Ubuntu Touch General] -Jesco-:
twrp
[Ubuntu Touch General] savantist:
Thanks. Just realized that soon after I post on this thread. LOL

Need that to make a review for my community... :D
[Ubuntu Touch General] julian_fern:
I know. But Ubuntu 13.10 will be a stable version of Ubuntu Touch for anyone who wants to install it.
[Ubuntu Touch General] urko95:
Dual Booting Project

Developers Needed!​

Dual Booting Project - Android OS & Ubuntu Phone OS

Make it real​
[Ubuntu Touch General] mfsr98:
Oh my God, these people are such an idiots... A Dev preview doesn't even need to have anything SHOWING on the screen, it must only have shell on the phone working (Basically, you don't need a GUI for a Dev preview)!

You guys are idiots by saying these things like "OMG Androidz so mux betah!". I want you guys to use the first version of Android. Not 1.0, even before that. Than come talking.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Garner:
Go compare it to 1.5 cupcake
[Ubuntu Touch General] stianbert:
If they invite people to their stand in Barcelona for flashing Ubuntu....i hope they have something different then this;)
[Ubuntu Touch General] RejjvarN:
solved, thx!
[Ubuntu Touch General] erotser:
tested it for a while and althought I liked some of the things I saw, it felt a bit slugish and feels like something that I would be bored of after a while. I could not find any system settings, of course, neither connect to a wifi network that does not broadcast it's SSID so what I tested was without internet access. Also, comparing this with cupcake (wich I did test one a HTC touch DUAL) is unfair. Canonical has all the foundations set by android AND IOS AND windows mobile and has to build from there, cupcake and android in general was different.
[Ubuntu Touch General] YoursTrulySarcastic:
Currently there is no screenshot function, it's just a Dev preview, the majority of things aren't going to work.
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
You can take screenshot via your computer with Qt Creator. But not with the phone himself.
[Ubuntu Touch General] -Mirko185-:
updated.
[Ubuntu Touch General] pompatello:
Maybe developers can help fixing the bugs faster, or add new stuff?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Esteway.619:
There's no development going on in this thread. So why would it be moved to development section? Maybe a dev is already working on it and when he has something to give he might release something
[Ubuntu Touch General] SixFootPigeon:
Really? Because using cwm I was able to restore back to Ubuntu and then from Ubuntu back to android with no problem. I've done it like 5X today showing off to my friends :P
[Ubuntu Touch General] maxal:
Me to.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Jonny:
Closed, please go here >>> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=38351018#post38351018

Edit: Thread moved to Ubuntu General subforum
[Ubuntu Touch General] dohboy15:
Oops my bad haha, I should pay more attention, sorry!
[Ubuntu Touch General] shahrukhraza:
YP-G70? Do you have a galaxy player? I used have those stuff... Then I upgraded :D

Anyways to answer your question, the .IMG is gonna come for the galaxy nexus in a few weeks and then people will use that to port Ubuntu to their devices. I hope the player gets it (if you really have it)
[Ubuntu Touch General] Ace42:
I'm a little surprised by QC, this is the 2nd Nexus that uses their tech and they're deciding to be closed off? :mad:

@poster above, he has a Galaxy player 5.
[Ubuntu Touch General] EcHoFiiVe:
AHA!!! THATS WHY YOU LEFT THE PLAYER FORUMS!!!! things are so much better now, we almost have camera complete. I upgraded too:D

Anyways I went ahead and emailed them. Maybe you guys could answer a few of the questions?

"I recently saw the keynote video about Ubuntu for Phones. Now I think that this is an amazing idea, something that will bring fresh ideas to the smartphone market. But for those fans such as myself who would want Ubuntu on our smart phones soon, my first question is how soon? My second question is, how many modifications will the firmware need to undergo to be able to be installed on another smartphone? Will this be like the PC version, where you will be able to install Ubuntu for Phones on a wide range of devices without modification of the firmware? My next question is, will Canonical be supporting only select smart phones such as the Galaxy Nexus, or will there be more diversity of support? Personally it would be a major game changer in the smartphone world if most android phones were able to run this without modification or slight modification only. I'm sure you people have seen the fragmentation of Android OS and iOS being updated for high end smart phones or select models only. So, how long is the wait, how many phones will be supported and will all phones being able to run Ubuntu receive updates as well? Thank you for your time."
[Ubuntu Touch General] altimax98:
To answer some of those questions from the interviews I've seen:

In a few weeks the images will be ready to flash. I believe that they should have it at CES this week and to expect an image next week or late this week.

