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
@tydell The tg app in UT does not support such groups. You have to use the web app for tg.
En general, I'd like to have a mailing list for technical discussions and not a tg group or a forum. But this does not seem to be the opinion of others here.
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.
Today, my Dekko2 on start claimed that it has no accounts configured (I have had four) and started the window to create a first new account. Hmmm, what's that I thought. The reason was a no space left on device below ~phablet.
Luckily I own a backup of a fresh ~/.cache/dekko* and removed everything there (some 400mB, i.e. it was dekko2's own fault to fill there everything), untar'ed the backup and all was fine again.
But, why this no space damaged the config of Dekko2? This is a bit clumsy, isn't it?
No, I dont trust in this and perhaps you noted the changes in my profile due to it.
This will lead to the fact that real world people, like I, will change their mail addr to nonsense and delete their fullname from the profile so their real identity is not stored together with the post in some 3rd party storage for whatever use or benefit.
Flohack said in We will be enabling Akismet and Stop Forum Spam:
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The problem is we cannot keep up manual spam moderation. We get an overwhelming amount of fake users registered to our forum by automatic bots, so we have to fight back with automatic bots. Simple as that. Or we let the forum be flooded with spam, that will make it unusable.
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Wouldn't it be enough to request that subscribers must give a mobile number, and enter a code sent to this by SMS (like telegram does)? This forum at the end is about mobile devices.
@Luksus said in stargazers app:
But meanwhile the Stellarium app is available in the OpenStore again, or doesn't it meet your requirements?
https://open-store.io/app/me.lduboeuf.stellarium
Thanks for the pointer. stellarium seems to work fine. I have to discover some features I'm used to use on my laptop (for example run the time back and forward fast, etc.)
I don't like either the idea that some other company stores (my/all) username + email + content of all post. Even if they claim it's for a short period of time and that they will not sell it. What is the business model of this company, from what they pay 800 employees in 65 countries?
Re: stellarium app
I've got in the forum for the Puri.sm L5 a pointer to this low-powered alternative for stargazers: http://wiki.maemo.org/Orrery
But, it's not in our OPenStore and fails to compile on my FreeBSD or Ubports device due to missing dependencies.
@Flohack said in Power drain, perhaps caused by app Notes:
@guru Yes unfortunately dekkod is known to enter a busy-waiting loop when it cannot reach any network resources from the accounts - do you turn off your internet over night?
Btw, the looping/polling proc was not dekkod but dekkod-notify. Looks like a concept flaw polling every second.
No, only Wifi as I said begining this thread. Stanislav Lem: Niemand liest etwas, wer etwas liest, versteht es nicht, wer es versteht, vergisst es wieder
In addition (and maybe the problem is more complex): This night I had a power drain again and caught a dekko proc which does in a loop every second this:
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet# ps ax | grep dekko
3263 ? Ssl 0:24 /opt/click.ubuntu.com/dekko2.dekkoproject/current/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/plugins/notify/dekkod-notify
7362 pts/52 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto dekko
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet#
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet#
root@ubuntu-phablet:/home/phablet# strace -s 256 -p 3263
strace: Process 3263 attached
restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted poll ...>) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {31508, 110627514}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {31508, 111023129}) = 0
stat64("/home/phablet/.config/dekko2.dekkoproject/tmp", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
socket(PF_LOCAL, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0) = 4
connect(4, {sa_family=AF_LOCAL, sun_path="/home/phablet/.config/dekko2.dekkoproject/tmp/qcop-server-0"}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
close(4) = 0
write(2, "void QCopClient::connectToServer() QLocalSocket::ServerNotFoundError \"QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name\"\n", 115) = 115
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {31508, 122487283}) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {31508, 124085668}) = 0
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 999) = 0 (Timeout)