@Mr. Smartyman
I agree with Keneda. Kindness goes a long way. Why do you expect perfection? Do you see that from Microsoft's new products?

I know practically nothing in this field. Just a user. Started using Ubuntu 18.04 2 or 3 months ago. Last night I took a long time to install UT to my new used Nexus 5. The problems I had were exacerbated by my lack of knowledge. Patient study of the options listed often showed the way out of the trouble. I had a problem with UBports starting. I assumed it opened automatically. My installer said no port for this device. Install stopped when my device needed unlocking. Lastly, install interupted dozens of times, saying device connection was lost. I tried different cables and ports. When ready to give up, I tried recovery from the drop-down list from holding power+vol down. No more problems. Seems to me UBports has done a superb job when a complete newb can do this by trial and error!

Anyone can buy used phones to load UT on and sell them on Ebay. This would spread the UT name and it would take little organization. Anyone with UT experience could do it on their own in a heartbeat. There is a market for non-android phones. This forum has many comments about being sick of android. This idea has little competition and takes little funding or organization. At this stage of UT's growth, making UT available to those anxious for an alternative to android would spur demand and name recognition. The hard part for non-technical persons is installing UT. I've done it twice and it wasn't easy. Third attempt failed due to bad start button on phone. Will retry after replacing switch.

Later, marketing a new phone with UT installed may be workable, but I know nothing of the costs or how to go about getting manufacturing done. Maybe some phone makers would take custom orders for a large number of phones at low cost. Pinephone might be agreeable to giving some advice. I've seen a couple Nexus 5 UT phones for sale on Ebay for $120 each. That is twice the price of the same phones with android still on them. I don't know what they sold for. Just thought it might be worth bringing up on the forum.

Thanks for listening.
jjconstr

Hello, I'm Jerry. Don't have technical knowledge, just trying to use technology. Most of all leave the interference of the big companies. I have been using Ubuntu 18.04 for a few months and now will use touch when my Nexus 5 arrives. It feels so good to be free.

Hello,
Am planning purchasing Nexus 5 or Nexus 5x. The latter is new, has a better camera. Does anyone have an opinion on which is better for flashing Touch? Or other ideas?

I have been using Ubuntu Bionic Beaver for a few months now on my Win7 pc.

@Keneda
Any warrantee is only as good as the ethics of the manufacturer.

@Lakotaubp

Thank you for your reply. It's a help. I do need to take the easiest route here to achieve Linux freedom in my phone. I'll stick with the Nexus 5 since it is mature, supported and available.
Thanks again

@rocket2nfinity
Thank you for your replies. They give me direction in these uncertain times. I tried to use the command line when installing Ubuntu side by side on my Acer Win7 laptop. The instructions seemed clear enough but I failed miserably and repeatedly. Yes, the Installer and support are imperative. I made a small donation via PayPal when first discovered this site. Now I'll go back and make a larger donation. This is such good work and so needed. It's very important to keep it going.
Thanks so much!

@rocket2nfinity
Thanks for the confirmation. I tried some higher capacity batteries for a Moto e5 Play. got them from China of all places! Li-ion 4750mAh by Sporting Persistence. Instructions said they must be conditioned 2-3 times by charging 12 hours and fully discharging before recharging 12 hours each time. they didn't fully charge in 12, had to go another 12 and repeated the process 5-6 times. Now they work well, drain slowly in use. Maybe this is common knowledge for tech savy individuals.

@Lakotaubp
Thanks for your confirmation. Simple things like battery selection can be like reinventing the wheel if unaware of others' research. Thanks for keeping it simple! I'll go get one of those now.

@rocket2nfinity
ATT rejected my IMEI also, from their website. Though Id call them to make sure. Ill keep checking even for carriers with no service right at my house(we have land line also). By the way, what is MVNO

I checked my IMEI on Imei checker. It is a D820. one odd thing was under comments, IMEI.info: Negative byAnonymouson 2016/05/20 01:24Opinion:THIS IMEI # SHOWS UP ON A 16GB LG NEXUS 5 BEING SOLD BY WOOT.COM FROM A SELLER IN ASTORIA, NY

Is that just a dealer that sold it at one time? Or is it a bad IMEI?
Thanks for the great reply.

@rocket2nfinity
Still haven't activated on consumer cellular. Sim card they sent turned out to be wrong. waiting for a new one. Att is working well on my other N5. Sooo nice to be free of the interferances of Android! Thanks for freeing me!

Update: Have activated on Consumer Cellular. It was equal to ATT's signal strength for a couple days. Then today, nothing worked but text. Tried calling, was on hold for 70 minutes before hanging There were negative reviews with bad signal and service. Maybe they were down.

@jjconstr put the new sim card in. No signal in house where the att sim card got service. even though Consumer Cellular uses Same towers, doesn't mean they have equipment in all the directions that ATT does. So far, ATT is the winner. Thank you guys for your input.

SOLVED
After using Bluetooth File Transfer to move my contact list from Blackberry Priv, the preloaded Contact app opens without new contacts added. I don't see an import feature. In File Manager, I see a folder, qmlcache, with 156 files, (my contact list is 500+ entries). Tapping the info icon at the top shows a path-My device/home/phablet/.cache/com.ubuntu.address-book/qmlcache, which was created 4/21/20, accessed 4/4/20. Permissions:Read/Write/Execute. Each file in the list has an icon which is a dog eared page with numbers stacked vertically: 1, 10, 101, 1010. File names are long strings of numbers and letters ending in .jsc or .qmlc.

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated. If there is a better way to transfer data, please let me know. I've used Blackberry Content Transfer Successfully several times, Copy my Data not so successfully.
jjconstr

@ImmyChan Now have 3 Nexus 5's and am very pleased with UT. I agree with your accessment. Thanks for your input.

@applee

I'll save this info and maybe get back to working on it later. Maybe buy parts phones for the motherboards. Either that or buy working phones. Thank you for enlightening me.

Now have two parts phones on order. Also some data transfer media and adapters. Was able to transfer contacts and documents to at 63GB thumbdrive with micro usb plug. Plan is to see if this data can successfully be transferred to another N5.