@gpatel-fr Weirdly that does work somewhat, but the process seems to be rather convoluted.
Rebooting to the bootloader/fastboot from the adb shell allows the installer to detect the device, but while installing it eventually reboots to recovery and shows a 'failed installation message (error 256)', and then it auto-reboots into the 'System Updater' screen you'd expect from an OTA update. So something about the installer 'unblocked' my previous update attempts (?).
@gpatel-fr I may have some other underlying issue on my install, seeing as I can't even use adb properly to reboot to fastboot:
Failed to write reboot parameter file: Permission denied
Developer mode is enabled on the device and the remote machine can detect the device with 'adb devices'.
@gpatel-fr Using the installer won't work, it hangs on 'waiting for fastboot' because the device won't reboot. Not sure if that's related to the issue causing failure on OTA update though.
I also get a 'device not supported' when the installer is detecting the device:
@gpatel-fr Indeed I used the installer in the past with 24.04-1.2. I'm about to try this method, but won't it clear my libertine containers even if I don't wipe user data?
@Keneda the Wifi version, X306.
The installer doesn't seem to detect the device, and explicitly states one should have Android 11 installed (when manually selecting the device). Would it be sensible to proceed? I don't want to brick the device.
I'm trying to update to UT 24.04-1.3, but the updater only reboots to recovery where I can only do the usual 'Factory Reset' or other advanced options, and nothing is installed.
Am I supposed to do a factory reset to trigger the update or am I missing something?
PS: the device is the Lenovo M10 tablet.
You can reinstall through the installer leaving the "wipe data" unticked which will retain all your data and take about 10 minutes or in updates change the channel to development and then back again.
Good to know (never tried it) but that still would clear all Libertine containers right (IIRC packages get installed outside user data?)
@MrT10001 I have not, and IMO that's too much work for such a minor issue. I'll wait for the next OTA and check if it solves it.
@MrT10001 TB-306F.
To be honest I don't believe this happened on a fresh install, I just noticed it yesterday and yeah it happens after sleep; on a fresh reboot the correct icon is showing.
The channel is 24.04 stable, I haven't even updated it once since I made a clean install 2 weeks ago.
At most I have played around with Libertine and the NixManager app from the store, don't see how the system could have been changed.
Restarting NetworkManager does not seem to work, the 'not connected' icon appears to be found, but on connection it gets back to the generic gear icon.
@MrT10001 The Lenovo M10 Tablet
I've noticed the "Network" tray icon gets broken after screen lock:
What could be causing this?
(using UT 24.04)
This tablet has no digitizer - it's a hardware limitation. So only touch input is supported, no active stylus will be recognized as such. You can still use it a soft-tip passive stylus for convenience, but it's essentially the same as using your fingers.
The issue was me not having a screen lock passcode defined.
Not sure if this is the best way to approach this, a settings page for editing user information (including name and root password) would be useful, that one could then opt out for the screenlock.
I've figure it out that entering 'selection mode' with a long press is precisely what I was looking for.
Would still be useful to somehow start the terminal on selection mode and hide the 'Exit selection mode' option
I'm trying to get ncspot to work within a libertine container, and while everything appears to be functional, touch (pointer) events do not seem to be captured by the program, which sort of defeats the whole point of the terminal interface. The only way to actually navigate the menus is using the built-in arrow keys (or, I assume, an external keyboard) but that's very limiting.
Is it possible, and if so how does one achieve it, to have terminal apps detect touch/pointer events_
I'm trying to add a third-party PPA to a Libertine container (24.04), but running into the error:
Error: must run as root
when I use libertine-container-manager -i noble -a add -n ppa:<...> . Using the Libertine settings UI fails silently (I assume the underlying error is the same).
Going directly into a fakeroot shell doesn't work because of the nature of the container, I can't call add-apt-repository from inside it.
@gpatel-fr thank you for the mkv samples!
this 'Microsoft MPEG-4 4.2' is probably the same thing as your '10 bit support'.
not really, the issue is definitely the bit depth of the video, correlated with the format profile. Higher definition videos such as H.264 AVC "High 10" profile (using mediainfo) :
Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : **High 10@L3.1**
Format settings : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, Reference frames : 5 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 46 s 0 ms
Width : 1 024 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 24.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : **10 bits**
Scan type : Progressive
Writing library : x264 core 165 r3222 b35605a
Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=81 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Color range : Limited
Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC
Transfer characteristics : BT.709
Matrix coefficients : BT.601
To reproduce this, you can use ffmpeg to enforce a higher bit depth on any of these samples:
ffmpeg -i test5.mkv -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -crf 18 -preset slow -c:a copy test5_10bit.mkv
and confirm it does not play on the UT player, despite desktop OSs having no issue playing it (at least that's my experience).
It does, as you suggested, play on (libertine) mpv or vlc, so it seems like a limitation of the default player (I'd open a bug on the app repository, but can't seem to find it for the media player).
Looking into this with a bit more care, the issue seems to be high definition video such as 10-bit H.264, converting to 8-bit seems to allow playback to work. I'm not sure if it's an hardware limitation, because it works on android roms (at least on custom A14).
@floem7 said in Has video/media playback improved?:
mkv plays without problems in default app
a .mkv file is a container format, so the ability of UT mediaplayer to play these files depends on what is exactly the format of media tracks in the file. If the video track is "standard" mp4 or theora or h264 and sound track is mp3 or ogg/vorbis, there will be no problem. If for example the sound is amr or video is 'microsoft' mp4, it will probably not work.
It's not obvious to check on the format of a .mkv file under Ubuntu Touch, it's much easier under a PC running Linux where you can easily install mkvinfo (ffplay or gst-discoverer-1.0 will also be able to interpret the files to some extent).
Indeed none of my .mkv files work. I've tried converting to .mp4 using ffmpeg, but it still doesn't play.
What target (that we're sure it's supported) video and audio format/encoding should I use?
So noone who owns this device can provide any feedback on media playback? I'm planning to reinstall UT anyway, but would rather avoid running into this issue.