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  • The Meta category: Organizational or general discussion.

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    libremaxL
    This port was released in its first version in September 2025 but remained somewhat under the radar. Now, the Nothing Phone 1 is integrated into ubports-installer and receives OTA updates via UBports servers. There is only one update channel at the moment for UT Noble 24.04-1.1, the ‘daily’ channel. There is no “RC” channel or ‘Stable’ channel yet. (24.04-2.x daily channel is also available.) Also missing is a description sheet in https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ to complete the picture. However, information on hardware support is available here: https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android11/nothing-phone-1/nothing-spacewar There is not much missing in that matter. The display only supports 60Hz (not 90Hz or 120Hz, mainly useful for video games), which is not really a problem under UT, as video games are not a frequent use case. It should also be noted that VoLTE has not been tested but ‘should work’ (according to "Nonta72" ) the person who did the porting). As for the installation procedure, all you need is: on the Nothing Phone 1, the unlocked bootloader + a ‘stock’ version (provided by the manufacturer) 13 or 15 of Android, fastboot and adb on the computer that will run the UBports installer (Source of this information: https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-linux-ubuntu-touch-for-nothing-phone-1-waydroid-android-13-included.4758279/) A device with hardware performance similar to the Fairphone 5 according to benchmarks, which therefore probably offers a very solid user experience under Ubuntu Touch. Though probably no possibility to use an external display with a wired connection given USB Type-C 2.0, OTG. Thank Nonta72 for your contribution!

  • Discuss news updates from Ubuntu Touch and its related projects

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    pparentP
    @UBportsNews I have 2 small question to contribute for this Q&A: What version tag is expected to ship the newer Qt6 Morph browser as the default browser? 24.04-1.3? 24.04-2.0? 24.04-3.0? Do you think it would be hard to have Lomiri display in the systray the icon of the application instead of the "X" icon for applications relying on XWayland? Should the change be made in Lomiri or in xWayland? Thank's a lot for everything!

  • Discuss and solve problems with other users

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    Hello! Exactly the same problem here, using Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1 on Fairphone 4. The notifications used to work fine until around two months ago (even after upgrading to 24.04), then works sporadically and now not working any longer. Notifications are working properly for Dekko et SMS. I've tried clearing cache and configuration of the app or desabling/allowing the notifications for the app but nothing really helps... Any ideas? Thanks !

  • Community section for all languages other than English

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    CiberSheepC
    M'han demanat opinió d'una proposta pel teclat en espanyol, però jo només el faig servir en català. Si voleu, podeu expressar la vostra experiència aquí: https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-keyboard/-/merge_requests/196

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    @gpatel-fr said in Thinnking of getting myself into Fairphone 5...: @Boldos If GPS is something like a deal breaker for you, some Volla phones are said to have working AGPS , something that is lacking at the moment for the FP5 so GPS is a bit of a hit and miss. The other problems you are talking about are not specific to the FP5 (some rather uncommon media types have trouble with the main media app yes but can be read if necessary with third party software, VoLTE call following is also hit and miss, focus is not very reliable for low distance (<50cm) photos but this can be worked around by switching to video mode and back, and I have no problem with my Wifi hotspot but I'm not using a variety of Wifi nodes) I can confirm that the Volla Quintus has functioning AGPS. GPS lock takes a few seconds at most, usually.

  • Discussions on development of Ubuntu Touch

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    messayistoM
    @lduboeuf no issues on 24.01.2 rc, xperia x

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

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    @mirroronthewall Yes, this is surprisingly useful, as it means you don't always have to whip out a hardware keyboard, which defeats the point of the small form factor of a phone. Missing support for modifier keys is a big issue when using GUI apps in Libertine, as touch-to-mouse conversion often doesn't behave as it should and can get you 'stuck', so a fallback to keyboard shortcuts is just as necessary there as it may be useful in general: actually, your idea of creating macros for anything seems to solve many problems (including mine) at once, so congrats - now we just need to figure out how! The closest I've found is Ambot Installer: Hacks and Mods, although I need to set up a persistent amd64 QEMU instance on my arm64 laptop before I can allow myself to experiment with it freely (it's the only way I got the installer working). Other tools may be available but I have not been able to surface them yet, I will update this thread as I learn more about the issue and potential solutions. [UPDATE] Here is a list of interesting posts related to this problem, which may be a good starting point for building a bridge towards the solution: These are previous conversations on the repos which appear to have been abbandoned: https://github.com/ubports/keyboard-component/issues/96 gitlab.com/ubports/apps/terminal-app/-/issues/78 https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-keyboard/-/issues/96 Instead, here are some useful links related to Malakiboard, which should be a good foundation to build macro functionality on: https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-click https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-installer https://github.com/kugiigi/jerk-packages

