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  • The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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    Yes, well summarized @MrT10001. Though I'll note that not all of North America has lost 3G support. Here in Canada (at least while we remain a sovereign nation) 3G is alive on all carriers for now. Sunset dates range between July 2025 and Dec 2026. My impression is that a bunch of nations in the south of NA still have 2G and/or 3G as well. If it were me though, I'd either go with one of the pricier but clearly supported devices you listed, or try to hold out a bit longer before buying something, to make sure it works well in 24.04 (and that VoLTE starts working, if you'll need it soon). My guess is that the coming weeks/months might make it all a bit more clear which devices will have a good future with Noble and VoLTE.

  • Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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    Ubuntu Touch Q&A 161 is available in both blog and audio versions. https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-161-3956 #UBports #UBportsQandA #Ubuntu #Opensource #MobileLinux

  • Discuss and solve problems with other users

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    First of all, it'll be really hard to address your concerns since you're in xenial which is outdated for more than a year now. The bugs you encountered might already be fixed but will never be fixed in xenial. Also please tell us which device you have. It may also be possible that your device have a port that is unmaintained or not in good quality. I've never encountered your issue with the lockscreen and alarm. Perhaps you used passwd to change your password? You shouldn't do that since the settings app does something else and the system expects those. I've been using my UT device for my alarms for a decade now and I don't remember it failing. We don't have any complexities in time such as daylight savings though which perhaps causes these issues? As for Libertine, it really is under-developed and never found it reliable. It works for some cases but definitely not with GUI apps. For encryption, someone has experimented with it but nothing official yet. At the end of the day, someone has to put the effort on it but so far no one succeeded yet.

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    @lduboeuf Shoot, my mistake. I tried today, and Contacts hadn't actually imported. I guess it said "Importing Contacts" when I first connected the new device, but then failed. I very seldom connect to my car, so hadn't noticed. I'd stayed on Xenial for a long time, and this must have been when they worked successfully. Sorry for the false report.

  • Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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    @PiotrBujakowski Original Poster I guess.

  • Discuss the user experience or design of Ubuntu Touch or its apps

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    Hi @Capsia , Thanks to you and any others for the excellent work on the websites! I hope this is an ok topic to post this in. I didn't find much else pertaining to website discussion. (TL;DR - I'm suggesting a Donate button next to porter/maintainer names on each Devices page of the website.) Recently I tried to donate to my device's porter, and found it hard to find how to do so. I tracked down his Paypal eventually, but it took some searching, and it might not be possible to find some porters. I thought if there were a Donate button on the website, similar to how there's an option on the OpenStore to donate to the app's developer, it might both remind people to donate, and make it easier to do so. I asked about this idea on Q&A #157 and Alfred and AppLee were both favourable toward it. But of course this requires work, and I have no skills with websites. I imagine it would require reworking the Contributors section on the Devices pages, and enabling an optional donate button next to the names of any contributors who'd like donations and who provide a link to their patreon/libera/whatever. It would get more complicated when there are many developers and maintainers. Who will the user donate to? Each of them? And is it weird if some of them request donations and others don't? But to me, it's still better to have the option, even if there are complications. Anyway, sorry to be making a suggestion with no way to help bring it about. But I wanted to float the idea out there, to keep our porters supported!

  • Creating Ubuntu Touch apps

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    @hlbkv Noted! I won't make any promises about the timeframe, but I'll do that when I get a chance

  • Porting Ubuntu Touch to new devices

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    The porting guide requires img2simg and simg2img which are provided up to Ubuntu 22.04 and not later. You can install these utilities using this snap: sudo snap install android-platform-tools sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:adb-support sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:block-devices sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:raw-usb sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:removable-media sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:network sudo snap connect android-platform-tools:network-bind sudo snap alias android-platform-tools.img2simg img2simg sudo snap alias android-platform-tools.simg2img simg2img

  • Lomiri, the operating environment for everywhere

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    As kugiigi says, Ubuntu Touch is using an obsolete version of Mir (1.8) with dated Wayland support. Also, most of the Wayland support in Lomiri comes from Mir (the rest comes from Mir's support for "custom" Wayland extensions). The consequence of that is that there's no much prospect of improving the Wayland support in Ubuntu Touch without first updating it to use the current version of Mir. The good news is that is work currently going on to get Lomiri working with the current version (2.20) of Mir. As of today this works on the machines of the developers involved and is close to landing in both the Debian and Fedora archives. However, it will still take significant time to get the rest of Ubuntu Touch migrated over to this newer stack. That is probably the task that can most benefit from help at present. After all that is completed, it should be possible for Ubuntu Touch to track the current version of Mir, and Wayland support will follow Mir. It is also possible to contribute to Mir's Wayland support, but that won't help Ubuntu Touch at present.

  • Discussion on translating Ubuntu Touch and its core apps

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    @arubislander Understood. Thank you!

  • A place to discuss ideas for promoting Ubuntu Touch

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    @Arnoldko About your question: UBports is a German foundation. And when I search for "public transport" at open-store.io (app store for Ubuntu Touch (UT)) I see four German, two Spanish, one Norwegian, one American, one Hungarian and one Swiss app(s). So you have maybe slightly more people who know some things about UT in this countries, but I do not think that this is significant. It probably depends more on what you want to do and how you want to structure your company (How closely do HW and SW teams need to work together? Where is the head of your company? Is this a commercial project?...). If your hardware team also takes care of firmware and drivers and you are only searching for some people who write some apps for you, you should find people who can do some C++, Qt and server stuff nearly everywhere. Specifically for Ubuntu Touch, you could maybe post a job description in this forum and let the people work from home. Some time ago some people related to Volla did a fundraiser to bring Android apps to UT. They commissioned some Russian developer and it was very successful. So maybe this could also be an option for you: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5907/open-ubuntu-touch-to-all-android-applications/ https://forums.ubports.com/user/stanwood https://www.gofundme.com/f/anbox-on-ut?utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=customer&utm_campaign=p_lico+share-sheet About no phone numbers: A lot of messengers and other services depend on verification via SMS. This is maybe something you want to consider. About using UT as a base: Please be aware that Ubuntu Touch has some limitations and depending on what you want to do (how much you want to modify the system), it could maybe be more convenient to start with something else (like Debian). There are currently also some people working on Lomiri (the desktop environment of Ubuntu Touch) for Debian. But this very much depends on what you want to do.

  • Other Projects

    Projects which are started by a group within the UBports community

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    The last step installs the rootfs usually in system partition, see the install section of the porting documention. Basically flash the latest xenial image from the CI to system. Alternatively push the image with adb to /data/system.img when booted to recovery. Otherwise you could try ubports installer with only the systemimage:install command. You can also see the halium-install source code, particularly these lines. Be sure to check if this partition exists as partition schemes can vary.

  • For things that just don't fit in the other categories.

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    I was just curious of someone around here had an idea of if support for displaying an attached bluetooth device's battery level was seeing some progress. Or else, if I completely missed where I can see it then someone set me straight. Being able to see what the battery level of my headphones, or a bluetooth keyboard would be very useful. I looked in the bluetooth panel, in the slide down battery panel from the top, and the system > battery control panel.