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[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
So basically the only way to Navigate around is

-You touch the bars around the names and drag them. EG: "People, App" they have bars around them.

-The pull down option only appears when you're in Unbuntu Home.

-You slide lower bottom of the screen to get the tabs option [People, App, Etc]

-You can't get rid of the annoying 14 Tweets.

-You can't compose messages, I don't understand why though, what if we wanted to make something like GoSMS incase we "Dont" like the standard messaging app.

-Apps aren't installed on the phone, if anything they are just webpages that require internet. You launch Facebook, you get the m.facebook.com, you launch GMail, you get mail.google.com and etc. If you tap on "Get App" It brings you to iTunes app store which is blasphemy and crashes. Good job! Android going to Apple for apps is SIN!

-You swipe away an app by swiping from left side, using the edge of the main menu to "Bump away" the app.

-If you open an app, Look for the orange slider like this __________ it normally indicates you slide for options like back and etc.

-You can't add a contact, you can't call a contact, you can't call your mom to tell her your gf is pregnant.

What I'm curious is do we even get to choose what we "want" to display in the consumer version? That 14 tweets will annoy you to no end. The whole thing feels like a giant screenshot dummy you'd see in retail stores.

I know this is supposed to be Developer Preview. But you can't sideload **** nor can you get it to show up on the "Apps" tab. So what gives?
[Ubuntu Touch General] shishimaru1000:
I will follow the instructions in the first post, flashing those two zips.

Will I lose Clockwork recovery?
[Ubuntu Touch General] kdb424:
If you follow instructions in the OP, no, if you follow directions on their site, not sure.
[Ubuntu Touch General] a5pe4:
Was excited for this but looking at the responses, I think I'll just stay away from Ubuntu
[Ubuntu Touch General] mfsr98:
You said it, its a Dev preview. Exactly. That means most stuff won't probably be working. Do you think that Canonical would already have a FB app ready? I mean they actually could just put a link on the browser instead of using an Apps tab, but again, its a Dev preview. They are trying to show how things will look like.
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
From what I have seen in videos, you can access settings in an app by swiping up to the magnifying glass icon in the center of the screen. From the videos, it doesnt seem to open but I think that was the first preview they released(unless they are the same). All I saw was, what looked to be, a settings icon at the bottom.
[Ubuntu Touch General] GiZiM:
Why is being on Verizon such a damn curse?

Red headed step child..
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
The interface is confusing as ****. No joke. You' cant tell where the heck you are or what your finger's are doing. You swipe too much it opens a recent app. You swipe too less, phone asks you "Do you even swipe bro?" and at times I'll say this once and I'll say it again. It's one of those interfaces you can't get through without a mouse!

PS: I tried OTG Mouse, doesn't work.
[Ubuntu Touch General] russphil:
I would imagine you can. Look at what people have done with Android
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
The UI is confusing as ****. I'm supposed to be an android poweruser, but I can't do a damn thing on this. This **** ain't made for the general consumer.. yet.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Hey Guys!

I checked the Ubuntu files, can't we get Audio to work by adding right asound.conf file to /binary/casper/filesystem.dir/etc/

?

OR is someone able to build custom kernel for Ubuntu with the audio drivers when Ubuntu uses Android driver files...?
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
I would think there would be a learning curve to the OS. You're thumbs muscle memory is still set on Android. lol
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
No offence to Canoncial but If I wanted to "see how thing's look like" I would refer to a gif image. I've been using Ubuntu all the way to 12.04/12.10 ofcourse Nvidia screwed us over royally hence why 12.10 for Nvidia users is utterly useless. But even their "Developer Preview" you could do ACTUAL thing's with it.

I mean correct me if I'm wrong, a 400 MB file should get you around to do atleast SOME basic task like Compose a Message
[Ubuntu Touch General] Garner:
No I have flashed both through CWM and restored my backup after playing with it.
[Ubuntu Touch General] b1337:
do you want a list of all the reasons?
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
I'm actually surpirsed how smooth it is in certain areas. Much more consistens animations and scrolling than Android.

The calculator is extremely ugly and I think the user experience needs some plish. I'm used to go to a settings page where all the settings are, but when I first flashed this, took me 10 mins just to find the screen brightness slide in the notificationbar.

