@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... 
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
When will Anbox be ready to use as a daily driver?
@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 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.
It's a cool website, the whole project it looks much more professional now!
Well done and great work!
@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.
Would this not be a good change for cooperation, to put UBports on that phone?
I don't know if this campaign will succeed, but the fundraising is only $1,5 million, unlike the failed Ubuntu Phone with $32 million.
https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/
@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
Wow, great news to read!
I really hope there will be some new UBports devices with powerful hardware.
I have a BQ E4.5 and M10 FHD, but the hardware is not really powerful.
Just recently I bought a Samsung Galaxy S8 and the hardware is so great and impressive, but the Android OS is so bad, when it comes to spy out everything. Sometimes I am afraid using it, because I don't like Google, the NSA and others, that I can't control, to be part of my life.
A high-power hardware like this would be great with UBports, but I know, it's "Samsung closed source hardware" and this will never come true. It's a conspiracy between Google and Samsung. Money talks....
@libremax
just off topic, but what's the advantage of keeping the Canonical version of Ubuntu Touch?
The UBports developer already fixed a lot of bugs, made it more stable and smooter than the Canonical version.
Also since month there are no more updates coming from Canonical.
@Stefano said in Ubport Flagship phone:
Hi all, I was wondering if there is a plan for a Ubports Flagship phone.
Well, for me the same. If the UBports developer will bring UBports to a real flagship powerful device, I will buy one.
If there is an option, that the developers will earn on the sales, it's even much better!
I have my bq E4.5, which is really underpowered phone and with no convergence options.
My Aquaris FHD tablet is somehow better. But well, it's a tablet, I will not have this in my pockets all the time and it's also not that powerful device.
Just recently I bought a new Android phone an I am very unsatisfied, how hard it is to control and it is just spying me out.
@mariogrip
Why implementing new features in OTA3?
Maybe it's better investing your development energy to Xenial, as it was already working on my M10 FHD in March 2017, developed by Canonical. See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2irCIUkVK4U&t=970s
@hairy
The Zerophone is cool. Almost a selfmade Phone. haha
But the size is almost like my first mobile phone in the 90th.
http://bit.ly/2rm4RBo
But I guess, the Zerophone have a much better display
Just don't be stupid...
All services like "Twitter, Facebook, Google" which are companies and for free of use, will make money with your data.
They are all billion dollar companys, just by selling using your data and using your data to make money.
None of the workers there working without receiving a monthly salary just for the good of mankind.
So how can it be, that German public authorities, who are obliged to keep the data confidential, using that services, which are scanning all data and using it for commercial business?
Actually that's strict against the law.
@izd
I think, that convergence is the main step.
What's the use of a Smartphone, where you can use GNU Linux software, but without convergence desktop? You just can't use it with big screen and mouse.
Or if you use a Gnome/KDE desktop on the Smartphone, how will you interact with that?
Everything is too small and you have to select the menus with you fingernails or a small stick. Probably you can't read it.
All big systems Windows and Android are heading to that convergence idea.
Just the implementation at both of them is bad. Here is where the Unity desktop is way ahead.
I always read "we don't need that"
But you just don't need that, until one of them have a full convergent system.
I just remember 20 years ago, when I had my first cellphone. They said: "Nobody need that. You just like to be mr. important."
When I had my first Cellphone with Touch display in 2005 (Windows XDA mini)
People laughing and they said: "That's way to big cellphone. Nobody needs that."
Today, even the smallest Smartphone is bigger than my "Windows XDA mini" that time. And suddenly every one needs that...
I don't know anyone having a cellphone without full graphic touch display.
(And it's still in my ears: Nobody needs that)
Hello,
when I checked before the UBports usage statistic I was impressed, how many thousand people already installed UBports on their devices. When I checked it today again, it was decreasing to 564 UBports installations only.
See my Screenshot: https://img1.picload.org/image/rwdclddl/image.png
So is it really only that low number?
@joe said in Making Ubuntu Touch an easy choice:
There is enough Hardware for which it works
In my opinion, there should not be "enough hardware" there should be new and powerful hardware on which it works. Like Galaxy S8 or S9 and not only old rare retired devices with low power.
I think it's better to develop for one or two new devices, than for 10 old devices.
Only if it will be available for current devices, the consumers on the world become aware of it.
I was a very big fan of Ubuntu Touch, I bought one of the first BQ E4.5 and then a BQ M10 FHD tablet.
Then devices gain a little bit in speed and power with the Meizu devices, but since years the devices have no development in speed and camera quality.
Also I was a monthly supporter of UBports since the very early beginning.
Now I am out and better using up to date Android devices.
I bought a year ago a Galaxy S8 and my wife just recently a Galaxy S9. Those devices are mind blowing fast and have perfect photo + video quality. Yes it's Android spyware and I don't like it, but unfortunately, that's the price I need to pay. 
Guess what? You can use it for calling too....
If I need a phone for texting and calling only, I don't need a smartphone, I can use my old phones...
If there will be one day powerful hardware for UBports I am back.
