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

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Shuduo Sang <sangshuduo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:58 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.
>>
>
> I installed this image on Nexus 7 (2013) and it works great except
> video broken issue. I wonder Nexus 7 2013 has same SoC/GPU as Nexus 4.
> But the image based on Android 4.2 can play video well. Does that mean
> video playback will be broken on Nexus 4 too?

Yeah, video playback is broken for all 4.4.2 based images. We should
hopefully get this fixed tomorrow.

Cheers,
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo