Best posts made by htc_tattoo

Thanks a lot for fixing this! Although it's just a funny small problem, fixing this tiny bugs also lead to a better system.
If i compare UT today with 1 or 2 years ago it improved really a lot! Stability, features and speed!

When it comes to computers and operating systems (incl. smartphones) things get binary. Its a problem of our society still. Using anything else than microsoft, apple and google makes you a strange nerd that does not accept anything. I think its the fear of the unknown and the disability to open to new ideas.
What we can do is enjoing our ubports system (that is absolutely adfree by the way!!!) and keep being strange nerds (my last windows was win2000). I don't think ubports will get a real competitor to the big ones, for this it has too good intentions. But it is an alternative that works already pretty good. (it works impressively if we consider that we don't have support from hardwaresuppliers!). Hopefully our society once will get more openminded...

@mic_ it always existed in the N5 RC images, 15.04 and 16.04. Some versions were worse, (half a day) others were better. The actual version is one of the best.

@Jarsa nice idea! I would like to use this idea as an onlinetracking system for myself. As i do outdoorsports, sending my last location to my own server is a good idea.
In Android (9) it was very hard because of power limitations. As soon as the screen is off, everything goes to powersaving. And gps eats the battery as the cpu stays always on...
This could be the limiting problem here too: the battery will be drained like hell...
Is there a way to reduce power consumption?

For me the mobile data eats the battery. I use the N5 with RC images for 2 years, there were worse versions an better versions, but generally mobile data connection is the problem. With just mobile internet i don't survive the day, even if i don't use the phone at all.
Wifi consumes far less, bluetooth i turned off.
Gps, screen on and mobile data consume so much (navigation), that a 500mA recharger is not enough to prevent emptying the battery...

I use the stable release with a N5 as an everyday-phone for some month:
Ubports-image is much better than the previous ubuntu image.
+stability (1 crash/week)
+gps is much faster, now it is useable
+everything works (gps, bluetooth, wifi, phone, camera...)
+faster than ubuntu image, loading apps is now ok
~battery lasts one day, in hard usage phone gets warm and battery gets empty very soon
-bluetooth connects with headset, but soundquality was not useable. Filetransfer did not work (maybe user fault)
-using the speaker while phonecalls is too silent, microphone does not really work (maybe just on my phone the micro is broken)

Ubports did a very good job to make the system useable on the N5 and i hope we can improve this still!
I will keep it as long as possible.

In OTA 3 kodimote, a remotecontrol for kodi mediaservers worked pretty well (better than in android).
With ota4 it stopped working, there is no update available.
Is there a way to make it work again? Michael Zanetti made this software.

An unified email client with calender support.
I would somehow prefer a comunication program: SMS, Signal, Telegram, mails,calenders....all unified in one good program with the ability of making a backup.
I would like to reduce this stupid app-mess of smartphones that apple and google created.

@C0n57an71n Thanks a lot, i found the problem. I was always questioning the settings and the software/firmware. It found my carrier, but it could not connect.
After trying your settings and trying all the other systems (PM-OS, ...) without any success i finally opened my phone and found the problem:
The antenna cable was unconnected from the mainboard... So i connected it and after booting it connected immediately to the carrier.
Unfortunately this error is hard to detect as the SIM works, it detects carriers, but it can't connect. I just saw, that on manual carrier choosing only few carriers were shown...

@advocatux Yes, i was running anbox on a fresh OTA-7 install. Switching to OTA-8 made it slow, switching to RC-channel installed version 36 and gave the performance back.
Now i tried to switch back to stable (version 6) and it works as well. But it removed anbox.
After reinstalling anbox (following to the documentation) my N5 works with OTA-8 and anbox.

@advocatux Thanks, but it didn't change. I tried all the settings, it changes with a audio recorder, but does not change anything while phonecalls.
Testsetup: call another phone close to you, turn off the other phones micro and listen to your speach. If you speak directly to the spaeker it's fine, if you turn the speaker a little bit away it gets disturbed.
Seems that phonecalls use the microphone differently than multimedia apps.

I think i will write a bugreport as this is one of the core functions of a phone.

@Elpibe :
First of all: uninstall the bluetooth file transfer app if installed.
I'm not an expert in bluetooth at all, but the pairing should also work over the command line. The terminal app lets you start bluetoothctl. Then you can try:
agent on
discoverable on
scan on
pair [your car]
trust [your car]
connect [your car]
exit
(please check the internet for more information)
I used these steps to connect two rasperry pies. "agent on" should be responsible for bringing up the pairing procedure.
In my case i tried the N5 with a volvo over the normal procedure. Pairing works, but i can't make phonecalls.
Good luck!