@arubislander Good point, and I see that it is also available in Teleports.

@Opolork Now I remembered another way. Set up a group in Telegram with somebody you know and than expel him/her, call it "Message to myself". Now you can write in this group and access your notes from any device that also has a Telegram client.

@Opolork I used to use the Notes native UB app and sync it to Evernote, which I accessed through the web in my laptop or desktop devices. But I got tired of Evernote teasing me to subscribe all the time, and I'm not sure if Notes is still working in UB to sync with Evernote.

Nowadays I use the native UB app Jotit and sync with my Nextcloud Notes server. This part is easy, setting up a Nextcloud server is not.

@cherrie One way of checking, if you have a Linux installation, is to install Waydroid there and try, Waydroid can be installed in most Linux distributions.

I installed 24.04 on a Volla Phone 22 which had a clean install of 20.04. The installation of 24.04 went smoothly.

I tried to install Waydroid with Gapps, and you get into the Waydroid session, it starts complaining that it is not certified for Google services. This hasn't happened to me with any of the Waydroid with Gaps installations I tried in 20.04. It looks like a Waydroid issue though, not sure if it is related to the fact that Waydorid is now running in 24.04.

@Vlad-Nirky Worth keep testing.

In the Settings section of satStat, in the section that says something like "Updating from AGPS", do you have anything marked? There is: WIFI, BLUETOOTH, ETHERNET, VPN

@Vlad-Nirky Thanks, very informative.

But waydroid does not have any WIFI access or mobile data. There is something that fakes WIFI, the LineageOS thinks that the network is being accessed through WIFI and not through the bridge with the UT host, but it doesn't seem to be working for me in the waydroid/LineageOS being used currently in the FP5 ( I think 13). And I doubt that even with the fake WIFI working, this will help Agps to get anything.

@Vlad-Nirky I press on "Recharger ..."

But I have to amend very much my first tests. I tested this several times after my first tests and the results were worse and more in line with the usual lag of getting a position.

This morning I went out jogging and after following the above sequence I couldn't get any position at all. I went through places with tall buildings on both sides but also through open spaces.

I doubt very much that waydroid can get any Agps result in these devices. As far as I understand, Agps gets information from cell towers, and waydroid does not see any cell signal to do that.

Having said this, I have to say that I have also a Volla Phone 22, and that one gets position immediately in waydroid, even under a ceiling. I don't know what is going on there, but it looks very different from what I see in the FP5.

Answering @Vlad-Nirky in a new topic, this was out of topic in the request for FP5 features:

@wgarcia
If you are using waydroid, could you make this test. (as you report very long >time to fix gps postion)
Disable GPS (and move somewhere else).
Launch waydroid.
Run (after install) satStat.Settings reload AGPS.
Enable GPS.
Look at the connection time in waydroid and in UT.

I did some experiments with my FP5. This is what I tried:

I installed satStat from Fdroid in Waydroid. I opened and checked settings. There is an option for Agps, but only to choose Wifi, Ethernet, VPN, ... , I left that all unchosen. I saw another menu entry, not in Settings but at the top level, side by side with Settings, which says something like "Get location from Agps" but could not find anything about reload. So the experiments I did was clicking on that menu entry. I tried this:

1. Restart phone
2. Disable location in UT
3. Open Waydroid.
4. Open satStat and click on "Get location from Agps"
5. Reenable location in UT
6. Open an app in Waydroid requiring location (in my case "Mapmyrun").

It got position in approximately 1 minute.

The I repeated this but with an app in UT:

1. Restart phone
2. Disable location in UT
3. Open Waydroid.
4. Open satStat and click on "Get location from Agps"
5. Reenable location in UT
6. Open Unav in UT

Unav got location in about 5 to 6 minutes.

These experiments were done both in the same open space (within the city, with some high buildings around).

@Futura I'm located in Spain. I think Volte is working as expected, but I haven't run any explicit test to try it.

