@rom4nb

Actually I solved to restore my backup.

Here's how I did it:

• install UT on new device
• setup SSH between Desktop and UT device (instruction e.g. here (in German): https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch/Terminal/#SSH )
• create folder to mount UT root with ssh: mkdir ~/UPhone-Home
• mount UT via SSH on Desktop: sshfs phablet@IP_ADRESS_PHONE:/ /home/$USER/UPhone-Home/
• on Desktop: cd into directory with BUDS backup: cd ~/buds/backup/DATE/
• on Desktop: start restore of data with: tar -xf BACKUP.tgz -C /home/$USER/UPhone-Home/home/phablet/

It runs through and all data is restored in the correct path.

E.g. when there is a file in the tgz:
/./Music/Track1.mp3
it will be correctly restored in
/home/phablet/Music/Track1.mp3

So this issue here seems not to be a problem: https://github.com/popey/buds/issues/10

Dear community,

I own a FP2 but a year ago I sadly gave up to use ubuntu Touch as a daily driver because I had too many Unity8/Lomiri crashes in daily use and then messages I was typing disappeared, crashes during browsing happened etc.

I considered give it a new try after OTA-12 with finally the new Mir/Lomiri update coming to stable - maybe it works more reliable then for me.

I have been out of Ubuntu Touch for quite some time and wonder now whether you would recommend to use the "normal" image distributed by Ubports installer (I suppose it still includes Halium 5.1?) or this new Halium 7.1? What is faster, what is more stable? I learnt now that flash on new camera module will never work with Halium 5.1 but at Halium 7.1 there is finally a chance at least ... Anbox (which I have never used in my "Ubuntu Touch times", but for DB Navigator it would really be worth a try because for me, who has no car and who uses a lot public transport, mobile tickets make life so much easier ...) does not work with Halium 7.1 as far as I understand the above comments? But I'm not sure whether Anbox is still good enough at all to use it "seriously" on a daily driver apart from development work and testing.

In recent Q&A, there was also talked about Halium 9, but there is no discussion for our FP2 to push it to Halium 9? (LineageOS has had Android 9 for quite some time for the FP2 I think ...)
Is it a decision of Uports to change the "default" Halium in the Ubports images images or is it an separated decision of Halium project?

Thank you for your counsel, rom4nb

@Fla
I've been now for 1.5 weeks on UT with OTA-12 (stable channel) again. I use the Halium 5.1 based Image from ubports installer and after reading a bit in the Halium 7.1 thread (complicated Installation, Risk to burn the LED, …) I will stick to it and not try the Halium 7.1 Image now.

Indeed, UT is much more stable than a year ago. I've had two "hard" reboots now, one when I tried to take a photo (I remember this to trigger reboot from a year ago, seems to be an Halium issue …) and one I think when I was Messing around with Anbox. Lomiri crashes I've had like three while using it (one with Anbox, one when many apps were open, one just random), but that is also better. A year ago it was like 3 Lomiri crashes within one hour on the FP2.

I've tried Anbox as it is easy to install now (basically just apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch). The experience is not soo good, I described it here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1676/development-testers-for-anbox/215

I want to thank here to all UT developers. It's a big Progress again in the OS. I already found nice new small Features like finally an integrated timer in the Clock app etc. And hopefully, with Pinephone etc. coming up, there will also be more General interest in UT and more People will take over the development of UT apps or develop new apps (I was glad to see that now in Openstore there are also some SailfishOS ported apps).

@rom4nb

Actually I solved to restore my backup.

Here's how I did it:

• install UT on new device
• setup SSH between Desktop and UT device (instruction e.g. here (in German): https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch/Terminal/#SSH )
• create folder to mount UT root with ssh: mkdir ~/UPhone-Home
• mount UT via SSH on Desktop: sshfs phablet@IP_ADRESS_PHONE:/ /home/$USER/UPhone-Home/
• on Desktop: cd into directory with BUDS backup: cd ~/buds/backup/DATE/
• on Desktop: start restore of data with: tar -xf BACKUP.tgz -C /home/$USER/UPhone-Home/home/phablet/

It runs through and all data is restored in the correct path.

