New Ubuntu Touch Update now Available Via UBPorts !

Hurrey !

Its indeed a very good news. New update of Ubuntu Touch OS is now available for devices listed here by UBPorts community.

Three cheers to the community for keeping the Ubuntu Phone alive and ticking. I own BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Edition and I applied the update to it today. Its running smoothly.

Below is the page which gives detailed instructions on how to apply the update. It also mentions the list of fucntions which are currently working.

https://devices.ubports.com/#/vegetahd


Below is my log of how I installed the update.

nikhil@nikhil-ThinkPad-E450:~/Desktop$ wget http://cdimage.ubports.com/devices/recovery-vegetahd.img
--2017-05-25 13:12:37--  http://cdimage.ubports.com/devices/recovery-vegetahd.img
Resolving cdimage.ubports.com (cdimage.ubports.com)... 188.226.217.84
Connecting to cdimage.ubports.com (cdimage.ubports.com)|188.226.217.84|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 10287104 (9.8M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘recovery-vegetahd.img’

recovery-vegetahd.img               100%[==================================================================>]   9.81M   719KB/s    in 31s    

2017-05-25 13:13:13 (326 KB/s) - ‘recovery-vegetahd.img’ saved [10287104/10287104]


nikhil@nikhil-ThinkPad-E450:~/Desktop$ sudo ubuntu-device-flash --server=http://system-image.ubports.com touch --device=vegetahd \
> --channel=ubports-touch/legacy --bootstrap --recovery-image=recovery-vegetahd.img
[sudo] password for nikhil:
2017/05/25 13:19:02 Device is |vegetahd|
2017/05/25 13:19:10 Flashing version 2 from ubports-touch/legacy channel and server http://system-image.ubports.com to device vegetahd
8.60 MB / 312.89 MB [=>_______________________________________________________________________________________________] 2.75 % 733.51 KB/s 7m4s2017/05/25 13:19:29 Start pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Start pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/keyring-4c4e7ef380ebcfa2c31084efa199138e93bfed8fc58aa3eb06bdf75a78af9b57.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Start pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/ubports-touch/legacy/vegetahd/version-2.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Start pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/device-da90b80b4e780bca4ebd1e0d7d5168991e0d14d88c82cfd2906cce9f0d85b9e7.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Start pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz to device
8.77 MB / 312.89 MB [=>_______________________________________________________________________________________________] 2.80 % 735.49 KB/s 7m3s2017/05/25 13:19:29 Done pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-signing.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Done pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/keyring-4c4e7ef380ebcfa2c31084efa199138e93bfed8fc58aa3eb06bdf75a78af9b57.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Done pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/ubports-touch/legacy/vegetahd/version-2.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:19:29 Done pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/gpg/image-master.tar.xz to device
20.12 MB / 312.89 MB [=====>_________________________________________________________________________________________] 6.43 % 785.94 KB/s 6m21s2017/05/25 13:19:43 Done pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/device-da90b80b4e780bca4ebd1e0d7d5168991e0d14d88c82cfd2906cce9f0d85b9e7.tar.xz to device
312.89 MB / 312.89 MB [=================================================================================================] 100.00 % 773.13 KB/s
2017/05/25 13:26:11 Start pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/ubports-2fa71268a7de2699e17a1d60f518020e9a26036a57e5add22388cd572f781a66.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:27:14 Done pushing /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/pool/ubports-2fa71268a7de2699e17a1d60f518020e9a26036a57e5add22388cd572f781a66.tar.xz to device
2017/05/25 13:27:14 Created ubuntu_command: /home/nikhil/.cache/ubuntuimages/ubuntu_commands588579505
2017/05/25 13:27:14 Rebooting into recovery to flash
nikhil@nikhil-ThinkPad-E450:~/Desktop$


Functions which are working (as stated by UBports)

• Bluetooth

• Boot

• Camera

• Cellular Radio

• GPS

• Graphics

• Resume

• Rotation

• Sound

• Touch

• Wifi