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[Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

BTW, the repos used to build this image should be available at
https://code-review.phablet.ubuntu.com/ next week (hopefully on
monday).

Cheers,

Ricardo

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:58 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
<ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> As some of you already know, I'm currently porting our Android code
> base to 4.4.2 (we're currently based on 4.2.2), and enabling support
> for a few additional devices (not all are officially supported though,
> but I'm happy to help the community builders).
>
> Just got to the point when bug reports are actually useful, so if you
> have either a grouper (Nexus 7), manta (Nexus 10), mako (Nexus 4), flo
> (Nexus 7 2013) or hammerhead (Nexus 5), and want to help testing the
> 4.4.2 changes, this is for you :-)
>
> Remember, this is still an experimental build, so don't expect
> everything to be perfect or working as it should. Also make sure to
> have a backup of our previous image and data, as the following
> procedure will wipe everything.
>
> Flashing 4.4.2 based Ubuntu touch images:
>
> 1) Flash the original 4.4.2 based Android image from
> https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images ($ sudo
> ./flash-all.sh) - needed to make sure you're using the right
> bootloader and radio fw
> 2) Unlock your bootloader: $ fastboot oem unlock
> 3) Boot the device with the original 4.4.2 image and reboot to bootloader
> 4) At the bootloader, flash boot, recovery and system for your device
> (http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/aosp/<device>)
>   - fastboot flash boot boot.img
>   - fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
>   - fastboot flash system system.img
> 5) Boot into recovery and flash Ubuntu using
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled/pending/trusty-preinstalled-touch-armhf.zip
> (adb push <zip> /sdcard, then flash via menu, or use sideload).
> 6) Reboot, and use phablet-network (from your host) to setup the network
> 7) Enable my personal PPA (latest MIR): sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rsalveti/ppa
> 8) Install latest MIR packages: apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
> 9) Enable MIR: $ touch /home/phablet/.display-mir
> 11) Reboot and profit!
>
> Please let me know if you have any issues, and also let me know about
> possible new bugs that might happen with this new image.
>
> Here's what I built and tested:
> - grouper (not officially supported): working as before, not many changes
> - mako (officially supported): working as before
> - flo (officially supported): shell rotation is not yet implemented,
> and side stage is not fully functional
> - hammerhead (not officially supported): couldn't test, don't have a device
> - manta (still officially supported): better and faster
>
> Video playback is the only feature that's known to be broken, and we
> should hopefully get this fixed next monday.
>
> Working now to enable the x86 and ARM emulator targets.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Ricardo Salveti de Araujo



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Ricardo Salveti de Araujo