@magnargj I see that it only has 4GB of RAM. Browsers and webapps can take a lot of memory. Not sure if this is a bug or if we can do something about this. It also depends on the site. Sites with infinite scrolling like Twitter can literally consume GBs of memory
Posts made by kugiigi
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RE: How important is strong hardware?
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RE: How important is strong hardware?
I have no experience with any of the Volla phones so not sure how smooth they are compared to the Fairphone 4 but of all my UT devices, it's definitely one of the smoothest and performant one. However, I'd say one of the main weaknesses of UT is the browser. It's outdated as we all know but in my observation, it also doesn't perform 7as well as you'd expect based on the system's overall performance. Not sure why though, honestly.
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RE: How important is strong hardware?
@jojumaxx That's not what I mean. UT can be smooth even on a bq E5 with 1 GB of RAM but you can't expect to have multiple apps open without background apps getting killed. Browsers and webapps specially consume high memory.
And as for Waydroid, it's literally another OS so you can't expect for it to not bog down the system at least a bit. With just UT, 4GB of RAM is totally fine. So it's basically really depends on your usage. I'm a bit of a power user. I always have a browser with mutiple tabs and teleports open then a few apps more from time to time. I also use Waydroid when I'm out so for me, it's ideal to have 8GB of RAM. -
RE: How important is strong hardware?
I'd say 6GB is the ideal but 8GB if you use Waydroid. Let's accept the fact that UT isn't as optimized as Android/iOS. So if we can get raw power, the better. On my FP4 with 6GB, it's generally smooth but it can slow down once I open Waydroid while having a browser open. I have to close the browser so that the system goes back to being responsive. This wasn't the case on my S10 with 8GB which stayed responsive even with Waydroid. If there's a 12GB variant of FP5, I'd personally get that So I'd suggest any device with 6-8GB of RAM.
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RE: Script to clean Teleports without logging out
@Bolly I actually stopped backing up teleports. It doesn't make sense anyway since all data are in the cloud. They were just old backups I did years ago. I think I included everything in the app data folder
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RE: New Ubuntu Touch user looking for some starting tips
First thing I think is to set your expectation. It'll be very hard to completely abandon iOS/Android. I managed to only use UT for around 5 years but had to have an Android phone as secondary phone in the past few years. Some things are just not possible on UT. There's Waydroid to try some apps that you need but not all will work especially those that needs security checks and such. Waydroid also drains the battery.
X and Proton Mail can only be accessed via the browser/webapp. Proton mail doesn't support the usual email configs (IMAP/SMTP) so you can't use Dekko. There are a few Reddit clients in the store though not sure how good they are compared to just using the web version.
We currently only have Morph as the browser with Sapot browser as a fork with a bit different UI but still the same web engine which is sadly outdated right now due to technicalities.
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RE: Telegram app
@daivdccd Yes it lacks many features. If you're just doing basic stuffs, it's enough but if you need other features like admin-related, calls, etc, you may need to try the web version.
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RE: Q: notifications (non-LED)
I don't know if there are devices with notifnotification LED that supports focal but they should be working I think unless there's a known issue? It worked well on xenial on my previous phones (bq E5 and Nexus 5).
As for always on display, I don't think there's also a device with UT support that's capable of it. And if ever there's such devic3, UT currently don't support it, well mainly because as mentioned there's no device to support
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RE: random resets when using Messenger
My guess is that something crashes when this happens and probably not really related to out of memory issues. Perhaps Mir, Qtmir, or whatever
Sadly it seems to be really hard to replicate and investigate. I've observed similar issue on my FP4 and Xperia X.
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RE: Script to clean Teleports without logging out
I actually recently checked for duplicate files in my Nextcloud server and found thousands of teleports images since I have a few backup of its app data And those were just images! (thumbnails, profile pic, cache, etc)
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RE: No USB data transfer on Pixel 3a
@bmlu I wonder what happened with the data transfer in OTA 25 But in any case, an alternative for file transfer is by using SSH/SFTP. Pretty easy if you have Linux on your desktop. On Windows, you can use WinSCP and similar apps.
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RE: Any chance of updating 16.04 to 20.04?
@bmlu Currently the popular ones and with active port maintainer are the Pixels 3a And Fairphone 4. I think OnePlus 5/6? also have a great port and UT works well on them.
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RE: Any chance of updating 16.04 to 20.04?
@bmlu If you intend to use UT, Pinephone may not be a good choice. There are great guys who picked up the development and working on making the Pine devices port a lot better and updated but these devices have their own issues and quirks. Specific to UT, the focus has mostly been with Android devices so some things have to be adapted for mainline devices like the Pine devices. Because of this some features may not work or work similarly. Also, my impression with the Pine devices is that even other distros are still having problems in the development especially in regards to drivers and such.
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RE: Any chance of updating 16.04 to 20.04?
@bmlu Sadly phones/tablets are a lot more complicated than PCs. Usually they are stuck with whatever kernel version they released with or what their last software update had. Also some companies don't even release their kernel sources even though they are legally required. And some release them but don't release newer versions anymore. Kernal sources are essential to the porting process.
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RE: Any chance of updating 16.04 to 20.04?
@bmlu No, unless the porter or someone else do the effort of porting it to focal. Main issue is the old kernel version since focal needs something from newer kernels. Honestly, this would be highly unlikely to happen considering that more popular devices like Nexus 5 haven't been ported to focal.
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RE: Possibility of malicious apps in OpenStore
@domubpkm That's the idea yes. I mean that's true in everything. We live in a trust-based society
Speaking of, I think we also need OpenStore to require publishing apps straight from their public repo if they're open source. Because for example me, I'm lazy so I haven't setup to automatically publish builds from repo. I can technically build my apps with malicious codes and publish that without showing those codes in the public repo
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RE: Possibility of malicious apps in OpenStore
Embedded webviews are probably the most dangerous since the dev can inject malicious stuffs. They can't do malicious things with your local data but they can with your online data and information
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RE: Can't boot with my lenovo tab m10 fhd plus x606f
@Altairo13 Sadly that's a known issue since the start of the port. Is the latest version in focal (Ubuntu 20.04) now?
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RE: Location of Android 9 images for Lenovo M10 x606F?
@Luksus Oh nice. Looks like someone else picked it up. Mine is usually collecting dust and only use when I need to test on tablets. It's still in xenial though
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RE: Location of Android 9 images for Lenovo M10 x606F?
@ykmsr What is this for? Is there a recent development with the UT port for this model?