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[Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx>]

And if I work to install .Deb packages in the terminal, will those be
separate packages and therefor untouched? I don't have much money in case
this breaks my phone, so I have to look into everything before I do
something

On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> No, updates are installed from recovery.
>
> Your changes *might* be preserved if you're lucky and the update doesn't
> touch any files you've changed either. Don't count on it. Luck-driven
> software development doesn't end well :)
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:35 PM Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','empholmi@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>
>> And if I send it back into read-only before I do the update, my changes
>> should be preserved, right?
>>
>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx');>> wrote:
>>
>>> No, it won't, so make sure you don't upgrade, or save your changes
>>> elsewhere before you do.
>>>
>>> Also, if you skip an OTA and install the next one, it will do a fresh
>>> install of your system, because there won't be any delta patch available so
>>> it'll download the entire system image.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:30 PM Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok. Thanks. I'll start working. And that will disable OTA updates,
>>>> right?
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You won't lose data by making it read/write, but obviously if you do
>>>>> something wrong and screw things up you'll probably lose data.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:27 PM Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Will I lose data?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ok. Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> You can either reboot to set it to read only or just write "mount
>>>>>>>> -o remount,ro /".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I don't think you're going to brick your device by doing this, at
>>>>>>>> most you'll have to reinstall your system.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:25 PM Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thanks. Also, how do you send it back to read only?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I want to know its stable, as I don't have the money to replace it
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Gran PC <gran.pc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> If you want to mark your filesystem as r/w you just have to run
>>>>>>>>>> this command as root:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> mount -o remount,rw /
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 1:16 PM Eric Holmi <empholmi@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I could try doing some of those things myself, but I don't know
>>>>>>>>>>> the command to make the current stable version on the Nexus for read/write.
>>>>>>>>>>> The one on the developer install page doesn't work. Also, I noticed that 3G
>>>>>>>>>>> is a little bit slower than Wi-Fi, and drains battery, but doesn't get as
>>>>>>>>>>> hot
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On Thursday, August 20, 2015, Daniel van Vugt <
>>>>>>>>>>> daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Two things we need for efficient video playback:
>>>>>>>>>>>>   1. Hardware codec support; and
>>>>>>>>>>>>   2. Hardware overlay bypass of simple surfaces.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't know the status of #1 but I've heard it was coming, if
>>>>>>>>>>>> not landed already.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> #2 is in progress with the Mir team right now (part of the
>>>>>>>>>>>> "nested bypass" effort). Don't expect it finished till Mir 0.16 or Mir
>>>>>>>>>>>> 0.17, or later.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 20/08/15 04:51, Eric Holmi wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> guys, my Nexus 4 (most recent stable version) gave me a burn
>>>>>>>>>>>>> that almost
>>>>>>>>>>>>> blistered after 15 minutes of YouTube (wifi), and went from
>>>>>>>>>>>>> 29% battery
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to 2% in that time. I think that needs to be fixed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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