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I'm building a new application for the openstore: Signal UT, which will be a custom version of signal-desktop for Ubuntu Touch. I've already succeeded to build an initial .click package of signal-desktop for Ubuntu Touch with basic tweaking to have a more acceptable scale and have the keyboard working. I've made scripts to build it automatically. Currently it is based on a reuse of the binaries from https://snapcraft.io/signal-desktop . But it does not require to use snap to work, it's a standalone click package (that we'll be able to publish openstore later).

https://github.com/pparent76/SignalUT

The app is currently not responsive (but I plan to work on it):

• You can reduce the left menu to it's minimal size, as a temporary workaround
• The keyboard will display on top of the textedit, so you won't see what you type
• [EDIT] Somehow the "enter" and "back" buttons of the keyboard do not work after starting the app, but locking and unlocking the phone with Signal in foreground will solve it. (Probably and Xmir problem)
• You should be able to fine tune zoom by plugin in a keyboard and use the shortcuts Ctrl+= & Ctrl+- (untested)

But it is already usable to consult messages, and send small messages (in a sub-optimal way)

What also works or kind of works:

• Sending Audio messages, and listening to them (seems to work quite well)
• Audio calls (and it's possible to see video from the other person but internal camera does not work), call quality untested.
• Receiving non-Ut desktop notifications when keeping app in background (even when the phone is suspended)

WARNING: This is experimental, use at your own risks. The app currently needs to run unconfined. It contains binaries, that are free software but that I've not compiled personally (coming from snapcraft.io ) and that I have not checked. I do not take responsibility in case of any problem

Knowing that, if you want to be a tester, I'd be glad to get feedback from testers to know if it runs on other phones. So you will find a pre-built .click package here ( ONLY RUN ON NOBLE (24.04) ) :

https://github.com/pparent76/SignalUT/releases/tag/FirstRelease

Hallo,

I realy would like to use ubuntu touch, but I need Signal and Whatsapp on it to switch.

Now I installed waydroid via waydroid helper

Than I opend waydroid and download Signal and Whatsapp apk via aurora app store.

When I tryed to install Signal it says
"App not installed as app isn`t compatible with your phone"

When I tryed to install Whatsapp it says
"Cant open file"

At the moment I have no simcard in the Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC, is this a problem?

I run ubuntu touch 24.04-1.0

What can I do?

Hi everyone, I have to buy a new phone and wanted to try out a phone that is supported by Ubuntu Touch. A requirement for the new phone is file base encryption. I understand from the documentation that kernel version 5.4.* or a backport from the maintainer is required. If I buy a phone with kernel version 5.4.* can I be sure that the phone is capable of FBE? Or is FBE device specific and where could I look this information up?

Thanks for your help

Hi everyone,

I've recently flashed my Volla Quintus device (delivered with Ubuntu Touch) with Volla OS, and the process went smoothly. However, every time I boot up the device, I get a security warning indicating that the device might be corrupted. It prompts me to confirm by pressing the power button within 5 secodns before it continues to load the operating system, if not, it tirns the device off. . This is quite annoying.

I suspect there might be a command or setting to eliminate this warning, but I'm not sure what steps to take. Could anyone guide me on how to resolve this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help!
Pandolin

so i used ubuntu server and ubports pdk and manage to get it up and running using some python

first bed ....sweet sweet bed ...then work ...then hardware testing on a ancient laptop ....this will be a big leap this is a windows tiny 11 core duo 4 gb ram old hdd 80gb? and like it can play doom 3? maybe i was never brave enough to try ...but im going to commit it to ubuntu touch and this is a big deal because i used it for my orange pi 5 sbc flashing as the windows flash tool is best ...but im going to begin porting the ubuntu touch rock chip flash tools as well eventually someday this will make it sooner than later .....this is the same build script im using for my orange pi 5 as well so this is wonderful news on that front but more testing is needed

updated now can fold in system apps still needs more testing still stuck on daily but works will prob pause and come back around to this later

known bugs you will most likely have to reset it once on the first boot at the language selection idk why? ...and many others still need to test opi5 and actual hardware but its a thing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psGjDJQ40fcwWYlxNBS_0QZW_Tpne4ZU/view?usp=sharing

First and foremost, no I'm not implementing proper touchpad support in Lomiri. Mainly because I don't know how
I initially thought QML has a module or component for it but turns out there's none. I guess touchpads aren't as standardized as mouse?

