Pixel 3a/3aXL and Noble (24.04) Experiences
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Hi everyone! This thread is to track experiences with Noble 24.04 on the Pixel 3a/3aXL. Thanks to @fredldotme for his hard work and the great port as always! I test drove it over the weekend and everything was pretty snappy.
I did come across two issues.
The first issue was with the camera app. The first time the camera would work. If I closed the app and locked the screen and then tried to go back to the camera app, the app would show a black screen and would not take any pictures.
The second issue was with Libertine. Libertine apps from before the OS upgrade wouldn't load. I removed the Libertine containers and will rebuild these. I'm assuming the OS update was the issue here rather than actual functionality.
Of course, VoLTE didn't work, but that was expected. This is something our community is trying our best to work on.
If there is anything else anyone wants to contribute, please post here. Thanks!
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Hello,
I would also like to thank you for your work on 24.04, it is excellent.
And I will add my experience:
Pixel 3A XL 24.04 clean installation via USB.
Encryption enabled.
Just like the previous camera, it freezes on a black screen (it helped me to leave the camera on and close the camera app on the panel. Sometimes it helps).
Another experience is that after installing the app, the app icons are not added to the menu – you have to restart the phone.
I also noticed that the control panel is missing, for example, the number of received SMS messages.
I had a problem getting the Dekko2 app to work after adding an IMAP account; it wouldn't load emails (mysteriously, it worked, but I have no idea how).
Despite all the minor issues, thank you all for your work on this system.Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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Thanks for the information! We are currently working on a new port. I am not sure if we will have the same issues or not, but we'd like to document any issues so we can hopefully address them when the port is finished. Also, we are curious about people's general experience using Ubuntu Touch on the Google Pixel 3a/3aXL. Again, thanks for sharing!
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@atarilinux With the exception of VoLTE, the P3a with the current 20.04 port is the finest example of what UT on a phone can be. I wish you the best of success with your updated port. Join us in the NA Issues UT Telegram group, and you'll have testers waiting to help when the time comes.
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@OtaDr in regards to the new app icons not showing up in the launcher, refresh the drawer by pulling down inside of the drawer, see if that works. When I was using the way droid helper to add Android apps to the Ubuntu touch app drawer, I had to refresh the drawer every single time.
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Hi there nice to meet you, I am interested in this project as I want to move away from the mainstream options. Although I am not versed in the world of programming (once upon a time I was heavily into mIRC scripting), I don't mind testing features out. I understand that this is a work in progress.
I use the Pixel 3A XL (bonito). I will list issues down below, but am unsure if they are device specific or Ubuntu Touch as a whole.
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camera: works once, then a still image of the picture I just took remains. If I flip flop through apps and come back to camera, The viewfinder shows what the camera is looking at, but when taking a picture, the blue spinning circle appears and never goes away (the picture is never taken at this point)
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scrolling: I feel that there is a hard limit set for scrolling, as it does not scroll through pages quick enough and is sluggish. For example, when on a web page using morph browser, if I want to scroll down, I have to do it slowly so that it actually scrolls down. Regardless of how slow or fast I go, it appears to be "Skippy". Now, if I scroll really fast (or even slightly faster than normal I guess you can say), It's almost like the scrolling motion turns into a bounce, where it will scroll down a few lines/segments, then start scrolling back upwards. This behavior is throughout the whole operating system and is not related to the browser itself I find. I can provide a video here if interested to see the behaviour I am describing.
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MMS: this is a known issue but I'm bringing it up because I'm wondering if it is something that will be worked on?
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Waydroid: it would be nice if the app switcher would show a thumbnail for each waydroid application being ran. A thumbnail only shows for the last running/opened Waydroid app, while the other Waydroid apps have no thumbnail and are transparent.
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Wifi bug: I don't know how this happened but here was the setup leading up to it right from the first boot: device turned on, connected to my Wi-Fi, saw that there was a hotspot option so I set that up too but never used it/turned it on, installed some apps from the store, installed waydroid, was using some Android apps here and there, I guess I ended up rebooting due to something unrelated at some point but when the phone turned back on, it asked me to reconnect to my network. It added a one at the end of the SSID. I noticed that there were two Wi-Fi signals. They had separate strength indicators from one another although they were marginally close in terms of the appearance. I tried to remove previous networks and I noticed that there were two of the same SSID, along with a new "ssid 1". When I removed the other networks but kept the one that was working, the other Wi-Fi icon would disappear. Even though it showed that I had removed these networks, upon rebooting, they would show up again in all of a sudden I would have two Wi-Fi indicator icons up in the top bar.
