Is not Google a company which is known for spying on us? And are Google products not known to have privacy issues? What about the Google Pixel soft- and hardware? Are there any privacy risks if choosing a Google Pixel phone? Has the UBports software on Google phones anything to do with Google? Was it developed by Google? And is it risky for privacy reasons to choose a Google Pixel phone with Ubuntu Touch? Is it possible that there are any back doors by Google for spying users out on these phones?
Posts made by Peter Gamma
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Are there any privacy issues if we choose a phone from Google like the Google Pixel 3a/3a XL?
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Does screen copy (scrcpy) for Android work with UBports?
scrcpy mirrors Android devices (video and audio) connected via USB or over TCP/IP, and allows to control the device with the keyboard and the mouse of the computer.
Requirements:
USB debugging on your Android device needs to be enabled.
I tested it and it works very reliable on my Android phone. I currently do not have a Uborts phone at hand. Someone tried scrcpy it on on Mobian with the Pinephone:
A user had some trouble getting an acceptable resolution, but apart from that it worked quite well.
Does someone know if it works with Ubports, too?
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RE: Is there a phone which runs Ubuntu Touch which can write to the exernal SD card or boot from there?
@Rinkeby Thanks for the answer,
I am currently struggeling to solve a problem on my Pinephone. I have installed postmarketOS on it and Abiword. But Abiword cannot write to the external SD card. I want to store and edit Abiword files on the external SD card to be able to pull out the SD card from the phone an stick it into my Ubuntu PC:
I am almost there to do this on my Pinephone, exept that I have not yet the permission to write Abword files on my Ubuntu PC to the SD card with postmarketOS:
My question is, can I do this with the Voila phone as well? Install Abiword on the external SD card, pull the SD card from the phone, stick it into a Ubuntu PC, to furhter process Abiword files there?
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RE: Is there a phone which runs Ubuntu Touch which can write to the exernal SD card or boot from there?
thank you for the answer.
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Can the Voila Phone boot from an external SD card? I m looking for a solution to stick the card on a card reader into a PC for data exchange.
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Can the Voila phone write to the external SD card with apps installed on the internal SD card?
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Is there a phone which runs Ubuntu Touch which can write to the exernal SD card or boot from there?
The Pinephone can do this, for instance with PostmarketOS. I was also able to install PostmarketOS on the external SD card of the Pinephone and boot it from there. But I am looking for an alternative. Who wants to depend on a single (Pine 64) manufacturer?
So I am asking:
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Is there a phone which runst Ubuntu Touch which can write to the external SD card?
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Is there a phone which among the here supported devices which can boot Ubuntu Touch from the external SD card?
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RE: Good Office Program for LG Nexus 5?
@noelflantier The discussion is old, and the problem not solved.
Thank you for your great LightP Word Processor and we are very happy about it. We will test on our Pinephone with Ubports.
We suffer since longer time that there is no office software which has a community on Linux phones which is happy about it.
User reported that everything works with Libre Office on the Pinephone, but it is terribly laggish. Softmaker has their special application for Android. Maybe it works in an Anbox. But is Anbox not just Android on a Ubports, with the same disadvantages Android has?
Someone reported to use AbiWord and Gnumeric instead of LibreOffice on the Pinephone.
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RE: libreoffice
@nero355 After intense tests, whe found out that it is possible to run LibreOffice on a PinePhone (PostmarketOS, but not Ubuntu Touch), also for non-developers. It is the option which has been tested the most, and was written about the most. There are issues left, but there also instructions to resolve these issues available. Developers welcome.
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RE: Does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
@luksus Thanks for sharing your experience. What a pitty. LibreOffice does not work on a Ubuntu Touch Pinephone, and now also troubles with Fairphone 3.
We had about three weeks to get LibreOffice to run on a PinePhone with PostmarketOS and mobian. After three weeks, when all troubles where described in great detail, it «just worked» in those distros. A miracle happened.
It is worth publishing issues. Distro developers eventually will update it.
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RE: Does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
Yes, this is the Ubports forum. It was about finding out whether it is worth to try LibreOffice on a Fairphone 3, after I had initial problems on a PinePhone with LibreOffice on PMOS.
I did distro hopping on the PinePhone and went through all possible distros, until I managed to install LibreOffice. I also have a Fairphone 3, which I bought before the PinePhone, and I changed to the PinePhone since I can write to the external SD card which I really love. I don t think I will buy another Pixel 3a in near future.
I was wondering whether LibreOffice might be better on a Fairphone 3 than on a PinePhone with POS. There is a problem that LibreOffice hangs when it wants to recover files at start up, and I could not yet find a way to start LibreOffice when this questions box is on the screen, so it is not usuable for me to this date.
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RE: Google Chromecast installation on Ubuntu Touch?
Thanks for your detailed answers, which I really appreciate.
