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Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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Hi everyone,

I’m aware that a multiboot (i.e. having two mobileOS installed) is possible, depending on a modified recovery (aka TWRP), and by using both A/B partitions sets on compatible devices.

So, my questions are :

1- Does UT use both A/B partitions when doing an OTA-update ? (for the devices having A/B partitions of course), or does OTA-update use only one set of partitions anyway ? (cf. legacy devices)

I saw on a multiboot-tutorial that a specific build of UT was needed for multiboot, and that OTA updates then becomes unavailable. Which leads me to my last question :

2- What are the needed features and their tradeoffs for UT to be multiboot-compatible by default ? (i.e. to have the same UT as everyone, with OTA-updates, on a multiboot device)
General

The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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@fuseteam said in Snap Crackle and Pop! Readwrite rootfs is overrated:

When i first heard of ubuntu touch i was pretty excited to see a OS i could be in control of, as i never like how android worked and such.

like many the idea of using my phone as a "PC" really fascinated me, especially since at the time i had a laptop with 3GB of RAM and smartphone were beginning to get just as much RAM.
you can imagine my disappointment when canonical announced the drop.....

+1 my brother! 😢

sooo what packages already work?
according reports and my own (crude) tests the following packages appear to work:
vim nmap htop mc curl tmux tree sshfs

NICE! 😁

Thank you for this awesome tool/project and I will keep an eye on it in the future! 😉
Support

Discuss and solve problems with other users

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Hi!
I'm new to this site. I'm Patrick.
Set up my UT phone pixel 3a yesterday and set up an old NordVPN account manually. Works fine BUT if I check the IP the V4 is in that state I choose and the V6 is my original. I didn't find a solution so far. Also tried to enable IPV6 with Terminal sudo nano but it says it's a read only system.
Has anyone an idea?

Some info for my VPN setting:

Using VPN editor

Remote is the correct server [...] .30:1194
Type is password
CA certificate downloaded by NordVPN

Advanced
Use gate 1194
Use LZO (a must with UT and NordVPN)
use custom VDT: TUN
Use MTU 1500

security
Cipher aes 256 cbc
With HMAC sha 512

Tls
Use additional Tls (uploaded key correct from server list)
Key direction 1

That's it.

Looking forward for some ideas.
Thanks a lot 🙂
OS

Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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@mateo_salta Which you mean?
In any case, favicons are already cached though there seems to be a bug. I have a fix for it but I can't remember if I already proposed it in a PR. I haven't done developments in a while 😅
Devices

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Hello everyone, I purchased a Volla X phone with preistalled ubuntu touch.

I did the following configuration steps to get mtp/ad enabled:
enabled developper mode rebooted into fastboot mode with the usb cable connected to my linux debian PC and ran
fastboot flashing unlock
to get the usual features like adb terminal access, etc... then rebooted again in normal boot mode.
Problems began there, the phone then got stuck in the bootloader (with the splash screen). I thought to myself "OK I must have messed up something, no worries, lets go back to fastboot mode and fire ubports-installer and reinstall ubports".
I fire the ubports installer, it automatically detects the Volla X, downloads the kernel installs it. The logs are printed below: info: Welcome to the UBports Installer version 0.8.8-beta! info: device detected: yggdrasil info: Installing Ubuntu Touch on your VollaPhone (yggdrasil) info: configuring... info: settings: {"channel":"16.04/arm64/android9/stable","wipe":false,"bootstrap":true} info: Downloading 2 files info: Downloaded file 1 of 2 info: Downloaded file 2 of 2 warn: aborting run... info: Downloading 12 files info: Downloaded file 1 of 12 info: Downloaded file 2 of 12 info: Downloaded file 3 of 12 info: Downloaded file 4 of 12 info: Downloaded file 5 of 12 info: Downloaded file 6 of 12 info: Downloaded file 7 of 12 info: Downloaded file 8 of 12 info: Downloaded file 9 of 12 info: Downloaded file 10 of 12 info: Downloaded file 11 of 12 info: Downloaded file 12 of 12
Problem is after this the installer just got stuck in "waiting for adb debvice" mode, and my phone is completely dark, no amount of pressing the on+volume up/volume down will change anything to this.

