@peat_psuwit said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1:

(there has been flooding in my area).

I'm glad to hear that you're safe. Please give priority to your health and safety, and those of your family, over a software update!

Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

• Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
• Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
• Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

• Open Cinny (or another matrix client)
• create a new room
• invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de
• open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices
• add new device
• got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message
• scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
  Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

I was one of the volunteers humanning the stand, and it was great. We were able to answer a lot of questions, we showed many different devices on our stand, and people were quite enthousiastic about what we had to show and say. It was an inspiring day and we helped promote UT and make contact with organisations for possible collaboration. Time well spent!

@libremax Thanks for posting! I'm still at Bornhack, and beside the talk, there are so many folks here who are interested in Ubuntu Touch. Now that people know that I'm using it, lots of people want to talk to me about it and ask me questions, and I answer as many as I can.
My show-and-tell device (BQ Aquaris E4.5) goes from hand to hand (yes, we use sanitizer) and people are amazed by the smooth operation, and more when I tell them how old it is.

I'm hoping to be causing a small influx of interest in our OS and community. I'm certainly doing my best to do so!

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

I did. No one even replied to my post about a year ago

I saw your post and I did not understand it, it was clearly above my level of understanding.

I don't think anyone is patting each other on the back here. This is a project that's mostly run by volunteers and it's smaller than you may think. Our (barely a handful of) core devs are mostly busy getting VoLTE to run and fixing bugs in the new Noble release.

Most of the apps are made by volunteers who don't know enough about OS development to help with that, but still want to help. I'm grateful for their time.

I'm not sure what could be done better here. On a personal level, I enjoy the OS and it works for me.

In the end, we should all be using the OS that we like best. It's fine that you are choosing to use something else than UT. But why the whole song and dance?

YESSS
It's working! I have zoom, autofocus and flash! This is the last thing that was missing for me to be able to say that the phone is fully functional under UT!

Excuse me while I dance the happy dance...

@grenudi said in We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely:

at the same time, the OS doesn't even ship a decent resource monitor. htop isn't even available by default, and users have to ask why it's not included.

You know, I've never ever even realised there wasn't one. This shows you that we are very different users. I'm a rather average user with a small dash of power user. You sound the other way around.

And clearly you seem to know a lot. It makes me wonder whether or not there really isn't a way you could help. You seem generally motivated to make things better, there is an energy present in your frustration and maybe that energy could find a constructive outlet.

I'm wondering about something else. Who is the 'we' in "We Drop Ubuntu Touch Entirely"? You're making it sound as if we should care deeply, when the reality is that people stop and start using mobile OSses all the time. Just this week I helped two users switch to UT and they both like it.

Some of their applications can run on Waydroid. But most people who are using Ubuntu Touch wish to get away from Google. Personally I want to avoid Android applications and the Google Playstore.

If we are going to do everything that Android does, what would make us special? Why would we even bother?

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

This was a lot of fun. We had a really simple stand because we didn't bring a lot of equipment, but it was enough: we got plenty of interest, had some good conversations, and answered many questions. It's definitely worth planning for T-Dose 2026 (June 6 and 7)!

Greetings from all the creatures of T-Dose!

@Bolly I can't help with login, but I did sent out a package quite recently that contains a hoodie and a mug. If that's you, it should arrive soon.

@Feynt That's only odd if you believe that UBports has a plan for which devices are going to supported. And such a plan could only happen in a different kind of organisation.

You should keep in mind what UBports is, or rather what we are: a community, a loosely connected group of volunteers. Whether a certain device gets ported depends on there being someone who

• has the skills
• has the time
• has the wish
• has the device.

If there is no such person around, then no port is going to happen. Maybe you could even be that person? To find out, you can start reading here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting

As is forum policy, your topic will now be moved to the Offtopic Area. Thank you for understanding.

@Ernst-Jan15 said in Welkom, nieuwkomers! Stel jezelf gerust even voor.:

online is r tegenwoodig geen mogelijkheid meer zonder autenticatie op je telefoon.

Wordt inderdaad steeds lastiger, maar er zijn nog banken waar je kunt bankieren zonder app. Ik zit bij Triodos en daar kan het nog. Maar niet alle functies zijn beschikbaar en of het ook mogelijk is om een nieuwe rekening aan te vragen weet ik niet.

https://www.bank.nl/kennisbank/bankieren-zonder-app/

@Ernst-Jan15 said in Welkom, nieuwkomers! Stel jezelf gerust even voor.:

In de terminal een hele rits aan foutmeldingen

Als je daar hulp bij wilt, is het wel een nieuw draadje waard. Vermeld dan even die foutmeldingen. Daar zijn ze voor.
Met die bankapp kun je vast ook wel hulp krijgen, hoewel niet alle bankapps kunnen werken in Waydroid. Ik heb daar geen ervaring mee, ik betaal niet op of via mijn foon.

Nogmaals, op welke telefoon draai je UT?

@hacknorris I would reflash it through the UBports installer, and unticking the 'wipe user data' box. It may or may not help but at least it's safe.

You sound like you've been doing a lot of unsupported stuff, such as using apt, and you seem to be using an unsupprted device... so we may not be able to help you.

@GabrielDistake Hello Gabriel!
UBports does not take porting requests. You should keep in mind what it is, or rather what we are: a community, a loosely connected group of volunteers. Whether a certain device gets ported depends on there being someone who

• has the skills
• has the time
• has the wish
• has the device.

If there is no such person around, then no port is going to happen. Maybe you could even be that person? To find out, you can start reading here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting

As is forum policy, your topic will now be moved to the Offtopic Area. Thank you for understanding.

@Ernst-Jan15 said in Welkom, nieuwkomers! Stel jezelf gerust even voor.:

I miss a browser that functions wel and accepts a .cvs file with my passwords.

Ik gebruik op mijn laptop KeePassXC en combineer dat met de UT app die daar sinds kort voor is. Werkt behoorlijk goed.

The oher thing I miss is a working WhatsApp. WhatsApp needs aphone version of WhatsApp to let me use is in a webbrowswer.
I understand that waydroid is able to run google apps but I do not understand how to activate this. The program is not running and crashes when trying to run a second time after fist install...

Hoe heb je Waydroid geprobeerd? De makkelijkste manier is via de app Waydroid Helper.
Misschien het makkelijkst om over dit probleem een nieuw draadje te starten. Ik heb geen WhatsApp, dus ik heb daar geen ervaring mee.

I think for now these ar my most urgent problems. I understand that some of the problems could be fixed by going back to the last stabel version of UT. I will try when my Pixel 8 is back from repairs after I made a stupid mistake trying to flash an oter versin of Cynogen...

Op welke telefoon draai je UT?

@Ernst-Jan15 Welkom! Wat mis je momenteel nog in Ubuntu Touch?

@oldbutndy said in What are chances of any Google pixel newer than 3A getting Ubuntu Touch support ?:

I hoped that someone who knew how many developer hours it might take for a new UT build for a new device could estimate their initial time spent, and answer.

That may still happen. We're a bunch of volunteers, and most of us have full lives and don't read the forums every day.

@oldbutndy said in OnePlus just informed me they will NOT unlock bootloader for a device on bought on Ebay.:

Since I am newbie, I did not think of this.

That's to be expected. That's why I told you.
It's OK to be a newcomer; that's how we all started, and we can only grow as a community by welcoming newcomers!