@lakotaubp I dont know much about android phones .I tried to use one my brother has (galaxy)
I did not like the experience and the forced bloatware and spyware.All these years I have been using an AT&T lumia 535.I would still be using it if not for the fact Att stopped supporting it. Happy with the UT experience on my Pixel 3a

@kaveman

https://protonvpn.com/support-form

Well, sshd just wasn't running. For some reason, android-gadget-service didn't actually do anything. I've started sshd manually by running sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start and it works.

Info I've gathered when trying to determine if it's running:

I've run sudo lsof -i -n -P | grep LISTEN on the phone to know if port 22 is open, but it wasn't in the output, which means nothing is listening on it.

Then I've run sudo ps aux | grep ssh and no matter if ssh is enabled or not it reports process from /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session ubuntu-touch-session command to be in the interruptible sleep (Ss in the STAT column). It doesn't report anything else, except grep --color=auto ssh due to results being filtered by grep.

Now, as I started it, the output also contains /usr/sbin/sshd -D -o PasswordAuthentication=no.

@kaveman I don't know if proton vpn works for your phone as i don't know (see) the name of your phone but proton vpn works on every smartphone i use(d) : OPO, BQ E5 HD, BQ 4.5, NEXUS 5, the tablet BQ M10 and my daily driver Volla phone currently.
Read carefully and apply the procedure of this thread and it should work unless there is something that makes your smartphone incompatible.

@joão-fornaza With Xiaomi you have to use a Windows PC and use the Mi Flash tool to flash back to stock ROM.

Word of warning with Xiaomi, DO NOT LOCK the bootloader once it is unlocked. You have a great chance of bricking the device.

@kaveman Good stuff, you should be there by the time this is posted.

I don't know why but everything is working again now since one or two hours i think !! I'm happy to mark the thread as solved ! 🙂

OK. So I'll have to make do with adding an image onto the phone and setting it as the background/wallpaper. This lets me see how much the image is cropped. I can then edit the image on my PC to add the text box whilst looking at the image on my phone's background to GUESS a position that will not get cropped. I can then export the image as a jpeg, send it to my phone and set as background.

Not the best but it works.

@nitanmarcel Cheers everyone, I'll give this a crack tonight and try to retain userdata, let you know how it goes!

@ziggybate
Yes USB 3.0 must be avoided with ubp installer/adb.

@keneda I have this problem on my Note 7 and Redmi 7. I can go to the release channel and all works and then go back to stable and it works sometimes or doesn't.

@domubpkm , Thanks.

If the wifi is off (via the graphical interface) it does not work. If it is on, it does.

E4.5

Problem solved. There is an unlabelled blue P on the donate page that leads to Paypal.

@bobalex70 the problem lies in that the apps do not understand the CIFS (Samba) protocol.

For playing media on your devices, you would be better served by installing Jellyfin or Emby or some other light weight media software on a server if available. And installing the Jellyfin client on your device, or the Emby client if Jellyfin doesn't work on your device.

@pauls Have you tried to follow the UBports Proton VPN settings blog? link text

The easiest way is to follow screenshots. Verify you are not connected to vpn on other device using free plan. It works only for one device. Sometimes the connection persist on other devices even you think you have canceled the connection.

Did you asked at Proton for the necessary cert file?

I was able to copy the original history.sqlite back in after reseting phone and all messages returned. Thanks heaps

Interesting. I just got to the exactly the same state with Redmi 9 Pro :(. Will give a reinstall try when I can but I wonder what has caused this.