https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1596/promotion-as-one-of-main-categories-on-this-forum/4

@Pulsar33 says:
IMHO, Ubuntu Touch will easily conquer the world if and only if :

There is enough Core Apps free of major bugs
There is enough Hardware for which it works
People can easily develop or port applications
Without that, you can do as many promotion as you want, it will be useless

Living proof (of concept):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyOcQtNDZwM

Community interview with the creator of FluffyChat:
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-audiocast-040-the-krillekast-189

FP2

The pre-installed apps seem to load all right, except for WebView Shell, which I don't think is even an app.

After some continued use, they all seem to crash on open. Functionality seems to come back sometimes.

I was able to install other apps. BUT, no on-screen keyboard

NOTE: Updating Ubuntu Touch will kill anbox completely, and you have to re-flash the anbox kernel again.

[EDIT] See this post: https://forums.ubports.com/post/38767 below. Thank you, Konrad!

I was inspired to try out the porting guide during the live porting session this past weekend:

I was able to make halium-boot and systemimage once, but the device didn't boot in the end.

There are a number of challenges with this device:

1. There is no official lineageos port: I found this possibly working port https://github.com/djselbeck/android_device_sony_kagura/

2. This is a "tone" device. It might need the SW_binaries_for_Xperia_AOSP_N_MR1_5.7_r1_v08_tone.img from (https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/guides/kernel-compilation-guides/how-to-build-and-flash-a-linux-kernel-for-aosp-supported-devices)

3. Manifest is a hackjob assuming that since the Lineageos port borrows from the "sumire" device, that copying those parts might work:

<manifest>
    <project path="device/sony/kagura" name="android_device_sony_kagura" remote="djselbeck" />
    <project path="device/sony/common" name="android_device_sony_common" remote="los" />
    <project path="hardware/sony/timekeep" name="android_hardware_sony_timekeep" remote="los" />
    <project path="kernel/sony/msm8994" name="ubports/android_kernel_sony_msm8994" remote="hal" />
    <project path="vendor/sony" name="proprietary_vendor_sony" remote="them" />
</manifest>

Adding the remote as well, assuming that it is useful:

<remote name="djselbeck"
        fetch="https://github.com/djselbeck"
        revision="cm-14.1" />

4. There was no vendor file in https://github.com/TheMuppets/proprietary_vendor_sony
   So, assumed that this might get somewhere:
   copy vendor/sony/sumire to vendor/sony/kagura
   rename sumire-vendor.mk to kagura-vendor.mk

5. Not sure about this one. It complained the first time, but not in later attempts
   edit device/sony/kagura/BoardConfig.mk to reflect kernel m8994 instead of m8996

6. There is no kernel config, so... (again maybe a better kernel config somewhere)
   copy sumire kernel config to kernel/sony/msm8994/arch/arm64/config/tone_kanguro_defconfig

7. When Buiding system image i had to use

LANG=C make systemimage

However, later attempts didn't make it far. I mistakenly used the "lunch" command the first time, but probably should use "breakfast". Attempts have been unsuccessful.

Just thought I'd share that and hope that somebody else is interested and has a better idea what to do.

The device, however, is not very friendly to android roms in general, so expectations are pretty low.

Here are some 5-minute tasks that will directly help today:

1. Contact someone you know and tell them about UBports. Bonus if they are a developer.
2. Say hello to someone in the community; get to know them; show gratitude
3. Submit your "profile" to @wayneoutthere for the community inventory. Who is who?
4. Confirm a bug, comment, etc. as @advocatux mentioned.
5. File a bug
6. Commit to helping in a focus group. This will lead to more tasks.
7. Reach out to stale contacts and see what they are up to. Eventually down the road you can talk to them about ubports.
8. Tell us about another 5-minute task
9. Try a new app, comment on it.
10. Write one sentence of a blog post.
11. Write down suggestions.
12. Respond to someone's problem on the forum
13. Help someone reach the Welcome and Install room
14. Come up with an Ubuntu Touch pitch
15. Write down one thing that could improve and how to improve it. e.g. part of website
16. Read this list.
17. Learn how to use github
18. Ask a question on the forum, or Q&A.
19. Subscribe to the UBports Patreon: BONUS - think of how we can use that channel better.
20. Write one line/verse of a song
21. Transcribe 5-mins of a Ubuntu Touch Q&A
22. Create a forum topic from an audiocast, or telegram chat idea
23. Repeat anything above until something is done.

@Toadtoad
Wow. I think this is it. Even with the screen not awake this works.

1. Hold the superkey (windows key) for about a second.
   While holding press 4. which is the default location of settings.
2. This gets you to the login, where you type your password and press enter.
3. Now phone is in settings. Press TAB 24 times. Then Press space.
4. Now you are in About. Press TAB 7 times. Then press space.
5. Now you are in Developer Mode. Press TAB 3 times. Then press space. This enables/disables developer mode.

@negations said in Rocket Chat:

rocket chat

It's very cool that your whole workplace uses Ubuntu!

