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?
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.
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.
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.
@cliffcoggin Thanks. Your solution works like a charm.
I closed the Notes app while upgrading this app to the latest version. Now, when I open this app, I get the following message:
No notes vavailable
Any idea how to retrieve my notes?
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.
@totalsonic Thanks. That is indeed the solution.
Open the terminal app and type:
$ cp /userdata/user-data/phablet/.local/share/uwp.costales/file.html /home/phablet/Downloads/file.html
Then open the file by typing the new address of the file in the address bar of the Morph browser:
file:///home/phablet/Downloads/file.html
That's it.
@domubpkm Will Tedit transform html into text like html2text does or will it display everything including all HTML formatting language?
@Keneda Same question for Seabass2.
In other words, shall I get a better viewing than I would by simply typing in the terminal app:
$ cat file.html
@totalsonic Thank you. The files are indeed in a .local/share directory. I found them at the following place:
/userdata/user-data/phablet/.local/share/uwp.costales/
I can't open them with uWriter since OTA-16 won't let me do so but I had hoped to be able to open them with the Morph browser. uWriter files are in HTML format. Unfortunately, when I click these files, the only option I get is to open them with OpenStore which of course does not work. I have also tried to no avail to enter the files location in the address bar of the Morph browser as follows:
file:////userdata/user-data/phablet/.local/share/uwp.costales/file.html
The Morph browser does not display local html files. How may I display these files then? Should I try to install html2text and display them from the terminal app? If so, how do I install html2text ?
As the uWriter word processor no longer works since the release of OTA-16, could anyone tell me how to retrieve the data created earlier with this app?
@alainw94 I would like to reinstall UT on my Pro 5. So I need to backup first and will need to restore afterwards.
How reliable is the ubports-installer for this purpose now?
I can no longer scroll down with the Notes app. What has happened? Has anyone experienced the same issue?
@domubpkm I have removed µAdBlock with UT Tweak Tools and the problem persists even after reboot...