@ktatar156 You are not comparing like with like. When Canonical were running the development they had full time paid engineers working on it. It was good, but there were lots of things that did not work right.... or at all.

Since then the development has been handed over to (mostly) umpaid engineers working in their spare time. UBPorts have managed to fund raise to get some paid developers in to work on the harder stuff. They managed to move the OS from 15.04 to 16.04 which was a massive achievement. Every OTA delivered performance improvements and the odd fix here and there. I still have an old Aquaris E5 running the last version released by Canonical. It sort of still works but it is so slow and a lot of things just stopped working over time as software moved on. UBPorts managed to fix most of these issues.

They are currently working on 20.04 and the initial results sound very encouraging. Hang around for a bit and enjoy the ride!

Just tried the demo from the OpenStote.

Looks good, works well. Bonus points for giving us a working tester to try it on, nice work.

@domubpkm I have started another thread about not being able to upload photos.

I'll leave this thread going to see if anyone can confirm/deny that this feature is intentional and what it was meant to do.

Thanks for you help. I'm just glad I was trying the right things and they just wouldn't work for me!

@becherekmg Just a guess, but would that be (reading top down) dev, rc, stable (all 16.04), then dev, rc (both 20.04). There isn't a stable 20.04 .....yet.

@sturai Tweezers. It might be best to power the phone down before attempting to remove the remains of the jack as you may inadvertantly short out the audio output

@applee There is also the saying 'never assume anything, because it makes an ass of u and me.'

But seriously you are right to say we learn from our mistakes. I like this notion, it means that I am very clever

@eheintzmann You can check to see if your phone has rebooted by opening the terminal and entering

uptime

Followed by return. This should tell you how long your system has been up (since the last reboot). I'm sure this info used to be available from the GUI but I can't find it.

EDIT:

Install Ubuntu Info from the Openstore. Open it up and click on 'System', the uptime is displayed on about the 9th line.

Sorry everyone!

@elcaset Yes, use the installer but make sure you tick the option to wipe data to remove all your friends stuff. As was mentioned above you don't need to reload the stock android for your device if it already has UT on it.

Sometimes things go a bit.'off' with UT and you may notice some 'strange behaviour'. Quite often a reinstall without the wipe option cures the problem.... and maintains your precious data.

Welcome to the wonderful world of UT. Enjoy

@AppLee In that case shouldn't there be 2 entries in the settings menu under 'language and text' for:-

Physical (external) keyboard layout

OSK keyboard layout

As it is going back from the physical layout, just labeled 'keyboard layout' takes you to the 'language and text' settings menu.... from where 'keyboard layout' takes you to the OSK keyboard layout menu.

No wonder people get confused.

@AppLee But surely labeling them to remove confusion could be a good idea

@AppLee In that case shouldn't there be 2 entries in the settings menu under 'language and text' for:-

Physical (external) keyboard layout

OSK keyboard layout

As it is going back from the physical layout, just labeled 'keyboard layout' takes you to the 'language and text' settings menu.... from where 'keyboard layout' takes you to the OSK keyboard layout menu.

No wonder people get confused.

@lduboeuf That makes sense. Thank you for the clarification.

@AnhVu Facinsting. If you drag from the left of thre screen and open 'settings' then click on 'language and text' and then on 'keyboard layouts' you get a restricted list of possible keyboards.

If you pull down from the top of the screen, scroll across and select 'keyboard' and then click on 'keyboard settings' you get a much BIGGER list of keyboards.

Try that and let us know how you got on.

@AnhVu Did you try scrolling down?

I have pages full of keyboards on my Vollaphone X running OTA 8.

@drbsin Using the UT installer.

@kugiigi If that has happened would the easiest way out be to reinstall with the option to wipe user data unticked? Then start up and set password/passphrase?

@drbsin Does your passphrase include any spaces?

@drbsin Strange, it works for me. I just tried it on my Vollaphone X and I'm fairly sure it worked on my Nexus 5 and my BQ Aquaris 5.

The same passcode or passphrase you use to access the terminal should work for sudo.

@drbsin Whatever you set as your paassphrase on first run. The pincode you use to unlock the phone.