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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

Sorry to see you leave Dalton, but I am not surprised by your decision. The strain was evident on the last two Q&As.

Don't concern yourself about departing: your health is more important than a mere phone system no matter how much like wizardry it appears to me.

I am glad to see the Data Monitor is working again. Thanks to Matteo Bellei.

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 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.

Altruism is a fine concept but it is unrealistic to expect everything to be provided at no cost to oneself if it costs the developers money to provide it for you. I expect most of us would also like a free car and a free holiday every year, but only a fool would expect it to happen. The idea that Ubuntu Touch should be free of cost because of poverty in some parts of the world is a fine principle, but the reality is that UT is most widely used in the wealthy nations, the ones who can best afford to support it. I note that several contributors to this forum advertise that they have more than one phone, others show they own new phones costing hundreds of dollars/pounds/euros, others seem to treat phones as expendible. To my mind they are the people who can afford to pay a regular significant contribution to UB Ports.

The fact remains that UB Ports has been unable to keep up with developments since its inception four years ago because it does not have the resources to do so. That situation will not change unless more developers, or the money to pay for them, are taken on.

@hekathegreat I turn them all on. I hate advertisements passionately.