@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!

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!

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

I did. No one even replied to my post about a year ago

I saw your post and I did not understand it, it was clearly above my level of understanding.

I don't think anyone is patting each other on the back here. This is a project that's mostly run by volunteers and it's smaller than you may think. Our (barely a handful of) core devs are mostly busy getting VoLTE to run and fixing bugs in the new Noble release.

Most of the apps are made by volunteers who don't know enough about OS development to help with that, but still want to help. I'm grateful for their time.

I'm not sure what could be done better here. On a personal level, I enjoy the OS and it works for me.

In the end, we should all be using the OS that we like best. It's fine that you are choosing to use something else than UT. But why the whole song and dance?

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...

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

at the same time, the OS doesn't even ship a decent resource monitor. htop isn't even available by default, and users have to ask why it's not included.

You know, I've never ever even realised there wasn't one. This shows you that we are very different users. I'm a rather average user with a small dash of power user. You sound the other way around.

And clearly you seem to know a lot. It makes me wonder whether or not there really isn't a way you could help. You seem generally motivated to make things better, there is an energy present in your frustration and maybe that energy could find a constructive outlet.

I'm wondering about something else. Who is the 'we' in "We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely"? You're making it sound as if we should care deeply, when the reality is that people stop and start using mobile OSses all the time. Just this week I helped two users switch to UT and they both like it.

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?

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

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!

@vverve said in Pixel 3a how to migrate from UT to droidian or mobian ?:

Goal is retry to install mobian

So you're on Droidian and are trying to install Mobian.
I don't see how that's even half on topic on a forum that's only about Ubuntu Touch. Sorry!

@ZZZZ English please.

Hello, can you tell me if it is possible to install Ubuntu touch on Redmi Note 8 Pro

Yes, it's possible but the port is outdated and abandoned.
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/begonia/

@vverve said in How to install UT on a device currently running mobian?:

Does anyone know if what AI suggest is ok ?

We don't care what AI says. I advise you to do what the device page and the installer say. The device page for your device should tell you what needs to be installed on your device prior to installation of UT, and usually that's a stock version of Android.

I must say your question is not completely clear to me. What do you have installed, and what do you wantto install?

@bgriffis said in KeePass on UT?:

would I need to grab the keepass database using a different method?

I'd use a cable.

@GerhardF A smile works fine!

I'll repeat myself in case it was not clear:

You can't lock the bootloader on Ubuntu Touch, it will brick the device.

What can you do? You can rest easy, knowing that this message is completely normal on Ubuntu Touch, and almost all users see something similar when their phone boots.
My strategy is to see it as a badge of honour, a visible proof that you freed the device from Google's clutches. It's not mandatory, but certainly allowed, to respond with a loud "MUHAHAHAHA!" every time you see it.

@pparent said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

I've published the new version v7.83.0-1 that allows uploading files.

Veeeeery nice! It looks slightly hacky, but yes it works. Another sweet improvement!

@GerhardF You can't lock the bootloader on Ubuntu Touch*, it will brick the device. Your startup message sounds absolutely normal. Can we see a picture of it please?

*with a few exceptions but OnePlus isn't one of them

@naz.R said in Merezhyvo browser:

you just gave me an idea to add a new option into messengers settings to hide this messengers button in case if someone don't use it.
Will add it in the next release.

Oh wow, that's great, thank you so much for your efforts!

@naz.R Thank you, that does help! I never tapped on the sun because I thought it meant day mode / night mode. Now that I can find the settings, they seem quite sensible.
(Except for the messengers icon, which I'm never going to use, so I would probably switch that off if possible. But that's just me. Apparently other people use it.)

That said, I'm very happy that UT is getting some up to date browsers, which was long overdue... and so I'm grateful for this new option too.