Just out of curiosity, anybody knows why OMG UBuntu (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/) has ignored completely UBports? He publishes everything even slightly related to Ubuntu, but apart of a last article on how to return to Android after Canonical dismissal, I don't remember ever publishing anything on the continuation of UT by UBports. Is he offended or something against this project?

I did some experiments. I created a new whatsapp webapp using the User Agent suggested by the thread I linked. With this webapp, the first time it is opened, it connects correctly the QR. After scanning it, it connects to my whatsapp server. But if I close and open again the webapp, the "update Chrome" screen comes up again.

Indeed this seems to be a generalized problem, not specific of UT and its current web browser (Morph). In this thread they suggest to change the user agent to chrome. I think we have to create a new webapp and play with the user agent:

https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/123015/whatsapp-works-with-google-chrome-36

@maxx The whatsapp webapp stopped working for me too. Both in the webapp or accessing directly through morph, it asks me to install a newer version of Chrome. I guess the version that morph is showing is being seen as old by https://web.whatsapp.com/.

@alan_g So is ofonod the culprit? In my Nexus 5, it seems it got fear to be discovered because it hasn't done this for more than 20 days. My battery is lasting now all day long when it doesn't enter into this process.

@bhdouglass Personally, I like it. We don't need to imitate the home screen of any other system, but having something more organized than the current app scope is clearly a need. Eventually we should optionally also get time/weather in this screen.

@chdslv

@chdslv said in Observations on battery life - please share your experiences:

@wgarcia The question is, why the battery drains much faster in UT than in Android in the same N5 phone in idle state.

In my case, as in @alan_g case, it does not drain always, just when something happens that starts to heat up the phone. Let's see if we catch what that is.

And, if we are talking about a "faulty" phone, even for Android, why not go for a newer phone? (Of course, the 2nd question is not liked. )

What do you mean? Do you think that no other phones are ported because we don't want to do so or we are married with the Nexus 5 and the few other phones ported right now? No more phones are ported because we don't know how to port them, if we knew of course they would be ported. And don't be mistaken, a lot of people is trying, but no success so far.

The Nexus 5 had poor battery life since when it was released with the manufacturer Android image, there are a lot of complaints and reports over the Internet about this.

In my case I think there must be some process or something involved, since sometimes it drains very fast and I notice the phone is hotter, sometimes it lasts a lot more, and I don't turn off mobile data or wifi (bluetooth yes).

@chdslv I'm using unav and another tracking app (Activity Tracker) and in both GPS works as expected in a Nexus 5 16.04.

@brywilson I use emacs to write my email, but I log into my server and read my email with mutt there, not right in the phone. I would also love to hear how you use emacs in the phone.