@stanwood thanks !

Nice to see Swiss users too

Hi!

Thanks for the this work, it's really cool to be able to receive and view Signal messages without needing to open the whole Waydroid stuff

I'll take a look to the way you did it, as I've seen there's an unofficial Dino application snap package available (this is an XMPP client). I'll check if I can port this application using same techniques.

I took time to test with the different update channels available and VoLTE works with current 24.04-0.1/daily channel (update 2025-10-19/3).

@pparent I've plugged my phone on a monitor and leverage the Ubuntu Touch desktop mode (convergence) to have Signal UT and Waydroid side by side. Then you can take picture directly with your phone.

The only thing a bit hard with this setup were that Waydroid scale with a big zoom. I had to update the LineageOS display setting to reduce UI to the smallest possible value.

Here are steps I've just followed:

1. Flash Android 11 stock image from fairphone website
2. Start Android 11, configure phone
3. In mobile settings, uncheck VoLTE and check it back
4. Same for wifi calling (uncheck then check)
5. Make a call and check it's working well with Android. My operator has disabled 3G, so this check ensures me the VoLTE is well working on Android

Then, download UBports Installer 0.11.2 and start the process to install Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 stable channel wipping user data.

Phone seems connected to 4G: the network status icon has letter « L ». Although voice phone call did not work.

I tried to call my Ubuntu Touch device with another Android phone and I didn't received the call on the Ubuntu Touch one.

I tried to run the gdbus command and I got same result than you (neither registered, nor voice and sms capabilities).

On a new test, I've started journalctl -f and I attach the result here. Let me know if more logs are needed.

voice_call.log

Note that before doing the call, I disconnected wifi to be sure to use VoLTE and not VoWifi.

I've just opened an issue on Gitlab so developpers can check the logs and ask me more of them if needed: https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/ubuntu-touch/-/issues/2281

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

We're going to land a change that could help with this in tomorrow's 24.04-1.x daily image. If possible, please switch to 24.04-1.x daily channel and see if you can now send an SMS. If this is successful, we're going to have another RC image.

I've installed the release "2025-11-04/3" from the daily channel and I was able to send SMS, thanks !

I've also checked again the SMS reception and VoLTE calls (sending and receiving): everything works well

@pparent I've plugged my phone on a monitor and leverage the Ubuntu Touch desktop mode (convergence) to have Signal UT and Waydroid side by side. Then you can take picture directly with your phone.

The only thing a bit hard with this setup were that Waydroid scale with a big zoom. I had to update the LineageOS display setting to reduce UI to the smallest possible value.

@bbiw said in App developers' guide to publishing applications for Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.x:

The standard and only qt_version settable in clickable.yaml is still 5.12...shouldn't this be 5.15 for the new noble system?

I'm interested too about this topic, because I would like to port one of my GTK/Rust application to Qt/Rust. If qt 5.15 is available for clickable package I could use the cxx-qt tool to integrate Qt with my Rust library.

Is it possible to create clickable package with qt 5.15 ?

@gpatel-fr said in Status of the Location Service (GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou, Galileo) ?:

See an analysis here:

https://ti.qianxin.com/blog/articles/Analysis-of-the-Hidden-Backdoor-Event-in-Qualcomm-GPS-Service-EN/

TLDR: backdoor is too strong a word, but there are privacies issues. If the software is rewritten as open source, this could be less problematic.

Thanks for all these details about the AGPS privacy issue, I understand the idea behind this.

It seems it's hard to have a good signal when the phone is inside a car (all satellites were red in GPSTest). I think I need another device as navigating system for my car.

I'll check next days if my device could have locaiton fix with Glonass, Beidou and Galileo satellites. I expect using more data sources should improve measurment quality, isn't it ?

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

We're going to land a change that could help with this in tomorrow's 24.04-1.x daily image. If possible, please switch to 24.04-1.x daily channel and see if you can now send an SMS. If this is successful, we're going to have another RC image.

I've installed the release "2025-11-04/3" from the daily channel and I was able to send SMS, thanks !

I've also checked again the SMS reception and VoLTE calls (sending and receiving): everything works well

@Vlad-Nirky thanks for this hint, this is way better with such applications. I used GPSTest which shows a sky map with available satellites and their type.

It showed me lot of GPS and GLONASS sattelites in my area and only one Galileo (I'm located in Europe that surprised me).

When the location has been fixed, it used only GPS ones. I tested only 5 minutes that can be just a coincidence.

As these applocations can leverage the A-GPS system, could it be possible to do the same in Ubuntu Touch applications and/or system ?

@pparent said in Signal UT: Signal-Desktop for Ubuntu Touch:

@adorsaz

Thank's by the way, can you tell us if the "Lock"/"Unlock" trick works for you to make "Enter" and "Backspace" of the virtual keyboard work?

Yes if I lock the phone while Signal UT is foreground, these two keys work well after unlock.

Then I can switch to other application and go back to Signal UT and it still works without need to do the trick again.

Hello,

I used to use LineageOS on my Fairphone 4 without Google Play Services or the alternative MicroG.

I don't recall all the details, but the location service worked really well with the Fairphone 4 in this setup. If I remember correctly, the first location fix took some time, but after that it was very quick every time I opened the GPS application (first OrganicMap, then CoMap), and accurate enough to guide me while driving.

As I did not install Play Services, I think the Fairphone 4's hardware works well, and we should be able to leverage this to improve the location experience with Ubuntu Touch.

However, my experience with Ubuntu Touch today is that it's not reliable enough. I opened CoMap in Waydroid, stopping the Location Service in Ubuntu Touch to avoid conflicts. Then, after driving my car for about seven minutes and four kilometres, I finally got a location fix. Speed data became available much later, by which time I was already on the motorway. The location was not precise enough to guide me correctly at a crossroads.

I've checked the specifications of the location hardware again, and the Fairphone 4 seems to have all of these services available: GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou and Galileo.

Does the Ubuntu Touch location service use all of these or only GPS? Do you think support for Galileo, for example, could improve the experience?

Hi!

Thanks for the this work, it's really cool to be able to receive and view Signal messages without needing to open the whole Waydroid stuff

I'll take a look to the way you did it, as I've seen there's an unofficial Dino application snap package available (this is an XMPP client). I'll check if I can port this application using same techniques.

On a Fairphone 4, I've migrated from daily build (19th October) to this RC, I confirm I am still able to use VoLTE to make a call.

Although I cannot send SMS to recipient with phone number formated with my country prefix (+41).
I share log here with redacted recipient phone number:

sms_send.log

Edit: during the day I was able to receive VoLTE call and receive SMS.

I took time to test with the different update channels available and VoLTE works with current 24.04-0.1/daily channel (update 2025-10-19/3).