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.

@potet
Thank you. I realise all that but I could not get it to work. Eventually I found the problem to be that I was swiping up from the bottom edge of the visible display, when what I needed to do was swipe up from the bottom of the glass which is over half an inch further down.
All's well that ends well.

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?

I daresay my opinion will be unpopular, but I have to say that I really don't understand the preoccupation on this forum with icon design. As long as icons are distinctive, legible and functional, nothing else matters to me. I certainly don't care whether they conform to a theme or any other design precept.

@CiberSheep said in New Comer Guide to UTouch:

Some blogs might be well readings

Thank you for those links which provide a lot of useful information. It's unfortunate that they seem to be buried somewhere in the blog pages, and even though I now know they are there I still can not find them if I start from the home page of the website. Perhaps the solution to the problem newcomers like me face in finding information is a redesign of the menu structure of the website.

I believe it is time to consider a change that removes Ubuntu from the name. Searching for information on Ubuntu Touch repeatedly brings up out of date references to the time when it was developed by Canonical. If Ubuntu Touch has aspirations to independence it should have its own name.

@CiberSheep I have added to the existing report rather than start another.

I have been using Puremaps extensively this past week, principally off road and always offline, and I have to say it is a pleasure to use, so congratulations to the developer. The only thing I would like to add to it is a way to temporarily record a plot of the route taken in the manner of Activity Tracker but superimposed on the visible map.

Thank you both for the extra information. Without universal application (i.e. no requirement for membership of a group, or use of a particular application,) I am clearly barking up the wrong tree. I shall investigate boosting my mobile signal at home.

This list would be a good start:

https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

My problem has been resolved in both Puremaps and Unav. It only needed location detection to be enabled again. That's something to watch for at the next OTA update.

That's odd. Mine was also set to prevent location detection. I never altered that setting so I assume it must have happened during the upgrade to OTA-14. I shall report back after more testing.

@AppLee
I tried restarting the phone indoors and could not get a fix with Puremaps, but that isn't a reliable indication.

Unav is a good idea. I'll test it now indoors, but a real comparison will not be until tomorrow when I can test it outside.

I have been unable to get a GPS fix with Puremaps on my Nexus 5 today in a location (open countryside for an hour,) where there is normally no problem in doing so. The only change I can think of since the previous successful use of Puremaps at that location was the change from OTA-13 to OTA-14. Could there be any other factor at work?

@AppLee said in Is it possible to copy and paste text from an SMS on my FP2 to a text file on my PC?:

Yes yo can.
You have to slide the message to the left and tap on the first icon.

The text is now copied in the clipboard.
Now yo have several options.

Thank you for this revelation. It's a feature I was not aware of and will be useful to me.

@dobey Thanks, that explains the difficulty. I only use stable channel hence I did not know the other channels had a different system. Nor did I know what OTA stood for.

There was discussion on Q&A 88 that implied that OTA numbering was problematic. Why is the current simple numerical progression thought to be difficult?

@CiberSheep I have added to the existing report rather than start another.

@kugiigi
I assume odo is referring to radio over wifi rather than true radio broadcasts. The Open Radio application works well on my Nexus 5, though Flas no longer does since OTA 14 arrived.