i will also say that when i ran the command it took a good 2 minutes before the screen turned back on. it was hung up for a bit but once it finished the screen was on. so yeah thats interesting. my waydroid crashes sometimes but im going to fix that later, and if i cant... e/os it is

@gpatel-fr yep, i just found out by ssh into the phone and running this command

sudo systemctl restart repowerd

turned my blackscreen back on. So this is the main culprit but also the bug you just referenced stated repowerd could be the problem or waydroid with both leading to crashes and black screens. i think me and you have been experiencing both on and off with each giving a seperate edge case to start but nonetheless the same result.

so whats next? how can we fix this problem? i would love for my waydroid application to be on all the time lol

@gpatel-fr oh yeah that waydroid stop app thing doesn't work lol, i found that out awhile ago. running the commands like waydroid stop definitely doesnt work. so i resort to killing the Pid

@gpatel-fr for me when my system black screens all i can do is type, i still have access to ssh though and can run commands from my laptop.

@gpatel-fr Sorry it took So long for me to get back to you, i thought i had a simple fix where i would just put waydroid as a background app and leave a native UT app in the foreground. this worked for a while until i tried to get microg working on waydroid. The problem i think we are having is waydroid not releasing the screen and keeping the screen off if we were to turn the screen off while waydroid is active and let it rest for a while this will happen. Another thing is this seems to come up whenever i use Signal, normal resting and its fine. im not sure whats going on but it seems there some incompatibility with waydroid and Ubuntu touch when idling or sleep mode.

this hurts compatibility for me because i would love to have my waydroid running while my screen is off as i can get notifications and such. What do you think or would recommend as an alternative to waydroid? especially for android apps? Not running Waydroid and just getting a seperate device for that? this is troubling

@gpatel-fr hey can you point me in the direction to make systemd unit file without changing the system from read-only?

@gpatel-fr yes, you have to leave it for about 10-15 minutes for the system to idle. once its idle, it will not allow the blank screen to come back up to a login screen or anything honestly. also just stay on the waydroid home screen and either let it go black Or turn the screen off yourself for 10-15 mins. Im not sure whats causing this on my phone. the key part is to keep the waydriod homescreen as the main active app and dont switch off of it

thanks for responding

i have a problem when using waydroid and ubuntu touch on fairphone 5. im running android 13 with version 24.04-1.1 stable

a problem i come across a lot is keeping waydroid (full application open) on and then setting my phone down to do something. my ubuntu touch device goes to sleep and then when i go to try and turn the screen on, it doesnt turn on. i then try tapping the device only to hear the tapping sound of the buttons but still nothing.

right now the only way out of this is by holding the power button and the volume down button to reboot the phone. This is massively frustrating, does anyone have a solution to this? i really want my waydroid phone to be on and not have it crash my entire linux phone's screen when it goes to rest or when ubuntu itself rest.

Ok so i figured out how to get around this but i wanted to put this here just in case if anyone had a similar problem, i just got mint mobile activated on the phone pretty easily actually, just popped the sim in and it worked after going through the steps on their app (activated on waydroid mint mobile app). HOWEVER! everything worked except for my hotspot.

I turned my hotspot on and my phone crashed, did it 4 more times and it was consistent! So i decided to turn my cellular network off and then turn the hotspot on and it worked. after going through the initial setup of the hotspot username and password, i could no longer reproduce this bug.

If anyone is going through a similar problem, turn cellular data off and then setup your hotspot username and password. after that you can use the hotspot and even change the username and password while the cellular data is on, it wont crash your phone.

Edit: Restart your phone after setting up your hotspot for the hotspot to officially start working.