@UBportsNews what is the state of eSIM support on Ubuntu Touch?

@microul im 7mn before an exam so tldr: halium.

I just finished making OpenKav which will be the backbone of an app I'm planning for Israel public transport. and it got me wondering how many Ubuntu Touch users exist in Israel who are also on the official forum, I have seen some mentions in Hebrew forums about Ubuntu Touch so I'm curious.

@lduboeuf the hacky way wpuld be to set it to full then back to original when finished

@lduboeuf no this was consistant through the entire Israel/Iran war, and now.

@sixwheeledbeast yes i meant this when i said standard tone, thank you!

@lduboeuf it should be the standard alert presidential/amber alert sound in my opinion

@kugiigi okay to summarize this is the AOSP link to the alerts: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/CellBroadcastReceiver/+/refs/heads/main/res/raw

you can turn off alerts in android with no notice so we don't need to necessarily implement that.

a feature in android which we should also implement is opt-in: "Always alert at full volume" which if turned on will override Silent Mode and still do the alarm.

I did find a video of the alarm is question: https://youtu.be/sxF2c_nhiGM?si=nXzZYHBnhjPoy-MQ

EDIT:
I think this is the AOSP files for it: https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/CellBroadcastReceiver/+/refs/heads/main/res/raw

@kugiigi it is, altough there is a specific alarm sound on both ios and android ill try to look for it and see what the license is, we should preferably use this alarm sound because people will know exactly whats up its very distinct.

EDIT: i haven't actually optted out myself when i still used android but i know it is possible, ill get back to you on if there some sort of standard don't sue us agreement you agree to first because thats sensible to have for once.

im from israel so im intimately familiar with Cell Broadcasts (CB), the problem is that in UT it makes the phone vibrate but gives no alarm so its not useful at night when I'm asleep its not the end of the world but its very annoying waking up to the city wide alarm and having only 5-10m to dress myself and head to the bunker instead if the full 45m for example (the time here is valid for Iran, if it was hamas considering where i live the city wide alarm gives 45s and the CB gives 5-8m). I think adding an opt-out alarm is the best course of action the reason for opt-out is that people expect it and having it off by default may cause them to miss it (very easy when asleep but also music, or being away in another room) and maintaining consistancy with android and ios in this one case is a good idea in my opinion because people will expect it but i'd like other thoughts on the matter.

@MrT10001 yes, but trust me qemu static emulation or box64 can go a long way, not to mention you can just compile it on aarch64. if you use NixManager you can probably get all the compilation dependencies and compile natively on device.

@AdFundum no problem!

the process is basically 3 steps:

1. verify image/PATH
2. copy to lss wallpaper directory (so user can see the background in lss), this is optional if you don't care about the user being able to reset the background from lss its not necessary but still useful as a place the user wont casually delete unless they want the wallpaper gone.
3. send the correct dbus calls to set URI (from new PATH of step 2) then call update on two services via dbus calls.

EDIT: i think, or its close to that its been a month since i touched the background code in wallpaper.cpp

@AdFundum here is the code, it doesn't work yet for what i want it to do but the change background part works:
https://pastebin.com/EHuAkQvb

EDIT:
ignore the comment // for some reason lss goes stale and we don't see the new background. its an lss bug, the background will be set but if you have lss open on the background page while you set it it will not update you'll need to refresh the page (by going out and in again)

@AdFundum thats essentially what i did, ill upload my implemention once i get home to my laptop in roughly 3h.

@Schmox enter fastboot and reinstall with installer, don't install anything with apt tldr it will break the system.

oneplus devices are Qualcomm based, so if fastboot doesn't work you'd need to make it enter EOL mode and use the creatively named " DownloadTool" to flash stock firmware directly to emmc storage.

triple check you cant use fastboot before trying the EOL route, its hard and if done incorrectly can wipe IMEI which in most cases means you wont have mobile service on that phone ever again.

@Privacy-freedom not that i know of but i have been doing a lot of things on my daily driver including installing/compiling stuff (natively) so its possible i changed some setting somewhere a year ago that fixed it for me, altough its possible the problem is your install.

@AdFundum i dont know about confined use but i know how to do it, its not a single command and has a couple of steps. look at lss background module its basically the how to for it.

@Privacy-freedom i checked aside from ipv6 which i stop having, it works perfectly.

@nogoogle the wireguard app in UT openstore, then go to proton vpn and download a wireguard profile and import the resulting .conf file in the app it should work.