@r0lle Mine would also do that on occasion. If you selected both Wipe userata and Bootstrap on the first try and it gets stuck on the logo on reboot, I would try booting to fastboot and then running the installer agani, but this time only selecting Wipe usreata (so no bootstrap). If you did not select both Wipe Data and Bootstrap initially, you should first do both.

@Satanas1275 While we are all for seeing more and all kinds of Linux on phones, soliciting help on a Postmarket OS port is very much off topic for this forum, wouldn't you agree?

@pparent Where was this announced?

@Fla said:

I think Waydroid is tight to Halium too, isn't it?

I don't think this is inevitably the case. Else how would it work on regular desktop Linux? Also I think I got it running on the PinePhone. It ran terribly slow, as everything else on that hardware, but it did run.

@Kadafi can you navigate to the open store in the browser: https://open-store.io, and download one of the apps you are trying to install? Maybe it is an issue with internet restrictions where you are at?

@brenno.almeida Do users of this app run the risk of Meta blocking or otherwise disabling their their accounts after a while, for using an unofficial WA cliënt? Or does this use the same.API as the browser is using?

@developerbayman You will get two notifications if someone answers you and mentions your forum handle in the answer.

@smobilesoft, the issue is that those apps keep running in the background and are not properly suspended when no longer in the foreground. They even keep running when the screen is off.

Normally apps are suspended when they don't have focus, or the screen is turned off, which helps conserve battery.

Although, to be fair the creator of the WhatsNew app has taken measure to suspend the app when it looses focus as well. So something else must be going on there.

@smobilesoft Do you use one of the newer browsers, or any app that produces an X11 icon in the Dash?

@oldbutndy Yes, click on the vertical dots on the bottom right of the post you want to delete, and then select Delete.

I have merged your two topics since they are about the same situation.

@developerbayman To be completely honest, half the time I don't know what you're on about . I just chime in when I see a question I think I can answer. Otherwise, I leave all well enough alone

@developerbayman This thread is not about touch or gestures in Lomiri. It is about gestures on the virtual trackpad that the device becomes when it is connected to a screen wirelessly via Miracast.

@developerbayman I would say, it depends.

Since your work is based on the PDK image, which itself is a developments tool and does not have a read-only rootfs, it is expected that you would also end up with a writable rootfs.

If you are planning to support OTA updates just like on other UT devices, then making the roots r/o would be a requirement. But until that moment, there isn't really that much benefit in having it configured that way.

@lsitongia I had missed the part where you said you were testing PR packages on the device.

@lsitongia I am in the dedicated N10 device group on Telegram, and I have not heard anyone comment on not being able to install 24.04-2.x

As I said on Telegram, maybe your /cache partition was filled, since you mention you had a downloaded -1.x update ready which you did not apply before attempting to upgrade to -2.x. So that was probably the original issue. But now you've done a few things already, so not sure what your current situation is.

If you are OK with starting completely fresh I would go with flashing android and then UT again.

As an aside. It is normal for the device to say it is installing updates after running it through the installer. That is just the last step on device of the installation. Several files are pushed to the cache partition by the installer and then the recovery knows to unpack those files in the correct locations.
It is also normal for the device to show as one thing (billie) in recovery and another thing (lito) in fastboot.

Lastly.. Daily is not recommended for daily use, unless you are interested in helping testing and catching early bugs. If the phone is your daily driver, then 24.04-1.x stable is the channel that you are recommended to be using.

@oldbutndy said:

But, it seems this would end up not reducing the huge number of variations for all the different phone models.

Am I missing something here ?

No, you are on to soimething. People forget that ARM hardware in general and phone hardware in particular is totally not standardized. So to get all the drivers for all that hardware upstreamed would be a huge endeavor. One, frankly that I am not at all convinced that AI is capable of taking on. And even if and when, new hardware keeps coming out with each new generation of devices, so you'd have to practically start from scratch each time.

We saw how just the jump from Pinephone to PinePhone Pro brought in such fundamentally different hardware that the Pro never really caught up, software wise, with the original device.

What makes 'mainline' kernels viable on x86 / x64 server and desktop is the high degree of standardization of the hardware in that area.

@oldbutndy said:

Also, is it possible to retain halium layer for modem-radio and other components for which there is no no kernel driver, but put simple things (I assume turning flashlight LED on & off & PWM for dimming would be easy) into kernel ?
Is that how it already IS being handled ? or does halium translate everything ?

The thing is that any new support for hardware is likely to land in newer version of the kernel. Halium ports are tied to a specific version of the kernel for ABI compatibility with the drivers the device vendor provides. And backporting those new drivers to the older kernels would probably be more work than it's worth.

@gandalf Yes there is. In the terminal, navigate to the folder you no longer want the files indexed and execute the following command:

touch .nomedia

This also works on desktop linux.

@Mario.CH said:

Well, but that internal ad banner that appears at the very bottom of a post when you visit the forum as a guest—that really gets on my nerves, too.

I run pi-hole on my home network. And I never browse the forum without logging in, so I never even knew there was an ad banner anywhere on the forum, tbh.