Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5

Peter Gamma

I think/hope too, that when FP5 Ubuntu Touch is ready for users, there will be an announcement.

My phones:

Xiami Redmi 7 & Softmaker Office & SCRPI & NextCloudPi for office applications
Pinephone PMOS & PP keyboard only for evaluation purposes
Raspberry Pi zero 2 w & Raspberry Pi OS & LibreOffice for evaluation & future developments (I plan to switch to DietPi)
I currently hate all of my devices.
FP5 Ubuntu Touch planned as a privacy phone & Raspberry Pi screen.

kugiigi

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.

Inali

@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

kugiigi

@Inali Or just wait for any news or announcement

x2u

Hello,
im on CalyxOS 5.8.2.....and waiting for Ubuntu........
anyone try to install PostmarketOS??????

arubislander

@x2u please consider that discussions on postmarketOS are off-topic in this Thread.

kingu

@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)

x2u

@kingu

thanks mr.

Do you mean that Ubuntu Touch will be released this month?

Inali

@x2u said in Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5:

@kingu

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.

CatWithUT

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
GPS

Many 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.

Moem

@CatWithUT said in Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5:

Hype.

Sorry, what do you mean?

CatWithUT

@Moem I am excited to to try UB-Touch. Sorry if it was writen unclear.

Moem

@CatWithUT said in Best way to support Porting / Checking Status for the Fairphone 5:

I am excited to to try UB-Touch.

Okay, then I understand you completely :smiling_face:

x2u

@Moem

Ubuntu for FP5 is out....via Installer....... :-))))))

x2u

Mobile Data ....sim Card dont Work!!!!!!!Broken!!!!!! Only W LAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

arubislander

@x2u Please try not to overuse the exclamation marks (!), it comes across as shouting.

x2u

This post is deleted!

Lakotaubp

@x2u Do not repeat that again ever. Hope that is clear enough. We do not tolerate bad or offensive language here.

Lakotaubp

So the FP5 is now on the installer so please give it a try but remember this is still a work in progress. These things are working or should be though some things are just being pushed now.

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
fingerprint
GPS

Please note mobile data has broken but is being fixed. Calls and text should work. Work on the recovery is also currently underway by @mariogrip and @TheVancedGamer. More updates as and when we get them.

Lakotaubp

Next devel update should fix ofono