@lduboeuf hey no worries, people work on this on their free time and I value and respect that. I'm happy something like this exists.

I missed an update yesterday, but I just updated to daily update 301. Tested the camera and surprisingly it worked every single time I used it, even flipping back from the rear camera back to the front camera. Played with some settings, changed some resolutions etc, took many photos, and the app still worked the entire time even after closing and reopening. Bravo to devs!

Now, if only there was a solid native email application that worked, I would daily drive my pixel 3a XL. So close!

Scrolling improved on daily update 299, I noticed it's not nearly as janky as it was. It's certainly much better, but not quite there yet. Patience!

So far I am pretty impressed with Ubuntu touch, especially on this device. It's very smooth. Thank you to everybody who works on this project.

@gpatel-fr I just arrived back from a work trip so perhaps this weekend ill play around and report back. ill add a route manually and see what happens!

I am glad that I found this thread. I also wanted to have remote access to my network while on the go so I enabled open VPN on my network. I actually use wireguard, but since there is no wireguard support in settings, I decided to use openvpn just for Ubuntu touch.

I followed the guide that's on the Ubuntu touch website, extracting all of the keys and information required to set this up. However, while I am able to establish a connection, I cannot ping anything at all, my route out to the internet as well as to internal network devices is dead.

I thought perhaps my configuration was wrong, so to verify everything was fine, I downloaded the OpenVPN app on my regular phone (android) and imported the profile that was created from my router (I used this exact profile to extract keys from above). Once it connected, everything just worked.

I'll follow this thread in case there are additional instructions I need to implement.

@saveurlinux it has got better but it is still very inconsistent. Initially after taking one picture I would get the black screen, couldn't flip to the front camera, had to reboot the phone. After a couple of daileys, I was able to flip back between both the rear and the front camera and take pictures, but from time to time the same error would occur. I tested last night and it's the same thing. It's definitely improving though.

@VoidItsWarranty my gps works but suffers from the "unable to load right away" issue (takes about 40-50 seconds for GPS to lock onto my location).

(referencing from the pixel 3a xl page, also not device specific: Devices may take longer than usual to get the first GPS fix because of missing Assisted GPS support. - is what I am referring to).

Within the included file explorer app, there is the option to access network devices. However, I am unsure how to mount an SMB share. When I first installed Ubuntu Touch, I assumed I could use apt to install cifs-utils, and then edit fstab to include the network mounts. Since the file system is read only, I cannot install cifs-utils. I know you can make the system read/write (I read it isn't recommended to do this), but before I do that if this is the only way, is there any other way I can install this so I can mount my network devices?

I missed an update yesterday, but I just updated to daily update 301. Tested the camera and surprisingly it worked every single time I used it, even flipping back from the rear camera back to the front camera. Played with some settings, changed some resolutions etc, took many photos, and the app still worked the entire time even after closing and reopening. Bravo to devs!

Now, if only there was a solid native email application that worked, I would daily drive my pixel 3a XL. So close!

Scrolling improved on daily update 299, I noticed it's not nearly as janky as it was. It's certainly much better, but not quite there yet. Patience!

So far I am pretty impressed with Ubuntu touch, especially on this device. It's very smooth. Thank you to everybody who works on this project.

on daily channel, with version 299 update, camera is now working mostly as expected in the sense that it doesn't freeze after taking the dirt picture anymore/show a black screen.

edit: hit or miss, though I was able to take 6 pictures in a row with no issue compared to before.

i have noticed that when you open the camera, it does not autofocus properly, i think this is a bug. camera refocuses after tapping on screen to focus on selected area otherwise.

is fredldotme still the pixel 3a port maintainer?

@lduboeuf hey no worries, people work on this on their free time and I value and respect that. I'm happy something like this exists.

@lduboeuf ahhh I did not know this. I guess I was expecting that the OS knows when to send an MMS using the modem only. It worked after disconnecting from Wifi.