@peat_psuwit said in Call for testing: Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.1:

(there has been flooding in my area).

I'm glad to hear that you're safe. Please give priority to your health and safety, and those of your family, over a software update!

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NOTE written on January 20 2026:
The post below was written in February 2025. Since then, a native version of Signal for Desktop has been made available by one of our app developers (thank you!)
It's working quite well and you can find it here.

ORIGINAL POST below:

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Unfortunately, there is currently no native, working Signal client for UT and this is unlikely to change soon. But if that's a problem that impacts you, read on! I found a solution that works well for me and maybe it will work for you, too.

My solution consists of several parts:

• Signal for Android, running in Waydroid. You can download it from their webpage or from F-Droid or Aurora Store.
• Signal Desktop running on several computers, and linked to the first Signal, which is the primary device. All others are secondary devices. You can have only one primary.
• Cinny, running on UT, using a Matrix bridge to connect to Signal. This is very new to me and yet it was easy.

I followed these instructions given by Danfro:

For everyone here who is looking for an alternative to use Signal on Ubuntu Touch.
There is a matrix signal bridge hosted here: https://tchncs.de/matrix.
This can be used with Cinny or any other Matrix client. Instructions are given on the website there.
Note: Some things do still not work. Image download is fine, but right now no other file types. I am working on it...

• Open Cinny (or another matrix client)
• create a new room
• invite the bridge bot @signalbot:tchncs.de
• open your primary signal device and head for settings, linked devices
• add new device
• got to chat with bridge bot and type "login" as message
• scan the qr code with your primary device, it should now link them
  Done.

I had an extra step because my primary is running in Waydroid and it's a pain generating and scanning a QR code on one and the same device, plus it refused to work. So I installed the latest Cinny on a spare phone and used that to link Cinny to Signal. It worked fine.

I hope this is useful to anyone else!

I was one of the volunteers humanning the stand, and it was great. We were able to answer a lot of questions, we showed many different devices on our stand, and people were quite enthousiastic about what we had to show and say. It was an inspiring day and we helped promote UT and make contact with organisations for possible collaboration. Time well spent!

@libremax Thanks for posting! I'm still at Bornhack, and beside the talk, there are so many folks here who are interested in Ubuntu Touch. Now that people know that I'm using it, lots of people want to talk to me about it and ask me questions, and I answer as many as I can.
My show-and-tell device (BQ Aquaris E4.5) goes from hand to hand (yes, we use sanitizer) and people are amazed by the smooth operation, and more when I tell them how old it is.

I'm hoping to be causing a small influx of interest in our OS and community. I'm certainly doing my best to do so!

YESSS
It's working! I have zoom, autofocus and flash! This is the last thing that was missing for me to be able to say that the phone is fully functional under UT!

Excuse me while I dance the happy dance...

Some of their applications can run on Waydroid. But most people who are using Ubuntu Touch wish to get away from Google. Personally I want to avoid Android applications and the Google Playstore.

If we are going to do everything that Android does, what would make us special? Why would we even bother?

Ubuntu Touch:
It's in your hands.

This was a lot of fun. We had a really simple stand because we didn't bring a lot of equipment, but it was enough: we got plenty of interest, had some good conversations, and answered many questions. It's definitely worth planning for T-Dose 2026 (June 6 and 7)!

Greetings from all the creatures of T-Dose!

@cliffcoggin said in Ushby have released an official Review on UT.:

I suggest the review is removed until a more objective one can be written.

Let's cut the author a little slack. They're allowed to voice their opinions, even if their opinions are based on a misunderstanding; as for feeling ill, the world would in my view be a better place if everyone was this open and honest about what influenced their mood at a certain time.

Did all y'all know that the Installer can in some devices unlock the bootloader?
It can and I had no idea! I flashed a Op5t for someone, yesterday afternoon, and the Installer offered to unlock it, and it was easy and it WORKED!

You might say: it's just a fastboot command, what's the big deal?
Fair enough! What it did, is by itself not magical. But the fact that it did that, is.

It did say, as I 'm used to, to make sure that the bootloader was unlocked. And then it had a big button offering to do so!
Then I just had to confirm that on the phone, and just like that, it was unlocked.

It may seem like a small thing but it made the process feel easier and smoother.

@danfro said:

The power button itself works. It brings up the power menu, but pressing the buttons failed.

I have that now and then... But no idea what may be causing it.

@pparent said:

I can only say that this version works with current 24.04-1.x daily branch!

Fair enough! That's great!

They are constantly doing updates on the bleeding edge branches, that impact XWayland apps, it's hard to keep updated all the time.

Ah yes, that makes sense, thank you.

@pparent Looks good!

I have a question... I recently tried running SignalUT on UT version 24.04.2.x and it would not run. Is that still the case?

My reason for wanting to run the 'bleeding edge' version is that it gave me great improvements in battery life.

@developerbayman said:

...well AI anyway and on the fly ideally the user shouldnt even know its happening

This would make me dump whatever it was, hard and fast. People should always, always be aware that a process uses AI, so they can make a choice.

@oldbutndy Sorry, no idea!
I would hope that someone looking for information would get their info at the source: our webpage. Not an AI summary that may or may not be correct.
I may be oldfashioned... but I always try to look for the original source.

@Futura Wow, that's disappointing.

Hilfe auf Deutsch gibt es hier: https://t.me/UBports_Deutsch

@grenudi said:

Basicly the replies here will be "go figure! All the info is there".

Why so negative?

@MarcelloTogg said:

for “regular” users who are eagerly awaiting progress, it’s not easy to stay on board without such updates.

There is a live Q&A session on YouTube, where developers talk about recent progress every two weeks. You can read what was said here: https://ubports.com/blog
There are also other posts there that may interest you.

@malditobastardo Thank you! I'll look into this. I appreciate your time and effort!