Got it. Forgot to secure that domain, so the URL started with http instead of https which I always typed. Secured it and now it works.
Sorry I bothered you!
Best posts made by jojumaxx
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RE: Help with UBSync and NextCloud
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RE: Volla Phone identical to Gigaset GS290?
I purchased a Volla Phone on Indiegogo. Looking forward to delivery
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Help me understand one basic question, please
Please correct me, if I am wrong:
Compared to any Android based phone, the Pinephone offers most privacy due to most hardware operating with open source software and the hardware switches.
As an OS, focussing on privacy, shouldn't be the pinephone the first device to put effort in?
Additionally, isn't development on the pinephone easier?
Development should be much more efficient since there's no messing around with Android compatibility layers, proprietary hardware pieces, etc.So why is the most suitable device hardly maintained? Why wasting so much time and effort in adapting Android phones which develop so fast, UT developers hardly can keep up with?
If I get it right, after all the time, the Pixel 3a is the only device not lacking features. There are so many incomplete builds and despite that, new phones get added to the list instead of completing those which are there already.
If someone would ask me, which device to buy, honestly I don't know. The Pixel 3a is complete, but old. The others are incomplete. Even the preinstalled Volla Phone is not 100% ready and therefore way too expensive.Why not make the pinephone (pro) a really great UT device?
Why not concentrate powers on one device which can be most easily maintained and make it THE UT phone?I don't get it. Am I wrong with what I said?
Please help me understand that...Thanks!
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Volla Phone - Fingerprint reader stopped working
Hello,
the fingerprint reader of my Volla Phone doesn't work any more. It doesn't react at all. I also can't add new fingerprints, though it shows the screen and tells me to tap the sensor. It does nothing and recognizes nothing.
I had this before and after rebooting it normally starts to work again. I rebooted a dozen times now, but nothing changes.
Is there any way to check, if this is soft- or hardware related? Can I "talk" to the fingeprint reader in the terminal or something like that?Thank you!
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RE: Volla Phone identical to Gigaset GS290?
@makeixo I need to say another thing. Maybe I already own a Gigaset GS290 and maybe I'd like to try it with UT.
Why shouldn't I ask in such a case?
Instantly calling me acting unfair isn't right.And I'm just a user who isn't that deep in that thing. I even don't know if the port has been made by Volla or UBPorts. The letter case would make it legitimate.
But concerning your and my last post, I assume, the port has been done by Volla and knowing that, I would definitely support them since I also want UT and similar approaches to succeed.
I just want to make clear, that I support UT since years (I got 5 devices by now running UT) and I didn't mean to corrupt that in any way.
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RE: What happened to "flas"? Alternative?
@domubpkm yes, but since it's running in a browser it will stop playing as soon as I turn off the screen, won't it?
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RE: Working video codecs
I just realized that every video file I encode with Handbrake does work on my Meizu Pro 5. I reencoded all .mp4 files which didn't play before and after reencoding with Handbrake each of these Videos were playable. Even a movie (1,5 GB size) does work without a problem.
Strange to me is, that the codec specs (given by VLC) are the same before and after. So I can't trace down what the problem exactly is.
But knowing that, I have at least a way to make my videos playable on my device.I also encoded one video to .ogv (theora + ogg) but that still was not playable. I really wonder, what the problem here is and why .ogv doesn't work though it's open source...
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RE: How are the projects doing?
Lately I get the feeling Ubuntu Touch is dying.
I am writing this on a Volla Phone with Ubuntu Touch.
I got a lot of issues, like more and more websites (PayPal, Sony, etc) reject my browser (uAdBlock deacätivated), apps not working any more because they were abandoned (Fluffy Chat, for now, there's Cinny) and so on.
Now, Ubuntu 20.04 is months away...I got a Pinephone, too and I wonder, why this cheap device does so many things so much better out of the box (almost every OS). I don't have those problems, because I am allowed to install apps from the repositories, flathub and so on.
I wanted to back the new Volla Phone mainly due to the better camera. But since I'm not interested in Volla OS (tried it on my current Volla Phone), I didn't, because it doesn't make sense to me in the current state of UT.
What I like to know is, will UT be able to make enough progress to keep up or are the resources not enough?
The UBPorts Version of the Pinephone was let down already (I know, the community should have been responsible for that, but it's very annoying nevertheless).
What if I buy a new Volla Phone now, which isn't a cheap investment? Will there be a future?
I am only a simple user, but I am using UT since the first BQ came out. And I would love to do so in the future. But I need to know, if there is a future because right now, it doesn't seem so...
Please give me hope...
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RE: NextCloud Calendar Sync not working
Solved it. I had to connect to my NextCloud calendar via the more specific URL (https://<myserver>/NextCloud/remote.php/dav)
It seems to work now. Sorry for bothering you!
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RE: VollaPhone fingerprint not available after using developer mode
@jojumaxx Seems like the phone "forgot" about the fingerprints that have been saved at that time. So I couldn't choose the fingerprint option, since "there were" no fingerprints.
I deleted them all and created new ones and after that the fingerprint option was enabled again. It seems to work normal again.
Latest posts made by jojumaxx
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RE: How important is strong hardware?
@kugiigi I'm sorry if I got you wrong. Maybe I also expressed myself not good in my original post.
I am with Ubuntu Touch for 10 years now. I started with a BQ, had Meizus, a Pinephone, one of each released Volla Phones, the BQ tablet and maybe more.
