I know this may sound a little weird, but today I flashed UT on my Mi A2 at the first try. Succesfully.
The only thing I did before was unlocking the device with fastboot oem unlock (and then follow the instructions on the device) and download the vendor image as the installer (0.8.8-beta, app-image) was suggesting. I had to give the path to vendor.img and that was it. I did not flash twpr, I did not downgrade to android 9, the installation went through without any issue and everything is working fine as far as I can see... Only the video capuring broke afte taking one single good video... hm . I'm on stable channel now.
thanks to everybody at ubports and the porters and everyone here in this great forum, hope this report is encouraging.

I bought a used Quintus with VollaOS 15 on it. The multiboot function didn't work. So I installed Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 stable on it using the UBPorts installer. A very nice person on https://t.me/hello_volla explained to me that it wasn't necessary to downgrade. That seems important to me.
The installer even took care of unlocking the bootloader. The entire installation went smoothly. Great!
Almost everything works, even Dekko2, notifications, word completion, camera including video recording. I have 5G and I think even Volte (how can I check that exactly?).
Unlike what is stated here: https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/algiz/, I can't get the headphones to work via the USB output, but that doesn't bother me. Fingerprint does not work too, but thats a known issue and doesn't bother me either.
One small bug: In the launcher, the Dekko2 icon doesn't stop counting; only restarting Lomiri resets the number.
Overall, I'm totally amazed!

There's also a Telegram channel for UT: https://t.m/utonvolla. Unfortunately, I don't know the Matrix chat (anyone?).
So this is my new daily driver and I will report issues from time to time. Thanks to all the Volla and UT devs for their amazing work on this port.

@stanwood lets buy one huge pizza to them all!!!!

@unisuperbox Thank you to the entire team for all you do for this great project - thank you!

While watching you at the show, I could literally feel the burden you carry. I've felt that way before, but this time it was really clear to see and yes, to hear from you as well.
We normal users are greedy little animals, like children who always want more because it is so great what we are offered here, that's true.
But if we are reminded of that - and you rightly do from time to time - then we are also empathetic adults who know about the burden of your responsibility.
I want you to know that I am well aware of the weight of your responsibilities.
I probably feel as helpless as you do, because I can't do anything except a little communication and testing and some modest donations. But of course I know the situation, where everything becomes too much from my professional contexts as well. I think if you allow yourself that, the joy might come back. I hope it very much for you - and for all of us here. Good luck!

@ubportsnews Would You be so kind and explain a little the affection of Daltons departure on the current projects and developments? I am not shure that I have understood enough of the structure of the different teams and so on... So it feels like an earthquake - is it one?

This is kind of a pull request, or a suggestion, no: a deep wish of mine! :baby_angel:
In the legendary times of the N9 there was a game called "Heebo" by developper Mats Sjöberg. It was later ported by some people to Sailfish Os, because its totally open source. I love this game, you can download it here:
https://openrepos.net/content/hooddy/heebo
I wrote a mail to Mr. Sjöberg, and he answered that it shouldn't be too hard to port his game to Ubuntutouch. Unfortunately he doesn't own an Ubuntu Touch device, and without that it seems to be impossible to do any conversion.
He further writes: "The software and graphics are all open source, so if you know of someone who does know how to develop for Ubuntu Touch, I would naturally have no objections to anyone else porting it, and I would be glad to help in any way I can. In fact, the Sailfish and Android ports have been done by other people. I only created the original N9 (MeeGo) and Symbian versions."
So my question is: Is somebody here, who could port it? Unfortunately I'm not a developper at all, so I cannot do it, but if I could help, I would!
Thank You for listening.

@bhdouglass Onlyon Morph it looks like this...

A list of whats working on noble rc 24.04-1.2:

Manual brightness working
Torchlight working
Vibration working

Flashlight working
Photo working
Video working
Switching between cameras dont know how

Carrier info, signal strength working
Data connection working
Dual SIM functionality dont know
Incoming, outgoing calls working
LTE calling (VoLTE) working sometimes sometimes not as far as I can say
MMS in, out dont know
PIN unlock working
SMS in, out working
Change audio routings dont know
Voice in calls what does that mean? I can hear the other person and the orther person does hear me: yes
Volume control in calls working

24+ hours battery lifetime depends of use
7+ days stability no way, have to restart twice a week at least to get lost features back like i.e. proper change between wifi and mobile data

Boot into UI working
Hardware video playback working

AppArmor patches working
Battery percentage working
Offline charging working
Online charging working
Recovery image I am pretty shure its there
Reset to factory defaults did not try yet
RTC time working
Shutdown / Reboot working
Wireless External monitor dont know
Waydroid dont know

Bluetooth working in sense of using another loudspeaker, not in sense of transferring data
Flight mode working
Hotspot working
NFC dont know
WiFi working

Automatic brightness working
Fingerprint reader not working
GPS working
Proximity working
Rotation working
Touchscreen working
Double touch to wake working

Earphones working
Loudspeaker working
Microphone working
Volume control working

MTP access working
ADB access working

@3t_ed I am such a happy UT user, too.

@dunbrokin You sometimes have to tab and hold a link to get the confirm dialogue.

@Privacy-freedom Maybe try to ask the porters:
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/mimir/release/noble/

@steffend Applause! - do I get this right: Phonecalls are partially working, can you specifiy this? Thanks and admiration for your work.

@UBportsNews I know that its not allowed to talk about devices, but I find it worth to mention this link to the devs:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12216/eventual-port-for-a-pixel-9a/2
because irs a quite new device and a very high version of android. So maybe someone is inspired by this to make a real port out of it.

@RandomUser yes, its him.

@gpatel-fr thanks!

I contacted the guy who succeeded in installing UT on a pixel 9a to ask if this is going to be a real port. He answered the following:

"I’m slowly working on moving my mess of local repositories with untracked changes to git repositories with CI builds so the whole thing is reproducible. I‘m hoping that I’ll find some time in the next weeks to wrap that up.

Afterwards, it depends on if I can make the install procedure beginner friendly or not. I’ll need to look into the Halium recovery. So no promises from my side for a real port. I‘d like to see it, but maybe someone else will need to build on top of what I have."

You can follow him here:
https://chaos.social/@sd

@Moem thank you!

@UBportsNews Do things from the 24.04-2.x channel land in 24.04-1.x? And if not, what is the actual difference between these two branches?

@uxes @moem I contacted the guy who succeeded in installing UT on a pixel 9a to ask if this is going to be a real port. He answered the following:

"I’m slowly working on moving my mess of local repositories with untracked changes to git repositories with CI builds so the whole thing is reproducible. I‘m hoping that I’ll find some time in the next weeks to wrap that up.

Afterwards, it depends on if I can make the install procedure beginner friendly or not. I’ll need to look into the Halium recovery. So no promises from my side for a real port. I‘d like to see it, but maybe someone else will need to build on top of what I have."

Where is a good place here in the forum to post this?

@peat_psuwit Today on Volla Quintus sveral apps did not work, i.e. Mastodon, uDiaspora. After a restart everything went fine again.