@MrT10001 then I guess it's not for me. Thank you all for the clarification.

@Vlad-Nirky Its not an impression, the app is inefficient in its current state, optimizations are needed. The perception will vary depending on the amount of whatsapp data you receive. Its a combination of having the backend written in python (which means that on receiving new events, a python process is created to process it on the fly) and the qml frontend re-rendering on each event that emits a qml update. So for example receiving a new chat means re-rendering the whole chat list. Not too worried about it yet, but something for me to look in the future. I'm not 100% decided on how this app will manage its data so not gonna waste time optimizing something that might change. Probably will get back to this once the app support all possible Whatsapp events / message types, which will give clarity on how to model everything.

@Moem After clearing the saved Wi-Fi connections, power consumption is minimal. [image: 1779434595907-8f6aae21-1785-4f50-8c3a-e94f2ba0bb02-image.jpeg]

Hi, I am back again. I didn't want to bother you with my long posts until I made it. Still working on it, though. @wally, as I said, my phone sent the SMS but get no response. I hadn't yet updated anything. I was chatting with the Xiaomi customer service and told me two things: Clear data/caché from "Settings" --> "Apps" --> "Manage apps" --> "Xiaomi SIM Activaton Service". Change "Settings" --> "Additional settings" --> "Languages and input" to other language, in my case to "English (UK)". You can try it. I don't know if both are necessary, but were simple to accomplish and so did I. Tried again, SMS sent and paid, and MIXiaomi account was linked to my phone number. Next step, was linking the account to "Settings" --> "Additional settings" --> "Developer options" --> "MIUnlockStatus". For this to work I had to turned off the "Find Device" option: "Settings" --> "MIAccount" --> "Xiaomi Cloud" --> "Find Device" --> Off. And it did the trick. This is all like a puzzle, a jigsaw, an escape room ... Still no luck, though. The device is still "deactivated". Again Xiaomi customer service said that this matters are part of the "Xiaomi Community" and that I should asked there. I found an interesting post, that maybe everybody is aware of, but me. I asked it here before, but it seems that, yes, the unlock request must be made within this app. I made a Google account just to download the "Xiaomi Community" app. In the left lower icon, "ME, go to "Set up" and "Change region" to "Global". Go back to "ME" and "Unlock bootloader" will now be visible. Click on it and mine says "Account must be registered over 30 days". I have mi fresh Xiaomi account, my fresh Google account and one week still to go ...

@undrwater Confirmed! Finally! When I updated from 20 the upgrade app showed upgrade to Ubuntu touch 8. I did it and it worked. And VoLTE worked finally! I never had it working on v20 and the only way I could make calls is because 3G still works in Canada. I upgraded to the latest today after that 4.13 I think. And it won’t boot now at all. This boot loader sucks. I’m dumb and I could never made anything like this, but no rollback like twrp had ten years ago is going to force me to buy a second n10 just to sanity check that updates don’t cause an unbootable state!

At a suggestion from @sander I implemented the Content Hub to select the local fallback audio file. The API of https://www.radio-browser.info is great, and also already implemented by the Radio app as far as I can tell from a quick glance. So I would rather ask Patrick Fial (does he have an account on this forum?) to add something like a 'copy URL'-button to the station in the favorites-list of his app. Or create a merge request for this myself, of course. @vlad-nirky Classic2 yes! Not waking up too gently though ;-).

I've found the cause of the increased battery drain on Wi-Fi. Clear the list of saved Wi-Fi connections: Go to Wi-Fi -> Wi-Fi Settings -> Saved Networks and tap “Forget” next to all the networks. Then reconnect to your home Wi-Fi network. After that, battery drain in standby mode will return to a minimum of < 2% per hour.

Buddy, is anyone already working on this device? What’s still missing, and how can I help?