I see what you mean, and i think it will probably always be like that. Some people prefer spending time on the things they don't like rather than like. I'll surely have a nice day. Have a nice day, you too (and all the rest of you).

I agree with you too, @mariogrip . I went all-in in February with Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 4. It feels very good to have the increased freedom, but it comes at some cost. The things I'm having trouble with so far:

• Lack of access to important apps.
• Browser crash and wouldn't start again until rebooting the phone.
• Alarm clock sometimes does not go off, or goes off late (10-20 minutes).
• Buggy and poor navigation and usability in text fields (e.g. typing sms).
• Sudden restarts.
• Lack of input languages (in my case Thai language).
• Volume control crash and requires reboot to come back.
• Phone low responsive to input.
• Significantly shorter battery time.

I think my hope for continued development, proper convergence and the freedom helps me stay with Ubuntu on my phone, but in the long-term I don't know.

Special thanks to everyone not giving up despite the lack of Canonical support!

I think other phones are superior in most ways, but there is no other phone that i feel as good to use as an Ubuntu Phone. I think it works well enough and is also constantly improving.

I'm very happy for all positive contributions to make it better, including constructive criticism.

Thanks for all the nice contributions so far, and keep up the good work!

This is not a big thing for me, but i kind of think it would be the most beneficial for everyone if the focus can be on making the greatest phone ever and preferably not include the f-word or similar. I think @Locamama for sure have good intentions and @alternator has mostly (of what i have read) contributed good input, and i think continued coexistence would be preferable. Would it be possible to put this to the past for everyone?

@mariogrip I think being able to run android apps is what i'd look forward the most to see. It does not mean i want to be glued to android apps all the time, but rather to get through something in the way.

Better battery time would also be helpful.

Also thanks for all you have done so far!

I agree with @Lakota , that it should be available for everyone. I therefore think the team's decision to put priority on Halium is very good. I think it will make it significantly easier to support new phones and therefore attracts more people to contribute. Hopefully deciding about a particular flagship device will then also not be much of an issue as a result. I also think prioritizing Anbox is probably a good idea to attract people to contribute. Finally i think convergence seems like a fantastic feature.

Who knows, but Imho those 3 should be the top 3 priorities to provide for a bright future of ubports,

It's not unlikely that i have misunderstood scopes, but isn't the whole point to display as little information as possible but enough for the user to know it will be worth while to open specific application(s)? Just that + some simple things like time, date etc.

@ZeroPointEnergy I think so too. Anbox can be very nice, and i'll use it for sure to get around the lack of some specific application, but the core applications should be pure native i think.

@happyzenith You can also use rsync as written in step 4 in the wiki.
https://wiki.ubports.com/wiki/How-to-flash-existing-ubuntu-touch-devices-with-Ubports-images

I have watched through the Q&A now, and I'm very happy for the increased attention to the ubports project. I'm also very happy to know about the efforts made to support backup of the device. Thanks for your efforts!

In the Q&A I got to know that ubports now runs on Nexus 4, but the devices page still says that there is no image. Should that information just be ignored and either of the two suggested procedures should be followed?

Regarding what to do with the new opportunities that comes with the new full-time developer, I think the first priority should be to add support for an inexpensive smallish device (similar to Nexus 4, Nexus 5 or L90) that is easy to get in as many countries as possible. That's because i think all of the currently supported devices are actually quite hard to get.

I would like to say that in my opinion the second priority should be to make more native apps and make it easier to make native apps, but I'd rather put Anbox as the second priority anyway since I think it is probably a more pragmatic way to get access to more apps fast.

@fmulcar I think we are in line, more or less, and the both of us think that the Nexus 4 is a nice device. For myself i try to be patient with a hope that the Nexus 4 still have a future, but in the meanwhile i stay with the Canonical version.

However, i think that Nexus 4 should have some priority since it had under the wings of Canonical, being their primary device.

@tigerpro There are a lot of good things in Android, but i think it's not really for technical people who likes it better somewhere nicer off the mainstream.

Also i find it wrong to have someone constantly trying to watch you, 24/7, to find out how to make the most money out of your life.

I think it was said that the OTA-2 was planned to become available this week and i see on GitHub that the 15.04 OTA-2 milestone is 100% complete, but my phone does not indicate any available update.

Do i have a problem with my phone, plans have changed or it's actually going to show up any minute now?

@guru I think some way of knowing what features the community would like the most is a really good idea.

The way i think it should work is that there is a community-driven list of grouped things that the community would like, and every member has a set of radio buttons from 0 to 5 for each thing to indicate how much wanted the feature is for that particular user. Then there should be a "hi-score list" with all the features and how much wanted the community in total think they are.

@tigerpro I think it is a very complex thing to get the complete view of, but what i wanted to say is that i think it's conceptually wrong to constantly track people to get the most money out of you (or in any other way they might do or be doing in the future). You might forget to use your VPN or did not think it was necessary to use it at a particular time, and once they have your information they have it and once they have it their policy could change or a hacker can get hold of it.

Who knows what will happen, but this is one reason why i'm here and hope that your port as well as other people's ports will be successful and make Ubuntu wider available.

@Flohack No worries. I just wanted to be sure i that i'm not waiting for something that is already there.

@advocatux If the old one is understandable, i would say suggest. Otherwise save, but this is a good example of the problem without a comment/chat field connected to each word/sentence I think. Communication between translators is important and should be easy, otherwise it is easy that someone quickly looses motivation if they don't understand why their translation was changed. Or that's what i think at least.

@Stefano I too know it works on the Nexus 5, so i thought making sure that the PC side is ok would be a good start. Anyway, the device seems more likely to be the reason. I'm short on suggestions, but i think i have read that authentication is optional so it could be worth trying to find it and turn it off.

@guru said in support for GnuPG smartcard:

I could put a detailed tutorial on my web site.

I think your project to set this up on the phone seem very nice and useful. I think the tutorial, if you put it up, will be very helpful.

Where did you buy the device from? Did you find any nice and slim solution for the connector to fit?

@dshimer This look very similar to the already reported issues for N4. You could have a look at the mako issues on github.