Hi
I am highjacking this thread just to say a BIG THANKS for the hard work on Ofono. It has been a long time since I tried to send a mms. I have Sony Xperia X(FOCAL Stable) and Google Pixel 3A(FOCAL Devel) as daliy drivers in my family and to my surprise mms is working, both sending and receiving. THIS have never fully worked with my carrier, EVER. So once agian a BIG THANKS

Hi
I was listening to the latest Postmarketos podcast and found out that they have soon three phones which you could install their OS/GUI using the Ubports installer. It is the Oneplus 6, Shift6MQ and soon the Fairphone 4. Great work Postmarketos and welcome to our installer
Hear all about it here:

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/23-PVR-SGX540-Kupfer-UBports-installer-SoCs-Phone-Testing-2/

Hi
Here comes little news regarding the Raspberry pi3 and pi4:
Capsia over at:

https://t.me/UBports_pi

have made a new image for the Rpi 3 and Rpi 4.

You'll find it here:

https://gitlab.com/capsia/rootfs-builder-debos/-/jobs/4802053677/artifacts/browse

This is what Capsia wrote in the release note:

Hi! I finally have a focal image for the Pi. Please note that this is still in very early development and there may be issues. Currently known issues are that video playback does not work in the video app (only in the browser), the first boot is very slow and the Pi 3 is quite laggy with only 1GB of ram. This image has also been tested and works on the Pi4, other models such as the Pi400 may or may not work.

Hi
I will try to sum up the things that Oren & Co over at

https://t.me/utonpine

is doing and the things you need to do to have the best exprience on your pine64 device.
The focus at the moment will be on Pinephone, Pinephone Pro, Pinetab and Pinetab 2.
This post will be updated when new things gets developed.

PINEPHONE & PINEPHONE PRO
You need Tow-boot on the emmc to install Ubuntu touch on your phone:

https://tow-boot.org

These procedures is still valid to install UT on your phone:

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/pinephone-and-pinephone-pro-20-04-install-3889

Here you will find the latest version to install:

https://ci.ubports.com/job/focal-hybris-rootfs-arm64/job/master/

From Oren on Telegram channel:
These are our images, ready for your usage, building daily. I’m still figuring out how we will have these distributed. I’ll be updating my gitlab page, the pine64 wiki, and the ubports wiki in the next few days pointing to here, most likely.

You can select last successful artifacts or click on the “+View” button, then click to download the .raw.xz file of your respective device. then flash it in the same way as our downstream images.

Please note: these are still r/w and still have to be upgraded through apt. However, you should notice multiple improvements with ContentHub, the modem, and even GPS support.

To update your phone, run this in the terminal on your phone:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y
Enter your password and press enter

This is done between the releases that Oren makes on his Gitlab page.
To have the latest version of UT, always make a new, fresh install of the latest version from Orens Gitlab page.
These are not pushed through apt. This will persist as long as we don’t have OTA:s on the phones.

It is recommended to update the modem(SDK) and its firmware(ADSP).
You need to have ADB and Fastboot installed on your PINEPHONE to install these:

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases/tag/0.7.2

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/ADSP-CARRIERS.md

The Modem-SDK release version 0.7.4 is more buggy/instable than 0.7.2.

The modem is like a computer and it talks adb and fastboot, that is why you need adb and fastboot installed on your phone.

If your carrier is not listed in the table on the ADSP-page, you’ll have to check which firmware that works best for your carrier. I don’t know when the table over the carriers was last updated, newer versions of the firmware could be a better experience.
If your carrier isn’t listed and you install a firmware that works with your carrier, please make a pr so it gets on the table.
On this Github there is a lot of help to get things set up in the right/best way, Such as Flashing, Settings, How to, etc. Please read it.

Oren have made a Help guide to help you along the way of tinkering with your phone/tablet:

https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/wikis/Help-Guide

PINETAB & PINETAB 2
According to the 0.8 release, both the Pinetab and Pinetab 2 have U-boot preloaded, they don’t use Tow-boot to boot.

Here is the latest version of UT, 0.9 in the writing:

https://gitlab.com/ook37/pinephone-pro-debos/-/releases/v0.9

Please leave a comment if there is something missing

I suspect that I am on a older version that somehow blocks the updater to peform as it should. I reinstall the phone tomorrow to see if the updater works after that. Happy Christmas to you all

@unisuperbox
Godspeed and take really good care of yourself.

Hi @rocket2nfinity
I guess that makes it 2 who used it as a daily driver
I suspects that @Flohack have to many devices to maintaine, maybe it gets ported one day when he has nothing else to do
Couldn't we have som download statistics on the device page? Showing how many downloads each ported device have since they was added to the ubports installer. I know this wouldn't be fair for those devices that hasn't made it to the installer yet. But none the less it would be interesting to see some numbers showing how active this project is.

@lduboeuf
This is the steps that I have done to reinstall Android:
Install latest version of adb and fastboot on your pc.
Install the ubports installer
Download the android 9 factory version sargo-pq3b.190801.002 from here:
https://developers.google.com/android/images#sargo
Connect your phone to your pc
In terminal run
adb devices
to check if everthing is working as it should, a serial number will show up after the server is started.
In terminal run:
adb reboot bootloader
Extract the archive sargo-pq3b.190801.002
Open the sargo folder, right click on an empty space and choose Open terminal here(or type the path manually in the terminal to the flash-all(dot)sh script)
In the terminal run:
fastboot devices
to check that the phone is recognized by the pc, the same serial number will show up as the one that adb output
In the terminal run
sudo ./flash-all.sh
enter your sudo code and it will take a moment to reinstall Android.
After the phone reboots, enter developer mode and tick Usb debugging
Once again run in terminal
adb reboot bootloader
When the phone enters the bootloader run the ubports installer and follow the steps.

