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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.

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

@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.

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.

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 Searching for information on Ubuntu Touch repeatedly brings up out of date references to the time when it was developed by Canonical.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

GPS works on my Nexus 5 and, as far as I know, on all others on this forum. Be aware that the first fix could well take 30 minutes, or even more in some circumstances. Later fixes will be faster though never as quick as a car satnav.

PureMaps and Unav both work, though I prefer the former, and will even give navigation directions if you want. To use either of them off-line you need to install OSM Scout Server first, then download the maps of your chosen regions. Start OSM before starting your map application.

I would be happy to comment on applications if there was an easy way to do so, however Github and Gitlab are incomprehensible labyrinths to me.

@mito77 said in Best recent phone hardware for install ?:

HI , UBPORTS work good with my old nexus 5, but the Battery life lasts half an hour,

Why buy a new phone when all you need is a new battery?

@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.

@stanwood
Thank you Stan. Your trick got round the problem.

Another consequence of the fault is that the phone would not go to sleep after the normal four minutes.

@dad_and_alive You could just buy a new battery. If I recall correctly the recommended one on this forum is made by Polar.

@matteo
Thanks Matteo. I think I now know what a daemon is.

I have wifi data usage recorded. Next time I get a mobile signal I can test if that records as well.

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.

@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.

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

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/