Wow! Latest ubports newsletter has a hint that VoLTE and 5G may be coming to FP5:

"...by way of a sort of happy accident 5g should be available first, and has been tested on FP5 and 4..."

Looking good!

Hi,

I am still running Xenial on my pixel3a.

I am thinking of upgrading to Focal, however this is my daily driver so I've been a bit cautious.

First I just want to make sure that the stability is fairly good on Focal and there's no degradation in network connectivity as I obviously need the device to function at least as good as it does now.

Next, I use some apps that don't have Focal versions such as quickddit. Will these continue to work after upgrading?

Cheers

@beyolf Thanks, looking forward to it!

Hi,

This will become a problem in Australia soon too (and might already be an issue for some carriers here). The largest provider here, Telstra, is planning to switch off their 3G network in June 2024.

I'm not sure what the status is of a crowdfunding effort, but I would also donate, at least a small amount for VoLTE support.

Merry Christmas / Happy holidays!

Thanks for the reply! Just for comparison's sake and for other people I've put down my limited experiences in VollaOS as well. Worth noting that I also have not used it that much yet.

@jojumaxx said in Volla Tablet on UBPorts questions:

From the short time I tried (without any troubleshooting) I can say:
UT doesn't always recognize the keyboard at startup. You need to disconnect and reconnect to make the tablet realize, the keyboard is there.

I just had this happen on VollaOS - although I connected the keyboard case to the tablet during startup so might just be because of that.

Tapping on the touchpad or two finger scrolling etc. doesn't work. You have to use the physical "mouse" buttons. The sensibility of the pointer is too low.

I've been using an external USB wired mouse when keyboard case is connected so cannot comment on touchpad.

Even though there are mouse and touchpad settings you can't set anything because it asks you to connect bluetooth mouse and keyboard.

Battery life: Can't tell yet

Bugs: Sometimes charging takes the whole day and it discharges even while charging. When turning it off it keeps discharging and shortly after the battery is completely drained.
But that's not always the case (I haven't figured that out, yet). And yes, I'm using the charger and cable delivered with the tablet.

I have also experienced long charge times - I charged one time while tablet was connected to the case and it took a very long time (basically a whole day). Unfortunately I don't use the tablet enough to say with certainty this had something to do with the case.

Yes, there is a stable 24.04 release

Wifi is stable so far.

Haven't installed Waydroid yet.

Maybe that helps a bit...

Thanks again. I'm still on the fence as to what to do. If I can find documentation for switching to UBPorts, but also for switching back to VollaOS (or another android based OS supporting Android apks) again I might at least give it a go. I really need an RDP client (or perhaps a good VNC client) to make it worthwhile to switch.

Hi,

I am wondering how well the Volla Tablet works with UBPorts? In particular:

• How is the battery life?
• Are there any bugs?
• Is anyone using the volla keyboard case with it - does it work well in UBPorts?
• Is there a stable 24.04 release for Volla Tablet?
• How is the WiFi stability?
• Is waydroid working now? (see note below)
• Has anyone installed UBPorts on the Volla Tablet replacing VollaOS in the process? (or perhaps setting up dual boot?)

The next bit might be better in a different thread, but I'll try my luck here:

Also, I would like to use this device for two main purposes:

1. As an RDP client - it'd be a useful little device to RDP into some Windows systems and use as a portable client for some work that I need to do.
2. As a media player.

I can't see an RDP client on openstore - anyone know if libertine + remmina or rdesktop would work okay - or maybe if waydroid works, possibly an RDP client from android? Having mouse + keyboard support would be essential.

How are the video playing capabilities on UBPorts these days?

Cheers

Wow! Latest ubports newsletter has a hint that VoLTE and 5G may be coming to FP5:

"...by way of a sort of happy accident 5g should be available first, and has been tested on FP5 and 4..."

Looking good!

Thanks, I've signed up! Now just have to be patient for any news on FP5

@CatWithUT good find ! And where do I sign up to these newsletters?

I'm very eager to hear further news on this too!

@beyolf Thanks, looking forward to it!

Hi!

Long time user of Ubuntu Touch and UBPorts. Firstly, thanks so much for all of your efforts; it's incredible what you've been able to accomplish.

Now to the questions - my existing pixel3a is sadly showing signs of dying and I'm looking into getting a newer device. There were rumours Marius was eyeing off a Fairphone 5 - is there any news on that front? I should read posts better - this probably skirts too close to a question on a device being ported, sorry!

Also, sorry to sound like a broken record as I know this comes up frequently, but what's the latest on VoLTE, and dare I say it, 5G? :astonished_face:

Thanks heaps!

Hi,

This will become a problem in Australia soon too (and might already be an issue for some carriers here). The largest provider here, Telstra, is planning to switch off their 3G network in June 2024.

I'm not sure what the status is of a crowdfunding effort, but I would also donate, at least a small amount for VoLTE support.

Merry Christmas / Happy holidays!

Hi,

Thanks all for the comments and suggestions they were a great help.

I've only just ended up moving to Focal on my Pixel 3a, about 30 minutes ago.

Please don't take any of the the following as a criticism - I am happy on UBPorts and it's on my daily driver, but in case it helps anyone considering the upgrade this was my experience:

• Selecting the 20.04 Stable channel somehow went wrong, and it downloaded and installed 16.04 Development (!?) without me realising until it had installed
• Attempting to select the 20.04 Stable channel was an issue - it seemed to switch randomly to other channels (!?). Eventually it "stuck" on the 20.04 Stable, and I could see that the Ubports update it was downloading was labelled as 'Update 3' or 'Version 3' or some such which gave me some hope.
• Install of 20.04 worked, and it rebooted into 20.04 fine. Had to re-select language and location. It also began the introductory tutorial again.
• Noticed the UI scaling had changed and become larger (more on this later)
• Keyboard theme had reset, UI theme had reset to the standard white theme (more on this later)
• Essential applications still appear to open and work, for me these are:
  • Axolotl
  • Quickddit
  • Google Mail
  • Authenticator NG
  • Messaging/Phone (actually untested, because it's late here, but they open)
• Camera app has started working again - this had failed in 16.04 for me. I knew this was software related and not hardware as the 'Tagger' app would work with the camera.
• OpenStore is misbehaving - it doesn't appear to update applications properly, and they disappear from the app drawer after I try, but after a reboot the updated applications re-appear and also seem to have updated okay. OpenStore continues to misbehave.
• Two terminal apps show up. One was non-functional. It was easy to uninstall the old one through OpenStore.
• Investigating scaling / theme change... and I need UT Tweak Tool which isn't available in OpenStore for Focal!
  • Existing UT Tweak Tool install doesn't work (not surprised at all about that, but thought it worth pointing out for others)

Now I realise why domubpkm in an earlier comment wanted UT Tweak Tool available for Focal. I installed UT Tweak Tool ages ago on Xenial and forgot about it. Turns out I must have had the scaling turned down and a custom dark theme installed and just didn't remember. Now I'll have to live with the larger UI elements and white theme in Focal. I'll live

All in all, pretty good - I have the essentials and can work around the odd behaviours. I might consider re-installing OpenStore as per it's about page, but wasn't sure if there are potential downsides.

Hi,

I am still running Xenial on my pixel3a.

I am thinking of upgrading to Focal, however this is my daily driver so I've been a bit cautious.

First I just want to make sure that the stability is fairly good on Focal and there's no degradation in network connectivity as I obviously need the device to function at least as good as it does now.

Next, I use some apps that don't have Focal versions such as quickddit. Will these continue to work after upgrading?

Cheers