No support for bq Aquaris E5 FHD

arubislander

@MrT10001 No, it was officially supported by Canonical. Even came with UT pre installed.

But I would be surprised if those images are still floating around anywhere.

I had to go through similar steps to flash my Meizu Pro 5. But at that time the Canonical images were still available.

All of this said though, that generation of devices never made it past Xenial. So @tacetion, I am afraid even if you did get to flash UT on your device, it would be just as much of a dead end now as Lollipop is.

kristatos

Maybe do you mean this ZIP-File

kugiigi

I don't remember this device getting UT support. I only know bq E4.5 and bq E5 HD.

arubislander

@kugiigi You might be right. I must have been thinking of the BQ M10 (F)HD line.

Lakotaubp

@arubislander @kugiigi is right it was the HD version. Just sorted the original box out. The tablet was FHD just found that too.

arubislander

@Lakotaubp Then I guess the OP can abandon hope.

MrT10001

@arubislander said in No support for bq Aquaris E5 FHD:

No, it was officially supported by Canonical. Even came with UT pre installed.

That I know, but when a device has so little information on it, even sales documents, one must assume it wasn't popular and was probably eol of a line or an inbetweener. There is plenty about the HD version though.

What I did find was this however useful this is! (Downloads work, but it is not UT so meandering.....)

I am surprised there is no Canonical archive.

CiberSheep

@tacetion as being said before, unfortunetly, the supported devices we Krillin (E4.5) and Vegeta (E5 HD) but not the E5 FHD (Trunks?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BQ_Aquaris_E5

First released E5 & E5 FHD 1 July 2014; 11 years ago
E5 HD Ubuntu Edition 10 June 2015; 10 years ago

tacetion

@MrT10001 I dunno, its VERY wierd. The phone has specifically engraved UBUNTU TOUCH EDITION. I think no one cared about that model and it went into obscurity...

kugiigi

@tacetion Where do you see that engraving? We're sure that that model never had a UT port.
And even the supported ones are already unsupported now. They're stuck with xenial (16.04). That's 2 major versions down at this point (24.04 Noble).

MrT10001

@kugiigi After researching I have come to that conclusion. If it had UT on it it may have been a one off experimental/test/promotional device. Check this out.

tacetion

@MrT10001 Yeah, its a prototype. It has the FHD screen but HD hardware

tacetion

@kristatos That is UT 15 for HD, but it worked for me cause i have a prototype phone. Thanks a lot!

MrT10001

@tacetion so is it up and running with UT? A prototype is well worth keeping, collectors may seek something like that out..... It could also have had a screen replacement...