Because I'm short in time I will keep my OnePlus One as main phone for the moment. Never change a running system.
When I got time or the OP1 will stop working I will give the OP 3T a try.
Thanks for your feedback. I really really enjoy this great OS as it is growing to be a really great alternative to Android for me.

@aamu said in installing ANYTHING without having terminal or open store installed (aquaris E4.5):

I would have given up

Glad it hasn't come to this.
The search engine you're using may change the result a bit in my experience.

But yeah most searches with Ubuntu touch lead to articles like "Ubuntu touch is dead" or sometimes "Ubuntu touch is NOT dead" and from this you can find UBports community...

The community is small hence not visible.
And nowadays a search for something specific and rare leads to something popular and does not provide the expected outcome. Standardization of people's minds

@AppLee
Wrong said, sorry for my English)), I meant it
this

@ruedigerkupper There are numerous requests, but still nothing has landed in stable: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+fingerprint

@Kyrylo said in How can I get images for offline installing UBPorts?:

Problem is solved.

Great news.

@c4pp4 That certainly helps! But it doesn't end the problem as they randomly come back. But I'll take it until someone figures out a fix.

@kugiigi nope.

@aclifton314 said in Anbox issues:

When I started anbox, there were multiple instances of the default apps (i.e. calculator, calendar, contact, and 4 instances of Files). Does anyone know how to get these default apps to not show up when running anbox? If I have to remove the default apps (or any apps I pull from my android), where are they installed to verify that adb uninstall has worked?

Ad 1 To get rid of multiple icons try to refresh the Drawer by pulling down and releasing.

Ad 2 You can remove default packages directly from an android image, see https://forums.ubports.com/post/31776 (skip media_codecs.xml step)
e.g. if you want to remove Contacts and Calendar delete the following dirs:

squashfs-root/system/app/Calendar squashfs-root/system/priv-app/CalendarProvider squashfs-root/system/priv-app/Contacts squashfs-root/system/priv-app/ContactsProvider

Thanks. I have to admit that I did not knew this (new?) feature. I have configured in Dekko2 three mail accounts and I cleared their cache now to the smalles backlog (one week). While this was running in the GUI (btw: there is no visible reaction on pressing the clear button and no progress meter), I ssh'ed to the device and run a for loop:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail$ while true ; do find . -type f | wc -l ; sleep 10 ; done 2402 2464 2560 2657 2740 2812 2847 2856 2914 3003 ...

The number of files went down from some 22000 to 3000, but why it's counting some times incrementing? A bit strange, isn't it? And on which date the backlog is counting backward? I have here an example of a file which originated from mid April, but the last modified date is of today:

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail$ ls -l 1590987986.20456.47xC6 -rw-rw-r-- 1 phablet phablet 6680 Jun 1 07:06 1590987986.20456.47xC6 phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail$ grep ^Date: 1590987986.20456.47xC6 Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:09:09 +0000

Why this old mail header file has been rewritten today?

@TotalSonic , @libremax

Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts on Dekko (2). Just created my account and folder structure in Derek 2 and I'm impressed by how intuitive it is and very fast. Looking forward to using this client on a daily basis and improvements to come. Thanks to devs, this is certainly worth donating (and waiting) for.

Cheers!

I tried an box but it's really not stable and i can't install my app for security problem, i can't install the apk directly.
son i think i have to keep an old android phone just for my security code.

@marek_python said in Unlock the bootloader forcibly:

(...) I followed the tuts on XDA site all UT community is aware of. However, I can't pass the point where I'm supposed to type "su" into terminal emulator. It just spits out "Connection to ui timed out" meaning it won't let me execute the commands where I need elevated privileges. And for overwriting the proinfo file I do need to be root in the session. So far I haven't found a way to go around it.

I had the same problem, Terminal just hangs. So I simply use

adb shell
su

and a then following with the procedure (using simply cp instead of dd)

After doing a bit more searching, i acknowledge I'm in 'unsupported use' territory. I have no expectations of help :). Just hopeful. I have checked out postmarket and it looks less mature. I suppose I can try Kali, as it should have otg/modules support, just a lot of hacking tools I have no use for, and doubtful camera and other things work out of box

Attempting to compile kernel with config_modules=y and seeing if it's just as simple as that. First time build is slow.

Anyway, appreciate any tips.

@Fanch33
I am on surfshark and using VPN onmy Meizu pro5..I should be able to help.

I will answer myself)).
Everything works "Toriptables". Python errors are not clear, but everything works. By the way, I am very grateful to those who will tell you how to add TOR to autostart.

@ogogon you are not supposed to use /var/log as a shared directory. Apps are confined in what they can do quite heavily (as on every mobile device OS so far), and have their own directory for logs and temporary stuff. This is done for security. How else could we ever allow 3rd parties (means non-Ubuntu Touch developers) to contribute any App through a store?

If you trust all the world its fine, we don't. So, Apps cannot do what they want and should not do what they want. Also, the whole root file system is read-only. Also do not use apt to update stuff. We got image-based OTA upgrades. It is faster, saves write cycles on the flash storage, and its transactional, meaning no partially upgraded systems . This is not a desktop, saying this just once more.

The advantage is a superior stability, you cannot brick your device easily, Apps cannot spy on each other and the system, most rootkits/hacks wont work on UT etc. You have claims that Apps can request and the user can allow or disallow them, like mic, camera etc access. This is not possible in a traditional desktop OS. So, a big win.

If you tamper with that security model, you are on your own. We cannot support you when you start changing the way how the OS works. If you start rearranging how logging works you need to give Apps elevated permissions, and that's not how we think a mobile OS should work these days.

So before you complain about why we made everything wrong you should better ask why decisions were made in that way. We di dnot make our life more complicated because it´s fun but because we wanted to improve the architecture.

@FlavioMala

oki doki. thanks for answer Flavio

@Lakotaubp I apologize for my fellow Moroccans, but I will not apologize for any other stuff nor will I discuss this further as this is not the right place for this kind of discussions.

Again, I'm sorry If I offended anyone, and sorry for the language.

@bergamot I don't know if this can be developed but the feature requests for messaging are here :
https://github.com/ubports/messaging-app/issues

This hasn't been implemented reliably in windowed mode. There are apps that adjusts when the OSK is displayed but they won't work well in windowed mode. I suggest your turn down the opacity of the keyboard in the settings although this is still not perfect but at least you can see behind it.