@WillemHexspoor said:

I'm referring to 24.04-1.x

oh, right. I must learn to read. And not reply early on a Sunday morning

@WillemHexspoor 24.04-2.x had not been released. It is still in heavy development. You shouldn't have been getting the prompt to install this developer's version if you are on stable.

Unless you are willing to help test and live on the bleeding edge, In would gonbacknto 24.04-1.2 stable by running your device through the installer and making sure the Wipe Data checkbox is unticked.

@kugiigi Oh, I see. Yes, they had corrected that by the time I looked.

@gpatel-fr Aha, so for audio codecs it is a question of the right flags and necessary libraries. I will amend my answer then.

@kugiigi said in New Volla Plinius and Plinius Plus with Ubuntu Touch:

Still no wired display out
They mentioned UT's convergence though which is weird.

The Plus has pogo pins at the back, so maybe that way? But yes, the way it is described you'd think it's plug and go.

Also, bad job of reviewing the page, they said RAM instead of possible ROM which is also an outdated term and they did it twice

You mean when they describe how much memory the devices come with? Then yes, RAM is the correct term.

Anyway, it's nice that Volla still keeps on supporting UT. I haven't been interested with any Volla device except maybe the tablet but I really appreciate their support

They are a bit outside my budget for phones, but it is great to see them continuing to support UT, I agree 100%.

@Charly said in Any chance to use FmM radio on Xperia X with UT24.04:

The radio doesn't work because we don't have an app for it.

That is only the last part of the whole. There aren't many NFC apps either, but even without them the porter can have enabled the NFC hardware to work on their port. The same is the case for the FM radio. Enabling the hardware comes first. Having an app that can make use of it comes second. What is missing on these devices is the former.

@Lakotaubp Then I guess the OP can abandon hope.

@Charly said in Any chance to use FmM radio on Xperia X with UT24.04:

my Volla X23 has a FM radio implemented.

It does? Is the devices page not up to date then? Because there it is marked as not working. Same for the Xperia X.

@kugiigi You might be right. I must have been thinking of the BQ M10 (F)HD line.

@DJac To get the FM radio to work a port maintainer would need to look into it.
It having received 24.04 does not automatically mean that new hardware enablement would automagically happen. Hardware enablement is what port maintainers do.

@MrT10001 No, it was officially supported by Canonical. Even came with UT pre installed.

But I would be surprised if those images are still floating around anywhere.

I had to go through similar steps to flash my Meizu Pro 5. But at that time the Canonical images were still available.

All of this said though, that generation of devices never made it past Xenial. So @tacetion, I am afraid even if you did get to flash UT on your device, it would be just as much of a dead end now as Lollipop is.

@kristatos said in No support for bq Aquaris E5 FHD:

under system-image.ubports.com there are some images for this device.

But that is the UBports version of UT. If I remember correctly you need to flash the Canonical version before flashing the UBports version of UT.

@PhAndersson said in Trying to revive 'ubtd' (Bluetooth file transfer):

it says the official Android or iOS app is required to do this, which I don't have access to

I have heard Telegram works on Waydroid, fwiw.

@atarilinux said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:

1. Lock Screen Widgets

I play a lot of music on my phone, but everytime I need to change something, I have to unlock the screen. Having a quick way to play/pause, change tracks, etc. would be nice. Other widgets could be weather, etc.

For the play / pause at least, if you pull down from the indicator panel on the lock screen, under the volume indicator you get media controls.

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3. Hardware Docking stations

Not sure about other phones, but I can't use a hardware dock with mine to turn it into a computer.

Support for hardware docking is dependent on exactly that, the hardware of the device.

4. Sharing Libraries between Waydroid and Ubuntu Touch

Often times, I need to send a picture or download a picture in one OS and do something with the picture in another OS. Having an easy to find "Shared" folder between OS's and having folders that aren't shared could help with this scenario. I'm fine with transferring by USB if I need to. I can understand if this is not recommended for any security issues.

Have you noticed the app waydroid files in the Open Store? I don't have any use for it myself, but it seems to do exactly what you need, based on the description.

