I second the support for working the documentation in UBports Docs, it is better to keep things organized and centralized, and at least for me reading is much more valuable that watching a video, but I'm from a non-media generation. For instance I'm still struggling with the lack of mailing lists in this community (fortunately we have this forum, because I get completely lost in the chats).

Despite that I would love not to depend on Google, I have to sync my UT calendar and contacts with my Google accounts, as this is what my job uses. But it seems that Google is changing security policies and will not allow UT to sync any more with their services. This is the email I received:

"Hello,

Although you do not have to do anything, we want to inform you that it is possible the following applications stop accessing some of the data of your Google Account, such as the content of Gmail. If these applications do not meet the requirements of the new data policy before the stipulated date, they will not be able to access the account after July 15, 2019.

Ubuntu

This change is part of our constant efforts to guarantee the privacy and protection of your data.

In the Google Account you can check, manage and delete whenever you want the applications that you have granted access to."

Is there anything that can be done to keep the ability to sync to Google apps?

@libremax I did two talks in Ubuntu install parties of the Catalan Loco Team.
May 19, 2018 - Palma "UBports i sistemes mòbils alternatius" (in Catalan), Bionic Beaver Install Party, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Activitats/BionicBeaverPalma
May 26, 2018 - Foios "UBports i sistemes mòbils alternatius" (in Catalan), Bionic Beaver Install Party, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Activitats/BionicBeaverValència
The slides are copied from Lionel's and extended:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CatalanTeam/Activitats/BionicBeaverValència?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=presentacio_os_mobils.pdf

@mark-volpetti Mark, this a community project, so there are no "they" and "we", there is only "we". You can go to the web-site repository and open a ticket ("issue"):

https://github.com/ubports/ubports.com

@cefre00 Better open a new post for your problem.

There are a couple of apps in the Ubuntu Store that I'm interested in and that don't seem to have any chance of being moved over by the original authors to the OpenStore. These are apps that were created like 2 years ago, received a couple of updates, but haven't been touched any further in the last two years.

My questions:

1. Is it OK to fork them and move them to the Openstore? (They are all free software with GPL licences)

2. Should the original authorship be kept in the package, or only in the code?

@Emanuele-Sorce Thanks a lot for such a detailed guide, I think it's crucial that we have a working development environment if we want to contribute.

The acquisition has been confirmed. I would vote to move out, Microsoft is incompatible with the free software spirit of UBPorts, unless they also decide to GPL all their code, which they will not do. Gitlab looks like a good option.

@RandomUser I'm moving this discussion to the Support forum on a new thread, as I think it got off topic here.

@Flohack I agree, but there are some apps we will never get outside ios or android, like municipal and public services apps, since they don't release the apis and such to code them. For these cases something like andbox is really needed...

@keneda I confirm, at least with Spanish SIMs. Camera also works perfectly both for photos and videos. Right now I don't see anything that doesn't work in the Volla Phone, well, Anbox I haven't tried.

As far as I know no distribution for the Pinephone is still ready for a daily usable phone, and there are a lot of people involved in developing them. The hope for UT was also to get more spillovers from the other distributions, and even if some spillovers have been received and given, no distribution has arrived to the status of usability of hallium and original UT phones.

Some distributions in the Pinephone offer a Linux pocket PC with a tiny screen and keyboard and some hope of exporting them to a larger screen and normal keyboard, but that is not a cell phone in my opinion.

I for one bought a UBports Edition Pinephone with no hopes of getting a usable phone, but to support a great project and be able to follow it directly.

I misspelled my name when I entered it after the first flash of the phone. That's the name and last name that one can enter at the beginning. Can it be changed? I checked the settings and could not see any place where to change it.

I was finally able to change the APN in the settings. It seems that it has to be tried more than once until it sticks.

Otherwise the double SIM works well (I tried with two SIM that I didn't need to fiddle with the APN settings) under OTA-17. I didn't try MMS though, I've never sent or received a MMS in 20+ years of using cell phones.

@manchee1017 Yes, I tried different ways, but I will try some more.

Volla with latest RC channel.

I'm trying to do this for the second SIM card.

I'm trying to change APN parameters in Settings, by going to "Operator", "APN", "Edit" (translating from my language). I'm able to change things but as soon as I try to save they return to the original values. I also tried to create a new APN, which can be done from the main screen clicking "+", but the new APN is not saved.

Is it possible to change APN values at all, or are these being set up by the SIM itself?

@chim Exactly the same as with any other Pinephone. The usability does not depend on the hardware, which is as I said basically the same (only difference is more RAM and internal storage) but not on the progress of the operating system.

@keneda Yes, a lot of people call convergence just that, agree.

@keneda As far as I can tell the dock is just a USB hub with USB-C and Ethernet input and USB A and C plus HDMI output.
What I mean but "there is no convergence edition" is that the Pinephone hardware is not fundamentally different.

And also for me "convergence" is not just HDMI output.

@chim There is not actually a "convergence edition". All the Pinephones are exactly the same hardware, with two versions for Ram (2GB and 3GB), and for internal storage (16GB and 32GB). There was a small hardware problem in the Braveheart and UBports Community Edition that makes the HDMI output over the USB C port faulty, thus not allowing to export to an external screen (what you call "convergence" which is actually something different, that is changing form factor when exporting the screen). This can be solved either by soldering something in the board or by changing the main board, since Pine is selling the 3GB board separately. I did this with my Braveheart edition and it was not hard at all.