I congratulate everybody associated with the development and support of UB Touch. I hope this message gets to all involved.

I never dared to have a smart phone until recently because of privacy concerns. My Nokia flip phone must be a dozen years old by now and is showing its age, so I was intrigued to discover UB Ports in April. The idea of a Linux phone seemed too good to be true, but having bought a Nexus 5 last week I am very pleased with it so far. I'll be making a donation to UBP as soon as I have bought and tested a SIM card.

At the risk of appearing foolish can anybody tell me how to answer an incoming call on my Nexus 5 with UT? The phone rings and the display shows a green and a red phone icon together with the caller identification. I have single tapped, double tapped, pressed, and swiped the green icon to no avail. Am I doing something wrong or could there be a fault? I have added a dozen or more applications and four ring tones if that is relevant. Making a call is no problem; receiving a call is.

BigB.

I wonder if you aren't making this too complex. Wouldn't a single contact phone number be all that most people need?

Many thanks.

@AppLee said in Puremaps offline and OSM Scout server:

IMO, that something that should be worked on instead of trying to hack around, so if someone can propose something I bet PR will be welcome.

Porting apps to UT is not trivial and requires some compromises if the app was not intended for UT in the first place.
The best experience UT can offer is with native apps.

BTW switching apps is not safe while driving, but neither is looking for a destination. You should stop to start a new route.

So how and where do I go about proposing something new? Fully functional offline Puremaps with GPS tracking would be a great improvement. I admit here and now that I don't have the faintest idea of the difficulties involved, and I am getting the impression it may not even be possible.

Ideally I would like to see an Ordnance Survey map application as they are the only maps to show the sort of features I want, but I recognise they would only appeal to those of us in Britain, so there may not be enough demand to make development worthwhile. (For information: OS maps show features such as footpaths, contour lines, field boundaries, archaeological sites and so on, that are of interest to walkers, while roads are merely incidental to the important data.) https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/

I discovered today that you can suspend app suspension of Activity Tracker and OSM, amongst others, using UT Tweaks Tool. I have not tested their use yet.

@cliffcoggin said in Wake Nexus 5:

Yes I had noticed that. I am looking for something that does not require a ten mile long extension cable for the charger.

In hindsight yes the centre button is now clearly a button, but it was not so at first, hence my intuition led me to swipe, tap, push, and batter the green icon, not to mention the verbal abuse I hurled at it. I must be one of the few people in the civilised world, or even the uncivilised, to have never used a smart phone until two weeks ago. Nevertheless I have no regrets about getting it. It does all I want.

@AppLee said in Home setting in PureMaps:

@cliffcoggin

Edit: Oh and by the way, if you don't have any following question, can I ask you to edit your thread to mark it solved.
It may help other find the solution easily.
In the Topic Tools menu, choose "ask a question" and then in the same menu you'll have the option to mark it as solved.
Done. What an odd menu arrangement.

Brilliant. That did the trick thank you. Editing "unnamed point" to "home" was not so easy, but I got there.

@aclifton314 said in Signal app experience on UT:
Thanks for the tips. I'll be messing around with it!

I am interested in Axolotl so I would like to hear anybody's experience of setting up and using the application, bearing mind that I have zero experience of Signal or any other messaging application, or even a smartphone in fact.

@AppLee said in Launcher Modular:

@3T_Ed @cliffcoggin
Just to give an opposite point of view.
What you like (or me) is not necessarily what the majority likes.

But of course. I was only commenting, not complaining. There are far more important matters to resolve before worrying about this sort of trivia.

@3T_Ed said in Launcher Modular:

Installed Circle Message app and that works as well. Now all I need is the Circle to display the message(s) by default, the ones I entered in the Circle Message app and that would make the ICE workaround acceptable.

Agreed. I find the "you have taken three pictures today" type messages rather pointless, and they sometimes take priority over ones own message. I would like to get rid of them.

@3T_Ed said in Launcher Modular:

When booting my Oneplus 3T

1. screen with fastboot/recovery options appears, then after < 5 sec ->
2. Ubuntu boot screen (Ubuntu with horizontal dots underneath) loading ->
3. showing blank scope with drawer on right side ->
4. opens Launcher Modular

There's no Ubuntu Circle with dots around it. Can't seem to get it in any way. The Circle app from the store does not function either.

Does LM eliminate/overwrite the UT Circle lockscreen? If not, how to restore the UT lockscreen Circle without having to remove LM?

On my Nexus 5 I have to enable "Stats on welcome screen" in the "Security & Privacy" section to get the dotted circle.

@3T_Ed said in [Request] Privileged ICE contacts available on lockscreen + medical information:

Yes if you're conscious - no need for an app there - Chances are that you're not and need help from bystanders.

But if you are unconscious one would hope the bystanders would concentrate on saving your life rather than fiddling with your phone.

BigB.

I wonder if you aren't making this too complex. Wouldn't a single contact phone number be all that most people need?

I too would use the Circle Message app if there was a way to disable the pointless messages of the "you made two phone calls today" type.

Many thanks.

I see application updates appearing every couple of days as I have Auto download enabled on WiFi. Will system updates appear the same way, or is there a separate mechanism for them? (I have only had Ubuntu Touch a few weeks.)

A second experiment to day showed the power consumption to be much less if I do not use Activity Tracker.

With Puremaps in offline mode and OSM Scout prevented from suspension the battery lost 21% over 105 minutes. That equates to 0.2% per minute which, while not good, makes it viable for short journeys.

I looked further at the Gitlab site and could make no sense of it as there are too many terms and concepts I don't understand, so I shall not pursue the idea of a new suggestion there.