Also I'm not a big fan of the keyboard, ugly looking.

I think with a bit polish I'll give this another try. But the normal consumer will find this hard to use. There's no safety net when something goes wrong like iOS home button or Android home button. The swipe only way of doing things is very confusing and needs more thought.

How do you change the app that pops up when swiping to left?

How do you close an app?

Also why did I download the phaplet ziup that was around 400 mb? I can't do ****, can't listen to music, can't send sms, cant watch a movie. What the hell can we do???
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
Swipe from the bottom towards the center of the screen. A magnifying glass icon should appear, release your thumb/finger on top of that. A whole menu should appear which includes an "X" to close the app.

Its funny how I havent even used this and know all this stuff. lol
[Ubuntu Touch General] fernandoavc:
Pardon if this already been answered but I saw in one of the threads that keep coming insanelly :

Is it a CyanogemMod with a "skin" of Ubuntu?

Smells like cheating....
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Guilty as charged sir. :angel: Although I have big fingers, and despite screen sizes are getting bigger and bigger, my tiny frankfurt sized finger's can't get around to tell what swipe action leads to what.
[Ubuntu Touch General] madhavs:
Thanks For your Inputs. For the time being i will stop thinking of flashing it :p
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
No
[Ubuntu Touch General] prembox:
Exactly as expected....great review!!!
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
- How do you turn screen rotation on/off? Man this ish is confusing.

- Where's the place where you download apps/music/movies or whatever?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Why thank you good sire :cowboy: Regardless of which, you planning to flash it to give the new girl a run for what she's worth?
[Ubuntu Touch General] prembox:
Oh yes...I'm planning to flash...the first thing to do once I get home from work...
[Ubuntu Touch General] GotDamned:
let me correct some things:

- pull down does appear in browser and contacts too, also on "welcome screen"

- you CAN compose messages, also receive them. worked pretty well (even though i'm missing the sound when typing, lol)

- you CAN call, worked pretty well, even though it was way too loud (you don't expect it to be that loud if you haven't heard anything before)

- you CAN add a contact, did id already. only one to test, but its possible
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Heads up, there is no sound. Like literally. Even if you max your volume, but I will give them credit for 1 thing though. Their battery drain is phenomenal. Literally, the drain isn't as bad as you think it is. Compared to Android their drain is like 1% per 10mins?
[Ubuntu Touch General] GiZiM:
Sadly, I know them all, but Verizon works the best in my area and I got grandfathered into unlimited data.
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
From what I have seen in videos, there doesnt appear to be auto rotation. Unless it just hasnt been found. If there is an option, I would think it would be somewhere in one the notification drawer options.

I dont beleive there is a place to download apps or anything. This developer preview is for developers to create their own apps. Not for someone who wants to start downloading third party apps right off the bat.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
For real? Guide us, Obi wan. And I hope you did all this without sideloading?
[Ubuntu Touch General] maxee23:
I think you can't compare it with android. You have no apps installed that run in background, no mobile data... etc xD
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Ok I got it. Turns out you need to swipe up from bottom to middle for most options.
[Ubuntu Touch General] mfsr98:
Honestly, this is already a very good Dev preview. Dev previews don't even need a GUI...
[Ubuntu Touch General] addicted2088:
It being smoother isn't really a surprise, considering it isn't running things on Java or a dalvik VM. No need of Project Butter etc to make it smooth like Android, haha.
[Ubuntu Touch General] mykenyc:
So is there any difference from flashing in recover to flashing the instructions way?
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
The way of pulling up options like in apps by swiping from the bottom up is a very tricky solution. Lets say you want to go back serveral times in the browser. You have to swipe every time from the bottom of the screen to do that. SO annoying and unnecessary clicks.
[Ubuntu Touch General] kdb424:
Here's the Toro (Verizon) file for the one that fails to flash. this will NOT get you on the notwork, just allow you to beet UbuntuOS with wifi and other compatible radios. I am working on radios right now. (Though it looks like there's not much use in this dev preview honestly, that should do tho job)

