Posts made by CatWithUT

I think that was a long enogth daly driver test

@kugiigi Thanks for asking! I know the Arrow and Touch Area of the Keyboard exsits. But I would need tap, ctrl, alt, ... more or less the keyboard modifier keys

I found a "workaround" for now:

You can get "somewhat" around the sending issue. Type enough so the "Expand Text Box Arrow" is usable (or move you finger around the text box a little (up works very often), for some reason the arrow shows up then too), press it and now you can press the blue send button to the right. It is far FAR from working / good but it works for now. That also allows selecting and then "overwriting" the current text. That can be considered as a "backspace" workaround.

ALSO: Signal-Desktop uses more battery then it should. It uses a far less if you close it and reopen it and don't open any chats. IDK. why.

New Update: I tested a little and build from source with the patches for fs-extra works and media loads then. The Signal-Unoffical fork works too but Keybaord enter and backspace still dose not work.

I also updated the entry on my website on how to create the conainter. I added a other cursed install path this time making a container into a debian install (more or less).

A asked in a diiffrent topic about the terminal bar but it is part of the terminal app. Meaning: Still no solution for the Keyboard issue.

I also noticed after an reboot resets to the lower speaker. executing pacucontrol and chaning it or using a script fixes it.

@ikoz Thx for the clear answer. Oh well that’s a bummer. This topic can be closed then

When starting the Terminal you can a bar at the top of the Keyboardf with many very usefull special keys.

Is this bar part of the Keyboard or part of the Terminal?

Having these Shortcutes everywhere were you could need them (like word prediction) would be very useful.

Also: Currently no progress with the Keyboard issue. It must either have to do with something in the X11 stack it runs in (missing package?) or the Keyboard layout. The keycodes send by a real keyboard seem diffrent and signal can use them and uses enter or backspace correctly. If anyone knows how to change the Keyboard layout or what X11 thingy is missing pls tell me. I would love to see a seeme good working signal app running . I know its janky but it works so well.... Waydroid is nice (as soon as its supoorted) but it think X11 Signal-Deskop could be better with battery usage and usability.

There are issues with loading images. Currently scaning the logs and found it's the fs-extra modul in signal that is not supported on arm64. There is an "unoffical"version of signal out there but the code is not directly build from the og source. I'm looking into how to apply patches in the github pipline for the used signal "fork". It is only one if else condition that trys to write anyways and then returns instad of failing because "it probably wrote the file". Signal did indeed write the media file but dose not use it / drops the loading because of the "false" error.

Hi. I currently testing the BETA port of UT for the Fairphone 5.

On the way I tried to get Signal running. After a lot of tinkering I got it to work in Libertine.

I thought other Ubuntu Touch user might find this useful too because there is no nativ signal client.

The UI is usable after some tweaking and all feature except video-calls work flawless. Even notification when the screen is off

(BOTH IMAGE LOADING AND ENTER/DELETE HAVE WORKAROUNDS NOW! NOT VERY GOOD ONCE BUT THEY ARE THERE! SEE REPLYS OR BLOG ENTRY):
Well… nearly all. One issue is still that the On Screen keyboard can not hit enter or backspace text. A USB-Keyboard still works though. Tried to create a custom Keyboard Layout but did not succeed until yet.

If someone has an idea to get the Keyboard full working PLS let me know.

Hope someone thinks this is helpful
And be warned. The setup involves A LOT OF jank xD

CatWithCode.moe - Everything about Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 5

(If linking to external source is not welcome i can also just copy past it here. Just let me know if that’s the case )

[EVERYTHING WAS WORKING AND DISPLAYING NORMALLY! JUST REMOVED PRIVATE INFORMATION FROM THE SCREENSHOT!]

Hi. I currently testing the BETA port of UT for the Fairphone 5.

On the way I build a setup for Firefox running in Libertine.

