I know this may sound a little weird, but today I flashed UT on my Mi A2 at the first try. Succesfully.
The only thing I did before was unlocking the device with fastboot oem unlock (and then follow the instructions on the device) and download the vendor image as the installer (0.8.8-beta, app-image) was suggesting. I had to give the path to vendor.img and that was it. I did not flash twpr, I did not downgrade to android 9, the installation went through without any issue and everything is working fine as far as I can see... Only the video capuring broke afte taking one single good video... hm . I'm on stable channel now.
thanks to everybody at ubports and the porters and everyone here in this great forum, hope this report is encouraging.
Best posts made by messayisto
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Installation Succes at the first Try
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RE: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 110 Saturday 9th October At 19:00 UTC
@unisuperbox Thank you to the entire team for all you do for this great project - thank you!
While watching you at the show, I could literally feel the burden you carry. I've felt that way before, but this time it was really clear to see and yes, to hear from you as well.
We normal users are greedy little animals, like children who always want more because it is so great what we are offered here, that's true.
But if we are reminded of that - and you rightly do from time to time - then we are also empathetic adults who know about the burden of your responsibility.
I want you to know that I am well aware of the weight of your responsibilities.
I probably feel as helpless as you do, because I can't do anything except a little communication and testing and some modest donations. But of course I know the situation, where everything becomes too much from my professional contexts as well. I think if you allow yourself that, the joy might come back. I hope it very much for you - and for all of us here. Good luck! -
RE: Known Issues
@messayisto I am totally ashamed to admit, that it was only a wrong password. I had to look inside my router to get that. So sorry ...
To repent, I will immediately donate somethingCongratulations anyway to this great port, the OPO 5 is now my daily driver. And again thanks for your work.
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RE: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 116 Saturday 29th Jan At 19:00 UTC
@ubportsnews Would You be so kind and explain a little the affection of Daltons departure on the current projects and developments? I am not shure that I have understood enough of the structure of the different teams and so on... So it feels like an earthquake - is it one?
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RE: Mobile stuck at penguin boot image
@nauvpp Hi!
as keneda wrote in your other post it is not good to lock the device again. Have a look here:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5509/re-ota-updates-not-working/25
and here:
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RE: Installation Experience
There is an unofficial unlock-Tool:
https://xiaomitool.com/V2/
which worked for me on linux.I also had to do the Ubuntuflashing using the UbportsInstaller twice... but now its kind of great!
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Porting "Heebo" to Ubuntutouch
This is kind of a pull request, or a suggestion, no: a deep wish of mine!
In the legendary times of the N9 there was a game called "Heebo" by developper Mats Sjöberg. It was later ported by some people to Sailfish Os, because its totally open source. I love this game, you can download it here:
https://openrepos.net/content/hooddy/heebo
I wrote a mail to Mr. Sjöberg, and he answered that it shouldn't be too hard to port his game to Ubuntutouch. Unfortunately he doesn't own an Ubuntu Touch device, and without that it seems to be impossible to do any conversion.
He further writes: "The software and graphics are all open source, so if you know of someone who does know how to develop for Ubuntu Touch, I would naturally have no objections to anyone else porting it, and I would be glad to help in any way I can. In fact, the Sailfish and Android ports have been done by other people. I only created the original N9 (MeeGo) and Symbian versions."
So my question is: Is somebody here, who could port it? Unfortunately I'm not a developper at all, so I cannot do it, but if I could help, I would!
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Withdraw or lock version 0.9.1
Wouldn´t it be a good idea to withdraw or lock the latest version of the ubports-installer due to all the issues reported all over the different sections of the forum? just a question... I´ve been reading such a lot of problems and answers advicing to take an older version. So I find it easier to withdraw the actual version so taht not so many people running in trouble with it.
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RE: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 110 Saturday 9th October At 19:00 UTC
@3t_ed I am such a happy UT user, too.
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RE: Email links not working.
@dunbrokin You sometimes have to tab and hold a link to get the confirm dialogue.
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RE: Ubuntu Touch Q&A 129 call for questions
@UBportsNews I heard several times in the forum that it can help to make a clean focal OTA3 install (including ticked wipe box) for fixing artefacts and remaining faults of Xenial,.
My first question: Is this true?
Second question: While adb is no longer working on newer halium versions, is there a convenient way to back up your data and configurations before doing a clean install? -
RE: Test alternative pin code prompt - system settings integration
@lduboeuf very nice! works well on rc channel on xiaomi mi a2. would love to see this in daily use...
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RE: Corona app does not survive a reboot with OTA-20
@domubpkm same on my device as far as I can see
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RE: My Ubuntu Touch daily driver is...
@tchan used to use an oneplus one. now its a redmi mi a2 and I'm enjoying it very much.
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RE: RC Channel Update Latest
@messayisto On stable every mentioned thing is working fine again. I am so grateful for the options one has using this os!
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RE: Backup and Restore scripts
@aarontheissueguy O yeah, that would be great! Thank you!! - I think of the transition to 20.04. Some devices will no longer be supported and there might be some people who would highly appreciate such an useful app. To get their data onto their next phone...