Hi,

I own the BQ Aquaris M10 FHD (5 years now since it's been out), initially with Canonical's Ubuntu Touch, subsequently with Android 6.2 (which I'm still using to this day). I've been following the current UBPorts effort for a very long time. I never actually used UBPorts UT version since I have a daily use of the device and don't want to go through the hassle of re-configuring everything afterwards while it is working now. But I still thought that I might switch one day, probably after Anbox/Waydroid was working (I gave a bit to the crowdfunding).

Now, I've just read in Q&A 108 that it might be dropped from future supported devices when UT is ported to 20.04.

This made me remember a parallel effort from a guy (R0rtiz2) on a different forum (HTC Mania) to port it to a more recent version of Android (than 6.2) via LineageOS.
From what I read, he mostly ported it to LineageOS 15.1 which would be Android 8.1-based. Most things work, at a few exception.

https://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=1560183 (probably must be registered to access)

¿QUE FUNCIONA?

Cámara.
Grabación de Videos.
DRM (L3)
Sonido/Audio.
OMX (HW).
Sensores.
Carga offline (kpoc_charger).
MTP/ADB.
Wi-Fi.
Bluetooth.
LED de notificaciones/batería.
DT2W (Doble toque encender la pantalla).
LiveDisplay.
Radio FM.
Thermal.
Gatekeeper/Keystore.
Cast (Enviar Pantalla).
GPS.
HDMI (vídeo).
Grabadora de Sonidos.
OTAs.
SoundTrigger.

¿QUE NO FUNCIONA?

Sonido por HDMI.
GPS sin conexión a internet.
OMX (HW).
Chromecast.

This made me wonder if that work could actually help save the Aquaris M10 from being scrapped when 20.04 is up and running. You never know.
Is this useless or is this something to work on?

Thank you for the amazing work.
Even if this means I will have no use of UT, I'm still looking forward to Lomiri on the desktop (I run Manjaro and I know Marius has made a repo available at some point, but I couldn't make it work).

Cheers.

@rondarius Thanks for your reply.
I assumed the problem was the work to bring it to a more recent version of Halium (through Android). I thought that maybe if that work is already mostly done and the subsequent effort to bring it to the common mutualized Halium base is lighter than expected, it would make things easier and maybe even manageable for an extra couple years of support.
But from your answer, it seems it's not the only block of work to undertake to keep on supporting it, and kernel updates are another big chunk that amounts to too much.

It would be sad, I kind of thought it was a 1st class citizen (in the device support) and would be supported a bit longer due to historical nostalgia (one of the few official UT devices) but of course I understand priorities are elsewhere than a 5 years old device.
I was just throwing something out there to see if this could help in reducing the work to make it happen. If not, I'll stay on Android 6.2 until the end of (its) time, I can live with that.

Hi,

I own the BQ Aquaris M10 FHD (5 years now since it's been out), initially with Canonical's Ubuntu Touch, subsequently with Android 6.2 (which I'm still using to this day). I've been following the current UBPorts effort for a very long time. I never actually used UBPorts UT version since I have a daily use of the device and don't want to go through the hassle of re-configuring everything afterwards while it is working now. But I still thought that I might switch one day, probably after Anbox/Waydroid was working (I gave a bit to the crowdfunding).

Now, I've just read in Q&A 108 that it might be dropped from future supported devices when UT is ported to 20.04.

This made me remember a parallel effort from a guy (R0rtiz2) on a different forum (HTC Mania) to port it to a more recent version of Android (than 6.2) via LineageOS.
From what I read, he mostly ported it to LineageOS 15.1 which would be Android 8.1-based. Most things work, at a few exception.

https://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=1560183 (probably must be registered to access)

¿QUE FUNCIONA?

Cámara.
Grabación de Videos.
DRM (L3)
Sonido/Audio.
OMX (HW).
Sensores.
Carga offline (kpoc_charger).
MTP/ADB.
Wi-Fi.
Bluetooth.
LED de notificaciones/batería.
DT2W (Doble toque encender la pantalla).
LiveDisplay.
Radio FM.
Thermal.
Gatekeeper/Keystore.
Cast (Enviar Pantalla).
GPS.
HDMI (vídeo).
Grabadora de Sonidos.
OTAs.
SoundTrigger.

¿QUE NO FUNCIONA?

Sonido por HDMI.
GPS sin conexión a internet.
OMX (HW).
Chromecast.

This made me wonder if that work could actually help save the Aquaris M10 from being scrapped when 20.04 is up and running. You never know.
Is this useless or is this something to work on?

Thank you for the amazing work.
Even if this means I will have no use of UT, I'm still looking forward to Lomiri on the desktop (I run Manjaro and I know Marius has made a repo available at some point, but I couldn't make it work).

Cheers.