I am not a power user. Browser, Mail, maybe a chat or radio. But none of these devices were really fluent. That's ok, I love them, they do what they're supposed to and give me a feeling of an eco system together with my Ubuntu PC.Since some components of Morph are too old, which leads to being rejected by more and more websites, my idea was to use Fennec or so in the Waydroid environment.
Since not even the base systems run fluently, I was afraid of what happens, if Waydroid comes on top.
I don't really wanna use Android, but there are things not leaving you a choice because of which I still got Volla OS running on my X23.My question was therefore, if the devices are really struggling with basic UT or if that's maybe a software issue. I was not sure if the phones are too weak or if the software "is just like that" and would cause the same behaviour on a more powerful phone. Maybe interaction on a Fairphone 4 is as slow/laggy as on any other phone, due to the system... This is what I wanted to know.
@MrT10001 I am with you. My PCs are more than 10 years old, but with a little more RAM, an SSD and according software there's no need to even think about new ones. And I try to convince people to give it a try instead of buying another Windows PC.
But these non mainstream phones are my weak point...
I was hunting these (officially supported) phones hoping there's one which performs better, like an addiction. And I like them all, so I can't manage to sell them. I like the rugged properties of the Volla X and the bigger elegant Volla 22...
But at least my wife uses them, my kids do, so they have a purpose and we don't provide too much data to the big tech corps... -
RE: How important is strong hardware?
Looking at the list of supported devices, most of them only have 4GB. I thought this is because UT doesn't need many resources, less than Android.
But what you imply would mean, that hardly any of these phones runs UT smoothly...?
Then I wonder why there have been hardly more than three devices with 6GB or more been ported...? Of which only one is not a community port.
And especially the recommended devices have mostly 4GB. Why would they do that knowing the devices are hardly suitable to run that OS?
That confuses me, since I thought I only have to wait a bit for the software to become better...Maybe I got some Volla Phones for sale now...
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How important is strong hardware?
I wonder for quite some time now, how many hardware resources UT needs.
Looking at standard flagship phones with 12GB of RAM, 4GB in most UT supporting phones seems almost rediculous. Though I'm quite convinced, that hardly anyone needs 12GB or more and Linux respectfully uses existing resources, I'd like to know if the hardware of e.g. the Volla Phones (1, 22, x) really is sufficient.
If I had 500€ and am about to buy a new device, is the Volla Phone 22 a good choice or should I consider e.g. the Fairphone 4 which seems much superior? Are 4GB of RAM enough or is the experience with twice the RAM much better (assuming RAM, CPU, GPU, etc. go hand in hand and more RAM means better hardware in general)?
Or is individual software to hardware adaption the key?What if the usage of Waydroid comes on top?
It would be nice if someone could give an overview and sort that out a bit.
My personal experience on several phones generally is, that (not always, but mostly) it's not really fluent (which also concerns simple gestures and scrolling in general). The browser reloads pages when quickly switching to another open app and back and generally it seems difficult to have more than one ore two apps open at the same time, since they all seem to buffer or reload most of the time when switching between them. But my impression is, that e.g. the Volla Phone 1 works better than the Volla Phone 22...
All my phones have 4GB of RAM (and according hardware) and I wonder if I had a much better experience on e.g. a Redmi Note 9 or Fairphone 4?Thanks!
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Alarm clock volume issue
On my Volla Phone 22 (UT 20.04, OTA-4, stable), the alarm clock always fires on max possible volume, which gives me almost a heart attack in the morning. No matter what settings or volume I choose.
I tried everything I found, like changing the sound, make all settings before creating the alarm, etc.
Even uVolMan doesn't help.I also got a Volla Phone X (UT 20.04, OTA-4, stable). Everything worked out of the box from the beginning (same settings).
So is there a device specific problem or what could be the reason for this freaking loud alarm?
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RE: How to remove Orange State?
All right, thanks for that viewpoint. I never saw it like that.
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How to remove Orange State?
Lately, I had huge trouble, when I tried to flash Droidian onto my Volla Phone 22.
The installer was for a short time in a state, in which it flashed incompletely and left my phone as brick.
Fortunately, the Volla support was able to revive my phone, but with an Orange State warning. I was told, to leave it that way.Since Droidian is too buggy on my device I went back to Ubuntu Touch but still get that Orange State warning. I want to get rid of that.
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RE: Morph failing on some sites
@domubpkm thanks for that. I'll close this then and wait.
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RE: Did UBPorts Installer brick my Volla Phone 22?
@sven The error message I pasted above tells about a missing image.
And at this time, as I learned, the installer was only partially flashing critical firmware partitions so if you came from android 12+ it would leave you with a brick...
This is fixed now, the Installer does a correct flash now. -
RE: Morph failing on some sites
@kugiigi Can be roughly estimated when there is an update to come, even if it is a long shot? Does that depend on something?
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Morph failing on some sites
I have problems using some websites with Morph.
E.g. I can't make payments with PayPal. The Website simply won't load from a specific point on, like it's blocking me.
Another example is EBay Kleinanzeigen (kleinanzeigen.de) which won't let me log in.Another website (I don't remember which one) told me, the browser version was too old.
Everything works on my other phone (Volla OS, Fennec Browser) and any other device I have.
I also tried the Sapot browser from the store without success.Can anyone think of what the problem might be?