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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And the actual link:

http://yoloreparo.com/manuales/smartphones-1/bq-41/bq-aquaris-e4-5-183/pantalla-display-y-digitalizador-1011

(thanks Andrea!)

On 16.09.2015 00:46, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
> 
> sorry to hear about the bad experience you're having right now.
> 
> FWIW, this site seems to have replacement screens available for 15€.
> They have the android buttons on them and I don't know whether they ship
> to your place. But maybe still worth a shot...
> 
> We're working on the performance problems introduced in OTA-6.
> 
> Br,
> Michael
> 
> On 15.09.2015 22:31, Wayne Ward wrote:
>> I bought a BQ on the second flash sale and seen the progress, but the
>> few problems it holds which somebody must be able to take control of is
>> what everybody wants, IE facebook, google notifications, skype or some
>> kind of video / conference type interface, instagram and a owncloud or
>> some kind of document sync. The upgrades have been good but the last OTA
>> update seemed to have killed the experience for me and made my phone
>> just hard to use and just a bad experience messaging being unusable and
>> the phone just generally being slow. I can see the videos of people
>> running native ubuntu apps IE firefox, chrome.
>> I can only think that there must be some way of somebody managing this
>> and building some kind of container that you can install and run some
>> native apps and maybe take control of getting on to the big companies
>> like intagram and skype to get some kind of feedback to see if they will
>> make the packages or at least say yes or no then pursuing making a open
>> source version etc.
>> The last worrying part is, i bought a BQ ubuntu 4.5, ok a accident
>> happens and we dropped one cracking the screen, the screen isnt
>> available on ebay like most screens to replace yourself or by a local
>> phone company. After contacting BQ.. the replacement is 89 euro, then 20
>> euro for shipping with no gurantee. A new phone of the same version is
>> around 140 euro. 30 euro more.
>>
>> so bad performance, lack of apps and easy cost effective replacements
>> makes me wonder what the hell im doing. Im a life long hardened linux
>> fan and loved the idea of the ubuntu phone but its not going the way i
>> hoped.
>>
>> ill probably buy a new ubuntu phone to replace the broken one and stick
>> with the phone and struggle without notifications and the apps that i
>> would like and hope that somebody actually takes on these major
>> flaws.......
>>
>> No offense intended, its just blowing of steam I guess? - Thoughts
>> please...........
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Wayne Ward
>>
> 
> 
>

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