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Re: Wireguard Kernel Support

How do I set it up, because the hide-me.vpn will run on it, without paying proton? i'm back to the darkside, we'll call it. Wasn't smart enough to catch the starting gun-even, until past Dec. Looks like an old topic, but I can promise it's new all over again to any who got blessed enough to see the light, do this, and get rid of google/apple immediately. Took four months to do it all real carefully, but now I have to be careful. Linux was always my nemesis in Jr. High. Now I say thank you that Linus Himself is only ten years my senior and saw what they were hiding then. Nevertheless, I've chicken peckcked my way, back to my dreaded terminal. Not dreaded these days. More of a blessing. So, how do I configure wireguard in ubuntu touch to this aforementioned vpn? Thank's. Sorry for giving up on it all, back in the early 90's.

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to install Ubuntu Touch (Focal 20.04) on my Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 (lavender) using the UBports installer.

Unfortunately, the installation is completely blocked because the installer requires a manual download of the firmware file: lineage-16.0-20200226-lavender-vendor.zip.

The original AndroidFileHost link provided by the installer is completely dead, and after hours of searching, I found that all public mirrors (like Lolinet and SourceForge projects) are down or 404'd as well. Trying to bypass it with a dummy file just crashes the installer backend.

Does anyone happen to have this exact zip file saved on their hard drive or cloud storage? If you could upload it to Mega, Google Drive, or anywhere else, you would literally save my device.

Thank you so much in advance!

hey there!
i've succesfully installed UbTouch on my nothing phone yesterday.
so far so good. theres however 2 quirks i failed to fix.

the most annoying one right now is that in thensystem settings the 'Accounts' menu/tab is unresponsive/fails silently. so i cant f.e. sync my nextcloud, or other apps which depend on that system funcionality.
I've allready reset the device a couple times, restarted it and tried to find help in the documentation/forum.

Is there a way to launch it from the cli or did I miss something in the install process?

The install process was mostly straight forward, and i followed most of the instructions on xda.
the only issue i had, was after enabling adb & unlocking the bootloader i was stuck in an endless loop at the first device setup where i couldnt get arround the g-account registration, which failed since my np1 could neither use mobile nor my wifi.
so i used the manual install script to flash the ubports recovery, activated adb in the recivery again and continued with the offical ubtouch installer afterwards. which worked flawlessly.

Maybe some one could help me out here since i really want to give this a test run as a daily driver.

Hi! Users from Russia currently have unstable access to UBports resources, which makes installation and downloads difficult. Could you please suggest any current mirrors for UBports Installer, Ubuntu Touch images, and related files?

If official links are unavailable, alternative download sources or mirroring instructions would be especially helpful. Also curious if the community supports mirroring UBports artifacts, like some other Ubuntu repositories do.

Привет! У пользователей из России сейчас нестабильно работает доступ к ресурсам UBports, из-за чего установка и скачивание могут быть затруднены. Подскажите, пожалуйста, есть ли актуальные зеркала для UBports Installer, образов Ubuntu Touch и сопутствующих файлов?

Если официальные ссылки недоступны, особенно полезны были бы альтернативные источники загрузки или инструкции по зеркалированию. Также интересно, поддерживает ли сообщество зеркала для UBports-артефактов, как это бывает у некоторых других Ubuntu-репозиториев.

Hey everyone,

Starting a new bug fixing project for Ubuntu Touch called Smooth Edges (name pending). The idea is simple: fix the bugs that make people give up on UT or prevent them from trying it in the first place.

The Problem
Look, we all know Ubuntu Touch has rough edges. Some bugs are annoying. Some make daily use frustrating. And some make people pull out their old Android phone after a week. We need to fix those bugs first. I'm not talking about theoretical issues or edge cases that affect small amount of users. I mean the stuff that actually stops UT from being a usable daily driver.

How This Works
Instead of just going through the bug tracker randomly, we're prioritizing based on impact. Two questions:

What bugs stop people from switching to Ubuntu Touch?
What bugs make current users switch away?

Simple as that. Real-world impact over everything else.

Priority Levels
Breaking bugs down into 5 categories:

Priority 1: Core System Stuff - Boot loops, crashes, phone completely unusable. Fix immediately.

Priority 2: Basic Phone Features - Calls, SMS, WiFi, Bluetooth, notifications, camera. If these don't work, it's not really a phone.

Priority 3: Daily Use - Browser crashes, app store issues, keyboard problems, file management. The stuff you hit every day.

Priority 4: Polish - Like those tiny contact navigation arrows that are impossible to see. UI glitches. Things that make UT feel unpolished.

Priority 5: Nice to Have - Advanced features, edge cases, stuff that matters to specific users.

QtWebEngine Upgrade
This is a big one. The browser affects almost everything you do on a phone. We're planning to upgrade QtWebEngine, which should improve a ton of daily use cases.

