I will note that for those that like a slightly cleaner look for their lock screen, that you can disable the circle thingy that displays usage stats by going into Settings and then Security & Privacy and unchecking Stats on welcome screen.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

Any androïd based device is already with "custom kernel" containing poprietary blobs, any porting is nut breaking because of those "things".

Don't you think porters would do anything they can to squeeze the best hardware performance and the longer lifetime from any of the device they are porting UT to?

@gischpelino
had a quick look and nothing was jumping out so,
Just out of interest what did you alter? I'd love to use this on my OnePlus3t.
I have a op3t also and would love this feature.

Many thanks

@AppLee said in [Feature Request] Meetings / Events from calendar on lockscreen:

In order to move forward, I'd say a good way to improve the user experience would be to add a customization feature to the circle indicator (sorry I don't remember it's proper name).

I dont think thats the best way to do things, to my understanding the circle will only be viewable in future, if you dont have any notifications on your welcome screen, i think maybe adding calender events that are happening today in the circle would be fine, but the original idea from canonical was to have events show up in a notification bubble on the welcome screen.

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@Fla Yes already got in touch with him thx 😉

I'll try to answer base on what I know. Note I might be wrong though 😅

Just check the update page and make sure to install all app updates. If it shows no update then you're most likely in the latest version. If you're on stable channel, I believe push notification is enabled so you'll get one if there's a new update.

If you mean the link below, then no they're unrelated. That's just a job that builds the same image (or stable) over and over again and it was daily before so the number got really big. Just ignore these builds. You'll only need it if you want to reflash.
https://ci.ubports.com/job/rootfs/job/rootfs-pinephone-systemimage/

No

I'm not in stable channel on my pinephone right now so I can't see it myself and refer but in the OS build details page, you'll see different values such as UBports Image part and Device image part. OS Build number shows your current build number. Not sure if the pinephone shows "OTA" label or just build number for now. UBports image part is the build number/date for the rootfs or the actual OS. Device image part is the build number/date of the device specific software such as kernel. I'm not completely sure on this but this is what I know 🙂

@Flohack
I get symlink errors with pull user-data, but I found this solution and it works:

Consider this my "log" how I've transferred data from phone to phone (worked between two nexus 5 devices) without SD card
I hope it will be helpful for somebody - but I've basically used combination of two methods described before plus some man pages
NOTE: both devices have ubports image installed and are prepared for adb access ()

SOURCE DEVICE
After connecting source device on PC commands in terminal as follows:

Reboot phone into recovery: adb reboot recovery
Acquire root: adb root
Activate shell: adb shell (command prompt will change to # sign)
Backup system-data (this will also create log files, that can be examined for possible errors) :
tar -czpv -f /system-data.tgz /data/system-data/ >/system-data.out 2>/system-data.err
NOTE: I've just put these files into root directory and it went just fine 😉 and pulled just one file into connected computer since adb has much better chance to transfer one big file without errors than many small ones
logout from shell to your terminal (Ctrl+D)
NOTE: I am assuming computer is linux with root access etc.
this sub-step can be done before step 3
5.1 go to directory where backup data are to be stored in PC (using cd and mkdir commands)
transfer data from phone to PC adb pull /system-data.tgz
6.1 it is good idea to have logs copied too adb pull /system-data.out and adb pull /system-data.err but it is not necessary
steps 3. to 6. repeat but with user-data instead of system-data excluding .cache folder
(so commands will look like tar -czpv -f /user-data.tgz /data/user-data/ --exclude='data/user-data/phablet/.cache' >/user-data.out 2>/user-data.err, adb pull /user-data.tgzetc.)
NOTE: data which can be transferred by MTP should be moved that way since process of packing can take quite long for user data and may even stop/fail (e.g. not stopping process, just waiting and overheating battery, because all outputs are transferred to log files) if there is not enough space for package
DESTINATION DEVICE
Reboot phone into recovery: adb reboot recovery
Acquire root: adb root
Push archived data from PC to phone (root folder) adb push ./system-data.tgz / and adb push ./user-data.tgz /
NOTE: in case of failure pushing both files and then unpacking both in adb shell it is possible to work the process "per partes" so following steps 4. and 5. will be done after each push and removing archive from phone (rm ./system-data.tgz in adb shell and then returning by Ctrl+D to PC shell)
Activate shell: adb shell (command prompt will change to # sign)
Extract archives tar -xzv -f /system-data.tgz and tar -xzv -f /user-data.tgz
Restart phone, unplug, recharge (battery will be probably rather low 😅 ) check data and switch SIM card 😀
PS:
After finishing and documenting the process, I'we found out that WiFi settings has not been transferred to destination device 😐 those must be somewhere in .cache folder then (I don't really mind, messages, apps, contacts and other settings are quite enough for me).

