I would really like to see a proper nextcloud / owncloud account support for calendars and contacts.

A while ago, i believe Alan posted and you guys discussed that order for UBPorts to switch to wayland, the steps were:

1. Upgrade Mir to a newer version
2. Design the missing Wayland protocols to replace Mir protocol internally
3. Migrate the internal Mir to Wayland

Now that OTA-12 is soon out, and a newer (1.2 - but 1.8 was released recently?) Mir is in place, where are you guys with this project and how high does it rank on your priority scope?

Now that latest mir is almost done (i guess you guys are aiming OTA-9), what is next on your focus list? What's your priority in:

• mainline devices (pine / purism)
• anbox
• full wayland (replacing mir protocol)
• unity desktop
• hidl hardware layer
• whatever cool thing i missed

Do you have any plans to allow CARDDAV to be configured as CALDAV as part of the regular accounts section (instead of using commandline syncevolution)?

I'd love to hear what's in scope for OTA-3, and how things are progressing towards Halium / Xenial.

On your blog post you've made some statements about the purism hardware that appear to have been copied of the crowdfunding page. In several Q&A sessions and blogposts, purism have however answered questions related to hardware that deviates from that. For instance, in this reddit Q&A they claim dual sim is in the current spec list https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/87tbfl/todd_weaver_from_purism_doing_a_reddit_ama/

Could you have purism check the specs your posted are up to date? For me, dual sim is a Big Deal for instance

Dekko has some uncommon options, like under authentication type and force ssl/tls - you should probably try changing those around a little.

I noticed, for example, that GMAIL defaults to "plain" authentication but requires "login" ...

If that doesn't work, please join us at the dekko user group on telegram and we'll try to help!

After dropping my previous phone on the street, wrecking it, i got myself a nice shiny second hand OP6 to have a UBPorts phone. Whilst searching for possible devices, i noticed a lack of reports on the forum on how well the port is - so here goes my review for the OP6.

TL:DR;
You can daily drive it if you have to. Notable problems are lack of sleep mode (so you're going to have to charge it overnight), and that the camera crashes immediately (which i can live with).

Mobile data, both sims, bluetooth, wifi etc all work.

How to get it
Please check here: https://github.com/ubports-oneplus6/documentation
There's a discord group referenced, joining there will allow you to ask questions about OP6 and OP6T.

Longer review
First off, the OP6 is a nice piece of hardware. Fast chip, good screen, decent battery, and a headphone jack. It plays out well running ubports - it's very smooth (much better then my old BQ), and even without sleep functional it'll last you the day easily.

Stability wise, it's pretty OK. So far i've seen one spontaneous reboot per day. Keeping many apps open is no issue at all (including a 10-tab morph). Some apps (Futify for instance) do disappear - but i assume that's because of Futify. Also, very important, I haven't missed any calls yet.

Looking for the future, with the GSI not getting updates anymore, I'm looking forward to getting a "real" OTA-able phone setup. I'll post some more when I have been able to drive it.

@3T_Ed There's, as usual on todays internet, a lot of things wrong in that article. It seems written by a pro-purism guy, grabbing arguments left and right without a lot of actual fact checking. For instance, he claims ubuntu touch has received only 26 commits since canonical left - which is not only plain wrong but a very easy thing to actually verify.

I've seen a lot of talk about Halium flash by; is there any overview of the Halium ports already available or being worked on?

@antidroid said in [Halium 9 / GSI] using the Oneplus 6:

Does anyone have a timeline for when a newer GSI will be available for testing? Or better when the 6/6T will get UBports installer integration and OTA support?

@totalrando said in [Halium 9 / GSI] using the Oneplus 6:

@antidroid I'm not totally sure there is a set timeline: I think basically someone needs to upload a recovery image and then basically submit it for inclusion. With the update you mentioned, it sounds like 6/6T are right around the corner for inclusion. Sadly, I have yet a few days to wait for the power of the FAJITA.

The switch to an OTA based build (that you can flash with fastboot) is work in progress. I've got a recovery booting (but lacking adb and there's mountpoint issues), and there's some associated issues with the regular boot now as well.

Please find us on discord or telegram if you think you can help

@Lakotaubp OP6 is an A/B phone, which means it has 2 boot partitions and 2 system partitions. Dual booting this phone is a matter of telling it to boot from A, or B. It does certainly have problems - for instance, and android update might decide to install on the other side, overriding your ubports installation - but it's plausible.