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7. Music File Formats

The music player can't read ALAC. Some people transferring these file formats would need to look at other formats to play the music.

What formats can or cannot be played on the device is also dependent on the codecs the device comes with.

EDIT (2026-02-26): As @gpatel-fr correctly pointed out, this is not the case for audio codecs. And strictly speaking it is not the case for video codecs either. But it is just that for unsupported video codecs you could get apps to render the videos, but that would not be hardware accelerated, and the playback would probably be choppy, or use a lot of CPU.

@oldbutndy said in Ubuntu touch as PC?:

I did find & install snap for Thunderbird a couple days ago. Installs, but not open (actually, a 'fuzzy box with a text bar at top appears, but nothing in fuzzy box). Then tried series of questions on Google AI 'reasoning model' via browser. It had a series of troubleshooting commands to type in to terminal. I did not follow through yet due to sharing the same display between UT phone and main PC doing the AI thread. Summary was AI estimate of required spending approximately 10 hours on configuration, IF using UT on a phone that had WIRED external monitor, USB Keyboard, mouse, etc. AI thought MANY more hours required if using a wireless external display.
I gave up on Thunderbird at that point.

Please don't ask any AI how to get software to work on UT. Their training data does not contain the required info, and the correct steps cannot be extrapolated from whatever they were trained on, since sometimes the correct steps are either unknown, unfeasible for an end user, or simply don't exist yet.

Regarding the snaps from Mozilla (Firefox and Thunderbird, both) they are known not to work on UT as they are trying to use Wayland. They could be forced to use XWayland, but by then one might as well just install the click or the deb.

@mango Thank you for your insights. Are you able to help implement the changes you are mentioning?

@pparent Probably due to all the mandatory vibe coding going on everywhere these days in companies forcing their devs to dogfood the inhouse AI.

@Lumpology the N10 5G has volte support. Since the N100 is the same port, I would have expected that to have support as well.

@mario.ch, have you tried it recently with 24.04.1/stable?

@libremax said in Where does Ubuntu Touch come from? And why clarify it?:

With the current communication about Ubuntu Touch (which doesn't make explicit the extent of the resources involved in building it), the newcomer may believe that it's something cooked up by a dozen or so guys and therefore has no chance of getting anywhere near the competitors.

The reason I use the word 'unhelpful' is because mentioning all the upstream components and the development that goes into those, does not affect in the least the viability of this project in particular. All these upstream components will continue to be produced with or without UT, because they are not produced specifically for UT. They are widely used in other Linux distro's.

UT is based on Ubuntu, so it is heavily dependent on software libraries that are packaged by Canonical and the Ubuntu Community. Yet Canonical no longer develops UT. So all the bits that make UT its own thing are now maintained, developed and updated by the UBports community.

Let us compare the situation to brand X car factory. They are dependent on suppliers and manufacturers for many of the parts for their car, so they source those from well established suppliers that are also used by every other car manufacturing company. There will be some custom parts that are produced by the brand X car factory themselves. If brand X is a small player in the automotive industry, then their supply chain is of course very important, but not the weakest link in the process of producing their cars.

To boost their appeal to investors they could mention all the effort that goes into the components in their supply chain, as if all these efforts were expended directly to produce brand X. While this would give a more complete picture of the whole manufacturing process, it would also be misleading, in a sense, because all the upstream components would be manufactured anyway, and the effort expended there would in no way make brand X more viable and future proof.

Their own smaller production and assembly capacity would be what investors would need to factor in and keep an eye on, and that is where brand x company would need to improve to be perceived as more viable.

@libremax while what you say is true, it is also unhelpful, in that it makes it seem like there are many more developers involved in maintaining it than there actually are, raising the spectre of unreasonable expectations.

The parts of UT that make so eminently suited for mobile devices (and this includes Lomiri itself) are in fact for the most part maintained and developed by a handful of devs, including those contributing in their spare time.

The other parts you talk about are common to all Linux distro's. And while UT would not exist without them, they are not what makes UT what it is.