@Thieb you need to enter a package name tapping on "Enter package name or Debian file" button. Also you'd like to start with other package than Firefox because that's broken (upstream bug IIRC).

Small update. After the PRs by @UniSuperBox and @jonius I was finally able to compile the keyboard package onto my phone. In order to accomplish the task I had to slightly modify the command I used before, i.e. crossbuilder with crossbuilder --password=myPro5password because a bunch of commands sent to the phone requires sudo. In this way I was able to get to the end of the crossbuilding process, I believe without errors. At first I changed just a small thing in the code to see the effect on the phone, but then I tried without changing a thing and after a reboot in both cases I got the keyboard not showing up anymore; so I couldn't access the phone because I couldn't insert the unblocking passcode. A fresh UT install did the trick. Any idea why the crossbuilding process seems not working as expected? I don't have the output log this time but, if needed, I can try again to compile and collect a new one.

@ksalver it sure does, thanks again. Hopefully this fix will be put in and more can have your fix.

Maybe it would be a good thing LM and Sprint dudes to work together.

@guru said in UBports Store Open: Finally I got a mail from sales@ saying that they have shipped my goods on October 19. Today is already October 28 and nothing arrived in 8 days... sales@ said in a mail that the parcel was sent on October 19. Today is November 3rd. I will wait until November 19 and then instruct Amex to withdraw the money due to goods not delivered. Thanks

@trwidick said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns: Do you want facebook messenger built in to the os like most android phones? HELL NO!!! :pouting_face: @dobey said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns: I don't know if the ffmpeg stuff does hardware decoding on PCs or not, but I think probably it doesn't either. FFMPEG supports Hardware Decoding for about 10+ years now! That's what Kodi/XBMC uses and the moment FFMPEG got Hardware Decoding the VLC Player got it too! @bigmouth said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns: @trwidick Wish: Enhanced start menue I'd like to be able to create directories to sort my apps. Also I wonder if widgets were possible, e. g. the clock app to show current time at the desktop and the weather app its information, too. Widgets are the garbage of Android and Windows systems and have no use on Ubuntu Touch since you can easily scroll through your opened apps But Folders would be nice for sure, however please keep in mind you simply might have too many apps installed and many of them are easily replaceable by your browser! @keneda said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns: I don't know where do you live but in France SMS/MMS are unlimited and free of charge with any contrat... And i think it's the same in quite all countries in Europe, so yes, MMS is commonly used. In The Netherlands MMS was basically EOL before it was introduced! I am really surprised to see soo many requests for MMS Support Oh and MMS works with any smartphone, no need for the same "messenger" app installed in both sending and receiving phone, it's GAFAM and third part app free. Dunno man... I really REALLY like Telegram : It works on all my devices and syncs all Chat's completely unlike all of their competitors! ** Di sound on my Android phone ** Open Telegram on my Linux Laptop and read the message! Or my Windows Gaming PC Or any of my Ubuntu Touch devices ofcourse!!! :grinning_squinting_face: 100% AWESOME!!! @trwidick said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns: @keneda A agree this can be very Important. I use youtube at work everyday. No better way to find a teardown of a laptop that needs a new motherboard or jack replaced. I wish i could code our problems away, but i do not code. The pixel 3a i think has hardware encoding, youtube works quite well, with out buffering, or skipping frames I might be wrong tho. Encoding is not the same as Decoding and we need Decoding via Hardware Acceleration in this case! As much as I hate YouTube the last 5 years or so : We really need it inside TELEports for example! Or perhaps VLC for Ubuntu Touch in the future ?! @dobey said in Wishes, Dreams, and Unicorns: @keneda Well, yes, GPU is used in Linux by browsers too, at least for rendering acceleration. Using hardware decoding if available, in Linux, has always been trickier because it's not something drivers tend to provide, for example, and AFAIK GStreamer and other things don't have decent detection or handling of such things. That is sadly VERY TRUE : Hardware Acceleration and Decoding of video's in Firefox for example is only available for about 1 year now! And with all the new stuff going on with V4L2 it continues to be a ongoing drama story... See : https://duckduckgo.com/?q=libreelec+nvidia+gpu+v4l2 My personal dream is simply to have this : https://c1.iggcdn.com/indiegogo-media-prod-cld/image/upload/c_limit,w_695/v1603110770/ysxni2y7ulluzwlnw3fl.jpg Ubuntu Touch with Convergence On any phone, for any phone! And the ability to simply use Desktop Software in Convergence mode! All phones should have had a hardware keyboard and a stylus pen for a very long time now! But some fruit brand guy decided to ruin all that and now we are stuck with onscreen keyboards which are not suitable for our huge fingers! :pouting_face:

@kristatos said in Few thoughts regarding coming back after several years: I don't understand why people want to change from iOS/Android to UT but on the other hand still want to use all their services. In my opinion one effort of UT is, that you don't have to use accounts and services from these big companies and still have a functional and free phone in your hand. I agree. Big Tech surveils you 24/7, exploits your most private data, and tries to control what information you have access to. I am so not down for that. If the only choice was Apple or Android, I would not have a smart phone.