The UI and accessibility is in my opinion really close to the android app. I thought other Ubuntu Touch user might find this useful too! It can be found on my website (because i m currently updating the information very frequently). Ask me if you need any help

(If linking to external source is not welcome i can also just copy past it here. Just let me know if that’s the case )

CatWithCode.moe - Everything about Ubuntu Touch on the Fairphone 5

The new Build and the port in general got far better! many things work now! List is updated

I have a few days where I don't need my phone 24/7, which means I'm doing more testing. I have just updated the text above.

Some things work better now but a few is still in need of work.

I will keep updating the #1 post in this thread and will update all information over on my website with a few workarounds as soon as I'm done.

I will also add a section to my website on how to configer Libertine Firefox to get a better working webbrowser for now. (Scaling, Touch, UI, ...) At the moment the progress seems good.

If I should test or log something specific, let me know.

@Keneda I already know the issue page, thx . I can wait until a dev has time to tell us,, no hurry .

I'm sure Somewhere or somehow the fixes for fp5 must are verifiabley documented. (Stuff like commit tags or something).

This is invaluable for testers to see if its time to do another round of checking or trying features. Installing, testing, reflashing to an Android state and rebuilding, even with tools, is time consuming.

Noone has a fp5 just for that testing on there desk. It is there daily drive 99% of the time. Better to make sure it is worth it.

@Keneda Is there a place were I can see the current fixes / commits? In this not much changed so that can not be what @mariogrip ment: https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android11/fairphone-5/fairphone-fp5

@mariogrip Last updated 7.10.24 (I added a time stemp to the first post so the last update can easylay be determined) what has been fixed? (So i know what to test for). [ Also: Im currently sick so might need a few days until I can test]. BTW. I will be also happely Daly driver test it on the fp5 as soon as basics (call and SMS and LTE) and waydroid works. (I will have a second phone on me just in case but it don't want to use it for 3 apps I really need all the time. Then it would not be a Daly driver test lol).

@Keneda 13. I read the installer and it sayed install 13 first.

@Keneda Oh That is how you do that. Thanks. Also: Thanks for fixing the formating and putting it to the top of the topic.

@Keneda Yes pls do that. Thx I can not find the option to change the Titel

@Keneda Oh ok. Then i do that from now on. I did not know that it sould be done like this. My bad. sorry.
Then linking externaly is probably bad to. I will just clone my list here:

A list of stuff I tested with last tested Status and the Tickets if any (Copy of: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.07_Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5/Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5.html):

✅ WORKS | 📈 WORKS, BUT STILL TESTING | ➖ NOT TESTED YET | ⭕ ISSUES | ❌ NOT WORKING

    ✅ Install
    ✅ Setup
    ✅ Working with German SIM-CARD
    ✅ WiFi (With Network enforced Pi-Hole)
    ✅ Camera (Photo, Video, with and without Flash, Switching between cameras)
    ✅ LTE
    ➖ 5G
    ➖ VoLTE
    ➖ GPS
    📈 Battery Life - Seems to be ok. Not as good as LinageOS but ok.
    ⭕ Heat - The phone is a little hot. IDK. why. Could be the dev build with more logging in the background.
    📈 Performance (Can be a little laggy sometimes, but performance-intensive stuff like streaming 1080p@60fps is working great.)
    📈 SMS
    ✅ CALL (2G? 3G?)
    ✅ FLASH
    ✅ Vibration
    ✅ Screen Brightness (With and without Auto)
    ✅ Proximity
    ✅ Rotation
    ❌ Fingerprint reader (The OS knows it dose not work)
    ⭕ USB-OTG [BUG: USB-OTG Hard Crashes Phone (2.0 WORKS! 3.0+ CABLES CRASH.)]
    ✅ USB-HUB [Keyboard, Mouse and USB-Drive work]
    ✅ USB-AUDIO - Works perfectly... surprisingly.
    ❌ USB-VIDEO [Probably related: "BUG: USB-OTG Hard Crashes Phone"]
    ❌ Waydroid [BUG: Waydroid not working]
    ⭕ NFC [BUG: NFC works but no APP / Setting I found can read anything]
    ⭕ Bluetooth [BUG: Bluetooth is working, but cannot reliably connect to or read nearby devices.]
    ✅ Libertine (Tested with Firefox)

