battery
"Not having a removable battery is a dealbreaker for me so the Librem 5..."
I just went to their own web site, and they clearly say the battery is serviceable/replaceable.
To be clear, you mean you want a phone with an externally removeable battery? Just
click off? I can't remember the last phone I owned which had that.
@dshimer I agree, I was off ubports for a bit because my wife's phone died and she needed (Android, sigh) a replacement quickly, thus a Nexus 5 was used up. But I presently laid hands on another, and here I am back with a daily driver again! This one was, hmmm, like $60, with everything including battery in good condition.
@PINE64 For shipping of batteries, I suggest that you fab a flashlight which uses the same battery. One switch, one LED, minimal plastic case. Then you can ship a battery within a device, national post office regs are satisfied, and the recipient can perhaps crack open the flashlight and use the battery elsewhere. 
FWIW, I used pypi.org/project/notify2/ which uses the dbus, worked for my own notification app.
I have a bug unique to the Morph browser. I knew how to invoke the debugger under the old browser--what's the wisdom on this new one? TIA!
OTOH, I just today found a spare OTG USB cable in hand, and tried plugging in a mouse. Which worked very well--hats off to the UT folks.
@libremax said in Making Ubuntu Touch an easy choice:
The development of UT has to be embedded in a long time, several decades in the same way that GNU/Linux software emerged in the 70s and 90s and only became known to tens of millions of users in the 2000s.
No reason to be impatient only to show consistency and determination.
Well, I don't think Linus was doing his thing in the 70's, but otherwise I agree with your sentiment.
Many kept waiting for the thing or decision or Big Business which would make Linux win. But it really just kept being there, attracting enthusiasm and moving forward. It was just suddenly obvious and inevitable.
So I think the project is doing all the right things. Catch up with a shared SW base. Fix the abandoned browser. Over time adopt a new flagship and, yes, set some old supported devices aside (I'm already a little worried about the flawed binary blobs in my Nexus 5). Keep chipping away at what's missing, what's broken--software and docs. If you keep at it, odds are you'll run across things which will make UT stand out. Especially since the big players can make game changing mistakes (I'm watching Google's tensions with the EU and their increasing control of Google Apps with interest).
Re: Caller Blocking?
So I couldn't stand it any more, and remembered an old Nokia N900 hack which sorta did the job. I have a daemon running now which watches for calls on the dbus, and hangs them up if they're in my blacklist config file:
http://sources.vsta.org:7100/webXMPP/dir?ci=tip
You want the tools/blacklist.py file in that project, if you want to check it out.
No, it's not a GUI or a package; if somebody wants to work with me to wrap this
in something prettier, I'd be happy to help.
I couldn't find any way to get word back to my carrier that they're not even worth
a shot in voicemail. But at least they can't ring my phone....
@haveaniceday said in Set partition sizes when flashing:
@vandys I just did this on a M10 frieza an it worked like a charm.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread". Given your prompting, I did it too (ubuntu.img and
system.img appear to be two links to the same underlying inode) and... success. I now have
lots of room on my partition for any more packages. Very nice! So mark as a workable
technique on Nexus 5, too. Many thanks.
I have to say that the transition to Xenial was a huge step, almost a defining milestone for the project. I think you made the right call after that big hurdle to get it out, even with some imperfections. Maybe from here on onward you might choose to hold back, but I think for something as big as your new release, it was right to get it out in the world rather than letting it drag on like one of those never-released "1.0"'s.
FWIW, on the Nexus 5 I found it on /userdata/system.img
I'm very tempted to up-size the image file and see if I can get a bigger root!
Ha, I had the opposite last night. I was running a (music streaming) web app, closed the tab--and the web app kept running, now with no way to stop the music. Had to close the browser app and restart.
Ok, I got impatient and dug through the UT Tweak tool. Here's a workaround if you're comfortable in a terminal (or, in my case, adb shell):
gsettings get com.canonical.qtmir lifecycle-exempt-appids
For me, this had a value:
['com.ubuntu.music', 'com.ubuntu.terminal']
Then I updated this value:
gsettings set com.canonical.qtmir lifecycle-exempt-appids "['com.ubuntu.music', 'com.ubuntu.terminal', 'morph-browser']"
Voila! My browser is happily running in the background.
The Morph browser is looking really promising for streaming media--it has decent HTML6/ES6 support and its <audio> element handles ogg, mp3, and flac.
But if you change to a different tab, background the browser, or turn off the screen--the whole browser is suspended, making it useless as a media player.
So close, and yet so far.
In the past, the tweak tool could set the browser to not be suspended. As noted on another Morph Browser thread, the tweak tool doesn't "see" this browser.
So... can a UBports wizard suggest how to let the tweak tool see the app? Or name some other way (no matter how grotty) to tell the environment to not SIGSTOP the browser when it's not foreground?
TIA!
But... UI Tweak doesn't appear to know about it! So I can't let it run in BG?
@advocatux, and indeed, no lack of gratitude here for the epic task of catching up with Xenial! Once that one browser glitch goes away, I'm up for trying it as a daily driver.
@advocatux, Webbrowser Next is promising, biggest immediate "gotcha" is that the popup keyboard obscures all but one line of the web page, making it torturous for things which involve completion as you type (or if you need any context at all as you enter text). Any chance somebody could change it to only use, say, half the screen? Thanks!
I looked into this after some comments on this forum, and yes, the phone is just endlessly trying to resolve the (apparently end-of-life'ed) name dash.ubuntu.com. I added a mapping to localhost in /etc/hosts to quiet all those requests. It also asks about daisy.ubuntu.com on a regular basis, so I nipped that one too, and we'll see what breaks.
Is there any way to block a caller (better yet, an entire phone number pattern)? Either in the system or via an app?
If not, consider this a feature request... guess why I woke up at 2AM today. 
Ok, I've studied the CVE and the patches, and I'm pretty sure I can get this applied for the kernel source net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c, at least on hammerhead. I can take a similar look if somebody can tell me how to check out the source which includes src/sdpd-request.c.