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@lakotaubp Well, I will need to change the screen all the same, the problem reappears from time to time. I hope I will be ready for OTA-16 !

I managed to save the phone simply by removing the back and playing with the screen and the battery connectors ! Problem solved !

@lakotaubp Looks definitely like it is a hardware-related problem : I noticed that, when I turn the screen on and off repeatedly, there are some changes on the pattern (meaning that the LCD is not dead), and I even managed, once or twice, to have a 5mm-band at the top of the screen with UT indicators on purple ground. If so, then I should be able, perhaps, to make it work by a more thorough investigation of the connectors, or simply by changing the screen.
So far I really enjoyed UT. Many aspects of the OS are simply excellent : the keyboard, the design, Dekko 2...

@lakotaubp Yes, I guess. But still, nothing happened to the phone, did not fall, etc. Everything was fine until I installed dataMonitor, I made the reboot and it killed the screen. Usually such a reboot by long pressing the power button should not harm the screen.
I tried to flash the stock ROM, it did not solve the problem, so now it is clearly a hardware-related problem. I also disassembled the device and checked the connectors.
Well, I guess that this will end my (very) short career on UT.

Very strange... I managed to make a clean install of UT using the fabulous installer - the device was not detected but I just had to select it manually. I even wiped the data in the process. But it didn't work... The screen is still like dead.
I am wondering if it could not come from the hardware, but I do not see how the hardware could have been damaged by such a small bug.

@keneda Unfortunately I did not activate developper options on the phone, so I cannot reinstall with the installer. It simply does not detect the phone...

Hello,

I am a new user of UT on Oneplus One. So far everything was fine and I really enjoyed the experience. But today I tried to install an app from the openstore, dataMonitor. After installing it I made a reboot, opened the app and opened the settings. It made the screen freeze. As everything was stuck (I could not even open the launcher), I turned the device off by pressing the power button.
But now it looks like the device is bricked. When I try to start it, the screen shows a weird mosaic, as if each pixel was displaying a random color. I cannot get anything else, even when I turn the device off and plug it in (which should show the charging animation) or when I reboot into recovery mode (it does boot into recovery, I can check it via adb, but the screen is like dead).
Any idea ? Not the first time that I mess a phone, but it is the first time that I manage to do so by simply installing an app...

Okay so maybe not a good idea to spend some money on this, only to be blocked a few months later. Very frustrating... I have the feeling that we are at a turning point of UT's development, but it is very hard for a newcomer to get started : available devices are old and/or rare, and upcoming devices look promising, but are only to be expected in an undetermined future...

Oh well this time it looks much more reasonnable.

Hello,
I did not have the opportunity to find a UT device and I'm waiting for a good occasion, but I would like to know if BQ is a good start. Advantages : it's small, dual-Sim. But it is old and not powerful. Is UT smooth and fully-functionnal on it ? Will the support be continued in the future, even if the device is 32-bits ?

Is it already usable? The main features look okay. Will it be available on the installer?

Yes it does. So they ask you 359 euros to have in one year a phone that is available right now for 270.

@Ingo
Well yes, Fairphone is the only successful example I know, for several failures (Ubuntu, Jolla...). I guess that fairphone offered a product that could find a broad audience, bring ethics in the smartphone world. Good shot

But for volla, what do they promise? Another piece of hardware. Okay, we have already too many of them and it becomes difficult to make a choice. A new android-based ROM focused on privacy. Well, the design looks okay, but nobody cares about this. There are already so many ways to tweak android... Ordinary people don't care about privacy and think that when they have an iPhone they're as far as they can on that point. People who really care about privacy already have solutions (Lineage with microg, /e/), some of them easily available for non-techs (/e/ pre-loaded on a Samsung).
There is the promise that they will support UT, and only for that I could consider investing on the product, because the hardware looks far better than pinephone. But if it is simply a clone of a gigaset model, as some have said here, we could hope to have the port available even if Volla fails...

The sum is too ambitious. The market is full, some other options for privacy already exist right now (/e/, Lineage), and they need to find more than 1,000 investors in 40 days... The product is good, but nobody wants to pay 300 euros now to have a phone in one year. Crowdfunding is not a very good option to launch a phone for a new company... There have been some other examples by the past.

What I don't understand is that they already have a working prototype and are already porting UT on it... So what the kickstarter is supposed to pay ? Not R&D, as they seem to have already done this part of the job... Kind of a suicide to invest in the product first, develop it until it's ready for mass-production (or so it seems), and after that make it depend on a 350,000 euros crowdfunding campaign...

@Emphrath
Well, it looks like the FP2 is not a device stable enough for a daily driver. But videos I have checked about UT show that apps are not so slow to launch, in any case it is good enough for me. Maybe the problem is FP2 ?

After looking at the different devices, it seems that there are two solutions for me :

• Find a Meizu pro 5, which has all the things I need, hoping all will work properly (kind of a bet). The main problem being that it is not easy to find in Europe by now, even the android version.

• Find a cheap and easy-to-find device like the nexus 5 (or wait for the pinephone) just to try UT for fun, knowing that there will be some compromises and that it will never be good enough to get rid of my android phone for the future (no fingerprint sensor, no dual-sim, no good camera, old hardware, second-hand so battery already used, possible bugs). The advantage of this solution is that it can be done right now.

• A third option could be to wait some time that some other device is ported on UT, with all the specs I need and no bugs. Kind of a bet as well, it can take some time. I have seen the volla project on another topic, could be great but no evidence that it will ever be released as the kickstarter seems too ambitious.

@TotalSonic
Wow thanks for the tip. It looks tricky but not impossible at all. If I find the device it will be my first choice, particularly because of the fingerprint reader and dual-Sim capacity.

Yes, the meizu pro 5, on the paper, seems to be the best device available (and it is dual-sim). But it is quite difficult to find, and the documentation says that Ubuntu touch cannot be ported to the android version, so I need to find a Ubuntu touch version, which seems impossible. It is very hard to find the HQ devices as well.
Because of the dual-Sim problem, the good solution could be to try the FP2. Now that the Fp3 is launched, it is quite easy to find, and not so expensive.

Well thanks for all those answers. Troubles with Bluetooth are not a problem for me, as I don't use it very often (and only for speakers). MMS is much more a trouble.

Any experiences with dual-SIM devices (FP2 or BQ) ? This would help me a lot. Does it work ?

My feeling is that UT is improving very quickly since the adoption of 16.04. I think that, for the moment, I should keep my device since it is working. It is the more environment-friendly, and I'm not that concerned for my privacy (LineageOS without Gapps). In a few months, it may be that some existing bugs will be corrected on current devices, or that another device will be supported with less troubles (Pinephone, for instance).

Many thanks for all these kind answers, 'tis my first post here but it looks like a very welcoming community.

No, my device is for he moment under LineageOS, and not eligible for UBports. but it will die sooner or later. I'm looking to other Android projects like /e/, but I grow more and more unsatisfied with Android, and also tweaking a custom ROM takes much time and is a bit addictive.
I was considering the PinePhone option, as the other phones are getting hard to find (N5 and OPO) or still expensive (FP2). My only concern about the PinePhone is that it looks like it has very low specs, even compared to a 5 years old Nexus. Will it work smoothly ? is the qualitiy of the product OK ? Anyway, maybe I should just buy one, if it works it's good, and if I'm not satisfied with it at least it gives money to a FOSS project, which is good as well...