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.

The only smart phone I have ever owned or used was my Nexus 5 which came with UT already installed on it a few years ago. Despite its limitations I have generally been satisfied with it. However I recently wanted a specific application that is only available on Android so I reluctantly bought a secondhand Galaxy A3.

What a mistake that was. The world and his uncle wanted permissions to access the phone, while both Google and Samsung insisted on installing all sorts of objectionable rubbish that I did not want and could not remove. Furthemore it was endlessly notifying me of more rubbish to be installed or updated.

After 6 days I could stand it no more, so I wiped the damn thing and got rid of it. Having returned to UT on Nexus 5 peace and harmony has been restored. Never again will Google be allowed to intrude.

@nero355 I have tried to make allowance for English not being your primary language, (despite the extraordinary ability of the Dutch to speak better English than many natives here,) but surely you realise by now that many on this forum resent your attempts to impose your opinions and views on everyone. No amount of silly cartoon faces can soften the criticisms you regularly make.

In a free society and a free forum we all have our own opinions, and to jeer at those that do match yours is insufferable. Please either learn some tact or keep quiet, preferably the latter.

I noticed the same thing thing after the update. Click on the Notebook tab, then on the Notes tab, and your notes will re-appear. You have to do this every time you start the application.

@ahmed_samy The best solution to your requirements is an Android phone.

I just noticed a new application for printing from UT in the Open Store called Simple Printing. I am pleased to say it discovered my wireless printer and printed a colour PDF with no fuss at all. Well done and thank you toThomas Büning.

Problem solved. There is an unlabelled blue P on the donate page that leads to Paypal.

An update today has restored the functionality of the menu. Quick work by those concerned.

@picrard That's fair enough. If the phone does not do what is required of it there is no point in continuing with it. With luck UT will match your needs in the future.

@pipdickens I can't comment on the proposed scheme as I know nothing about how such things work, but in my experience anything that sounds too good to be true invariably is too good to be true.

@caspartunnel Look in System Settings, Updates.

I understand and symapathise with both sides of the argument: technical folk are unable to explain things in non-technical terms, while non-technical folk are unable to understand the language of technical folk. It is almost a matter of two different languages in need of translators. As a decided non-geek I could not find a sensible explanation of what Libertines, containers, Anbox, API etc actually are so I gave up looking. As long as my phone can make calls, read the internet, remind me of appointments, show a map, and store a shopping list I simply ignore every other aspect of its capabilities.

Nexus 5

@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.

Todays OSM Scout Server update no longer needs it to be unsuspended with UTTT, nor does it need to be manually started. A great improvement to my mind that simplifies its use.

As a bonus in my tests Puemaps found my location a great deal quicker than it ever did, even indoors, though whether that was due to other factors I do not know.

@unisuperbox I sympathise with your dilemma of having insufficient resources, both personnel and financial, to do the work required. Given that you are not getting the help you need, perhaps it is time to restrict the goals you have set yourselves to a more limited range which are achievable. If that means saying no to some requests, so be it. There is no shame in being realistic about what can be done, and to my mind would be a more honest response than adding yet another task to an ever growing list of things to be considered at some indeterminate time in the future.

This has been a timely reminder to me that I have not donated anything since last year. That has now been rectified.

Fair enough, but why list Devices under Porting rather than Support?

@bocephus said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 117 This Saturday At 19:00 UTC (yes, that is right).:

@cliffcoggin Then you are using the wrong OS.

On the contrary. It only becomes the wrong OS if I have I have to make more than three clicks to achieve anything. To my way of thinking the phone is a tool with a job to do. If it can not do that job without constant tinkering by me then it is a poor tool and needs to be replaced. I don't know anything about host files, and more importantly I don't want to know.