@gabriel I think is a good idea to save the whole content of /home to get everything, it gives you peace of mind. Anyway the content you're asking for is in .local/share/evolution/

@einstein212 Yes the best would be to have a hardware platform with all open drivers. World should start a petition towards Qualcomm

@rossrosh: Like Flohack said, the UBPorts installer exists and works great, see here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/976/ubports-installer-excellent-user-experience

@sanjusethi Abhishek Mudgal is working on it. See http://docs.halium.org/en/latest/supplementary/devices/wt88047.html

@idikiy you should join the Halium working group to help you with that. There are several ways to do it: Telegram: https://t.me/halium Matrix: #halium:disroot.org IRC: #halium@freenode.

@zoomer296 Haha does not sound fun, yes. But a porter needs also the device in his hands, so you need to find someone who got this thingie AND is interested in porting, this is sometimes not so easy.

@flohack said in Samsung porting notes, a loose collection: Instead, the device needs to be brought into "Download Mode". This can be achieved by: Manually by pressing Vol-Down, Home and Power button until the green warning text appears On my Samsung Galaxy S8, there is no physical home button, only virtual on the display. I figured out, instead of the Home-Button, I need to press the Bixby button, below Vol-Down, then the green warning text appears...

It is a windows phone , My wife has an old one that i've tried messing with to no avail so far shame really is it seems a good quality phone

If it is not that urgent, waiting for the Librem 5 may be an option to consider, with it's mainline linux kernel support a UBport is likely.

@UKPhil I imagine so.

WOW! I'm really glad there are some people not only continuing the amazing Ubuntu touch OS but are also developing it for the OnePlus 2!!! Keep up with the good work! As soon as it works I want to be the first to try!!!

I have tried using the UBinstaller and for me on my OnePlus One it did not work at all. I have also tried using the mdt with slightly more success. So the only thing that has worked for me is to install UBPorts via the server image. Two lines in your terminal window and then leave it to do its magic.

There is another source for this news: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/10/samsung-bringing-desktop-linux-smartphones

@GeekyGirl36 i am glad to help sorry for my delayed response, it sometimes takes a while for me to get some spare time for everything... I think if you test doing this on your own is a very good idea. To set up a virtual Ubuntu you can follow this guide for example. This is generally something i can only recommend because you can, after setting up VirtualBox, download images from various flavours and see which desktop experience fits your needs the most. (if you have time i would recommend "vanilla" Ubuntu 16.04.3 which comes with unity 7, KDE Neon 16.04 for the KDE experience and maybe also Ubuntu 17.10 which uses GNOME by default as well as testing the vanilla 16.04 with the Yunit desktop installed to get the Ubports feeling) You can delete every Virtual machine(VM) after trying out a little and just create a new one for each distro so you don't get the "frankenstein" experience ;-P. If you then decide on one of these, you can set up a new Virtual Ubuntu, copy your image and the isorespin script into shared space with that VM, chmod the script and execute it. Then burn your image to a thumbdrive (for example using https://etcher.io/) and install the Ubuntu flavour of your choice on your tablet/laptop.