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[Sergio Schvezov <sergio.schvezov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Phil <madhemail-launchpad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
>

Flash ubuntu-system if you want the upgrade system to work. If you want to
check the status of a build before flashing, check the touch_ro variant for
mako here:
http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/smokeng/