Two questions if I may ask:
1 - How would it be possible to lower the minimum screen brightness?
2 - Would it be possible to have a full-screen function like the F11 function there is on Ubuntu Desktop? This would allow to display more lines to read on the web browser by hiding the web page address at the top of the screen. This would be particularly handsome in landscape mode.
There are a number of threads about the loss of WiFi password after reboot of the Nexus 5 and of the BQ M10 but not much about the same problem on the MEIZU Pro 5 apart from https://forums.ubports.com/topic/708/meizu-pro5-fastboot-mode-locked
I have a MEIZU Pro 5 with 4GB of RAM and Ubuntu Touch 16.04 UBports OTA-7. This is not the Ubuntu Touch edition. This phone came with Flyme OS and I installed Ubuntu on it. I need to re-enter the WiFi password after reboot.
The way this problem occurs is strange because the password is not completely lost. If I open the Settings, go to Wi-Fi and then to the list of Previous networks, my access point is still there and it does have the password. The problem is that when I select this access point in this list, the only option I have is to Forget this network. I can't enable the connection from the list of previous networks.
In order to connect to this access point, I have to select it from the current list of networks from which the password is lost. Once I enter again the password, the list of Previous networks creates a new entry with the same network name albeit with the suffix " 1" added to it. If I reboot again and do the same thing, a new entry appears once again, this time with the suffix " 2". And so on with the suffixes 3, 4, 5, etc...
Has anyone found out how to fix the problem since the thread mentioned above?
Alright, I did find a file /home/phablet/.cache/libertine/puritine/PuritineSymlinkFarm.json and I deleted it. I don't know why I couldn't see it with find.
Yes I know I have to replace CONTAINER-IDENTIFIER with the identifier of my container, i.e. xenial.
~root refers to /root.
I have found the following text files which I deleted:
/.local/share/unity-scopes/unconfined/libertine-scope.ubuntu_libertine-scope/.surfacing_cache
/.local/share/unity-scopes/unconfined/clickscope/.surfacing_cache
But still no change, even after reboot. It seems that the container is very much contained and unbreakable! But don't worry, I am going to reinstall UT anyway.
Thank you to all for your help.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has a web page to test "how trackers view your browser": https://coveryourtracks.eff.org
Apparently the Morph browser does not fare well in this test:
"Our tests indicate that you are not protected against tracking on the web."
"Blocking tracking ads? No"
"Blocking invisible trackers? No"
I did the test with OTA-17 and µAdBlock installed. Any comment welcome.
Usually recent mobile phones don't run UT because it takes time to port the software onto them. So I am surprised that the port to the OnePlus 6T was so quick. What happened then?
Has anyone tested convergence on this beast of 8GB of RAM? This could be an ideal device for use as a desktop computer.
Shall we ever be able to boot from a mainline kernel and from an SD card on Android devices?
@3t_ed Yes I have experienced issues with the keyboard too.
@kugiigi You are right. Thanks.
All Ubuntu Touch apps store user data in ~/.local/share/app-name/. It is impossible to open a file stored for instance in ~/Documents/.
One way around this would be to create a symbolic link:
$ ln -s ~/Document/data-file ~/.local/share/app-name/link-to-data-file
Unfortunately, opening such a link with an app yield an empty file. However, if the data file were in the same directory as the link, then opening the link would yield the full non empty file. That is, if the link is created as:
$ ln -s ~/.local/share/app-name/data-file ~/.local/share/app-name/link-to-data-file
then everything works fine.
It seems that Ubuntu Touch apps are blind to the directory tree. Does anybody know a way around this problem? How could one choose where to store data files and not be restricted to ~/.local/share/app-name/ ?
@BrisPete Thanks BrisPete. I should have found out by myself instead of starting a new thread... Sorry.
@josele13 Reinstalling Ubuntu Touch won't bring back the EFS partition which is a firmware from the manufacturer.
@josele13 Yes thanks. I had actually already tried this to no avail.
@arubislander I am on the stable channel with OTA-23. I fear that the problem has the same root as the one described in this old post of mine where it has been suggested that I might have deleted the EFS partition when I repartitioned the phone before installation. I had to repartition because I have the non-ubuntu edition of the Meizu Pro 5 with 4GB of RAM instead of 3GB.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2406/wifi-password-loss-after-each-and-every-reboot-on-meizu-pro-5
@arubislander I have tried the WiFi scanner from the app store. It shows the name of the hotspot with the hexadecimal code in the format [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX]. But the hotspot name is nowhere to be found on the list of WiFi access points on my PC.
@arubislander I have run iwlist on my PC but the name of the phone hotspot does not appear among the ESSID list.
The hotspot function is not working on my Meizu Pro 5. I have tried tos switch on and off this function, changed the hotspot name and password, and still no hotspot to be seen on my PC.
Any idea?
I just wonder why I can call when the cellular data is set off.
@arubislander Silly me... Thanks arubislander.
However I wonder why the phone still works when the cellular data is off.
On my Meizu Pro 5 with 4GB of RAM (not the original 3GB device that shipped with UT), I can't take up phone calls I receive although the phone does ring. When I press the green icon showing a handset up, nothing happens.
Another strange thing is that I can make phone calls even when I set the Cellular data toggle to the off position in Mobile Settings.
I wonder if these problems are not caused by the same issue I have with WiFi passwords becoming unavailable every time I reboot the phone as explained in this old thread of mine:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2406/wifi-password-loss-after-each-and-every-reboot-on-meizu-pro-5
According to UniSuperBox, this WiFi "issue "occurs when the partition that holds the MAC and/or IMEI information for a device (commonly called efs) is corrupted or destroyed". I think I might indeed have destroyed this EFS partition when I had to repartition the phone before installing UT.