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 Searching for information on Ubuntu Touch repeatedly brings up out of date references to the time when it was developed by Canonical.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.

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.

Don't feel bad about it. It took me a long time to find the alarm function as well.

@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.

While I think I have discovered most of the common functions of a Nexus 5 with Ubuntu Touch OTA13 I still struggle with navigating the Morph browser. In particular I have not found a way to return to the previous page or to switch tabs. I welcome any help to solve these problems.
[1] How to go back one page at a time? The < icon is dim and does not work.
[2] How to change tabs? I see a number at the bottom of the screen which I assume indicates the number of open tabs, but tapping, pressing or swiping only opens a select/copy/share/zoom menu.

@CiberSheep As I mentioned, I did not install or set up the OS so I would not have seen any tutorial, hence my question. I think it would be better to start a separate topic to avoid deflecting this one.

UTmedia works for me on Nexus 5, OTA13.

@CiberSheep said in Why no global BACK button/swipe motion?:

@Moem It should trigger just after the welcome wizard (on the first install)

I have never seen it (because I did not install the OS,) nor can I find it with a DDG search. Can you point me to it please?

I don't recall any problem using < to back in most of the apps I use, with the single exception of Morph browser, on my Nexus 5.

See thus current discussion regarding what Touch is and is not capable of.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4997/runnig-a-webserver-no-chance/21

I can replicate this behaviour if I use Utweak to change the usage mode from Staged to Windowed, though the window can be stretched to full screen if I choose. Could you have done the same?

While using Puremaps I turned on Unav for a different map, which caused Puremaps to lose its GPS location, even though Sensor Status showed GPS to be working. In fact neither map could find current location while both were active. Is this apparent conflict normal behaviour?

@AppLee
When I added my comment to the issues list there was a request from Eran seeking a new maintainer.
https://gitlab.com/ubports/apps/camera-app/-/issues/160