Best posts made by wgarcia

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?

@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

@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

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.

Hi, I'm Walter from Barcelona, Spain. I use a Bq Acquaris E5 HD with UT as my only smartphone, and I think it is the best phone I ever had. I hope we can keep these phones and others, and also complete the convergence one day. Keep up the good work, I will try to help as much as I can.

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.

As core apps, I agree with most of the ones suggested, plus:

• The terminal

@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...

@BryWilson I'm also a lover of the UT terminal and do a lot of things with it (like logging to a server and reading my email with mutt), and I'm also an emacs freak. I pretty much use also your workflow (LaTeX, logging to servers with ssh and running R and other software) , but I only have a Bq E5, so no convergence, so it would be great if you could document how to setup your environment on a convergent UT phone for us to not reinvent the wheel. I for one would be very grateful.

@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.

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).

What I did is the following. You do not need to install openssh-server, you just need to enable the ssh client in the phone. Get a shell with "adb" and execute this command:

android-gadget-service enable ssh

I also use an application called "net-info" to figure out the IP of my phone in the network where it is connected through wifi, say it is 10.60.141.170.

So before wiping out my data I make a copy in my computer of /home/phablet, say in a directory called bq-phone in your home:

rsync -avz - - delete -e ssh phablet@10.60.141.170:/home/phablet /home/myuser/bq-phone

This will create a directory called "phablet" in "bq-phone" with a copy of what you have in your phone. Of course you could do this I believe in a SD-card directly in your phone, in this case without "ssh".

Now, after reflashing the phone, I followed these steps:

1. I created a passcode and enabled developer mode
2. I accessed again to a shell in my phone and enables "ssh" again
3. I copied the public gpg key from my computer to /home/phablet/.ssh/authorized_keys. For this one I had to "adb push" to the phone the file (id_rsa.pub generated in the .ssh directory of my computer), and then append it to the authorized_keys file:
   cat id_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys (this in the phone shell)
   Then I installed first net-info to figure out the IP of the phone again, so that I can use ssh.
4. I reinstalled all the applications that I had.
5. Then I used rsync to restore all the data in the phone:
   rsync -avz - - delete -e ssh /home/myuser/bq-phone/phablet phablet@10.60.141.170:/home

I restarted the phone and voilà!, everything looks exactly the same, but I'm running now the uBports image.

Yes!, success!, I'm in the uBports ship with my BQ E5!

@Flohack Yes, I reinstalled the apps first, then I rsync my /home/phablet and rebooted, and the phone was as far as I can tell as it was before reflashing, apart from some configurations here and there that I had to redo.

@mike Yes, but what I mean is, now that there is no support from Canonical, these are no longer "official" devices, but they are fully ported, right? Why aren't they in the page of devices?

My question:
Why aren't the "legacy" devices with Ubuntu-touch (that is the BQ Acquaris E4.5, E5, the two Meizus, the tablet) listed in the "Devices" section of uBports. These are completely "ported" devices, aren't they?

Commenting on these problems in the Nexus 5, as I see them using the 15.04/devel channel:

• No notification LED: I have LED notifications for any notifications I got (calendar events and SMS or Telegram new messages)

• Very low call volume: In my case the volume looks like a little lower than what it should be, but it is perfectly usable. Outgoing call volume seems to be OK, nobody has complained to me.

• Loud beep after hanging up call: I have never seen this bug, not even when I tried the 15.04/stable or 15.04/rc channels.

• WiFi disconnects and requires password with WiFi extender: My Wifi sometimes disconnects and asks again for the WiFi password (I haven't tried it on WiFi extenders though), but going to the upper setting area and clicking again on the entry for that WiFi, it connects again, without having to enter the password again (it doesn't even ask for it). This does not happen too often, but it happens.

In my experience in the 15.05/devel channel, and after using it for about 20 days, I don't have any problems to have it as my only phone. For Whatsapp, which my personal network pressure obliges me to have otherwise I would be perfectly happy to drop, I have an old Galaxy Nexus connected close with my Wifi at home with the acual Whasapp client (with Cyanogenmod) and I connect in my device with the webapp. Apart from not having notifications, I'm perfectly connected with Whatsapp everywhere I have data or wifi Internet connection.

The 15.04/devel channel gets daily updates but of course there is no need to update daily. I have updated two or three times since I'm in this channel, and as far as I know, there are no big changes or development going on on the 15.04 images, so there is not a high risk of breakage.