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Re: updates are pleasant to do. Hats off!

 

Oh, I heard it was worse than that, that you couldn't launch any apps
at all. Didn't actually try it myself. Thanks.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Victor Thompson
<victor.thompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Robert,
>
> I upgraded to #257 early and was able to upgrade to #258 without issue
> because the system settings app is locked to the launcher by default. I only
> had to wait impatiently for an hour or so for the next update. Don't be so
> hard on yourself. :)
>
> Victor
>
> On Mar 25, 2014 1:53 PM, "Robert Park" <robert.park@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:24 AM, David Marceau
>> <uticdmarceau2007@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > Hats off to the Ubuntu Touch team for making updates pleasant to do.
>> >
>> > This morning I woke up and there it was: an update available message
>> > for r258 devel-proposed.  I updated and a minute later it's done and
>> > rebooted.  The updates are working wonderfully.
>> >
>> > Two weeks ago, I stopped using MultiRomManager and started using
>> > ubuntu-flash-device.  I haven't touched ubuntu-flash-device for a week
>> > now.  I haven't had to.  That says a lot about Ubuntu Touch.  It's
>> > getting more polished more quickly.
>>
>> You are extremely lucky that you didn't wake up a few hours earlier
>> and update to image #257, which would have left your phone in a state
>> unable to launch apps (including an inability to update to #258 to
>> resolve the issue). You would have had to grumble and dig out
>> ubuntu-device-flash in order to recover ;-)
>>
>> The breakage in #257 was my fault, apologies to anybody who installed
>> it unknowingly.
>>
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