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.

@klh I tried reporting it with my limited knowledge of the components involved, I may have used some wrong words to describe the problem and/or reported it in the wrong place. https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/core/packaging/qt6-base/-/work_items/2

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

@moem All though the app doesn't run 100% on 2.x at the moment, I use it to check messages whenever my Signal bridge is a bit under the weather. It always starts after a couple of tries. (No OSK, but very useful to check if there are any important messages waiting.)

I am so grateful for all the effort you put into this, @pparent , thank you!

I'm running RC1 on an FP5, and here are some of my impressions and issues:

• New Morph: It freezes from time to time (maybe a couple of times a day). Very good page rendering most of the time, things work as expected in a modern browser, sometimes even better on some sites than freshly updated Firefox on a desktop.

• Snaps: I'm sort of confused by the whole thing. I love it as an experimental feature, and I've had fun playing around with Snaps in 2.x, but at this stage I think we need more guardrails for casual users. I've tried a bunch of Snaps, a lot of them marked in the Open Store as mobile friendly and convergent (a description inherited from Snapcraft, maybe?), and they rarely launch, and when they do there is no keyboard, reading/writing files is a problem, copy+paste is not working etc. I really appreciate the effort being put into getting Snaps to work and I want it to continue, but including it without properly sorting the apps by usability in the store is just really confusing, despite the warning that pops up.

• The OSK sometimes overflows on the sides. This issue comes and goes, usually it disappears if I switch from Norwegian to English and back to Norwegian. Like in the picture. I have not seen this issue before in 1.3, it appeared a few days ago in 2.x and it happens in RC1.

• No OSK in the x11 apps.

• Finicky Bluetooth. Since switching to the RC, I have not been able to connect my Pebble properly, but some other devices connect more easily than in 1.3.

I'm nominating Podcat and RockWork! These two apps contribute hugely to my enjoyment of UT.

Which means of course that I nominate the devs Joan CiberSheep for their wonderful work on bringing the fun back to podcasts in UT, and Muhammad for his tireless and creative ways of bringing Pebble compatibility to UT. And for all of his bluetooth magic!

I'm a happy user of the files indicator! PodCat and PodPhoenix uses them to track ongoing and finished downloads, and it is very useful to see that the downloads are finished before I leave wifi in the morning. So to me this is a very useful feature, and definately not a bug.

That being said, I would also love some kind of icon/easier way for managing the function of a connected USB.

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.

This is an awesome initiative! I really love the idea, and how you see the potential in every community member to help with this project.

The one thing that gets me again and again is the keyboard crashing while I'm in an ongoing chat/SMS-exchange. That one really gets my pulse going.

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

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.

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

@pparent I tried your little experiment with Maps Exporter. The app launched in an x11 window, and the OSK was gone! This was a fresh install for me as I don't use Google Maps, but I verified that the OSK worked first when I launched it as a click the usual way by pressing the icon.

I really really hope we can find a solution to this that can be included in 2.0.

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

Did you install Android 13 first, before installing UT? That step in the guide is important for all hardware to work as expected.

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 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.

This is SO HARD and I absolutely love it.

Thank you again for another great app!

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.