  • Creating Ubuntu Touch apps

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    today I searched Internet on how to transfer a file from Android, succeeded to send a photo to my UT phone using Bluetooth, it works. Notification is less clear than with Android, there is only a sound, no visual prompt, and it's necessary to open the application, see the prompt in the app, download the file to a folder, then it's finally possible to display it. On the whole the receiving file UX is behind what Android (14 in this case) does and not as simple as transmitting files from UT toward another device. While doing some stuff on the Android phone, I noticed that there was some sound on the UT phone, like if the 'keys' entered on the Android unlock screen had a sound echo on the other phone. Looking at it a bit more, playing a sound on the Android phone is done on the UT phone. If one don't want to turn the UT phone into a speaker, it's a bit disturbing. It's not a problem with the app itself it seems, as when pairing under UT there is no idea of well, rights, it's all or nothing. To compound the problem, the UT phone is turned into a speaker to the point that the hardware controls on the phone have no effect on the sound level - it's entirely controlled from the Android phone. Edit: I tried to play a sound on the UT phone and it played on the UT phone, not the Android. So clearly it's technically possible to accept files without being a speaker, however it does not seem possible on Ubuntu Touch. A quick search of the issues does not bring anything related so either I'm mistaken or no one sees this as a problem.

  • Porting Ubuntu Touch to new devices

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    @tigerfoot The TB-8505X has the 4G interface, which is missing in the current kernel. Other than that it should work fine. Not sure if this fits your use case... I can provide a boot image with a kernel having the additional driver compiled in, but mot likely would need your help with debugging the ofono configuration (in case you are interested in helping to get 4G working). sd cards works, surfing via wifi works too. IMHO it feels faster than Android, but do not expect wonders.

  • Lomiri, the operating environment for everywhere

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    Hi there, i am currently looking at a hobby project of mine - an eink-reader running linux. It will probably run on a SBC - Radxa Zero3W to be specific. And for software i am planning a minimal desktop running lomiri and some flatpaks for the software. Now i have been looking a little which distributions support lomiri - and so far didn't find find a minimal install (currently testing with virt-manager): unity is about 6GB - on Alpine it looks like its not stable (not yet tested - but it is in the testing repository), Manjaro - it seems to be dead, PostmarketOS i couldn't get to run yet in a VM. That is what i tested so far. But as there seem to be some people here using lomiri: what would you suggest for a minimal installation (in terms of size and programms) where lomiri can be installed without much hassle?

  • Discussion on translating Ubuntu Touch and its core apps

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    @Vlad-Nirky Thank you. Done.

  • A place to discuss ideas for promoting Ubuntu Touch

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    @mango Divide into groups based on needs is a good idea. Assign a rank # to all you mentioned. My version of list starts with: Group 1: need voice calls - with VoLTE (required in some countries now, and many more in future). USABLE on 4 or 5 phones as of today ? Have not tried it enough to say 'mainstream ready' or not. Group 1a: Voice calls over Wifi (Rural areas, etc). Hope you don't need it. NOT supported by UT. Group 1b: VOIP to PSTN. Please tell me how to set this up (see 1a, above) other groups ? Your list... BTW: Libre office snap installs directly - no need for Libertine. Use wireless external display direct to TV (IF TV supports Miracast. Many LG TV's do). Limit 1080P, even on a 4K TV, due to Wifi speeds, or something. Wired external display would be nicer, but it seems NOT many older phones that UT currently runs on support it. (if Oneplus 8 gets UT port, I think it supports wired ext display). Wired keyboard & mouse through USB-C expansion adapter with PD charging (Acasis $10) operational.

  • Other Projects

    Projects which are started by a group within the UBports community

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    DJacD
    I juste tried on linux-mint : no problem. so, it comes specificaly from Debian distro (and not here daugthers)

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

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    @idonthatevests Interesting. For what it's worth, I'm very confident that mine was glitchy before I ever installed uFirefox. I did have Ambot Installer for the more limited Lomiri toolkit, but I'm not sure whether ithas anything to do with that. Mine always seems to glitch out after notification/SMS. I always kinda figured something about my install was messed up, though I did install what I thought was the appropriate firmware and do the whole MSM&EDL mode thing. I mostly ignored this issue thinking that if it only affected my phone, it's not that important. But it'd be handy if we could pin it down.