Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0

Vlad Nirky

@peat_psuwit
Hello.
I took some photos with my Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro running UT 24.04-1.0 RC 1 during a few days of holiday.
The indoor photos are fine, but those taken outside are overexposed.
I restarted the phone, but that didn't change anything.

For the rest: roaming in a foreign country, mobile data, VoLTE, personal hotspot everything works perfectly!

lduboeuf

@peat_psuwit
So i finally switched to Noble on my P3a:
It went smooth except the Google logo stuck after first upgrade and update to 2.x
But it happens sometimes on the P3a.

First impressions:
~~App loading seems a bit slower.~~
Camera often freeze, a reboot is needed
Telegram Notifications are nor overridden ( list is always growing)
Telephony stack is working well,
No issues with the browser

Congrats for this huge milestone

peat_psuwit

Update 19 September 2025: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 RC 2 has been released. This release fixes an issue with embedded webview in some applications and fixes changelog.

peat_psuwit

@Vlad-Nirky said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0:

@peat_psuwit
Hello.
I took some photos with my Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro running UT 24.04-1.0 RC 1 during a few days of holiday.
The indoor photos are fine, but those taken outside are overexposed.
I restarted the phone, but that didn't change anything.

The image quality of the device largely depends on the hardware-specific code from device manufacturer; we don't have much control over it. As such, I would suggest you to ask your port's maintainers to take a closer look into this.

@lduboeuf said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0:

First impressions:
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Telegram Notifications are nor overriden ( list is always growing)
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You're saying that anewer notification from the same contact should replace the old one, but doesn't? That's probably lomiri-push-service as we have a big refactor there to migrate to a different DBus library. If you can turn this into a GitLab issue I would appreciate it. Otherwise I can do it too.

zubozrout

@malditobastardo I used to have overexposed images on higher resolution - same device (not always, but usually shortly after I switched to the higher resolution). So when on UT I took photos in lower res and started relying on Waydroid and GCam even for photos

Unfortunately there is likely no way to improve this on the UT level. I looked into that (granted, with my poor understanding of things) and it looks like all the camera issues (slowness, no support for HDR etc) are already coming from Halium and perhaps the camera being non standard as the Halium/Android layer is already limiting what it can do on UT.

I wonder if there is something the Halium project can do to improve things? Perhaps similarly to what GCam does enable some per-device configs to actually support more of the stuff devices can do.

@peat_psuwit What could a device porter/maintainer do in this instance to make it work better? Thank you

Vlad Nirky

Hello.
Is it still useful to report bugs found in 24.04-1.0 RC2?
When trying to associate a custom ringtone with a contact, I repeatedly encountered failures when copying the .mp3 file.
This behaviour is intermittent.
OK
Lionel has found the origine of the probem and there is no regression.
In fact, the file was alread present in /home/phablet/.local/share/sounds/ringtones/audio/
coming from my other phone on 20.04.
and the copy fails for this.
The message is not well suited or a better behaviour could be implemented in this case.

lduboeuf

@Vlad-Nirky said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0:

Hello.
Is it still useful to report bugs found in 24.04-1.0 RC2?
When trying to associate a custom ringtone with a contact, I repeatedly encountered failures when copying the .mp3 file.
This behaviour is intermittent.
OK
Lionel has found the origine of the probem and there is no regression.
In fact, the file was alread present in /home/phablet/.local/share/sounds/ringtones/audio/
coming from my other phone on 20.04.
and the copy fails for this.
The message is not well suited or a better behaviour could be implemented in this case.

To give more info, https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/lomiri-addressbook-app/-/issues/233 , so not a regression.
This is on my TODO list...

peat_psuwit

Update 25 September 2025: we've had a report where some devices fail to boot after installing Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 RC 2, which requires us to delay the release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0. We're looking into it and will provide update as soon as possible.

messayisto

@peat_psuwit I am now on 24.04-1.0RC 2, device is oneplus nord 10.
What still does not work is the counter of messages of the different apps in the launcher. Dekko is counted endless unless you reboot
Teleports does notify and count, but sms app doesnt.
Another annoying but harmless issue is the time between a call an resurrection of mobile data, it takes ages compared to focal. Same after for example a tunnel, where mobile data was lost.
And a question: Will there be a note app again?
Thanks to all for your amazing work!

danfro

On my OP5T battery drain is quite bad with noble 24.04-1.x RC2. From some ps aux checks, looks like one process is running at over 100%, so consuming more than one core constantly:
/usr/libexec/mediascanner-2.0/mediascanner-extractor

This is almost 4 hours after the last reboot. I do have around 5100 photos, a bit over 330 videos and about 300 songs.