http://ompldr.org/vaGpreg/toro_ubuntu.zip
[Ubuntu Touch General] dzuljo:
Restoring Android

hi

i need some help to back to android

i use instruction on official ubuntu page and install ubuntu on SGN but now i have problem to Restoring Android

some help please

thanks
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Beat's Apple's one button for all by a longshot :silly:
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
I mean seriously, I jyst rebooted and now it's as smooth as iOS and WP. And this is the first version and only for developers. That means it's android that has bad optimizations. People says it's Galaxy Nexus hardware thats the bottleneck for Android 4.2.2. Nope.
[Ubuntu Touch General] prembox:
What??? No sound as in NO SOUND at all??? The Speaker hole dons the role of a vent??? 1% drain per 10 mins??? Its a Dev Preview...fine... but these are basics like having movable fingers on a hand....anyways...with XDA around...it'd only get better from here I suppose...and for Sound.... I'm counting on ya....
[Ubuntu Touch General] addicted2088:
Android's issue is that even with optimizations, it's still a system using Java and running things in a VM (even with JIT, it's still a VM) which will never be as fast or smooth as other OS. Results in much more RAM usage too (which means apps get killed too quickly on 1GB RAM devices), plus powerful hardware to be totally smooth. iOS, WP, BB10, Ubuntu, Sailfish, etc, none are running on Java hence run smoother on the same/lower-end hardware. That's why I always wish that a functional and feature-packed OS like Android comes along, and without the Java. OS like MeeGo were a good option, but unfortunately were killed.
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
Come on, it's nowhere near iOS or WP or even JB at this stage. I admit it's not not that bad, scrolling is quite smooth in certain areas but it's choppy as hell in many others (like swiping from the left application row). Anyway it looks promising.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Flash recovery via Fastboot!

Open recovery!

Flash ROM via ADB sideload!

reboot.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lesicnik1:
According to html5test.com

Anyone know why the set the UA as iOS?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
As for System UI, nope there is no sound, but Voice commands work (When swiping bottom to middle) "New" "Delete" you can't get YouTube or any music website to work as it just hangs.
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
There's a problem with the enter button on the keyboard. Lets say you are searching on youtube. When you write something, the enter button isn't clickable.

When you swipe up from the bottom of the screen from any app and click on TYpe or say a command" box, and put in text there, you can't click on the enter button! What the hell! Because of this, you can't do a damn thing lol.
[Ubuntu Touch General] b1337:
lol wow so much nonsense in this post
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
That's common :eek: If you think that's the only one. Check all the native apps. Go to Facebook, Gmail, YouTube and it all drags you to the App store where it crashes with a sexy, not so cluttered white screen.

I honestly feel there is more to this. Like literally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=sLtcj7FdIYA&NR=1

In this video he said "The full OS (Despite the phone he uses shows the same EXACT screen as "14 Tweets)" and points to the phone, now which means 1 of two things. There's a way to unlock all features via some keypad presses/code, or its probably sideload business. Because there is no way an OS comes as 400MB with just images and takes 5 mins to install.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Can someone please tell me what's Nexus's audio chip, is it WM8994?

I want to try make audio to work with one stupid way.. :DDD
[Ubuntu Touch General] prembox:
+1 on that.

PS: MeeGo is now known as SailFish....correct me if I'm wrong...
[Ubuntu Touch General] sourcex:
*Deleted*
[Ubuntu Touch General] prembox:
Yup...AFAIK....let us know if u get it working...
[Ubuntu Touch General] addicted2088:
Some of the Nokia team that worked on MeeGo is continuing it as Sailfish, though it's based on Mer, which is a fork of MeeGo. But yeah, I'm excited for that since MeeGo was awesome, too bad Nokia is now a company that's using someone else's OS and just making good cameras and hardware.
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
Okay, can you please tell me why it's nonsense?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
I think it's not going to work but I try... :D
[Ubuntu Touch General] BslBryan:
mkalter, with everything that you've said I'm wondering if you're still attempting a CDMA port? If so, how are things going?
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
Someone just posted this not that long ago:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38294870&postcount=1315
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
OK, so using the phone for an hour it's now only 5% drained. I know most of you would say that "There are no apps" true, but in Android what eats the battery 99% of the time is the screen, brightness and display. The screen has been on for 30-40mins at most and only 5% is gone. Perhaps we can see some promising progress incoming :)