E.g. when there is a file in the tgz:
/./Music/Track1.mp3
it will be correctly restored in
/home/phablet/Music/Track1.mp3

So this issue here seems not to be a problem: https://github.com/popey/buds/issues/10

Ok, I managed now to make a backup with the "buds" script from popey.

However, I don't know how I can restore the backup? On github, it says that the restore script is still on the "to do" list.

Can somebody help me how it would be possible to restore the tgz-file backup after reinstalling UT?

(there seems to be a problem with ./ preceeding all paths, see this issue on github: https://github.com/popey/buds/issues/10)

Hello together,

I want to flash LineageOS shortly on my phone and backup my UT installation to get back to UT easily.

I tried to use Bastos strategy to backup system-data and user-data

I have two questions:

• When I backuped system-data I got an error in the terminal: "no such file or directory" (see attached screenshot). I assume this is due to some encoding problem of the file path? So there is not everything backed up.
  
  The same happens, when I backup user-data. First, adb is copying files and everything seems fine. Then I get this error:
  
  What am I doing wrong?

• How is actually the procedure to restore a backup made like Bastos described above? Somehow with adb push but how do I say that adb pushes into the correct directories of the UT filesystem on the phone?

The other methods BUDS and the terminal message from mutse only work when UT is running on the phone, right? Is there not a conflict to be expected when I want to restore a backup and UT is running? (A backup that cannot be restored is of little use, right? )

Thank you for your answer.

@Fla
I've been now for 1.5 weeks on UT with OTA-12 (stable channel) again. I use the Halium 5.1 based Image from ubports installer and after reading a bit in the Halium 7.1 thread (complicated Installation, Risk to burn the LED, …) I will stick to it and not try the Halium 7.1 Image now.

Indeed, UT is much more stable than a year ago. I've had two "hard" reboots now, one when I tried to take a photo (I remember this to trigger reboot from a year ago, seems to be an Halium issue …) and one I think when I was Messing around with Anbox. Lomiri crashes I've had like three while using it (one with Anbox, one when many apps were open, one just random), but that is also better. A year ago it was like 3 Lomiri crashes within one hour on the FP2.

I've tried Anbox as it is easy to install now (basically just apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch). The experience is not soo good, I described it here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1676/development-testers-for-anbox/215

I want to thank here to all UT developers. It's a big Progress again in the OS. I already found nice new small Features like finally an integrated timer in the Clock app etc. And hopefully, with Pinephone etc. coming up, there will also be more General interest in UT and more People will take over the development of UT apps or develop new apps (I was glad to see that now in Openstore there are also some SailfishOS ported apps).

Hello together, I've tried Anbox now after installing UT with OTA-12 (stable channel) on my FP2.

To deal with the battery drain, here is an Explanation how to set up an "Anbox-Toggle" button for disabling/enabling Anbox with an easy button (in german, but the script itself could help anyone): https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch/Anbox/#Automatisches-Umschalten-per-Icon

I've tried several apps.

• Conversations (F-Droid): starts, but I have not set up an XMPP account
• Dir (F-Droid): seems to work
• DB Navigator (APK extracted via adb fromAndroid Smartphone): the latest version from Google Play crashes while starting up. A very old version of the app, which I am using on an old Android 4.0 Smartphone, starts up. But I cannot load online tickets (app crashes). I can also not look for Transport Connections because there is no Dropdown menu Opening to select a Train Station. So unfortunately, it is not usable at all.
• KVV.ticket (APK extracted via adb fromAndroid Smartphone): it's an very "old style" Android app and it works
• F-Droid (F-Droid Webpage): works
• Öffi (F-Droid): Looking for Transport Connection works

Generally, the apps don't start up always, even when Anbox is definetively enabled. I have to try various times and sometime even reboot the phone. The apps in Anbox are all very slow, especially the touchscreen responds slow and sometimes I can hardly touch a button etc. Often, Anbox is just crashing for me, once also Lomiri crashed while I was using Annox.

As a result, unfortunately I would say that Anbox is still not for "productive daily driver use" and I'll say that realistically you still have to stick to the (web-based) UT apps for serious usage on a UT device. This is a pitty, because especially for public Transport many tickets can only be bought via iOS/Android mobile app.

