Newer version is out. 16.04 r175 seems fine again. Will do the feature test later…
Installed via UBPorts installer from Linux, version 16.04 r175
What works for me
- call / be called
- send SMS / receive SMS
- internet via WiFi
- internet via mobile network (4G)
- USB connection to PC / MTP
- USB OTG
- changing to correct physical keyboard from the status bar works
- automatic screen rotation
- bluetooth
- audio speaker: MusicMan BT-X2
- alarm
- but clock app sometimes crashes and doesn’t seem to use the correct time zone
- screenshot (press + hold Vol-up and Vol-down)
- external sd card
- I can access existing photos with the gallery app
- I cannot navigate through the existing folders (maybe need to try formatting it)
- gallery app
- file manager app
- terminal app
- notes app
- list of notes doesn’t show note name
- after creating a note, one has to close and edit again before one can actually type something
- calculator app
- weather app
- enabling ssh
- but only when this workaround is applied: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/444#issuecomment-370507393
- the syncevolution script to set up my owncloud account
What doesn’t work for me
- openstore (no apps displayed; maybe temporary issue?)
- flash (new camera module; known issue)
- camera (new camera module; app loads forever)
- Adding an owncloud account (in settings > accounts)
- correct URL is shown as “invalid host URL”
- my guess is: problem with self-signed certificate; see also Problem to access owncloud selfsigned
- keeping the time zone (have to set it again after each start)
- Spotify web player
- no way to login on a mobile phone, so without an app it looks like I can’t use it
- email
- no app installed and cannot use the openstore to download one
- before wiping the phone I had upgraded from 15.04 with app “Dekko 2” installed, but that didn’t start and loads forever
- music app
- claims it finds no music even though there is some in the “Music” folder
- when opening an MP3 from the file manager app, it wants to import the file but that never finishes
- media app
- cannot open any of the files I tried
Didn’t try so far/again after last update
- contacts and calendar apps as I can’t add my owncloud account anyway
- location (as far as I know, GPS doesn’t work)
- External monitor via WiFi direct (with a Samsung BD-J5500 Blu-Ray player)
Adding your owncloud account doesn’t work in settings > accounts, but have you tried the syncevolution script method? I wonder if this could do the work
I haven’t found the time yet to try that. It’s on my list.
In case anyone else tries 16.04 and needs to (un)install apps while the openstore app doesn’t work, here are a few things I learned today
- Install packages
- browse https://open.uappexplorer.com and download a package on the phone or push the file from a PC
- either via terminal app or adb shell from PC:
pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted <packagefilename>.click
- Uninstall packages
-
click list
to get a list of installed packages and their exact name for the actual uninstall command sudo click unregister <packagename>
-
I got the syncevolution method to work But it took quite some time to get things straight.
- The script needs another variable declaration
- after the line with “CAL_URL=…” add another with “CONTACTS_URL=…”
- Initially I used spaces in “CALENDAR_VISUAL_NAME” and “CONTACTS_VISUAL_NAME”, but that seems to break the script
- I had to install my self-signed certificate - saved as *.crt - first (after storing it in the home dir):
sudo mount / -o remount,rw
sudo cp <mycertificate>.crt /usr/share/ca-certificates/
sudo dpkg-reconfigure ca-certificates
sudo mount / -o remount,ro
Not sure if that survives system updates…
Edit: I saw that someone forked the gist and added the two necessary changes. The updated one can be found at https://gist.github.com/vanyasem/379095d25ac350676fc70c42efe17c8c
Didn’t update for quite a while… Now 16.04 r205 is installed and openstore and camera are working. Yay!
Can you already test Android apps?
The FP2 is not yet supported for anbox use: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html
Only three devices supported at the moment
- Meizu Pro 5
- BQ M10 HD
- BQ M10 FHD
New camera? With flash and upright front camera?
New camera and front camera is still upside down. Didn’t check the flash.
Edit: also checked flash, doesn’t work.
