@Jules said: There's a long road ahead obviously but has anyone at Ubports made that first step to find out? To find out what? Sure, there is lots of talk of getting away from 'big Tech' and many of us are here precisely because we want that. UT already is a viable alternative to many. We're not just thinking or talking about it, we're doing it. Can you help me understand what you're asking?

@lduboeuf I installed the devices a week ago (a fairphone 5) from the linux ubports-installer_0.11.2_linux_x86_64.appimage. I picked the stable channel I have not installed anything manually since that (with an apt-get I mean) I just used the AppStore to install a few apps The contents of my /etc/lsb-release indicate: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=24.04 DISTRIB_CODENAME=noble DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS" In the settings UI, it says Update channel: 24-04-1.x/arm64/android9plus/stable Os version: 24-04-1.3

Hallo Pparent, thanks for the hint

gpatel-fr said: I realize belatedly that I did not think of giving some advice about the problem of returning back to a newer version once the goal of revert to a previous one has been achieved. It would be easy to imagine that it will be easy, but it's not as straightforward as following the usual procedure. When going from 1.1 -> 1.2 -> 1.3, history of these upgrades was recorded. If the phone is rudely returned to 1.1 and the user asks it to update back to 1.2, it will look at this history and conclude 'I have nothing to do !'. So the way to go in this case is to delete all this history in the lower part of the phone screen by swiping to the right and pushing the red trash button for all theses updates, and then the normal update behaviour will be restored back to normal.

Please use pure English on forums, use deepl if you need translation. And avoid double posting. And you should go on Google play site if you search for a number to reach them. I don't know it.

Looks like this is probably the fix? https://github.com/mer-hybris/ofono-binder-plugin/pull/53

Thanks @tusch001 this was very helpful and worked on the stable Focal channel with Snapz0r installed. I would recommend one change: the sed command should read- sudo snap run libinput.list-devices | sed -n '/himax-stylus/,+20p' instead of: sudo snap run libinput.list-devices | sed -n '/himax-stylus,+20p' A few practical questions for you or anyone else: What kind of daily battery life are you seeing for the stylus, over how many hours of use? Do we know if it's compatible with other UT devices? In Libertine, is there a convenient way to anchor the stylus' nib to things like scroll bars? I've been trying to scroll up/down on VS Code but it's quite cumbersome and feels like I have to press it multiple times then do a small flick to get it to scroll by a little bit every time. Kind of much like using my finger (it's just that the nib is so much more small and thus more of a precision instrument compared to anyone's finger!). Unfortunately I need to figure out how to get my Volla Keyboard accessory working again and thus I don't have access to its touchpad and a mouse cursor (I've been using a bluetooth keyboard instead), so this would be a great workaround for the time being if it's possible. On an OS level: Hopefully someone can formally implement this into an OTA upgrade for the tablet on Noble and potentially even a maintenance release on Focal? The code changes look straightforward if they're just about changing the udev rules and such. I have been working on contributing to app development on and off but as a) the tablet is a bit of a daily driver for me and I like to keep it on the stable channel and b) contributing to OS patches is something I'm not really familiar or comfortable with, it would be excellent to see this happen if someone else can help out.

@Linus67 Thanks very much. Will try it out…

@gpatel-fr That´s perfect! Thank you very much for solving this stubborn problem. Now I can put the Pixel 3a into ‘Nokia 3210 mode’ with a single click. Calls and text messages work, and the battery lasts at least three days in this mode. #!/bin/bash # ==================================================================== # NOKIA 3210 MODUS: CPU throttling + All offline services (Pixel 3a) # ==================================================================== if [ "$EUID" -ne 0 ]; then echo "ERROR: Please run the script using: sudo $0" exit 1 fi echo "Enable Nokia 3210 mode..." # 1. Force CPU cores into power-saving mode for governor in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor; do if [ -f "$governor" ]; then echo "powersave" > "$governor" fi done echo "[✓] CPU throttling enabled." # 2. Turn off Wi-Fi nmcli radio wifi off echo "[✓] Wi-Fi disabled." # 3. Turn off location tracking (GPS) sudo dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.lomiri.location.Service /com/lomiri/location/Service org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:com.lomiri.location.Service string:IsOnline variant:boolean:false echo "[✓] Location tracking disabled." # 4. Turn off Bluetooth rfkill block bluetooth echo "[✓] Bluetooth disabled." # 5. Turn off mobile data sudo -u phablet DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS="unix:path=/run/user/32011/bus" dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.lomiri.connectivity1 /com/lomiri/connectivity1/Private org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:com.lomiri.connectivity1.Private string:MobileDataEnabled variant:boolean:false echo "[✓] Mobile data disabled." # 6. Greenline-Service stop at user level XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/32011 sudo -u phablet systemctl --user stop greenline.service 2>/dev/null echo "[✓] greenline.service stopped." echo "------------------------------------------------" echo "Success! CPU, wireless modules and GPS are in sleep mode." sleep 3

@mihael yes it's a bug and probably in the push service. I tried to kill the service process (I don't know any other way to restart a service activated by d-bus) and after an initial failure (it seems that when the service is restarted it don't take in account the task that started it), the second time I sent a mail message the notification used the new sound. To be continued.

is there a way to move to the stable channel? in the settings & wiki i can only find the daily channel..

@Moem said: I will repeat what I've said elsewhere: I will bring this subject to the table in the next meeting of the Board of Trustees. That's what I can do and I'll do that. Until a possible workaround is found, it seems appropriate to notify users of the installer. I have therefore created the following ticket: https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/issues/4565 Since other countries may also be affected, it would be helpful to know which ones. I have therefore created the following thread: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12291/internet-access-restriction-for-ubports-installer-list-your-country That's what I can do, and I did it