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[Ari Börde Kröyer <ari.kroyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for replying! I also received a reply from John McAleely at the 
same time and have corresponded with him about the issue through the 
day. I may well end up flashing the device as you describe below, 
provided it will not give me warranty issues with bq.

In reply to your questions, as I have also informed John, I have not 
done anything an average user would not have done. I only changed 
language settings to Norwegian, set the time and installed a few apps 
through the Ubuntu Store. That's it.

Best regards,
Ari

Den 02. april 2015 11:29, skrev Oliver Grawert:
> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 02.04.2015, 09:50 +0200 schrieb Ari Börde Kröyer:
>
> >        * Then it rebooted once more, this time into a loop where the bq
> >          logo flashes on and stays for 10 seconds, turns off and
> >          repeats.
> >
> > This is the state the phone is in now. I guess I will just have to let
> > it continue until the battery dies and then wait for a response to
> > this email.
> >
> >
> > I certainly hope other Ubuntu phone owners are not experiencing the
> > same thing!
> i have neither seen that on my phone during testing, nor did anyone
> report anything similar ... i wonder why you got into this state, did
> you make the system writeable or install debian packages ? is this still
> using the default channel for OTA ?
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/602035/how-do-i-use-ubuntu-device-flash-with-the-bq-aquaris-e4-5
> has instructions how to re-flash using ubuntu-device-flash (this deletes
> all data though)
>
> you can try to keep your data by first trying a manual flash without
> --bootstrap and --recovery-image options though:
>
> boot into fastboot mode as described in the post, then run:
>
> sudo fastboot flash recovery /path/to/downloaded/recovery.img
>
> after this, reboot into the new recovery mode you just flashed and run:
>
> ubuntu-device-flash touch --channel ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris.en
>
> (in case teh command complains, you perhaps need to add
> --device=krillin)
>
> see if this helps ... if not, i fear you will have to do a full
> --bootstrap flash as described in the article and lose the local
> data ....
>
> ciao
> 	oli