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[Phil <madhemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Do you do that on the initial installation, or after doing the phablet-flash cdimage-touch?  As I understand it, it should be done initially and should be a full install of the RO image, as the cdimage-touch is the RW version, if you need to poke around with the guts of the system for dev work, BUT I saw somewhere online where someone had done first the cdimage-touch install, then the ubuntu-system image, one after the other, as if the latter were an upgrade or patch to the former?  I suspect that what they actually did was flash with one image, then overwrite it with another.  This then begs the question - if they are the two different version that I suspect they are, which one does the manual process install - checking the wiki again, I think it's the cdimage, which explains why the OTA didn't work - am I correct?  So, this returns to my original issue, am I ok to try to phablet the ubuntu-system image onto my phone in the state in which it is in?  And
 if, as Fabian said, the phablet doesn't work with the system in this state, is there a way in which I can get the ubuntu-system image onto my system so I can then install updates, rather than reinstalling for the latest version?

Cheers
Phil
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On Sat, 14/9/13, Christian Rupp <grissi.rupp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Best Way Of Reloading A Screwed System
 To: "Fabian Herb" <fabian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Cc: madhemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx, "ubuntu-phone" <ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Date: Saturday, 14 September, 2013, 19:12
 
 Hi 
 Before using the OTA update you have to do
 'phablet-flash ubuntu-system', as far as I
 understand
 Christian
 
 
 2013/9/14 Fabian Herb
 <fabian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
 
 Hello,
 
 
 
 the OTA update never worked for me so far, so I always did
 "phablet-flash cdimage-touch" instead. But
 strangely I get plenty of updated packages on "apt-get
 upgrade" immediately after upgrading anyway.
 
 
 
 
 When I first screwed my device I managed to recover it with
 the manual installation routine described in the wiki.
 phablet-flash refused to work in that state, but at least it
 didn't make things worse. YMMV, so if you want to be
 sure, wait for the pros to answer ;). I'm just a
 beginner on these matters.
 
 
 
 
 Regards,
 
 Fabian
 
 
 
 Am 14.09.2013 um 18:38 schrieb Phil <madhemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx>:
 
 
 
 > Hello good folks, I'm wondering if I could please
 get some help.  I have a Nexus 4 that I tried to load up
 with Touch, I had some problems using phablet-flash with
 cdimage-touch and ubuntu-system so I ended up following the
 manual install process on the wiki, and that loaded it up
 ok.  However I was having problems running the update from
 the software menu (a 308Mb download) so I thought I might be
 able to use apt-get update && apt-get upgrade to do
 the same thing, but that only downloaded a small set of
 updates.  Hence I returned to try that update from the
 settings, but it didn't seem to get anywhere (not to the
 install update and restart option that I'd seen before)
 so I restarted the phone. to try again.  Unfortunately the
 phone will no longer boot - it jsut sits on the
 "Google" screen, so either I shouldn't have
 done the apt-get or the settings update _was_ actually doing
 something and was part the way through.  Either way, my
 phone needs a reload.
 
 
 > I can get to the Ubuntu recovery console and have tried
 clearing the cache and performing a factory reset, so though
 neither of those help, at least I should be able to recover
 things.  My question is: what's the best way to reload
 Touch on there, in this situation?  Should I try the
 phablet-flash ubuntu-system or should I manually push the
 image file back over?  If the latter, do I need to do both
 the saucy-preinstalled-touch-armel+mako.zip  and
 saucy-preinstalled-touch-armhf.zip or just one (I would
 guess the second) of them?  I thought I should check which
 is the best way, so I don't make things worse.
 
 
 >
 
 > Also, regarding the OTA update, are there issues with
 running that (I know there isn't a progress bar) or do I
 just need to make sure I keep my phone active while it
 downloads, so the wireless doesn't drop?
 
 
 >
 
 > Thanks
 
 > Phil
 
 
 
 
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