Posts made by Nigel-tufnel

@fitz i went through this a month or so ago. Verizon and t-mobile would not activate. I have used ATT through net10 and tracfone. Get a tracfone byod sim kit for 1 dollar and 15 dollar air time card at you local big box store. easy activation for new number using att sim. Easy check for only 16 bux. After proving i could get the phone to work I ported my number to net10 successfully but that was a bigger ordeal. Net10 had better plan for my usage.

I have a new Nexus 5 install and finally have a connection to a carrier. Does the L icon next to the signal strength icon mean LTE? I assume so, but just curious. Also, I swear I've seen in have an H icon. What's the difference? Thanks

Just wondering if anyone has successfully got the Nexus 5 working on AT&T? My UT Nexus 5 doesn't register an AT&T sim card but sees a T-mobile sim. I'm not sure if this is due to missing APN settings or if AT&T and the Nexus 5 don't play nice. Phone is supposed to be an unlocked GSM phone.

Any feedback appreciated. Thanks

Well I think I am going to give up and move on as adjusting the edge sensitivity with the UT tweak tool was no help. My phone must have hardware issues. The phone is too hard to use with the issues and I'm not sure I like the lack of a home button and back button in general.

Thanks for everyone's help.

@lakotaubp Thanks for the suggestion. We're making progress. I was able to swipe left once I rotated the phone to landscape mode. Additional experimentation yields that the left side (normal portrait) doesn't have swipe sensitivity but things work fine from the right side. When upside down portrait orientation, swiping right doesn't work but swiping left works. When in landscape, the left and right sides have what I would call normal sensitivity in both directions.

Additionally when in the text app, the "compose a new message by swiping up from the bottom of the screen" message doesn't swipe away no matter what the orientation is.

Are there any edge sensitivity settings or is this a hardware issue?

Thanks for all the help.

@lakotaubp Tried everything you suggested. No luck. Everything was reset as expected and things seem to work but as soon as the Long swipe dialog reappears, it can't be swiped away. The swipe from top down dialog appeared earlier and it was possible to swipe that away. FYI - It says OS 16.04 2020-W50 under settings on the phone.

Any other options or time to give up? Thanks

@lakotaubp I will give that a try. Disregard the message above as I only performed part of what you suggested. Thanks

I also tried going to recovery mode and wiping data and reset to factory defaults. That got it back to having no passcode. Set up the initial data (time zone, passcode, ...) and was trying to set the time (no SIM card yet) and the Left swipe dialog reappeared with same stuck behavior.

@lakotaubp Touch screen was working when I first loaded Ubuntu. I was poking around at the options when the Left swipe dialog came up and then got stuck. No amount of swiping makes it go away. After a reboot and typing in my preset passcode, it accepts the passcode and the left swipe dialog reappears and will not go away.

I tried rerunning the installer (0.8.2 beta with 16.04/stable) and it looked like things went smoothly until the initial reboot. Note that prior to running install, I verified that I was connected with ./fastboot devices. I was surprised to see it asking for my passcode and after entering the passcode, the Left swipe dialog reappeared with same stuck dialog. I repeated the install with the Wipe data checkbox clicked and same behavior.

How does one do a complete reinstall (such that it doesn't remember my passcode)? I would rather not completely reinstall the Andriod image and start over.

Thanks

@keneda Please reread my post. Thx.

Hello. Brand new install of Ubuntu on a Nexus 5 and in the first 30 seconds of using the phone, a "Long swipe from the left edge to open the Application Drawer" message appeared and is now stuck on the screen. It reappears after rebooting. Nothing seems to make it disappear. I used Ubports installer 0.8.1-beta for install and selected the stable version (don't remember the version). Any fixes? Thanks!