@messayisto Yes, that seems to be right. If I understand the Telegram channel correctly, the registration issue persists, but the relentless & much appreciated devs are working on it. The problem will be fixed in a version that will only work with UT 20.04.

@anna That is as I expected. Although I hadn't realized that ufw was installed by default. But it does make sense that it is disabled by default.
Ubuntu Touch aims to be a consumer ready mobile OS. Firewall administration is considered an advanced feature, which the typical user is not expected to need to deal with. And even then there would need to be some form of graphical settings page to simplify administration of the firewall at the very least.
Furthermore, it is not really that ports are blocked by default on Ubuntu Touch, rather that there are no services running on the phone by default that are listening on any ports. This is the reason nmap flags the ports as closed.
This is also the reason why it is good practice to only enable ssh temporarily, and also only when your device is connected to a trusted network. In this case having a firewall would not make ssh usage more secure.

Yes, I also thought it might be device-specific since the Volla Phone 22 is still relatively new. I opted for a re-installation (which is a quick and simple thing via the boot manager) and now the problem is gone -- I hope for good.

Yeah Seabass 2 is the best but take note that it's unconfined and it's geared more towards programming/coding. I use it more text editing though 😄

Thank you guys! I tried again a new password and now it has been working for two days. So apparently the special characters were indeed the problem. Very strange. Works with both host names.

@keneda Thank you! Strangely, I tried it again and it worked. The only thing I did differently this time was to create a small contacts.db (mine is 1.8 MB so I thought that the size might be the problem), move it into the directory and after a restart the contacts were shown. Then I deleted it, moved my 1.8 MB contacts.db into the directory and it worked. I have no idea why. I don't think my antics with the smaller file had anything to do with it. Anyway, thank you: Without your insistence that the contacts are saved in contacts.db I would not have tried it again.

Hi Anna, you may also be interested:

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2008/the-ubports-tutorial-links-collection