Posts made by wgarcia

@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.

@mihael Yes, this is just the desktop access. The problem is that when we moved to morph it started complaining that chrome has to be updated. It actually works the first time, and if it is closed and opened again it asks for Chrome 36+. If the cache is cleaned it opens again OK, but it has to be cleaned each time so it cannot be sync with the actual Android running Whatsapp. I tried to use QTWebengine to change the user agent to fake it, which can be also done directly in the webapp creator, but also to increase the persistence of the storage to try to avoid the problem after the restart.

It has worked for a couple of days but right now it started failing in restart again, so back to square 0.

@advocatux The one where audio works perfectly, which is my daily driver, is D821. The other one I have to check , I don't have it with me right now. I will try to remember.

@dln949 As far as I know, Anbox for the time being only gets network connectivity interaction with the Linux system, no notifications, GPS, audio, or any other interaction with the phone components.

Native applications do get notifications, and webapps should get them if they get notifications in the desktop, but for that you should use UT Tweak Tool to get the webapp to run in the background and you should not close it. In any case I don't think one can rely on those notifications from webapps, if they work at all.

@htc_tattoo I have two Nexus 5. In one of them, the sound volume for phone calls is very low, with street noise I can barely hear anything. In the other Nexus 5 that I have the volume and sound quality is perfect, I have to actually decrease the volume because even with external noise it is too high.

In the first Nexus 5 that I mentioned, I also had problems with the phone signal, very often it lost connection to the network. It never connected to 4G. In the second one, I have never problems connecting to the phone network, and it connects to 4G.

I managed to create an app with QTWebengine for Whatsapp Desktop which allows me to read my Whatsapp groups from time to time, the only thing I need since I'm not using Whatsapp myself. I just published it to the Openstore.

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