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  • The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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    @peat_psuwit said in On the subject of Ubuntu Touch versioning scheme: We've considered 24.04 OTA-x.y. Unfortunately, (re-)using the word OTA could set the wrong expectation; by using the word OTA, many users will expect incremental, frequent updates (AKA rolling release). Don't worry, users will expect unicorn rainbow farts anyway and while updates are a bit slow, technically UT is a rolling release I'm really sorry that you have this sentiment. I also don't want to change the versioning scheme, but both the technical and practical reasons forced us to re-think how we will version Ubuntu Touch. Don't be, it was mostly a joke, and, while I may not fully agree with the reasoning, it is overall a pretty minor change. I've been on the other side of this experience plenty of times. As a user I get upset about minor changes because they make up a much "larger" part of the user experience vs the experience as a developer where this is an "insignificant" side quest compared to all the development work actually being done Also compare this change to the hot mess that is the current naming schemes from both intel and AMD

  • Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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    stanwoodS
    Just curious: Any news about the brand new Brax3 device with Ubuntu Touch? It's almost ready to be shipped (March 2024). There's a tread here, last updated in December 2024: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10607/brax3-the-mysterious?_=1739970888773 Thank you very much! Cheers!

  • Discuss and solve problems with other users

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    Good evening, since a few days I get the error message "Object.hasOwn is not a function" when trying to open for exemple the following page: https://www.aerzteblatt.de/news/bundesamt-warnt-vor-sicherheitslucken-bei-wearables-06829337-3cab-4030-81a3-c846a4e1b9d7 Is the error message due to our old Morph browser, possibly a Java-Script issue? Can I do anything to read again the linked articles...?

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    MrT10001M
    @wally Hi, I suffer the same on my Android phone, so it is most likely a carrier issue. I think carriers want to drop SMS and MMS as people (the vast majority of youngsters) use private messaging apps over data.

  • Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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    At this point, no regression observed on the Volla 22 although finding 4G seems quite long after a start-up of Volla 22 via the stages: no network, 2G, 3G, 4G. The succession of steps can take more than 30 seconds. Maybe normal ?

  • 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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    @Eric-H great job.

  • Porting Ubuntu Touch to new devices

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    MoemM
    @dlks9999 If it was that simple, I think we'd have more ports.

  • Lomiri, the operating environment for everywhere

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    SalahS
    Dear Friends, Hope you will have a wonderful moments for your family and beloving people. I have a suggest for Lomiri Launcher which I have noticed while adding more indicators such as weather. It seems that notification indicators will be half or quarter appear (while remaining shape is hidden under the launcher). As per attached picture: [image: 1735469459801-123.png] I suggest that Lomiri Launcher (White Section) from the top of left corner to be removed and only (Blue Section) would be the edge of this launcher. This will prevent any cross might occur between additional indicator and the edge of the launcher it self. It is good to be considered in upcoming 24.04.

  • Discussion on translating Ubuntu Touch and its core apps

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    @oya-g said in Japanese!!: Channel Update → 20.04Development has Japanese. My device is Pixel3a, so it is 4G compatible. The "development" channel is maybe not meant for day-to-day use, as it may be buggy and/or unstable. So really looking forward to japanese support arriving in stable. Note that even with a 4G compatible phone, you will not be able to do any phone calls inside japan, as the 4G protocol stack does not by itself support telephony. It only supports data. For telephony, you need VoLTE support, which is quite a messy affair, as it requires various firmware and software components to cooperate properly for calls to be routed over the 4G data layer (i.e. as VoIP call). UBports does not support that currently.

  • 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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    ikozI
    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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    MrT10001M
    It's not on the installer and a quick online search shows no one is working on a port. This means you are going to have to do it yourself which requires skill, tenacity and time. Check out the documentation on porting.