@Flohack
Hi Flohack. Thank you for the answer. What is still missing for the Halium 7.1 to become "default" for FP2, OPO and N5? Should I better wait some longer time longer for OTA 13, until Halium 7.1 is ready or is it still not foreseeable when this will happen?

Dear community,

I own a FP2 but a year ago I sadly gave up to use ubuntu Touch as a daily driver because I had too many Unity8/Lomiri crashes in daily use and then messages I was typing disappeared, crashes during browsing happened etc.

I considered give it a new try after OTA-12 with finally the new Mir/Lomiri update coming to stable - maybe it works more reliable then for me.

I have been out of Ubuntu Touch for quite some time and wonder now whether you would recommend to use the "normal" image distributed by Ubports installer (I suppose it still includes Halium 5.1?) or this new Halium 7.1? What is faster, what is more stable? I learnt now that flash on new camera module will never work with Halium 5.1 but at Halium 7.1 there is finally a chance at least ... Anbox (which I have never used in my "Ubuntu Touch times", but for DB Navigator it would really be worth a try because for me, who has no car and who uses a lot public transport, mobile tickets make life so much easier ...) does not work with Halium 7.1 as far as I understand the above comments? But I'm not sure whether Anbox is still good enough at all to use it "seriously" on a daily driver apart from development work and testing.

In recent Q&A, there was also talked about Halium 9, but there is no discussion for our FP2 to push it to Halium 9? (LineageOS has had Android 9 for quite some time for the FP2 I think ...)
Is it a decision of Uports to change the "default" Halium in the Ubports images images or is it an separated decision of Halium project?

Thank you for your counsel, rom4nb

Hello community,

I would like to propose a simple app.

Functionality: The app selects the newest file created in the ~/Pictures/Screenshots folder (maybe with a preview)

Value: For sending screenshots in Telegram so far the gallery app (slow actualization, at least on the BQ E4.5) or browser app (manual selection) must be used. A app as described could help to share screenshots in Telegram, Dekko etc.

What do you think? Can this be implemented?

Basically, I'd support the lists posted by MarkDJ and by many other users here in the thread.
But I would like to emphasize some additionals remarks:

• Carddav Sync should be integrated graphically (same as it was finally possible to graphically add Owncloud-Account/Calendar)
• Contacts app should show birthdays of contacts (they are stored in the contacts but not shown)
• If possible, the e-mail app should directly use the emails stored in the contacts (I dunno if this is possible with all the app confinement taking place in UT)
• Phone app should contain the possiblity of SIP at some point. The missing IP phone feature is one of the most missing features of a modern daily-driver smartphone at the moment. (via terminal I already got linphone running using apt (and crashing my system with the next OTA), via Libertine I got Qutecom installed but was not able to configure it with my SIP account, Linphone in libertine crashes ...)

Off-topic part:
Regarding transporting app: I agree that it should not be a core app similar like gas station app etc. But it is an important application for a phone. Fahrplan is a great app but has some limitations and unfortunately is not developed anymore. The by far best open source transport app, I've seen so far on F-droid:
https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=transportr&fdid=de.grobox.liberario
Different transport networks selectabl, real-time information about delays, map, walking included into navigation ...
Would be nice if something like this would be ever seen on UT. But as discussed before: I don't see it as an core app but already as a specific user case app. Sorry for this off-topic part of my post.

Hello guys,

I am excited about all the progress at UBPorts. As I had created an webapp for Electronic-Tickets in german public transport system, I also added it now to the OpenStore:
https://open.uappexplorer.com/manage/handyticketdeutschland.rom4nb
https://github.com/Rom4nB/HandyTicketDeutschland/
The app is not widely used, but in the old Ubuntu store, reviewers asked for a additional functionality for storing the phone number. I found now that this would be possible by changing the default webapp URL to an individual url each user can get sent via SMS.

So I imagine adding a "configuration" button to my webapp:

• Showing instructions how to get the sms with the individual URL sent
• Option to paste the individual URL into settings dialogue -> webapp would start from now on with that individual url and phone number would not necessarily have to be introduced each time.

However, I have little experience in programming and so far only used the templates for webapps etc I could find in the internet. I imagine the above functionally should not be too complicated to add. Maybe here in the forums there can be given some hints how to implement this.