It's form this thread:

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1683/migrate-data-from-device-to-device/21?_=1595872454998

If you think there is an issue, and aren't a developer, then simply open an issue in the issue tracker, and let the developers deal with it. Constantly repeating and making nonsense analogies in some attempt to try to force others isn't helping anyone.

There is no "Home" in this respect, and having NTP and a connectivity check hosted at an Ubuntu sub-domain are not threats to your privacy. If you think they are, then block the connections yourself on your own system and be done with it. Make merge proposals to make it more configurable. Do something other than just sitting here repeating the same tired analogy trying to force us into your point of view.

I found this old tutorial that add a

--template webdav

to the #Add remote database part but it didn't solve my issue

https://itectec.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-how-to-sync-contacts-and-the-calendar-on-ubuntu-touch-with-owncloud/

I have tried also to contribute to this script : https://github.com/UT-ilities/UTouch_CalDAV_and_CardDAV_synchronization
but it isn't working neither.

I have spent hours trying to make something working without success. Too bad... I'll wait for some good news to come then or some help on how to make such script working on UT 16.04 with nextcloud.

Thank you, but I'm not so sure...

The Ubports version is changed compared to standard version... Particularly when it come to this function's return value... So I'm hoping the ubports change is what I need.

So I'm now trying to compile ubports version of mir... And the try it (but it's a lot to compile and there are include files missing)... So it takes a while....

So I try that first, before venturing into the kernel.

@CiberSheep Yes, thank you!

@Flohack @peat_psuwit I believe I got this new version in the rc update from this morning. Thanks to everyone for the amazing job pursuing this... I'm still patiently waiting for my Pro5 to work without noise for bluetooth calls... Again, great job!

@TartanSpartan said in Concerning Libertine and it's status within the Ubuntu Touch OS:

I think there's value to be had from being able to use spreadsheets on the go, or to design a presentation, or to write up a nice document with a word processor (show me any UT native app for word processing which comes close to the functionality of Libre Office Writer). Clearly UBports would agree, given the pitch for the M10 FHD as "This tablet provides you a great workflow as a portable laptop. Imagine travelling by plane and working on your documents using LibreOffice.". and also it's "The tablet to travel with". That's still up there on the link I cited above.

I do not contest that many in the Foundation will agree that Libertine adds value. I do feel however that too much weight is placed on pronouncements in the device descriptions. The description for the tablet sounds more like 'marketing speech' that has been retained from the Canonical days to me. I don't object to it, but I don't see in it any promise of perpetual support either.

Concerning Libertine, the hope was that by highlighting its availability there would have been community members willing and able to step up and contribute bug fixes and features to the code. Unfortunately that does not seem to have happened to the degree that would have made an impact. After the switch to Wayland we might have another opportunity to see this hope realized.

I also think that pronouncements in Q&A's or on Social Media regarding Libertine should not be taken as hard promises at this time, but more as declared intents based on best effort. Until such a time as a team can be formed around the maintenance of Libertine, similar to what has happened for Dekko2 and is now coalescing around Podbird, I don't see how much progress can be made.

@db579 Some informations are here : https://github.com/orgs/ubports/projects

@wdehoog Podbird on OnePlus One

I guess it could be app specific - will double check with other apps to see if it's the same behavior

@dobey said in Compass in Device Checklist:

@jezek said in Compass in Device Checklist:
Abstraction on what level are you talking about?

In qtubuntu-sensors.

Thank you for reminding me. I forgot, there is already an issue opened on this.

There are many issues around being able to support snaps or flatpaks. For appimage, it could perhaps work via libertine depending on the app, at least on a very basic level. You likely would need to manually create a .desktop file inside libertine container, to get proper icon and launch the app from the app drawer, though.

@potet said in UT and maps program/GPS in the USA.:

GPS providers

Not here to correct anything, just to share 😉
The GPS providers are providing the GPS chips in our phones.

For cartography, you there are several providers for:

maps (vector data representing features: roads, buildings, etc.) tiles (the visual components of maps). geocodes (names for features like addresses or road names which allows to search something in a map)

The first one is served by OSM, the second one is usually a third party service provider and the last one can be nominatim which is a services provided by OSM but can also be part of the third party provider.

Navigation is another service that third party can offer and is able to resolve how to join two different locations.

Hope it can help someone to figure things out or better understand this complex world.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Generic-USB-Display-Driver-V3

Looks like this is actually happening and coming to Linux Kernel 5.9 / 5.10

Sadly unlikely that it could be backported to ancient 3.x kernels though.