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  The Road(Map)Explained (copied from OS)
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  Please, use General category for what it is
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  Welcome to the UBports forums!
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  Is Ubports still phoning home?
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  @johnoo Technically of course its possible, if you e.g. would use our installer after a new update came out. But the story continues with the Apps, so besides system image also App updates are an important part of keeping your system fresh. So installing Apps manually is a bit cumbersome, if you don´t want to use the Open-Store update feature. That said, currently there is no way to turn off at least the check for new updates from time to time (even if you would not use push notifications the system image version is checked periodically). YOu can make a feature request out of this in our usual issue tracker https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch or raise awareness in our community to find people that want to implement a "master switch" for certain functions that result in telemetry.
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  Welcome to the UBports community! Introduce yourself here!
  community • • NeoTheThird  

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  @tchan Thanks for pointing out the link issue. Will see about getting it sorted.
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  Best recent phone hardware for install ?
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  @AppLee f(x) Pro 1-X is a great smartphone but, precisely, I find that its battery really has a low capacity for such a powerful smartphone! This is its weak point in my opinion.
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  Can you burn an APSync Raspberry Pi image using Etcher?
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  @Etcher I don't understand. You want to burn (flash ?) APSync to Ubuntu Touch from a version made (built) for Raspberry Pi ? Can you explain a little more what you want to achieve ?
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  compatibility layer between UT and other OSes
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  @poVoq said in compatibility layer between UT and other OSes: Last but not least Open-Store could be expanded to other system, as currently there isn't really a Playstore like 3rd party app distribution model on those. At least for Plasma Mobile it should be easy to get the open-store app running. this sounds like an interesting idea. and maybe this wouldn't be too hard. the open-store is basically a service where packaged apps are distributed. Developers can create an account, upload an app, specify which OS it's for (15.04, 16.04, armhf, arm64), describe it, do changelog and updates and get some installation stats. I think it also has a rating system for users since a little while. Mobile OS' can inquire the list of apps compatible with itself are in the store and updates for installed apps and download and install stuff. I don't even think that too much of this infrastructure is UT or click specific. Some pieces are of course, like the app submission to the store does a click review and for apps in the store it shows some apparmor click permissions, etc. Also the graphical design on the open-store website is UT specific. But it feels like this is the sugar on top of the machine that makes open-store. Maybe it wouldn't be too hard to add another OS like plasma mobile to the list and then someone has to teach plasma to get app packages from there. Whatever format pm uses ... debs? or flatpak? If Open-Store learns flatpak that way, this might also be a nice option for UT at some point in the future. Then you have One store where mobile linux app developers mingle with their apps. Initially it would be separate camps who only develop their apps for this OS or that OS, but it gives the devs exposure to each other. Some apps have already been ported to multiple OS' .... some navigation app ... the name escapes me. If the devs then are all mingling in the same pond, they might learn tricks about porting from one OS to another. It would still bring a multiplication of work and complexity to the open-store code/infrastructure/team, so that would weigh against it, but I find it an interesting idea! At least the name Open-Store itself would definitely still work, so no branding problem
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  Survey "Feature Matrix" for UBports
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  @Capsia Please let me and @NeoTheThird squash this dat in a more useful representation. The current maturity is a gut feeling value and need to be replaced with a better value from the actual test results. However, it will be still a bit hard to compare devices with each other, aas we have fully to rely on what porters think its working. There is no good QA process when we do not have a single QA team that can test all devices side by side. Also, my I know, who talked with you from the foundation side to actually work on this page?
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  PineTab
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  @poVoq I think that all boils down to the fact that mobile OS are lacking developers (compared with desktop Linux) because Android and iOS were more or less closed. Now we have the hardware, but not many are able to play with them. Sadly, this is not something that can be done over night, plus, bringing the device to the latest kernel is not for the faint of heart and not many are able to do it.
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  new comer
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  This list would be a good start: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
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  I'd like explanations about the different types of port ?
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  @poVoq What I meant by that is that if you trust Teleports code, then you can trust that the version delivered by the open store is consistant with the repository. Because you can check the sources from a git and the install a package that you don't know how they got built. That's a chain of trust, I trust Florian hence its reviews hence Teleports, I trust UBports hence the open store, so I trust the click package delivered by the open store for Teleports. You are right to point out that the open store doesn't make all apps safe. But if you know and trust the source and if you trust the platform, then you can relax.
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  Flashing a Manjaro Pinephone
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  @AppLee Sorry, but for quite some time I am no longer able to get a working system with ubports on sd card. Many other distros do correctly boot, but not ubports!
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  Possible new user with a couple of questions for the community
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  @AppLee ok,thanks for help
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  Any plans for second release of UBports Touch version of the Pinephone?
  pinephone ut • • The_Cougar_Kid  

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  It is very easy to install UT. I have done the same with my Manjora Pinephone. I downloaded the latest jumpdrive and the UT image. then i used balenaEtcher to flash 2 SD cards. One with the latest jumpdrive version and one with the UT image for the Pinephone. You only need the SD card with the UT image to test how the OS runs. The SD card with jumpdrive is needed to write the UT image to the internal memory with balenaEtcher. There are really good instructions in the forum.
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  Ulefone Armor X7 Pro
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  @The_Privateer said in Ulefone Armor X7 Pro: indeed, I want to install UT on it So first you need to port uTouch on it.
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  A message to anyone who is planning to install ubuntu touch on their phone
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  I had problems unlocking the bootloader of my Nexus 5! The device was recognized and the folders were visible but was not detected when switched off. So I used "platform-tools" under Linux Mint (because under Windows 10 I have had problems) and, after having opened the folder of platform-tools as administrator, I typed the command lines, but with the smartphone turned on. It was successful unlocked. (Sorry for my English language which is not good)
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  UBports and UT stats
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  This quarter, a less sustained growth for UBports with an increase in followers between 5,5 and 11% for the different communication channels (and a stagnation for donators via Liberapay). F(x)tec is added to twitter accounts monitored.
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  Touch sensitivity browser
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  UBports Shop
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  @kcir Could I please ask that you send an email to sales@ubports.com stating what has happenend and let me know when you have done so. In the mean time I will pass this on as well. I can only apologise that your issue has taken so long to be dealt with.