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The checksums for the partition images are served by api.ubports.com. This sha256 hash is checked both in the manual install instructions and in the installer. You can find the json for your device here: https://api.ubports.com/v1/devices/vegetahd

I will add checksums for the executables and installation packages of the installer to the releases page, doing that automatically in ci has been on my list for a while. Wasn't my highest priority so far, because github defaults to https, so the only remaining attack vector i can see would be to switch the files hosted there, which is not very likely to happen unless we have a mole, the account of someone with access to the org gets pwned or someone hacks Microsoft. In all cases, there'd be more efficient ways to do much more severe damage, but since this has been requested some times now, who am i to stand in the way of progress.

@marc_aurel Sounds great! We'll certainly try to be there with some members of the core team, and i hope we'll also get some more community devs to join the party

"Explicit is better than Implicit" is a great principle for programming language design, but a user-friendly user-interface plays by different rules. In UX design, actions should be intuitive, and what could be more intuitive than tapping the background to get to the background?

If you think there needs to be a text or icon to hint for this action as well, ok, maybe. But it should be way more subtle than in the mockup. For me, the Application spread is one of the most distinctive and beautiful features of Unity 8, we can't f*** (mess) this one up.

A go-to-desktop-app in the spread... I don't know. Being able to just tap the background feels way more practical to me. Either the go-to-desktop-app would always be in the end of the spread, which would cost you time, or it would be somewhere in the list making it more difficult to find an application you want to switch to. Why add another UI element, if there's already a perfectly good option we can go with that doesn't bloat the UI nor reduce ease of use of the existing usecases?

On the topic of what is home, might i add:

Don't kill the desktop: A manifesto

In my opinion, Unity 8 should become a proper desktop environment, and that includes being able to put stuff on your desktop. Doesn't have to be applications (unless the user wants to, then let them do it), but it would also be incredibly useful for short-lived files. For example, i'm very often travelling by train in Germany, and since we don't have a ticketing app for Ubuntu Touch, i always put the ticket-pdf on my phone and open it in document viewer. That's something i would put on my desktop. Yes, i know, Gnome removed that feature a while back. But for many people that is a standard feature of Desktop Environments and it would be foolish to dismiss it as a legacy usecase. For me, it is clear. The desktop is my 127.0.0.1. And i'd love an easy way to get there.

@Shannon64 You need to reboot your phone to bootloader/fastboot mode (press and hold the volume up and power buttons until the phone reboots) and connect it to your pc with a usb cable. Then, open a terminal and navigate to where those files are (you said you put them on your desktop, so it's cd Desktop). Run sudo apt install fastboot to install the fastboot utility. Then run the commands from my post above and watch out for any errors. After that, hold the power button until the phone vibrates to reboot the device.

@Shannon64 Were you talking to me? The user i was supporting was able to resolve the issue with my above suggestion, so if you have the exact same issue and you also came from an operating system other than cyanogenmod 12, i recommend you try what i described.

Hey everybody, sorry about the late reply. I just had a report of a successful fix for this on Telegram. The user who had the exact same problem was coming from CyanogenMod 11, while our HAL-container for the Oneplus One is based on CyanogenMod 12. What you can do is flash the firmware of CyanogenMod 12. Download this zip file, extract it and open a terminal in the folder containing the files. Then, reboot your phone to fastboot/bootloader mode and connect your device with a usb cable. Run the following commands to flash the firmware:

fastboot flash modem NON-HLOS.bin
fastboot flash sbl1 sbl1.mbn
fastboot flash dbi sdi.mbn
fastboot flash aboot emmc_appsboot.mbn
fastboot flash rpm rpm.mbn
fastboot flash tz tz.mbn
fastboot flash LOGO logo.bin

Making a mistake at this stage can brick your device, so please make sure no of the commands return an error. Last but not least, reboot the device.

I'll leave a lot lying around, but if you want we can meet somewhere.

We don't have a booth or a scheduled talk, but I will be attending and annoy everyone with random Ubuntu Touch facts. I'll also bring a backpack full of UBports stickers and pens that I do not intend to take back home

Interesting, I have not seen this before. But it might just be that nobody tested the MX4 recently, since it's such a rare device. Could you create a proper bug report for me? Thanks!

I'll test this once i'm home and upload a new build. Sorry about the inconvenience.