I run a BQ E4.5 since March 2015 as my daily phone. Meanwhile, also my wife and my 11 years old son do. It has all the apps we need (Dekko, Telegram, browser, sms, phone calls, cam, uNav, ...) and, even more important, it is free of spy ware and phoning-home apps. I do not need FB and What's Ape and so I really do not miss them.
Matthias
@advocatux said in Porting in 2019 - a true journey:
@wgarcia we have mailing lists but nobody uses them
Yes, nobody uses them because they are not promoted by the UBports core team. In the times of UbuntuTouch (Canonical) we have had very successful communication over the list ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net (the list is even still active and from time to time I get mails from it or ask there for help).
When Canonical closed the "shop" and we moved to UBports, started this idea "we don't need mailing lists, we need this ongoing gaggle in the tg groups" which is not archived and not searchable and full of posts which have nothing to do with technical problems, full of jpegs/gifs/emotions etc. When we (wgarcia and I) tried to subscribe in December 2017 the list has even been moderated and subscription was a mess.
The forum here is better, at least archived and searchable. But one needs a browser and to be online, while mails could be read offline. I.e. the forum is far away from being as useful as a mailing list.
Just my humble opinion on this.
Matthias
Please elaborate about the near future and milestones of Dekko2. I do not see any progress for weeks. During the day I use the MUA on my FreeBSD laptops (mutt), when I'm on "the road" I do (or try to) use Dekko2 in my BQ E4.5. Due to its ongoing crashes and other issues (see the tracker) I'm forced to return to my M10 FHD which still runs the latest UT version of Canonical with the old Dekko 
This situation is, at least for me, really a showstopper.
Thanks
Matthias
@simplicissimax said in What are must have apps? Things you can do:
@guru Thank you for your reply! I'm afraid I don't have experience with chroot, but what I have read sounds promising
Some questions remain, but I feel I should gain some experience before asking them here. I will experiment with this
Start reading here: https://gurucubano.gitbooks.io/bq-aquaris-e-4-5-ubuntu-phone/content/en/chapter27.html
@cheniek said in How to hide/show my ID on phone calls?:
@guru Your suggestion has helped
These codes are the so called GSM-codes. The exact implementation maybe provider specific. When other mobile systems have some GUI feature to control this kind of function, I think they just fire up the same GSM-code.
It seems on all my other BQ E4.5 which are still running the latest Canonical OTA-15 that there have been coming down this night an update to "Version37" and there is also some more rumor about this in the mailing-list ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net
Ofc, this is nearly off-topic here, but maybe someone from Canonical or BQ is reading this and could shet a bit light on it...
Thx
matthias
Using GnuPG-card in the UbuntuPhone BQ E4.5:
Create a complete Linux system into ~phablet/myRoot/ :
phablet@ubuntu-phablet-bq:~$ mkdir myRoot
phablet@ubuntu-phablet-bq:~$ cd myRoot
phablet@ubuntu-phablet-bq:~$ sudo tar xzf ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz
phablet@ubuntu-phablet-bq:~$ sudo chroot myRoot/
Install additional packages into the Linux system:
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install pinentry-curses
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install pass
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install libudev-dev
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install gcc
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install libc-dev
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install make
compile in myRoot the following pieces (in the given order):
libgpg-error-1.33
libassuan-2.5.1
libksba-1.3.5
npth-1.6
libgcrypt-1.8.4
gnupg-2.2.12
always with ./configure && make && sudo make install; the software ends
up below /usr/local (which is /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local when one looks from outside the chroot'ed phone system);
note: gpg2 is /usr/local/bin/gpg
Now from the phone system configure:
$ mkdir ~/.gnupg
$ chmod 0700 ~/.gnupg
$ cat .gnupg/gpg.conf
#
agent-program /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent
$ cat .gnupg/gpg-agent.conf
pinentry-program /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/bin/pinentry-curses
scdaemon-program /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/libexec/scdaemon
log-file /home/phablet/gpg-agent.log
log-file /dev/null
debug-level guru
max-cache-ttl 10
Due to the nature of the installation in the chrooted system we
need small wrapper scripts to set PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ... and
other stuff;
$ cat ~/gpg.sh
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin:$PATH export PATH
GNUPGHOME=/home/phablet/.gnupg export GNUPGHOME
GPG_TTY=$(tty) export GPG_TTY
/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent \
--homedir /home/phablet/.gnupg \
--daemon \
--pinentry-program /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/bin/pinentry-curses
/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin/gpg-connect-agent /bye
/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin/gpg $*
run and create for test a keypair (later we want to use the GnuPG-card
for this)
$ ~/gpg.sh --full-generate-key
gpg-agent[2973]: enabled debug flags: mpi crypto memory cache memstat hashing ipc
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.1; Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Please select what kind of key you want:
(1) RSA and RSA (default)
(2) DSA and Elgamal
(3) DSA (sign only)
(4) RSA (sign only)
Your selection?
...
