@flohack said in Samsung porting notes, a loose collection:
Instead, the device needs to be brought into "Download Mode". This can be achieved by:
Manually by pressing Vol-Down, Home and Power button until the green warning text appears
On my Samsung Galaxy S8, there is no physical home button, only virtual on the display.
I figured out, instead of the Home-Button, I need to press the Bixby button, below Vol-Down,
then the green warning text appears...
Is it possible to install a development version of UBports 16.04 (based on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS) on the BQ M10 FHD?
I tried this already when still Canonical was the developer and I installed it on my M10 tablet and it was working.
Or is there no developer version available for the tablet anymore?
I record a German YouTube video on how to do this. https://youtu.be/2irCIUkVK4U
Well, from my point of view, the UBports operating system is the best mobile operating system so far.
Good means, not having millions of apps, good means it's open source, no secrets and the best fact is the convergence.
Convercence is where all operatingsystems like to be. Windows, Android and Apple, they are all aiming to that destination.
Windows failed so far, but I am sure, it will not stop. Android is not a good desktop operating system at all.
What makes Android strong is the brutal marketing of Google. What makes Windows strong is the brutal marketing of Microsoft.
What makes UBports strong is open source, privacy, no spying and perfect convergence.
I am sure it's on a good way for the world dominance
https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1
Let's go for rank 1 out of that 307... 
When will Anbox be ready to use as a daily driver?
@hans1977se said in [BQ E5 vegetahd] Change of grid units, scaling?:
It might be better the way it is now for people with less good eyesight.
Well, as I also don't have the best eyes, I really would like, if the text becomes more visible.
The icons can be smaler and 4 in a row is better I think, but additionally there should be an adjustment for the text properties. Not only bigger letters, it should also be possible to make the text bold for example.
Right now the icons are huge, the text is very thin and hard to read sometimes.
One time I tried to install Android on my BQ E4.5 and the text there is much more visible than on Ubuntu Touch, even the display size is still the same.
So it's not about the small display size, it is really the text.
I mean the text settings should be globally, so it's also more easy to read SMS messages or other text, for example in the settings...
I wrote that already loooong ago to the Canonical developers, but no reaction 
@GIEMME
I just flashed my BQ E4.5 about 5 minutes ago and it works fine.
But be aware, all your data and contacts will be deleted, it's like a brand new phone from the factory.
I just downloaded the image, where the link to that image is on this site:
https://wiki.ubports.com/wiki/How-to-flash-existing-ubuntu-touch-devices-with-Ubports-images
I set the phone to developer mode and connect it via USB to my computer.
Then I enter in the Terminal:
adb reboot-bootloader
This takes some time, until the phone was in fastboot mode.
On the phone was ablack screen, where at the bottom is a very tinny like written "fastboot"
Then:
cd Downloads # where I stored the downloaded image
sudo ubuntu-device-flash --server=https://system-image.ubports.com/ touch --channel=ubports-touch/legacy --bootstrap --recovery-image=./recovery-krillin.img
After 3 minutes I can see in the terminal:
2017/05/15 16:53:16 Rebooting into recovery to flash
Then the phone reboots, which took some other minutes.
After it was initialized, you can see the phone booting and the ubports logo.
Phone is up and running..
I had exact the same problem like you with the BQ M10 FHD. I tried it how many times in different ways and always the same result.
Marius G. guide me, so that it was successful in the end.
This are the steps I made:
Put your device into recovery mode. (Volume up + Power on)
Connect it by USB to your computer
Open terminal on your computer and type:
adb shell "df -h"
My output in the last line was following:
/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system
3.8G 3.7G 52.4M 99% /cache
So there was no space left on the cache partition.
just a test:
adb shell "ls /cache"
ls: /cache/lost+found: No such file or directory
Then I created a new filesystem on the cache partition by the command in terminal:
adb shell "make_ext4fs /dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system"
Now rebooting the device by the command:
adb reboot recovery
After device is up in recovery mode again, enter the command again:
adb shell "df -h"
/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system
3.8G 8.1M 3.8G 0% /cache
Now the space on the /cache partition is available.
Just another test:
adb shell "ls /cache/"
Output was:
lost+found recovery
Now reboot the device:
adb reboot bootloader
After that I was able to install UBports without problems. The device is running fine.
But be aware, the boot process on this device with the installed UBports takes right now about 3 minutes++
There is some problem in booting, which needs to be fixed.
Hope it helps...
Alex
@ZeroPointEnergy
ARM processor don't have a PCI bus, so there is no auto detection
Because of that, you can not build a life system on a boot medium (USB flash drives/CD/DVD) running on all ARM devices, like you know it for example from Knoppix Linux.
