@peat_psuwit said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1:

(there has been flooding in my area).

I'm glad to hear that you're safe. Please give priority to your health and safety, and those of your family, over a software update!

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NOTE written on January 20 2026:
The post below was written in February 2025. Since then, a native version of Signal for Desktop has been made available by one of our app developers (thank you!)
It's working quite well and you can find it here.

ORIGINAL POST below:

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Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

• Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
• Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
• Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

• Open Cinny (or another matrix client)
• create a new room
• invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de
• open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices
• add new device
• got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message
• scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
  Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

I was one of the volunteers humanning the stand, and it was great. We were able to answer a lot of questions, we showed many different devices on our stand, and people were quite enthousiastic about what we had to show and say. It was an inspiring day and we helped promote UT and make contact with organisations for possible collaboration. Time well spent!

@libremax Thanks for posting! I'm still at Bornhack, and beside the talk, there are so many folks here who are interested in Ubuntu Touch. Now that people know that I'm using it, lots of people want to talk to me about it and ask me questions, and I answer as many as I can.
My show-and-tell device (BQ Aquaris E4.5) goes from hand to hand (yes, we use sanitizer) and people are amazed by the smooth operation, and more when I tell them how old it is.

I'm hoping to be causing a small influx of interest in our OS and community. I'm certainly doing my best to do so!

YESSS
It's working! I have zoom, autofocus and flash! This is the last thing that was missing for me to be able to say that the phone is fully functional under UT!

Excuse me while I dance the happy dance...

Some of their applications can run on Waydroid. But most people who are using Ubuntu Touch wish to get away from Google. Personally I want to avoid Android applications and the Google Playstore.

If we are going to do everything that Android does, what would make us special? Why would we even bother?

This was a lot of fun. We had a really simple stand because we didn't bring a lot of equipment, but it was enough: we got plenty of interest, had some good conversations, and answered many questions. It's definitely worth planning for T-Dose 2026 (June 6 and 7)!

Greetings from all the creatures of T-Dose!

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

@cliffcoggin said in Ushby have released an official Review on UT.:

I suggest the review is removed until a more objective one can be written.

Let's cut the author a little slack. They're allowed to voice their opinions, even if their opinions are based on a misunderstanding; as for feeling ill, the world would in my view be a better place if everyone was this open and honest about what influenced their mood at a certain time.

Vandaag was UBports, vier mens sterk, aanwezig bij de landelijke meeting van de NLLGG . We hebben vragen beantwoord, dingen uitgelegd en laten zien, er zijn toestellen geflashed met Ubuntu Touch... en ik heb een presentatie gehouden, waar positieve respons op kwam. Ook hadden we wat leuke weggevertjes meegebracht: pennen, keycords en natuurlijk stickers.
We zijn van harte welkom om er de volgende keer weer bij te zijn en er zijn plannen gesmeed om een mooie samenwerking tussen UBports en de NLLGG op te bouwen. Naar mijn idee een prima match!

I'm not sure how relevant this is to the development of this extremely useful native app. But I think it's at least interesting.

https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/

The place to start is here: https://docs.ubports.com/porting

@aimar said:

Digging in it, I switched and option called "OEM unlocking" (or something similar, my phone iz not in english). That's it?

No, it's not. 'Allow OEM unlocking' is the first step towards unlocking, by itself it does not unlock anything.

@messayisto said:

Where is a good place here in the forum to post this?

I´d post it here:
https://forums.ubports.com/category/54/google

Interesting! That would be a great addition to our collection if he, or someone else, can get it done.

Isn't most of this off-topic in this thread about potentially porting the Unihertz Jelly Max?

@tr4in33 said:

Guys, how likely is it to port Ubuntu Touch to the Jelly Max?

Does it have an unlockable bootloader?
Is the kernel source available?
Do you own the device and are you willing to risk bricking it in the process?
Do you have time and skills, or are you willing to learn?

If you can answer Yes to all of these, then it's potentially viable.

@mf22 said:

Most things seem to work, GPS does not.

Are you accounting for the fact that we don't have A-GPS?

@developerbayman said:

i disagree the topic is actually the whole world

This topic is literally called "French ID app interoperability". If you feel the need to talk about global issues, please start a new topic.

@developerbayman said:

as an american i can safely say we are ALL against this ....

That's cool but this topic is not about the US. It's about a French ID app. Not everything needs to be about the US.

That is not a supported device. It's not on the list: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

This means that no installation files exist for that device. In other words, there is nothing to try.
Each device is different, so each one needs to be ported individually.