Hi!

We wrote a small script and a desktop file to toogle Anbox via

anbox-tool enable|disable

see [https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch/Anbox/#Automatisches-Umschalten-per-Icon] .

because Anbox is using energy, even when not in use. It works fine.

Now I thought it would be nice to change the icon (like using a green one when Anbox is enabled, and a red one when it is disabled). I tried to use cp within the script to copy a new icon to home/phablet/.local/share/applications/ . That works, but it looks like the icons are cached somewhere, and are only refreshed after unity8 is restarted, or the whole device.

Would it be possible to change that in real time, so I could see just by the colour of the icon if Anbox is enabled or not?

Hi!

I was able to solve this. I noticed that anbox apps are displayed immediately after installation, as soon as the desktop file is placed in /home/phablet/.local/share/applications . So I tried to work with two desktop files which are moved back and forth between /home/phablet/.local/share/applications and /home/phablet/Downloads . The anboxtoggle.sh shovels those back and forth with each disable/enable run instead of the icons - they stay in place.

anboxtoogle.sh looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
anboxtool=($(anbox-tool status)) 
atenabled=${anboxtool[5]}

if [ "$atenabled" == "YES" ]; then
      anbox-tool disable
	mv /home/phablet/Downloads/anboxtoggleRED.desktop /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/anboxtoggleRED.desktop
	mv /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/anboxtoggleGREEN.desktop /home/phablet/Downloads/anboxtoggleGREEN.desktop 
else
      anbox-tool enable
	mv /home/phablet/Downloads/anboxtoggleGREEN.desktop /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/anboxtoggleGREEN.desktop
	mv /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/anboxtoggleRED.desktop /home/phablet/Downloads/anboxtoggleRED.desktop 
fi

The desktop file anboxtoggleGREEN.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Anboxtoggle
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/anbox-green.png
Categories=Utility
Comment=Switch between anbox enabled and disabled
X-Ubuntu-Touch=true
Exec=/home/phablet/.local/share/applications/anboxtoggle.sh 

For anboxtoggleRED.desktop you just need to change the icon name in the Icon line to anbox-red.png. You need two different icon pictures, called anbox-red.png and anbox-green.png, as well (just grab some from the net, and change the colours with gimp or a similar program, if neccessary).
Make the other files executable, and put the two icon files and one of the desktop files in /home/phablet/.local/share/applications/, the other desktop file in /home/phablet/Downloads/. (If Anbox currently is runnig, put anboxRed.desktop in .../applications, if not anboxtoggleGREEN.desktop.)

Now there should be just one icon in the app drawer, indicating if anbox is enabled or not, changing is colour with every call.

Have fun!

Hi!

I'm Heinrich aka hank, and have been around for some weeks now.

I'm an "interested layman", without any computer science training whatsoever (well, except for a Highschool Class way back in 1982 ;-)).
Using Ubuntu since about 2005 (warty!), I switched over to Ubuntu completely since Windows Vista was introduced.
I have been active in the german ubuntuusers.de forum since 2005, and act as wiki moderator since 2009.
Last year I got my hands on a used Fairphone2, (already had one running the open source fairphone version) and tried Ubuntu Touch. Since then I'm hooked to it, bought a new bq HD m10 just for UT, and did an almost complete overhaul of the https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch section over at ubuntuusers.de over the last weeks - (might be interesting for people who speak, or at least read, German).

Thanks for the help I was able to get from you so far! Hope I can give something back.

System settings-> about-> storage will show the space,left internally

Hi!

You can use the UT Tweak Tool to change that.

It affects Indicator Weather ( https://open-store.io/app/indicator-weather.bhdouglass ) as well. I changed to OpenWeatherMap, You need an API key too, but I hope they will not be bought by Apple or Google

@AppLee Thanks! It worked out eventually, after three tries I was able create an account.

@chrisse

Well, the icons survived a couple of unity8 restarts, and two device restarts, so it looks like the name was important... For all anbox apps the names for the desktop files and their icons are identical except for the ending, so I thought that could do the trick.

