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My take on the "State of Mobile Linux"

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lemmy.worldMy take on the "State of Mobile Linux" - Lemmy.World# Why this post ? I’ve been using a Linux phone for fun for a few months now, and this is all the annoyance that prevent me from being daily-drivable (And some other small thing that I found here and there) I am using a Redmi Note 9S, I’ve been mainly on GNOME Mobile because I love GNOME tech, and I am building apps for GNOME too (Which are mobile friendly 🥳) I also tried Phosh and other DE but I always come back to GNOME. I am using PostmarketOS. There are some striked things, which are the things that got fixed when GNOME 48 was released on PMOS! I might edit this post in the future to say what have been fixed (or do another one, we’ll see) # State of Mobile Linux and missing apps: - no good Bitwarden client - GoldWarden just crash and seems abandonned - eventhe web app is not responsive… - Finamp could work well but have no arm build - No discord app: - we have Dissent, which is decent, but login in is aweful and no voice chat support (we can’t even see the online status) - no jellyfin player app: - Delfin is decent but seems.abandonned… 😟 - GS Connect works, but needs a tweak and UI is not good on small screen - No lemmy apps - waydroid don’t have internet by default, we need to run a command everytime we launch it to add a route. - No good Youtube client (newpipe is bad for the moment and Pipeline just doesn’t work OOB - no tutanota app (no arm build) # State of GNOME Shell - Saving dialog in.text editor.is [http://editor.is] not good - Somewhat laggy compared to Phosh (Not anymore since GNOME 48 🎉 ) - OSK is bad, it needs to be replaceable easily - we could have multiple keyboard installed and switch between them - No recent emoji view 😭️ - Since GNOME 48 it doesn’t even adapt to the locale now… (I have AZERTY set in the setting but the keyboard is now qwerty) - Quick setting should be smaller, android style round icon instead, to fit more on small screen (same goes for Phosh) - We need a OLED theme for GNOME shell mobile - Accent color doesn’t work in the quick settings (Gnome mobile shell use gome 46 as of 21 feb 2025) (Fixed since GNOME 48! 🎉 ) - we need a way to bring up the OSK like on Phosh (holding the botto bar for a sec for example, maybe itcould be customizable too?) - no app icon in the overview of running app, and sometime its hard to know what app is running, especially when havng multiple instance of the same app - would be cool to be able to uninstall app from the app grid (phosh got this in 0.45 iirc) - The power menu when holding the power button just open the quick sretting menu, we need somethng like phosh with a real menu to reboot/turn off the phone - Some apps don’t close correctly and just crash, i will add them here when.I encounter them: - GNOME Solitaire, after clicking on the topbar menus (Fixed in GNOME 48?) - auto rotate doesn’t work (but it does on Phosh) - No pattern unlock # State of Phosh - what is wrong with the emoji keyboard?? it’s bad - gestures are bad, they need to take the same.gesture as gnome shell mobile!! - We NEED to press the unlock button after typing our code (would be neat to have the code automatically unlock the phone when we enter the same amount of characters as our passcode) - Haven’t used it intensively, especially because of the bad gesture # State of apps - GNOME Mines needs to be ported to libadwaita and better support smallscreen - timers in gnome clock are bad (it’s just one beep and if the sound is off, it doesn’t alert me) - alarms doesn’t turn off when clicking or swiping the notification… we need to unlock the phone… and the buttons to turn off are way too small… - gnome calculator bring up the keyboard, which is weird, and it goes on top of the actual app keyboard (Doesn’t go on top anymore, but still shows up…) - gnome software have bad UI when clicking on the size of an app to get the details # The obvious but we know this already - Camera support is rudimental, needs works, and I can’t wait.for it to become better! - No fingerprint sensors support # Device specific : Redmi Note 9S - camera support (same as above) - charging indicator doesn’t work and battery reporting is hit or miss (go up and down) - No fingerprint sensors support - top speaker don’t work - no vibrations # Questions if you have question about x or y app or any feature that you’d want feel free to tell me in the comments ! :) or even If I missed things feel free to correct me! p.s. This list has been made on the linux phone and I’m sorry for the bad english or misspelling of words!
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Ubuntu Touch Q&A 161

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lemmy.caUbuntu Touch Q&A 161 - Lemmy.ca>Marius announced that VoLTE is now working satisfactorily for both Mediatek and Qualcomm. The modifications are already in the image for both Focal and Noble. With that said in order to use them the porter for each device must do the work on that and for Qualcomm the only device we have at the moment is the Fairphone 5. On the Mediatek side, Volla from 22 up are functional. Marius and Alfred have been running it as a daily driver for awhile and have found no major problems. >This is not just voice it is also SMS over VoLTE. AppLee reported some issues with MMS but Marius was surprised that MMS would work at all because it is a different type of protocol. Alfred attempted to test that out live but like most live attempts it didn’t work. Alfred also placed a call though and that did work. >In yet more big news, Marius has now succeeded in getting an eSIM to work. At the moment it functions only in command line but he is working on a UI for it. The fix used the Lpac library. A big shout out to the developers of that because it contains resources which we have used for lots of different things. >Marius confirmed to a questioner that both VoLTE and eSIM will have entries in Settings. >Halium 12 devices upgrade >Alagiralagir had a couple of questions. The first was to ask why all devices can’t be upgraded to Halium 12 so that they can take advantage of VoLTE? Alfred is the porter of the Pixel 3a but he expressed his view that the device has outlived its usefulness. It runs on Halium 9. It is not worth the effort of taking it further and there is not even a guarantee that Halium 12 would unlock VoLTE. There are times when the only way forward is to get a more modern phone and this is one of those times. >The Pixel 3a is not supported in Austria anymore, even if it is running the original Android. Time to let it go. >If we are going to make more use of Mastodon and Matrix we need volunteers to take care of that.
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Ubuntu Touch Q&A 160

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lemmy.caUbuntu Touch Q&A 160 - Lemmy.ca>Fluffychat is still broken and we are waiting for the Mir updates which it needs, in order for Flutter to be compatible. >We still have groups on Matrix but they are not very much used. A move from telegram could be possible once we have a properly working Matrix client but even then we would need bridging from telegram and with so many groups that would only be practical for a few. >Well apart from a problem with MMS, VoLTE is working pretty well with Mediatek devices. On Qualcomm we are still making progress but not there yet. We need some testing of the beta version for Qualcomm, preferably with feedback from across the world because a standard is very loose and the exact situation is very variable. >In the USA and India 2G and 3G has already been shut down. It will be great to get UT working properly again in those markets. >Samsung make their phones almost impossible to work with. The same applies to Xiaomi and their locked boot loaders.
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