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.

@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?

@messayisto I am totally ashamed to admit, that it was only a wrong password. I had to look inside my router to get that. So sorry ...
To repent, I will immediately donate something

Congratulations anyway to this great port, the OPO 5 is now my daily driver. And again thanks for your work.

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

Wouldn´t it be a good idea to withdraw or lock the latest version of the ubports-installer due to all the issues reported all over the different sections of the forum? just a question... I´ve been reading such a lot of problems and answers advicing to take an older version. So I find it easier to withdraw the actual version so taht not so many people running in trouble with it.

@nauvpp Hi!
as keneda wrote in your other post it is not good to lock the device again. Have a look here:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5509/re-ota-updates-not-working/25
and here:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6782/locking-bootloader-re-enabled-andoid/6

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

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.

There is an unofficial unlock-Tool:
https://xiaomitool.com/V2/
which worked for me on linux.

I also had to do the Ubuntuflashing using the UbportsInstaller twice... but now its kind of great!

@Linuxlite76 In my experience this issue is device dependant, port dependant and different in rc, stable and daily channel sometimes, so its a liitle guess and hit

@adorsaz On my oneplus Nord 10 5g I am still not receiving sms neither on the latest rc nor on daily. I had to revert to stable. There its working. Did write that to the porter on telegram, too. Maybe device specific?

@AppLee Thank you for your quick answer and your work anyways,its higly appreciated.
I cannot decide myself between a brax, a volla quintus and a fairphone 5. With all your knowledge and experience which one would you recommend at the moment? I obvioisly need assistance to spent loads of money...

@MrT10001 Me and another person here on the forum tried upgrading Sony Xperia X from focal to noble, but failed. It is stuck on the bootlogo and one of the devs or porters wrote that they are still investigating in it. So the Sony Xperia X is on the list of non upgrded devices.

@MrT10001 Thanks for the list - Maybe you could add the Sony Xperia X devices to the non- updated devices ließst.

@Linuxlite76 sometimes it takes up to two minutes in my device until mobile data come back. So its maybe simetimes a matter of patience

And these are the logs from the moment I switched back to stable.
https://dpaste.com/G5RUX2JBZ
Hope it helps.

@gpatel-fr https://dpaste.com/2DPWCA7DB
there is only one entry saying that the phone number is not valid followed by the name of my provider.
Sorry, I am just a normal user, I cannot read logs. I do not know how to mask the telephone numbers as well...

Does somebody has informations about the quality of the hardware and the porting process of UT?

@gpatel-fr I switched channel and went back to stable. (In daily sms didnt work either). All sms which I had not received before arrived at the same time.
Are you interested in the logs from now?