@Opolork The draft email method is quite clever and I would use it if it worked on my gmail, but unfortunately it doesn't.

The sync is not instant, but it works eventually: perfect while I'm transitioning to UT!

@wgarcia Yes, on 24.04-1.1 on Fairphone 5 the button to connect to Evernote does not do anything. Do you have any tips on setting up sync with NextCloud, such as any resources which were useful to you in the process? It could greatly benefit others on the forums (including me )

@Vlad-Nirky Hmm, not sure. Running adb root for me gives error message adb: unable to connect for root: closed, but I can use sudo inside adb shell: using that would probably let me get a step closer, by allowing me to copy data to an SD card for instance. The problem is my computer isn't an adb client so I can't just use my phone as a host and run adb root on it.

Going back to the module installation, I should definitely look into that (or whatever procedure I need to enable adb root), as it sounds better than the whole hassle of the SD card (which funnily enough is one of TWRP's limitations).

[UPDATE]

I've been told by an admin of UT's Telegram group that adb root simply hasn't been added to UT. This shouldn't be a problem, as utilities like rsync and scp, which are meant to work over a network, can be set up to work over for example USB (or maybe even Ethernet, don't know which would be faster or in what scenario).

I may test backing up and restoring a Waydroid container with SD card, SSD and PC (using sudo on UT so that I have the priviledges to save all kinds of rights).

I've been told by the same admin this works: therefore, all that's left is finding the right command for the job, so that it restores a Waydroid container to a working state (although this procdeure should be applicable to any app or user data or configuration).

@hummlbach isn't there a way to unminimize like in Ubuntu? Like, surely I don't have to install every man page manually...

@Vlad-Nirky Did you run adb root beforehand?

@gpatel-fr Perfect, thank you!

@Charly said in Backup and restore (TWRP-style):

If you copy to an ext4 usb stick and use rsync with sudo, all different rights should be applied correctly.

This might help I suppose, and there's probably a way to configure rsync to work via cable. We'll see...

@Vlad-Nirky The truth is I have no idea, only way is to test it I guess. I also assume I'll have to run adb root first to download all files.

The adb user documentation (https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/modules/adb/+/refs/heads/main/docs/user/adb.1.md) doesn't seem to be of much use in answering this question.

@Keneda do we have a GitLab issue to follow progress for Fairphone 5? I find this is one of the phone's most important features, and getting AGPS (where Internet helps with the GPS fix) could really benefit users, helping UT usability compared to Android

@Moem Thanks for your input, backing up your home directory is definitely a great idea and is what people normally opt for.

Below I'll try and summarise what I've learnt for solving my problem, which might help people facing a similar problem.

Please remember I have not tried restoring yet to see if every single thing on the list was backed up, the one thing that's certain is if you have files in the home directory and you back up that, those are safe (you can always check they successfully made it to your computer by browsing inside the folder).

Backing up your home directory

1. Connect phone to computer.
2. Make sure the adb command is working (run adb devices to see if there's any output etc.).
3. Run adb pull /home.

You should receive some output about whether all your files made it to your computer, and obviously you can check for yourself by browsing them on your PC.

Why should I backup userdata instead of just home?

If you want to take it a step further, I'd recomment backing up the entire userdata folder, which also contains the home folder mentioned previously: as far as I've been able to gather just by asking other users on UBPorts' Telegram servers, this includes the items on the list below.

Things inside userdata which are useful to back up

• the settings you changed in the settings app
• your fingerprints for unlocking your phone
• the apps currently installed on your device
• the apps' data: for example, all the apps and everything else needed to run your Waydroid container exactly in the state it is in now
• packages installed via nix and snap

Backing up userdata

Do the same but run adb pull /userdata.
Basically if you ever lose your userdata you just need to replace your current /userdata folder on your phone with the previous backup of /userdata on your computer.

While I would probably simply run something like adb shell 'rm -rf /userdata && mkdir -p /userdata' && adb push /path/to/userdata /userdata for restore, do not run it unless you know what you're doing, I have not verified this to be working and need to check with people more knowledgeable than me on UT to confirm/fix.

This is the best I have for now, I'll update / add to this if I come across anything better

@advocatux it's hard to stop myself from doing so sometimes XD

I eventually figured out how to get the 'Sealed' app working, by changing the URL from bitwarden.com (the default) to https://vault.bitwarden.eu. bitwarden.eu does not work!

@potet said in Most wanted features for Morph?:

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Did you find any good alternatives? I've installed uWolf and Chromium for UT which are sick but are unfeasible because they run on X11, causing higher CPU/energy usage and no ability to copy/paste (do it all the time for BitWarden passwords and the like)...

@Simmonz said in uWolf (LibreWolf):

copy

Clipboard (copy/paste) currently does not work for me on 24.04-1.1 stable outside of the app: if I go on the BitWarden extension and copy a password, I can still paste it in the search bar for instance. Unfortunately I have tested the 2 BitWarden apps available on the Open Store (it may be different if you are not running Noble) and they aren't working, so I'm looking for alternatives (trying to avoid more complex setups like running full-on Firefox in Libertine or installing snaps). Perhaps there is some offline password manager out there which can successfully connect to BitWarden or whatever is available as a Firefox extension (to maintain cross-platform compatibility).
I'll update this post if I find anything useful.

@kugiigi Yes, I've noticed that too reading around forums. This is why I'm looking into open source+hardware solutions like Modos (https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor) and others, although most don't support touch yet.

Honestly, considering you're getting a 75Hz refresh rate monitor that's actually e-ink in 2025, the prices don't look that bad, although do correct me if I'm wrong.

There are even ways to add touchscreen support to any monitor, but that's a whole different story, and won't be worth getting into until UT develops touch monitor support.

@kugiigi I see, so convergence at the moment is mainly intended with mouse and keyboard. Any suggestions for portable monitors / external displays that have happened to work quite well with UT? I know e-ink is getting very popular these days, with video-ready refresh rates and color and it's definitely exciting, but I'm unsure how feasible they are at the moment.

To say the least, the situation is getting rather interesting, eg. https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-paper-display-modos.

@CatWithUT Were you ever able to figure out a way? I'm very much used to Termux where I simply press a modifier button and then the other key, as if I had sticky keys enabled on a hardware keyboard...

Never mind, it seemed to have been a temporary issue thankfully, hopefully it won't bother anyone!

The experience I had from it and a possible 'solution' (if that's a reasonable term for it) can be found here: https://forums.ubports.com/post/91229

Hopefully this way it is easy to get a variety of images such as stable or daily rather than just the devel channel on GitLab.

@ikoz Oh yeah, I was able to find something which looks like what I'm searching for by navigating through the JSON: https://system-image.ubports.com/ -> https://system-image.ubports.com/channels.json -> https://system-image.ubports.com/24.04-1.x/arm64/android9plus/stable/FP5/index.json

Not really sure which files to flash, whether they need to be unzipped, and in what order (which I need to formulate the exact procedure/commands), but it's definitely a good start in understanding how it all works under the hood.

Even if it's still rather mysterious for me at the moment, I'll keep the ubports-installer source code at hand and may search it with this extra knowledge, so may the source be with us