I already have a ChromeCast 3 dongle which I used for an Android phone, and found out yesterday, that to use Chromium on PMOS has become easy. On my Windows PC, it was also very easy to mirror the screen over a ChromeCast to HDMI. I currently have VNC server connection between PinePhone and PC, but I think a WIFI to HDMI solution would be better. If I would buy a new device, I would prefer the Miracast standard, although I don t know whether desktop mirroring is as easy as with the Chrome browser.
I am also positive now about LibreOffice on the PinePhone. Jacob Crume, a Robotics student in New Zealand used linux-based PinePhone daily for a year:
https://news.itsfoss.com/pinephone-review/
He used four desktop environment, Plasma Mobile, Phosh and Lomiri, he spent roughly four months with each environment.
He was surprised at how capable the PinePhone was as a laptop. He said he often found myself editing documents in LibreOffice.
That is good news.
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RE: Google Chromecast installation on Ubuntu Touch?
@fredldotme Chromecast is an interesting device if we do not have a working HDMI out, there are many options available, the easiest seems to be Chrome installation. Unfortunately, we currently use PinePhone with PostmarketOS, where it is not available anymore for this device, and since we run LibreOffice on it, we do not want to change as long as there is no better LibreOffice option available. We cannot donate, since we do not have a research grant either.
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RE: Does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
@emphrath Thank you for you answers.
We have currently managed to install LibreOffice on the PinePhone PostmarketOS. Unfortunately, Bluetooth mouse and keyboard are not stable, HDMI out: tested two adapter which did not work. One usb mouse worked, but not the PC keyboard over VNC server connectet to a Windows PC.
In LibreOffice, it is sometimes possible to type with the PinePhone keyboard, but LibreOffice is not touchable.
Pixel 3a is currently unavailable in Switzerland.
We love LibreOffice, but we are really desperate.
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RE: [HowTo][Convergence]Use a simulated miracast sink for testing convergence
@doniks For the Google Chrome we think it would be possible to start a thread which is as long as this tread here about the Miracast:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7807/google-chromecast-installation-on-ubuntu-touch
For the Miracast, it has been evaluated how it works on Ubuntu Touch.
Unfortunately, we already have a Chromecast adapter. It is worth buying a Miracast and sell the Chromecast on ebay?
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Google Chromecast installation on Ubuntu Touch?
We have a Google Chromecast device and where very happy with it on an Android phone, a robust and stable mirroring of the phone sceen on a HDMI screen was possible. Unfortunately, there is no app available for Ubuntu touch. But there is a detailed instruction how to cast your GNOME Shell Desktop to a Chromecast (With Audio, Wayland / X11 Support) using cast to TV:
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/04/ho...op-to.html
There are several instructions for several Lunix distros. To install it on Ubuntu Touch, which one to choose? Ubuntu?
For the further part we agree with the comment of NOT.HUMAN:
«just post one command that will install everything, we dont have to time to go thru this long article ... for fcks sake ... you are complicating stuff that is already complicated ... this is why linux desktop is dying ....»
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Does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
- LibreOffice currently does not work on PinePhone Ubuntu Touch:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/7727/libertine-container-libreoffice-installation-error-message/14
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We own also a Poco F1 device, but bootloader unlocking is difficult
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Bootloader unlocking seems to be better on the Fairphone 3
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does LibreOffice run on the Fairphone 3?
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RE: Chrome for UBports?
@keneda Privacy Guys have a problem with Chrome Cast, we don t know how it is with Microsoft Miracast as fas as privacy is concerned, an open device would be better.
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RE: Chrome for UBports?
@emphrath said in Chrome for UBports?:
Microsoft Miracast
We have read that someone tried to hack the Google Chromecast, but he was nt successful, altough there are instructions available. Is there no open cast stick?
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RE: Chrome for UBports?
We are currently struggeling to get to connect a Linux (Pine) phone to a HDMI monitor. Very bad experience with micro-usb to HDMI adapter. We tested three of those, not all on the PinePhone, none of them worked.
Only one worked a long time ago, and was gone then and not replaceable. We bought a Google Chromecast 3, which worked right away with the Google apps from the Google play store. Unfortunately, big brother Google is always watching what you are watching on the screen.
But what are the alternatives? A Chrome browser installed on a Windows PC could stream to a Google Chromecast 3 without additional plugins. Unfortunately, whe could not find an installation instruction for Chrome for the PinePhone PostmarketOS. (We only go back to Ubuntu Touch for the PinePhone, if LibreOffice works on it.) But a Chrome browser could be an easy way to mirror your phone to a HDMI monitor when connected to a Google Chromecast.
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RE: Waydroid Helper not in the OpenStore?
@lakotaubp Thanks for the info. Unfortunately also no time to look further do guessing a non starter on PP.