Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3

[ralf]

Hi there,

I'm new here. I view myself as a user, not a developer, but I want to try and do my fair share to contribute. I got myself a Fairphone 4 back in December and flashed it with Ubuntu Touch and played around a bit, tried some other Custom ROMs, placed it in a drawer, forgot about it... long story short, I got the Fairphone 4 out of the drawer again last week and flashed it with the latest stable release again, that being this here 24.04-1.3

Now I observed a few bugs I wanted to share, some of them already mentioned here, some not.

• I can confirm the empty signal strength triangle. From a user's perspective, I'd not call this cosmetic, as it is highly confusing.
• I can confirm the empty release channel. It is a strange kind of fluke. I took a screenshot 5 minutes ago, however, now I cannot reproduce it and all release channels are displayed properly?
• I can confirm the Bluetooth slider in the battery menu not having an effect.

That's about what I recall from the discussion here. Now to my very own bugs.

• Battery drops from fully loaded to about 70% in about an hour. After that, power consumption looks normal.
• Phone "dead" in the morning. It's switched on and fully loaded in the evening, and the next morning the display remains black and I have to long-press the power-button to bring it back to life again.

Thinking about it, these two might coincide, and have only been observed these past two days. However, I recall having none of the above back in December.

So long

[gpatel-fr]

This MR should fix it.

Well if it's committed and backported to stable - there is some serious backlog on this repo

[stanwood]

I confirm the lost of cellular signal indication on the top bar menu (Redmi Note 9S), though all phone, sms & data do work fine.
Channel: Stable (24.04-1.3)

I did also confirm the issue on the Gitkab ticket.

[OtaDr]

I'm not sure, but I feel like after updating to 24.04-1.3 (Pixel 3a XL),
the battery drain is significantly higher, or maybe the battery indicator is showing something different.
Has anyone else experienced this?

[ralf]

@OtaDr I actually do have the feeling that the battery indicator is not very relyable anymore.
I mean, see screenshot, how is this normal?
It charges from about 50% to 100% in a straight vertical line, discharges normally over night, then randomly decides to discharge quicker? Mind you, I didn't use this phone at all throughout the day, it was just lying on my desk...

[OtaDr]

My graph looks similar
Before the x.1.2 update, I had 70–60% at the end of the day; now, after the x.1.3 update, it shows 50–40%

[gpatel-fr]

@ralf

from your description of your usage, I'd say that it's a bit early to affirm that there is a problem with the battery indicator. What I gathered of your post is that you bought a FP4 in december last year - so it's a used device with an unknown years of use (or abuse: it's well known that not using a li-ion battery carefully leads to signficantly reduced usable life), you used the phone for a few days then set it in a drawer and with the last update of UT 2 weeks ago flashed it again.
That's not enough to be confident that there is a problem in the software and not in the hardware IMO. Strange patterns of charge/discharge are usual for damaged batteries.

As of myself, I have a FP5 since I bought it new 8 months ago, used it every day, I can't confirm a marked change since 24.04-1.3. This phone was energy hungry before, particularly if every feature is on, and it's still the case, no more or less as far as I can tell.

[ralf]

@gpatel-fr
Hi, thanks for the reply.
It was a new device purchased from Amazon.
Not pre-owned nor refurbished.
I recall the battery drainage to have been more consistent on previous releases.

I'm sorry if by abbreviating my story, some details might have been lost.
About two weeks ago I tried to make the Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch my daily driver, and I had consistent battery drainage then, similar to what @otadr described.
As I need some Android Apps for work, I tried to live with waydroid for some time, but ultimately decided against it.
Wednesday last week I went on a flashing spree which led me from LineageOS via /e/OS to IodeOS and back to Ubuntu Touch, just in time for the 24.04-1.3.
I did not observe this battery drainage on the previous Ubuntu Touch release, nor on the other ROMs.

Cheers

[Linus67]

On the subject of battery consumption. It is very difficult to compare battery consumption when devices are being used simultaneously.

I only test and compare battery consumption under identical conditions without active use (for example, at night)

7 hours in aeroplane mode
7 hours with only calls and texts active
7 hours with selected background services also active. (Selected apps, such as Dekko, or those with connections to NextCloud)

Using this test method, I have not observed any increased battery consumption with RC 1.3.

[nogoogle]

I have just updated FP4 to 24.04-1.3. I noticed that the cellular network strength indicator remains an empty triangle (as if I have no mobile network connection). Phone calls, SMS and cellular data however work and the carrier is also shown in cellular settings. Any one else experienced this?

[messayisto]

@nogoogle see post 63 in this thread, An I read it somewhere else, too, forgot where. But I think its a known issue.

[nogoogle]

@messayisto said:

@nogoogle see post 63 in this thread, An I read it somewhere else, too, forgot where. But I think its a known issue.

Thank you, despite searching the thread for "indicator" post 63 did not pop up.

[messayisto]

@nogoogle At the right bottom corner you can see a blueish field. Scroll up to the number 63.