Using the updater app I installed version 16.04 r219
What works for me
- call / be called
- send SMS / receive SMS
- internet via WiFi
- internet via mobile network (4G)
- USB connection to PC / MTP
- USB OTG
- changing to correct physical keyboard from the status bar works
- automatic screen rotation
- keeping the time zone after reboot
- bluetooth
- audio speaker: MusicMan BT-X2
- screenshot (press + hold Vol-up and Vol-down)
- external sd card
- I can access existing photos with the gallery app
- I cannot navigate through the existing folders (maybe need to try formatting it)
- shutting down the phone
- only causes reboot instead of shutdown on LineageOS
- openstore
- camera (new camera module)
- flash does not work
- front camera image is upside down
- contacts app
- using CardDav
- calendar app
- using my CalDav calendar
- times of appointments seem to be broken
- gallery app
- file manager app
- terminal app
- music app
- notes app
- list of notes doesn’t show note name
- after creating a note, one has to close and edit again before one can actually type something
- calculator app
- weather app
- enabling ssh
- the syncevolution script to set up my owncloud account
What doesn’t work for me
- alarm
- clock app crashes before I can set an alarm
- flash (new camera module; known issue)
- Adding an owncloud account (in settings > accounts)
- existed in 15.04, in 16.04 just Ubuntu One and Google accounts available
/ubuntu-touch/issues/447)
- existed in 15.04, in 16.04 just Ubuntu One and Google accounts available
- Spotify
- web player has no way to login on a mobile phone
- login fails with CuteSpotify
- email
- app “Dekko 2” loads forever
- media app
- cannot open any of the files I tried
- logviewer app
- immediately exits
- telegram app
- hangs at phone number verification step
- Android apps
- anbox is not yet supported on the FP2
Didn’t try so far/again after last update
- location (as far as I know, GPS doesn’t work)
- External monitor via WiFi direct (with a Samsung BD-J5500 Blu-Ray player)
Some more points
- I get a few random reboots that usually don’t happen on LineageOS; but not as many as other UT users report (but then, I don’t use it as daily driver…)
- enabling ssh used to require this workaround: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/444#issuecomment-370507393
- not sure if that just survived the OTA update and still needs to be done on fresh installs
Small update: found time to try wifi direct but no devices are found (that at least worked with 15.04)
Again just a small update. After not running UT 16.04 for quite a while I now updated to 16.04 r.259.
The only other thing I did was installing a working package of the Telegram app (AFAIK not available in the Openstore yet). Just download the latest click package at https://github.com/ubports/telegram-app/releases/latest
Then, on the phone or via ssh (in the download folder) type
pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted com.ubuntu.telegram_2.5.3.2_xenial_armhf.click
Replace “2.5.3.2” with whatever version you downloaded.
Found something nice: at https://github.com/rubencarneiro/custom_bootlogos you can download images to flash custom boot screens. For all those who are a little irrated that it still says “Powered by Android” even if you run UT on the FP2
And, using the updater app I installed version 16.04 r299
What works for me
- call / be called
- send SMS / receive SMS
- internet via WiFi
- internet via mobile network (4G)
- USB connection to PC / MTP
- USB OTG
- changing to correct physical keyboard from the status bar works
- automatic screen rotation
- keeping the time zone after reboot
- screenshot (press + hold Vol-up and Vol-down)
- external sd card
- I can access existing photos with the gallery app
- I cannot navigate through the existing folders (maybe need to try formatting it)
- shutting down the phone
- only causes reboot instead of shutdown on LineageOS
- location (GPS)
- openstore
- installed the store app for xenial (was shared in the UT QA telegram group)
- camera (new camera module)
- flash does not work
- front camera image is upside down
- contacts app
- using CardDav
- gallery app
- file manager app
- terminal app
- music app
- calculator app
- weather app
- logviewer app
- telegram app
- a working version for xenial was shared in some of the UT telegram groups
- the xenial openstore also shows the telegram app, so it may now work “out of the box”
- enabling ssh
- the syncevolution script to set up my owncloud account
Used to work but not at the moment
- bluetooth
- audio speaker: MusicMan BT-X2 (can’t connect; may be temporary)
- calendar app
- using my CalDav calendar
- times of appointments seem to be broken
- app comes up but then crashes on interaction (that’s new; used to work)
What doesn’t work for me
- alarm
- clock app crashes before I can set an alarm
- flash (new camera module; known issue)
- Adding an owncloud account (in settings > accounts)
- existed in 15.04, in 16.04 just Ubuntu One and Google accounts available
/ubuntu-touch/issues/447)
- existed in 15.04, in 16.04 just Ubuntu One and Google accounts available
- Spotify
- web player has no way to login on a mobile phone
- login fails with CuteSpotify
- email
- app “Dekko 2” loads forever
- media app
- cannot open any of the files I tried
- notes app
- list of notes doesn’t show note name
- after creating a note, one has to close and edit again before one can actually type something
- note contents are not saved
- Android apps
- anbox is not yet supported on the FP2
Didn’t try so far/again after last update
- External monitor via WiFi direct (with a Samsung BD-J5500 Blu-Ray player)
Some more points
- I get a few random reboots that usually don’t happen on LineageOS; but not as many as other UT users report (but then, I don’t use it as daily driver…)
- enabling ssh used to require this workaround: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/444#issuecomment-370507393
- not sure if that just survived the OTA update and still needs to be done on fresh installs
Short update:
- the openstore now has an update for the Notes app so that it can finally be used
- there will be a next generation web browser for UT; it can already be installed following this procedure: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/1291/install-browser-ng-for-qtwebengine-goodness
First release candidate for UT 16.04 is out. This time I didn’t just update my FP2 but did a clean install (manually installed FPOS, then used the UBPorts Installer including “wipe”). I had used the phone to test so many OSes/versions that I wanted to rule out any side effects/old misconfigurations.
