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[Shuduo Sang <sangshuduo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
<ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Really good news.
BTW, do you know when new 4.4.2-based image will be put on official
channel then we can install
by dualboot.sh?
Thanks.

> Cheers,
> --
> Ricardo Salveti de Araujo