Built 1974. Gamer. Programmer. Nerd. Want to see my Commodore 64?
Hi Folks,
I will try to take you on a journey into Portingland, of which I once said it´s like a rabbit hole, making a bad quote from Alice in Wonderland.
On this endeavour I will be accompanied by other people from the community. It will be fun, full of Information and nobody knows where we are going to land.
We will start next week. Possible formats are blog style, small videos and podcasts. Let´s see! Your Feedback will be welcomed.
BR Florian
I am against any move until we see a negative impact for us. We got over 300 repos hosted on Github now, and Infrastructure is already now under pressure with keeping up with open work items. Moving now, not even when the deal is dry, without seeing any policy changes is overreacted IMHO. We want to finish OTA-4, and when we start moving to Gitlab now you can forget any release at end of June, or even longer.
After OTA-4 we can review this again. But I strictly disagree on any fast reaction now.
This is an upgrade port for the Nexus 5 core device. The current port uses classic porting on Android 5.1 with lots of band aids and mixture of blobs etc. The new port is on Halium 7.1 level.
Sources
Kernel: https://github.com/ubports/android_kernel_lge_hammerhead/tree/halium-7.1
Device: https://github.com/ubports/android_device_lge_hammerhead/tree/halium-7.1
Manifest: https://github.com/ubports/device-builds/blob/halium/lge_hammerhead.xml
Status
Working:
Missing:
Warning
This port is not yet ready for public testing. Therefore no images are provided at the time being. Depending on progress this may change sooner or later.
Install:
t.b.d.
Just 2 cents from a Windows user:
The Windows desktop was made in resemblance to a real desk and the things you find there: Files, Folders and even a trashbin (technically not ON the desktop ofc). Its a matter of personal preference HOW you organize your desktop:
My current desktop at work has 32 items: A mixture of starter icons, documents and whatever. Windows got adopted also for the "chaotic" way how you can work with it. It tries to give you maximum freedom on that:
Does anybody understand what´s going on here? No. Does the owner of this desktop understand it? Yes, and he might be most productive with it.
During work, I almost never have to go to the desktop, however. I use it rarely. Also a matter of personal preference.
Can´t we just offer: Appdrawer AND background to organize stuff? You could pin starters and documents to the background (Problem: convergence and how to deal with the layout?)
A good DE gives all users a possible way to develop their own habits and preferences. Not try to force them into a single use pattern.
BR
Thanks @UniSuperBox you have grown into an important role for the users, the foundation guys, for all of us. You are keeping an eye on things that others tend to overlook (esp. in Infra ^^), you are the best host we can have for the Q&As, and you do all this from out of another timezone, which for me would be th hardest part.
Thanks @NeoTheThird for the big product increment in the installer this year. From a quickly assembled thingie with lots of complicated stuff this has grown into a usable product which all other communities do not have, not with the features and also not with the slickness.
Thanks @mariogrip for hacking into the weirdest C++ hell in Unity 8 and Mir, I think no one else would be brave enough to do this, and then in the same time have "just little chats" with @alan_g as they sound like you would talk about gardening or the weather. With you digging all those mud piles we have the biggest possible product increment for the UX and UI that a small team like us could have. Not to say you are driving also the !Android phones (Not-Android lol) stuff, down to Rpi...
Thanks @dobey for being kinda 24/7 community manager, even if you sound like a club bouncer sometimes 
Your input is most valuable for us, for the users and for all new devs. It is impossible to drive this project without a few insiders, and you are currently the most active of them. I hope we can give back some day for what you have invested in time, answering our dumbest questions and rectifiying our bogus ideas about architecture.
Thanks @DanChapman for bootstrapping TELEports in such a nice way that we could build the probably most complex native App for UT out there in a few man months - besides your own Dekko 2 of course! And although I know, you probably wont read this anymore, I wanna say thank you. You have departed the project this year, for reasons we dont know and we would have hoped for a long time that it is not forever. While this hope is fading we all would be grateful to hearing from you again in the future.
Thanks @Krille @TimSueberkrueb @hummlbach jonny and all the others from the German group! You are self-organizing hackathons, you try to invest time and motivation into whatever product needs love most at a time. While we know that Germany has a big UT userbase, it is not common expectation and you do an outstanding job.
And finally: Thanks to all users! We would be nothing without you. Patiently waiting until things are fixed, and some bugs take years to proceed. Constantly trying to motivate us to go over the limit, to keep UT alive and useful. Giving us a reason of existence for this project. I remember when we started with way below 100 people in the first Telegram group, and how it filled up to 200 only days after Canonical sunk the ship. And when we got so much excited to see that there are enough people there that wont let it sink too much
2019 was a terrific year for UT. But I am really excited about what will come in 2020. Next year we will write history.
@PINE64 I am starting to get nervous, with so many devices being online, if even half of them would only go for Ubuntu Touch, we need to ramp up our infrastructure for push notifications soon ^^
@PINE64 A transparent one would be cool - It´s a project where you should see whats inside, so also give transparency to the hardware hehe...
I am just saying that there will be no naming discussion in the near future. There are no plans to change the name, as our marketing guys decided.
BR Florian
@guru No need anymore! I got high-level contact to BQ today ... Actually the highest possible level We will send them our ideas and questions. Lets hope smth happens then
BR
Dear All,
We are aware of this issue and we will try to hot-fix it until July 15th. We have to create our own Google app keys, and we think its not hard to fix, but might need a few days for preparation. Also I cannot say if we need to deploy and OTA for that or not.
BR
Neither GPS nor rotation can do any interaction with Bluetooth. GPS and rotation might be connected through Androids sensor service, so if you got issues please also check if automatic brightness still works in such situation. I have it on the Oneplus One also that sensors crash and then nothing works anymore, rotation, auto brightness, proximity etc
@guru I am not sure how this could work, we cannot get any notification from Paypal other than an email, and that must be processed manually. I dont think any automatic integration is possible for us, as we are not any of those big companies
@guru yeah I checked with the account and we got your money safe - thanks a million
Yeah seems you got 2 issues which one is that halium-install did not work out, and also seems that flashing of the boot image did not work. Are you able to join the German Telegram group, we might be able to sort it out there...
@Speiburger No we bypass twrp normally. You can check in recovery whats the content of /data, should be a rootfs.img and a system.img
@Speiburger are you sure you are in download mode again, not in recovery?
It all depends if the original vendor would release a new firmware file. Thats the question for older devices, but you can try to spot such an update, e.g. for Nexus 5. From our side there is not much that can be done except waiting for those updates. If they are available they can normally be either loaded by our port (from vendor tree) or they need flashing of a vendor partition.
@Speiburger Smartphones are hard to brick. But you might want to google your model number for a different TWRP then...
@Speiburger said in Call for testing: Samsung S3 Neo (s3ve3g) owners:
GT-9301i
Oh thats the dual SIM right? This might need some modifications for supporting the 2nd SIM slot, but basically it should work, just go to try it...