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Hi Folks,
I will try to take you on a journey into Portingland, of which I once said it´s like a rabbit hole, making a bad quote from Alice in Wonderland.
On this endeavour I will be accompanied by other people from the community. It will be fun, full of Information and nobody knows where we are going to land.
We will start next week. Possible formats are blog style, small videos and podcasts. Let´s see! Your Feedback will be welcomed.
BR Florian
And to create some tension and excitement, I hope we are able to co-announce more hardware later this year 
This is an upgrade port for the Nexus 5 core device. The current port uses classic porting on Android 5.1 with lots of band aids and mixture of blobs etc. The new port is on Halium 7.1 level.
Sources
Kernel: https://github.com/ubports/android_kernel_lge_hammerhead/tree/halium-7.1
Device: https://github.com/ubports/android_device_lge_hammerhead/tree/halium-7.1
Manifest: https://github.com/ubports/device-builds/blob/halium/lge_hammerhead.xml
Status
Working
Working with additional steps
For camera, please follow the steps here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3257/how-to-test-gstreamer-droid-based-camera-support-in-ubuntu-touch-for-halium-7-1-based-port
Not working
Not tested:
Install:
Assuming you have already Ubuntu Touch installed. That means, the bootloader is unlocked and a UT recovery is in place. You need a Linux PC with adb and fastboot installed.
fastboot flash boot halium-boot.imghalium-install-standalone.sh -p ut ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.imgadb rebootNow the device should boot into the new system.
So as one of the Q&A frequent passengers a few words... 
I am against any move until we see a negative impact for us. We got over 300 repos hosted on Github now, and Infrastructure is already now under pressure with keeping up with open work items. Moving now, not even when the deal is dry, without seeing any policy changes is overreacted IMHO. We want to finish OTA-4, and when we start moving to Gitlab now you can forget any release at end of June, or even longer.
After OTA-4 we can review this again. But I strictly disagree on any fast reaction now.
Hello everyone,
in order to better understand what´s important for you when it comes to mobile device features please help me and answer the following survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/8YRKL95 - we want to set minimum quality levels for ports and therefore need to know what makes a good device nowadays.
Thanks Florian
Just a heads-up for all beloved OPO users, there is a working H9 port being prepared, and we try to get this into a state where you all can test it.
This is a pre-requisite to try to carry this device over to 20.04 base. I feel excited, and we will keep you updated!
I can understand your frustration, but the problem is also not only we have limited resources for hardware adaption but overall limited resources.
As Ubuntu 16.04 is end of life now, we have to rush to support 20.04 LTS and that takes up all the resources. Minor steps are done still for Pinephone, but you wont notice so much. Like we fixed the speakerphone obviously these days.
And yes, we hoped to finally attract more developers to help us expanding and pushing forward but it simply did not happen. Linux devs got frustrated with UT concepts, especially confinement and isolation of apps, readonly filesystems etc. What works well for the end users does not work well with devs it seems.
We hope to bring a few more improvements for Pinephone later this year. But for the moment all our 3 or 4 fulltime devs are fully employed with upgrading the whole distribution, involving up to 400 repositories and deb packages to be rebuilt and fixed. It takes months, unfortunately.
Just 2 cents from a Windows user:
The Windows desktop was made in resemblance to a real desk and the things you find there: Files, Folders and even a trashbin (technically not ON the desktop ofc). Its a matter of personal preference HOW you organize your desktop:
My current desktop at work has 32 items: A mixture of starter icons, documents and whatever. Windows got adopted also for the "chaotic" way how you can work with it. It tries to give you maximum freedom on that:
Does anybody understand what´s going on here? No. Does the owner of this desktop understand it? Yes, and he might be most productive with it.
During work, I almost never have to go to the desktop, however. I use it rarely. Also a matter of personal preference.
Can´t we just offer: Appdrawer AND background to organize stuff? You could pin starters and documents to the background (Problem: convergence and how to deal with the layout?)
A good DE gives all users a possible way to develop their own habits and preferences. Not try to force them into a single use pattern.
BR
Today I can announce that the Onepls 5 and 5T have reached a state where the UBports Installer can be used to install the devel channel, and OTA updates can be installed as well. That will make testing a lot easier. Follow this thread to get the necessary installer configs, we are just fixing them up so they do the right thing.
@Keneda Just a few 2 cents her:
Someone could explore this by trying to build their own port with instructions from porting group and then see which flag is being used. It would be good to finally address this, since debug kernels are potentially slower than release.
Sorry it took a while. I set it to 7 days, is that enough?
Hello everyone!
The expected release date for Ubuntu Touch OTA-2 for 20.04 is Friday, July 28th 2023.
This forum post is a companion to the OTA-2 Call For Testing (appears here when its live)
Please post any general observations you have while testing the current image in the RC channel, as compared to OTA-1, in this thread. The current release candidate (RC) is 2023-W29 or newer.
Please note that only critical and security fixes will be able to enter OTA-2 as this point, normal bug fixes and new features will need to wait for our next release. Please do not discuss normal bug fixes and new features here.
@Moem I am afraid no one so far did develop any middleware or App for UT to let the PineTime connect to it. Its totally feasable, but would need at least 1 or 2 devs getting their hands dirty.
Hi fellow bacon users
After some really tough challenges with recovery, fake cache and a lot of confusion, the Oneplus One finally reaches a testable state in Focal's devel channel. Now we need you!
A lot of features in this list: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/bacon/release/focal/ still show a question mark and need to be tested.
Note that this is not a daily driver yet, so do not test it on your main device.
Also very important is to only use installer version 0.10.0 with the "Bootstrap" option! do not simply change channels from inside UT.
Let us know in this thread how this worked out for you...
BR Florian
Please reinstall without data wipe, the problem is fixed in the latest OTA revision
Guys this was a bit premature,
while installing 20.04 on OPO works with manual steps, the recovery is still not prepared to allow both 16.04 / 20.04 installs (which we still must support for a time). So currently using the installer for this will result in a softbrick I guess. Be careful not to do this on your production device!
Seems smth was wrong on my side, a second attempt worked then
Humm strange, nothing should have changed but I feel I cannot install the Nexus 6P anymore with the installer, it hangs on the boot logo after recovery hast installed all things...