Ubuntu will only be able to be installed to devices that are unlocked. Nexus devices are a given and a few other devices are as well. That said there are many more proprietary drivers on mobile then there are on Windows and such, so getting all features to work on all devices may be almost impossible (see HP Touchpad Camera, Nook Color H/W acceleration... Both of those are snapdragons... N4 owners should be in fewer a little bit) I think that most Samsung devices will be able to take it, barring that since they all run Snapdragon now it runs decent enough to not be a deal breaker. Motorola with its locked bootloaders are pretty much SOL and i think that HTC may not be a good fit either unless they have total S-Off.

About updating i think that they will be updated at the same time, as long as nothing changes that would make a driver incompatible. (For instance i cannot update my Radeon video card drivers from generic on Ubuntu 12.04 because it isn't fully supported for some reason, it runs now, but not great)

All of that said, i hold a lot of respect for Canonical for what they are attempting to do. I feel it will not launch like they expect and carriers in the US will be very scared to leave devices that open. That said i do hope it causes a shift in the Mobile playing field as we know it. Buying a device and being able to run what you want to run is something that PC's have been able to brag about for years. Maybe Google will take a page from the book and standardize Android OEMs to be more compatible with updates and such.

Canonical is taking a huge leap of faith here, basically asking OEMs to open source everything, or at least make it all available. I don't think OEMs are going to really bite on this right now. There just is no need to right now, the Duopoly of Android/iOS is working in their favor. But with Samsung possibly making a move towards an in-house OS and leaving Android, that could all change.
[Ubuntu Touch General] heat361:
Good to see everything going well with galaxy player:good:I'm waiting to see some more hands on with the Ubuntu phone at ces
[Ubuntu Touch General] evil_penguin:
Wow it's nice we are first to get it.

Looks great.

Hope battery life will be better than android. Time will say :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] shahrukhraza:
Lol Yea! Which smartphone did you upgrade to? I was tired of Samsung not updating the player and everything so I thought that I might as well get a nexus. But its good to know that the devs are working hard for the players! I guess I'll go check over to see what's happening...

Hope you get some of the answers to your questions.
[Ubuntu Touch General] shahrukhraza:
Some people need to chill... Seriously calm down.

As to the xperia guy.. If you have devs in your forums then maybe you guys might be able to port it over to your device.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Legally illegal:
Are there any rumors on release date? I'm pretty excited for this!!!!!
[Ubuntu Touch General] 063_XOBX:
They said in a few weeks. So probably February-ish.
[Ubuntu Touch General] EcHoFiiVe:
I got a Motorola Atrix HD! Damn the forums are too small, Heat361 too? Haha, the good times on our small Galaxy Player forums...

To the person that answered my questions, thanks! But it brings me to another. Some Motorola phones are locked yet you can install custom ROMS with bootstrap recovery such as Safestrap. Would it be almost the same if someone modded it for our device and we flash it like we flash CM10?
[Ubuntu Touch General] bob.santaniello:
I mean anything is possible but I believe there will be complications getting everything working properly on locked devices. But hey, devs are crazy these days. You might see something.
[Ubuntu Touch General] ryde_razr:
Ubuntu Phone at a bar ...

hey Folks, here a pic of the phone again :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] heat361:
You met someone who works for canonical at a bar O.o

Edit: oh never mind I read an article that it was spotted in a bar
[Ubuntu Touch General] insane08:
Along with basically every other hyped release lol

Its like a tradition now to spot these upcoming device or Os at some bar...the usual

I would have been shocked if this didn't happen hah
[Ubuntu Touch General] shahrukhraza:
Yea I saw that device... It looks fairly nice. But I didn't like that it didn't have a unlocked bootloader

