<![CDATA[Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues]]>Hi All,

I hope this is just my experience since upgrading to OTA-8 but there are a couple of issues;

  1. Slower startup to the screen authentication.
  2. Anbox freeze when starting android apps.
  3. Slow icon redraw after scrolling.
  4. When you plug in a slimport cable the screen digitiser won't display a 'pointer arrow'.
  5. Generally more sluggish performance.
]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2471/ubuntu-touch-ota-8-nexus-5-issuesRSS for NodeSun, 12 Apr 2026 19:11:42 GMTSat, 09 Mar 2019 22:05:11 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:26:52 GMT]]>I think these experiences has been known to happen when upgrading with Anbox installed.
Maybe a note about this should be added in the Anbox documentation.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18245https://forums.ubports.com/post/18245Sun, 10 Mar 2019 16:26:52 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:35:45 GMT]]>@advocatux Yes, i was running anbox on a fresh OTA-7 install. Switching to OTA-8 made it slow, switching to RC-channel installed version 36 and gave the performance back.
Now i tried to switch back to stable (version 6) and it works as well. But it removed anbox.
After reinstalling anbox (following to the documentation) my N5 works with OTA-8 and anbox.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18229https://forums.ubports.com/post/18229Sun, 10 Mar 2019 12:35:45 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:49:26 GMT]]>Hi,

I had the same issue. Disabling anbox fixed the performance issues:

anbox-tool disable

After that I saw that

anbox-tool status

said "Kernel: NOT OK"

So I repeated the steps in the documentation: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html#how-to-install
It did not work with the first try. So I executed the steps of the troubleshooting paragraph: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html#troubleshooting and then again the steps above...

After that Anbox works again 🙂

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18226https://forums.ubports.com/post/18226Sun, 10 Mar 2019 11:49:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:19:07 GMT]]>Number 4 is a known bug: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/301

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18220https://forums.ubports.com/post/18220Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:19:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:13:54 GMT]]>@htc_tattoo hi, currently the rc image and OTA-8 image in stable are the same.

Were you running anbox or something like that? I have a Nexus 5 which battery doesn't get warm, and network-manager doesn't eat the battery 😉

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18218https://forums.ubports.com/post/18218Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:13:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:14:06 GMT]]>I am not a specialist and i don't know if it could solve some of these problems but i have often read on the forum that make a round-trip dev channel /stable channel could fix sometimes dysfunctions. Why a round-trip favourably impact, i don't know also.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18217https://forums.ubports.com/post/18217Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:14:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Ubuntu-Touch OTA-8 Nexus 5 Issues on Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:09:33 GMT]]>Unfortunately i had the same experience. N5 gets warm, eats battery and does hardly respond after upgrading to OTA-8.
As much as i could see the network-manager was using more than 50% of CPU. But i didn't have time (and skills) to search deeper.
Switching to RC-channel fixed it, but i would prefer to stay on stable channel...

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/18215https://forums.ubports.com/post/18215Sun, 10 Mar 2019 08:09:33 GMT