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!

@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'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

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

It can take a long time. Like really long. I use waydroid helper if I need to initialize or reinstall, then leave the screen on with the phone charging. Sometimes it takes five minutes, sometimes 50 minutes. I'm also on FP5.

@Futura I'm located in Norway. Not EU. We have 2G fallback for a few more months on my network, but I've confirmed it is not falling back to 2G while calling. 3G has been gone for a while already. However, I don't remeber seeing reports of FP5 users in the US yet, I have no idea if the bands in use are compatible. I would wait for more reports and look into the specific bands used.

I believe there is a couple of Xiaomi phones confirmed to work over VoLTE in the US, have a look at the thread about reports of working VoLTE devices.

@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?

@wally I've been using paypal, is that maybe not the best option either?

@Futura

Report issues on the Gitlab issue tracker for Fairphone 5. I'm out in the woods, so I can't find the direct link right now, but I imagine you'll find the issue tracker somewhere near the source code listed on the device page.

Join us in the FP5 Telegram group for more real time ish communication and troubleshooting. https://t.me/UTonFP5

@Futura I'm located in Norway. Not EU. We have 2G fallback for a few more months on my network, but I've confirmed it is not falling back to 2G while calling. 3G has been gone for a while already. However, I don't remeber seeing reports of FP5 users in the US yet, I have no idea if the bands in use are compatible. I would wait for more reports and look into the specific bands used.

I believe there is a couple of Xiaomi phones confirmed to work over VoLTE in the US, have a look at the thread about reports of working VoLTE devices.

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.

It can take a long time. Like really long. I use waydroid helper if I need to initialize or reinstall, then leave the screen on with the phone charging. Sometimes it takes five minutes, sometimes 50 minutes. I'm also on FP5.

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

What is the general state of emergency alert messages in UT? It seemes available in the UI, but can users expect it to work in an actual emergency?

Could this be added to the device pages as one of the items in the check list, if it is expected to work?

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