Thanks, I dug out a usb-c to display port cable from my stash. This connection makes it choose 2560x1440x60Hz, not bad.

Somewhat I expected the update to Noble in June, either it got delayed or I misinterpreted something.

For me the desktop works good enough so far. Indeed some native UT apps don't accept mouse scroll, but it's ok to just click and drag the scrollbar.

I haven't experienced any launcher issues. When disconnecting the monitor it takes about 1-2 min to make the phone react. Sometimes it asks if I'd prefer to reconnect or potentially loose unsaved data from apps listed on the popup. The only launcher issue I have is with waydroid apps showing up in the drawer. I would prefer this to show only one icon to start android, the android apps should be managed only by android launcher.

So overall it looks very promising. If only I could find a dock which would let me connect everything via one cable.

but sharing about overall experience, I'm really happy with FP5. It works flawlessly with my 4k monitor and docking station. I can just plug it and use from mouse/keyboard/monitor. That's just awesome. FP4 was probably working similarly with FHD but I don't have any low resolution screen anymore, so I never tested it (I just can confirm that it couldn't drive 4k resolution).

I just hope FP7 will have fully fictional USB-C again (as FP6 allows only charging, no docking capabilities!!!)

but sharing about overall experience, I'm really happy with FP5. It works flawlessly with my 4k monitor and docking station. I can just plug it and use from mouse/keyboard/monitor. That's just awesome. FP4 was probably working similarly with FHD but I don't have any low resolution screen anymore, so I never tested it (I just can confirm that it couldn't drive 4k resolution).

I just hope FP7 will have fully fictional USB-C again (as FP6 allows only charging, no docking capabilities!!!)

I've been playing with Ubuntu on the new FP5, guess what, It's better in any corner. Surprisingly now I don't have so much negative feeling about the gestures, it just works. Of course there's still the same dubious question what to do to reach the other hand of the screen with one hand... but if you're using it right-handed and already have all the apps running it's sufficient as it let you switch between them. On FP4 the gesture was somewhat hyper sensitive, was just misbehaving, for example whenever I took out the phone with one hand, then wanted to scroll through the content the task switcher was taking over instead of moving the content up or down, and that was even when I set gesture margin to absolute minimum. On FP5 I don't experience this issue, but my first feeling was "there screen is recessed in the body of the phone", there's an edge layer higher than the screen in FP5, FP4 body was perfectly aligned with the glass surface.

PS. the monitor confirms 4k 60Hz, even in YT 4k video there's no dropped fame (in stats for nerds popup)

FP5 arrived. I didn't flash Ubuntu on it yet, but just first touch of the hardware somewhat confirms the above statement about gestures. In android it's kind of gesture-unresponsive when woken up, for some time, then it seems to kick in full power and becomes blazing fast. Weird, but it really seems like some kind of power management

Awesome, I'll try the Ambot, these new gestures might make it usable with one hand, fingers crossed.

I'll most likely try to implement the floating ball anyway. It's much quicker and safer to use than swipe gestures, especially on the go with one hand. Which actions will be available to hook to the ball that's another matter. However it won't happen anytime soon, but long winter evenings are coming

Hello, I've been searching for without success for existing threads or work in this area, nor I feel like I want to start any development before I make sure this is an accepted effort.

I would really like to have a portable computer which acts as a phone and a computer when docked. I expect that in this path I'll have to port most of the utilities I'd like to have on my daily digital life. The Fairphone 4 seems like a good choice, I waited quite a long time to get all the basic features working, including 5G, but once it all got solved with ubuntu 24.x I'm at the first steps of adoption having issues with usability.

The touch gestures are very hard to use with one hand. Maybe there's something wrong with FP4 responsiveness, but anyway I can't use the phone with one hand like any other smart phone. Here comes the turning point, I'm also not content with iPhone without it's floating accessibility ball. The same (similar) ball I'm also using on Onyx boox devices. I'd like to see the navigation overhaul on ubuntu touch to provide normal one handed operation, but at a minimum I'd like to have the accessibility floating ball to assign to it any action or gesture I need to do by a simple tap.

1. I'd like to see a choice of 3/4 buttons navigation vs gestures navigation, also speaking about the gestures ubuntu lacks "back" guesture

2. I'd like to have the floating ball, where I could assign to it whatever functions I need: expand app menu drawer, minimize all, back button, show keyboard, task switch, favorite app 1,2,3... I guess some of these might not event be available in the UI mechanics, we will see, but in general it should support adding a simple tap action to whatever can be done in the UI by gesture or otherwise

I don't commit to any immediate development effort nor timelines, just seeking feedback if there's any prior work in progress and if any such effort makes sense to start spending time on

PS. I've even just bought FP5 for better external monitor resolution support, hopefully it'll also work better with the gestures (I have the feeling it's something wrong with the IPS screen responsiveness).

Nice, I wasn't sure if this thread is even watched. The lack of 5G data on FP 4 really makes it unusable for me. I'm a developer though each project takes a lot of time to get familiar with so I didn't even bother. Though if you kindgly can point me to the relevant github PR which fixed that for FP5 to port into FP4 Halium tree I could try to look at it

Yeah, hotspot doesn't work, but for me the most important thing is to have 5G data finally working, without it I can't make it my daily phone

Fairphone 4

Update went smooth, following the instructions.

Under Cellular settings 5G is still missing. Nonetheless, it seems there's no internet data at all despite status showing good signal. The browser keeps saying no internet connection. I've tested LTE coverage with other phone, just to exclude the possibility that my operator turned off LTE completely.

I've created WiFi Hotspot but connection to it fails from any device I've tried.

Thanks a ton for both tips!

I'm just curious, how did you disable OSK? Maybe mine doesn't give me the option because it doesn't detect the external keyboard

Thanks, I dug out a usb-c to display port cable from my stash. This connection makes it choose 2560x1440x60Hz, not bad.

Somewhat I expected the update to Noble in June, either it got delayed or I misinterpreted something.

For me the desktop works good enough so far. Indeed some native UT apps don't accept mouse scroll, but it's ok to just click and drag the scrollbar.

I haven't experienced any launcher issues. When disconnecting the monitor it takes about 1-2 min to make the phone react. Sometimes it asks if I'd prefer to reconnect or potentially loose unsaved data from apps listed on the popup. The only launcher issue I have is with waydroid apps showing up in the drawer. I would prefer this to show only one icon to start android, the android apps should be managed only by android launcher.

So overall it looks very promising. If only I could find a dock which would let me connect everything via one cable.