@thedeafenguy - T-mobile announced that they were temporarily delaying the 2G shutdown in the USA, but have not announced a revised shutdown date yet. I think it will likely be shutdown in 2025 though.

You can read more on this at
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/t-mobile-decides-not-to-abandon-its-millions-of-old-customers/ar-BB1i7OeU

Best regards,
Steve Berson

activate morph's computer mode for scrolling kickstarter info otherwise no scrolling in mobile mode with UT.

Just to share my experience, few days ago Waydroid stopped to work for me with my Pixel 3a on 16.04 Stable channel. I was then forced to pass to 20.04, since I still need to have whatsapp in some ways available. I thought that upgrating from within the OS itself straight to 20.04 it would have been a good idea, avoiding using the Ubports installed but it was a great pain instead; it upgraded to 20.04 but OS resulted severely broken. In fact any kind of gesture I was used to was slower and unresponsive most of the time. Phone storage was awfully clogged, 60 GB nearly full for no apparent reason like if the new OS installed along with the old one. Subsequently, I decided to employ the Ubports installer without selecting the wipe option in order to preserve my data but it never ended the process, after many attempts with different usb cables (at least 5 cables I tried). There was no way to resurrect the phone, therefore in the end I was obliged to try to install by means of the Ubports installer but this time tapping on the wipe tick, to install from scratch. It worked flawless and now I'm on Focal 20.04. Unfortunately I lost some of my data, but luckily I was wise enough to backup at least my personal videos and pictures. The new environment seems much snappier than before, but I'll report my experience on that in a few days to get used to it.

First thing I think is to set your expectation. It'll be very hard to completely abandon iOS/Android. I managed to only use UT for around 5 years but had to have an Android phone as secondary phone in the past few years. Some things are just not possible on UT. There's Waydroid to try some apps that you need but not all will work especially those that needs security checks and such. Waydroid also drains the battery.

X and Proton Mail can only be accessed via the browser/webapp. Proton mail doesn't support the usual email configs (IMAP/SMTP) so you can't use Dekko. There are a few Reddit clients in the store though not sure how good they are compared to just using the web version.

We currently only have Morph as the browser with Sapot browser as a fork with a bit different UI but still the same web engine which is sadly outdated right now due to technicalities.

@domubpkm yes, possibly changed since the last forum upgrade a few months ago.

I use ut focal on a volla x23 as my daily companion. The volla has 5000 mAh and I have a runtime of 2-3 days. I get along well with that.

@lduboeuf, @Moem, @GT, and @Vulpex

Thank you all very much for your responses. I have started to try some of these out. Webber is the first one I downloaded after reading these. It makes a lot of sense for this echo system.

I have my old phone for a bit longer and hope to make the UT phone my only phone moving forward. I am thinking of trying the dual sim out so I can receive messages from the old number for a bit. I want a new phone number from the area code I live in instead of the area code I grew up in.

Thank you all for your help with my transition to UT.

Thank you for share with us.

@Nocturn-Adrift You can do that yourself using Edit Account under your account icon/picture top right of this page.
Is there any particular reason for leaving?

@Vulpex Welcome! 🤝

@alagirialagiri said in Obsolete devices. On the "promoted devices" page.:

Iwant to know why android devices are choosen for porting?

What else could be chosen?

Why not only ubuntu touch OS installed hardware device may be choosen?

Because there are very few of those and not everyone has the means to buy one.

@spyphi Thank you so much Philippe!
We all make mistakes, but the important part is to fix them when it happens. I'm glad that you found a way to catch my attention, giving me the opportunity to make things good for you.

@Kinuk
Welcome here, bonnet rouge friend 😁

You can also consider donating to help UBports in its work, any amount is welcome ^^

Thanks for your kind replies!
Currently the Volla X23 is out of stock, I do not know yet, if I will risk to buy a Gigaset GX6 ending up with a phone with Android only.

@Dunbrokin If you want to report a bug, your first port of call would be the link in the Support section in the listing of the app in the Open Store. Sometimes it links to an email address. But more often it links to an issue tracker on github, gitlab or some other online version control provider. In the latter cases, you will probabl need to have an account on the platform before being able to report your issue.

If it is just some question you have about an app, then I guess posting a query on the forums would be as good a place as any.

Fairphone 4 kind of replaced the Nexus 5 as the recommended device to maximize convergence however, it is not really ideal due to its price and availablity.

Worth saying though that desktop mode on an external display isn't exactly usable in its current state. It's too buggy and unstable especially due to some regressions after the focal update. So if you intend to actually use it for real tasks, I'd say it's not advisable to do so.

@klh hi,

I can be part of the work if you wish ( except c things in ofono 🙂 ), i'm not very much concerned by unwanted calls, only have few sometimes, but i know it can be very annoying for users.
this is something really needed.

I've read some Sailfish OS forums about it, apparently the filters are already in place in ofono but lots still to be done:

The enablers are there - our ofono supports sms/call filter plugins since last year (yes, something is happening!). When I designed those interfaces, I had this feature in mind too. If we had enough resources, we would have done the remaining parts already. The remaining parts are (as I see it) 1) on-demand dbus service maintaining white/black lists and logs, 2) ofono plugin (for actually ignoring sms and rejecting/dropping calls) and 3) ui to configure white/black lists and view the logs. If somebody is willing to contribute, I'm could review the code (and the architecture) but at this point it looks unlikely that someone at Jolla would start to actively work on it this year. Unless someone does it during his vacation 🙂
slava (Jul 11 2019)