@DrRic

@Moem said in Install on Nexus 4 wit 16.04 ota-25:

@DrRic said in Install on Nexus 4 wit 16.04 ota-25:

I have never interacted witha forum before as the look so toxic.

This one is one of the more helpful, and friendlier ones you'll find. And we have moderators who do not tolerate toxic behaviour. So don't worry about that here!

I concur with @Moem. There are plenty of helpful folk here and a good community.

@ubuntutouchluvr Have a look at Webber it is very straight forward even I can do it. It is not like creating a full app from scratch at all.

@stanwood said in Reset the bluetooth?:

@totalrando You can remove unworking bluetooth devices pairings.
Open the terminal, type bluetoothctl, than type remove (mac address).
Than you can make a fresh new pairing of your devices in the usual way.

Thank you, I was looking for something like this. I had a few devices that had the "forget this device" greyed out, and they would auto-connect (without actually connecting) so I couldn't remove them to try and correctly add them, this way I got them cleared out. Thanks again!

I just want to add my experience, since I posted about this in Reddit. I'm running on the developer channel, in case that is relevant. The camera works for me. Video recording works, too, although there is no sound.

@mrt10001 I found a tutorial for restoring to stock on xda developers site. That worked. Thanks!

@totalrando
For this particular use case, I guess you can "break the system".
I mean, you won't need updates and you'll run a very old kernel so I guess security is not a concern if it is then do not try this that's a very bad idea.

So if it is just to tinker and do it, go ahead the easiest way I see would be to use apt after setting the partition RW. You'll also need to extend the usable space as the partition is almost full on many devices.

@dobey Thank you, I'll try with Google's file

I have had UT on a Nexus 4 since Canonical was doing their thing, I was really looking forward to using Ubuntu but if memory serves me it worked, but with a lot issues and no cell or MMS at the time. I parked it a desk drawer then.

I stumbled upon UBports last fall and got the thing to reflash the image with this newer one. I putzed with it a bit but had not tried to use it as a daily driver.

In January I inserted my AT&T and it would not connect to the network.
I reinserted my sim in my IOS and they had locked my account for using an unsupported device. Seemed pretty brilliant to me.

I have since gotten a Patriot Mobile sim and inserted it and they sent a text saying "We see your phone does not have the correct settings to access the internet or send MMS. Setting will be sent to your handset." And it works.

I have been using it this weekend and all the issues are because it is a tired old dog! It's been sleeping in a desk drawer for three or four years! LOL! I am amazed it works most of the afternoon streaming audio to my BT headset. I found a Oneplus One that according to UBports is better supported. Hope so, I like UT a lot better than IOS or Android.

Hope to contribute here.

The differnce between microphone for recording and for telephony is: different audio paths. While you are in a call the microphone is basically routed by the Android container into the modem. On recording into an app the mic needs to be attached to your Ubuntu Touch app.

So while calls are handled by the Android container successfully, as its the same as in Android, routing the mic to pulseaudio fails. That can happen with our ports, we have seen this on other occasions. Whats interesting is that Nexus 4 is so resisting against being fixed 🙂

@flohack
Thank you for this clarification; that's what I was presenting. I've already done quite a bit of research concerning a return to the original partitions. I also have this problem with a Nexus 5 that I've been trying to bring back to life for quite some time now...

@kugiigi It's really not a big deal to me except a minor preference. And you're right-- I had forgotten that aspect of Unity. Not a big deal to me. It can do a lot for a phone, so I ain't complaining.

@gepalin Make sure your adapater is slimport otherwise it won't work.