No questions, just thank you.

Thank you for everything you do, all of you, thank you for every small and big contribution.

Hi! I've been daily driving Ubuntu Touch since around March.

1. Bluetooth:
   It has been working really well for months now. My car is too old, so I haven't tried any bluetooth stuff there, but it works well for connecting compatible smart watches, music listening on my stereo and through headphones. Calls work very well through my headphones.

2. GPS:
   It works, but with the usual UT limitations because there is no A-GPS. Getting first fix, or getting a fix after not having used gps for a while takes some time, up to an hour, and you need to be outside or close to a window to get the fix.

3. IDLE:
   Some power saving functions have been implemented, but app suspension seems incomplete at the moment, at least on 20.04 devel. I get around 1,5 days of battery time on moderate use, but have to charge each evening if I use the phone a lot.

4. NFC
   I haven't tried it yet, but it seems there are few apps for UT that actually use NFC. I would not expect using NFC to connect to a radio to work.

Other notable stuff:
Calls: Works fine, including VoLTE.
SMS/MMS: I have sometimes not received every MMS sent to me.
Waydroid: Works well.
Connection to PC: Works well both for Linux and Windows for me.
Wifi/network: Sometimes disconnects from wifi, and I have to manually reconnect. If I lose Wifi connection, I have to manually turn on mobile data.

It is also worth to note that the FP5 has no stable release channel yet. Development is very active on this phone right now, and new and improved things turn up often. I am very happy with my FP5, but some workarounds are needed now and then.

Edit: I just want to add that this is my experience with the phone, with my particular installation. Refer to the device page to see a more general list.

Thank you guys for making Cinny work on UT, and for sharing these bridge tutorials! This has solved so much for me!

I've had so many fun hours due to PodCat already! Thank you so much for doing this!

@Lindisfarne https://t.me/UBports_scandinavia

Use Teleports if the bridge doesn't work out.

My goodness! Thank you so much for your suggestions and clarifications! I reinstalled, and I'm officially in love with this port. Hoping to make this my daily driver someday.

You could report something working on that device's gitlab issuetracker, on the issue that was previously not working. Or you could mention it in the device telegram channel, if it seems relevant for other users and the device maintainers to know.

What can newbies do to help, other than donating? Enthusiastic and somewhat technical, but low in programming skills.

I have never tried using an SD card yet, but I have connected a lot of bluetooth stuff to my FP5. If I experience the behavior you describe, I run "sudo systemctl restart bluetooth" in the terminal and retry pairing/connecting. This always helps, but I have had to make the phone "forget" a device a couple of times.

You mention other roms - it is very important to be on the Android version mentioned on the FP5 device page in the installation instructions before installing Ubuntu Touch. Installing over another rom can result in everything from more bugs to an unbootable phone.

Lastly I want to encourage bug reporting here if you encounter something nobody has opened an issue on yet, or you can make a comment on an existing issue thread: https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/reference-device-ports/android11/fairphone-5/fairphone-fp5/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=opened&first_page_size=100

I've found that the Norwegian Obos banking app works in Waydroid. Vipps, BankID and DNB does not. Very few banking apps work out of the box in Waydroid.

I've not installed all of the fixes to get microG or gapps working in Waydroid, though. I was crazy enough to transfer my buss pass to Waydroid (Ruter app, works great) early on, and due the limitations on how many times you can transfer the yearly ticket between phones, I've not dared messing too much with the installation, as I'm not ok with the potential financial hit. I'll experiment more when it is time to renew the buss pass.

Swedes, Norwegians and Danes: We have a telegram group where such issues with scandi specific apps are sometimes discussed. https://t.me/UBports_scandinavia

The keyboard in the terminal has the ctrl commands for nano. Press the hamburger menu and hold your finger on it to navigate through the different ctrl options.

No questions, just thank you.

Thank you for everything you do, all of you, thank you for every small and big contribution.

I've had so many fun hours due to PodCat already! Thank you so much for doing this!

@haagch Yes, but I only got OSK on the second run.

I write notes in vi or nano in the terminal and use Syncthing between my phone and Xubuntu.

If I'm feeling the need for something more fancy, I use Libreoffice writer as a snap with an external bluetooth keyboard and sync the resulting file through Syncthing.

If it's just to send a link or something I use Teleports/Cinny to send it to myself.

Matrix is having massive issues and are rebuilding their database from backups. If the bridge is dependent on Matrix.org servers in any way that could be the cause.

Yeah, how do I activate any of the methods mentioned in the Q&A? If direct bank trasfers give the best ratio, I would set that up in stead of Paypal.

@Futura Most of the time, yes. But I am still on Focal.

@Futura A lot of us use Cinny, a matrix client. And then matrix bridges to signal and some other services. We also heavily rely on Telegram through the app Teleports for all of the UT groups.

• Is there a deadline for submitting translations that will reach the first stable release of Noble?

• Are there any particular Weblate projects we should focus on for translations, other than the Lomiri project?

• In Lomiri's Weblate project, what is the component "Online Accounts Plugins", and will it be reopened for translations in time for the first Noble release?

• Which donation platform/method is the best economically and practically for UBports?