How to uninstall UBports?
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I installed ubports on my nexus 4, and ran into a problem that the microphone does not function. Per issue #1001 (https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1001)
“Agreed this will never be fixed. Marius Gripsgard tried and concluded it was too difficult to be worthwhile.
So, my next step would be to install LuneOS; it appears their nexus4 support is current. But first I need to go back to Android. Per this thread (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5606/no-way-to-use-the-ubports-installer-on-a-nexus-4/7?_=1612644857045) that would likely brick both Nexus 4 & 5.
Does anybody have any experience in installing another OS after installing UBports? What do you recommend?
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@overlordofdata
Good news. Glad you managed to get where you wanted.
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Well. I found instruction on ubuntu,
https://phone.docs.ubuntu.com/en/devices/reinstalling-android
however it fails and ubports is still installed... So I guess I'm stuck with ubports? Oh well, it was headed to the recyler anyway.
darko@barsoomian:~/Downloads/occam-lmy48t$ adb reboot bootloader darko@barsoomian:~/Downloads/occam-lmy48t$ sudo ./flash-all.sh [sudo] password for darko: target didn't report max-download-size sending 'bootloader' (2264 KB)... OKAY [ 0.076s] writing 'bootloader'... OKAY [ 0.414s] finished. total time: 0.490s rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.002s] finished. total time: 0.052s target didn't report max-download-size sending 'radio' (45537 KB)... OKAY [ 1.438s] writing 'radio'... OKAY [ 2.890s] finished. total time: 4.329s rebooting into bootloader... OKAY [ 0.002s] finished. total time: 0.052s extracting android-info.txt (0 MB)... extracting boot.img (6 MB)... target didn't report max-download-size archive does not contain 'boot.sig' archive does not contain 'dtbo.img' archive does not contain 'dt.img' extracting recovery.img (6 MB)... archive does not contain 'recovery.sig' extracting system.img (815 MB)... archive does not contain 'system.sig' archive does not contain 'vbmeta.img' archive does not contain 'vendor.img' wiping userdata... Couldn't parse erase-block-size '0x'. Couldn't parse logical-block-size '0x'. mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018) /tmp/TemporaryFile-nuveVP: Unimplemented ext2 library function while setting up superblock /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/mke2fs failed with status 1 mke2fs failed: 1 error: Cannot generate image for userdata -
@overlordofdata
You might find instruction on how to go back to android on XDA forum.
It seems to me that you have a partitioning problem, it may be caused by bad block or missing requirements on your computer...
Edit: might also be a bad USB cable (always double check those cables) -
well, I just held my breath, and used the generic instructions at https://developers.google.com/android/images?hl=pt-br, and it worked!
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@overlordofdata
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