Honestly speaking one thing that I loved about the galaxy player forums was that I was always eagerly waiting for the new build. But since the galaxy nexus has the latest version I get pretty bored over here. I'm usually in off topic ... You should check that place out too ;)
[Ubuntu Touch General] bob.santaniello:
I am really excited for 2013. There are so many OSs coming out. I really want to try something new and fresh. Can't wait for Ubuntu phone OS
[Ubuntu Touch General] kicker22004:
This looks like it will be fun to try out if anything....oh side note to the Devices.....the HP Touchpad now has working camera/camcorder.....THERE IS HOPE!! lol also side note the ubuntu project for it is moving well. Can't wait to get my hands on this image when they release.
[Ubuntu Touch General] jimmyco2008:
I'm not so sure Motorola devices will get Ubuntu Mobile, I think users of more open phones such as the Droid DNA or Galaxy S III will be lucky to have a dev with their phone willing and able to port, and you have to factor in the waiting game. Like I got tired of waiting for ICS from HTC so I upgraded to a Galaxy Nexus- if it takes devs 6 months to get to beta with a port, is it worth it when you can just get an already-supported phone? I know with the Droid X the bootstrap thing was a real pain in the ass, it kept anything but the stock kernel from loading, so we only got Gingerbread when Motorola released it. I'm not sure if it's the same with Moto phones today, though.

The way I see it, any other OS will have better battery life than Android 4.2 :P #optimism I mean not having that Java Virtual Machine going will surely help... But isn't there a guy on here posting pics on his phone with Ubuntu Mobile that works for Canonical? If you're reading this, how does battery life compare with like the iPhone as well as Android?
[Ubuntu Touch General] evil_penguin:
I feel battery life will be better.that's what i think :)

Most probably it will be released at end of Jan or Feb.
[Ubuntu Touch General] seecay:
Looks like a lot of people are looking forward to it! But the 1st phone will officially be released only in 2014.
[Ubuntu Touch General] jurica_m:
But the first phone who will get Ubuntu is Galaxy Nexus and will get it for couple of weeks. We dont need to wait next years

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Ubuntu Touch General] CADude:
I'm interested in installing this but the OS looks so...commercialized. I want a lean mean OS.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Maybe this helps... :) http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/phone/design
[Ubuntu Touch General] jurica_m:
There is a lot of Android ROMs. Nobody compels you to install this
[Ubuntu Touch General] jimmyco2008:
Well it's totally different, like there's no nav bar or nav buttons like a PC, it's all gestures, which I think is not only great for mobile in general, but the Galaxy Nexus as an Android phone as well, if this is ported to like any HTC or Motorola phone, there'll be unsightly nav buttons at the bottom of the screen that serve no purpose.
[Ubuntu Touch General] mirror77:
For models before Android 4.0 yes, but for testing it, I think it doesn't matters.
[Ubuntu Touch General] CADude:
I want to install every possible OS on my phone. I'm just giving my initial impression of how the OS looks.
[Ubuntu Touch General] DirgeExtinction:
Hmm, how do you mean?

And I find it interesting that Canonical is pretty much using the Android community as guinea pigs and bug testers for their official phone launch next year.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lesicnik1:
Why not? :)

They know we like to tinker with our phones and that we like installing new stuff. Why not make use of that? :D
[Ubuntu Touch General] ectodroid:
If you don't like it, don't install it. Simple.
[Ubuntu Touch General] fushla:
I like guinea pigs... Anyway..

I share the same thought.