Anyway, I'm actually experimenting with the virtual touchpad instead since it'll be much easier for my skill level. However, I'm not exactly a touchpad user (on my Steam Controller yes LOL). I rarely use a laptop and when I do, I use an external mouse. So I don't really know what's expected from it especially the modern ones.

Here's a video showcasing the gestures I experimented with.
https://youtu.be/xDXpPVnWaGQ?si=8qxr1PWXGkqINH8N

Basically, I tried to mimic the current touchscreen gestures in Lomiri but not sure if they would actually be useful. I'm thinking, it's nice to move and resize windows with a gesture but it might be better to be able to quickly open the drawer or switch between apps using the 3-finger gestures instead.

Unlike most of my experiments, I'm confident that I can actually propose this to upstream Lomiri since it doesn't really need skills that I don't have. So I would like to ask for people's opinion on this and maybe this would be basis once proper touchpad support were implemented.

One last thing, you may suggest pinch to zoom and such and although that's cool, Samsung DeX has it, but I don't know how to implement that LOL
I'm talking more on simple swipe and taps that

Thanks!

im totally against it in all forms pylinux will NOT be falling in line ....its not to protect the children ...name one child that has a ID or a passport? ....all it is is a path to shoe horn total surveillance ...elimination privacy one bleeding heart lie at a time
...im violently against this because i see it exactly for what it is ...another lie

....if they really cared about the children everyone on the list would be hanged
i would encourage UT to NOT comply based on the fact UT's core value's is privacy and security but i think we should talk about it

..lol p.s im also being a drama queen pylinux is all raw python i couldnt enforce it if i wanted to

I have experienced issues on my Quintus:

The bluetooth gui does not see my headsets when searching for devices. But I can directly pair them using bluetoothctl and their hardware identifier.
After having done this, they seem to stay saved in the list of paired devices, since they auto connect from then on.
Yet, the quintus does never show the headsets in the GUI (one are Volla buds, the other is no name).
The Pinetime in contrary works without issues and is always visible in the list.

I can't remember having these issues before which makes me think that is connected to Noble.
My phone is running UT natively, no dual boot.

Maybe this can be added to observations made on Noble that might be addresed at some point.

I have experienced issues on my Volla Phone:

Bluetooth works normal at first. But when no audio is streamed for some time (e.g. your local playlist is over), the phone turns bluetooth off. When I turn it back on, I can't connect to the headsets again (tried with Volla Buds and a no name headset). I have to reboot the device to make bluetooth work again.
It looks like the GUI switch indicates bluetooth is enabled but I think it's not.

I can't remember having these issues before. Therefore I think it's a Noble issue.
My phone is running UT natively, no dual boot.

Maybe this can be added to observations made on Noble that might be addresed at some point.

Hey y'all I need detailed information on what works / doesn't work on the VP 22 running UT 24.04 to update the listing on devices.ubuntu-touch.io. Please go through the list of features at devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/mimameid and check if all the feature listings are correct and which of those have since been changed so I can create a listing for noble based on that. Also please report on how volte is working out for you guys.

Peace
xcx

man iv been at this one for like a few months now but also with a really long break for my pylinux but im gonna pause for tonight just because i got it to build does not been that itll actually do anything other than set my little sbc on fire lol ...but really though how many have one and orange pi 5 sbc?
...much more work to do but im making progress ....eventually all this will cross over into rasberry pi and so on

Anyone know of a way to forward SMS messages to 2nd phone number, when main number is unavailable (weak cell, airplane mode, etc) ?

After many weeks of asking questions (here and Google) regarding voice calls over WiFi, considering software solutions and mixed (hardware / software) solutions, I finally had the sense to ask about voice call forwarding to second phone which has functional WiFi calling. Google said 'possible'. Carrier said 'we support that'. [just requires 2nd phone line, and phone, and remembering to keep it charged. tedious but workable].
I set it up & tested it. Seems to work !

So, now the last critical problem is no SMS over WiFi, when cell signal is too weak.

My requirement is communication with 'average' user, who has only OEM android or ios messaging installed on their phone. That rules out asking everyone I need to communicate with to add and learn new apps.

Asking google about that, answer was that any SMS forwarding solution would be linked to WiFi calling.

Can anyone shed light on options here ? or UT plans or progress (testing status, etc) ?

This has been discussed before I've discovered many years ago (tech time == decades ago!).