This starts the gpg-agent as:
$ ps ax | grep gpg-a
2974 ? Ss 0:00 /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin/gpg-agent --homedir /home/phablet/.gnupg --daemon --pinentry-program /home/phablet/myRoot/usr/bin/pinentry-curses
Now we can use the the pass command we installed in the chroot'es system with
$ cat pass.sh
#!/bin/sh
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
PATH=/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/local/bin:$PATH export PATH
GNUPGHOME=/home/phablet/.gnupg export GNUPGHOME
GPG_TTY=$(tty) export GPG_TTY
unset GPG_AGENT_INFO
/home/phablet/myRoot/usr/bin/pass $*
Init the pass storage as:
$ ./pass.sh init Matthias
Password store initialized for Matthias
web/bla: reencrypting to A62DCD2809AC14F6
$ find .password-store/
.password-store/
.password-store/.gpg-id
Insert some password for test:
$ ./pass.sh insert -m web/bla
Enter contents of web/bla and press Ctrl+D when finished:
password-bla
Username: guru
$ ./pass.sh web/bla
┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Please enter the passphrase to unlock the OpenPGP secret key: │
│ "Matthias Apitz (test) <guru@sisis.de>" │
│ 2048-bit RSA key, ID 93A6FBF52FA76DB0, │
│ created 2017-09-22 (main key ID 3FECB79DDDA409E4). │
│ │
│ │
│ Passphrase: ***_______________________________________________ │
│ │
│ <OK> <Cancel> │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
password-bla
Username: guru
We now can use gpg2 and pass directly in the phone to have always our secrets, PIN's etc. with us.
I have here two screen-shots, taken of the terminal-app: In the 1st I have typed in the command ./pass.sh web/foo asking for the (cleartext) values of web/foo (which could be your bank account, login credentials or whatever you can think of). The result visible in this screen (xxx yyy) is only shown after entering the passphrase to unlock your GnuPG secret key, see screen 2. The key is 4096 bits RSA. The key store remains 10 seconds (configurable) unlocked, after which you're asked again for the passphrase.
Matthias
To answer my own question:
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install gcc
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install libc-dev
root@ubuntu-phablet:/# apt-get install make
HIH
Maybe someone could make a table of all the good proposals or feature requests and we can all vote up/down the requests and have at the end a list what matters most.
My new feature list for OTA 3:
Thx for the hard work to all of you.
matthias
I was once in th same hassle and had to purge and recreate my 4 SMTP/IMAP accounts from scratch. After this, as first action, I created a tar archive of the mentioned dirs and from time to time I use this for reset.
It's clearly a bug no to store the configuration in one single or a few config files, apart of all the cached mail headers.
matthias
The German authorities released today the so called corona app through the Apple and Google app stores.They claim that also the source code was made available. I'm unsure about if this helps at all for the used technic (Bluetoth) and I'm not even sure if I'd install it at all for data security reasons.
But, will it be ported to UBports?
matthias
I misinterpreted your question as 'two SIM in the not working slot at once', sorry.
Yes, when I put two SIM, one in each slot, only the one in the 2nd is seen.
I did not do this and I'd not do this by intention because in the carriage is only room for one SIM card and I'd be afraid that it will not come out again.
Or, how do you mean your question?
Are there special tools for this (apart of the liquid )?
One of my BQ E4.5 sees my SIM only in the 2nd slot. Any hints what I could do?
Thanks
matthias
Thanks. I have to admit that I did not knew this (new?) feature. I have configured in Dekko2 three mail accounts and I cleared their cache now to the smalles backlog (one week). While this was running in the GUI (btw: there is no visible reaction on pressing the clear button and no progress meter), I ssh'ed to the device and run a for loop:
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail$ while true ; do find . -type f | wc -l ; sleep 10 ; done
2402
2464
2560
2657
2740
2812
2847
2856
2914
3003
...
The number of files went down from some 22000 to 3000, but why it's counting some times incrementing? A bit strange, isn't it? And on which date the backlog is counting backward? I have here an example of a file which originated from mid April, but the last modified date is of today:
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail$ ls -l 1590987986.20456.47xC6
-rw-rw-r-- 1 phablet phablet 6680 Jun 1 07:06 1590987986.20456.47xC6
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail$ grep ^Date: 1590987986.20456.47xC6
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 15:09:09 +0000
Why this old mail header file has been rewritten today?
I was wondering why my free space in my UBphone went so law and one of the reasons is this:
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail# ls -lt | tail -5
-rw------- 1 phablet phablet 6044 May 19 2019 1558278813.27281.UcGNf
-rw------- 1 phablet phablet 3331 May 19 2019 1558278813.27281.WGFrA
-rw------- 1 phablet phablet 7830 May 19 2019 1558278813.27281.xZpBz
-rw------- 1 phablet phablet 9024 May 19 2019 1558278813.27281.Y46BJ
-rw------- 1 phablet phablet 14128 May 19 2019 1558278813.27281.y9YBd
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail# du -sh .
246M .
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet/.cache/dekko2.dekkoproject/mail# find . -type f | wc -l
22217
i.e. Dekko2 keeps some 22 thousands old mails there (I looked into some of them) which occupies around 246M.
Can I just delete these files or will this cause some issue with some shadow database of Dekko2?
Thx
This was a screen shoot from a KDE desktop on FreeBSD, not on UT.