@kugiigi Thats the problem, it is not worldwide, it is a countrywide thing and each country and in the US, states, have their own legislation that can impose fines through their own regulatory bodies for what is an infringement of their law. Apple have started a blanket implementation of age id on their latest iteration of iOS. You just have to look at what’s happening in Brazil over their compliance law (lots of gray areas). In the UK Imgur.com have region blocked the UK over the Internet safety Act and age compliance. Then there is Australia.....

There is a lot of naivety amongst politicians over the ramifications of these laws and I would not like to see Ubuntu Touch, let alone any open source project be sanctioned in a country that has decided it does not conform to their laws.

@developerbayman There are going to be many points of view on this and there are many new news articles appearing about this and the way different countries and in the US, states are approaching it. At the moment you have to be philosophical about it as you probably well know, that most of the users of devices will not be bothered and comply, otherwise their life becomes more awkward than it already is. Case in point is the UK's Internet Safety Act which created a massive uptake in VPN subscriptions. This has now caused the UK regulatory body Ofcom to starts "monitoring" this, wherever that is going to lead.
The long point though is this is the precursor to Government "Digital id" and I think we all know where that is going to go (Social Exclusion like certain countries, even 1984) but I think we will have to cross that bridge when digital id is enforced.
However the sad part is that it is going to stifle free thought and invention as non compliance is going to force out the free and free thinking innovators not tied to a Global corporation like Apple or Google due to local, state and countrywide sanctions for non-compliance or not being able to comply.
I am sure it has and will be discussed. I am sure legislators will be lobbied. What I am sure of though is most legislators will toe a line to comply to their political parties leanings and will fail to see the ramifications of what this will cause.

@makapaka Have you download and unzipped Android Platform tools?

If not, download the windows version, unzip it and open a terminal in that folder (right click and in the menu "open in terminal"). This will give you ADB and fastboot.

Power off the phone and boot to fastboot with Volume Down and Power button. Then connect it to the PC and run the fastboot devices command in that terminal.

Have you installed the Xiaomi USB drivers?

@makapaka Nah, not corrupted, just check in a terminal with the command fastboot devices. In fastboot mode you can install the fastboot ROM from here. I have done this on this device a few times. It takes some time so leave the device alone when flashing. Do NOT relock the bootloader as it can brick the device.

@formel No, I elevated the command prompt in windows Powershell using ./ and it has always worked so I have never used fastboot flashing unlock_critical on this device. Most of the times I have installed using Windows with no issues. Have you upgraded to Noble (24.04.1.x)?

@undrwater said:

Imagine you only had one hand to work with. It's not beyond the realm of possibilities.

That is one scenario, but with a big screen device you would struggle to get across the screen in some scenarios one handed too.

@PringleMingle Have you put it onto the required version of Android before installing UT? Was the device fully charged before starting the process? Noble (24.04.1.x)does not work on this device so use Focal (20.04) instead. Someone is working on this to get the upgrade to Noble.

From experience a crashdump is usually a weak/dying battery or battery requiring a charge.

@penserv What tablet are you using? If the tablet is running Windows there is a possibility of dual booing Ubuntu. I

@Shriharsh-Kulthe It is an old phone (with the micro USB port) and the fact it updated to Noble may indicate further work may be done. It is not a common device though and I did use it for my main UT device for a while.

@Shriharsh-Kulthe Go to the devices page and scroll down to near the bottom of the Asus ZenFone page and have a look on the Gitlab pages by following the link. You can also contact the maintainer, they may/my not reply. If it is working on stable, it is working, you don't need anymore unless you have found a bug or are developing ...

@undrwater It's called having two hands. It's like a browser, Chrome's back button is hidden so you have to have two hands to use it. I think that would come under "nice to have" so it would be way down in the priorities of development unless the app developer decides to do so. For one handed gestures, large screen phones and tablets have their limitations.

@Moem I remember that a while back, I cannot remember which device at the time, but have duly forgotten over time, mainly thanks to the ludicrous way you have to unlock the bootloader on an Xiaomi device!

@KJU in a word, no. It is down to CPU architecture, the UT installer won't run from an arm device.

@shengchieh It means USB Debugging is enabled...

@Vlad-Nirky Yeah, there is only daily at the moment. I have researched this issue and albeit not common, it is there and something to be aware of.

There is a bug with the Nothing Phone (1) "spacewar" where SIM1 is not detected. This is NOT a Ubuntu Touch issue and looks like it is hardware related. On Android it shows as "SIM 1 is not allowed", on Ubuntu Touch SIM 1 is not detected at all. This only happens on some devices. SIM 2 works fine and has full data, VoLTE and 5G. See Reddit posts, XDA Developers and I have two devices suffering the same fate. This is not a bug, more an unpleasant surprise.

@muskist No, the device must be in EDL mode. I have never got the tool to run in Linux yet, Windows only unfortunately.

@Mario.CH 5G works on this device. Tested and working.

@Futura Doing a bit of research, Fairphone seem to have been strangled by Qualcomm with the use of EDL, unfortunately you have to send it back to them to repair - another reason I won't buy a Fairphone as that part is just not "fair" - you should be able to repair your own device!

@Futura The low level flash tool doesn't work with a VM, even with USB passthrough. You need a Windows machine, running windows as the OS. The EDL cable is handy, but not really necessary.