Finding the Bugs, We're looking at:

Forum posts, support tickets, social media complaints
Comparing UT to Android/iOS to see what's missing
Actually using UT as a daily driver (dogfooding)
Testing

Timeline (really rough estimate)
Roughly 20 weeks broken into phases:
Weeks 1-2: Figure out what needs fixing and how bad it is
Weeks 3-10: Fix the critical stuff (Priority 1 & 2), start planning the QtWebEngine upgrade
Weeks 11-18: Fix daily use bugs (Priority 3), get QtWebEngine upgrade done
Weeks 19-20: Test everything, make sure we didn't break anything

What Success Looks Like

No critical bugs in stable releases
Phone features that just work
You can actually use UT daily without workarounds
People stop complaining about the same issues
UT becomes a real option vs Android/iOS

Not shooting for perfection, just want UT to be solid enough that you'd recommend it to someone.

Need Your Help
This only works if the community gets involved:

Tell us what's broken - What bug almost made you quit UT? What stops you from daily driving it?
Report bugs properly - Help us reproduce issues
Test fixes - Volunteer to test updates
Spread the word - Help gather more feedback

Tracking Progress
We'll measure:

Crash rate
Number of Priority 1-3 bugs
Boot time, battery life, app performance
Community feedback (less complains = winning)

So What Do You Think?
What bugs are driving you nuts? What would it take for you to daily drive UT? Drop your thoughts below.

Hi, I recently took over developing tedit app. I would like to try the forum, to gather some ideas and feedback regarding ongoing development.

In this thread, I will post questions regarding future design and functionality and let you, the users, comment and ask things. Lets see how this goes. We can always split it up or move discussions elsewhere.

I would still prefer to have issues and feature requests added in the gitlab repository, but I understand, that not everyone is familiar with gitlab and also that some things are easier to discuss here.

This is a super long story, but I'll try not to go on too long.

My Pixel 3a running Ubuntu Touch 24.04 (24.04-1.3) abruptly stopped being able to send/receive texts/calls a few weeks ago. And it was unable to connect to my carrier's network.

I took it to my carrier and got a new SIM card, after which it was able to connect to the network (it shows my carrier's name in the "network" section on the swipe-down-from-top menu), but it still can't send/receive texts/calls. (Also, a borrowed SIM card for a different carrier -- but which happens to use the same network of towers as my current carrier -- didn't work when inserted into my phone.)

Mostly just for troubleshooting reasons, I'm looking to return to the stock firmware. (Given that it worked fine and abruptly stopped, I'm guessing calls/texts won't work on the stock firmware, but that'll at least be pretty solid confirmation that it's a hardware issue. If somehow it does work on stock, I'll probably try returning to Ubuntu Touch and see what happens.)

I've got developer mode enabled on my phone, and I've got USB in "File Transfer" mode. But adb reboot bootloader gives me Failed to write reboot parameter file: Permission denied. I think this is an error from the phone, right? Not an "ADB can't connect to the phone" error but more of an "ADB told the phone to reboot into the bootloader, but the phone responded with this message" sort of error.

Am I wrong to assume that adb reboot bootloader should work with my phone when it's running Ubuntu Touch?

That's basically my question. Thanks very much in advance for any assistance you can provide!

Edit: Oh, forgot to mention the Google "Android Flash Tool" that runs in the Chrome browser doesn't have any better luck than ADB.

I have a question about Alerts Volume - I don't know yet if it's a bug or a feature

Context:
At night, when I mute my phone from the top Volume drop-down menu, calls are muted but not alerts: I can see that in uVolMan.
But I need Alerts also muted - otherwise I will hear Alerts for notifications (from Greenline for example).
In order to do that, instead of switching the mute button in the Volume drop-down menu, I slide to zero the Volume slider in the same menu. Now, if I check in uVolMan, Alerts volume slider is also moved to zero.

Question:
Shouldn't mute switch also switch Alerts to mute?

I have a comment about the indicator panel at the top of the phone.

I have a very 'ubuntu touch' use-case that made me think about how the indicator panel is not good for 'urgent' use and can be a hazard for emergencies.

Summary: It is difficult to use the panel quickly and even more difficult when you can't see the screen well.

background:
To use the activity tracker when cycling I need to keep the app open. I use the active screen click to stop the phone from locking screen. To stop the battery from dying after 5 minutes I turn the brightness all the way down and turn off automatic brightness.
To use the phone when I take a break I need to turn the brightness up manually.

Issue:
When the brightness is all the way down, I can't reliably turn the screen brightness up because the scrolling behavior of the panel means the screen 'button' is never in an expected place. With Android I know to swipe down and the buttons are all in a predictable place so even if the screen is dark, I can get the slider with a few attempts.
In UT it is very difficult.

While this came up in a very niche (ubuntu touch-esque) use-case I think it has implications for everyone else in some emergency situations.
Eg. needing to turn on mobile data to make a call if you get an eye injury.

