@vandys said in Back using Touch on my Nexus 5 after long absence:

Hello, fellow ubports enthusiasts. I was away (from the forum, and from using ubports) for quite a while. Refreshed my Nexus 5, and wow! This OS is smooth, attractive, and the Morph browser is handling all of my different web sites quite handily.

I see so many articles on what doesn't work. I just thought a big picture perspective on the tremendous successes of this project was appropriate.

Thanks, team!

I did the same basically, except I run a Pixel 3a, Was hoping my Pixel 5 would run UT as its a well equipped device.

Music shouldn't stop when locking the screen. That was a bug that is supposedly fixed in dev channel

@jezek Thanks! There it is in application-legacy-morph-browser-.log

I saw it in the q&a. This indeed is a great feature. It is much easyer now to handle text with the phone. Realy great improvement

@dobey At least WRT the Android-ish kernel underneath, networking is a capability which can be held back. It is not benign to hand out your networking stack to every app; they can use it to slave to a botnet, contribute to DDoS, track your location, pull down and try exploits after communicating your system's apparen config.

@vandys Moved this to app dev to save moving it later or creating a new thread when someone takes you up on the offer to improve the packaging.

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.

See https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/327 - this is for the next OTA-3 and its already marked as done 😉

BR

Ok, dug through the source to obports-installer, looks like most of the goodies hang off of:

https://system-image.ubports.com

In particular:

https://system-image.ubports.com/ubports-touch/16.04/devel/hammerhead/index.json

which tells you where to get bits for various versions. The latest, currently 72, says that there's bits at :

/pool/device-e34756d822387fa9371568fa42292f8baf76d79ec7f2cee0f5c002b909dc08f5.delta-device-cc610cfc131187e182588a0f9c7c5c23ba769679708a4ba08b16878f4e93c101.tar.xz

which, once you pull it and "xzcat device-e3* | tar -xvf -" will give you boot, recovery, and system img files. I booted just to the bootloader and fastboot flash'ed those partitions, and my phone still boots OK. So I guess I'm at least sorta on the right track....

@UniSuperBox My machine with the USB cable was headless, thus the confusion. There needs to be a distinction between CLI and GUI install options, I guess. Thanks.

@Vistaus Oh, you are still on xenial. I am out of ideas then.

@wgarcia said in Flashlight/torch for Nexus 5:

@vandys It works for me, I'm using the development channel in the Nexus 5

Interesting. Probably a permission problem, then. I'll check it out further when I can afford to have my phone interrupted. Thanks again.

@Fla
Oh, right.
Sorry I didn't pay enough attention to the command lines.

Well that is great to hear! I'm going to post a couple "deep" questions with a prefix of "Ubuntu AMA:", these will be questions about basic system organization and flow of control. Hope we can start to fill this forum with some answers which will be referred to again and again in the coming years!

Dekko's just an email client, right? New mail notification is a server feature. For me, I have an imap watcher which watches for new mail using the IDLE extension and pushes an XMPP message:
https://vsta.org/andy/pickup/xmpp_mail.py
and I have a web interface to XMPP so I can read from a browser anywhere:
https://github.com/vandys/webXMPP

The final part is a daemon running on my phone, and its counterpart on that webXMPP server. When my phone's active, it just does a popup notification with sound. When the phone's off, it also gets the LED's blinking. They turn back off when you unlock the phone. The server remembers the client, and as soon as new messages arrive, it does a notification push.

I guess I'm telling you that I don't see how an email client gives you push notifications. The best it can do is try to run in the background and poll an imap account. But Touch SIGSTOP's apps as soon as they lose focus (delta that UI tweak utility) which will fight you, and it's a waste of battery and data anyway. imap IDLE really isn't a great fit for a mobile platform.

@vandys, you can try to play with loadkeys, dumpkeys and showkeys in the terminal.

https://superuser.com/questions/290115/how-to-change-console-keymap-in-linux

I don't know for the graphic session though. Maybe there's some template somewhere but I didn't investigate it yet.

Update...

During my trip, I had to switch back to my old phone due to a bug in the Python3 notification2 library. _closed_callback() was using an "nid" which wasn't in the notifications_registry any more. I coded some defensive logic and logging, and will see what's going on.

But with that workaround, I have been able to daily drive my Nexus 5 for the second day now. I'm able to keep real time notifications with one 150 byte packet sent and received every 2.5 minutes. It lives fine behind NAT, and also seems fine with the transition from Wifi to mobile data and back.