Posts made by wgarcia

@AppLee Good to know. My Nexus 5 died anyway at the start button, another common issue it seems with the Nexus 5. It is a great phone anyway, I had it for more than 2 years as daily driver with UBports.

@Keneda Fixed, thanks.

@amc400 I have had both, currently using an OPO as daily driver.

OPO is a more powerful device, more RAM, but both run UBports as smoothly. Battery life is better in the OPO, the Nexus 5 had bad battery life even with the original OS.

The Nexus 5 I think is easier to install, and really hard to brick. The OPO can also be installed easily, but if anything goes wrong, I think is harder to recover.

For the OPO Bluetooth works I would say worse than with the Nexus, but there has been a patch which is being tested, I tried it and I think it improves Bluetooth a lot.

This is my opinion.

@peat_psuwit I tested this in my OPO, Ota-12, devel channel. Bluetooth is now working for making and receiving calls from my car, It was not working before. Great job!

@UniSuperBox I also was in the same situation, and could restore the standard dash by switching between channels, so I did not need a full reinstallation.

@Flohack I also need this 2FA access with an Android/IOS app to access the VPN of a major US university, which I need for my work. On the other hand, the app to pay for parking in my municipality is also only Android/IOS of course, and the app depends on Google services for location, so Anbox will not help. And we can go on and on. Unless a strong civil movement stops governments (and other institutions like universities) on relying on Google services, it is really hard to get rid of Google dependence.

I always thought the word "supported devices" brings confusion to newcomers for a while until they understand the issue. "Supported" implies some devices get support and some others could be used but they don't get support. "Ported" is a much clearer word, and once it is explained what takes to port a devices, then there is no confusion any more.

I use 2.

@Flohack Thanks a lot!

@kwah Yes, I pasted the email above, where "Ubuntu" can be seen. When the google account is added to the Online Accounts in UT it also says clearly "Do you allow Ubuntu to access this and that?"

@UniSuperBox It is not completely clear to me that it only affects Gmail and Drive, at least from the link that you provide. My impression is that they mention Gmail because this is the most common client, but if it is a restriction at the account level, it should affect all external applications that require Google authentication.

I don't know if it matters, but I'm not using any client to access Gmail o Drive, and I'm still getting the warning email from Google.

@kugiigi If that's solves it, then nothing needs to be done at the UBports side. Let's wait a couple of days and see if you don't get the nice email.

It would be good that those affected report if they have "less secure" in their Google account or not, and if they got the email. As I said above, I have two accounts, one is "less secure" and the other one not, so I can't tell which one is generating the email.

@kwah Let's open issues to see if somebody can take a look to it. This one is for calendar app:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/apps/calendar-app/issues/172

And this one in the general project, since the Contact app is part of the core OS (I think):
https://gitlab.com/ubports/core/seeds/ubuntu-touch/issues/1

Feel free to confirm/contribute to these issues (or better, help fixing it)

@kwah I think they put Gmail just as an example, but they will block access to your account generally if the access request comes form an app identified as "Ubuntu".

@Lakotaubp I have two Google accounts, one marked as less secure (personal) and the other one not (corporate). I don't know from which one this warning comes from.

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?

@advocatux No criticism intended, as I said, I'm from another generation, I struggle each time I have to recover some information from the chats, instead I'm quite good at recovering information from forums and archived mailing lists.

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).

This low volume in calls seems to have been also a problem since the release of Nexus 5:
https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-fix-the-low-speaker-volume-on-your-google-nexus-5/

@advocatux I finally remembered to check the model of my second Nexus 5, the one where sound volume is very low in phone calls, and where cell network signal very often is hard to maintain. I confirm that is is a D820, so that explains it, since I'm located in Europe.