The thing that is slowing me down the most while using the UI / UX is the notion of "back". Since this can have several meanings, let me narrow it down to a specific case:

If the app presents a "back button" (usually represented as "<" on the top left of the screen), it would be nice to have a one-handed gesture that activates that button. Reasoning is that on the taller phones, a one-handed reach to that button is nigh impossible.

I've searched to see if such a thing is implemented, and all I've come up with is that "there is no concept" of "back" on UT. I guess what I'm saying is that the "<" button would like to disagree.

Thanks for reading!

Hi,

I have made a collection of gimp files for compatible devices with Ubuntu Touch.
I hope you find it useful !

The Gimp files

• are (very) high res to allow easy edition before down-scaling
• it also contain each part of the device in separate layers (front/back of the phone, shadow,screen, taskbars)

To sum up it is very easy to adapt .. and to give it the specific resolution for any need.

See sample picture of the models available hereunder

The gitlab project is available here :
https://gitlab.com/design3680819/ut-hw-models

If ubports finds it useful ..
This can be used by any active Ubports member that find it of use .. for example for marketing purpose or "spread the word" posts or videos (website, post, videos, powerpoint, ..)

It is free to use or adapt ..

It can't be creative common cause

• I don't own the original material used to make the models: it is the property of the companies that designed the respective phones/tablets
• I obviously also don't own the Ubuntu and Ubports logos, wallpapers used in the project

The only thing I own is all the transformations made in the project.. and I allow Ubports to use it as it sees fit (with the obvious limitations written above but I suppose it is "fair use").

PS: I could make other models but it takes time [took me a week for the current project] ,
so I would probably only focus on near 100% compatibility devices or devices from sponsors... if needed

I have a Oneplus Nord N10 5G BE2026. I am using the latest KDE Neon Linux desktop for installations. I am using installer

ubports-installer_0.11.2_linux_x86_64.AppImage

I had initially installed 24.04-2.x on this phone. I had trouble, and so did a reinstall of 24.04-1.x daily. It was running fine. I've had it turned off for a couple of weeks.

I turned it on today and it downloaded an update. I didn't install the update. I decided to switch back to 2.x. So, I started the process to install 2.x daily. I always select the wipe data option.

I get confused about booting into fastboot, bootloader or recovery and the screen that has a green START and the Recovery screen that has orange options for factory reset and Advanced.

Anyway, I stumbled through the install a few times and it looked like I successfully did the install. It goes fast, because it looks like it is using cached files, except for 11 and 12, I think.

It boots up the UT mascot displays on the screen and it says it is doing an update. Then I set it up, log in and it is still running 1.x.

On one install attempt, I got an error after boot in which it goes into Recovery and to messages on the bottom of the screen say

Setting up partitions...
E: Failed to find block device for partitionproduct_a

(I can go into the logs if more information is needed.)

So, I tried the Factory reset in the Recovery menu. That did some wipe.

Tried the install again. Same problems.

I decided to delete the ~/.config/ubports-installer folder in order to start from scratch without cached files.

Still the same trouble. What should my next step be? Do I need to reinstall Android and really start over?

Thanks for your help.

When an app actively uses gps (e.g. PureMaps, SensorStatus ...), I find that the location is no longer updated after a random duration ranging from a couple of minutes to well over one hour.

When that happens
-the app no longer receives position updates, as if you were not moving anymore (the app itself is fine, it's not frozen),
-the white location icon is no longer visible in the top toolbar, and if you open the positioning setting panel, positioning is "on" but no longer green and you can't toggle it.
-SensorStatus reports "AccessError"

The only way to recover gps positioning is to reboot the phone. Needless to say this bug is particularly annoying when you are depending on your phone for routing while driving. It's also quite frustrating since PureMaps would route me for hours without any problem on my previous phone (Xperia X under 20.04).

When the loss of positioning occurs, the journal shows :
Mar 01 17:02:39 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: lomiri-location-service.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=11/SEGV
Mar 01 17:02:39 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: lomiri-location-service.service: Failed with result 'signal'.
Mar 01 17:02:39 ubuntu-phablet systemd[1]: lomiri-location-service.service: Consumed 1.165s CPU time.

and the service invokes ExecStart=/usr/bin/lomiri-location-serviced --bus system --provider gps::Provider --provider remote::Provider

so it's lomiri-location-serviced which segfaults after a random duration, requiring reboot.