It looks like you can login to the chat via web browser (https://rocket.chat/docs/user-guides/connecting-to-a-server/)

So, theoretically a UT webapp could be used in this situation. I would say, try loging into the rocket chat that you use in morph browser on UT. If that works, then you should be able to get it going in a webapp.

This is a hot topic, but I think it's important to follow what @UniSuperBox has mentioned.

Great discussion though! There are many other topics that we can discuss openly like:

• What kind of "bounty" system would be most attractive to developers and non-developers?
• Critical missing features/apps (related to above point), as also mentioned in the recent Q&A
• Companies and benevolent dictator(s).

Thanks for your thoughts, sunshine

Hi @UKPhil ,

If you are on the 15.04 channel, then you won't be receiving many (any?) updates as development has shifted to 16.04.

16.04 dev has daily updates.

16.04 RC was also released, and is almost as functional as 15.04. Some applications still have not made the change, so it may not be ready as a daily driver.

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-rc-ota-4-148

Soon, OTA-4 (16.04 stable) will be released, and should continue receiving updates.

@dieharddan I compiled this one if you trust it:
https://filebin.net/6y0v59bi1lcjjlnd (the download will expire in a few days)

Otherwise, you can compile from source: https://gitlab.com/myii/ut-tweak-tool

You will need clickable installed (https://clickable.bhdouglass.com/en/latest/) and git.

git clone https://gitlab.com/myii/ut-tweak-tool.git
cd ut-tweak-tool
clickable build --arch arm64

The click package will then be in ut-tweak-tool/build/aarch64-linux-gnu/app/

Let me know if you have any other questions on that

@joe said in Ubuntu Touch on Sony Xperia X:

Would this port also be related to the Sony Xperia XZ? or are they completely different devices when it comes to the code?

I have made some first step attempts with this XZ port. I will start a new thread somewhere if it gets anywhere. Feel free to contact me if interested.

Thanks, @Lakota

Would anyone like a dedicated forum area for topics discussed on or proposed for audiocasts?

There isn't an official guide, but you would want to do something like this:

1. Backup everything with TWRP.

2. Export the Backup to somewhere outside of the device.

3. Test to make sure that the backup can be re-imported and reflashed via new TWRP install.

4. Install Ubuntu Touch. It will likely need to wipe even the recovery portion (so you lose everything on the device). Enjoy.

5. If you have to go back then you will have to re flash TWRP, and import the backup from your computer.

@Specsx
I made a video for the OnePlus 3:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYvLqPPf3q4

Not the same as OnePlus 3t, but pretty close...

I'm not sure about UBports recovery, but with TWRP you can adb shell when in recovery mode.

That will give you access to the filesystem to a certain extent:
/data/system-data/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections

Create a wifi profile there (a text file which is the name of the SSID with no extension). You might have to push a file to the device because there doesn't seem to be an editor. Unless you want to cat every line into there.

[connection]
id=
uuid=
type=wifi
permissions=
secondaries=

[wifi]
mac-address=
mac-address-blacklist=
mac-address-randomization=
mode=
seen-bssids=
ssid=

[wifi-security]
auth-alg=
group=
key-mgmt=
pairwise=
proto=
psk=

[ipv4]
dns-search=
method=auto

[ipv6]
addr-gen-mode=stable-privacy
dns-search=
method=auto

If that works somehow. Then you would have to find a way for the device to start the ssh service automatically once booted into ubuntu touch.

http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/advanceduse/ssh.html?highlight=ssh

Not sure where the developer mode config is hidden...

@3arn0wl said in Making Ubuntu Touch an easy choice:

I'm still interested, @joe, but you have to get the editing process sorted out.

Any suggestions?

Editing is usually not a problem. We have lots of people who can review and edit. It's just the writing/creating part that doesn't seem to happen very easily.

We can use pad.ubports.com , or any tool to write something, then you can send it to the marketing group, and we will edit and post etc.

If we can get enough people to form more of a team around writing, then we will put them all together. @lionelb has been doing most of it on his own in the past.

Coincidentally, @Amolith just taught me this today:

1. Connect device to computer with USB cable (make sure it's in developer mode: Settings --> About --> Developer Mode)
2. Open terminal on computer
3. adb exec-out timeout 120 mirscreencast -m /run/mir_socket --stdout --cap-interval 2 -s 384 640 | tee ubuntu_touch.raw
4. Then you can convert the raw file into an mp4:
   ffmpeg -f rawvideo -pix_fmt rgba -s:v 384x640 -i ubuntu_touch.raw -filter:v "setpts=2*PTS" ubuntu_touch.mp4

@stefano said in Development testers for Anbox:

@joe sudo apt remove anbox-tool
sudo apt purge anbox-tool
???
Flash it over with Ubports installer without wipe?

FYI, none of those were able to remove anbox. I guess it needs to be wiped completely?

@Elpaisverde Sorry to hear about that.

That's an interesting bug that you have found. I wonder if it's the same as this one: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/46

Maybe the VPN Editor tool might help to fix it:
https://open-store.io/app/com.ubuntu.developer.pete-woods.vpn-editor

Let me know how it goes.