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There are apps for it already too!
See : https://open-store.io/?sort=relevance&search=nextcloud

But IMHO any service that works fine with the browser is good enough and the less apps you need the better!

Sorry, but :

• I don't want any silly widgets on my home screen at all.
• Buttons are more reliable than swipes.
  In fact I wouldn't mind beeing able to use the hardware buttons on my BQ E5 HD phone in combination with Ubuntu Touch like they work when Android is installed!
• The old Unity look is just fine : It's what Ubuntu Touch is known for!

So... uhm... yeah... I pretty much disagree with all your complaints!

LOL! :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Ohh and I don't get the "one hand usage of the phone" thing at all : I simply use both hands because it's simply better to do so...

@geekbone said in Bootloader unlocked?:

I was able to install UT on a Pixel 3a with just a little angst, but it up and running successfully.

Congratulations! :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone: :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

The only question I have is every time I turn on the phone, it gives me the "Bootloader is unlocked warning". Is this a permanent thing?

YUP!

Perfectly normal and very common on a lot of phones!

@nvriezen
COOL!

Can't wait for the results!

Thank you for the notification!

But now that you mention this you made me remember a question I wanted to ask for some time now :

Has there been any contact between the UBports Team and the Telegram Developers to ask them if they will consider making a Native Client for Ubuntu Touch ?

I mean the TELEports Client works reasonably good but some GUI choices are simply less usefull/user friendly than the ones in the real Telegram Client on Android/Windows/Linux

@fuseteam said in Snap Crackle and Pop! Readwrite rootfs is overrated:

When i first heard of ubuntu touch i was pretty excited to see a OS i could be in control of, as i never like how android worked and such.

like many the idea of using my phone as a "PC" really fascinated me, especially since at the time i had a laptop with 3GB of RAM and smartphone were beginning to get just as much RAM.
you can imagine my disappointment when canonical announced the drop.....

+1 my brother!

sooo what packages already work?

according reports and my own (crude) tests the following packages appear to work:

• vim
• nmap
• htop
• mc
• curl
• tmux
• tree
• sshfs

NICE! :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Thank you for this awesome tool/project and I will keep an eye on it in the future!

There is some talk about such an app in a different topic so we might get one somewhere in 2022

@thousandtopics said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 114 Saturday 18th Dec At 19:00 UTC:

If one of use develops a game(for Ubuntu Touch) that requires a gamepad, it would be better a bluetooth pad or one with usb-c plug?

I hope the answer is : BOTH!

Pine note is around the corner, and I saw a wacom pen on it . . .
Do you plan to support styluses?
That would be awesome, but the decision is all yours.

There is a Samsung Note 4 port of Ubuntu Touch so I hope the answer is : YES!

Happy holydays, I hope you get all the love you deserve and gain weight with all those family special suppers.

The same to you and everyone else here on the forum!

@mrt10001 said in Hardware.......:

SONY phones may not be able to unlock the bootloader - very common

Weird because their phones are the #1 choice for Jolla Sailfish ?! :$

Xiaomi phones - difficult to unlock the bootloader as you have to do it through their Mi Unlock program. If you are unlocking more than one you may have a long wait (up to a month per phone) and there is no work round (that I have found that works).

You should contact Xiaomi and see if they can give a special account which can also access EDL Mode for example!

These are very rare world wide amongst regular users, but should be accessible for repair shops if I have understood everything correctly...

Also as a side note a lot of devices have battery life issues which is usually down to the age and previous usage of that device, not always Ubuntu Touch (Nexus 4 and 5 with batteries dating back to 2013 are OK, must have been well made!)

That part really bugs me when it comes to buying a new phone for future Ubuntu Touch use after the BQ goes EOL or the phone becomes unuseable...

We need something like Fennec (Previous version of Firefox for Android) for Ubuntu Touch

Or... if I may dream a bit...

Pale Moon for Ubuntu Touch :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

Perhaps you could let us know which devices will be EOL when it comes to future OTA Support after the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base has been released and all devcies that don't support SystemD are dropped ?!