So I am assuming I now I am left with a very heavy paperweight? connecting to usb and running fastboot devices does not yield anything in my terminal. I have read around the web that one solution would be to wait for the battery to drain, but how can it drain if the device is dark?

So I don't expect there is any workaround for my case but I just wanted to post my experience to help other people avoid making such an expensive mistake.

Cheers and thank you for listening.
Design

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

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@hobanwashburn You came onto this forum, and created multiple threads and a comment in an already existing thread, basically ranting about how UT is not a traditional Linux distro, and telling us what we should do.

So yes, that is "stomping in." And here you are attempting to refute by doing more of the same.

There is documentation about how to contribute with development. There are chat groups. Developers actively help people. We have places to open tickets about issues. So clearly, you didn't even take the initiative to attempt to contribute.

Legacy apps aren't going to work well on a phone, and in many cases even with an external dislpay and mouse/keyboard, it will still be an inferior experience to using those apps on a real PC, even if everything was working perfectly on the UT side.
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Creating Ubuntu Touch apps

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@moem if they are chill that's cool haha. Normally when I read those kind of answers people are kind of stressed like why this guy doesn't understand?!, and I'm like. Is just a what if question, nothing serious.
Porting

Porting Ubuntu Touch to new devices

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Xiaomi Mi 6 support Ubports Installer new!!!!!
Lomiri (was Unity8)

Lomiri, the operating environment for everywhere

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Hi,

I have been using Ubuntu Touch on my Volla phone for over a week now and encountered some issues with the UI/Launcher thingy. I thought I list them here, maybe they are already getting addressed?
No support for phones with rounded corners. No support for phones with camera notch. Lockscreen doesn't work as intended, I suppose to see some text when I tap the circle but it just tries to show the launcher instead. The place where you see all the apps is slow and sometimes show duplicates Anbox apps.
Other then this I didn't notice anything big or annoying.
I really like the gesture to open the running apps view and to open the list of apps.

The rounded corners and camera notch issue I fixed by applying this "hax" https://github.com/JamiKettunen/unity8-notch-hax It is not perfect but it did help a lot.

I hope it helps a little reporting on it 🙂
Translations

Discussion on translating Ubuntu Touch and its core apps

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Hello guys!

I want to help translate UBports Docs with Weblate, but there are different work statuses. An example:

https://docs.ubports.com/de/latest/userguide/advanceduse/dav.html, 3rd paragraph:
At the moment, the Ubuntu Touch graphical user-interface lacks a CardDAV implementation, but you can do it by using SyncEvolution + cron. There is a script you can run in the terminal, or via a phablet SSH connection. These instructions work for CalDAV as well.

https://translate.ubports.com/translate/ubports-docs/documentation-userguide/de/?checksum=524f7589b8a5a4b (../../userguide/advanceduse/dav.rst:8), english:
At the moment, there is no carddav implementation directly accessible from the Ubuntu Touch graphical user-interface, so the only way to sync carddav is by using syncevolution + cron. However, there is a simple way to do that with a script that you can run in the terminal or via phablet SSH connection. These instructions work for caldav as well.

In addition, the text has already been translated, but the translation is not displayed. This is the case in many chapters, but not in all.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Regards, Martin
Marketing Incubator

A place to discuss ideas for promoting Ubuntu Touch

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@unrealb2

If you want to support the UBports Foundation with BAT, you could sell the BAT and donate the resulting currency via any of our donation methods at https://ubports.com/donate.
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@keneda No, it'll ship this November if stars align correctly 😄
Pro1 is the one that's already released which has SD835. The Pro1-X has SD662.

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