It will only run on one specific device and hardware. If you change hardware, it will not work anymore.
It's a cool website, the whole project it looks much more professional now!
Well done and great work!
I am finding that the text on the screen is either slightly too small or the color does not make the wording stand out enough
I am complaining about that since years, even when canonical was still the developer. But seems nobody cares about that.
On my BQ E4.5 is small thin grey text on grey background, without any possibility to change that system wide, like it's possible on Android.
Om the desktop version, Ubuntu put a lot of effort to be a barrier-free OS with high accessibly.
The Accessibility Team: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility
But on the phone you are out, if you don't have perfect vision. And like you said, there are hundreds of millions of people without perfect vision.
For example, the text below the desktop-icons is very thin and small.
In Dekko the message preview. The subject of unreaded messages is visible, but when already readed, it gets grey and the preview text below the subject is grey and very thin text. For me very hard to read.
So it should not be changes in single apps, there should be a system-wide option to make all text bigger and change the text color to black with high contrast and not grey.
A setting like it's possible on Android.
Well, as I know, in the beginning "Ubuntu Touch" was not allowed, because it's a registered trademark of Canonical.
So the operating system was named UBports.
It's confusing.. Now it's Ubuntu Touch?
And as far as I remember way back, when Canonical was developing the system, it's also not called Ubuntu Touch, it's was just Ubuntu with the Unity desktop...
The plan was one desktop for all devices. Smartphone, Tablet, Deskop, ...
For me it's very wired, because always changing names ...
@ricardo65 said in Charging_EV:
comes
Well, I am using the website goingelectric
https://www.goingelectric.de/stromtankstellen/routenplaner/
There are charging stations in whole Europe.
@AppLee said in Wish list : which apps do you need?:
A native app is easier to make than porting an existing android app.
So means to say, it's more easy to code the whole app, than make it working with Anbox?
But let's say, if only 10 or 20% of the Android apps are working with Anbox, it's already a huge gain in apps.
@Irenicus said in Wish list : which apps do you need?:
I think the best thing to do is get Android compatibility layer working.
I think so too...
All problems with non existing apps are solved at once, as soon it's possible to use Android apps.
@mymike That would be a great function, without privacy problems.
@Kaizen Your suggested design looks ok. But for my opinion, that black design isn't that nice. I more prefer white and clear design, than very dark and less contrast design.
Dark and black websites always have something negative.
Just check any website of huge companies, they are never dark or even black.
Text should always be whether full black on a light background, or full white on a dark background to maximum contrast and not some in between, to lower visibility and contrast.
Not everyone have perfect display and perfect 20:20 vision of the eyes.
@ramonb To make it short.. No you can't.
Smartphones don't have Intel or AMD processor with hardware detection. They are using usually ARM processors without and the os needs to be always exactly written for that specific hardware.
So basically each hardware, even if there is only small changes, it needs it's own operating system with ARM processors.
@guru Sure, it's working for calling and limited for SMS, because of the small, text. If you have perfect eyes, it's probably ok, but I don't have and it's almost not readable.
On Android I can set "screen zoom" and everything is bigger that I can read it.
The menus of the apps, the text in the apps and everything display in the apps.
Also in Android I can set "Font size and style" of the text. It will affect not only the text of the "websites in the browser" It will affect all text of menus and everything.
If I am recording a video for my YouTube channels, it's not usable.
Also I can't do live streaming on YouTube.
If I use it for photos while we travel around, the quality of the photos is not comparable with my Samsung Galaxy S8 phone.
If I like to use it for browsing the web, it's quite hard, because of the small display.
If I like to use the BQ E4.5 for convergence and connect a external display, it's not possible.
In my opinion, for calling it's fine, but I think for more it's not really a usable device...
Even the phone book and the history is almost not readable. Yes I can read it, but it's quite hard...
@Pookie
I bought one of the first BQ Aquais E4.5, when Canonical offer that with Ubuntu Touch in early days. I installed UBports on it and it's working.
But to be true, I am not using it anymore, except to make the next update every few weeks, to see what's the progress.
You can use it for calling and SMS, but the Text is so small on this device.
Yes you can also use the web browser, but if you don't have perfect vision with your eyes, everything is so small.
Also in the system settings, the text is so small that I almost can't use it.
Anbox and connecting external display isn't working too on that phone, so I would not advice to buy it.
It's just an old small outdated device....
In my opinion, the empty desktop should be used for something.
What is the use of an big empty space?
If people don't like to use it and love emptiness, it's ok. But fore those like to use the space for getting some information should be able to do it.
The only thing you can use right now is a static desktop image.