So now I’m on version 16.04 (2018-06-23/2 or r351)
What works for me
- call / be called
- send SMS / receive SMS
- internet via WiFi
- internet via mobile network (4G)
- USB connection to PC / MTP
- it takes some time before folder contents are shown (used to be faster)
- USB OTG
- changing to correct physical keyboard from the status bar works
- automatic screen rotation
- keeping the time zone after reboot
- screenshot (press + hold Vol-up and Vol-down)
- external sd card
- I can access existing photos with the gallery app
- I cannot navigate through the existing folders (maybe need to try formatting it)
- shutting down the phone
- only causes reboot instead of shutdown on LineageOS
- location (GPS)
- openstore
- camera (new camera module)
- flash does not work
- front camera image is upside down
- bluetooth
- audio speaker: MusicMan BT-X2
- alarm
- some people report crashes (cause might be having more than one alarm or an repeated alarm; didn’t dare try that yet)
- contacts app
- using CardDav (via syncevolution script)
- gallery app
- file manager app
- terminal app
- media app
- music app
- notes app
- calculator app
- weather app
- logviewer app
- telegram app
- enabling ssh
- the syncevolution script to set up my owncloud account
- Adding an owncloud account (in settings > accounts)
- uses HTTPS with self-signed certificate (needs to be set up as described in this earlier post about the syncevolution script: March 4th)
Used to work but not at the moment
- calendar app
- using my CalDav calendar (via syncevolution script)
- app comes up but then crashes on interaction (that’s new; used to work)
- some people suspect all-day events to cause this kind of crash
What doesn’t work for me
- flash (new camera module; known issue)
- Spotify
- web player has no way to login on a mobile phone
- no app available for xenial (didn’t try CuteSpotify vivid app)
- email
- no app available for xenial (didn’t try Dekko 2 vivid app)
- External monitor via WiFi direct (with a Samsung BD-J5500 Blu-Ray player)
- device is not found
- Android apps
- anbox is not yet supported on the FP2
Some more points
- I get a few random reboots that usually don’t happen on LineageOS; but not as many as other UT users report (but then, I don’t use it as daily driver…)
Indeed, congrats to the UBPorts team !
More info about the new RC on this blog post.
I’m not a daily driver neither… But from what I read :
- Some of the reboots can be solved by updating to the last modem firmware (similar to the “modem.zip” procedure)
- Some browser-related reboots can be solved by installing the new browser “browser-ng”
I was testing the new version of the UBports installer (0.1.17) and by that upgraded my phone to 16.04 (2018-07-04/2).
Not doing a full feature test but so far it seems that the calendar app crash is gone.
Also, several previous installer versions didn’t work 100% (on windows), so in the past I mostly reverted back to 0.1.9, but this seems to no longer be necessary.
Hello! You wrote that in order to do a clean install you first manually installed FPOS, then used the UBPorts Installer including “wipe”. I also have a FP2 and I thought that a clean install was always the result when using the “wipe” option, so I wonder: why was it important for you to manually install FPOS first? Is that something I should also do, if I want to ensure a clean install?
To be clear, the way I am installing is that I have an Ubuntu laptop with the UBPorts Installer installed, I just connect my FP2 to that and choose to install using the “wipe” option. So I do not install FPOS first, I install UT directly. Should I install FPOS first, and if so, why?