Topics created by RayCulp

@RayCulp Firstly thanks for offering to help. All help and contributions greatly received. Secondly though 16.04 will be around for a few more months I can only second what @doniks has said and put the work into 20.04 docs and information, that is the future now. Though if something affects both 16.04 and 20.04 docs and you want to update both you are free to but really there is little point as development on 16.04 has ended.

@RayCulp said in Github repo for main website source?:

If it seems like I'm a little unsure of myself, that's because I am. Up till now I've only ever used Github to host my own private repos. I've never actually created a single pull request.

That is the beauty of PR's. You propose them, and a discussion develops around them. Suggestions for improvements can be implemented in your fork, and the PR will automatically be updated to reflect the changes.

@arubislander Done! 🙂

@WQ6Z8X4U said in Cron not installed?:

Here's a frightening thought: Are there any situations where fiddling around with unsupported stuff might brick the phone so badly that you can't even re-install from scratch? oO

Hard bricking the device, I think would be difficult, but causing malfunctions that aren't simply rectified by a reinstall, yes, I suppose that is possible. But it would sooner be the case from messing with the devices partitions or deleting the wrong files, rather than from installing random packages.

@WQ6Z8X4U said in Possible to install UT 20 over UT 16 on Google Pixel 3a XL using UBports Installer without first flashing Android back onto the phone?:

Thank you for this info, but it actually resurrects an old question of mine from a long time ago: When I install UT, do I need to be concerned that there is some vestige of Android left on the phone that might spy on me, i.e. does UT somehow run on top of Android? The answer I received back then was "no",

Here is another piece of this puzzle:

I was just now trying to enable SSH using the instructions for UT 16, but when I typed the command

sudo android-gadget-service enable ssh

I got the following error message

sudo: android-gadget-service: command not found

This error message was previously discussed in this thread, where one person said:

@kugiigi said in [Pinephone] android-gadget-service: command not found:

That guide is for the android-based UT devices which the pinephone isn't. You should use the normal SSH commands you use in linux desktop.

Also, in this thread, I read that you can use the following commands to start and enable SSH

$sudo service ssh start $sudo systemctl enable ssh

I tried this and it works perfectly. I can now log in remotely using PuTTY after reboot without manually starting SSH service.

Does this mean that UT 20 has eliminated the need for "residual elements" of Android that UT 16 still relied on?

BTW, in my view this is a huge step forward, like everything else I have seen so far in UT 20. I mean, UT 16 was already fantastic, but it just keeps getting better. This means I don't need to remember different bash commands for Ubuntu and UT.

@WQ6Z8X4U You're welcome, it's where I found mine!

@moem Yay! It works! Thanks! 🤗

@keneda Well, it might not have been the origin of the issue, but it did help me solve it. I saw the battery charge limit was set to 85%, so I increased it to 100%, rebooted, and now it charges to 100% perfectly. Thanks for your help!

@arubislander Thanks! 🙂

@messayisto

you can install an UbuntuTouch splshscreen on some devices as well, see here:
https://rubencarneiro.github.io/rubencarneiro.io//Ubuntu-Touch-Device-Bootlogos.markdown/

cool ! 🙂 I note that flash Xiaomi Mi A2 bootlogo deletes fastboot image, fastboot mode works but instead of this image :02_bootloader.png
there is the black screen 😞

Then I found this restored fastboot image and created my bootlogo :04_boot-unlocked.png

The procedure is not difficult and is well explained ... perhaps it can also be used (adapted) to different devices.