@aclifton314

• multiple instances: Have a look at https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3939/app-menu-double-entries-w-anbox/ . Restarting Unity8 usually helps, or restarting the device, but there is no way to completely get rid of those duplicates.
• You can't remove the default android apps. You could deactivate some calling the android Settings, go to Apps and deactivate those you don't need. I usually deinstall other anbox apps that don't work, or are not needed any more using the default android way via Settings->Apps within Anbox, too.
  Installed apps are - at least partly - stored in /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/app, but the whole content of path .../data/... is "invisible", and only accessible as root-user using a ssh or adb shell. You can navigate using cd PATH, and show contents using ls (-la].
• Easiest and fastest way to remove anbox is to reflash your device with the current version and channel using the UBports Installer; but don't wipe the user data!

Hi!
We just had a similar case at https://forum.fairphone.com/t/ubuntu-touch-with-threema-on-anbox-where-are-the-files/53768/12 , a fairphone 2 running the stable channel. After changing to rc channel Anbox installation, that was stuck like in this case, could be completed, and now works. Perhaps you could give it a try? (if you are on stable, nobody knows but you...).

But you left the forum; so we'll never know. I hope it helps in other cases.

@DeadBattery
My fairphone 2 works with OTG, version is 16.04 devel, (2023-04-17)

@lakotaubp

The error message is still there, I get it every time I open an ubports-page outside the forum. After pressing the "OK" - button, the pages seem to work fine - I didn't order anything to check it ;-)!

This is the error box; I use an up-to-date firefox 100.0, running on Ubuntu 20.04.

Bildschirmfoto vom 2022-05-14 19-54-43.png

Hi!

Something's still amiss; I get an error when opening the shop; message as follows:

Error:
Error: Permission denied to access property "apply"

https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:1143
Zurückverfolgung
trigger@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:1143:31
trigger/<@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:1148:258
each@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:624:170
each@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:615:192
trigger@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:1148:229
attach_handlers/<@https://ubports.com/web/content/155100-0a0c73f/9/web.assets_frontend_lazy.js:1032:513
dispatch@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:925:447
add/elemData.handle@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:911:166
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each@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:615:192
trigger@https://ubports.com/web/content/155099-7063fc3/9/web.assets_common_lazy.js:1148:229
attach_handlers@https://ubports.com/web/content/155100-0a0c73f/9/web.assets_frontend_lazy.js:1032:534
start/<@https://ubports.com/web/content/155100-0a0c73f/9/web.assets_frontend_lazy.js:1032:349

I've seen it on other ubports pages as well...

Hi!

Perhaps it is an "app issue"? Some apps are restricted to a certain screen orientation. You could check in ~.local/share/applications, in the .desktop files. Some apps have a setting called

X-Ubuntu-Supported-Orientations=

Possible values are

primary, portrait, inverted-portrait, landscape, inverted-landscape

perhaps it helps to change it there.

@mrt10001 I have another BQ Aquaris m10 FD running Ubuntu Touch; the wifi bug is still not solved, so I can't use both devices within the WIFI network at home - I tried to change the address, but didn't succeed.
The whole thing started out when I tried to use twrp on the m10, I wanted to root it and to try Lineage or something similar... But that's a different story.

OK, sometimes you don't see the forest for the trees... FInally I was able to use the flash tool; a little "sudo" helped a lot...

I reinstalled an Android 8.1 version, and afterwards I was able to use fastboot to relock the device.

Thanks for your support!

@mrt10001 I could try, but I doubt if that changes anything. After a night of reboot loops the battery is more or less drained, the device is "shut down". But as soon as I connect an usb cable and power is provided again, the boot loop starts again, too.

Is there some hard reset tool available for Ubuntu Linux to force a reset? I found something like that, but it seems to be a windows tool.

EDIT: Tried to disconnect and then press the power button; as soon as I reconnect, the device tries to loop again, even with the the almost drained battery it vibrates about every 5 seconds. Same behavior as before with the charged battery.

@mrt10001 No chance using the vol+ button that way, the device just just keeps looping, no matter in which order I push or release buttons. I have already opened up the device, have to check how to disconnect the battery. I think I saw a youtube video somewhere how to replace the battery, I'll search for that.

EDIT: I was able to disconnect it, but as soon as I reconnect the battery, the loop starts as before....

@mrt10001 It simply does not switch of, it keeps restarting...

@mrt10001 No use, no matter for how long I press the power button, it keeps looping into the same state. I guess I have to wait till the battery is completely drained before I can try anything at all.

lsusb does not show the device, it shows up only when I keep power, vol+ and vol- pressed at the same time. adb does not find it, not fastboot, no matter if I use USB2 or USB3 ports. I tried different cables as well (and those worked with the ubports installer).