yes it will be good because i think the Ubuntu touch without emulators and good games will be boring. It will be great to have atleast something to play with. And I refuse to use a waydroid.

Hi all! @arubislander nice to hear, and to be clear, no irony needed. In a worse scenario nobody except a bunch of savvy developers would have tried using Ubuntu on that specific phone. It is good to know that it actually can work in a friendly way as expected. Unfortunately I have run into more problems since writing my last post here: My "easy" 7 step dance course only works while running the android 9 version that is supposed to be prefered by the instalation program. After that the installation program has flashed it's own version of boot.img using fastboot, the recovery i nowhere to be seen anymore. Neither with my seven step tango or by any other more traditional means. After consulting a few search engines without any luck I went the ai-chatbot way and got the suggestion that some android implementations keep the recovery code in the boot.img, if that is the case with the suggested android version, the instruction needs to be updated. I am going to download a few other builds of android 9 from Google in hope that I may strike "gold", using one of them. On my XL the recovery worked fine after flashing boot.img. If that does not work, I will have to figure out whatever magic the install tool is using and then flash things in another order to get all the higher level stuff installed before I flash the boot-program. If somebody could help me figuring out where the low level install procedure is documented (the one implemented by the user friendly installation program) and where I can download the installation files, then you will make me quite a happy man... By the way, am I overly adventurous if I try the 24.04.2 nightly? /r

@pparent copy that. thanks!

@jojumaxx I figured that was the case! I've also edited the topic title, for better searchability.

found a fatal bug in the container launch ill have to go over it its my day off when i wake up ill prob fix it actually i forgot to inckude some important files

@archie3d It uses the system libsdl2-dev from the ubuntu-sdk-20.04 clickable framework and for that framework the SDL2 package is 2.0.10+dfsg1-3 on Focal/arm64 ...i tend to find even if your building for a newer version of UT you still have to use older packages because there is a break it seems in the versions and packaging being updated? ..idk i do know every time i try to build with newer repos something breaks ....

@arubislander said: @pparent Where was this announced? Well "annonced" maybe was not the correct term, but it was at least mentioned as a possibility here: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fairphone-6-Linux

OnePlus phones are very hard to brick. They can be recovered using the msmDownloadtool usually included with the image on the UT device's webpage. If it isn't, xda-developers has them, for every OnePlus model.

@pparent said: this is kind of hard yes

@Kadafi said: swipe up in the "calls" app does nothing. Keeps showing the number buttons to dial a number. Cannot find out where are the missed calls or made calls logs. If you tried swiping up from the bottom of the screen while in application and the calls history did not appear, then this might be caused by using unstable version. The installer does not make it clear that only 24.04.1 stable and 24.04.1 Release Candidate are ready for daily use. This issue already caused a lot of confusion for users.

@sahirul not yet, but is planned. For now, qr code only

@Shadowbird2468 It was proven possible, but, due to different processor architectures, running desktop apps on mobile phone would require emulation layer. And, due to most games were made for windows, it requires running it through x86 Wine. And, due to differences in graphics APIs, it also requires using OpenGL to GLES translation where it is present. In fact some progress has been made at this direction. Several emulators exist for Android (and might work in Waydroid as well), there's at least one application related to that in OpenStore, and there's already Steam distribution for ARM in snap store. Don't know about graphics api translation though.

@developerbayman We agree on that point. It’s a game-changer for projects carried out in people’s spare time.

@arubislander so on the regular desktop version its a normal ubuntu boot stack then it hands off into the UT rootfs .....still not done ...taking a break on that for sanity rn

@Futura May I ask where you are located (country)? I have about 18months left of 2G calls with my current carrier, end of 2027 all of the remaining GSM network will be dismantled. My current phone has no volte support, so at some point I need to find one that has it and works with UT.

Thanks for the answer. Is this a bug that appeared in Ubuntu Touch 16.04 or 20.04?

@gpatel-fr thank you for the mkv samples! @gpatel-fr said: this 'Microsoft MPEG-4 4.2' is probably the same thing as your '10 bit support'. not really, the issue is definitely the bit depth of the video, correlated with the format profile. Higher definition videos such as H.264 AVC "High 10" profile (using mediainfo) : Video ID : 1 Format : AVC Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec Format profile : **High 10@L3.1** Format settings : CABAC / 5 Ref Frames Format settings, CABAC : Yes Format settings, Reference frames : 5 frames Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC Duration : 46 s 0 ms Width : 1 024 pixels Height : 576 pixels Display aspect ratio : 16:9 Frame rate mode : Constant Frame rate : 24.000 FPS Color space : YUV Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0 Bit depth : **10 bits** Scan type : Progressive Writing library : x264 core 165 r3222 b35605a Encoding settings : cabac=1 / ref=5 / deblock=1:0:0 / analyse=0x3:0x113 / me=hex / subme=8 / psy=1 / psy_rd=1.00:0.00 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=16 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-2 / threads=18 / lookahead_threads=3 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / bframes=3 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=1 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=24 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=50 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=18.0 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=81 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=1:1.00 Default : Yes Forced : No Color range : Limited Color primaries : BT.601 NTSC Transfer characteristics : BT.709 Matrix coefficients : BT.601 To reproduce this, you can use ffmpeg to enforce a higher bit depth on any of these samples: ffmpeg -i test5.mkv -c:v libx264 -pix_fmt yuv420p10le -crf 18 -preset slow -c:a copy test5_10bit.mkv and confirm it does not play on the UT player, despite desktop OSs having no issue playing it (at least that's my experience). It does, as you suggested, play on (libertine) mpv or vlc, so it seems like a limitation of the default player (I'd open a bug on the app repository, but can't seem to find it for the media player).

I've figure it out that entering 'selection mode' with a long press is precisely what I was looking for. Would still be useful to somehow start the terminal on selection mode and hide the 'Exit selection mode' option

@Mario.CH Hey. Sadly no, I have misplaced my FP4 and cannot find it at the moment. And I would like to verify the kernel upgrades work properly before pushing out test kernels to users.

@imparfaitinconnu do you have adb/ssh access to your device? If so, do you know how to make the system image writable?