@grenudi Because Ubuntu Touch is Lomiri. Without Lomiri, Ubuntu Touch loses its identity and loses its purpose. When the community/foundation picked up the project, it picked up the whole Ubuntu Touch project and continued its goal. In an ideal world, we all want the same things but in reality we want different things and that's the reason we have so many DEs and distros. One of the main goal of Ubuntu Touch and Lomiri is convergence. I know other distros also kind of touches that concept too but it's pretty obvious that UT's direction is very much different. Most of us UT users obviously like Lomiri and that's why we continue to support it and contribute to it.

@grenudi We've been more than tolerant when you came in swearing and calling us names... when you don't even use Ubuntu Touch anymore. Please don't push your luck. If you go on like this, you will wear out your welcome fast. Please consider this an official warning.

@O.o. said in Can I change how Waydroid works?: I'm trying to get away from Android, and what I end up doing is running Android in a UT sandbox to get the apps I need going. True, but that's the same whether or not you can see the sandbox. Personally I see Waydroid as a crutch. It's better not to need it, but it's there if you do. And if you only run Waydroid every now and then, as many of us do then most of the time you are effectively not using any kind of Android.

@messayisto Thanks, Mate. So it needed two attempts to get it working again. I first tried the 0.5.1 Focal for UT 24.04 which also did not work. I ended up with the one for UT 20.04 which now runs smoothly.

The main thing here is that Ubuntu Touch doesn't have the latest and greatest support for Wayland/XWayland. This is needed so you can run traditional desktop apps. It will come in the future and there are already works on it on the desktop side of things. However, even with that, we can't expect for these desktop apps to magically work well on small screens with touch input. As mentioned, uWolf is in the OpenStore which is Librewolf but made to work better on phones. It still has some quirks though, caused by the same thing I mentioned earlier. It has no clipboard support and the performance isn't as good as the native browser.

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@gpatel-fr im a bit of a newbie when it comes to the terminal, i have used basic commands to get me by ie commands like update,upgrade,install and remove programs. Anything else is new to me mate. I do need to dive in more with the terminal for learning. I tried ping 0 and it just kept counting over and over. I am on ask ubuntu website to see if there is anything on ubuntu touch ping but no luck. Thanks for your time mate.

@pparent Tested navigation in English language today. Also nonsense contents of the spoken navigation like in other languages...

The same thing happened to my OnePlus Nord N10. It got stuck at the bootloader screen after I upgraded from Ubuntu Touch 20.04 to 24.04. I solved it as @MrT10001 suggested: Started Ubuntu Touch in recovery mode Enabled Fastboot and restarted the devices. Installed Ubuntu Touch 24.04 via the installer desktop application. After that, the problem was fixed, and my device is now running 24.04 without any problems.

@Charly that's nothing with photo app or anything, something works, but certain apps. it is vfat, i'd happily changevthst, but vfat is default you know

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/11532/signal-ut-signal-desktop-for-ubuntu-touch

Seems to stop happening when I disable emergency notifications.

@grenudi Well, some quick items about this: Lomiri (aka Unity8) has 15 years of development (>) Unity is developed by a professional and capable team of designer and UX experts. I don't know why random people get the idea that the desktop is designed to be «just different from X». Lomiri has its own language and design. Object of which are simple, intuitive and beatifull. Ubuntu Touch is not Android. Ubuntu users are used to Unity patterns. So, have them in Ubuntu Touch makes sense to us. (offtopic) Andoird UI is a mess, but the more time passes, the more it adopts Unity design language.

@evilgenius do you have a waydroid app-icon in the apps-drawer? You should try to start waydroid using that app. To make sure, everything is set up correctly before starting the app, execute in the terminal: sudo systemctl restart waydroid-container.service Maybe have a look, if container was startet successfully: sudo systemctl status waydroid-container.service Then launch the app.

@ToxyPoxy Although it seems that calls could possibly make its way to Whatsapp web one day, which would be amazing, and then we will probably be able to support it inside the app. https://beebom.com/whatsapp-web-voice-and-video-calling-coming-soon/ https://3dvf.com/en/whatsapp-will-soon-allow-making-calls-directly-from-your-web-browser/

@MrT10001 Hello, I don't complain. Everything else works great. It's a pity that these little things don't work, because if they did, UBports would have the best system on the market, and free as well. These last key strokes are the hardest to give.

Hi @Gabriel.de. That's great to hear. Welcome to the UBports forum.

@Lorenzo said in A few questions on redmi note 9: Are they treated as two separate devices or will they be rolled into one? Xiaomi devices are often wildly different from one another even if the model name and number are very close. Not sure about this one, but if they are separate devices now, they probably need to be and will stay that way.

@kristatos There are understandably some errors at the beginning of 24.04-1.0. When is the next release supposed to come out? That would be 24.04-1.1? Greetings Charly

Duh ! I will close this stoopid post, I had not used seriously a smartphone since several years and did not realize anymore how sensitive to location Gps services are. I tried only in 2 places in my home and both where unsuitable. When I got out in the air, Gps started to work. So it is working, really. I did a stroll this morning and it updated its position. I have still to get my hands to another brand of smartphone on Android to compare with the Fairphone 5 under UT to see how well it is working.