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

I'm still longing for classical mailing lists with searchable archives (and the forums) for this project, and chats only for interactive non-permanent exchanges, but I'm an old guy and I lost this battle long ago. For me it is a pain to look for old information in the Telegram chat.

@unisuperbox Thanks a lot for all the fish!

@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.

@gt I also have this problem. The description is that the screen gets unreactive, showing whatever it was there. Sometimes I also notice that Unity opens some random applications without any touch. Turning off and on (without rebooting) the phone gets the responsiveness back, sometimes the button has to be pressed more than once. I attributed it first to Waydroid, since it was more or less after I installed it that I started noticing this, but even if I don't start Waydroid I still see the issue.

It is especially annoying when you get a call and you cannot respond to it.

Good to hear (sorry) that this does not affect only me, because I was starting to think it is a hardware problem, and I wanted to make sure that it was not only affecting me before opening a bug report.

Has anybody already opened an issue on this?

@domubpkm Right now I'm using the development channel, build 876. I updated to it some weeks ago to test the changes in the contacts app and haven't updated yet.

After months of not working, yersterday I received a call in the car and was able to answer it.
Before, I received the call, but the sound in and out was not working. And after receiving a call, the phone's calls would also loose sound even after disconnecting from the car's bluetooth, until I rebooted the phone.

Now it seems to work well.

I had the problem of the random touches and screen freezing, but after removing the screen protector and cleaning the screen carefully, these problems are gone.

The bluetooth problem is known and separate from the above issue. As I understand the bluetooth components of Ubuntu Touch are old and need a lot of work.

I finally got to take out my screen protector (the screen was obviously very clean under the screen protector), took out the case protector, and have been running with the phone without anything for two days, that is, without any protection. I waited to do this at a moment when the unresponsiveness described above was extreme (a couple of turning off/on was needed each time I needed to do anything).

The change was immediate, the phone became perfectly responsive, and I haven't seen a glitch in this for two days.

So, in my case, the problem was the screen protector. I haven't tried to put a new one yet. In my case this problem seems to be solved.

@domubpkm Thanks, good to know. On my part I got answer from the Volla support service, and they also suggested to clean the screen and try to replace the screen protector if there is one. I haven't had time to do this properly, but I will do it in about a week. They told me that in case the issue persists, I should contact them again.

After posting about this in the Volla Phone with Ubuntu Touch Telegram group, somebody informed that this is also happening with Volla OS, not only with Ubuntu Touch, and that it is recommended that we get in touch with Customer Support.

Somebody else pointed out that it may be due to a dirty screen, and that after cleaning it, it goes away for him. So worth trying that too. I have a screen protector and I think this is not compatible with the random opening of apps, but let's try it also.

@arubislander Done:

https://github.com/HelloVolla/ubuntu-touch-beta-tests/issues/126

@domubpkm No, no hotspot.

I've opened a new issue:

https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1998

Please feel free to comment there if you are affected.

I've been on the RC channel for a while now.

The issue of screen becoming no reactive has not disappeared, but it looks that it does not happen as often as before. For the first hour or so after upgrading to RC, it worked perfectly. Then it started freezing again.

The other issue, several random apps opening without a touch, is also here.

Something I've also noticed anecdotally is that when the battery is low the issue of non reactive screen is worse, but I do not have any evidence on this.

By the way, it seems this issue is device specific, may be some mod could move this thread to the Volla Phone subforum.