@lxj Stop now or be removed you have already be warned once about this. Stick to your first thread please.

@rondarius i used the the https://flash.android.com tool to flash andriod 11 stock and flash to all partitions. i'm guessing as i'm on andriod 12.1 and had to resize the partitions to get it to work, before then the the install tool for ubport used to work. that's why i am keen to get a fashboot/adb script to install ubport

@bocephus I have similar sentiments about excessively rounded corner and notches/punchholes but you should calm down There are valid reasons why Fairphone went for those. I think mainly because available screen components are mostly like that and they can't ask someome to create special components just for them considering their size as a company. Also, it's just the truth that people nowdays expect "edge to egde" screen. Personally, the size, the notch and the rounded corners are turn offs aside from the fact I can't really buy it here in Asia But if it is easily available here, I might actually consider it because I've been looking for a long term UT phone as my daily driver.

@rob said in What's Inside the Black Box of Ubuntu Touch?: The point of this exercise is to see if I can do normal Linux things on a UT device vs. let's say using PostmarketOS. This is a valid comparison and an often made one between the OS options. I think this is a poor distinction to make. Ubuntu Touch is not a traditional Linux distribution, so no, you cannot treat it like one. It is an OS designed with phone/tablet use in mind, and with security restraints to that effect. It's only a valid comparison for people who do not want a phone or tablet, but instead want something they can treat like a traditional Linux distro, in their pocket. And those are two very different things, for which making the comparison in such a manner, doesn't promote the benefits of such a system, and treats the traditional and less secure way as something inherently better. @rob said in What's Inside the Black Box of Ubuntu Touch?: Partly this ability to play with this stuff is why we're on Linux. Partly it's also because of privacy advantages. Android is still Linux. So far, the things you've talked about in terms of building and running an app directly on the phone, have absolutely nothing to do with whether there is a Linux kernel running on the device though. Linux is running on billions of devices in the wild. Simply because you can't ssh into those devices arbitrarily and do some traditional things you might be used to on Debian or Ubuntu on your PC, doesn't make those devices not be Linux. Android is the same. @rob said in What's Inside the Black Box of Ubuntu Touch?: In any case, I've concluded that Libertine isn't the answer but need more space on the host to do more experimentation. Hopefully the Pinephone will give that space. Libertine is the answer, as it is what provides a container for installing and running legacy apps. However, it doesn't magically make those apps responsive or usable on phones, nor does it enable a full traditional Linux distribution experience. Likewise, Pinephone is not an answer here, as it is not the only device that UT will be supporting. The rootfs contents (in terms of what is supported by UT) must remain consistent across devices, regardless of whether they use libhybris or not, and whether or not they are stuck with Android style partitioning. Doing anything different in this area across different devices will only make it harder to support, harder to build apps for UT, and harder for users to use UT. Those are all things we clearly do not want.

@sverzegnassi , one problem i have after trying this development version of the file manager is that both *.mp4 and *.MOV files are played back heavily in pink color after installing it, and the problem does not go away when i uninstalling it either. I posted about it here as well, https://forums.ubports.com/topic/600/cannot-play-the-old-mov-made-by-the-canonical-image/4 , but did not get any suggestions on how to fix it. Do you have any ideas what went wrong and how to fix it?

@saveurlinux - GPS fix definitely seems slower with my OnePlus 6t than with my Volla, but I am still able to use it for turn-by-turn navigation (via uNav or PureMaps). If I was in Europe I think I would prefer the Volla, but given that when I was travelling here in the USA there were areas where I could not get LTE mobile data with it, having another device where I can reliably get both calls and LTE from a single carrier became the priority. Best regards, Steve Berson

@Fizz said in Installing to Pixel 3a: Interestingly, the Installer asked me to rate how the installation went, i said "pass", but then it gives me a warning that the installation was stopped due to a problem. It's the reporting process that is currently broken. Glad to hear you got it installed and are now up and running!

@keneda I guess that PureOS is "compliant" if they don't include the linux-firmware package by default, but the phone hardware itself wouldn't comply, because of the modem. AFAIK, the Bluetooth/WiFi support in Librem 5 is also a bit lacking because Purism want to only use BT/WiFi in their systems, which doesn't require binary firmware blob, which the newer Atheros chips that support newer Bluetooth and WiFi versions, do.

[image: 1640882423168-ubports-forum-503-load-balancer-error.jpeg] I only logged in and the Load Balancer started tripping on me! :face_with_tears_of_joy: Usually only happens when I open many tabs in a short period...

Yeah obviously the FP2 has a lot of problems of its own, that are definitely not specific to UT, and be not mistaken, I had a great experience with this OS and am not reverting to Android; it's just that pooky asked about the FP2, and here is its current state of porting ^^