@O.o. The camera in waydroid, as far as I know, works in all UT devices where waydroid works.

I use it in a FP5 with the Pleko app (Chinese) for OCR on Chinese characters, and I have used it to scan QR codes to login into streaming services. So I think it should work in the FP4.

But if the app has controls against rooting or any other of those filters, then the app will not work in waydroid. If you say that it works in your desktop, it should work, unless those filters jump in when you try to validate with your camera.

@guybrush3pwood said in FP5 bugs - SD card and Fairbuds XL headphones not working:

Lastly... is there a way to set an 'edge' to the top status bar? The clock ends up being cut off by the curved edge of the screen

There is an "apply_notch" hack but there is no specific patch for the FP5. Nevertheless, the FP4 patch works quite well for me, but use it on your own risk. To install it, open the UT terminal and issue the following commands:

wget -O apply-notch-hax.sh https://git.io/JtIpG
chmod +x apply-notch-hax.sh
./apply-notch-hax.sh FP4

The only problem I see is that in landscape mode the farthest indicator on the left is shown partially. I tried to fork the repository and adjust the parameters to solve this but haven't been able to make my fork patch work.

You have to run the last command above each time you upgrade UT.

@sub078 Stupid suggestion: have you checked if the boot was paused? There is a text that says "click start to pause boot" and I think "click start to continue boot".

Hi @Benoit-NL and welcome to this forum.

I don't know Mailo, but if it is a web-based email platform, you have to take into account that the web browser in Ubuntu Touch, Morph, has a quite outdated web engine due to library dependencies in the system.

It is hoped that when UT moves to the next version, from 20.04 which is now to 24.04, the web browser will be updated and it will be able to deal with more modern web pages where it now fails.

There are some other alternative web browsers in UT but they are very experimental and incomplete, not ready for daily use.

I have a Volla 22, and the time it gets a GPS fix in Waydroid is very short. I haven't seen anything comparable in any of the other devices where I've seen UT running (and I have seen Nexus 5, OnePlusOne in the 16.04 times, and original Volla (crazy), Pixel 3a XL and Fairphone 5 in the 20.04 era.)

I've seen it getting a fix even indoors and getting the correct fix even if changing completely location, so I doubt it is using a cache.

One would suspect it is using a-gps in Waydroid, but if I understand correctly, a-gps uses the cell towers and so needs an active SIM card, which Waydroid does not have.

I've seen this only happening in Waydroid, if I use GPS from a native UT app the time to get a fix is the "normal" one for UT, that is, quite slow.

I don't know if anybody else has this same experience.

My experience with Fairphone 5:

1. Bluetooth:

Working in my car for receiving and sending calls. Works also connected to a Pebble watch.

2. GPS:

Works for me, it takes 10 to 20 minutes to get a fix, in the open air or at the balcony of my place (1st floor of a building 9 floors high). Sometimes it takes longer, if I don't see a fix in 20 minutes I restart the phone.

3. IDLE:

Using the current development image the battery lasts for the whole day, unless using Waydroid for too long. I haven't seen the background apps draining battery so far.

4. NFC

I use it with Waydroid in the transport system of my city, no issues.

Calls: No issues, 5G or Volte are working.

SMS/MMS: SMS fine, I don't use MMS.

Waydroid: Very fluid, but it hangs often when put in the background. Not a big deal because it starts in seconds.

Connection to PC: No issues to mount the device in Linux, or connect with adb.

Wifi/network: Disconnects if moving between WIFI antenna, but otherwise no issues.

Fairphone 5 with Orange in Spain works well with Volte.

With the 28 May update and a Volla 22

Emojis: OK
Waydroid: OK

I dont' have a SIM in this phone so I can't test related things.

Sorry for the late report. For the things I can test:

Vola 22

Emojis: working OK
Waydroid: working OK

@MrT10001 There is currently a note saying that due to a bug the ISO is oversized:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/