I improved the soldering on my porta pro mod a bit last night, and I made the cables removable. I don't have the two pin iem jacks that I ordered for it yet, so I made my own with some breadboard cable ends and a pair of pliers. Now I can unplug the bluetooth adapters if I want to use it with a cable. It's a much sturdier connection than soldering the wires directly to the pins.
Apparently these bluetooth modules will only work with devices that support BT5.0, so it won't connect to my desk phone at work. I'd like something that supports pairing to multiple devices simultaneously, but this works well for listening to music from my phone.

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I just made my Porta Pros wireless. I soldered on a TRN BT20, and glued the receivers on the frame. My soldering was pretty terrible, I may end up redoing it. They work well though, the mic is clear, and the range is good. I've heard that the official wireless porta pros have terrible range that doesn't even always reach to your pocket. These worked from a few rooms away. They also don't have the wire going between the cups like the official wireless model has.

I got audio working properly on my with Ubuntu Touch. Streaming video from my server is pretty smooth. I can't figure out how to rotate the screen in UT yet. Headphones work, but audio will play out of both the headphones and the speakers when you have them plugged in.

The latest build of Ubuntu Touch is working pretty well on my . I can even stream videos from my Jellyfin server.

My came in today. I'm downloading some images to try out on it. The build quality feels good, and it seems repairable.

ddrescue finally finished yesterday, and it was able to get 99.91% of the drive. The partition table was corrupted, but I was able to use testdisk on the ddrescue image to rebuild it and then repair the NTFS file table to copy everything off.

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I'm trying to recover some data for a friend. It has been going for at least a couple weeks, but it seems to still be making progress. I had to set up a loop to retry ddrescue every 30 seconds when the drive disappears. Earlier today it was around 44%.

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