@FC8E Difficult to say without further info:

what device are you using? what version of UT (xenial/focal)? how did you install your private cloud disk service? how did you configure IPv6?

@pepijndevos I think with "Gallium" you mean Halium, which is indeed an abstraction layer between the android hardware drivers (blobs), not just LineageOS, and a normal Linux distro.

Although I don't know much about Sailfish OS, their stack seems close to ours, so you should be able to use most of their kernel code. It wouldn't be as simple as flashing a generic system image.

The rootfs is supposed to be generic, but from my experience every device needs different tweaks (so you can't just flash the rootfs), that is why the overlay method exists, which all new ports use.

You can try adapting the kernel sources to Ubuntu Touch, and then the rootfs probably from scratch. I couldn't find any port source code from Sailfish OS, as Ubuntu Touch has, which is of course necessary.

@mihael Logic would point to the Whatsapp side if another webapp was able to open images directly in gallery.

Hey @Pastor-David-R, just wanted to say, really cool to hear you are looking at running UT in place of android! Im similar, as im a lover of linux generally and use linux desktop OSs for work and life on my home systems. About 5 years ago i felt the same as you have said now and had similar questions to what you asking.

I just wanted to say that i have been very happily using and loving UT as my daily phone OS since 5 years ago and similar to you, while i have always been 'techy', i did not know much about phone stuff back then but now im here it actaully is really easy to get a phone setup with UT, once you've picked one that suits you from the supported devices @arubislander linked.

Just to put my bit out, like @Keneda said, fairphone are really cool but for me were too pricey (from my experience), so i just wanted to suggest Oneplus Nord N10 also, as it is a pretty good phone, you can find them fairly cheap (from my experience) and they run UT really stable (also from my experience).

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Thanks a lot for that script. It worked great for me. 👍

@ywmaa Requested

@TEH
You don't port Ubuntu Touch to a chip, but to a phone with full hardware around a particular chip.
This means that a port for a phone with one particular chip, will not work on another with the same chip but different peripheral hardware.

Plus, don't choose any old phone that would not support Ubuntu Touch 20.04 and further, it must be a phone that got an android rom that includes a recent Linux kernel.

For now I'll move your topic to general forum section, as porting section is for ongoing ports.

You should take a look and seek for help understanding porting effort at UBports porting telegram group to figure out what can be done depending on which hardware you choose.

BTW Qualcomm chips based phones can get UT working on it, that's the cas of Fairphones for instance.