I made a couple of bash scripts to backup and restore my UT phone home directory a while ago and decided to put them up on github in case they are useful to others.

Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 host and OnePlus One Bacon OTA-15

• Requires Android debug tools on linux host system
• Interative selection of directories to backup and restore
• Creates dated backups for later restoration
• Not tested for cross device restoring or restoring after updates
• Includes hidden directories but not special directories

Run

UT_Backup_Tool.sh

to make a dated backup in a folder next to the scripts.

Run

UT_Restore_Tool.sh

to selectively restore the home directories. You will get to choose the backup and which directories to restore.

I have been messing around with my 6T trying out Postmarket OS w/Posh and Ubuntu Touch after having /e/ OS on the phone and ended up bricking one slot on the phone as a result of how /e/ OS uses the A/B slots. Since I am a daily Linux user for a long time I do not have access to a Windows machine to use the factory restore tool available on XDA (I think it is called MsMdownloadTool). I tried a Linux tool that is supposed to work the same but it was just extra problems.

In the end I found how to flash the stock Oxygen OS via Fastboot and made a bash script to automate the process on Linux. My script uses all the .img files from the fastboot 9.0.17 oxygen release found here.. My script is based off the windows scripts included in the download. Note: The included version of TWRP did not work for me and I had to use the one below.

TWRP Fajita version from here.

EDIT: See below

I would like to try and port SuperTuxKart over to a Clickable for Ubuntu Touch but I really do not know enough about SuperTuxKarts code or Clickable so I am not really getting anywhere.

You can install SuperTuxKart via Libertine since it has an Arm build already but you can not click on anything or enable the touch screen controls.

There are videos of it running on a pinephone but I think it is running Pure OS. There is also an Android build of it.

I have installed everything needed to compile STK and I have all the clickable dev tools installed. I have created a project with clickable but now I am not really sure what to do. Is there anyone out there willing to give a hand or point towards a app porting tutorial for clickable that would be relevant in this case, STK is mostly C++

Thanks

I have remade these scripts making everything interactive and allowing you to select which slots you want to flash for both the system and recovery.

The entire thing is now on github. The release section now has all the scripts and the binary img files for Oxygen OS9 so you no longer need to create the scripts and find the files.

You just need to run

flash_all.sh

and it will guide you through reflashing the phone back to OOS9. For OOS10 just use the factory update feature.

To reflash one slot without losing data on the other slot skip wiping data and skip flashing 'persist'.

Has anyone read the piece on tuxphones.com about Anonymity vs Privacy. I feel it is relevant to this thread because the two concepts are often referred to interchangeably but offer very different things.

@kugiigi Before now the OnePlus One was one of the officially supported devices for Anbox on UT but you had to install it manually. With this update you get Android Calendar, Android Clock, Android Settings all in the app menu which sure looks like when I had it installed to test it. There may have been others too I really didn't look any further.

Even if I wanted Anbox installed I would at least want all the minimal required parts of the Android system in a sub menu/launcher. I do not want 2 calendars, 2 clocks, 2 settings.

I would love to hear from anyone that uses Anbox and feels the opposite way. Maybe the selection of apps and games I tested was part of the problem.

If you use Anbox please let me know what device you are using it on, which apps you use, what functions in those apps work and how do they perform?

Conclusion :
Everything required to install an instance of Anbox in a container on a OnePlus One Bacon (and a few other devices) is now installed but not active. It only appeared to be active for me because of residual .desktop files from previous Anbox tests.

One of the first things I noticed while testing OTA-16 Release Candidate on my OnePlus One Bacon is Anbox is installed already which for me is such a huge disappointment. I realize people are always asking for Anbox but it should be a choice rather than forced on UT users. One of the reasons I (And possibly many others) use UT is to not use Android. I do not want Android settings, clock, calendar and all the other things that get installed with Anbox.

I tried Anbox a few months ago just because I test everything and installing apps is a pain, they rarely worked, they ran poorly and you got way to much Android. Removing it was harder than installing it and it was still worth all the effort to remove. I have never come across a post praising Anbox or even really promoting it, just saying it is interesting proof of concept that needs a LOT of work.

How do we remove Anbox now that it is preinstalled? I have rolled back to stable and turned off automatically downloading updates to prevent updating until I can remove Anbox or stick with OTA-15 for the foreseeable future.

@goodguy98 You do not uninstall Ubuntu touch. You install something else. Just like how when you installed Ubuntu touch you did not uninstall whatever was there already.

Search XDA forums for how to install Lineage OS or the stock Android version or any other flavour of Android available for Nexus 7 (2013)

@cliffcoggin If you have a computer on your network with Wake On LAN enabled in it's bios/uefi menu and that computer is turned off you can send it a signal over the network to turn it on. It is mostly used for servers and requires a wired connection unless the device has some kind of deep sleep where it keeps the wifi enabled some how.