I did not worry too much about the issue earlier because I do not use the GPS heavily, but I believe this issues was already present when got my FP5 back in October. I'm presently on daily channel, running 24.04-1.x (2026-02-13/2), and lomiri-location-service is 3.3.0+0~20250628184827.14+ubports~dev~1.gbp8c98a8

Am I the only one having this issue?

I'm trying to port Ubuntu Touch to my LG V30(korean variant),using Mi 6(xiaomi-sagit) as a reference,kernel from LineageOS as base,and Helium 11(is it too new for this android-9-stockrom device?),and clang(the kernel will fail to build without clang)
However,When I flashed it into joan for testing,I found that I can't connect to the phont by telnet or ssh.The dmesg -w shows that it has failed to boot.
For telnet,it will connect and disconnect immediately and then connection refused for later attempts.
For ssh,it won't connect.
The dmesg -w output is here:

 @hzyry2046  sudo dmesg -w | grep "usb 4-3"
[    1.041375] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd
[    1.055928] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 4.04
[    1.055943] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[    1.055947] usb 4-3: Product: Failed to boot
[    1.055950] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: Halium initrd
[    1.055953] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: Halium initrd Debug telnet on port 23 on usb0 192.168.2.15 - also running udhcpd
[  513.512105] usb 4-3: USB disconnect, device number 2
[  528.390573] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 3 using xhci_hcd
[  528.404083] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 4.04
[  528.404097] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  528.404101] usb 4-3: Product: LGM-V300L
[  528.404105] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: LGE
[  528.404108] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: LGMV300L3aac8b55
[  693.086062] usb 4-3: USB disconnect, device number 3
[  722.431730] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[  722.445637] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 4.04
[  722.445642] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  722.445645] usb 4-3: Product: Failed to boot
[  722.445647] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: Halium initrd
[  722.445650] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: halium-initrd
[  896.369669] usb 4-3: USB disconnect, device number 4
[  967.447600] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[  967.461360] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0000, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 4.04
[  967.461363] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[  967.461364] usb 4-3: Product: LGM-V300L
[  967.461366] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: LGE
[  967.461367] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: LGMV300L3aac8b55
[ 1007.975615] usb 4-3: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 1036.319342] usb 4-3: new SuperSpeed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[ 1036.333226] usb 4-3: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 4.04
[ 1036.333242] usb 4-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1036.333247] usb 4-3: Product: Failed to boot
[ 1036.333251] usb 4-3: Manufacturer: Halium initrd
[ 1036.333255] usb 4-3: SerialNumber: halium-initrd

(Sorry,I don't want any URL in my initial posts)
ip links show has these outputs:

 @hzyry2046  ip link show                  
2: wlp0s20f3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether d0:65:78:ac:bf:89 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname wlxd06578acbf89
7: enp0s20f0u3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 06:20:a9:a5:4c:2b brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    altname enx0620a9a54c2b

(unrelevant connections removed)
Is there any other way to connect to the device without disassembling the phone?

Named "Open Slate":

1. https://community.braxtech.net/t/open-slate-megathread/4041

2. https://rumble.com/v74par6-new-project-the-brax-open-slate-androidlinux-tablet.html

3. MKT Genio 720 specifications: https://www.mediatek.com/products/iot/genio-iot/genio-720

Note: about "mainline linux kernel" (or near mainline kernel and anyway recent kernel) for Ubuntu Touch, it's a guess on my part.

Hey y'all I need detailed information on what works / doesn't work on the VP X running UT 24.04 to update the listing on devices.ubuntu-touch.io. Please go through the list of features at devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/yggdrasilx and check if all the feature listings are correct and which of those have since been changed so I can create a listing for noble based on that. Also please report on how volte is working out for you guys.

Peace
xcx

I'm on daily channel, up-to-date. Testing usb tethering today for the first time, I find it does not work.
In the journal I can see related errors:

usb_moded[1957]: /etc/usb-moded/usb-moded.ini: can't remove stale config file: Read-only file system
usb_moded[1957]: /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/g1//functions/rndis.usb0: mkdir failed: No such file or directory
usb_moded[1957]: function rndis.usb0 is not registered
usb_moded[1957]: /sys/kernel/config/usb_gadget/g1//UDC: write failure: Invalid argument
usb_moded[1957]: mode setting failed, try charging_only

Yet, it was reported earlier to be working . Is it a regression? Does it work for you?