@BrainRenticus Install apps like gnumeric for example, or abiword and try.

Maybe this could help you: http://kriscode.blogspot.com/2017/12/ssh-and-ubuntu-touch.html

@sk8rdie Good info there indeed.
Thanks for sharing this

This is such an amazing and inspirational thread. Thank you @PINE64

From my experience everything is working fine now on the N5. I been following the bug tracker since the begining of the year and all of the bugs/new features listed in the QA (OTA-8 tracker) are solved

@chrisc @trainailleur Hey guys, thanks for your help!

Ok so everything is working fine with ssh after each restart etc. I was also experimenting doing it by the phone terminal but when I go that route I only get half of my config working. For example, the contacts are not visible, the changes made with UTweaktool are not present, the keyboard theme etc. Sadly for some reason doing it by the terminal only decrypt half of my config or something like that. I don't know why.
Also I noticed a worse battery perfomance in my Nexus 5. It was 65% 8 hours ago before going to sleep and today in the morning the phone was dead. Other than that. I will try to figure out why decrypting the phone via the terminal is not working for me, if I manage to get that working or by a script/bash alias I will keep with the encryption long term. Let's see.. Thank you again.

One more thing, I am also experiencing the wifi dissapearing sometimes, usually I fix that by restarting once the phone.

edit2: after trying to decrypt with the new commands, it worked well doing it from the phone terminal

@chrisc First step done! I am getting this in the second part:

sent 40,788,174 bytes received 21,557 bytes 16,323,892.40 bytes/sec
total size is 40,668,865 speedup is 1.00
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home# umount /media/phablet/
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home# mount /dev/mapper/phablet /home/phablet
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home# cd /tmp
root@ubuntu-phablet:/tmp# nohup /etc/init.d/lightdm force-reload
nohup: ignoring input and appending output to 'nohup.out'
root@ubuntu-phablet:/tmp# cd
root@ubuntu-phablet:~# cryptsetup luksOpen phablet.img phablet
Device phablet.img doesn't exist or access denied.

edit: is this step needed? (I did this in a fresh install). Should I just leave the "phablet.img" sitting there (2GB) in /home/phablet?

edit2: ok I am starting to understand how this works.. I think. So after a restart of the phone I can't see any of my files, config, photos, etc. so it looks like every time I restart or shutdown my phone I need to "decrypt" the disk manually. The issue is that I am trying to follow the steps mentioned in the guide but I am getting access denied? Is this correct? Its normal that I have to decrypt everytime i restart the phone?

Edit3: Ok so I managed to "decrypt" and I have all of my files back again. I had to run the commands in /home to make it work (mybad).
Anyway, whats the best way to decrypt the phone? Because most of the times in don't have the chance to ssh into my phone and I usually restart the device 2-3 times per day, so doing this everytime is kind of PIA . There is no easy way to deal with this? Otherwise I may just reset the phone and wait for a proper way to Encrypt the phone in the future .
Thanks everyone for everything specially @chrisc !!!

@chrisc Hello Sir, thank you for your answer.

I just realized that I am getting tons of errors when trying to do apt-get update

( Could not open file /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ports.ubuntu.com_ubuntu-ports_dists_xenial-updates_main_source_Sources.xz - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 91.189.88.150 80])
Similar lo this.

Maybe is a ubports server issue?
@advocatux

and this:

"phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo mount -o rw,remount /
[sudo] password for phablet:
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ apt-get update
Reading package lists... Done
W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - SetupAPTPartialDirectory (1: Operation not permitted)
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)
W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied)"

Ok I needed "sudo", is that normal??? (installing cryptsetup)

@trainailleur Hello sir, I am trying to to install cryptsetup after a clean install (devel) but I can't get to install cryptsetup using the xenial sources:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ apt-get install cryptsetup
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package cryptsetup is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
bash-completion

W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend
W: Not using locking for read only lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock
E: Package 'cryptsetup' has no installation candidate

Any hint about why this is happening? Thank you in advance

Hi any news about this workaround? i would like to try it on my nexus 5