Here are the videos recorded about mobile:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/

UT is mentioned in the videos about state of Foss on mobile and the one about the apps store: the UT one is rather well placed, however Flatpak is coming for mobile and it has already a dominant position in general Linux apps.

The video about openHarmony is intriguing given the resources of the organisations behind it.

I have been interested by the one about push notifications, apparently more ready for prime time that I was thinking. It seems that the only real solution for Linux clients is the kde one, that would seem a good fit for UT since it uses QT.

@shano said in Why is Wayland compositor and Lomiri so far in terms of functionality compared to Compiz and Unity7 released some 20 years ago?:

Compiz was released in 2006 and is still maintained. Unity7 was released in 2010 and is still maintained. My question is why Wayland and Lomiri are so far away in terms of functionality, plugins etc. compared to tech made 20 years ago.

Are we building on top or reinventing the wheel?

From what I see, Lomiri is not reinventing Unity 8, it is Unity 8.
I downloaded the Lomiri source code and counted roughly 18000 commits between 2013 and 2017 (end of Ubuntu involvement) and 1400 commits between 2018 and 2025. The main reason is probably that Unity was a business project with serious resources behind it, while Lomiri (the new name for Unity 8 since 2020) is an open source project with a few part time volunteers. Also, it may be that there was so much work in Unity that there is not a lot of new development necessary, the bulk of new work being in other parts of the full (and huge) smart phone stack. I did not count but I think that a large part of these 1400 commits are just translations.

I don't know Compiz but I tracked the project in its last hideout on Gitlab and counted about 30 commits in last 5 years, 20 of them in 2020. It's maintained in the most limited sense, there is almost no development.

@Sander said in Add "Tab" key to Ubuntu Touch keyboard?:

You can tap anywhere on the terminal area to mimick the behavior of the tab key

thanks for this hidden gem ! TIL

@kristatos said in Smooth Edges (name pending) - Let's Fix the Bugs That Drive You Mad:

if the input is to slow?

FIY I have noticed that disabling haptic feedback was leading to me typing faster. I don't know if it's psychological or if the buzz is really slowing the keyboard. Give it a test if you don't have disabled it yet.

As an update, a draft MR was recently posted on Gitlab using the BeaconDB api (directly,not via Geoclue)

@uxes said in Enabling MAC randomization:

shipped on our system by default

I am not sure that any phone is doing that by default.
It has also a downside for anyone using this phone with ssh, that is, the IP address affected by the Dhcp server (the wifi access point) will change often.
It's not a big deal but it can be annoying.

@sixwheeledbeast said:

Bluetooth can't be disabled or enabled from the battery menu. The toggle moves but it doesn't work and stays in the same state.

Yes I see that on my FP5.
I searched a bit and I think that the problem is not in the settings, it's in the Bluetooth stack itself.
Rationale: launching bluetoothctl, I can see that when activating the switch, there is this message:

[bluetooth]# hci0 new_settings: connectable bondable ssp br/edr le secure-conn 

the interface is made 'connectable' and 'bondable'.
When activating the bluetooth in the bluetooth page, these messages are displayed:

[bluetooth]# hci0 new_settings: powered connectable bondable ssp br/edr le secure-conn 

that is, in one case the interface is powered while it's not in the second case. The switch is changed but after a few seconds when the system realizes the discrepancy between the real state of the bluetooth interface and the switch, it switches back the indicator statute.
When going from the battery page to the bluetooth page, the state is checked immediately and the switch is going back to enabled almost instantly.

While it's the same action in both case ('bluetooth-enabled') it has 2 different effects!,
I'd need to check what are the messages passing at the Dbus level in both cases.

For now it's a bit late for me, logging off.

@Charly

I have seen one post seeming to say that it was restored in the most bleeding edge version, I can't vouch for it as I use stable, however if you install crackle you can use nix immediately and you can get the nix version of rsync (more up-to-date than the Ubuntu 24.04 version).

https://gitlab.com/tuxecure/crackle-apt/crackle
https://gitlab.com/EricHeintzmann/ubuntu-touch/xiaomi-surya/-/wikis/Install-with-crackle

Once you have crackle running, run 'crackle install rsync' and you are there

@mihael

tested with dekko. I think it's a bug, it don't seem logical that silent mode mutes the rings but not the messages.

