Sunday, 10 July 2016

Anyone have the latest stable version (version 5) running on Nexus 10 [Manta]??



I've been trying for days to get ubuntu touch on my Nexus 10, and nothing works. Finally posted on AskUbuntu, but it's not getting much attention. At this point I just want to know if what I am trying is even possible. Here is a copy-paste of the post:

askubuntu[dot]com/questions/796924/can-not-install-ubuntu-touch-on-nexus-10

I am having a lot of trouble installing Ubuntu onto my Nexus 10 (16gb wifi edition). I have followed the instructions here [1] and here[2]. No matter what I do it ends with the message 'this phone needs restoring from a pc or service center'. I have searched ask ubuntu and other forums and here is what I have tried to solve the problem. Installed android 4.4.4 stock, cyanogenmod 11, android 4.0 stock prior to flashing. I also formatted with

$ fastboot format cache
$ fastboot format userdata

as suggested here[3]. Nothing seems to work.

Other things to note, I am using ubuntu-device-flash on a virtual box machine running ubuntu 16.04, and it takes a long time for ubuntu-device-flash to push the last .tar.xz file to my tablet, somewhere in the range of 1 hour or more. Last night I let it run overnight because some on some forums the response to similar problems was "be patient" once you see the 'this phone needs restoring...' error. When I woke up the phone was in a boot loop and I had to re-flash stock 4.4.4.

I have successfully flashed ubuntu version 2 with the dual boot app in android, but I can't get it to update. I also have not been successful in getting the app to use the UBports server as a custom server to install the latest version, similar to this guy[4].

Anyone know what could be wrong?
Links:
1 developer.ubuntu[dot]com/en/phone/devices/installing-ubuntu-for-devices/
2 devices.ubports[dot]com/#/manta
3 askubuntu[dot]com/questions/582151/ubuntu-touch-appears-to-not-boot-on-nexus-10
4 askubuntu[dot]com/questions/795895/nexus-10-dualboot-ubports-image-with-existing-android



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