I know this is an old thread, but it seemed the most relevant place to report:

Today I received a cell broadcast! Emergency alert test in Ontario, Canada. Running 20.04 OTA-6 on a Oneplus 5T.
Phone was on silent, so I just heard the vibrations and saw the message.

Way to go team! Many thanks to Lionel and others who've worked on this!

Big thank yous @Moem for showing your work on this and @danfro for getting an up to date Cinny app for us all. Really, really appreciated!

Clarification for future readers of this post that might be considering Ubuntu Touch in Canada: All 3 major Canadian networks have stated that they're maintaining 3G until December 2025. Different story in the USA, where at different points in 2022, the major networks discontinued 3G.

In Canada, Ubuntu Touch is very much usable as a phone. Telephone calls, SMS, MMS photos, audio, and video all work as expected for me. (Group texts do not, and MMS has caused me plenty of headaches in general, though I think I've got a stable setup now.)

Hopefully VOLTE can work soon. I'm much too inept to be of use in that quest other than to keep donating to UBports and crossing my fingers. My enduring gratitude to those working to make UT better. It's already improved considerably since I started using it in late 2020.

Hi @Capsia ,
Thanks to you and any others for the excellent work on the websites!

I hope this is an ok topic to post this in. I didn't find much else pertaining to website discussion.
(TL;DR - I'm suggesting a Donate button next to porter/maintainer names on each Devices page of the website.)

Recently I tried to donate to my device's porter, and found it hard to find how to do so. I tracked down his Paypal eventually, but it took some searching, and it might not be possible to find some porters.
I thought if there were a Donate button on the website, similar to how there's an option on the OpenStore to donate to the app's developer, it might both remind people to donate, and make it easier to do so.
I asked about this idea on Q&A #157 and Alfred and AppLee were both favourable toward it.

But of course this requires work, and I have no skills with websites. I imagine it would require reworking the Contributors section on the Devices pages, and enabling an optional donate button next to the names of any contributors who'd like donations and who provide a link to their patreon/libera/whatever.
It would get more complicated when there are many developers and maintainers. Who will the user donate to? Each of them? And is it weird if some of them request donations and others don't?
But to me, it's still better to have the option, even if there are complications.

Anyway, sorry to be making a suggestion with no way to help bring it about. But I wanted to float the idea out there, to keep our porters supported!

I'm curious how the foundation works. How many employees are there? Does money for the foundation mostly go to paid workers, or to things like hosting costs?

Would more money coming in mean more coders be hired? And is this desired, or is the general preference to keep it mostly community/volunteer based?

Thank you!

Hey @shodan,
Welcome to the community!
I wouldn't give up on the phones you got just yet. After a quick bit of searching, I can't find any such phone as a Oneplus N10 Metro. I don't know much about these things, but could the device be locked to a cell carrier called Metro, and maybe that's coming up in the installer? In searching for a Oneplus N10 Metro, I noticed there's a cell company in the USA called Metro that seems to supply Oneplus N10. Sometimes a device is locked to a carrier, but often it is possible to unlock it. May be worth searching online for how to unlock the phone from Metro? But again, I'm really not sure this is the case.

Also, I see that you have Android 11 installed. In the device page for the OP N10, if you scroll down a ways, it states that you'll need to be using a specific version, Oxygen 10.5.7 or something. The system image or whatever you call it is conveniently linked from the device page. You'll need to download that file and install that version of android before installing Ubuntu Touch.

The other main thing you'll need to do , probably before downgrading, is unlock the bootloader. Search online for how. Takes a bit of doing, but it's all doable.

General installation instructions for Ubuntu Touch are found on the installer page.

Hope it turns out that your devices are what you thought they were, and useable for UT!

Cool! Thanks for the demos, nice to see your progress! This is going to be very useful.
Thanks so much for all your work!

Hi pals, two questions:

1. Has anyone heard from a company called SageTea, who "makes" something called the Xfone? Do they contribute to Ubports in any way, or just sell phones that they load with Ubuntu Touch?

2. Are you all aware that there are wild standing ovations going on all over the place when, for example, Marius talks of progress on VoLTE and 5G, Alfred talks of WebKit and Snaps progress, AppLee bravely starts hosting a Q&A show solo, Lionel revamps Contacts, etc? Often you announce very major things and I hope you know how enthusiastically they are received. Thanks a lot for what you do!

Thanks @AppLee, for the reply and for all your work!