List of stuff I tested with last tested Status and the Tickets if any (Copy of: https://catwithcode.moe/Blog/2024.10.07_Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5/Ubuntu_Touch_on_Fairphone_5.html) :

Note: I test drove the Fairphone 5 with UbuntuTouch for around 17 days. Don't worry I hand a second, fully configured phone on hand just in case (And a Android Phone was ready to swap in) ;). I relyed on some Android apps to work but the main once are covered more or less, but especially the Signal installation explained below can be skipped as soon as waydroid works.

UPDATED: 2024.11.20
SOFTWARE: r91 - 20241109-2283

WORKS | WORKS, BUT STILL TESTING | NOT TESTED YET | ISSUES | NOT WORKING

✅ Install
✅ Setup
✅ Working with German SIM-CARD
✅ WiFi (With Network enforced Pi-Hole)
📈 Camera (Photo, Video, with and without Flash, Switching between cameras. Sometimes I need to reboot for it to work.)
📈 LTE [Works but sometimes I need to reboot for it to work]
✅ Alarm and Timer
✅ Stability
➖ 5G
➖ VoLTE
❌ GPS [Never got it to work]
✅ Battery Life - Really good! X11 App's running can consume a good bit more.
✅ Heat
✅ Snap's (Using Snapz0r - Many Apps run! BUT onscreen keyboard dose not work in general for snap on UbuntuTouch! Normal USB-Keyboards do!)
✅ Tap to wake
✅ Performance (Can be a little laggy sometimes (X11 especially). Display seems to run at 60hz (not the possible 90hz), but performance-intensive stuff like streaming 1080p@60fps is working great.)
✅ SMS
✅ CALL (2G? 3G?)
✅ FLASH
✅ Vibration
📈 Screen Brightness (Auto often dose not work)
✅ Proximity
✅ Rotation
❌ Fingerprint reader (The OS knows it dose not work)
⭕ USB-OTG [BUG: USB-OTG Hard Crashes Phone (2.0 WORKS! 3.0+ CABLES CRASH.)]
⭕ Keyboard [BUG: IT WORKS THE FIRST TIME. AFTER RECONECTING A MOUSE THE COURSER IS NO LONGER USABLE. Probably related too; USB-OTG Hard Crashes Phone (2.0 WORKS! 3.0+ CABLES CRASH.)]
⭕ Mouse [BUG: IT WORKS THE FIRST TIME. AFTER RECONECTING A MOUSE THE COURSER IS NO LONGER USABLE. Probably related too; USB-OTG Hard Crashes Phone (2.0 WORKS! 3.0+ CABLES CRASH.)]
⭕ USB-HUB (3.0 and lower) [Keyboard, Mouse and USB-Drive work]
✅ USB-AUDIO - Works perfectly... surprisingly.
⭕ USB-VIDEO [BUG: Black Screen, Then Soft-Reboot and a broken Dekstop is half visible on a 1080p display. Tested with a SteamDeck Dock. Other Docks don't work. Eventually hard crash. Probably related too; USB-OTG Hard Crashes Phone (2.0 WORKS! 3.0+ CABLES CRASH.)]
❌ Waydroid - [BUG: ERROR: Binder node "binder" for waydroid not found]
❌ NFC [Never really worked]
📈 Bluetooth [Works better now BUT still see's a lot of "unkown devices". Can connect with BT-Audio to some devices.]
✅ Libertine (Tested with Firefox and Signal-Desktop [AUDIO/MIC WORKS IF YOU INSTALL "pavucontrol".])

First: Whoever downvotes every topic: I were told to report bugs here. Stop being annoying.

Second: In the linked blog entry in my profil here I have made a very extensive list of things that have been tested (to not spam this area with usless topics like "works lol").