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  • The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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    @Sander Thanks a lot your detailed walkthrough. I actually wanted to recommend to everyone using matrix (new users expected here ) to set it up in a second device. Why? Chats in matrix are mostly encrypted. Those chats are only visible on verified so called sessions. A session is any other matrix client logged in with the same username and homeserver. As described by you, one can use a key to verify. But I found that more difficult than with a second device by comparing a few emojis. A second device can be any matrix client that supports verification. This can be Cinny or Element on desktop or another phone. But it can also be a web client e.g. cinny web. Just use a different device in case your phone breaks or get lost. Regarding Cinny, I am struggling with the terrible last mile fixing some last downloads. I am almost there for releasing. But I guess it will take a few more days...

  • Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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    @Lga Quick point Ubuntu Touch and UBports are not German. The UBports Foundation itself is a charity and that charity is registered with the German government for regulation purposes but that does not make us German. We have Community members from around the world. Though it might be fair to say the majority might be Europe based.

  • Discuss and solve problems with other users

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    @domubpkm said in Camera stays black - possible to restart (via terminal)?: Does the problem also exist on the RC channel? Yes it does.

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    Hello, I've an Aquaris E4.5 (16.04) and I'm looking for the next phone to continue the UT adventure. In my country, VoLTE is an important topic because 2G/3G will be shutdown. I understand that OTA-8 VoLTE support is limited to some VollaPhone, but for those who want to buy a new phone now and hope VoLTE support in futur, I tried to read topics about VoLTE, and if I sum it up : Qualcomm and Mediatek will be supported Halium11 seems to be the minimum Based on devices database, Halium11+ devices list is short as today : "Niche" phones : Fairphone4, Volla22/Quintus/X23, F(x)tec Pro1 X Sold widely : Xiaomi Redmi (Note) 9 If your telco don't accept all VoLTE compatibles phones, but only thoses they tested, it seems Xiaomi Redmi (note) 9 is the only choice ? Thank you

  • Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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    @peat_psuwit Hello. As Alfred said in the last Q&A, clickable continues to evolve. After a clickable update-images, how should clickable.yaml and manifest.json be for compiling (and installing) applications on a phone with the latest Noble nigthly build? Is this still relevant? ‘For now, you'll need to get a nightly build of Clickable. After that, specify ubuntu-touch-next-internal as the framework inside clickable.yaml and specify policy_version of the AppArmor profile to 9999. You may also have to make sure your manifest.json specifies @CLICK_FRAMEWORK@ in the framework field so that the correct version is filled in automatically by Clickable (sadly a similar mechanism doesn't exist yet for AppArmor policy - see this issue). When building, you'll have to specify --accept-review-errors for now, as click-reviewer-tools has not been updated.’

  • 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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    A cool feature would be to highlight selected text, or ideally a tool that would bind the highlight to the closest text in the document.

  • 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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    Makes me wonder what changed because as far as I know, this wasn't an issue before. Could it be related to the big changes with multi-monitor support in Lomiri? I believe that's also when the scrolling issue started to happen on external displays

  • 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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    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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    Relevant article here: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/furiphone_flx1/