Happy new year to all and long live ubports !!

@rocket2nfinity oh man i'd love this to happen but it most probably won't. Even getting a swype keyboard to run on an open source version of android (lineageos and so on) is close to impossible since Swype has been discontinued and using gboard implies copying proprietary libraries from gapps which generally results in an unstable mess if anything... So to think it could be "ported" seems unrealistic. There might be a need for an open source new swype keyboard but I don't see this happening in the near future.

It seems from another thread that a messaging app available on the open store actually does nothing, fully broken. I had the same experience recently with Htop clickable - 0 ko app, yet installs, yet does nothing. Maybe here we could start listing these ?

Yeah obviously the FP2 has a lot of problems of its own, that are definitely not specific to UT, and be not mistaken, I had a great experience with this OS and am not reverting to Android; it's just that pooky asked about the FP2, and here is its current state of porting ^^

@prog-amateur for m3u just install vlc in a libertine container and ur good to go. for security issues, there's an open topic about that which covers how apps are surveyed

@aclifton314 very interested by the third question since everytime I tried I ended up reinstalling the whole system

@Opolork that's exactly it. First enable developer mode in ut tweak tool. Then plug in the cable and run "adb shell" in a terminal. You'll then be running a shell in the device, from where you can freely browse (might require sudo for some folders) that's it. To copy / paste files from device to computer, use adb push or pull - depends.

@arubislander or through adb shell, which is easier

@jezek hey there ! I own a fp2 and it definitely played videos of any kind when it ran ubports (16.04 ota11 stable. It must be a hardware problem or, indeed, an installation issue. Try using wipe option. It could also be a new bug. Presently I can't tell since because I can't use the flashlight of the new camera module (known issue), it runs android (until I find myself an old 6 MP module ^^). I'll let you know

@Emphrath I cleaned the contacts with alcohol and everything works again. Topic closed.

@Fla OK yeah it's sth else

@Fla Concerning the camera rotation, it's a problem that was encountered by the first batch of Fairphone OpenOS (android) - and as far as I know people had to turn to the Opencamera app to "reverse" the problem. Actually I don't think it's been fixed. To me it seems that AOSP drivers for the camera can't to the job. On another hand, the flash worked and camera app was way faster so here you go: that patch gets you the good and bad stuff you have with Fairphone OpenOS; maybe check open camera app and see what makes it work

@aclifton314 very interested by the third question since everytime I tried I ended up reinstalling the whole system

Awesome !

Hello there ! I come here after my third try installing anbox on my FP2. In the past I did this without any problem, and now, after patching kernel, remounting system rw, binding the archives to userspace, downloading the tool, I have this; "FP2 is not (yet) supported by anbox". What happened ? Is it not, really ? I'm on stable, thx.

@AppLee alright !! thank you

hello everyone ! I meant to answer an old thread here but was proposed to create a new one. I wondered if gps actually works in UT, and if so, to what extent. It doesn't on my FP2. I understand it's a known, unsolved issue, that used to have a fix consisting in a change of provider (from wolfclue to sth else). if I run "$ ps aux | grep [l]ocation-service | grep provider" it appears I have no provider at all (hence cannot use that fix), but test_gps does find my coordinates. Now my question is: is it linked to ut being in a constant gps "cold state" (having to permanently fetch all satellites position to get first position) in which case will I get any position at all if I do wait 15 mn ? Or is it FP2 specific and other devices handle Gps without too much hassle ? If so, I would like to understand how gps works in ut. many thanks !

@peat_psuwit Thanks for the explanations ! Good luck !

@ziggutas I reckon that's because the patch is installed through apt - as long as it won't be added to the system image, every system update might roll back the changes...

@peat_psuwit but it's still needed to compile halium manually, right ? This is not going in the next OTA I mean ?