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.

@nero355
I was thinking of using a pi 3 or 4. Maybe buying pieces of a pinephone, because then you'l have everything you need to have gps, wifi, mobile data and more, and put it in one of these:

https://www.liymo.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-solutions/ByByte-double-din-raspberry-pi-monitor

A perfect car pc

@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.

I will eat my sock by Marius

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-58-79

We have really come a long way since then,

@atarilinux
I think that Alfred who maintains the port for this device mentioned something about VoLTE needs atleast Halium 10 to work. This port uses Halium 9.

Hi
I stumbled upon this projcet and wondered if there could be some sort of colaboration to bring Lomiri/UT to this device:

https://liberux.net/#home

It seems that they just got hold on some development pcb for the device.

@Moem
I had my first black screen in my camera app today. It hasn't done this for a long time. I needed to restart my phone only once to get the app to work again. No clue to what caused the app to crash.

I will eat my sock by Marius

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/post/ubuntu-touch-q-a-58-79

We have really come a long way since then,

@Moem
I have now sent six pictures to myself without any problems.

@Moem
I was able to take a picture through Teleports and send it to myself without the camera app crashes.

@Moem
I started the camera app on 3 of my 4 pixel 3a in the household and they all works. I thought that maybe my phone is working differently because I'm using the latest drivers.

Hmm
There was an update too to the camera app, version 4.0.7, this could be the solution to the black screen too

@Josele13
What happens when you tap on the screen to make the camera refocus?

Hi
Before OTA-8 I had the same problem with a totally black screen, but now it doesn't happen anymore after I updated to OTA-8.
I'm on 20.04 Pixel 3A.