New, FLX1 with UT (and multi boot)
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Initial impressions are great!
There were two updates as soon as I booted, the camera app was one, and you do need it for it to work properly, so I installed it, and then the camera had issues with video recording, but the app suggested I restart the phone, which fixed it.
So, initial testing, the camera took pictures front facing, rear facing, and took video with sound. There is a slight delay when you select record for the video recording, it hangs almost long enough for you to think it froze, then it starts recording and updating the viewer screen. Same pause when you stop recording video, it looks like it hangs for a few seconds, then is fine.
Sound worked, the screen was good and responsive, touch worked, all the usual stuff just worked! WiFi was good.
I turned it off, put in my sim card, booted up, picked up my carrier right away. Data worked. I could not make a phone call, but that is not UT's fault. My carrier still uses 3g towers, and the FLX1 does not support my local 3g tower bands. So that is not Ubuntu Touch's fault.
Now I just have to check on how UT handles SIP calls, as I use that. But yeah, seems to be working great overall!
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@alaskalinuxuser I'm very impressed to see that Ubuntu Touch works on the Furiphone FLX1, which is also Dual Boot!
4G calls (VoLTE) are now supported by Ubuntu Touch, but this has to be ported specifically to each device. This is the implementation of an IMS technology plugin in the Ofono module. (I don't know what the situation is with the FLX1, but it must be feasible).
Out of curiosity, do you know which update channel the device depends on? Will it be upgraded to Noble as well?
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@stanwood I do not know about the update channels. Sorry, I'm not very knowledgeable. Interesting about the VoLTE, glad to hear that UT got it worked out, on a per phone basis. I hope that they work it out on the FLX1 soon.
But, for those wondering, my JLAB Bluetooth headphones connect and work great! If there is anything else folks are wondering about testing, let me know, I can try it out (unless it is a specific Bluetooth item, as I don't own every Bluetooth device...).
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@alaskalinuxuser Thanks for the feedback. You can easily check the update channel through Settings => Updates => (On the top right of screen, click on the serrated wheel) It's the second line.
In my case it's "20.04 Stable"
Hope to see it in the official device list as well, sometimes in the future.
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@alaskalinuxuser Really appreciate the feedback! Reports on SMS and MMS (photo, video) messaging would also be useful, if possible. Nonfunctional Group MMS is a known bug across UT devices. MMS can sometimes take fiddling with APN settings, but usually mostly works. This said, some devices have workedbetter than others for me.
SIP has been worked on by some folks on the "UBports North American Carrier Issues" Telegram channel, I believe. Might be worth asking around there, if it doesn't immediately work? I don't know the state of things in that area. Hope it works for you!
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@stanwood The only update channel available is dev. It does update via OTA.
VoLTE,sms & mms worked from first boot. No luck with Waydroid yet.
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@DenMoore Oh thank you! Nice start indeed!
I think WayDroid needs some patches to run properly, this is a "porting" stuff. I'm sure it will come further.
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@alaskalinuxuser can you kindly make a video or guide flashing furi os to the micro sd for the flx1s . the support for this device is small and i just want more storage for my host so i need to boot from sdcard and i want to use the stock img
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@reefer Not sure about the the flx1s but on the flx1 if you flash onto the sd card, you go back to the welcome screen on a restart. You need to flash onto the drive if you want to keep configurations etc.
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@DenMoore yes i followed all that and puts that task into que and asks to restart but nothing happens after restart
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