[07:12] <CaptainBlackton> So I finally got my One Plus 3T, and I've been trying for the past 5 hours now to get UBports to work, but I'm still stuck.
[07:13] <CaptainBlackton> Now it keeps freezing at "Preparing System Image" and then eventually saying it lost the connection. I'm sure the connection (wire/usb) is not the problem, as it only looses the connection when it gets to this point, and always within about a minute of getting there.
[07:13] <CaptainBlackton> * I'm running UBports version 0.4.18-beta as super-user from Linux Mint Mate 18.1 64-bit.
[07:13] <CaptainBlackton> * I had to create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules with the line: SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="18d1", MODE="0666", GROUP="plugdev" to get it to do anything at all
[07:14] <CaptainBlackton> * My device is in developer mode, unlocked, has USB debugging set, etc. as per all the tutorials.
[07:14] <CaptainBlackton> Not sure if there is anything else I should mention or if I'm forgetting anything, but I would appreciate any help here, as I would have wasted several hundred dollars otherwise on another useless device.
[07:15] <CaptainBlackton> BTW, I tried to post this question in the UBports forum, but it won't let me post for some reason (says I don't have enough privilege)
[16:16] <bdju> Where do I buy a BQ Aquaris M10 FHD tablet from, and how much will it cost? I already checked ebay and amazon and just see accessories.
[18:49] <CaptainBlackton> <bdju>, I was able to find the One Plus 3T on Amazon and Ebay, but they were all used phones. I think the 3T is a relatively new phone, so for some of the older models of UBports phones, it might be even harder to find a new one. But assuming you are OK with a used phone, the One Plus seems to have pretty decent specs, and I found it for $200. There were widely varying prices though. Even the official One Plus
[18:49] <CaptainBlackton> store on Amazon had vendors selling the exact same phone for anywhere from $300-900.
[18:55] <CaptainBlackton> I wonder how hard it is to design a new phone though. When I was living in China about 12 years ago, there were people offering to make phones for me and they said I could just put my own label on it. At the time I had no interest in making a phone, but now there seems to be a big need for someone to start making a phone with standardized hardware to resolve the major hardware dependency hurdle that projects like
[18:55] <CaptainBlackton> UBports always seem to suffer from. I'm probably speaking in ignorance here though, as it's probably nowhere near as simple as that...
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[19:18] <bdju> I actually already have a OnePlus 2, OnePlus 3 and OnePlus 5. Was hoping for info on a tablet because a friend was asking about a good tablet for $150 and I was thinking if he hasn't bought the hardware yet, he might as well get something that supports good software.
[19:19] <bdju> I also referred him to the LineageOS devices page so that he at least hopefully doesn't get something with a locked bootloader.
[19:20] <bdju> I also told him about the PineTab, but it's not out yet and I think he wants something soon.