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
Cuba would be the best place to live. They have in total around 6000 Corona cases, Germany the double in a single day.
I live in Germany, near to Munich. From which country the store is sending the goods?
Finally I got a mail from sales@ saying that they have shipped my goods on October 19. Today is already October 28 and nothing arrived in 8 days...
@Lakotaubp said in UBports Store Open:
@nogoogle @guru sorry for the delay once again and I understand the frustration. We will get this sorted as soon as possible.
Can you say roughly the time frame in which you think with „soon as possible“?
I bought some goods for around 80€ and my amex card was charged with this on October 17. I also asked sales@ w/o any reaction. I will wait a werk more and than ask amex to pull back the money again.
I've bought three items, went through the dialog of shipping address and the payment (successful) and at the end it says:
Interner Serverfehler (internal server error)
("Unable to post message, please configure the sender's email address.", '')
and no mail is coming down. I'm unsure if the order was now successfuly received and what will happen on my Amex card
Matthias
I've investigated it last night. The chat in question contained some longish posts (forwarded mails) and rendering this made TELEports block for around 20 seconds. I deleted them and all was fine. I now resent 100 lines of /etc/services file and it blocks again.
The older unsupported telegram app has no problem and no delay showing the 100 lines.
There must be a problem or bug in TELEports or in the infrastructure to render text to the GUI.
matthias
I have a colleague as contact and chat partner in TELEports. Since yesterday he is using a second SIM in his mobile and with this I have him as a second contact in TELEports. While all chats with any other of my ~30 contacts does not show the problem, when I go to this new chats and scroll up or down, the app TELEports blocks for a while (some 10 secs) any other input in its GUI. What can I do to nail this down?
Thanks
Matthias
The school of my son offers Wifi to the pupil. The SSID is Schueler and the kids have a login and password assigned from the school. An iPhone connects out of the box by just asking for the two values. With UBports I tried all methods the system app offers, without any success.
I have here what a UNIX ifconfig command on my laptops says about the AP values:
# ifconfig -v wlan0 list ap | egrep 'SSID/MESH|Schueler'
Schueler 20:a6:cd:04:d8:63 6 54M -73:-96 100 EPS SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<6> TIM<050400010000> ERP<0x0> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x1ad param 0x17 mcsset[0-15] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 6, 0,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> WME<qosinfo 0x80 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]> VEN<dd07000b8601040809>
Schueler 48:4a:e9:fd:dd:c3 1 54M -88:-96 100 EPS SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<1> ERP<0x0> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x1ad param 0x17 mcsset[0-15] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 1, 0,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> WME<qosinfo 0x80 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]>
Schueler 20:a6:cd:04:d8:73 64 54M -68:-96 100 EP SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<64> TIM<050400010000> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x9ef param 0x1b mcsset[0-31] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 64, 7,4,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> VHTCAP<cap 0x338b79b1 rx_mcs_map 0xffaa rx_highest 0 tx_mcs_map 0xffaa tx_highest 0> VHTOPMODE<chw 1 freq1_idx 58 freq2_idx 0 basic_mcs_set 0x0000> WME<qosinfo 0x80 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]> VEN<dd07000b8601040812>
Schueler e8:26:89:45:38:33 36 54M -91:-96 100 EP SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<36> TIM<050400010000> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x9ef param 0x1b mcsset[0-31] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 36, 5,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> VHTCAP<cap 0x338b79b1 rx_mcs_map 0xffaa rx_highest 0 tx_mcs_map 0xffaa tx_highest 0> VHTOPMODE<chw 1 freq1_idx 42 freq2_idx 0 basic_mcs_set 0x0000> WME<qosinfo 0x80 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]> VEN<dd07000b8601040812>
Schueler 48:4a:e9:fd:dd:d3 124 54M -90:-96 100 EP SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<124> TIM<050400010000> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x9ef param 0x1b mcsset[0-31] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 124, 5,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> VHTCAP<cap 0x338b79b1 rx_mcs_map 0xffaa rx_highest 0 tx_mcs_map 0xffaa tx_highest 0> VHTOPMODE<chw 1 freq1_idx 122 freq2_idx 0 basic_mcs_set 0x0000> WME<qosinfo 0x8c BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]> VEN<dd07000b8601040812>
Schueler 48:4a:e9:6f:40:c3 11 54M -92:-96 100 EPS SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<11> ERP<0x0> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x1ad param 0x17 mcsset[0-15] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 11, 0,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> WME<qosinfo 0x81 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]>
Schueler e8:26:89:45:38:23 1 54M -85:-96 100 EPS SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<1> ERP<0x0> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x1ad param 0x17 mcsset[0-15] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 1, 0,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> WME<qosinfo 0x81 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]>
Schueler 48:4a:e9:6d:b8:c3 1 54M -91:-96 100 EPS SSID<Schueler> RATES<B24,B48,72,96,108> DSPARMS<1> ERP<0x0> RSN<v1 mc:AES-CCMP uc:AES-CCMP km:8021X-UNSPEC> HTCAP<cap 0x1ad param 0x17 mcsset[0-15] extcap 0x0 txbf 0x0 antenna 0x0> HTINFO<ctl 1, 0,0,0,0 basicmcs[]> ???<7f080400080000000040> WME<qosinfo 0x80 BE[aifsn 3 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] BK[aifsn 7 cwmin 4 cwmax 10 txop 0] VO[aifsn 2 cwmin 3 cwmax 4 txop 94] VI[aifsn 2 cwmin 2 cwmax 3 txop 47]>
Has someone an idea how to make this work with our beloved UBports devices.
Thanks
matthias
The shopping portal is still broken. I've pit two items into the cart, click on "my cart" shows only one item, while mouse over shows correctly two.
Do you really want me to trust such a shopping system?
And btw: From where the things will be sent, inside EU (free of tax)? I don't see shipping costs and approximately time of shipping.
Is it somehow possible to read/write NFC tags wit a BQ E4.5?
Thanks