If I got this right, it is planned (in long term) to remove scopes. (at least in their current form)

In many cases scopes are nothing more than an always available app. The added value of such scopes is minimal.

However aggregate scopes (like today or nearby) are special and they are a distinctive feature of ubuntu touch.

warning: begin of wild thoughts
Maybe it would even make sense to generalize the aggregate feature so that the user can aggregate information in his own logic. What I mean is wouldn't it be nice to be able to create additional aggregate pages with all information sources that fit in this category for you. Some people would stick with "today" and "nearby", others would group everything in a new "everything" aggregate or else split it up in many different aggregates.
end of wild thoughts

Anyway - what is planned about aggregate scopes?
In my opinion it would be a capital mistake to loose them with no replacement at hand.

@malditobastardo Nobody is expecting a huge effort from them for this right now.

What I am talking about is letting them know that it does have some importance. The current plans seem to be letting Today scope just fade away with no plan B. And to me this does not seem an attractive way.

The guys do a good job. Just I don't always get the priorities. I want to be able to use it as a main phone again. I do not need to set a background picture on scopes for that. But I do need a lot of the stuff from today scope. Weather is one of them.

In order of decreasing importance:

• stability and bug fixes in general.
• bluetooth in general and in particular improve car kit support. I only know one working combination and it's sound quality is a nightmare.
• re-add more of the missing canonical core functionality in particular some missing parts of today and nearby scopes (dayinfo (!!), holidays, where I am, etc) I understand that in long term scopes may not continue to exist the way they are now, but for now many facilities from the aggregate scopes are something that I miss in everyday use. They can be deactivated by default. But I believe the user should have the choice to switch them on if he wants to.
• aethercast support. You don't always have a cable at hand and more and more TV sets support miracast natively. Why not use it when it is so close?

Keep up the good work!

After unsuccessfully trying multiple times, I not only wiped all partitions, but also formatted Data Partition in the first step. This seems to have made the difference.

@vince1171 Ubuntu-touch is successfully installed on my Oneplus3. Cheers

Hi - I would like to add a few question to those that @tomoqv has:

1. I would like to propose a more detailed way to present what is working in xenial or not. Right now it is essentially guessing and trying on all the different devices and versions. What I mean is something like a table or matrix showing different functions as rows and the devices as columns. One row could be for flawless booting. In the Nexus 5 column (from my experience this works 8 out of 10 times) this could be "8/10" . A different row could be Miracast "0/10" . Then also Bluetooth Headsets, WiFi, Hotspot or Printer could be other rows with per device scores. It is a pain in a...rm to have no overview on status and possible progresses.
2. Another thing I would find useful is creating a simple way to install Beta or even if this is what the user wants Alpha releases of things like the new webbrowser, anbox or other "experiments" . A good way could be by creating a "Beta channel" for this in openstore. This channel could then be enabled if users feel adventurous. The main point is not every user wants to mess around with terminal for this - even if he is easily able to.
3. It has been so long that @mariogrip is teasing everyone with a "kindof" working port to Oneplus3 . How about making this (and maybe others) available for install by ubports-installer? (You could then also add it to the table mentioned under 1. point)

Please don't get me wrong. I am a supporter. I see immense potential. But when you want support, it is usually better be able to provide visible progress steps. And sometimes this means working on goals one after the other (and reach single goals faster) rather than working on all of them simultaneously and none of them gets completed. (I over emphasized this in order to make the point clearer.)

Hi all. As stupid of a question as this may seem... Is anyone aware of a working combination of a bluetooth carkit and a 16.04 UT device? Both phone calls and music streaming via bluetooth are of interest to me.

So far none of the combinations I tried were anything better than horrible.

I can't really imagine that no working combination exists.

I didn't find a working combination within all combinations of 4 carkits and 3 UT devices. But I cant really pretend to try them all.

Congratulations for the release of 16.04 stable channel! Good work!

Now that this primary goal is reached, what will be upcoming priorities?

A few suggestions that come to my mind in decreasing importance

• browser next
• bluetooth car kits compatibility
• miracast TV set compatibility (maybe including support on additional existing UT devices)
• Halium support and halium device ports (we do need UT on a premium device like OP3!)
• convergence
• a replacement for aggregate scopes. (maybe something like widgets?)