Hi all,
At some point I read that some of the money that the UBports Foundation gets may go to providing phones to developers if needed.
Many of us have an old UT-capable device or two around, and many of us non-devs would like to contribute more to the project. To my mind, if there are any aspiring devs out there who might not be able to afford or find a viable phone for UT where they are, getting them a phone is important!
Does it seem feasible and worthwhile for me to try to set up a way for aspiring devs to request a phone and for existing UT users to donate one?

Thanks a zillion for all your work, and for hosting these cheery Q&As!

@frifo Congratulationss! Satisfying to hear that it finally worked. Enjoy Ubuntu Touch!

@frifo The Nord N100 is indeed a different phone from the Nord N10 5G. Their naming is confusing for sure.

The UT Devices page for N10 has recommended firmware. There's a choice of EU or Global firmware, ending in 10.5.7

@mschmids I think this just means no new updates for now. UT Cinny continues to work wonderfully for me in Focal.

Hi!
Has anybody heard anything from the Furi Labs / Furiphone people? In March they said that a port for their phone might soon appear in the UBports installer.
(News on the Brax3 port is also welcome if you've heard anything about their progress)

And in case Marius is around, a couple Q&As ago I asked:
"Has there ever been talk amongst the devs about implementing RCS messaging? I hear it touted as an open standard, but I lack technical knowledge. Would it be as hard to work with as MMS was?
I'm forever grateful to have functional MMS over here in Canada where it's an expected default way to send photos, etc."

Thank you all for being the best!

I remember once having to use Windows Test Mode, as @davids mentioned, when I was having trouble with Oneplus drivers. I can't remember now if it was with OP5T or with OPN10.
But what I remember is that I couldn't get it to recognize my device properly, and then when I used Test Mode it worked.
Could be worth a try?

@frifo Please note that Test Mode is different than Safe Mode. I'd never used it before. A web search should yield instructions.
Good luck!

@hamidreza2000m Welcome to the community!
If you get time, feel free to post what you learned here. It could help many others in your position who are considering trying Ubuntu Touch.
A small note from my experience.. while many banking apps don't work even in Waydroid (I think because of unlocked boatloader?) some banks work fine via their website. I often send/receive transfers, check balance, etc. through my bank's website using Morph, the main web browser of UT.
Hope that you're able to make the switch!

Thanks @Eric-H for that list! Folk should note though that "enabled" is different than "functining properly". The list provided by that gitlab search includes devices that are very unlikely ever to see functioning VoLTE, such as Pixel 3a.
I find user reports on the forum very useful and would welcome more.

I wonder if could be related to a faulty charging port or cable? I was having connectivity issues with my OP5t, and it seemed like sometimes it was sometimes charging at a lower rate, despite using the Dash charger adapter or whatever. But then it became hard to charge at all, and eventually I had to replace the port (which thankfully wasn't too hard).
Anyway, just a thought. Maybe try another cable for starters?

Yes, as @stanwood said, very, very unlikely that Pixel 3a will ever have VoLTE with Ubuntu Touch. One of the top Ubports wizards has decided it's not worth it, after not getting the help he needed. The only way it would happen is if another very technically skilled person stepped up.

It's still fairly new that VoLTE works with any devices and has been a huge effort and achievement.
I hope you're able to make the switch - it's a fantastic OS. But the best bet generally is to look over the list of supported devices that do what you need and try to buy one of those. Be careful to make sure VoLTE is supported with Xiaomi. I think it's working on Poco X3 and Redmi Note 9 Pro, but not on regular Redmi Note 9 and some others?
We're all hopeful that this list will expand. A lot of other devices work well, only lacking VoLTE.

Sorry to have been so slow getting to this. Have installed 2025-W21 on my old Oneplus 5, which is not my daily driver. I haven't tested too extensively, and I don't have Waydroid to test it, but:

• calls, SMS, MMS, and cellular data are all working as normal. No VoLTE support of course.

• The Notification LED is not working. While I don't use this phone frequently, it definitely worked in the past. Seems to have stopped working as of this update.

• Emojis show up correctly, and seemingly far more than before! Fewer empty boxes. Very nice!

• The only other thing that I've noticed is that if I click to add an image to an SMS message, select Camera, and take a new photo, after taking the photo, in the screen where you can click to retake photo, accept photo, or cancel, the photo shows up as a solid light grey, with only a column on the far right side of the photo visible. But when sent, it sends as normal. This is a new behaviour as of this update.

Thanks a million to all those who worked on this!