I still don't know how to make the sdcard appear directly on my desktop computer when I connect my phone, but I have a workaround : symlink the sdcard mount point in the /home/phablet directory ( = "internal storage" on the desktop computer).
This is easily done using the terminal (or adb shell). Find the exact mount point of the sdcard using the command mount; it is something like /media/phablet/XXXX-YYYY. Then enter ln -s /media/phablet/XXXX-YYYY ~/sdcard
Since it was working in android, there must be a way to have it working in UBports. I had more or less the same issue in the Xperia X port and could make it work (see here). Turns out that the proper device to use was usb0 and not rnids0 (but editing some files was still required to have usb0 being available). If you are comfortable with linux command line and modifying bash scripts, you should try things along what I did.
@gpatel-fr thanks for digging into this. So, right, it's supposed to use ncm and not rndis, but usb-moded should handle tethering with that .
The file you tried to cat is restricted to root access, but even with sudo, it's not accessible, and that probably explains why the configuration script fails, falling back to charging only.
Maybe the fp5 is missing the corresponding kernel module now, while it had it back in August?
I created a ticket.
@gpatel-fr thanks for digging into this. So, right, it's supposed to use ncm and not rndis, but usb-moded should handle tethering with that .
The file you tried to cat is restricted to root access, but even with sudo, it's not accessible, and that probably explains why the configuration script fails, falling back to charging only.
Maybe the fp5 is missing the corresponding kernel module now, while it had it back in August?
I created a ticket.
@Moem of course, that's what triggers the messages in the journal. In French it's called "partage de connexion USB" and
I've tried both from the system settings and UT tweaks.
I'm on daily channel, up-to-date. Testing usb tethering today for the first time, I find it does not work.
In the journal I can see related errors:
usb_moded[1957]: /etc/usb-moded/usb-moded.ini: can't remove stale config file: Read-only file system
usb_moded[1957]: /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/g1//functions/rndis.usb0: mkdir failed: No such file or directory
usb_moded[1957]: function rndis.usb0 is not registered
usb_moded[1957]: /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/g1//UDC: write failure: Invalid argument
usb_moded[1957]: mode setting failed, try charging_only
Yet, it was reported earlier to be working . Is it a regression? Does it work for you?
I still don't know how to make the sdcard appear directly on my desktop computer when I connect my phone, but I have a workaround : symlink the sdcard mount point in the /home/phablet directory ( = "internal storage" on the desktop computer).
This is easily done using the terminal (or adb shell). Find the exact mount point of the sdcard using the command mount; it is something like /media/phablet/XXXX-YYYY. Then enter ln -s /media/phablet/XXXX-YYYY ~/sdcard
Hello,
I have configured the camera to store images on the sdcard, but when I connect the phone to my computer, only "internal storage" is visible. As a result, I cannot browse or transfer my photos through the GUI (I have to use adb pull from a terminal, which is a pain). On my previous UT device (sony xperiax, running 20.04), the sdcard was accessible through mtp, alongside "internal storage".
I'm currently running 24.04-1.x daily, dated 2025-10-14. Am I alone to experience this problem? Is there an easy fix?
Thanks in advance.
@sixwheeledbeast said in Fairphone 5 - 24.04-1.0:
an issue with is OSM server
Indeed, it's broken, there is a bug report for it.
I upgraded my Xperia X to the latest RC 2024-W30/2 on August 17, and since then, the GPS is no longer getting a fix (even waiting for hours). Previously I was running RC 2024-W03, and GPS worked fine (I used it on August 13).
I wish to reinstall that previous version, but I have not found detailed steps explaining how to do that. I guess I should run
sudo system-image-cli ...
in an adb shell but I don't know how to specify the image I want. Does anyone has experience doing such downgrade?
@los-tioz said in Sony Xperia X loses Wifi Connection:
Has anyone updated Ubuntu Touch from version 16.04 to 20.04? Is the problem with the Wlan also present there?
Wifi reconnects much more reliably in 20.04.
@TakoR I only recently made the move to focal (RC 2024-W03) and saw the same problem of hotspot only working with no password.
Some research revealed that Volla devices also had a similar problem that has been solved by adding a file in Networkmanager configuration.
The same fix (detailed below) works also for the Xperia X. You will need to reapply it at each upgrade of the OS until it is merged in the device tree, if ever.
1-From a computer open a terminal session on your phone using either "adb shell" or ssh. Alternatively you can do it in terminal app on the phone itself, but it is very cumbersome.
2-make the image writable (until reboot) :
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
3-create the new file with appropriate content:
cat << EOF > /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/fix-ap-with-password.conf
[main]
wifi-wpa-psk-pmf-no-optional-ap=yes
EOF
4-reboot the phone
5- my (linux) laptop could still not pair with the hotspot at that point. So I deleted the failed wifi hotspot config on the laptop and also edited the hoptspot config on the phone, changing the password and rebooted the phone again. After that, the laptop could connect the hotspot with password. I guess that not all of these last steps are needed.
Besides that issue and other minor quirks, I am very pleased with the OS upgrade. I just changed the channel, and upgraded as I had done before for the xenial upgrade. After that, I upgraded all apps. The new version has about a doubled battery life (for my rather lite use case, at least) compared to xenial and it solved the bug which made the camera app record half-green pictures about 1/3 of the time.