Without a way of installing older OTA's I think there are far fewer people willing to test these builds out of fear of being locked into them. If you are on the RC channel when it gets pushed to Stable there is no way back. If you stick with Stable there is no way of testing the newer Stable to see if you are ready to move forward.

I myself love testing things but was only willing to test a little the first couple of days on my daily driver because of all the software not updated to work with the new QT. This is NOT the UT teams fault or responsability, but it is certainly a deterant from using the next release version until the software that people are used to and still need catches up.

This will be made worse with all the breaking changes coming with the 20.04 updates. We need a way of installing older versions. Just a manual way of or by selecting which one to fetch in the installer. We do not need an OTA way.

I have a development device but it doesn't have an OTA or current GSI so I can not test any of these changes.

@moem said in The camera-app is crashing!:

@antidroid said in The camera-app is crashing!:

@keneda How is cropping photos going for you?

I use the edit feature of the gallery app for that, works fine here.

Can you also resize for posting on the forum? Can you crop and resize screenshots?

@keneda How is cropping (and resizing) photos (and screenshots) going for you?

You took 'do not care' out of context. They do not care about downgrading like is possible with a desktop OS or AOSP projects. You can still download and install the first ever Ubuntu desktop image. You can get old versions of Lineage at least for a couple of versions back. The OS is supposed to be about giving us the choice of what we run.

Devs are rarely on this forum. They prefer to communicate via blackholes where knowlege is not indexed and searchable on the web. Like Discord, Matrix, Telegram etc etc etc. That way they get to answer the same questions repeatedly and anyone looking for the answer must ask rather than search the web.

You can publicly search years and years of Linux kernel mailing lists without any accounts and find all kinds of information on Linux development, but nothing like that for UT development because it is locked away and not indexed. Feels like a step backwards from mailing lists which were honestly terrible but still better than the blackholes being used now.

Sorry for the rant. I'll ltake my leave now.

@keneda Because nothing improved with OTA-16 while other things broke. Then with having no way to downgrade back to OTA-15 one can not test newer version to see if the problems have been fixed. This lack of being able to downgrade the OS or apps is a serious problem and the developers do NOT care. They want to make the choice for you, just like google decides how your Android phone should be.

@TotalRando
Start in fastboot mode and run fastboot getvar all from your host and look for current-slot. It will be either a or b

EDIT: fastboot getvar current-slot may be easier.

Then use fastboot --set-active=a or fastboot --set-active=b to set the active slot to the opposite slot as you found it currently was set. Then follow the instructions for installing UT and it will install to the slot you just set.

EDIT: The latest UBports Blog mentions that Lineage encrypts the home directory by default which means you will not be able to share data between OS's and it could cause other unknown issues.

@jhackler Since I do not have the same device I can not be of much help.

Since no one here seems to be able to help and with this being a community device the developer may not see your request here so I would ask in the issue tracker in the device repo which I see is this one https://gitlab.com/ubports/community-ports/android9/sony-xperia-10/sony-kirin/-/issues

I based my original answer off of the Official page for the device which only lists the Xperia 10 with the SDM630 https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/kirin/

@jhackler I do not see the Xperia 10 Plus in the list of supported devices. I am surprised you even got it installed. It uses a different CPU and GPU than the Xperia 10

@commandersozo

Please read https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/

1. Unlikely. It needs a Lineage OS port first, then that turned into a Halium port before you can port Ubuntu Touch. Current UT ports are based off of Halium 7.1 and 9 which is Android 7.1 and 9. So with that phone having Android 11 it is really unlikely unless you really know what you are doing.

2. That depends on how you define stable?
   Doesn't crash? Not too long.
   Has every feature? Keep following to find out when at least one phone actually has everything working and then you will know.

3. IMHO Anbox is nothing more than a gimick. It is terrible right now and with all these Android 9+ phones having A/B partitions, dual boat is far easier and actually works. Just be sure to install a degoogled OS on the other partition and never use OTA updates on the Android one.
   I do not think any UT phone has true Full Camera Support with everything you get on Android with the same phone.
   Convergence is not as useful as it sounds currently.

I think the fastest phones right now being ported are the Oneplus 6/6T, Pocophone F1 and then I think it is the Pixel 3 series.The Oneplus 6/6T, Pocophone are a community devices and is not ready for daily use unless you are willing to have things not work. The Pixel 3 series is much closer as it is being developed by the core team. But again it will take time before being 100% if it is ever reached.

@jhackler I never use sudo to run fastboot.

Since you are on linux and if your twrp file is actually called twrp.img and it is in Downloads you need to put a ./ in front of it so it knows to find twrp.img in the current directory.

But to make sure try it like this. Enter fastboot boot in the terminal and then drag the twrp file into the terminal from the file manager to get the full path and the exact name correct. You can also use copy in the file manager and paste in the terminal to get the full path and file name.

@keneda It is the most current thread from the active Dev so I would say yes.

This is a known issue and it is shown in the demo videos and mentioned in many posts about the first broken 6 and 6T GSI release. It may be fixed in the new release but no one on here other than the developer has manged to install the latest version.