The side effect of this, is that I can no longer ping my laptop, but could ping everything else on my network. My laptop also could not see the phone and I could not SSH back into it. I was only able to SSH into it one time before this problem happened. I ended up doing a system reset to start over.
These are just a few things I can think of right now. I have only had the device for 2 days, and had spent an entire day with Ubuntu touch yesterday, but I do plan on using it back and forth with my S24 for some real testing.
I've been reading some posts in the forum here, I don't exactly have the setup to set up a dev environment (saw a recommendation of 24gb RAM, I'm kneecapped at 8gb lol!), but I would like to test any new builds or features that may be coming or have been improved upon. So if there's other things that you might want to get me to try, I'm all for it. I run pop OS on my laptop.
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@zakafx said in Pixel 3a/3aXL and Noble (24.04) Experiences:
MMS: this is a known issue but I'm bringing it up because I'm wondering if it is something that will be worked on?
Just answer for that one. What kind of issue for MMS ?. It is not device specific issue afaik. And it is working for me. Probably an issue with your APN config
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@lduboeuf I can't seem to send or receive any MMS, specifically images (as as the only thing I have tested with).
The APN settings seem to be correct.
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@zakafx said in Pixel 3a/3aXL and Noble (24.04) Experiences:
@lduboeuf I can't seem to send or receive any MMS, specifically images (as as the only thing I have tested with).
The APN settings seem to be correct.
isn't the wifi on issue ? ( e.g Wifi must be off to send/receive MMS for me , only cellular data On)
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@lduboeuf ahhh I did not know this. I guess I was expecting that the OS knows when to send an MMS using the modem only. It worked after disconnecting from Wifi.
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@zakafx said in Pixel 3a/3aXL and Noble (24.04) Experiences:
@lduboeuf ahhh I did not know this. I guess I was expecting that the OS knows when to send an MMS using the modem only. It worked after disconnecting from Wifi.
It is something not easy to tackle despite it seems easy :). There has been an attempt to add an info popup about that at least, but it failed due for some reason. I will try to rework on it soon at least to have users informed
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@lduboeuf hey no worries, people work on this on their free time and I value and respect that. I'm happy something like this exists.
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I completely agree that the original Google Pixel 3a port was amazing! I hope that we can make an equally great port with VoLTE enabled. I know I'm new to this, and as such, my skills are not of the same level as other members.I wouldn't really call it my port, but more of a community port. I'm just trying to get the ins and outs documented at the moment so we know where to begin. I've been interacting with a number of people on the forum to see what we can coordinate and set up regarding this community port. I also recently found out I may need a stronger computer to adequately build the port. I am currently seeing what I can do on this piece at the moment.
Unfortunately, I'm not on Telegram for certain reasons. There may be a way to use Matrix to interact with Telegram, but I haven't dug into it that much yet. I was informed of this option earlier. I'm sure great work is being done there! The Ubuntu Touch community's work has been nothing short of amazing.
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I remember doing something similar, and it worked too. Thanks for sharing!
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Hello and welcome to Ubuntu Touch for the Googlr Pixel 3a/3a XL! Thanks for your interest in this project! Also, no worries for not having much programming experience. I am somewhat in the same boat. My programming seems a bit more old school and is in a completely different area. I haven't had that much experience with Android either. I mainly try to help out where I can, and as I'm stated on the forums before, I don't want to slow anyone down. I'm currently trying to document all the ins and outs as simply as possible, do some research, and do some coding where I can. There are always ways to help, so just jump in wherever you feel comfortable. We also have a need for testers, marketers, etc. A community OS requires a community, and a community requires a face. So...yes, don't worry too much about your technical skill set. Not everyone is an engineer at a company.
Also, thanks for sharing the issues! On the forum, our main focus is trying to get VoLTE up and running. This requires a new Android/Halium backend. I know they have a number of people on the official UB Ports Telegram channels doing some hard work as well. Once we get VoLTE up, our forum members and others can focus more on these issues if people aren't already working on them now. A good number of people are doing this free of charge on personal time. This generally means that progress might be slower than a company. However, with no profit involved, we can focus solely on the people, right? That's not to say you can't donate to UB Ports. I'm sure they need all the assistance they can get. If you like and appreciate the work, please donate there by all means. This allows those at UB Ports to continue to help support this community.
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It's probably been said before, but again, thanks for all your hard work! It shows, and I know everyone is appreciative of it! If you need anyone on the forums to help/test/etc., just let us know!
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@atarilinux See mautrix-telegram at matrix.org
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Hello,
I have another observation regarding 24.04 Pixel3A XL.
The hands-free phone sees it, displays the status and login, the call can be accepted, the sound connects for a second, but then returns to the phone's earpiece. So it doesn't work via hands-free. -
is fredldotme still the pixel 3a port maintainer?
