Brilliant Idea Pierre!

Thank you for all your contributions to Ubuntu Touch and its apps!

@wally @sixwheeledbeast

Thanks for your replies/thoughts.

I am so happy to be on a free and open technology such as Ubuntu Touch! I was so excited when I learned about it and got it to work on my device. I can deal with minor items such as this, but I also thought I would politely mention it as I am impressed with the community of developers and what they are able to do with various updates. (It's also possible this is low priority or as @wally alluded to, it may be device specific and may not be updated in the future).

I thought it was better to politely mention it vs not saying it at all.

Cheers!

I do know that Type 2 (hosted) Virtualization (VMWare, Virtualbox) does not work as you need USB passthrough (connect phone, adb/fastboot, etc).

Seems that the best is to have a Windows computer (only method I've tried so far). As you said in your post, you don't currently have a Windows computer.

I cannot confirm the following options but they may be worth a try (or perhaps someone else on the forum can confirm it has worked or not worked for them):

1. Type 1 (bare metal) Virtualization (KVM/QEMU on Linux)
   USB passthrough is possible using Type 1 (bare metal) Virtualization, but I cannot confirm yet this solution since I currently use Type 2. Use KVM/QEMU on Linux, create a VM. Idea would be to install a Windows OS (maybe 10 or 11), configure KVM/QEMU for USB passthrough (which takes the bare metal physical USB port and connects directly to the VM instance of Windows on KVM/QEMU. See if MSMTools on Windows can work through the physical USB to your phone).

2. bootable usb of a Windows OS
   With a decently sized USB drive, download and install a Windows OS that can boot from the USB (Rufus is a software that allows .iso file to be written in a bootable way on USB. There are others). Then, install MSMTools on Windows and see if it can connect with your USB ports. This might have issues with read and write speeds. So, that might be a limitation but I don't know for sure.

Again, I haven't confirmed either option, but just throwing out ideas. Also, sorry for the high level nature. I don't have the details but if you have some time and can research various forums (XDAforums for MSMTools, make sure to get correct Oxygen firmware per the Ubuntu Touch website, I think there is a free Windows IoT or LTS version of Windows 10, KVM/QEMU have some decent documentation as well as Youtube videos).

Good luck!

@fischer.poco

I noticed in your attempt to "fastboot oem unlock: that you received a message "Flashing Unlock is not allowed".

Do you know what model of phone you have? (e.g. within OnePlus NORD N10 5G there are 4 BE2026, BE2028 (T-Mobile), BE2029 and a 4th one (MetroPCS) I can't remember the number).

Basically, you need BE2026 or BE2029 to directly unlock the bootloader without OnePlus. If you have BE2028, you have to request the bootloader from OnePlus (which has been mixed, sometimes they give you the unlock token, sometimes they don't).

I do know that Type 2 (hosted) Virtualization (VMWare, Virtualbox) does not work as you need USB passthrough (connect phone, adb/fastboot, etc).

Seems that the best is to have a Windows computer (only method I've tried so far). As you said in your post, you don't currently have a Windows computer.

I cannot confirm the following options but they may be worth a try (or perhaps someone else on the forum can confirm it has worked or not worked for them):

1. Type 1 (bare metal) Virtualization (KVM/QEMU on Linux)
   USB passthrough is possible using Type 1 (bare metal) Virtualization, but I cannot confirm yet this solution since I currently use Type 2. Use KVM/QEMU on Linux, create a VM. Idea would be to install a Windows OS (maybe 10 or 11), configure KVM/QEMU for USB passthrough (which takes the bare metal physical USB port and connects directly to the VM instance of Windows on KVM/QEMU. See if MSMTools on Windows can work through the physical USB to your phone).

2. bootable usb of a Windows OS
   With a decently sized USB drive, download and install a Windows OS that can boot from the USB (Rufus is a software that allows .iso file to be written in a bootable way on USB. There are others). Then, install MSMTools on Windows and see if it can connect with your USB ports. This might have issues with read and write speeds. So, that might be a limitation but I don't know for sure.

Again, I haven't confirmed either option, but just throwing out ideas. Also, sorry for the high level nature. I don't have the details but if you have some time and can research various forums (XDAforums for MSMTools, make sure to get correct Oxygen firmware per the Ubuntu Touch website, I think there is a free Windows IoT or LTS version of Windows 10, KVM/QEMU have some decent documentation as well as Youtube videos).

Good luck!

@linl Nice! Glad your experience went smoothly!

@rocket2nfinity Yeah, OnePlus seems to be rarely granting unlock tokens these days. It's infuriating! What you wrote makes sense. Just purchase the BE2026 directly and avoid asking for the unlock token.

Brilliant Idea Pierre!

Thank you for all your contributions to Ubuntu Touch and its apps!

@rocket2nfinity

I know that different variants of the N100 can be unlocked by flashing its Global ROM, which is rad. Is this also confirmed on the N10 5G? I think I saw posts where someone tried this but it still didn't allow unlocked bootloader on the N10 5G (and had to request unlock token from OnePlus). I hope that is the case (N10 flash Global ROM allows user to unlock bootloader) because OnePlus is really getting on my nerves by not granting the unlock tokens like they used to. errrggghhh!

@wally @sixwheeledbeast

Thanks for your replies/thoughts.

I am so happy to be on a free and open technology such as Ubuntu Touch! I was so excited when I learned about it and got it to work on my device. I can deal with minor items such as this, but I also thought I would politely mention it as I am impressed with the community of developers and what they are able to do with various updates. (It's also possible this is low priority or as @wally alluded to, it may be device specific and may not be updated in the future).

I thought it was better to politely mention it vs not saying it at all.

Cheers!

Hello fellow UTers!

Overall, I've had an amazing and fantastic experience using Ubuntu Touch and I plan on staying on the platform for the long term. Thank you for everything you do to contribute to Ubuntu Touch and making it what it is.

I wanted to share one minor improvement suggestion for future consideration. This is for the Ring and Alarm sounds to be always sent to external speaker. I noticed when I have my 3.5mm earbuds plugged in I missed a call or an alarm because the sound was going to the earbuds (but I didn't have them in my ear ... and as a result, missed the call or alarm because I didn't hear it). It would be nice for the Ring and Alarm sounds to always go to external speaker regardless if earbuds are plugged in or not.

Not sure if there is already a way to do this (and I just missed it) or if this is a difficult change or not.

In the meantime, as a workaround, I make sure to physically unplug my earbuds if I'm not actively using the phone. This way, I don't miss the ring or alarm. Then, just plug in my earbuds as needed.

Thank you for all the hard work you do and for even considering a potential future consideration.