Sorry, but I do not see the point for the discussion. We can share our ideas, but it seems that some posts are arguing against others.

I am not a teenager, lets say I am mid-age, but the BQ4.5 was my first smartphone! :astonished_face: I did not want to have an iPhone or an Android based one, nor a WindowsPhone. So when Canonical launched this phone I though it was the right time to buy one. I am not a tech-geek nor a developer but I like to go against the tide. I am also, alone at work, using an Ubuntu as desktop among all the MS machines.

Surprisingly Canonical dropped its development and I felt disappointed. But thankfully UBPorts took it soon up again.

It has served me for 7 years. Some errors raised, some drawbacks, a reflash, etc. but in my opinion, it is a reason to dive into linux and something to enrich the experience. That is why I bought it.

Everything has an end and I understand that the involved people have their limits and also their desires. Why not? For instance, the may want to focus in newer devices to explore new capabilities. And that is marvellous.

As far as I am concerned, I will still use my BQE4.5 as my daily drive. I can make a phone call, send SMSs (sorry I am not a fan of social networks such as Whatsapp, Telegram, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc), I can send an email (Dekko2), I can navigate offline (PureMaps, UNav), I can read all kind documents (DocumentReader, SimpleReader, Seabass2), I can navigate (Morph), I can sync my calendar, I can take pictures and videos (they are not very good really), see them, I can even control my PC remotely (CuteVNC), and much more. Brian posted a list of the main downloaded apps in the General section of the forum and some are mentioned above.

It is not the most powerful device, nor the faster. But it really works. It has all the needed features, although it takes 3 s more to launch an app Who cares for 3 s!

I will not have updates. OK. I am sure that behind the curtains the improvements of each OTA are HUGE, but for common users as me, I suppose I will not lack them too much.

If the battery fails or, as it actually happens, the centre of the screen does not respond to my fingers, it is a hardware issue, not related to UBPorts or the software, but to the natural (programmed?) obsolescence. As I said, I like to go against the tide, so I keep using the phone even if I can not click on the number 5 of the telephone app. But then, there is UT Tweak Tool, to change to windows mode and move it to the working part of the screen. There is always a solution.

If any has keep reading until now, congratulations. What I may do to secure I keep using it, would be to download such apps that I may use in the future and keep a copy of the code (it is downloaded and stored in the phone: /opt/click.ubuntu.com). If ever I need one and it is not available in any repository I could still use it. Because even though they will not have the latest features, they work. I am grateful to all the developers that have done it possible. :clapping_hands:

done.
wiped, reinstalled and working like a charm.

Hi @AmauryDBZ. Sorry, I am not a developer, so I cannot provide any hint. I usually use a trial and error approach. You can try uninstalling the package and reinstalling it again.
Actually for me, the first time it was not properly installed because I lost the wifi connection. I tried again and although I had some doubts (see posts above) it works.
My phone requires some time to connect to the satelites, but once it is done, Activity Tracker followed me.

I own a BQ E4.5 of the first batch and it is updated with the last OTA (OTA-21).
Apart from the centre of the screen not responding to finger touch it works great . This is a common failure for this device, according to some other posts I have read in the forum.
I only use one of the SIM cards, so I cannot say both work, but one at least if working properly.
So does the SD card, where I store the photographs of the camera and the maps for OSMServer.
However, yours maybe is a failure of, unfortunately, your devices @mardy @SaimonC.

I use Notes with Evernote, so I can have the notes in my desktop too.
So 2.
No mind to drop Evernote if there is another way to sync with the desktop, but I would prefer it through a core app as the default Notes.

@Flohack maybe I did not explain it clearly. My device is now booting properly without any fix.
I do not need to reinstall it.
I thought it may be an interesting information to those who are still struggling with the boot isuue.
Thank you anyway.

Well, actually I had not used "Pictures" but the translation to my language. It seems that for saving in the SD card, "Pictures" is mandatory.
Maybe I am wrong but at least now I can save wherever I want to.

Take a look to this and this old posts.
Maybe your issue is related to what they described.

@kugiigi Got it.
Thank you.

@kugiigi Although the device itself has not support for a wired external connection, would it be possible to achieve it through a slimport adapter?
Does this adapter provide the required hardware for any device?
I have been searching in the forum and found that the success with a slimport adapter is not a constant. It always depends ...

@kugiigi Got it! Thank you. It seems a lost battle though.

On the one hand, if the wireless mirroring is so disappointing I guess, and I understand, the developers will focus their efforts on more useful issues.

On the other hand, if wired mirroring depends on hardware, there is nothing to do, since it seems that the new promoted devices (except FP4) are not prepared for such feature.

I really miss convergence for a tablet. The only ones that have a wired mirroring feature are the old BQ Aquaris M10. I own a BQ E4.5 and Morph crashes a lot (although I will keep using it until its pieces fall apart). I suppose it is due to its low RAM, but I do not think a second hand BQ M10 will do better now. My presentations rely on HTML+CSS+JS so I would create a webapp with Weber, pointing to my presentations.

@domubpkm, on Jan 24th Volla wrote:
"We expect to start shipping the Volla Tablet with Ubuntu Touch at the end of the month. Ubuntu Touch runs perfectly on the device. We will provide two features with a system update:

• The easy installation and use of Ubuntu desktop apps with Ubuntu Touch Noble based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
• The support of VoLTE"

With the answer @DenMoore got, I wonder if you have to buy a tablet with Volla OS and then instal Ubuntu on it by yourself (via system update). In their shop you choose the OS but it seems that they will send you the same.
I would appreciate more transparency. This community will not be blinded by marketing but by specs and freedom. I do not mind delays and I prefer real facts.
@kugiigi, I pretend to project interactive presentations, in which I will draw and I will manipulate 3D models. A noticeable lagging is undesirable.
I mentioned wireless connection because the Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen Wifi 4G/64GB has that feature. I prefer being free of wires, but if the connection has a noticeable lag, I would not mind a wired connection. However, as I see in the devices page, among all the phones only Fairphone 4 has that feature.
Will it be one or another (wireless or wired) be extended to the other devices?

Hi,
According to Volla, they already are shipping the Volla tablet.
I am interested in the "Wireless External Monitor" feature. Currently it is not working on their phones. The tablet does not have its page in ubports website, so I asked Volla and their answered saying that the devs were working on it.
Does anyone know (@TheKit @deathmist ) if this feature is in a "priority" list or it is considered secondary/difficult to address now?
Does anyone already receive it? Please, share your opinions. Thank you.

Take a look to this and this old posts.
Maybe your issue is related to what they described.

Thanks @arubislander,
I can see that Wired External Monitor is not supported, but Wireless External Monitor is.
Assuming that the projector also has that feature, I suppose you connect directly to the projector via WI-FI? In that case, can you also surf the web while projecting or your connectivity to the www is unavailable?

Can this device connect to an external projector via the usb-C port?

@Charly As Rinigus mentioned in another thread:
"At present, you have to use default location, close the server, move it to the location you want and make symbolic link from the default to the new location."
I have done it and works flawlessly.

Dekko2 settings have an option to delete messages older than a given date (one week, one month). Settings --> Accounts --> Manage caché --> "Clear now" button.
Don't know if it really works though.
UTTweakTool shows that I have a caché of 11.25GB!!!, even though my BQ4.5 does not have so much storage.
After clearing messages older than one week following the previous method, UUTT shows a caché of 10.96 GB. Something has been erased, but obviously there is something wrong.
You can clear the caché in UUTT but beware! It also erases the configuration, so you must introduce all the accounts from scratch. I think there alraedy is a bug opened with this issue.