Desperate guy Here
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Let's see. For Telegram, we have a decent native solution called TELEports.
For WhatsApp, WhatsWeb has recently been updated and it's now getting good reviews, so maybe it's time to try again? Alternatively, I hear some folks use a Matrix bridge to use the Matrix app Cinny for WhatsApp.
For PDFs, Document Viewer does the job for me but maybe you prefer Annotate or Sturm Reader.I hope this is helpful!
Furthermore, the Ubuntu Touch package manager doesn't seem to work like a normal Linux distribution in the terminal.
Well, yeah, it's not another Linux distro. Please don't try to use apt, you'll probably break something.
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As an addition to TELEports and Whatsweb, did you try as well to install Waydroid in Ubuntu touch? Native Whatsweb and TelePorts app for Ubuntu touch should do the trick for most day-to-day needs, and offer notifications. But having a fallback to official Whatsapp and Telegram in Waydroid may be usefull as a complementary solution, if you need some advanced features at some point.
In addition to those already mentioned, uWolf can be another solution for modern pdf reading, although if it's a local file you currently need to enter this url manually "file:///home/phablet" then browse to your file on disk. You can bookmark the url or even set it as homepage if you don't use uWolf for browsing. Hopefully in the future we will be able to directly open file with uWolf from file explorer app with content hub.
Make sure to keep your system and applications up-to-date as things are rapidly moving forward.
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@Moem uao such a rapid response ! The community is alive. So whatsweb is whatsapp? I look at the topic u linked and is a new thing of 4 days ago !! Maybe post here is going to reveal a real good idea.
When i turn back home from office a try fo sure.Speaking about the use of apt packet manager , yesterday night, After waydroid as finish the installation progress , maybe for my abit with Linux, but i launch "sudo apt update" and 3 error pop-up ( maybe when i home i post the pic , or i open another topic idk what is the politic here about offtopic Red line) . I will try the whatsweb and the other alternative for telegram, my alternative is waydroid if i can use it.
Thanks for the quick response !!
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@pparent hi try waydroid , but pushing the icon it start to load and after that nothing .
So i try from the terminal , but after i try with the command " sudo waydroid container start and waydroid session start". it gives me an error ( it also suggest to look the file log) .
I think that i broke the os with the sudo apt update , there is a way to hard reset the phone i guess , and after that i stick to install whatsweb and teleport. What u guys think about that ?
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@XPran said in Desperate guy Here:
there is a way to hard reset the phone i guess
Best would be to reinstall using UBports installer but NOT ticking the erase user data box.
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Apt update should not have harmed anything especially if you did not remount the filesystem in read/write before.
Did you install Waydroid helper from openstore? Did you go in the helper and follow the install waydroid process?
What version of Ubuntu Touch are you currently running ( you can see that in settings)? If you are still running 20.04, maybe you can try to ubpgrade to 24.04 before anything else.
I have a vollaphone 22 , waydroid has always worked fine for me.
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There is a proper way to install waydroid for Vollaphone ? I follow a video on youtube but it doesn end well
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Yes go to the openstore, download the app "Waydroid Helper" (You can also download there whatsweb and TELEports) , then open it and click on "Install Waydroid" and normally it should work fine after that. You should not need to run any terminal command.
If it does not work you can also try to uninstall and install again from the waydroid helper app, and if really it did not work, and also reboot the phone and/or upgrade Ubuntu Touche it if applicable.
Then you can install within the Waydroid container the official APK of whatsapp that you can find on their website.
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@XPran This is the video that you should follow:
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No i dont install from the store.
I install it from the terminal with these sequence of command find in a guide :Sudo mount -o remou t, rw /
Apt install waydroid -y
Waydroid init
Sudo reboot
Apt updateThe version that i have is the 16.04.7 LTS
Thanks
Yeah maybe i fuckdup the phone , idk why i install by the terminal and not from the appstore
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@XPran You're on a very old version of UT! We are now on 24.04 at the latest; 20.04 also still works well.
I would recommend to run the installer and upgrade to 20.04 that way. Make sure to leave the "wipe user data" box unticked.Also, avoid using any commands that contain apt. It's not supported.
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@XPran said in Desperate guy Here:
The version that i have is the 16.04.7 LTS
Uff yes this very old, make sure to upgrade the system before anything else if you want to have a decent experience. For this reason you don't have a good experience of the system.
You may have to do several upgrades in a row, as you probably won't be able to go directly from 16.04 to 24.04. Or you can, indeed reinstall a fresh system, with the installer could be the easiest option. And if you don't have any data on the phone you can wipe userdata when installing to have a completely factory-like install (but you will loose all data!!), but if you have userdata that you want to keep make sure to leave the "wipe user data" box unticked and it will be preserved.
I would recommend installing 24.04, as it works well on Vollaphone 22 and hardware acceleration works significantly better than on 20.04 form my experience from my experience, and it will avoid further major upgrade later.
I'm very surprised you have this version if you bought the phone only 8 month ago. Was the phone new?
