Hi
I am highjacking this thread just to say a BIG THANKS for the hard work on Ofono. It has been a long time since I tried to send a mms. I have Sony Xperia X(FOCAL Stable) and Google Pixel 3A(FOCAL Devel) as daliy drivers in my family and to my surprise mms is working, both sending and receiving. THIS have never fully worked with my carrier, EVER. So once agian a BIG THANKS

Hi
I was listening to the latest Postmarketos podcast and found out that they have soon three phones which you could install their OS/GUI using the Ubports installer. It is the Oneplus 6, Shift6MQ and soon the Fairphone 4. Great work Postmarketos and welcome to our installer
Hear all about it here:

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/23-PVR-SGX540-Kupfer-UBports-installer-SoCs-Phone-Testing-2/

Hi
Here comes little news regarding the Raspberry pi3 and pi4:
Capsia over at:

https://t.me/UBports_pi

have made a new image for the Rpi 3 and Rpi 4.

You'll find it here:

https://gitlab.com/capsia/rootfs-builder-debos/-/jobs/4802053677/artifacts/browse

This is what Capsia wrote in the release note:

Hi! I finally have a focal image for the Pi. Please note that this is still in very early development and there may be issues. Currently known issues are that video playback does not work in the video app (only in the browser), the first boot is very slow and the Pi 3 is quite laggy with only 1GB of ram. This image has also been tested and works on the Pi4, other models such as the Pi400 may or may not work.

Hi
I will try to sum up the things that Oren & Co over at

https://t.me/utonpine

is doing and the things you need to do to have the best exprience on your pine64 device.
The focus at the moment will be on Pinephone, Pinephone Pro, Pinetab and Pinetab 2.
This post will be updated when new things gets developed.

PINEPHONE & PINEPHONE PRO
You need Tow-boot on the emmc to install Ubuntu touch on your phone:

https://tow-boot.org

These procedures is still valid to install UT on your phone:

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/pinephone-and-pinephone-pro-20-04-install-3889

Here you will find the latest version to install:

https://ci.ubports.com/job/focal-hybris-rootfs-arm64/job/master/

From Oren on Telegram channel:
These are our images, ready for your usage, building daily. I’m still figuring out how we will have these distributed. I’ll be updating my gitlab page, the pine64 wiki, and the ubports wiki in the next few days pointing to here, most likely.

You can select last successful artifacts or click on the “+View” button, then click to download the .raw.xz file of your respective device. then flash it in the same way as our downstream images.

Please note: these are still r/w and still have to be upgraded through apt. However, you should notice multiple improvements with ContentHub, the modem, and even GPS support.

To update your phone, run this in the terminal on your phone:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Enter your password and press enter

This is done between the releases that Oren makes on his Gitlab page.
To have the latest version of UT, always make a new, fresh install of the latest version from Orens Gitlab page.
These are not pushed through apt. This will persist as long as we don’t have OTA:s on the phones.

It is recommended to update the modem(SDK) and its firmware(ADSP).
You need to have ADB and Fastboot installed on your PINEPHONE to install these:

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases/tag/0.7.2

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/ADSP-CARRIERS.md

The Modem-SDK release version 0.7.4 is more buggy/instable than 0.7.2.

The modem is like a computer and it talks adb and fastboot, that is why you need adb and fastboot installed on your phone.

If your carrier is not listed in the table on the ADSP-page, you’ll have to check which firmware that works best for your carrier. I don’t know when the table over the carriers was last updated, newer versions of the firmware could be a better experience.
If your carrier isn’t listed and you install a firmware that works with your carrier, please make a pr so it gets on the table.
On this Github there is a lot of help to get things set up in the right/best way, Such as Flashing, Settings, How to, etc. Please read it.

Oren have made a Help guide to help you along the way of tinkering with your phone/tablet:

https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/wikis/Help-Guide

PINETAB & PINETAB 2
According to the 0.8 release, both the Pinetab and Pinetab 2 have U-boot preloaded, they don’t use Tow-boot to boot.

Here is the latest version of UT, 0.9 in the writing:

https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/releases/v0.9

Please leave a comment if there is something missing

I suspect that I am on a older version that somehow blocks the updater to peform as it should. I reinstall the phone tomorrow to see if the updater works after that. Happy Christmas to you all

@unisuperbox
Godspeed and take really good care of yourself.

Hi @rocket2nfinity
I guess that makes it 2 who used it as a daily driver
I suspects that @Flohack have to many devices to maintaine, maybe it gets ported one day when he has nothing else to do
Couldn't we have som download statistics on the device page? Showing how many downloads each ported device have since they was added to the ubports installer. I know this wouldn't be fair for those devices that hasn't made it to the installer yet. But none the less it would be interesting to see some numbers showing how active this project is.

@nero355
I was thinking of using a pi 3 or 4. Maybe buying pieces of a pinephone, because then you'l have everything you need to have gps, wifi, mobile data and more, and put it in one of these:

https://www.liymo.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-solutions/ByByte-double-din-raspberry-pi-monitor

A perfect car pc

@BigB The first N7 in the table is flo the other two is deb with different LTE depending on where you live. UT should work on all three. I don't have a N7 so I can't help you with the second question.

I will eat my sock by Marius

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-58-79

We have really come a long way since then,

@ravachol
Have you contacted Tre to see if the phone is blocked in some way?

@ravachol
The sad thing is that it is a hit and miss with the carriers.
Tele2 had working calls, sms, mms on pixel 3a before VoLte. I had to figure out the right apn settings because the recommended settings just worked halfway.
Check if there exists other values for the apn settings.

@ravachol
Make the first one only internet
And reboot the phone.

@ravachol
I suspect that there is something wrong with the apn settings. Do you have one apn for internet and one for sms?

@ravachol
Did phonecalls work when the phone was on Fairphone OS/Android?

@ravachol
I had the same problem as you on a pixel 3A but on Tele2.
Because the sms/mms works means that you have VoLte on the phone. Here comes the problem, you are missing Emergance Calls over VoLte and your phone is blocked from making any phonecalls both incomming and outgoing.

https://pts.se/internet-och-telefoni/teknikskifte/

Internet and sms/mms still works on the phone.

I don't know if it is a missing feature that needs to be implemented in UT or it is a limitation in the hardware.

@Charly
Have you tried this one:

https://open-store.io/app/futify.frenchutouch

I am using Tele2.
I installed Lineageos nightly on two of my phones and in the beginning I could make volte calls, but yesterday(I thinK) it dropped to 3g during calls.
I have checked in my pages at Tele2 and they have blocked the pixel 3a to use volte.
I am able to make volte calls on my pinephone using Mobian. But it is red-listed on my pages on Tele2, this means that the pinephone will be blocked 1 february 2026, I guess, it could be dropped 9 december too.
I heared somewhere that hey are doing the same thing in Australia, I have little to none information for the rest of Europe, how they implements volte emergency calling, or how they rules out the unsupported devices.

Hi
I have some news from Sweden regarding VoLTE
It's not enough to have VoLTE working on the phones. They need the capability to make emergency calls too.
This means that for example the pixel 3A, the Pinephone(Pro), will be blocked from calls/sms,mms because the lack of emergency calls. This effects these carriers:
Tre
Telenor
Tele2

Telia will keep their 2/3G networks until the end of 2027.

https://pts.se/en/news-and-press-releases/operators-must-ensure-access-to-112--certain-mobile-phones-will-be-blocked/

@newguy
Why don't install UT on a sdcard and upgrade it using apt? you won't break anything that way.