Testing GPS

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WARNING: follow steps form the first post; I intentionally didn't and it ended poorly. Tried the steps from the first post days ago 'without' switching to dev channel but otherwise up to date. Already had uNav for a long time and had just installed puremaps+osmscout shortly before. I had also installed a document viewer long ago which likely sums up software changes. I had no simcard or sd card installed. Attempting to open uNav and puremaps failed rapidly returning to the launcher. After reboot, the system now fails to boot after the ubuntu touch splash screen with a white screen saying:

There was an error loading Unity8:
file:///usr/share/unity8//OrientedShell.qml:268:5: Type Shell unavailable
file:///usr/share/unity8//Shell.qml:562:9: Type Launcher unavailable
file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/Launcher.qml:365:5: Type Drawer unavailable
file:///usr/share/unity8//Launcher/Drawer.qml:23:1: plugin cannot be loaded for module "Qt.labs.settings": Failed to extract plugin meta data from '/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/qt5/qml/Qt/labs/settings/libqmlsettingsplugin.so'

I presume this was likely just the result of not going to dev branch first right? Is there any data people would like me to get from this before I wipe the internal memory? I'm now playing with the multiboot image from sd card and with a SIM have mobian (eventually) showing gps lock; asked in another thread if sim is required though.