@AppLee In times of COVID19 isolation these news made my day :thumbs_up:

@grandpa

Why would UbPorts foundation with it's stated objective of respecting user privacy and open source software even remotely consider cooperating with the most intransparented IT-company in the world, bound to the regulations of an authoritarian anti-democratic regime ?
This would be the end of UbPorts foundation before it even has fully taken off.
This also nicely demonstrates the importance of being a foundation registered under German law because any activities in such direction could be in conflict with the foundation by-laws and objectives.

Related to GizmoCicken's questions. The roll out of the first end-user version of pine phone in March will likely create a high demand for UBTouch and bring in new users which is great for the project. These new users will, however, also require resources and attention e.g. download server capacities for the store, attention in the forum etc.. Does UbPorts foresee any capacity shortages (IT infrastructure as well as man-power) to handle these requests (I remember having read a post form Jan asking for assistance with server resilience issues) ? Sounds like a luxury problem but are we at risk of becoming a possible victim of our success ?

@Opolork Under "System Settings" click on "about" and the storage space is displayed. For more detailed information open terminal and type "df -k" it will display a list of all partitions and the percentage of space used on each.

@3T_Ed I would second that. Specifically with pinetab now shipping. Pinetab with the keyboard definitely could become a light-weight laptop replacement and as such an office-suite becomes something like an essential app.

@nero355 I recently tried Mobian and PostmarketOS on Pinephone (out of frustration about inactive development on UT). Both OS have the mobile version of Firefox as default browser which was another reason for me to give it a try. Did you ever try to manage the Firefox settings on one of these OS's ? Not usable in real life for me. Same thing trying to setup Nextcloud via Web (I use 2FA for my cloud so I need to go via website): impossible to navigate (need to rotate phone change zoom etc).
While I agree with you that tab management is way easier than with Morph, the idea of using applications from standard repositories will not work for non-geek users and result in poor user experience.
So unless someone steps up to port the mobile version of Firefox specifically to UT (which I do not think will happen any time soon because you probably need an army of devs to pull that off) Morph - for me - remains the only workable solution for now.

@Elpibe I have the exact same problem with my 2015 Subaru audio system and posted it under a different thread some time ago. This pairing problem seems - at least in part - also be caused by the Subaru audio system and not only by UBtouch. I had no problems pairing my FP2 or N5 with audio systems in several rental cars from different companies (Nissan Micra, Hyundai Accent and Ford Mustang) with music player, contacts and phone calls mostly working (some funny behavior on the Nissan when accepting incoming calls). I will try htc_tatoo's command line solution.

@makeixo As @Flohack pointed out already: UbPorts cannot collect money on behalf of a 3rd party (the developer), at least not without a bulk of legal implications, not to speak of time, resources and manpower to invest in setting up such a scheme. I think it should already be possible for developers to upload free trial version on OpenStore which need be unlocked once the trial period has exdpired. So the user would have to buy some form of license code from the dev and likely provide something like a device ID. But this is then a business between the end user and the dev. I dont´t see why and how UbPorts should be involved in such a deal as a broker. UbPorts should invest resources and manpower in what they are doing best, which is OS development.

I tried to pair my Nexus 5 with my car's (Subaru Forester) audio system via Bluetooth. The phone detects the audio system but there is no dialog box to enter the PIN from the audio system in the Bluetooth setup. The audio system thus refuses the connection request. Is there any work-around for this ?
Thanks.

@kugiigi said:

You can try Wireguard. It doesn't have GUI yet in UT but the commands are simple.

Download the Wireguard config file from your Proton account. Rename it to wg0.conf.
Then run

nmcli conn import type wireguard file wg0.conf

To connect:

nmcli conn up wg0

To disconnect:

nmcli conn down wg0

Thank you this worked. Interestingly the forum webapp does not conncect on wg. Is here another way to toggle wg connections on and off than using the terminal? They are not listed as VPN connections.

@kugiigi said:

You can try Wireguard. It doesn't have GUI yet in UT but the commands are simple.

Download the Wireguard config file from your Proton account. Rename it to wg0.conf.
Then run

nmcli conn import type wireguard file wg0.conf

To connect:

nmcli conn up wg0

To disconnect:

nmcli conn down wg0

Thank you this worked. Interestingly the forum webapp does not conncect on wg. Is here another way to toggle wg connections on and off than using the terminal? They are not listed as VPN connections.

