ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21.03.2016 10:08, Timo Jyrinki wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Michi Henning
> <michi.henning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is starting to look like there is something seriously wrong with input in general, for any text input field. For example, when I simply press and hold down the backspace key, the phone madly types random letters, and I can here the vibrator humming like crazy. So, is this a software issue, or do I simply have a phone with a bad touch screen?
> 
> You should take this to IRC or somewhere to chat with someone who
> knows about OSK, mailing list is a hard place to debug things. Your
> OSK seems really misbehaving, completely abnormal. It may be related
> to some of the other problems you're having too.

I've found this issue with the OSK getting lost. It's siloed but not
landet yet.

> 
> As for the other problems, I believe the biggest problem in addition
> to your hw specific problem(s) was shipping with ancient software to
> you. That won't happen with the new products, but if that was a recent
> purchase (not known in your case) I think the factory images really
> should get upgraded occasionally. Even if OTA-9 does not fix all the
> problems or feature gaps in the world, it does fix a truck/shipload of
> those. OTA-10 will also bring lots of new things and fixes.

Yeah, that's indeed a huge problem IMO. The images on those devices are
ancient indeed and you only get to OTA after all that setup stuff.

> 
> You need to set the timezone in date&time settings yourself, NITZ
> support isn't available AFAIK yet although I don't find a bug now so
> I'm not sure.
> 
> Wifi problem is something specific to your case like OSK, it's also
> something most people have no problems with as far as I know. MTP as a
> protocol is not very well suited for mass transfers in my experience,
> but using VMWare could hinder it too. I haven't had big problems
> myself, mainly when copying photos in and out on Ubuntu.
> 
> Most of your issues seem atypical (aside from whatever OOB experience
> with ancient software) and should be debugged one by one. There are
> also real problems, slowdown bugs and feature gaps (like that NITZ)
> but yours are something else.
> 
> -Timo
>

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