Calibrating a smartphone compass should be OS-independent … move the smartphone through the air following an imagined “8” (or infinity loop) in different directions (or dimensions) until the respective App doesn’t complain anymore.
Checking OS-independently whether the compass is right is harder … Sun? Stars? Known orientation of nearby streets or railways?
That’s what I’m saying. In Xompass app, the compass is not moving if phone is rotating. Also the SensorStatus app show no numbers in compass tab, so my guess is, that UT is not even avare, that there is an compass in phone.
I switched back to Fairphone Open some hours later since my device was rebooting randomly. I will wait for this system to be reliable before considering adopting it for good.
The OTA-6 update for Ubuntu Touch is now released, and will be made available to all users progressively through the next five days.
With it you can expect some significant improvements to the Morph Browser, the OnePlus One, and several other fixes.
Find out more at: https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blog-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-6-release-186
Adding an owncloud account (in settings > accounts)
note for people who use HTTPS with self-signed certificates: needs to be set up as described in this earlier post about the syncevolution script: March 4th
running desktop apps with libertine (can be configured/packages can be installed via settings app)
initial container setup took roughly 1h, so be patient
tried these desktop apps so far
aisleriot: seems to work
claws-mail: starts, needs USB keyboard + mouse to be usable, but some dialogs can’t be operated properly
frozen-bubble: starts, but it uses only one small corner of the display which makes it unusable
both Xompass and SensorStatus apps don’t show any reading as if there was no compass (but the FP2 has one)
Spotify
web player has no way to login on a mobile phone
no app available for xenial; CuteSpotify vivid app doesn’t work
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…)
Running android apps vie Anbox (emulates 7.1.1)
This is still experimental and needs to be enabled manually (again after each system update)
on the phone (via terminal app, adb shell or ssh from a PC), run ./install_anbox.sh; it will free some space on the system image, install anbox and adb on the phone
Installing android apps
Simply copy the APK file(s) to the phone and do adb install <name of the file>.apk
Today I tested Spotify in anbox on my way to work. Playing stuff online, i.e. not downloading the music first as I would usually do.
Didn’t notice any difference to using it on my main phone except that UT doesn’t have controls to play/pause/skip on the lock screen.
Not sure if that would work as a daily driver, though: during 50min the battery went down 16% (mobile data and wifi on, GPS and bluetooth off).
Hallo Ingo,
vielen Dank für Deine Anleitung für Anbox… irgendwie habe ich es geschafft. Was ich noch nicht kann - wahrscheinlich fehlendes Basiswissen - ist eine app neu auf meinem FP2 zu installieren. Wo bzw. wie bekomme ich den package name von WhatsApp auf mein FP2??
Danke und Grüsse aus Kiel
Ali
Okay, I just solved the WhatsApp.apk problem and just found a new one: the file access. I can find the AnboxHome with Dateiverwaltung (UT) but not with file (Anbox). I just need help to switch between both. Fore example to transfer the utcontacts.vcf to Anbox and use it with WhatsApp.
The following is working:
File, Contacts (without Import), Calender, Settings, Clock.
Still not working:
Camera, Email and the file access Anbox to UT
I just wont to switch to an other OS… but now I stay @ ubports
Ali
I just thought it would be so easy to get all the well known contacts into the Anbox. I tried using dropbox to transfer the file. Dropbox in Anbox is working fine, but after saving the file to my device, I can’t find the file at the device. Dropbox opened a different container comparing to the Anbox - file container . Now I will test Whatsapp typing the contacts again and it it works that won’t be bad at all.
I just tried: after the three commands I posted above (mkdir, chmod, mount) I could copy a VCF file from UT to AnboxHome and then import it in the android contacts app.
BTW, in the UT telegram group someone asked about spotify web player in the new morph browser. In the past I only tried the old one.
Doesn’t help much. It is possible to login at spotify.com but then opening the web player at open.spotify.com just looks the same as with the old browser: no access to your playlists, no way to actually play songs (it’s the same on Android BTW, so I guess mobile browsers are not supported, indepenent of the OS).
So it seems the only way to listen to Spotify on UT is with anbox + original android app (at the cost of a big battery drain).