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The title explained it all, I have few friends who can spare chunks of their time testing and porting.
The catch is what's the starting point?
We share experience using ubports on Xperia X which is long dead now, Pixel 3a which is on the verge after 24.04, so far good with Miatoll but device is getting rare as the time goes on.
What device we should like look into in future, a usable ubport on 2030 let's say.
Is it pixel 6a+, oneplus 9+, Xperia V, redmi (again with crazy numbers)?
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K Keneda moved this topic from Porting
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The porting forum is for the discussion of porting work, build errors, and other wonderful hurdles when porting Ubuntu Touch.
So thread moved.
For a device to port it depends, lot of time, of what device a porter got and want to port.
But what I can tell you is that the just released Fairphone 6 will be ported, not soon but probably later (after FP5 reach stable state I guess, on 24.04)
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@hisacro I don't know much about porting, but I think that Pixel 5a to 8a are listed at wiki.lineageos.org/devices suggests that ports could be possible and I am sure many people would be very happy, if ports are available for this newer devices.
Here is the documentation on how to get started with porting: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction/
And here is a video of someone doing a port for his motorola phone (but I do not know how up to date his approach is): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X72ivdm7n1Y
When you want to start a port for a specific device, it is maybe also a good idea to ask in this forum and on Telegram (t.me/ubports_porting), if someone already started a port on this device and wants to share what is already done and what still needs to be done.
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@hisacro - well, the longer term future is never all that clear, but in the more short to mid term, there are ports being worked on for the Furilabs FLX1, and the Brax Phone 3, that should be promising options for those that want to support companies that target their products specifically to be privacy respecting.
After that, the Fairphone 6 has been announced and will very likely get a UT port as well. Volla, despite being a small niche operation, has shown some resilience and consistency, with UT support being enabled for every device they have released, so I think we will see more from them in the future as well.
Pixel 5, 6, 7, and 8 (and variants of these) should be doable for Halium based ports, it just takes someone that owns one of these devices, that has the needed patience and technical know how, to volunteer for this effort.
Regarding Xiaomi phones in the future (which includes brands such as Redmi and Poco), those were already kind of a pain the a to get their bootloaders unlocked, and with Xiaomi's new HyperOS (their new bloated skin on top of Android), they have made it even harder to unlock. I had to use a third party hack called "Hypersploit" in order to unlock a Poco X3 NFC which came with HyperOS 1, and apparently this hack no longer works on Hyper OS 2.
Best reagrds,
Steve Berson
