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After seeing the Hydroxide app on OpenRepos.net for Sailfish OS, I was inspired to port it to Ubuntu Touch. A few crazy ideas later, and it's now a Rust app that runs the official Proton Mail Bridge instead of Hydroxide (alternative bridge).

So, this means you can now connect directly to Proton Mail with Dekko, or any other e-mail client you manage to get running on your UT device.

Find it in the Open Store: https://next.open-store.io/app/projectmoon.hydronium/

This thread will serve as a basic support/questions thing. For more detailed bug reports. please file an issue in the repository. I am particularly interested in any problems with the bridge itself, especially around the untested secondary mailbox password login.

Hi, I'm trying to install ubuntu ports, but I can't do it.
Smartphone:
Rednote 9 pro 6gb (M2003J6B26)
MIUI GLOBAL 14.0.5 stable
Android 12
Kernel 4.14.190

Installation hold on " - Cleaning up - Formatting cache partition".
Smartphone screen: black with FASTBOOK in orange.

How can I resolve it?

Thanks

I tried all kind of USB-C hubs, none seems to work. I get different behaviors, but the main one is that it detects the external display, changes mode, so the phone becomes a mouse pad and keyboard, while the display then turns into power saving, because it has no signal. For now it seems I can workaround the issue using mira cast, but I would prefer to have the ability to connect an external display directly via USB-C. Can anyone recommend a working USB-C Hub?

Apart from this, is there any chance the issue is solved in the future?

Hello!
I'm currently trying to install Volla OS on my Volla Phone which is currently running UT. I followed the instructions in the UBports software. (switching phone to developer mode). It recognizes my phone, it can download the VollaOS packages. It then tries to restart the phone (to bring it into fastboot mode). This operation just switches off the phone. If I switch it back on (by hand) Ubuntu just boots normally (while the software switches to the next step, "Flashing firmware", which it obviously doesn't do...).

Any ideas?

Best,

Pascal

Vandaag was UBports, vier mens sterk, aanwezig bij de landelijke meeting van de NLLGG . We hebben vragen beantwoord, dingen uitgelegd en laten zien, er zijn toestellen geflashed met Ubuntu Touch... en ik heb een presentatie gehouden, waar positieve respons op kwam. Ook hadden we wat leuke weggevertjes meegebracht: pennen, keycords en natuurlijk stickers.
We zijn van harte welkom om er de volgende keer weer bij te zijn en er zijn plannen gesmeed om een mooie samenwerking tussen UBports en de NLLGG op te bouwen. Naar mijn idee een prima match!

Hi, I am looking to contribute towards quality assurance, would like a pointer on where I can start.

I currently have the following spare devices:

• Fairphone 5
• Google Pixel 3a
• Poco C71

Been looking for alternative to regular android OS for quite a while. fFollowing the recent news on Google announcing that it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google, this kind of made me finally switch.

I'm hoping Ubuntu Touch can become a workable alternative to Android OS, and looking to contribute in anyway I can.

Other than QA, i can assist in:

• Any Developmental Task
  • My coding primary experience is in Java, Kotlin, C#, Python, Typescript/Javascript & C.
  • Have DevOps experience with GitLabs and Jenkins as well, could help out with CICD.
  • Have AWS, Kubernetes & Oracle Cloud experience, if somehow that helps lol.
• Any Documentation Task
• Translations
  • Chinese
  • Japanese

Though some periods I will have limited time due to work and personal life.

So I bought a poco x3 due to it being on the compatibility list.

However unlocking this thing is a nightmare. i have linux so trying to unlock it. First try it told me I had to wait 100 hours (lmao)

I waited the period, tried again and told me I had to wait a further 200 hours.

Wtf is this crap?

Thinking about putting it back on ebay to be frank. Which phone can I buy where I can unlock the bootloader immediately and install ubuntu touch?

Hello all!

So the settings page on my phone is essentially empty (not counting an airbud falsely showing up as available when in reality is off).
wiped the folder containing the config but still nothing showing. And now i cant pair the BT speaker i used before with this phone, it doesnt show up even though its in pairing mode and it shows up on a zte a76.....

Up until now a simple reboot fixed things but now even a literal cold boot (battery out for a minute) wont make it to return to normal.

Any ideas where should i start?

Hello everyone,

I am working on a solution to read my analog water meter automatically. A reading is performed every minute and involves three steps:

1. take a picture of the physical water meter
2. analyze the picture to extract the value (e.g. 123.4567 m3)
3. upload the value to Home Assistant

For development purposes, I use an Android phone with OpenCamera to take pictures regularly, with the flash. Then I transfer them manually to my PC to process them. I have already implemented the steps 2 and 3 in Python and OpenCV for the image processing, this is not a problem anymore.

Now the question is how to automate everything. Ideally, the 3 steps would run on the same device. Python on Android is not trivial, so I thought that Ubuntu Touch help. I saw it as "Linux" on a mobile phone, but after installation on a Pixel 3a, I realize that it is has also limitations due to its nature as phone or tablet OS. For instance, I cannot just install the apt packages I need in the root system. I looked quickly into the app development, it looks possible in Python, but I am not sure if I will hit other limitations, like having an app taking continuously pictures.

Do you have general recommendations for me on the best general strategy?

Thanks!

I have Ubuntu Touch on a Pixel 3a and I was delighted to see it runs Snap apps. However, all Snap apps seem unable to interact with the keyboard. Is this a universal problem, or has someone come up with a fix for it?

Hello,
If the title question draws a 'Yes' from you, please help me with a little detail. I wonder if these would be quite readily done, or require some amount of, let's say... tinkering.
Either way, I'd be interested.