And heres the creepy part, Have you noticed your screen doesn't get hot? I've used Android properly but the screen get's hot when left ON too long (3-4mins at most) but the screen is as cool as a cucumber :eek:
[Ubuntu Touch General] mfsr98:
Like all the other companies....
[Ubuntu Touch General] SixFootPigeon:
So I was trying to install it the way the Canonical said on this page wiki ubuntu touch install. Everything starts off fine but then I always get stuck at this point: Pushing /home/greg/Downloads/phablet-flash/95/quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip to /sdcard/autodeploy.zip

It says that its pushing the zip to my phone and when I check my file explorer the file is there and yet the terminal isn't proceeding. I tried flashing the zip but the second I turned off my phone I got an error saying that there were no root devices so that means that it's still doing something. When I tried to flash the zip the recovery aborted saying there was a problem with the zip. However I have been at this screen for over 30mins. Is this how anyone else did it and if so did you get it to work? If not then what was the way that you guys got it to work because I'm really itching to try this out.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Just follow the instructions on the OP, flash the 2 files in TWRP/CWM and you're good to go. How's that a challenge? :eek:
[Ubuntu Touch General] addicted2088:
Unlike Apple. Was just saying it's sad to see Nokia doing that too now. Would be great if their hardware could run some other OS like Android, hehe.
[Ubuntu Touch General] b1337:
Because you have no idea what you are talking about lol, making general assumptions that are based off of no factual evidence, and you obviously have a very skewed and primitive understanding of how android works..
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lesicnik1:
I did it the way it's described in the OP and it worked perfectly.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Culex316:
Is anyone else getting an unresponsive touch screen when booting up? I see the lock screen but I can't do anything since the touchscreen is unresponsive.
[Ubuntu Touch General] TingTingin:
Anyone flash with cwm

PHONE SLOW CLICK ME?

_____________________________________

"If your doing the right thing then to hell with everyone else -Deadly"​
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
Have you tried sliding from left side of screen to right?
[Ubuntu Touch General] mykenyc:
My other questioned went unanswered so i'm assuming no one has tried it yet, my curiosity is if flashing through recovery is so much easier why is Canonical informing people to install it the other way. Is there any benefit to flashing it the Canonical method?
[Ubuntu Touch General] Culex316:
yes, I just figured it out lol I feel like a dumbass now :rolleyes: thanks
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
Yea, worked perfectly for me.
[Ubuntu Touch General] SixFootPigeon:
inlet usessisi

My bad I didn't realize they updated the OP I always jump to the last unread page. Regardless thanks :D
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
For working audio,Do we need these Ubuntu's modules?

gpio-wm8994.ko

snd-soc-wm8994.ko

wm8944-regulator.ko

And this asound.conf:

# Android ALSA configuration file for the WM8994 audio.

https://code.google.com/p/android-s...ce--samsung--crespo&name=android-sdk-4.0.3_r1

would it work somehow?

Sorry I don't know really much about Linux's files and about kernels..
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lesicnik1:
Maybe they're trying to play it safe.

Their way wipes the data partition (including the SD card), but we can do that from the recovery.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
So here's the battery. Screen is cool, phone is cool all over as a QQmber. Proof

Meanwhile on 4.2.2 - - >____>
[Ubuntu Touch General] Garner:
I wonder if we install it then wipe data see if that removes any data they left in?

