I think everybody is interested in the actual state of

• 20.04 development-process:
  How far is this process ongoing? Are there any bigger problems? Is there an approximate timetable for the release?

• VoLTE:
  How far is this process ongoing? Are there any bigger problems? Is there an approximate timetable for the release?

I don't understand why people want to change from iOS/Android to UT but on the other hand still want to use all their services. In my opinion one effort of UT is, that you don't have to use accounts and services from these big companies and still have a functional and free phone in your hand.

I've upgraded my Volla from 16.04 to 20.04 with the installer. Here are my observations:

• Upgrade was easy and there were no problems with installing.
• With the first boot, the introduction/first start screen (Welcome to 20.04...) came up.
• My first SIM-card is PIN-protected and the system doesn't ask for the PIN automatically anymore. Now I have to unlock the card manually from the indicators. The second card (without PIN) works fine. The System is asking for the PIN-Code automatically.
• GPS is working with uNav.
• Calls (in/out) are working.
• WIFI is working.
• Cellular data is working (but only with SIM1).
• Flashlight is working. You can use the flashlight now with the app "uTorch", too.
• Automatic screen dimming is working.
• Camera is working (photo and video).
• Hotspot can be activated, but the device which wants to use the hotspot doesn't get an IP-address. Hotspot is working.
• Shutdown/Reboot from the indicator is working.
• Updates through WIFI are working.
• Battery-life seems to be like under Xenial.
• OSD (e.g. volume up/down) is working.
• Fingerprint is working.

I'll update this post if I realize any changes.

Update 26.12.2022: I've switched the phone to the 20.04 RC-channel and resetted the device using the "Erase & Reset All"-Option under system-settings.
Update 05.01.2023: I've switched to devel-channel.
Update 29.03.2023: I've made a fresh install of 20.04 stable OTA-1 via the installer with "wipe"-option
Update 01.08.2023: Update to OTA-2 via System-Settings

Is somebody able to tell about the status of "First steps in VoLTE"?
Is this project started, in which phase are we now, actual problems/showstopper, forecast?
I think this may help to clarify where UT stands in case of VoLTE.

Thanks

@domubpkm Work has started to open the door for you

@naizena When flashing my Volla with the installer it sometimes was so that the installer didn't restart my phone to fastboot-mode. It also said "flashing firmware partitions using fastboot" but I think it was still waiting for the phone to enter fastboot-mode.
When I restart my phone and select fastboot manually then the installer instantly started flashing. The whole process of flashing my device (with downloading files) takes around 5 minutes.
You can enter fastboot-mode by press and hold the power-button and volume-lower-button. Then there comes a little menu-selection where you can choose fastboot

Maybe you can test if it depends on your media files or something else. It seems that there is an option to prevent mediascanner from scanning separate folders by creating a file named ".nomedia" in the folder you want to prevent from scanning. I think you have not so many folders containing media on your phone so it would be easy to test.
After that please delete the DB and reboot the phone. I would expect that the DB-file will be rebuild but the mediaplayer will not know/detect any media on your device. If there's no double boot too you have found the problem. If not the search goes on

@bmarbol Here's what you're searching for.

Today Dekko2 is officially available for Focal in the Openstore and for me it's working like expected

How is the development of the "Bluez Upgrade" going on? On the Github project-page there's no status change. It would be nice if I can use the handsfree in my (new) car again.

I've also found a "solution" for the notch which is working for me. I modified the the patch for the vollaphone from unity8-notch-hax so that the panelbar has got a greater height and the indicators are placed under the notch. In that case the space left and right of the notch is unused, but for me it's better than not seeing the indicators (and the screen is still big enough ). Maybe we can find a better solution in the future for this.

@Flohack I think you had the right idea. The last couple of days I closed all opened apps before shutting down the device and there was no crash/restart of lomiri. So it could be that the issue is depending on the lower amount of ram. I will observe this behaviour. Thanks.

@eclku0 Hi, you can prevent mediascanner from scanning separate folders by adding a file named ".nomedia" into them.
Maybe you need to clean up the database of mediascanner by deleting "/home/phablet/.cache/mediascanner-2.0/mediastore.db", but I don't think it's necessary.

I've had this double boot issue for a long time on my E4.5 running stable. I also hoped that this would be fixed with the next OTA-update, but after every update nothing changed.
I didn't want to wipe the phone because it's my daily driver so I searched for the problem. In my case it was a corrupt media database. I deleted

"/userdata/user-data/phablet/.cache/mediascanner-2.0/mediastore.db"

and then reboot the phone. After that everything was fine again.

I've copied the "/etc/hosts" from my BQ to the Volla and now the adblock is working. I don't know, why uAdblock wasn't able to create/fill this file itself.

@domubpkm said in 20.04 Volla Phone:

@kristatos I didn't update to 20.04 yet. Thank you for your tests. What's about hotspot ? Very very useful for me : no update if it doesn't work

I've updated the first post with the information about the hotspot-feature.

@alter said in 20.04 Volla Phone:

@kristatos :
I'm using my Volla Phone as daily driver.
As such, also ringtone has to work.
Do you, by the way, also use Teleports and Axolotl messaging apps, and do they work on 20.04 already?

Hi, normally the Volla is my daily driver too, but I wanted to test how far the development on 20.04 already is (and my holidays are near ) . For now I use my E4.5 as my daily again (which I like much more because of the better size) and the Volla for testing.
I don't use Teleports or Axolotl, but as Lakotaubp already mentioned, even teleports should work already.

Hi,
I've the same bug on my E4.5. But in my opinion the bug was there from beginning on. It's like you described, you can't reproduce it. It can be that three calls will ring, the fourth not, and the fifth will ring again. I haven't found a solution and I have no idea why this is happening. But I think it is not a regression between 15.04 and 16.04, the bug was already in earlier releases.

Nice to hear that this fix works for other people with this issue also. @UKPhil I'm not sure if there's already a bugreport for this issue, if not you can add one and post my fix.

Re: Problem with shutdown/poweroff

I'm facing this bug on my Volla again and don't think it's because of less memory. When I have for example 4 apps opened in the background and then want to shutdown the device, lomiri is only restarted (ubuntu logo with dots underneath) and then I've to choose shutdown again.

With the todays update R368 the only things that are missing for me are "dekko" and "documentviewer". With this two apps I think I could already use the Volla running focal as my daily again. Some helpful stuff like flashlight is missing, but that's no showstopper.