@totalrando You can simply decide to keep your phone on "A" and just boot ubports, ignoring the other side. On your second question, please don't manipulate phone partitions. They aren't like laptop partitions, and messing with it can easily hard brick your device. I'd recommend you just keep them as is, run ubports, and maybe one day, we can do seamless upgrades using A/B as google once intended.

Maybe, if you know exactly what you are doing, you'll be able to pull it off. But I'm not nearly qualified enough to try, nor to tell you to do it

@damiensturdy Nice to see the post is usefull. I've updated my post with a link to the documentation, that'll tell you how to download and install the GSI version.

Note: the GSI isn't getting updated so what you can install now is the last version of this installation, there's work ongoing to have a real OTA-able device, as well as getting mainline base running.

After dropping my previous phone on the street, wrecking it, i got myself a nice shiny second hand OP6 to have a UBPorts phone. Whilst searching for possible devices, i noticed a lack of reports on the forum on how well the port is - so here goes my review for the OP6.

TL:DR;
You can daily drive it if you have to. Notable problems are lack of sleep mode (so you're going to have to charge it overnight), and that the camera crashes immediately (which i can live with).

Mobile data, both sims, bluetooth, wifi etc all work.

How to get it
Please check here: https://github.com/ubports-oneplus6/documentation
There's a discord group referenced, joining there will allow you to ask questions about OP6 and OP6T.

Longer review
First off, the OP6 is a nice piece of hardware. Fast chip, good screen, decent battery, and a headphone jack. It plays out well running ubports - it's very smooth (much better then my old BQ), and even without sleep functional it'll last you the day easily.

Stability wise, it's pretty OK. So far i've seen one spontaneous reboot per day. Keeping many apps open is no issue at all (including a 10-tab morph). Some apps (Futify for instance) do disappear - but i assume that's because of Futify. Also, very important, I haven't missed any calls yet.

Looking for the future, with the GSI not getting updates anymore, I'm looking forward to getting a "real" OTA-able phone setup. I'll post some more when I have been able to drive it.

@3T_Ed There's, as usual on todays internet, a lot of things wrong in that article. It seems written by a pro-purism guy, grabbing arguments left and right without a lot of actual fact checking. For instance, he claims ubuntu touch has received only 26 commits since canonical left - which is not only plain wrong but a very easy thing to actually verify.

That thread is full of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) over an incident from 2015 when there was an integration (now removed, in a desktop environment that is no longer used) that would allow you to search amazon store from your desktop.

Ubuntu is just as trustworthy as any other major linux distro.

A while ago, i believe Alan posted and you guys discussed that order for UBPorts to switch to wayland, the steps were:

1. Upgrade Mir to a newer version
2. Design the missing Wayland protocols to replace Mir protocol internally
3. Migrate the internal Mir to Wayland

Now that OTA-12 is soon out, and a newer (1.2 - but 1.8 was released recently?) Mir is in place, where are you guys with this project and how high does it rank on your priority scope?

Dekko has some uncommon options, like under authentication type and force ssl/tls - you should probably try changing those around a little.

I noticed, for example, that GMAIL defaults to "plain" authentication but requires "login" ...

If that doesn't work, please join us at the dekko user group on telegram and we'll try to help!

In terms of "what is home", i typically use the "scopes" app rather then the dash. For me, on the phone, the dash is just a place of shortcuts for apps that I open a lot.

There's no real value in the empty background right now - nothing there i cannot do from elsewhere except see nothing. If convergence comes, then putting stuff on the desktop makes sense (if we liked gnome, we wouldn't be here). Or, setting a default home app could also work (and then you could default that to a "desktop" app that shows shortcuts ...).

If any real option gets coded, we would indeed need a way to get there. Swipe left is for the drawer (and apps), which is a change I'll at least have to get used to instead of accessing the scopes app in the spread. You could put a desktop icon on the drawer somewhere, which would re-inforce the drawer as the unit of navigation. You could also put both the open drawer (as a replaces of the scope app) as well as the background as defaults in the spread. You could also just do both.

Concerning the "click outside" from the spread: it's a new form of interaction. It might be more intuitive if there's a card to select from, and if that card is always at the same place.

Also, "hide apps" sounds wrong to me. I want to (positively) go home, not (negatively) hide other stuff.

Now that latest mir is almost done (i guess you guys are aiming OTA-9), what is next on your focus list? What's your priority in:

• mainline devices (pine / purism)
• anbox
• full wayland (replacing mir protocol)
• unity desktop
• hidl hardware layer
• whatever cool thing i missed