journalctl -b | grep mediascanner
Sep 28 17:53:49 ubuntu-phablet systemd[3461]: Starting mediascanner-2.0.service - Media Scanner...
Sep 28 17:53:50 ubuntu-phablet systemd[3461]: Started mediascanner-2.0.service - Media Scanner.
Sep 28 17:53:50 ubuntu-phablet dbus-daemon[3541]: [session uid=32011 pid=3541] Activating service name='com.lomiri.MediaScanner2.Extractor' requested by ':1.21' (uid=32011 pid=4306 comm="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0" label="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0 (enforce)")
Sep 28 17:53:53 ubuntu-phablet mediascanner-se[4306]: No reply from extractor daemon, retrying once.
Sep 28 17:53:53 ubuntu-phablet dbus-daemon[3541]: [session uid=32011 pid=3541] Activating service name='com.lomiri.MediaScanner2.Extractor' requested by ':1.21' (uid=32011 pid=4306 comm="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0" label="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0 (enforce)")
Sep 28 17:53:54 ubuntu-phablet mediascanner-se[4306]: Error extracting from '/home/phablet/Videos/camera.ubports/video20250617_195550573.mp4': ExtractMetadata D-Bus call failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message recipient disconnected from message bus without replying
Sep 28 17:53:54 ubuntu-phablet dbus-daemon[3541]: [session uid=32011 pid=3541] Activating service name='com.lomiri.MediaScanner2.Extractor' requested by ':1.21' (uid=32011 pid=4306 comm="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0" label="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0 (enforce)")
Sep 28 17:53:56 ubuntu-phablet mediascanner-se[4306]: No reply from extractor daemon, retrying once.
Sep 28 17:53:56 ubuntu-phablet dbus-daemon[3541]: [session uid=32011 pid=3541] Activating service name='com.lomiri.MediaScanner2.Extractor' requested by ':1.21' (uid=32011 pid=4306 comm="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0" label="/usr/bin/mediascanner-service-2.0 (enforce)")
Sep 28 17:53:59 ubuntu-phablet mediascanner-se[4306]: Error extracting from '/home/phablet/Videos/camera.ubports/video20250531_204017129.mp4': ExtractMetadata D-Bus call failed: GDBus.Error:com.lomiri.MediaScanner2.Error.Failed: Unable to discover file /home/phablet/Videos/camera.ubports/video20250531_204017129.mp4
Sep 28 17:54:26 ubuntu-phablet mediascanner-se[4306]: Error extracting from '/home/phablet/Videos/camera.ubports/video20230712_192905493.mp4': ExtractMetadata D-Bus call failed: Timeout was reached
Sep 28 17:54:51 ubuntu-phablet mediascanner-se[4306]: Error extracting from '/home/phablet/Videos/camera.ubports/video20240611_193555237.mp4': ExtractMetadata D-Bus call failed: Timeout was reached

and some more lines like the last ones.

peat_psuwit

Update 30 September 2025: after debugging, we've decided that it's likely that the report where some devices fail to boot after installing Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 RC 2 is likely a false positive. As such, it's been decided to go ahead with the release of 24.04-1.0.

Which means that Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 is now released.

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-24-04-1-0-release-3973

Thank you for everyone involved in testing.

Keneda

@peat_psuwit
This is the first stable release for 24.04, if I understand correctly ?

It's known that fingerprint sensor on Fairphone 5 does not always work.

Well, there even is a "sensorgate" as this capricious sensor can cause the device to brick after android 15 update if it dies !

Thanks to you and all the Devs involved in releasing this great OS to the people

Opolork

I want to give a big thanks to all those that make Ubuntu Touch possible.

ma

Yesterday I received the update. After restarting, the phone gets stuck on the startup screen (Android logo). What can I do? Thanks.

Moem

@ma said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0:

After restarting, the phone gets stuck on the startup screen (Android logo).

How long did you wait? First boot after upgrading can take considerable time.

danfro

@ma You could try installing via the installer.

danfro

@Moem True. I found it can take several minutes on logo screen. So give it ten minutes.

ma

@danfro After a long wait, the Ubuntu Touch boot screen appeared yesterday, followed by the unlock screen. However, the phone could not be unlocked. So, I restarted it by pressing the power button. Then the Android screen appeared, and I waited for about 8 hours.

When I press the power button again and restart the phone, it remains stuck on the Android screen without any changes.

kugiigi

Hopefully, we will still get the separate announcement/post about the long wait after the upgrade so that less people will be confused

danfro

@kugiigi I posted some messages in our main groups. Not sure if an official announcment will be made