Background:

I installed UT on a Pixel 3a xl (bonito) by running UBPorts Installer in Linux on an old Macbook Air. What I want is UT on a tablet. I've tried and failed to install on my excellent old Nexus 7 (2013) flo tablet.

I can buy a Lenovo TB-X306F on Android 11 quite reasonably. This would hopefully become my UT tablet, and if it could replace the Macbook Air for some Linux purposes, such as my question suggests, so much the better, as the Air freezes occasionally - not good if it ever interrupted a flashing session.

The Pixel is running /e/os now, but I'm fairly sure I can put UT on it, to maybe perform the Lenovo's UT install. Pixels are so flexible.

I also have Termux and a Debian Linux via VNCViewer on a Samsung tablet, but it seems like a whole lot of tinkering to get beyond very simple adb & fastboot.

Any comments will be welcomed!
Thanks,
KJU

I recently got an oneplus nord n10 BE2026 model. The UBPorts
installer ask me to USB enabled. I don't see in the settings.
I have the phone in developer mode (click build # repetitively
until developer mode) and OEM enabled. Is USB enabled hidden
somewhere? Or is there an equivalent USB something? Or what?

Btw, educate me - what is the difference between USB enabled
and USB debugging?

Thank in advanced for your help.

Sheng-Chieh

Enjoy those two books are shared under this license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.en

1. Lomiri App Development Level 1 (145 pages, pdf): https://gitlab.com/os-sci/lomiriappdevelopmentlevel1/-/blob/main/LomiriAppDevelopment1.pdf?ref_type=heads
2. Lomiri App Development Level 2 (435 pages, pdf): https://gitlab.com/os-sci/lomiriappdevelopmentlevel2/-/blob/main/LomiriAppDevelopment2.pdf?ref_type=heads

You can also buy paper version here: https://shop.bravenewbooks.nl/en-NL

And even better, a third book is planned!

Thanks OS-SCI (https://os-sci.com)

Hi UBports community,

I discovered Ubuntu Touch recently and feel very enthusiastic about it, as an alternative to current mainstream options.

But it is difficult to estimate where it is, in terms of user experience. I watched a couple of videos, and it seems still in a clearly "early adopter" phase.

Was wondering whether it could make sense to publish a table or roadmap outlining the exact features, services and improvements that are missing to match the Android/iOS user experience. This would help potential users, as well as developers to identify quickly where to help, and possibly also funders, who could more easily understand viability.

I imagine that there's a well organized board of technical issues, but this still is meaningful to give a more general overview, to a wider audience, and more specific about the gap to mainstream platforms.

Thank you!

This port was released in its first version in September 2025 but remained somewhat under the radar.

Now, the Nothing Phone 1 is integrated into ubports-installer and receives OTA updates via UBports servers.
There is only one update channel at the moment for UT Noble 24.04-1.1, the ‘daily’ channel. There is no “RC” channel or ‘Stable’ channel yet.
(24.04-2.x daily channel is also available.)

Also missing is a description sheet in https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/ to complete the picture.
However, information on hardware support is available here:
https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android11/nothing-phone-1/nothing-spacewar

There is not much missing in that matter.
The display only supports 60Hz (not 90Hz or 120Hz, mainly useful for video games), which is not really a problem under UT, as video games are not a frequent use case.
It should also be noted that VoLTE has not been tested but ‘should work’ (according to "Nonta72" , who made the porting).

As for the installation procedure, all you need is:

1. on the Nothing Phone 1, the unlocked bootloader + a ‘stock’ version (provided by the manufacturer) 13 or 15 of Android,
2. fastboot and adb on the computer that will run the UBports installer

(Source of this information:
https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-linux-ubuntu-touch-for-nothing-phone-1-waydroid-android-13-included.4758279/)

A device with hardware performance similar to the Fairphone 5 according to benchmarks, which therefore probably offers a very solid user experience under Ubuntu Touch.
Though probably no possibility to use an external display with a wired connection given USB Type-C 2.0, OTG.

Thank Nonta72 for your contribution!

I have been using UB as an adhoc laptop replacement and I have been impressed by how much I can get done with my FP5.

There are some sticking points though and this is one of them.
My phone has issues drawing power when connected to an usb hub and staying connected to the external display.

I had this issue in various forms over the past few months and it is very disrupting for work. Either I need to use the phone until the battery dies, then unplug the phone from the monitors to charge it or (on the occasions where it does charge while connected), I get disconnected while I am working.
Is there anything that can be done to correct this?

For example;
With a wavlink usb hub, I can charge while connected (sometimes) but if I remove the PD cable the monitor disconnects and my session closes.
With a ugreen usb hub, I get no connections if there is power or no power if I plug in PD after connecting to the monitor.
With my dual monitor setup at work, I seem to have no issues but I use this far less frequently. This has my phone connected to a Dell monitor via usb-c and draws power from the monitor.

Is there any information on installing Ubuntu Touch on this phone. I have one and none seems to be supporting the firmware anymore. I would like to be able to use it longer as a private and secure phone.

via email, OnePlus said Ebay is NOT a OnePlus authorized reseller, and therefore they will NOT unlock the boot loader.
Anyone else have this problem ?

I have wasted huge time (many hour over weeks) working toward getting a phone that will run Ubuntu Touch in USA, with functional VoLTE.

I cannot afford or justify more than about $100 USD for a used phone.

I will probably try to return the phone.

Very bad day !

Yesterday was a national warning day in Germany. On my device OP North N10 (Develop 144),there was no alarm over Cell Broadcast

Ubuntu Touch Q&A 185 is available in both blog and audio versions.

https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-news-1/ubuntu-touch-q-a-185-3992

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