@kimo I have no experience with Volla phones but the Fairphone 4 would be a great choice for stability and readiness for daily driving. However, if you want a more future proof option, Fairphone 5 is better in mamy aspects but its port still has many quirks that needs to be fixed or addressed. One major thing is that there's massive battery drain because apps don't suspend and the device don't properly go to sleep.

@lduboeuf No, never used that.

@Martin5
This is by the way what happens when I encounter this issue. The Wifi icon has dots and stays like that.

First of all, it'll be really hard to address your concerns since you're in xenial which is outdated for more than a year now. The bugs you encountered might already be fixed but will never be fixed in xenial. Also please tell us which device you have. It may also be possible that your device have a port that is unmaintained or not in good quality.

I've never encountered your issue with the lockscreen and alarm. Perhaps you used passwd to change your password? You shouldn't do that since the settings app does something else and the system expects those. I've been using my UT device for my alarms for a decade now and I don't remember it failing. We don't have any complexities in time such as daylight savings though which perhaps causes these issues?

As for Libertine, it really is under-developed and never found it reliable. It works for some cases but definitely not with GUI apps.

For encryption, someone has experimented with it but nothing official yet. At the end of the day, someone has to put the effort on it but so far no one succeeded yet.

@arubislander Yeah, I've never encountered this issue as well except when dealing with external displays. Using passwd` is discouraged because it may cause issues since there are other things that happens when you change the passcode/passphrase in the settings app.

@Martin5 What happens when mobile data don't work? I'm actually having an issue on mine too and turning on mobile data will just change the Wifi icon to something like it's trying to connect but never connects. However, there are times mobile data works fine. In my case, there are multiple possible causes. This is a new FP4 I transferred to from my old FP4. I also upgraded to OTA-8 before transferring. And lastly, my new FP4 has an eSim configured on Android but it's inactive in UT.

@aimar No, slimport is an older tech that also needs hardware support on the device. The only solution is DisplayLink but it is a proprietary tech. In practice, it works on any device since it works through USB but it needs special adapter and app. UT doesn't currently support it or rather it doesn't support UT.

@messayisto Sadly no. There's a port but it's stuck with xenial and never reached a good state. It is not maintained anymore. Technically, the HD and FHD versions are mostly the same hardware-wise but they still need separate ports. It might have been easier to make though but still needs someone willing to do it. And it's also stuck with Android 10 for some reason while the HD version goes up to Android 11 which is the base of the UT port.

@TakoR UT's standby battery life can indeed be great though it still depends on the port/device. Back in the days with my bq E5, I usually only charge once a week
It's the screen on time that UT still needs work on

@stanwood Ocular? is that face unlock or eyes?
Face unlock seems common too but most of the time just rely on the camera so not that good. I feel like fingerprint unlock is an important feature these days so it's kind of a bummer if this doesn't have one.

@libremax The tablet really doesn't have a fingerprint reader? That seems like an automatic feature these days

@visible The port of that model is quite dead now so you might not get much help on this unfortunately.

@pe3noATo2DOTpl They still happen even if you use wireless display since that's basically the same, just wireless. And that isn't ideal anyway since input lag is very high.

@nicoladastra Dual sim has always been supported. As for esim, it could work but only if you set it up on Android and you enable it on UT side.

@pe3noATo2DOTpl The mouse problems I'm aware of are the scrolling issue in external displays ,where you can't use the mouse wheel to scroll most of the time, and the limited mouse movement when rotated in specific orientations when in the builtin screen.

As for the Launcher, it doesn't happen all the time but it does happen quite often. Usually, the pinned apps aren't shown anymore or at least some are missing. Sometimes, the icons are all over the place overlapping each other and having random empty spaces. BTW, when this happens and you pin an app or any modification to the Launcher, you will lose your original config even when yoh disconnect the external display.

There are other issues when connecting to an external display such as the following:

• Switching to the external display takes time and sometimes even crashing Lomiri and restarting it
• Some apps crash when connecting an external display. This happens in all apps with a webview so all browsers and webapps
• Disconnecting from the external display may take time too and also crash Lomiri.

I tried to look for reviews of this phone I can't seem to find a decent one on Youtube. One video says full review but the video never even showed the device in use

@carloratm Unfortunately, that model isn't supported anymore. The port isn't active anymore so it's stuck in 16.04 xenial.

@Papa-Emeritux I actually have recent experiences on this on both my Fairphone 4 and 5. I encountered this issue on my Fairphone 5 when I first flashed UT. However my experience went a bit differently. I had registered fingerprints on Android and I flashed UT over Android 14. So I thought that was the reason. I reflashed Android 11 then reflashed UT and fingerprint started to work. Note that I didn't register a fingerprint on Android 11, at least that's what I remember.

Now, just 2 days ago, I flashed UT on my new Fairphone 4 and again, I had registered fingerprints and also experimented on flashing UT over Android 13. It actually didn't even boot this time so I reflashed Android 11 then reflashed UT again and fingerprint just worked. This time I'm 100% sure I didn't register a fingerprint in Android 11.

So my conclusion is that the most likely step that fixes this is reflashing Android via Fairphone's official script. Perhaps it does something that resets the fingerprint or something.

@Schlicki2808 You didn't have an issue with mouse scrolling? That's currently broken and annoying but I guess you can still use it without that
And yeah, another broken thing is that the Launcher usually gets messed up when connecting/disconnecting an external display.

Let's wait for someone with a deeper understanding on this but just a quick note that better Wayland support and capabilities may come with the move to recent/latest Mir versions which is 2.x. Currently UT still uses Mir 1.x so Wayland support is quite limited. Good news is that there's progress on this regard but I'm not sure how soon it will be released though but definitely after the 24.04 Noble release.

@pe3noATo2DOTpl Based on a quick search, that device don't support wired external display so that kinds of breaks all your plans
Also, desktop use is honestly quite broken at the moment. It's not exactly usable due to issues with the mouse.