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<h1 id="nexus-7-2013-wifi-and-ubuntu-touch">Nexus 7 2013 (WiFi) and
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Ubuntu Touch</h1>
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<p><img alt="Scopes (home screen)" src="/res/img/blog/nexus_7_2013_wifi-scopes.png" style="max-width: 50%;"></p>
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<p>About a month ago (give or take) I purchased a Nexus 7 2013 (WiFi)
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with the intent of flashing Ubuntu Touch (OTA 9) onto it. I had
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previously flashed Ubuntu Touch onto a Nexus 5 that I had gotten for
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Christmas last year, again with the intent of flashing Ubuntu Touch onto
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it, so I knew what I could look forward to and what I could expect.</p>
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<h2 id="flashing-ubuntu-touch">Flashing Ubuntu Touch</h2>
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<p>Flashing Ubuntu Touch onto the Nexus 7 was pretty easy overall. First
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thing I had to do was install <code>adb</code> and <code>fastboot</code>
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onto my computer (running Ubuntu), as well as the
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<code>ubports-installer</code> snap.</p>
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<p><img alt="UBPorts installer" src="/res/img/blog/ubports_installer-nexus_7_2013_wifi.png" style="max-width: 50%;"></p>
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<p>Next, on the nexus 7 I needed to enable developer mode, enable USB
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debugging, unlock the bootloader, and re-enable dev mode and USB
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debugging. After that, I hooked up the Nexus 7 to my PC and launched the
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UBports Installer. It detected that the Nexus 7 was connected and pulled
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up the menu for flashing it right away. I clicked the needed buttons to
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flash it and let it do it's thing.</p>
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<h2 id="initial-setup">Initial Setup</h2>
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<p>After Ubuntu Touch was flashed onto the Nexus 7, I went through the
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initial setup of the device. First was the standard stuff like setting
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up WiFi and creating a user account.</p>
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<p>After that, I made sure any updates were applied and went on to
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install the apps I use from the Open Store, as well as any that I made
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myself.</p>
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<h2 id="day-to-day-usage">Day-to-Day Usage</h2>
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<p>Using this thing more-or-less every day for about the past month, it
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has worked great! I use it to check the weather, browse my Mastodon
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feed, shop on Amazon, and more!</p>
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<h2 id="papercuts">Papercuts</h2>
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<p>Of course, my experience has not been perfect. While I have not had
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any major issues using Ubuntu Touch on the Nexus 7, here are some
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papercuts that I have come across:</p>
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<li>Screen orrientaion is locked to landscape on lockscreen</li>
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<li>WiFi may not auto-reconnect. Pulling down WiFi menu may reconnect
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Wifi. Disabling WiFi and re-enabling reconnects WiFi</li>
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<li>Username on lockscreen does not move when keyboard pulls up</li>
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<h2 id="summary">Summary</h2>
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<p>All in all, I love this thing! Ubuntu Touch is maturing nicely, and
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is very much in a usable, daily driver state. The Nexus 7 is a nice
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tablet, with a good screen resolution, feel, and size.</p>
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<p>Of course, you may suffer from a lack of apps compaired to what you
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may be used to from iOS or Android, however there is a nice selection of
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apps available on the Open Store that may fill almost any role you need
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them to.</p>
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<p>Overall, I would definitely suggest this setup to anyone wanting a
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nice tablet with a free OS on it, or simply a nice tablet experience
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overall!</p>
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<h2 id="afterword-app-picks">Afterword: App Picks</h2>
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<p>Here are some apps I recommend using on Ubuntu Touch:</p>
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<li>FluffyChat (Matrix Client)</li>
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<li>Podbird (Podcast client)</li>
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<li>Telegram/TELEports* (Telegram)</li>
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<li>uMastonauts (Mastodon client)</li>
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<li>Recorder (audio recorder)</li>
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<li>uAdBlock (system-wide ad blocker)</li>
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<li>UT Tweak Tool (tweak UT even more. Use caution!)</li>
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<p>*TELEports is still in beta as of writing</p>
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