Hi
I have talked to the manager for the paramedics in my town today. He was very positive to the ICE contact integration on our operating system and that we was so devoted to have an unified icon for it. But the only suggestion he had was the “Star of Life”. So I will post here again when or if I get a response from EMS/NHTSA.

@BigB The first N7 in the table is flo the other two is deb with different LTE depending on where you live. UT should work on all three. I don't have a N7 so I can't help you with the second question.

@Salah
This how you change ringtone for every contact:
Open the contact app
Pick a contact and open edit mode, the pen up in the right corner
Tapp on: add field
Scroll down to the last row: Ringtone

@GermanAizek
I think that this is answered somewhere else here on the forum and if I don't remember it wrong, most of the samsung phones has locked bootloader which makes it impossible to port the phone over to another os.

@_moh_eb_
Have you tried to use usb2 ports and cable on pc?
Usb3 is known to cause problems during installation.
if you don't have access to usb2 ports on pc, you could use a usb2 hub instead.

@doliwa
Have you tried the things that I suggested?

Hi @doliwa
There is some things that you could do and that I hope is enough for your user case.
Here is my ideas:
First install UT tweak tool from the app store. In this app you are able to change the scaling/size of icons, text, interface and more.
You are able in some apps to zoom in/out by using two fingers, example is the message app.
I hope that this is enough for you

Hi
I found this little tool on Sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/treeminder/

It is a basic tool similar to the mindmapping app Freemind(Freeplane), and it is written in javascript.

This how I did to launch it on my UT-phone:
Extract the archive in a suitable place.
Copy the file 'index.html'
Open a web-browser and use paste in the URL.
Hit enter and it should launch.
When you save a mindmapp it will be stored in the same location where you extracted Treemind. You could move the save-file and open it from the new location.
Bookmark the URL for easier access next time you want to use Treeminder

Hi @MrT10001
What usb port do you have on your pc?
I had the same problem that have been mentioned by other users in here about the phone not updating instead it entered the recovery mode instead. I tried to change from devel to stable, after that the phone got stuck on google boot screen. I did a lot of thing to get the phone working, and a few stupid once too . When I tried to reinstall the phone it was picked up by the installer but it couldn't reinstall UT. I could install android on it by running the flash-all script in the factory image. Then I remembered something about only using usb2 port on your pc when installing UT. The pc that I was using to install UT had only usb3 ports. So I picked up my old Lenovo laptop that only have usb2 ports. Now the installer worked without any hiccups.

Hi
I am highjacking this thread just to say a BIG THANKS for the hard work on Ofono. It has been a long time since I tried to send a mms. I have Sony Xperia X(FOCAL Stable) and Google Pixel 3A(FOCAL Devel) as daliy drivers in my family and to my surprise mms is working, both sending and receiving. THIS have never fully worked with my carrier, EVER. So once agian a BIG THANKS

Here is another post from Oren & CO:

Also they will likely recieve another few package updates in the next few days when OTA3 comes out, so these are test images until that is fully released (UBPorts will announce it). Then they are officially "beta" upstream images, before our OTA-upgradable final version.

Edit:
From Oren & CO:
i am waiting to upload this to the ubports + pine64 wikis until OTA3 comes out

Hi
Here is a little note from Oren & CO over att Telegram:

https://ci.ubports.com/job/focal-hybris-rootfs-arm64/job/master/

These are our images, ready for your usage, building daily. I’m still figuring out how we will have these distributed. I’ll be updating my gitlab page, the pine64 wiki, and the ubports wiki in the next few days pointing to here, most likely.

You can select last successful artifacts or click on the “+View” button, then click to download the .raw.xz file of your respective device. then flash it in the same way as our downstream images.

Please note: these are still r/w and still have to be upgraded through apt. However, you should notice multiple improvements with ContentHub, the modem, and even GPS support. We are actively working on r/o and system-image updates, you can follow the progress in this chat.

Issues/other comments:

• network + modem seem to die on the pinephone pro when put to sleep. sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager ofono will get them back on, but we believe this is a problem with the kernel. We are actively working on this too.

• external monitor support is still poor, and camera is not working yet. Again, we are working on this.

• almost all of contenthub works. However, some things seem to require apparmor profile updates. For example, you can now correctly upload images to telegram, and you can download them from telegram, but trying to have the file open the downloaded file will still fail. You have to locate it manually.

• GPS should be working OOTB, but in reality it seems to be acting slightly funny. If it does not work right away, we have found switching to our branch that fixed it sudo ubports-qa install focal_-PR_location-service_27, then sudo ubports-qa uninstall focal-_PR_location-service_27 right after to remove it, it seems to bring GPS online

• PineTab2 WiFi has new, safer one-liners! sudo systemctl start pinetab2-wifi-enable + reboot to turn it on, sudo systemctl start pinetab2-wifi-disable + reboot to turn it back off. These are not persistent, so you can’t systemctl enable them.

Finally, I could not have got this far without @Luigi311 + @fuseteam, huge thanks to both of them for helping me take this project on