I was trying to find information on how to set up a halium device to see the progress on ubports halium port. There is quite a few documentation on how to build halium in general and a general description on how to do a port. This is nice that we have it, but do we really all have to go through the same hassle of compile and figuring out the details of how to put it on our device?

The question really is: are some of these halium ports advanced enough to integrate them in a separate tree in the ubports installer? (I don't care if it is called edge or just halium)

Of course we have to be aware that this might mean installing alpha or even pre-alpha. But I am pretty sure many would like to able to give these versions a try on a currently unsupported new halium device.

I have 3 questions:

• I learned that the beefy arm64 server you need for development is sponsored by a company. Does this mean that your second patreon goal has no assignment? Wouldn't it be helpful to correct the second goal and maybe also to be more explicit about third one?
• The old Ubuntu Touch services seem to die one by one. Some time ago it was weather app. Are you guys looking into this? I mean proactive measures could bhave been helpful or at least finding out in time what services risk dying next and maybe get in touch with the right persons in time would be a not so bad idea.
• I like the convergence idea and I like to hear that actually some people seem to have positive experience with it. Is there any reason why you still need to drop to shell and install from server X in order to get hold of it? I am not saying that I cannot do that. I am saying I do not want to be forced to do that. Why the heck not put it in openstore?

• I totally agree about freedom of software and freedom from getting tracked everywhere I go.
• related to freedom is security. This is a major point if I want to use it as my everyday phone.
• Equally important I think is that a stable base is needed. What I mean is that it is not enough to be able to say "we have bluetooth" or "we have miracast" . I mean if it is there, it should also really be working and be compatible to thirdparty devices. Lets not get trapped but featurism . And all this does not only apply to BT and eathercast.
• Anbox will certainly make transition easier for all people coming from Android. (including me)

Personally right now things beyond this are already a bonus at the moment. In my case things that I miss are:

• vpn support for cisco (vpnc) based vpns
• great would be an integrated SIP client
• convergence could become interesting but right now other missing things are more painful und thus they seem more important.

After unsuccessfully trying multiple times, I not only wiped all partitions, but also formatted Data Partition in the first step. This seems to have made the difference.

@vince1171 Ubuntu-touch is successfully installed on my Oneplus3. Cheers

@jussihi thanks for you response. Are you using a Oneplus3 or a Oneplus 3T? I use a Oneplus3 . Did you use any particular version of TWRP? Not sure how much it matters but what version of OxygenOs did you have on it before? I had the latest one 9.0.5 .
Also - does the host OS version matter?

I am trying to install this on a oneplus 3 . None of the steps throws an error and still the final boot is not successful. It just "hangs" displaying "1+" logo and "powered by android". What did I miss? Is there anything I need to do that you didn't mention? Neither regular nor edge is working. Both just "hang" after final reboot.

Any help is appreciated. Has someone been successful on this?

@Shannon64 probably what @Giiba meant is: is the screen unlocked. This unlocks access to the device over USB.

How comes that up to today not one single Halium port UT firmware is available for download? Is UT support for Halium still incomplete? After all some devices are "kindof" working since almost years. What is really stopping you from making ports available to a wider public?

Fritzbox don't natively support OpenVPN. They do support Cisco/vpnc based VPN. Unfortunately there is no simple way to create such a VPN tunnel on current Ubuntu touch.
You would have to use the terminal to setup and control such a VPN. After all it does work on a normal Linux based system.

Ages ago Mark Shuttlewoth had a vision of UT on many fronts. One of them was set top boxes. Do you know about any project working on SAT receiver UI using UT (unity)?

Is there any other interesting IOT device using UT UI? Or maybe someone working on it?

Anyone else wanna share experience with bluetooth carkit?

It was repeatedly stated that liberapay is working again. I cannot really find how to fund my account. I only see ways to draw money from account.

Paypal and Stripe seem to be for people receiving money. Am I missing something?

@rocky58 thanks for your info. Which UT device are you using? Are you running 16.04?