@ozzelot I moved from the N5 to 1+1 and it is solid with the camera zoom being a minimal issue for me. The N5 had a big flaw in a power switch that would decide to stop working from time to time. That becane the major reason I moved on to the 1+1.

I'm on 1+1 and got stuck at Recovery as above. I selected on a whim Android actions->Apply update and it installed fine.

I have a 1+1 with 16.04 installed. In Canada with Rogers everything works fine. I'm back in Lebanon for a month, and bought a sim from MTC Touch. Everything works except incoming and outgoing calls. Attempts to recharge give a Invalid USSD Error. I've recovered and cleared the cache multiple times, I can set the carrier fine, to no avail. I'm wondering if there is any way to diagnose better the problem? The sim works fine from android and iphones. Any help is greatly appreciated.

@trainailleur Thanks so much for the lengthy answer, I really appreciate it. I'm going to use a friends old android phone while here.