well my intention of the questions is not "to be invisible" but to know on which layers are the security and the visible options, that is, to know that if I disconnect the gps from settings, that an app cannot turn it on. I have to document myself before making any app, I understand that it is something normal being an "open" system compared to android or ios.

@andrew907 I don't know what the problem was, probably an issue with limited memory, but I reworked my code to rely primarily on offline audio contexts. Morph is still giving me the error messages about stopping and starting timers from another thread, but it's also generating the music as expected based on my preliminary test. Very slowly, but we can chalk that up to the hardware rather than Ubuntu Touch, because the ram use spikes above 90%. We can mark this issue as resolved.

@Lakotaubp thanks for the clarification.

@rbarclay said in Ongoing, automatic backups: syncthing sounds interesting for keeping some files/folders, well, synchronized The main purose yes, but also, you can use it like a saving service, with only one device that is the "master" and another the "backup" (only filed from the master will be cloned on the backup, not the other way). Also, it works not only on local network, you can use it with internet access (so you can save on your backup wich is at home, when master not at home). Anyway, i just mentionned it so you know about it, i seems your skills are way above mine in using Linux possibilities, and syncthing is more for people like me lol.

@elcaset Yes, use the installer but make sure you tick the option to wipe data to remove all your friends stuff. As was mentioned above you don't need to reload the stock android for your device if it already has UT on it. Sometimes things go a bit.'off' with UT and you may notice some 'strange behaviour'. Quite often a reinstall without the wipe option cures the problem.... and maintains your precious data. Welcome to the wonderful world of UT. Enjoy

I was able to get an always-on-vpn using crontab. Warning I haven't tried to find a way yet to turn it off, so if you need to turn off your VPN from time to time, I don't have an answer yet. *Make sure to make your terminal Read/Write during this whole process. It's Read-Only by default. I used the UT Tweak Tool to do this. I used this script (https://www.gabsoftware.com/tips/automatically-reconnect-to-your-vpn-on-linux/) as a template to automatically reconnect to my VPN when it turned off. I used this terminal command with my VPN turned on, nmcli c show --active | grep vpn, to find out my personal MyVPNConnectionName and my UUID number. I also replaced sleep 30 with sleep 5, but that's just a personal preference. After replacing MyVPNConnectionName and the UUID number in the script with your personal VPNName and UUID number, I recommend copy/paste the script into the terminal and let it run, toggle off your VPN and see if it toggles back on automatically. If it does not toggle back, then you'll have to go back and correct the script, whatever that correction may be. Personally, it didn't work for me the first time, because I had deleted the "" around "MyVPNConnectionName" and had to go back and re-add them. I then used this website (https://linuxhandbook.com/run-shell-script/) to save the script. This website says to make a scripts directory (mkdir scripts) which I did not do. Making a scripts directory probably won't have any affect on this, but I can't say for sure, because I didn't do it. If you do make a scripts directory, cd into scripts or whatever you named your scripts directory. For this example I'll refer to the directory as scripts. When you type cat > vpn.sh (I'm using vpn.sh, you can name it anything you want as long as it ends in .sh) into the terminal, the terminal will look like it's "thinking" but this is where you copy/paste your working script into the terminal. After I hit Ctrl+D to save it, my terminal closed, but it did save. When you reopen the terminal, make sure it's Read-Write if you didn't use the UT Tweak Tool. Then make the script executable in the terminal by typing in chmod u+x vpn.sh (make sure you cd into the scripts directory if you made one) I then typed chmod 755 vpn.sh (I don't know if this did anything at all, but I did it, this may not be necessary) Test the script (if you made a scripts directory cd into scripts) type bash vpn.sh into the terminal to activate the script and toggle off the VPN to see if it turns back on automatically. Hit Ctrl+C to clear the script. To make this script turn on automatically all the time, type crontab -e into the terminal. Pick 1 nano <---- easiest and hit enter. If you've never used nano don't use your fingers to scroll down. Long-press the hamburger menu at the top left side of the keyboard and pick Scr. Swipe left on the top of the keyboard next to hamburger menu till you get to the scroll buttons and use those to scroll down to the bottom of the crontab directly below the last #. There type in @reboot /home/phablet/./vpn.sh if you made a scripts directory, type in @reoot /home/phablet/scripts/./vpn.sh Long-press the hamburger menu again and choose Nano. Then find Ctrl+X and press it. Then hit y then enter. Then hit enter again, and it should take you back to the normal terminal. Reboot your phone After reboot, before I unlock my phone, I get a VPN error notification. After I unlock my phone with the passcode this notification goes and my VPN turns on automatically. Even when I relock my phone, the automatic VPN continues to work just fine. Remember, as of right now, I cannot turn off my VPN, I haven't tried to find a way either.

@MrT10001 Thanks for the pointer, that seems like a serious alternative to UT, which I latched onto after converting my laptop to Ubuntu. Thanks again!

@MarceloCardoso What is "M53" device ? Edit : ok it's Samsung Galaxy M53. I'm afraid your device is not supported already. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ So you won't be able to install Ubuntu Touch on it.

@hankschwie please tell me exactly how you did it. I tried launch UBPorts with sudo but it does not work. Can you link the URL to Android 8.1 (or anything else) ?

@eMPee584 Here https://github.com/ubports/system-settings/pull/269 @uwahl gsettings should be stored permanently and won't be affected by any system update unless the update specifically changes the values which is highly unlikely.

@metalmyles Hi, i moved your post to the best appropriated thread. Do not necro old threads where more recent could be more relative to your issue. I think here is your answer. BR

@UbuntuUser22 said in OpenStore apps missing on Pixel 3a but not on Nexus 5: Hi, I installed ubuntu touch on both a pixel 3a and a nexus 5. The OpenStore has a whole host of different apps on the nexus then the 3a. Specifically I am trying to install Ut Tweaker Tool on the 3a but it doesn't exist in the OpenStore. How can I install Ut Tweaker on the 3a? I guess you have Pixel3a on 20.04, so that explains why there is not the same apps. UT tweak tool is not ready yet for 20.04.

@mmexplr ok i figured out that i can just update, thankss everyone!!

@lduboeuf That worked, thank you!

Yeah, that did the trick. Thanks to all. I will mark it as solved.

@lduboeuf Oh, you mean the .cpp file is not reachable under this state directly on the device ? Anyone needing to edit .cpp files must do from git cloned, then compile the telephony app (if even possible to do that without compiling all UT OS lol) ? Then manual install on device ? Yes, a bit more complicated