@Talkless

both projects are still maintained. UT has a lot more activity, but also a vastly bigger domain, so in both cases maintainers are spread thinly. That's not because what's interesting you is not moving fast enough for your taste that people are not active on these projects, they are just caring for other aspects of the projects.

@vince.vs

good luck.
Possibly try to do a backup of the tables using something along the lines of

sudo sqlite3 /var/lib/usermetrics/usermetrics6.db .dump >~/mybackup

@vince.vs

,I don't know about BleachBit, sqlite3 is available on UT (and on many Linux distros)

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo sqlite3 /var/lib/usermetrics/usermetrics6.db
[sudo] password for phablet: 
SQLite version 3.45.1 2024-01-30 16:01:20
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite> .ta
usermetricsservice::dataset     usermetricsservice::userdata  
usermetricsservice::datasource
sqlite> 
sqlite> pragma table_info('usermetricsservice::dataset');
0|id|INTEGER|1||1
1|userData_id|INTEGER|1||0
2|dataSource_id|INTEGER|1||0
3|data|BLOB|0||0
4|lastUpdated|date|0||0
sqlite> 
sqlite> select * from 'usermetricsservice::dataset';
1|1|8||2026-05-24
2|1|4||2026-05-25
3|1|5||2026-05-26
4|1|2||2026-05-26
5|1|1||2026-05-10
6|1|3||2026-05-26
7|1|10||2025-11-02
8|1|7||2026-04-24
9|1|9||2026-04-25
sqlite> 

It's likely you'll need to delete one row from this table and one row from the data source table.

@hlbkv said:

Failed to write reboot parameter file: Permission denied

yes that's also a side-effect of installing Ubuntu Touch for my phone. I can work around it by running adb shell then sudo reboot bootloader

@vince.vs

to expand a bit on the answer given, the system allows for applications to add to the predefined user metrics, but there is no provision to remove an existing user metric; not that there is any provision to remove features added to the system by apps, there is no such feature but even if there was one, no app could use it to clean an user metric added to the system because there is no api for that.

If this is really annoying for you the system database for user metrics is /var/lib/usermetrics/usermetrics6.db and I'd guess that (if you know your way with sqlite3 utility) hacking around in this sqlite database could help you to bid good riddance to this user metric and it may even work after restarting the phone, but it's at your risk. I did not try it myself, I don't know if renumbering the entries is necessary or useful or deadly.

@hlbkv

I can't give you expert advice about your device unfortunately. Generally speaking from my limited experience (I have only one phone with UT, a Fairphone 5) when UT is installed the installer may have trouble running unless the device is set manually in fastboot.

In these cases I have used 'sudo reboot fastboot' under UT to get to the desired fastboot mode. If UT don't start you may have success using the phone controls (IIRC starting while pressing Down (or Up ?), or using the device boot menu.

Additionaly it's indeed necessary to specify the target (detection don't work).

In short, your current state is cause of concern of course, but not yet of despair.

@hlbkv said:

won't it clear my libertine containers even if I don't wipe user data?

I have Libertine setup when installing first the phone, tried to install a few apps and prompty forgot all about it as I don't use the phone as a computer, however after several upgrades and one reinstall the Libertine container seems to be still here so I'd say that you can have ope to have it after reinstalling.

@Linus67

try

sudo dbus-send --system --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.lomiri.location.Service /com/lomiri/location/Service org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:com.lomiri.location.Service string:IsOnline variant:boolean:true

dbus-monitor is your friend for this kind of problem.

sudo dbus-monitor --system >system.txt

or

dbus-monitor --session >session.txt

@Linus67

try

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=com.lomiri.connectivity1 /com/lomiri/connectivity1/Private org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set string:com.lomiri.connectivity1.Private string:
MobileDataEnabled variant:boolean:true

@mihael

yes it's a bug and probably in the push service.

I tried to kill the service process (I don't know any other way to restart a service activated by d-bus) and after an initial failure (it seems that when the service is restarted it don't take in account the task that started it), the second time I sent a mail message the notification used the new sound.

To be continued.

@bad1080 said:

I am guessing this means "android 10 and up"

sorry you are guessing wrong.

https://t.me/UTFAQ/42#