Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5
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Wow! Latest ubports newsletter has a hint that VoLTE and 5G may be coming to FP5:
"...by way of a sort of happy accident 5g should be available first, and has been tested on FP5 and 4..."
Looking good!
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@Kamikaze Love to hear that things are looking good for the Fairphone 5, its my current daily driver and I would love to give it a try with UbuntuTouch
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Gosh I really want this to release. I'm so excited for it. VoLTE is 100% mandatory for me though, since I'm in the USA which requires VoLTE on literally all carriers for a phone to work at all. Hopefully there is a working beta sooner than later!
Fingers crossed.
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@Inali In the Q&As you can see an FP5 almost every time. They probably just want to make sure they have something that works well on the release I can imagine. It seems to be running from what is visible and publicy shown. With a good working release (ideally with Waydroid) the FP5 with UB Touch would easily be a great daily driver and literally the best phone in the line up with official support!
aka:
Let them Cook.
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@CatWithUT I hope it works out well.
Honestly I give 0 cares for Waydroid. I doubt I'll even enable it.
I've run horribly unoptimized software releases on numerous devices, I wouldn't be opposed to being a tester for the FP5, regardless if it's an open public release or not. Sadly there seems to be no way to sign up for such a test.
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In "Ubuntu Touch Q&A 139" there is a "Fairphone 5" section which states: "Marius has continued work on getting FP5 to a usable state. Nice!
This thread started as a question about the state of things and has now become an information dump about UT and Fairphone 5
. Whenever something about this topic comes up somewhere, I will probably hear about it here first. 
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Yes, bring Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 5, I don't trust Google phones anymore, even if Ubuntu Touch runs on it. A privacy phone from Google? Has it really to be a device from Google as our privacy phone?
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No, Fairphone is better. And the Fairphone 5 is my preferred device since it offers a 6.46 screen.
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And I need a privacy smartphone which is not from Google Inc. which I can use as my touch control interface to my Raspberry Pi zero 2 w. And all the model lower than the Fairphone 5 have a screen which is too small for this purpose.
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So to have Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 5 his highly desirable for all of these reasons for people who have the same needs as I have:
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So, will the image magically show up in the installer application when ready, or will we need to update the installer app?
I keep checking the installer app every day with my fingers crossed.
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@Inali
I think/hope that when FP5 Ubuntu Touch is ready for users, there will be an announcement. -
I think/hope too, that when FP5 Ubuntu Touch is ready for users, there will be an announcement.
My phones:
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Xiami Redmi 7 & Softmaker Office & SCRPI & NextCloudPi for office applications
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Pinephone PMOS & PP keyboard only for evaluation purposes
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Raspberry Pi zero 2 w & Raspberry Pi OS & LibreOffice for evaluation & future developments (I plan to switch to DietPi)
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I currently hate all of my devices.
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FP5 Ubuntu Touch planned as a privacy phone & Raspberry Pi screen.
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Yeah I'm sure there will be an announcement and/or will be talked about in a Q&A. Also, I don't think the installer has to be updated since the list and device config are dynamically retrieved from a server.
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@kugiigi
Ah, perfect. This is what I wanted to know. I suppose I'll just continue to impatiently wait and open the installer every day to check lol -
@Inali Or just wait for any news or announcement
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Hello,
im on CalyxOS 5.8.2.....and waiting for Ubuntu........
anyone try to install PostmarketOS?????? -
@x2u please consider that discussions on postmarketOS are off-topic in this Thread.
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@x2u There might be something within the month. Stay tuned.
As an indication of generic Linux-support, https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)
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@x2u said in Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5:
thanks mr.
Do you mean that Ubuntu Touch will be released this month?
Suposedly the person working on it had some health situation come up so it's been a lesser priority versus getting better.
I hope they are better. I don't know much about it to give further detail, nor is it my business.
Certainly explains the lack of recent news regarding the build.
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From the Newsletter Sept 27th:
Hello again and welcome to the latest newsletter,
All things FP5 have moved along a lot recently with quite a few things fixed and working. These include the following
fixed vgrid units
adb, mtp and usb
Modem is up
Sound and video decoding works
vibrationaidl added to hfd-service
flashlight
auto brightness
mobile data and calls
GPSMany of the parts for voLTE have also no been merged but have not yet reached our devel update channel yet.
Work is being finished to make the FairPhone 5 available on the installer and as we know many of you are looking forward to this port we will let you know as soon as it is available.
We intend to show the FairPhone 5 at the up coming Ubuntu Summit in the Hague so if you are there please come and look us up to find out more.
I am excited!
Also "
and as we know many of you are looking forward to this port we will let you know as soon as it is available" . Meaning this forum topic has received a good amount of attention in the UT space . 4.3K Views is a lot lol.
