@markpousee Your device does not feature on the devices list. What version of UT are you running, and how did you install it originally?

@RJDan Which is exactly the right time to make such a contribution. Discovering something as a new user and sharing that discovery, while probably not news to long time users, will be exactly what other new users would find helpful.

@RJDan I think here's were the 'general UT public', also known as the community, could get involved. The presenters can't be expected to know everything. So if a community member, like yourself, has a useful, cool, or otherwise interesting workflow to solve a particular problem or meet a particular need, they could send in a video demoing the workflow and it could be shown during the proposed segment.

@Keneda Sure, but in such cases unlocking the bootloader again restores function. In case of triggering the anit-rollback protection, the device is well and truly bricked.

The Fairphone 5 has anti-rollback protection, which will be activated if the bootloader is relocked at any time after downgrading from Android 14. So it is critical not to relock the bootloader at any point in the process or after.

@kaelte said in Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Beta 1 is now available for testing:

What do you advice?

The advice for individual apps is to file and issue in their individual issue trackers , here should be a link to that in the Open Store entry for that app.

@Futura said in MY perspective and experience with UT:

The million dollar question is do they work on mobile.

Desktop apps that are convergent (=adapt to and work well on smaller screens) often advertise that fact in one way or the other. If they don't, you should not expect the experience to be pleasant.

@wally yes, that is largely correct. It is possible, of course, with snaps, and I presume the same for flatpaks, to package GTK apps so they run on a QT environment, and vice versa. And there are undoubtedly already some Qt mobile apps packaged as flatpaks. So the effort to get those supported might very well be worthwhile. It is just that up till now, no concerted effort has been expended.

@messayisto if the proposed feedback is to let the developer know if the app works on noble or not, such feedback is best given by opening an issue on the provided issue tracker link. Feedback in the app store tends to become stale and no longer applicable over time. Also the developer does not get notified when it is added.

@wally said in MY perspective and experience with UT:

Most Linux apps aren't exactly made for mobile, and whether we have Flatpak or Snaps, it's not going to mean that everything just works.

This is very true. However, with most other mobile Linux projects having gone the flatpak route, there are probably more mobile friendly apps in that format than snaps at the moment. The challenge for UT adoption, besides the packaging format, is that these are mostly GTK apps, which is a different toolkit than UT uses (comparable with Gnome apps running on a KDE desktop)

Developers of UT apps are being encouraged to also packages their apps as snaps. If adoption is picked up, the amount of mobile friendly apps in the snap store will increase. This will broaden exposure of these apps, making them available for desktops as well. But it will not in itself increase app availability on UT.

@marlboro50 to boot into fastboot, start your device normally, login in, open the Terminal app and execute the command sudo reboot -f bootloader

@Ernst-Jan15 said in Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Beta 1 is now available for testing:

UWolf stopped working.

UT 24.04 issue, but an uWolf issue. The author of uWolk is already looking into it.

@YamiYukiSenpai have you simply tried it? Snap support is baked in with 24.04. you have to either install them via the terminal or use the snap store after installing that via the terminal.

Firefox snap however will still not work as yet, since the issue there are several, not having directly to do with snaps being able to be installed or not.

There is a Firefox click you could try though. That works better, even though it is not really optimized for small screens.

@wally said in Will Dekko2 make it to noble?:

At present Dekko hasn't been updated in 15 months and likely needs somebody to take the reins.

While it is true that there hasn't been a new release of Dekko2 in a while, the GitLab repo is still active with discussions and PR's and merges. I expect a new release will happen along with, or before noble.

@cbosse Unfortunately it doesn't support any kind of display out, unlike the FP4 and FP5.

@Vistaus TIL there is indeed such a fix! I am sure we will hear official communication about it if and when it becomes available for testing.

@RJDan said in Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 Beta 1 is now available for testing:

Many apps no longer start.

For the non-strating apps it is best to open an issue about it on the individual issue trackers, which are listed in the Open Store entries for said apps. The app maintainers need to do the work to make their apps compatible with 24.04

@wally said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 20.04 OTA-10:

I thiiink you should just be able to flash 20.04 Stable / RC without erasing data and that should be fine? But I'm not sure.

It should be yes. At least I have been going back and forth for a while in that way.

It is not supported, not guaranteed to work. But in my experience, at least at this stage, it does work.

@RJDan if you are on the stable.update channel that gets updates around 3 to 4 times a year. If you are on RC there should be an update becoming available soon for you, if it hasn't already.
If you are on devel, then updates come fast and frequently (once or twice a day)

@Vistaus, I agree that the bug is most annoying, but the keyboard will still be very useful. It is not as of the touch screen stops working when a keyboard or a mouse attached.