Patreon is one of the methods to donate that is given on the ubports.com donation page. According to Patreon, 158 patrons are giving $US 1,148 per month to the UBPorts Foundation. Sure, that's not going to pay a salary, but, to me, it is a significant amount of money toward running servers and infrastructure. However, I don't know if that's true, because I don't know what the operating costs are. I am blindly donating because I want to be supportive, not because I am trying to pay an amount that I think the software is worth to me. What are the operating costs? If that was clear, maybe more people would be likely to donate. A graphic popped into my head: a thermometer where the level in red is the annual cost, and the red turns green from the bottom up as donations come in.

The question of charging a fee for FOSS is an old one. It cannot be easily answered. There's a lot of philosophical debate about it in the history of FOSS. To me, FOSS is one of the greatest accomplishments of humanity. A shining knight standing to face the history of industrial economies. I'm just saying that charging money doesn't just slowly smother UBPorts. It's no longer FOSS. It doesn't matter if you charge $US 10 or $US 1,000. It's no longer part of this amazing community of altruistic creators.

Do you want a fee to use Linux? Wikipedia? Every forum and website you use to troubleshoot the problem with that driver that doesn't quite work right in Linux in the latest new bare hardware you bought? When someone posts a solution to a problem in a forum, they do not charge money. They are freely giving their intellectual property. This is all part of this network economy that the Internet is enabling. To me, UBPorts is my best hope for a phone in this economy. I will do what I can to voluntarily give of my time and money.

@beta-break
The core app list includes calendar, but not contacts. The list described here includes Morph, which is not a core app, but does not include an email client, such as dekko.

I realize that there's a lot of work planned here (like, VoLTE), but I think that contacts and an email client should be added. Also, the list of core apps should be re-evaluated?

Thank you!

Finally, I've received the right phone. It is from Southwest Distributors, via Swappa. I should have followed the recommendation of the UBports site and gone there first. I could tell right away because one of the first steps after powering it up is asking about a SIM and giving the option for an eSIM. Verizon models don't offer that.

@kugiigi Two of the Motorola phones I've had use serveral acceleration gestures. For the flashlight it is two hacking motions. Two wrist twists opens the camera.

I'm now on my fourth Pixel 3a from Amazon or Ebay. Every vendor has send me the wrong phone. Wrong model, wrong size (I already bought case and screen protector separately), Verizon-locked, unknown vendor locked. The one I have now is the wrong color, although I don't care about that. From Ebay, it's supposed to be "Factory unlocked". I tell vendors that I want that, plus OEM unlocking. This time, I was able to put my Google Fi SIM card (that I use in a Google Nexus 4) in and activate it. That works, but the OEM unlocking is greyed out. I can't downgrade Android to 9 (step 1).

I haven't been able to find out the model of this (Regulatory Label is blank). I tell vendors that I want a G020G, following the advice elsewhere in the forum, but I can't determine that that is what I have. I'm waiting for a call back from Google to see if they will unlock it or tell me what the phone's status is.

I can't see that it supports eSIM, but from what I read it is supposed to. There's no eSIM IMEI listed or other evidence of it. Is this a clue as to what the phone is?

Thanks for any info you can provide me.

Did you recently buy it? Can you return it? I went through 4 phones from Amazon, Ebay and the site that the UBports buy link goes to, before I got one that was OEM unlockable. Others here have had similar experience. Sellers might not understand what it means. Try to find seller who will check that or at least give you the IMEI number so that you can contact Google Fi support to find out if it was originally sold in Google Store. Those are unlockable.

@uxes Correct Android? I had whatever it came with. 10.something. I wasn't running UT. I was only starting the process. I couldn't get data, so I couldn't unlock the phone with Xiaomi. I wasn't close to installing UT yet.

I'm interested in exploring working on this, so that CardDAV can be configured via the system-settings and more. I don't see it under the system-settings-online-accounts repository in Github. I've run Mobian on my Pinephone and all the usual Nextcloud services are available in the settings there. I guess the code, even the language, could be pretty different in this case between Mobian and UT. Still, I'd like to explore that. TIA.

I already support through Patreon. I encourage that approach. Maybe more visibility for that? As much as I don't like paying middle-businesses, and I personally think Patreon takes too large of a percentage, there they are.

I'm open to other voluntary ways of giving money.

I'm upgrading from a Google Nexus 4 to a Pixel 3a. I have a convergence dock for my Pinephone. Since the P3a uses USB-C, I'm wondering if anyone knows if the dock for the Pinephone will work on the P3a. TIA.

And it's the only web browser that supports importing bookmarks. Awesome!

@rocket2nfinity
Will those patches also fix group messaging? When I send a message to a group of recipients it only goes to the first recipient in the group.

@rocket2nfinity
When you say logged into a Google Account, do you mean Google Fi for that SIM? Or do you mean having the SIM in an Android phone that is logged into Google?

Since my SIM is in my N10 running UT, can I put it into a different phone, running Android, and turn off RCS?

Otherwise, I don't know how to manage a SIM in a regular Google account (not Google Fi).

Thanks.

Me, too. I have tried two different headsets.

Is this a known problem?

OnePlus Nord N10 5G
UT 24.04-1.x daily

TIA

Has anyone succeeded in getting the Calendar to connect to iCloud as a general CalDAV account?

I've set it up in System Settings > Accounts on my OnePlus Nord N10 running 24.04-1.x daily.

In the Calendar app, I've clicked on Add online Calendar and selected the Account I set up.

The first time I click on the refresh button in the Calendar app (the button third from the right in the upper right), an alert comes up that the sync has finished. The calendar shown remains blank and the refresh button now has a red exclamation.

When I click on the refresh again, an alert pops up that says Sync error.

I do have an app-specific password and I use this configuration information on other systems, such as my Linux desktop (in Thunderbird).

TIA.

@rocket2nfinity said:

North American Issues Telegram channel

What is the link to that channel? Thanks.

I got one of these phones yesterday. After years of periodically testing on my Pixel 3a, Pinephone and a number of purchased-and-returned phones, this one is looking best.

I'm running the daily, 24.04-1.x from yesterday.

VoLTE calls are working and the sound is good. I notice that there's no ringing in the speaker on my phone when I'm calling another phone.

MMS (group SMS) appeared to work. It might go only to the first person in the group. Haven't received confirmation.

MMS of a photo works as long as WiFi is off.

This is great progress!

I was testing the RC. Now that the release is out, my list of channels showed 24.04-2.x Daily but not 24.04-1.0. I updated to 2.x. Now the channel list only shows that channel. How do I get to 1.0? TY.

@uxes Correct Android? I had whatever it came with. 10.something. I wasn't running UT. I was only starting the process. I couldn't get data, so I couldn't unlock the phone with Xiaomi. I wasn't close to installing UT yet.

@RobTheBold I've tried this phone (Global model) with AT&T, RedPocket (AT&T) and Mint Mobile (T-Mobile). The first two don't work at all. Mint works for voice and SMS but not MMS or data. I'm giving up on this one and returning it to EBay.

With Mint Mobile, it doesn't really get data. Almost zero connectivity for data. MMS is unreliable. Voice and SMS okay.

My conclusion here is that this phone is not a good option for the USA. I'm going to return it.