@projectmoon I got some months ago response in the "Ubuntu Touch in Vola Phone" Telegram group. Volla support used to have a user there (@VollaSupport). This is the link for that Telegram group: https://t.me/utonvolla

@sermountain Dualboot with UT is not supported by UBports but directly from Volla. You may get some help here of other users, but not very likely since Volla support does not participate in this forum.

@Futura To be fair, one has to say that they clearly state in their web page what parts they have for replacement. Not too many, apart from the screen, from memory, the USB port, the camera and the USB port. But those are the ones that break most frequently, at least for me.

@Futura Sad to hear about this. If you had any acquaintance living in the EU may be you could do it with an intermediary.

In my case I had to only change the screen, and that worked as expected, just the part from them and a screwdriver.

I answer myself: Yes, one has to ask the Weblate administrators.

I've seen that some apps do their translations in this Weblate site:

https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/ubports/#components

Can I add an app that I manage in the Openstore to this site? And if so, how?

I received finally a broadcast alert in my UT phone. This is the first time one is shown in my phone, and there have been several in the last weeks.

I'm in Barcelona, Spain, and my phone provider is Orange.

This is a FP 5, and the version I'm using is a daily:

24.04.2x (2026-01-29/3)

@Keneda I think this is of general interest, at least for all European Union countries. We all suffer from the imposition by public authorities of services/procedures which can only be done in Android/IOS devices, sometimes even requiring non-rooted devices. If a private firm does it, well, it's their choice and we can choose not to buy from them, but if a government does it it's affecting our freedom.

@GooglyBear I'm still on 20.04 with my FP5. To sync notes with Nextcloud, I use the native UT app Jotit, it works perfectly for me. It is not very sophisticated (for instance it does not have categories) but it does the job for me to consult notes, update them or create new ones.

It can be also considered a praise for UT value, it's a 100% value added to a "normal" phone.

I guess you can report an issue at its development site:

https://gitlab.com/theopenstore/openstore-meta/issues

Compiz and Unity 7, as far as I know, where not used in the phone/table form factor. The design of Unity 7 was going in that direction, but the phone always used Unity 8 and the Mir compositor (Compiz and Unity 7 were on traditional xorg as far as I know).

On the other hand, Unity 8 and its successor Lomiri where focused on the phone/table form factor, there has been much less investment to make it operative for the computer desktop.

So I think Compiz/Unity 7 vs. Unity8/Lomiri is not a completely valid comparison.

@Thomas said in Waydroid / Google Play Store / Google Services:

If I don't use Play Store, does "waydroid upgrade" update the apps ?

"waydroid upgrade" only upgrades Waydroid (when a new version is available), not the apps installed in Waydroid, no matter if you have Play Store or not.

@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.