Also I can imagine some linux developer getting things working faster than they release the final build.
[Ubuntu Touch General] :
No offence it's not like I do not agree with you, but you didn't post anything more factual either here :) .
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
I don't know do you guys now this but when you tap status bar 2 times it opens more things, I don't remember what because I flashed my ROM back. :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
It does, It opens up "Device" window which shows Flight, Sound (Useless), Messages, Sound, Networks, Battery, D&T
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
I think that's kind of the point with this. lol
[Ubuntu Touch General] b1337:
I totally agree with you, I have no reason to post anything factual. As it is just a preview and likely the more finished, polished and bloated it gets the more likely it'll slow down or whatever maybe it wont and it will get even smoother(hopefully), but to go boasting some ridiculous statements right out of the gate is rather ignorant to say the least..
[Ubuntu Touch General] Misledz:
I guess I'm done for the night testing, Gotta flash it back to normal, thanks to no GSM signal I hope my woman didn't try to call or this would be the last developer preview I see :P
[Ubuntu Touch General] Garner:
I meant as in data, sound, etc
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
Yeah, you're probably right. The more time developers have with this, the more improvements we will see all together I'm sure.
[Ubuntu Touch General] wotandsdwys:
Can I flash this on my toroplus to just check it out for a bit? I know from my Epic Touch that other s2 ROMs will not boot.
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
As it is, probably not. Someone just modified it for the Toro though. The same thing would probably have to be done for Toro Plus.
[Ubuntu Touch General] jimmyco2008:
Alright so get ready for the stupid question!

On the site with the leaks, there's the 48 MB Maguro file and the 490ish MB Phablet file... Do I flash Phablet or both? Because the toro port of this is 48 MB...
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lesicnik1:
As it says in the OP

First flash the maguro file, then the phablet one.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Ok, I have added some sound files to the packages and I changed kernel!

Now I try to flash it and to see what happens!

I'm sure audio won't work because this is my first time adding system files to Ubuntu and I don't exactly know what the heck I am doing! :laugh:
[Ubuntu Touch General] BslBryan:
Keep us posted! :D
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
I must point out that I like the display font in the browser. Really good looking :) It resembles ina way internet explorer, the rendering engine really puts out good looking text.

In Chrome, the text is just... normal. Desn't look very luxerious.
[Ubuntu Touch General] lukegvoigt:
Thanks for this comment. My hopes are coming up a bit. Is it something someone says they have done or is there a link? Thanks again!
[Ubuntu Touch General] Culex316:
Well, after testing it out for a while, I gotta say I am impressed with the Ubuntu Touch OS, even though it's obviously still an unfinished product.

- Responsiveness and smoothness has potential..the UI and the Browser zooming..while it's not really 100% responsive..it's much smoother than Android (like iOS, WP and any other phone OS that doesn't use a virtual machine).

- The "web apps" are just mobile versions of the respective services (Facebook, Twitter etc) and I think they're inferior to natively coded apps but it is what it is.

I was hoping to be able to install other Ubuntu apps from the Ubuntu Software Center like Chromium but it doesn't support any way of doing so apparently.

Still awesome to see another alternative to Android (besides Firefox OS) :good:
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
Look in the Verizon section. He started a thread for the ROM. If you are up for it, message him and ask him how he did it and try it out.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Another kernel didn't work so I flashed ubuntu's kernel back..

Audio doesn't work. :/

I didn't find modules for audio to test them. :/

I think I should use JB 4.2.1 kernel...
[Ubuntu Touch General] 3DSammy:
Canonical has already given you instructions on how to removing the sample contacts, video and music lenses, pictures from gallery, sample messages in messaging menu:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes#Sample_content

Also check out:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/ReleaseNotes#Adding_Content

The release notes are an invaluable read.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Camera sound works!!!!!!
[Ubuntu Touch General] jsgraphicart:
I really dont think an Android Kernel will help you in an Ubuntu OS.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Carlos_Manuel:
Hey guys,please tell me does sound work on your camera on ubuntu or did I really get sounds to work!
[Ubuntu Touch General] shishimaru1000:
Meh, now I have all my sdcard in a folder called "0". So Clockwork doesn't find any backup to restore.
[Ubuntu Touch General] Esteway.619:
I have camera sound on my toro but no other sound.
[Ubuntu Touch General] retskrad:
Nah sorry, the sound works for me :)
[Ubuntu Touch General] Lesicnik1:
Looks nice although I would prefer a comma on the left side of the space bar :/
[Ubuntu Touch General] 063_XOBX:
I hope there are a lot of themes then. Because all that white is going to be hell on the GNex's battery.
[Ubuntu Touch General] salahmed:
Please don't misunderstand me, but why you are so unpleased about the new OS. Not all people think the same I see some of people still using the symbian, so the days will show how it is going to be with that new OS.