Hi all,

trying to improve battery life when WiFi is on, as I figured this is the main source of battery drain on the 2 (not so extrem on 2XL, what I really do not understand, as the use the same hardware). I pushed a new version of the WiFi config file WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini and lets see how that flies.

It should be in the devel channel by tomorrow 12.00 AM CET. Gimme some feedback if there is a change

I would like to run the 'community favourite app' awards again later this year but there are a few things that could have been a bit improved.
One key issue was how to do the voting with anonymous members.

To have fair elections with a one person-one vote setup we need a way to regulate how often a person votes and thus we need a unique personal (albeit temporary) identifier. Normally this done through government issued IDs but I guess an email serves the same purpose if we dont need to be super strict... but the point is we would rely on an already existing system.

I doubt people in the community would be happy to share IDs, emails etc with a random internet person for the sake of voting.
To use online providers, I would still need to get everyones emails to register them.
Using the forum messaging system gets difficult for lots of voters as it means a lot of manual response collection.

Would a dedicated app provide any benefit? Would the open store be a way to ensure one phone - one vote anonymously? or would I still need to rely on emails etc?

simple question really ...do we really need app confinement?? ...like i get it security purpose and the original idea and all ...but like everyone including myself is making unconfined apps because xyz does not work ....and this is actually a really big list of xyz ...so i guess i just dont understand why we are still trying for this thing that is very much in the way ...app confinement? ....im not even complaining its just a genuine question what is the future plans for this?? or is there any?? ....feels like limbo to me

Hello,
There’s no doubt that a lot of progress has been made in this 24.04 version…
the latest 24.04-1.3
My OnePlus 5T runs smoothly and the translation is good, which is great to see, so Thanks the UT development team.
Furthermore, on my phone, the LED indicator ( Notification LED ) for missed calls and the mains connection for the battery now works at… 99%; it’s perfect, and this should be marked as resolved in the devices list for the OnePlus 5T ( I’m posting this topic in the 5T forum)

For the Lenovo Tab M10 HD 2nd Gen Wi-Fi 4G/64GB tablet, the boot time, and especially the system restart time, now has a ‘delay’ – which is fine – so good work has been done. (I’m posting this topic in the Lenovo Tab M10 forum)
As the system is becoming increasingly user-friendly, a bit of promotion might raise its profile, and the question is:
When sending an e-mail, could we envisage, as on the iPhone or other devices, it being indicated as ‘sent from UBUNTU TOUCH’, with the option to enable or disable this message for users who don’t like it?
Finally, a visual effect (or two) would add a bit of fun to the system...

Have a great week, everyone !

Is it possible to port current Ubuntu Touch to Oneplus 2 or is this phone too old for this ?
Can't find any useful information ... maybe I am too new to this here.
Thanks for feedback.
Cheers
Chris

The boot and restart times for UT on the Lenovo Tab M10HD are now much shorter, representing an improvement on the more than 3 minutes it took just a few weeks ago.

So thank you to everyone who made this improvement possible.

Re: [Notification lights not working](/topic/8775
Hello,
Despite ota-3 being stable, led notification still doesn't work on my OP5T phone.
Has this been included in the bugs, because if we could find a developer who takes this as important?

Hello,

hopefully I am in the right section... I am just wondering how are kernel security issues handled in UT. Let's take as an example the 2 last ones (dirty frag and copy fail). Is it the responsibility of the maintainer(s) of the device to push a new kernel or some other group? How do I get such updates?

Thanks

I can't remember, but it is still possible to define new kinds of accounts to be included in the Accounts in the system (adding to nextCloud, etc)?

Re: Mirrors for users in Russia

I tried three different VPN services (that are otherwise fine and working) while launching UBports installer. The result is inevitably the same - NO DOWNLOAD TRAFFIC at all! The network monitor shows nothing at all in terms of the receiving any data, although the UBports installer shows that the "file" is being downloaded.
The curious detail: at the very beginning, after choosing the operating system to install and hitting the final button to start installation process, for a very brief moment indicator of download speed appears showing something like "0,03 Mbs" speed of download.:))))
The impression is that Ubuntu Touch repository servers are simply unavailable for users in Russia.

Hi, let's say that someone would be thinking of selling Smartphones well-compatible with Ubuntu Touch and having that system preinstalled on them (and unmodified in any way), what would they need to know about the licenses of the project and how to comply with them perfectly to satisfy both the project and the potential seller's need for having a peace of mind?

Note: I do wish to mention that obviously the customer would be informed constructively of benefits and potential drawbacks before purchasing such a device, and they would also be informed that the seller is in no way affiliated with the UBports or the Ubuntu Touch project itself and the system preinstalled is unmodified. Also, some of the seller's profit would happily turn into donations made to the Ubuntu Touch project.