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.

Hi @Equareo

I just read your answer to a newcomer asking about Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
This kind of contribution is really appreciated and shows qualification.

If this kind of contribution is registered in time then it counts as a significant contribution.

Also acting on your suggestion would also be a valid contribution.
One of the goals of the foundation is to help organize the development of Ubuntu Touch.

Spreading the word, trying to gather people and motivate them to help is also a valid contribution.

I'm not trying to push you @Equareo, my message is for everyone that feels that only technical skills are valid.
What @arubislander is trying to do and what I try to also highlight is that a lot of you people on this forum are too shy or maybe intimidated or even unaware of how the foundation works.

I was in this situation few months ago.
But decided that I could also give back the community by also helping the foundation.
Donations are important, but volunteers are mandatory.

@thedeafenguy - T-mobile announced that they were temporarily delaying the 2G shutdown in the USA, but have not announced a revised shutdown date yet. I think it will likely be shutdown in 2025 though.

You can read more on this at
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/t-mobile-decides-not-to-abandon-its-millions-of-old-customers/ar-BB1i7OeU

Best regards,
Steve Berson

activate morph's computer mode for scrolling kickstarter info otherwise no scrolling in mobile mode with UT.

Just to share my experience, few days ago Waydroid stopped to work for me with my Pixel 3a on 16.04 Stable channel. I was then forced to pass to 20.04, since I still need to have whatsapp in some ways available. I thought that upgrating from within the OS itself straight to 20.04 it would have been a good idea, avoiding using the Ubports installed but it was a great pain instead; it upgraded to 20.04 but OS resulted severely broken. In fact any kind of gesture I was used to was slower and unresponsive most of the time. Phone storage was awfully clogged, 60 GB nearly full for no apparent reason like if the new OS installed along with the old one. Subsequently, I decided to employ the Ubports installer without selecting the wipe option in order to preserve my data but it never ended the process, after many attempts with different usb cables (at least 5 cables I tried). There was no way to resurrect the phone, therefore in the end I was obliged to try to install by means of the Ubports installer but this time tapping on the wipe tick, to install from scratch. It worked flawless and now I'm on Focal 20.04. Unfortunately I lost some of my data, but luckily I was wise enough to backup at least my personal videos and pictures. The new environment seems much snappier than before, but I'll report my experience on that in a few days to get used to it.

First thing I think is to set your expectation. It'll be very hard to completely abandon iOS/Android. I managed to only use UT for around 5 years but had to have an Android phone as secondary phone in the past few years. Some things are just not possible on UT. There's Waydroid to try some apps that you need but not all will work especially those that needs security checks and such. Waydroid also drains the battery.

X and Proton Mail can only be accessed via the browser/webapp. Proton mail doesn't support the usual email configs (IMAP/SMTP) so you can't use Dekko. There are a few Reddit clients in the store though not sure how good they are compared to just using the web version.

We currently only have Morph as the browser with Sapot browser as a fork with a bit different UI but still the same web engine which is sadly outdated right now due to technicalities.