@opolork
I use my phone without any lockcode and it does the same :

• Turn Off Screen
• Lock The Phone

Pressing the Power Button wakes up the screen and a swipe unlocks the phone!

@kugiigi said in Most wanted features for Morph?:

@nero355 Which phone do you have?

The BQ E5 HD Ubuntu Phone that was sold back in the Canonical days

Fun Fact : Ubuntu Touch runs better on it than Android ever did!
Including an WiFi bug that's gone under UT :grinning_squinting_face:

Good idea! :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone: :thumbs_up_light_skin_tone:

I am VERY curious what your experience with the phone will be like!

@thilov
That is not fine at all :

• The last ping shows packetloss ?!
• It's just ping... not traceroute!
  So how do you know for sure all the traffic is going via your VPN ?!

Also : How is your PiVPN setup exactly ??
Is it Bridged with your local network or NAT behind the NAT of your local network ?

@klh
Sounds good!

I will try to test this during the next week or so and let you know the result!

@mrt10001 said in Oneplus 5 / 6 or Pixel 3a, 16.04/20.04 supported:

Also make sure you don't leave the screen on too long on a single static item, as it is an OLED which succumbs quite quickly to screen burn.

The duration is important indeed but so is the brightness of the screen!

A lot of people seem to be wearing sunglasses when they use their phone so the brightness is set waaay too high and causes burn-in of the screen! :grinning_squinting_face:

@applee
I am just trying to help him!

I happen to know a lot of people who have been using their OS in 32-bit mode while there was totally no reason at all to do so!

And then I am talking about 12 year old laptops with processors like the i3 350M/370M and so on.....

@rocket2nfinity said in I Need Help Understanding VoLTE and Touch:

VoLTE is both a function of the modem and the software. It was left to the hardware vendors to decide how to implement the standard. But, there are roughly two camps - everything happens in the modem, everything happens in the software. The devices where it all happens in the modem require audio routing. Some of them are already trying to negotiate VoLTE (N6P), and one has achieved it (Pinephone).

That's weird because I understood that in most if not all cases it's a modem thing and that pretty much all modems have closed source firmware/binaries/code inside them that will never be open to the public ?!

The everything happens in the software camp will achieve VoLTE depending on the success of the opensouce VoLTE project UBports has contracted. We are still waiting on the outcome of that project. Mediatek devices are expected to achieve success first, Qualcom seems to be stickier.

According to some sources on the Sailfish Forum the Qualcomm phones are actually easier to adapt to the oFono software than the MediaTek ones and are expected to get the VoLTE Support as the first ones ?!

@rocket2nfinity said in I Need Help Understanding VoLTE and Touch:

For devices unable to achieve VoLTE, as long as they can achieve an LTE data connection, there is SIP as an alternative. Requires subscribing to a SIP service and using a SIP dialer such as Linphone, but calls and messaging will still come through.

As long as you can do DATA via 4G/4G+/5G you can also call people via Telegram for example!

Which network will allow the device to stay as a data only device is still not settled. Most are leaning towards no VoLTE, no service period. But that is in flux. So far, only T-mobile and MVNOs have commited to allowing devices to stay on data only if they are not VoLTE capable. Some of AT&T and Verizon's MVNOs are currently allowing non-authorized devices to stay on, where their parent network bans the device. It is hit or miss at best whether you can keep access with those two networks.

Like @Moem said : Please mention that you are talking about T-Mobile USA and not for example Germany or any other country

I am still surprised that there is such a huge difference between mobile services in certain countries because I always thought that :

• Provider locked phones are a thing of the past, but for example in the USA there is a provider called Verizon that still seems to do that ?! :$
• The MMS standard is dead, but it seems that people are still using MMS in Northern America while the standard is pretty much dead in most countries in Europe
• The only difference between networks world wide is the frequencies used but it seems there is a lot more to it than that!

You live and you learn...

This topic a nice example of my earlier post in a different topic when I mentioned : "We need more options!"

There are a lot of things in Ubuntu Touch that are simply waaaay to basic and need some serious improvement!