Nobody is forced to install it, but to all these "I need something new RIGHT NOW" people (like me) it's a good thing ^^
[Ubuntu Touch General] bob.santaniello:
I am also that kind of person. I am unfortunately also very impatient so the wait is killing me. Very intrigued by this OS and I can't wait to play with it.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lockett:
I was contemplating on getting rid of my Nexus until I saw this and now I'm eagerly waiting for this to drop. I, too, like to try out different OS's (hell I even tried WP7 haha) and this one has me intrigued as well as Tizen.
[Ubuntu Touch General] rygran87:
I feel the same way. Hell! I just saw this less than 12 hours ago and I already can't stand the wait lol. I have mixed feelings about it, but it's so unique that I will have to give it a whirl if/when it releases for CDMA GNexes.
[Ubuntu Touch General] bob.santaniello:
Yes! I have the CDMA gnex and Ubuntu OS better be compatible with it. I really don't see a reason why it wouldn't be. Hopefully the wait isn't too much longer.
[Ubuntu Touch General] insane08:
And it hasn't even been a week yet :(

I ... I don't....I don't know what to do :crying:
[Ubuntu Touch General] FPSKunal:
It's just a matter of some time. I am pretty sure that if the image is made available awesome devs from xda will port it over to other devices like the Samsung galaxy siii. :D
[Ubuntu Touch General] motopig:
It's just a matter of time until someone port this to HD2. :D

And I'm quite sure there will be no soft buttons at the bottom for any phone.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] brandonb0013:
All I could find is people talking about the screen off animation. I would like to find how to turn off the screen on animations like the weather animations. It's driving me nuts and i swear I've searched everywhere in my phone for it. I'm on gs3 running cm10.
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] mohamad hariff:
i have a restarting problem on my galaxy sl. It continuously restart till my battery drained.So i tried remove the internal storage on pcb.After that i'm flashing it with i9003dxkp9 rom and uc kernel.It worked but i cant access my touchscreen.I can only use the home button,vol up and down.When i pulled out the sd card, the phone wont start.Can you help me with this? Sorry for my bad english...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aminov:
story: I was running the original android 4.0.3 everything was ok until I tried to instal busybox and somehow I lost the root so I said why I dont upgrade to the latest version and that what I did but the version I installed (4.0.4 nordic countries) have problems with Bluetooth , camera and video player so I want to downgrade to an older version

Q : is it okay to downgrade

if not I think I can wait for JB if samsung is going to release that any time soon
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donnie Sins:
Yes, of course it's possible, otherwise people would be stuck if they update and don't like what they flashed.

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aminov:
thank you for your fast reply
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
If your having all those issues your probably flashing an incompatible rom or kernel version.

Go to sammoble.com, grab your stock 4.0.4 rom, flash it in ODIN, flash Siyak kernel and then reboot into recovery and wipe data/factory reset.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aminov:
but i dont want to wipe so im going back to the older version

How do i know the compatible rom/kernel version my kernel i9100XWLPG
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheATHEiST:
Why not? Surely you made backups of apps/appdata or even a nandroid backup before installing new rom?

If you made app/app data backup simply restore after wiping/flashing new rom.

If you made a nandroid backup simply use app extractor to extract/install apps/appdata to new rom.

You can also backup/restore SMS with SMS Backup from store and your contacts will auto sync when you enter googole account.

If you go back and forth between roms you will keep on running into issues. Plus flashing stock roms in ODIN wipes your apps/app data anyway so its not as if using the wipe data/factory reset in CWM is going to lose your apps as you will have already lost them.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aminov:
i did a nandroid but ODIN didnt wipe anything what app u recommend me to backup with titanium backup??
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Donnie Sins:
What he meant was that if you flash a rom with Odin, you don't have to do the wipes manually through CWM again.

TB is a good app (and the most used by people as far as I know) to back up your USER apps (don't back up system apps). After flashing you can restore them, even with your app data included.

Sent from the Matrix
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aminov:
the problems i was having is because i didn't wipe thnx anyway
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shahrozeumar:
Hello guys. I am currently using Slimbean RC1 and I made a backup of my rooted stock 4.0.4 with Siyah kernel so that when I restore my backup anytime in future then will not have any super brick risks. But I have a confusion. Do I need to do a full wipe in CWM before restoring backup? Or it will wipe automatically?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] bob2300nx:
I love the looks of CM10.1 and overall I love the rom BUT I have gotten tired of the bugs and am now looking for a stock based rom. Is there any touchwiz based roms that are themed like CM?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] milky1112:
Try Apex/ Nova Launcher.. Can give ya that feel. I use them on most every rom I have.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] KennyG123:
Questions go in Q&A

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