@jmlich In my opinion if you need Android apps a lot, UT is not a good choice. Waydroid is a good complement of UT for Android apps you really need, but if you need a lot of them, I think a good advise is to better stay in Android. For instance if you use Whatsapp a lot, UT will not be ideal.
You should use UT if you have UT apps for all your basic needs, except a few ones, like bank apps or public apps only available in Android and Iphones.
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?
@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.
@cefre00 Better open a new post for your problem.
@arubislander Maybe if somebody from the community saves a kid of Zuckerberg from drowning, or something like that...
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.
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:
Is it OK to fork them and move them to the Openstore? (They are all free software with GPL licences)
Should the original authorship be kept in the package, or only in the code?
@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"):
@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
@MrT10001 There is currently a note saying that due to a bug the ISO is oversized:
@delijati I used waydroid in the original Volla (until July 2023), the Volla 22 (from July 2023) and the Pixel 3a XL (since some days ago).
Waydroid in general has improved a lot, it used to crash much more often. But among these phones, by far where I find it smoother and more stable is in the Pixel 3a XL.
I finally managed to downgrade, quite unexpectedly.
I tried to install twrp recovery, to see if you could install the Android 9 image with it. I tried to flash it in fastboot mode with:
sudo fastboot flash boot twrp...img
(without sudo it wouldnt install)
and it got stuck in fastboot. I would not boot, or go to recovery, or anything.
Then I changed boot partition
fastboot set_active other
not that I had any idea on what I was doing, just as a result of desperation, since I saw this command somewhere. It moved from partition "a" to "b" but nothing changed.
Then out of boredom I went back to Google Chrome and Android Flash Tool and voilà, this time it downloaded and installed Android 9.
What a pain, it was a similar experience with an OP5 recently. It is a breeze to install UT, but downgrading Android can take you a full morning.
@MrT10001 said in Installation to Google Pixel 3a XL:
You need to install the latest fastboot and ADB drivers.
I have the latest I think.
Once that is done you need to download the fastboot flash version which will have the flash all.sh file in it.
I've downloaded several, didn't see any "flash-all.sh" utility. Do you have a link to the one that has it?
I'm trying to install UT to a Gogle Pixel 3a XL.
I already unlocked the bootloader. It currently has Android 12, and so I'm trying to downgrade to Android 9, to the image that says in the devices page.
I downloaded the zip file corresponding to that image, but I don't know what to do with it. I've seen a "flash-all.sh" utility mentioned in other posts, but I can't find it to download from anywhere, I downloaded "platform-tools_r35.0.0-linux.zip " but this file is not here.
I tried to downgrade with Android Flash Tool in Chrome (from a linux machine). Chrome sees the device and connects to it, it starts the installation of the image. I puts the phone in fastboot mode, and then it aborts all the time (different cables, with "wipe data" and without, trying other options as "wipe al partitions" or similar.) The message is "Error connection", and "Error connecting to your device. Try disconnecting and reconnecting it. Failed to execute 'open' on 'USBDevice': Access denied. (open)".
So stuck here.
In the UT Telegram client Teleport, I cannot send images right now on the Volla Phone 22.
I see the attached image in Teleports, but the other party does not receive it. I cannot see it either in my own account if I open a client in the computer desktop or an Android device. I can send images from these two clients.
I opened an issue one month ago:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/apps/teleports/-/issues
Anybody else seeing this issue?
I've noticed this also, and I was a couple of days without notification sounds. Sound otherwise was working well.
Yesterday by chance I went to Settings -> Notifications, and clicked on the notification sound that I'm using.
Now I have notification sounds back.
It looks like a bug, but I don't know how to reproduce.
@arubislander Maybe if somebody from the community saves a kid of Zuckerberg from drowning, or something like that...
@Kratuzov Maybe you can get some more information if you open the terminal app, write:
waydroid log
provoke the crash, and check what the log says.
@magnargj Focal in the Volla 22 works without any major issues.