@Flohack thanks for clearing things out. I think it is cool that UT is still around after Canonical ditched it.
I have reinstalled my phone now with 16.04/dev and things have improved. Battery life is much better and it is a bit more stable I would say. It must have been the anbox-kernel which made my life hard.
I will file a few issues I have with Morph and have a look at the issues labeled :"good first issue".
Thanks and keep up the good work!
@domubpkm ah, now I found it. I hope the new subject isn't as provoking
@trainailleur I understand that and it wouldn't be a problem for me.
Yes, I could have said "UT is bad for me", you are right @domubpkm. I can't seem to find where to edit the topic subject, there is just a "delete topic" button.
And no, I really don't mean to disrespect the developers of UT, but I am honestly curious about how other users feel about living with UT from day to day so I thought I'd share my opinion about it. I had fully anticipated that UT would not be close to as good as Android, but things work so poorly that I am wondering if UT-users really are used to this by now or if my case is extreme in some way. And things seem to be working better for some of you, so maybe my problem is to trace back to the hardware I am running UT on, namely the FP2?
I really want to get involved with the development of UT (I am working within DevOps) but with children and a family I have little spare time. I will add bug reports when and if I can seem to find a good case for it.
Maybe this post was a mistake. I merely want to know if others feel the same and if I can expect things to improve within let's say the next year or so. Or maybe it is just an with issue running UT on the FP2.
Hi all,
first of all I want to give my thanks to all the people that have contributed to Ubunt Touch. I was so glad when I read about it and when I after buying a Fairphone 2 got it installed. I was thrilled of having a real open source Linux distro running my phone.
But I was soon quite disappointed with it. It sucks in all the wrong places, for example:
the battery is consumed very rapidly, even after having upgraded all the firmware images from fairphone.
Morph browser is slow, crashes a lot and the tabs are hard to manage. It's barely usable.
practically every other app sucks too, and running anything in anbox is so slow
So is it supposed to be like this? Is the future looking brighter or might I as well give up and go back to Android?
Thanks, and please, I mean no disrespect to the people still developing Ubuntu Touch.
@trainailleur I understand that and it wouldn't be a problem for me.
@trainailleur thanks, that explains it. Interesting to hear about your experiences in doing it.
Also, I don't understand why the device would start to malfunction like you said? What differs from a normal ubuntu install where you do apt-get upgrade all the time?
If I were to do what I said, I would of course leave the OTA-update path.
Hi,
that sounds tempting. How do I join that group then?
Hi all,
I was wondering if I would be running the latest version of the OS and the installed apps using this method?
Is there another way to be even more bleeding edge? I have read somewhere that people compile their own kernel for example.
Thanks in advance.
@Flohack thanks for clearing things out. I think it is cool that UT is still around after Canonical ditched it.
I have reinstalled my phone now with 16.04/dev and things have improved. Battery life is much better and it is a bit more stable I would say. It must have been the anbox-kernel which made my life hard.
I will file a few issues I have with Morph and have a look at the issues labeled :"good first issue".
Thanks and keep up the good work!
@advocatux My kernel is: 3.4.0-g340584c9a4f-dirty #1 SMP PREEMPT.
Just because everyone is so positive, I will give a reinstall a go and later try out using the dev-channel for a while.
But while we are at the subject, why not shed the Ubuntu past completely and start a rolling upgrade philosophy? Skip the OTA updates altogether!
@lakotaubp you should be proud of the work you have done so far. But for me, as someone who has been running Linux almost exclusively since -99, the buggy experience I have had so far with UT is probably forcing me away from it. My biggest concern is probably Morph, it's barely usable if you as I tend to have about 5-10 tabs open and click around quite quickly. A couple of days ago the phone rebooted spontaneously while I was talking to my sister. My current batterystatus is 39% and I have barely used my phone at all today, I've made one two minute phonecall.
So what can I do except adding issues on Github?
I feel like a monster posting this, but I prefer to honestly discuss these matters. Perhaps it's just my FP2 which is underpowered? Is anyone else having my experience?
@domubpkm ah, now I found it. I hope the new subject isn't as provoking
Yes, I could have said "UT is bad for me", you are right @domubpkm. I can't seem to find where to edit the topic subject, there is just a "delete topic" button.
And no, I really don't mean to disrespect the developers of UT, but I am honestly curious about how other users feel about living with UT from day to day so I thought I'd share my opinion about it. I had fully anticipated that UT would not be close to as good as Android, but things work so poorly that I am wondering if UT-users really are used to this by now or if my case is extreme in some way. And things seem to be working better for some of you, so maybe my problem is to trace back to the hardware I am running UT on, namely the FP2?
I really want to get involved with the development of UT (I am working within DevOps) but with children and a family I have little spare time. I will add bug reports when and if I can seem to find a good case for it.
Maybe this post was a mistake. I merely want to know if others feel the same and if I can expect things to improve within let's say the next year or so. Or maybe it is just an with issue running UT on the FP2.