This week in development (week 52 2024)

tigerpro

@mariogrip is there a way I can start working on porting my device to it if it's not in the installer?

Keneda

@mariogrip said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

I'd like to start posting weekly development updates here on the forums - this is a bit of an experiment, so please let me know if you find these updates useful and what could be improved. The goal is to provide a high-level overview of our development progress.

Is this is only about 24.04 or OS (see my signature to have a clue of my wonder ^^ ) ?
And yes, I bet it will interest lot of people whatever the subject is.

padraic

Just here to say that weekly development updates would be very welcome.

danfro

Is this is only about 24.04 or OS (see my signature to have a clue of my wonder ^^ ) ?

Its about a Noble based version of Ubuntu Touch (the OS). As we are currently on a Focal based version and had a Xenial based version before that.

uxes

has there been a major change (breaking change?) that makes it necessary to resize the filesystem as a result?
I can't seem to install the latest version 64 (2024-12-23 12:44)
version a few days ago, I believe version 60 went "well" at least booting

I tried installing on top of version 60 via ubports-installer but it ended up boot-looping, then I reflashed the phone back to android and installed latest utnext but ended up in ubports recovery reporting "exit code 256, view recovery logs /cache/ubuntu-updater.log" which is the same error I had when moving from 16.04 to 20.04, which was fixed by resize filesystem "system"

the log file:

Loading keyring: image-master.tar.xz
Loading keyring: image-signing.tar.xz
umount: /dev/block/dm-0: Invalid argument
umount: /cache/system: Invalid argument
umount: /system_root: Invalid argument
umount: /mnt/system: Invalid argument
e2fsck 1.44.4 (18-Aug-2018)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/block/dm-0: 11/196608 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 29884/786432 blocks
Formatting: data
Keyring doesn't exist: device-signing
Applying update: rootfs-1cc30f282c1d6dc014ad80a4b6cf84c82763919be5c2315b9d5b384b0665ddc4.tar.xz
mv: bad 'data/*': No such file or directory
Keyring doesn't exist: device-signing
Applying update: device-3480823f589b096575d103dc137e66ac10d62bdd8f0a4047931864c1a12bf956.tar.xz
tar: write error: No space left on device
joyeuse:/ # %

Keneda

@danfro said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

Its about a Noble based version of Ubuntu Touch (the OS).

I meant "about 24.04 version of the OS, or the OS in general".
You answered.

danfro

@Keneda To be honest, I don't really understand what your question is. I simply tried to explain that this post/thread is about noble (aka 24.04) development of Ubuntu Touch.

mariogrip

@Keneda if it's fp5 you're referring too, yes this is pretty much daily driver ready on focal already, for noble it does require more work on the os itself, but the device port is ready. But I wouldn't use noble as your daily driver yet.

mariogrip

@uxes sadly yes it's slightly bigger, this is something we need to figure out, ether by slimming the image down or resize partitions on the fly. LTO has been enabled on nobile, this makes the binaries smaller at the same time, so the increase comes from more code

mariogrip

@tigerpro yes, should be mostly just plug and play, see https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10675/status-update-on-the-next-noble-based-ubuntu-touch-release-december-2024 for the changes that may be needed on pulse config.

Lakotaubp

@mariogrip I take it that the best advice is to start with a clean freshly wiped device for accurate testing.

Keneda

@danfro
My question is to know if that new "week dev thread" is about only noble (24.04), or whole OS subjects (fonctionnalities for instance), or any dev subjects related to UT (like new devices from core team).

kugiigi

@Lakotaubp I think a device full of data would also be a good testing since most people will the upgrade that way but considering the early stage of the development, data migration might not have been the focus or tackled yet so I guess a clean install would be ideal for the testers.

Lakotaubp

@kugiigi In that case not a lot works. Updated straight from 20.04 devel. Tried a few core apps all crashed including calls. have moved back to 20.04. Apps tried included system settings, weather, dialler.
Edit: on a FP4

danfro

@Keneda Thanks for the answer. It would have helped to have clear question to start with. And I guess only @mariogrip can really answer this question. But I guess this weeks post is about 24.04. From what he wrote, I would assume there will be another post next week that might target other topics. Maybe Marius can shed some light on what he plans.

Salah

As we are waiting for 24.04 to be debuted soon. Certain thoughts came to mind which I would like to see them in this upcoming OS such as:

***** Ability to delete contact's photo if not required, not deleting the entire contact.

Contact's photo to be enlarged while receiving a phone call.
Ability to have two separate wallpaper for both Lock Screen and Desktop.
Separate Media control for keyboard sound (while typing texts) because it is too loud. I do not want to toggle it off. Only reduce the sound a bit.
The return of Always On Display (AOD) and Tap To Wake the screen.
Ability to change icons and add new one to icon folder.****

Having all of the aforementioned points would be great for UT OS to be a perfect OS.

danfro

@SalahPlease note, that none of the mentioned features is necessarily related to a new version of the OS upgrading the Ubuntu base. Those can be enabled "every time" - if someone does the work.

***** Ability to delete contact's photo if not required, not deleting the entire contact.

I think Lionel is working on contact backend and some frontend features. So this feature might come soon.

Contact's photo to be enlarged while receiving a phone call.

Can you please create a feature request describing where you wish this to happen in dialer app?

Ability to have two separate wallpaper for both Lock Screen and Desktop.

Separate Media control for keyboard sound (while typing texts) because it is too loud. I do not want to toggle it off. Only reduce the sound a bit.

The first step for those would be to file a feature request. But it needs someone to implement them. I do agree, sound management can (nned to be) certainly be improved.

The return of Always On Display (AOD) and Tap To Wake the screen.

You can set the screen lock time to "never" or use apps like ActiveScreen to keep the screen on. Is that not sufficient for you?
Tap to wake is already implemented in the OS. It works on devices that support this feature. On some devices it does not work due to hardware limitations. The devices page should list this feature. If your device supports the feature but it doesn't work, maybe the porter needs to do some adaptive work. You may need to get in touch with them.

Ability to change icons and add new one to icon folder.****

This does likely involve more work. Not sure, but as with all the other features, it needs someone to do it.

This just some quick feedback on your idea.

domubpkm

@danfro said in This week in development (week 52 2024):

Tap To Wake the screen

Tap to wake up the screen is not for all smartphones (not for the volla 22 in my case). The usefulness of being able to wake up the screen is certain to avoid wear and tear on the power key. What I like about android is that it is possible to wake up the screen using the volume key if this function is enabled. It would be nice to have this feature with UT too i think.

uxes

@mariogrip thank you, now it seems that latest build is okay,
version-66.json 2024-12-25 12:45
it just seems there is some keyboard no-vibrations issue in system settings, while morph is not opening keyboard at all

Salah

@domubpkm It was working on my device Google Pixel 3a XL while using 16.04 version.