Yesterday all of our SIP in Germany stated, that they will shutdown MMS at the end of June. So it's important to have an alternative as RCS for people who need this kind of service.

I found the reason for my increased battery drain when using Wi-Fi. On January 26, 2026, I installed an app called "UB Connect" from the OpenStore. ubconnect I uninstalled it shortly after. The app wasn't uninstalled cleanly, and a ubconnect.daemon.service remained in the system. Whenever Wi-Fi was turned on, this daemon would automatically start, but it failed because the app was missing. This prevented Ubuntu Touch from going into power-saving mode after the screen was turned off. After uninstalling and deleting all leftover files from the ubconnect app, Ubuntu Touch goes back into power-saving mode with Wi-Fi on, and the battery consumption is minimal like with mobile data.

@mihael tested with dekko. I think it's a bug, it don't seem logical that silent mode mutes the rings but not the messages.

@domubpkm To stop the script: sudo pkill backup-ip.sh It's true that I've not taken into account the case where LTE is activated, but mobile data is disabled.

@Linus67 it needs to be ran as root. Sudo is interactive in terminal so it won't work, but pkexec is the GUI equivalent so it should launch a popup for the password. Alternatively set the suid bit of the script to make it always run as root without password (and ensure the file is not writable by phablet as that would allow local privilege escalation).

@projectmoon Can you do journactl -r | grep 99captive_portal ?

For what it's worth, this bug should be solved in 24.04-1.3 (no need to apply a patch script: the sense that the placeholder does not remain open in background anymore). It could still be a nice fix to avoid that it uses a lot of CPU in the first place, as it could possibly allow for faster starts of the apps.

Updates 2026-04-21 On 24.04.2.x, we are able to install the new backend for testing! This is a bit early in the process, but got my address book, and contacts from Nextcloud working. The first shot is only for address-book-app and carddav ( google will wait :)), others components are still in WIP. We had to wait for the big pending work of synchronizing from debian and ubuntu touch for some components. The next goal is to ship it in the 24.04.2.x image so that it is more widely and easily tested. I will make an announcement hopefully soon-ish. The issue board is here before it will land in 24.04.2.x: https://gitlab.com/groups/ubports/development/-/boards/10037857?label_name[]=Topic%3A+qtcontacts-sqlite

@pparent after a week of testing, the battery usage looks normal.

@arubislander so on the regular desktop version its a normal ubuntu boot stack then it hands off into the UT rootfs .....still not done ...taking a break on that for sanity rn

actually this is been a few months coming

@pparent lol reminds me of a ancient proverb i just made up ....."isolation is good until one dies of loneliness" ...

@Mario.CH yes, exacly that symptoms.

@nbdynl Apps like Signal or Whatsapp will maintain a background network connection with their servers weather or not they are calling. On top of they, if they wanted to spy on on you they could leverage that to start a fake invisible call/connexion, so that they can keep spying quietly when the phone is suspended. I don't think whether or not there is "an active forground connection", can be used to determine reliably if the app is legitimate to record the microphone when the screen is off...

@GooglyBear No. I use a phone case with a keyboard now. So non issue for me now but still an issue for OSK.

@projectmoon said in Call for testing: calendar-app: @lduboeuf said in Call for testing: calendar-app: @projectmoon said in Call for testing: calendar-app: @lduboeuf So unfortunately, calendar sync is still broken. The calendar that was syncing (connection to Nextcloud via generic caldav instead of built-in Nextcloud integration) is no longer syncing. Only thing I see in Evolution logs is something about i_cal_time_compare < 0 failed. I turned the Nextcloud integration itself back on for Calendar, and that synced fine... But I don't know if it will sync more later. Sorry, i don't understand, you mean it works or not ? Please also precise on which OS version are you . The sync can be sometimes unstable ( and it always has been). It is sometimes needed to recreate all accounts ( remove them all, reboot, recreate them) Stable 1.2, and the accounts were previously already cleared and removed from Evolution. Re-re-(re?)-creating the accounts shouldn't be necessary, I would hope. What I mean is that the Generic CalDAV Account seemed to stop syncing. But when I re-enabled the Nextcloud Account, that synced fine. I have two Online Accounts set up on the phone. Both point to my Nextcloud instance. Just one is the "proper" Nextcloud Online Account and the other is Generic CalDAV. Yes, there are reports where sometimes it happens and we don't know what is happening. Only by removing the account, then rebooting, then re-creating it fixed the issue. The new backend is more stable regarding that, but not here yet.

okay. great. I update. previous version, less stable on 24.04-2.x. better on 24.04-1.2