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[Sameer Verma <sverma@xxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 6:31 AM, Rodney Dawes
<rodney.dawes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-04-19 at 16:43 -0700, Sameer Verma wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I have a Nexus 7 2013 with T-Mobile's radio/SIM (it has WiFi as well).
>> > Is this device OK for flashing? I see that this page only has Nexus 7
>> > 2013 WiFi.
>> >
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install#Target_devices
>>
>> This is what I get so far:
>>
>> sverma@imagenius:~$ ubuntu-device-flash --channel=trusty-proposed --bootstrap
>> 2014/04/19 16:40:30 Expecting the device to be in the bootloader... waiting
>> 2014/04/19 16:40:30 Device is |deb|
>> 2014/04/19 16:40:30 Device deb not found on server
>> https://system-image.ubuntu.com channel trusty-proposed
>
> The target devices page is correct. The 2013 wifi is 'flo'. The 'deb'
> device is not supported by the official builds yet. You may be able to
> use multirom to dual boot, or community builds for single boot.


Bummer. This is unfortunate. I had a Nexus 7 2012 Wi-Fi (grouper), and
that is now unsupported. I got the 2013 (deb), but that's unsupported.
Anyone have ideas on when support for deb will happen, or what methods
exist for flashing either grouper or deb?

Sameer
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