Was anyone successful in establishing a ProtonVPN connection on Noble?

I tried manual setup via GUI but it was not clear to me how the parameters in the openvpn file map to the fields in the VPN settings, went through documentation and forum posts with no clear solution.

Next, I tried the nmcli import method as described here: (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/10154/vpn-import-openvpn-and-wireguard-configurations-using-networkmanager-nmcli?_=1772844580125&loggedin=true)

The connection is listed, I entered username and password via settings GUI but when activating it, the connection timed out.

I would be very grateful if someone who has a working ProtonVPN setup could share how this was achieved.

Thanks

@aarontheissueguy this would be fabulous. I am using Signal on Waydroid but this is not more than a workaround. Signal-cli for me is among the top 5 missing aps.

@wolfgang1 I think @stanwood is right, but there may be a waydroid update glitch. See my thread here:

https://forums.ubports.com/post/87226

I did some further research and found that possibly the vendor blobs for the GPS disappeard from the vendor partition. I doubt that this was caused by the last OTA update ( I would have expected more people to have this issue). So I assume that the linage update inside waydroid might have caused this. I have not yet had time to look into it further or to reflash android11.

@Vlad-Nirky Yes, I did. The FP4 came with Android11, yes and I tried the SatStat App in Waydroid as described in a previous thread. This is how I noticed that it was not working in Waydeoid. The GPS did work after initial UT and Waydroid install.

My new FP4 no longer recognizes the GPS.

test_GPS results in:

*** setup signal handler
*** get gps interface
*** GPS interface not found
Bye!

Reboots (and waiting 1h+ outside in open field) don"t make a difference and Waydroid also does not detect the GPS.
I am not sure when exactly this problem came up but it did work after initial installation in 4/25 (UT and Waydroid). It may have happened after OTA-9 update but I am not sure. Could LineageOS update inside Waydroid have anything to do with it (I don't think so because there should be no access to system partition)?

Any suggestions on how I can narrow in on the issue e.g. hardware vs. software? Any specific log-files to look after, configuration/ini files to remove/replace ?

All help very much appreciated.

@fair I just tried plugging my FP4 into the pinebook docking station from Pine64 and it worked "out of the box". Recognises external keyboard (when OSK is disabled) and mouse and charges the battery while working, all via USB C, no display port or other adaptor needed. The dock is connected to a monitor/keyboard switch so I can toggle between desktop and FP4 on the same monitor/keyboard/mouse. The only thing not working is the Numpad.

Mobile data on my FP4 works well using the default APN settings for Telus Mobility but I can not download MMS using the default APN settings (also tried leaving proxy and port blank). Is there a fellow UT user in Canada who was successful in downloading MMS with FP4 on the Telus network ?

@wynn1212 Thank you for your detailed reply. I was using Ubuntu 24.04.2 with Kernel Linux 6.8.0-57-generic both on and old AMD desktop first then on a Windows Surface Laptop (running same Ubuntu version) with a USB2.0 to USB C cable. Next I tried a USB C to USB C cable on a Dell laptop (also running latest Ubuntu version) and after 2 or so attempts the flash was successful (not clear why).
However today, I did the same procedure with another new FP4 using the Dell Laptop and USBCtoC cable and it again failed initially. When I connected the phone (already in fastboot mode) and restarted the bootloader from fastboot when installer was asking to manually switch the phone to fastboot, I was successful.
This is quite frustrating because it still is not clear to me how to exactly reproduce this issue. It is definitely not the cable or the computer used. I agree this must be an interaction between the Ubuntu version and/or kernel and the phone. It almost looks like a timing issue, restarting bootloader at the right time lets the process go through.
I could not test on Windows because I only have a work laptop running windows which does not allow starting non-certified appimages.

I am trying to install UT on a new FP4 using UB-Installer 0.97 beta.

I followed all instructions on the FP website to unlock the bootloader and I verified that Android 11 is installed, USB debugging enabled.

When I connect the phone (turned on, Android booted) to the laptop, the phone is recognized by the file manager and the installer. I choose the install option (including wipe) and the installer reboots the phone into fastboot mode but it then is stuck at "Asserting unlocked bootloader variable".
The fastboot screen says "DEVICE STATE - unlocked" but does not list a bootloader version or baseband version. SECURE BOOT is set to yes.
However, adb devices in terminal does not list any device.

When I reboot to Android, adb devices lists the device.

Is there a step in the process that I missed? Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for your help.