22 Apr 2026, 11:31 UTC≈1,460 viewsread 8 August 2026
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Channel
Ubuntu Touch FAQ
@UTFAQ
On this record: Growth · Engagement · Posts · Citations · Cite this entry
1,705subscribers
+13 since we began measuring on 8 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of 1,000–3,162.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1001576207017 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @UTFAQ |
| Created | Between 1 August 2021 and 12 February 2022— estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 21 August 2026 |
| Measurements held | 6 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 21 August 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/UTFAQ |
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Aug 2026, 04:15 | 1,705 | +2 |
| 17 Aug 2026, 20:53 | 1,703 | +3 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 09:57 | 1,700 | +1 |
| 11 Aug 2026, 08:05 | 1,699 | +6 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 13:50 | 1,693 | +1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 00:04 | 1,692 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 12 February 2022 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 pageof Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 22 April 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Recent posts
15 Feb 2026, 06:15 UTC≈2,490 viewsread 8 August 2026
38. Which directories should I backup, if I want to be able to restore my UT device? Below is a list of directories where userdata is saved that likely is important to you: Wifi networks - /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ Cache - /home/phablet/.cache - Might not be necessary but some apps like Dekko use it for data Config - /home/phablet/.config - Apps settings and some system settings App Data - /home/ph…
15 Feb 2026, 06:14 UTC≈2,160 viewsread 8 August 2026
37. Why is there no home screen with app shortcuts or an empty home screen? UT is designed different than Android (its not Android 😉). It uses the launcher and the drawer to provide app shortcuts. An empty home screen would only show the background image, which you could also do in the gallery or with the show desktop app. In earlier versions of Ubuntu Touch there where so called Scopes, that made use of the desktop…
28 Oct 2024, 20:30 UTC≈5,070 viewsread 8 August 2026
36. Is device xyz good for me? Which device is the best for me? To be honest, this question can hardly be truly answered by anyone, because we are not you 😉. No one knows what you wish to do with a device or wich apps you require to work. No one knows which hardware features are important to you. No one knows how much money you have available to spend on a device. So please check yourself: 1. devices specs Head for…
30 Sept 2023, 06:42 UTC≈8,120 viewsread 8 August 2026
35. Why does GPS not work or take very long to get a fix on UT? For GPS to work, a device needs to "know" where the satellites are roughly positioned to calculate the position intersection. This data is called almanac data. Ubuntu Touch (currently) uses pure GPS, no aGPS (assisted GPS at Wikipedia). That means it only uses the pure satellite data to download the almanac and work out the position. This is very slow.…
20 Sept 2023, 05:10 UTC≈6,670 viewsread 8 August 2026
34. When will device ABC be ported for UT? When will device ABC be ported to focal? For most devices there is no clear answer to that question. It will happen, when someone does the work. It's community work, no time frames with that. A porter would need to do it. No one except the porter (someone with that device in their hands) knows when that will be or if it will be at all. Your best option is to kindly ask the …
27 Apr 2023, 04:15 UTC≈7,360 viewsread 8 August 2026
33. What is this circle with dots on the lock screen about? The dots represent the days of the month. The center of the circle gives you statistics depending on your usage like number of photos taken or messages received on that day. The size of the dot representing that day grows with the number. More details are explained in this blogpost: https://ubports.com/de/blog/ubports-blogs-nachrichten-1/post/ubuntu-touch-l…
26 Apr 2023, 18:18 UTC≈6,270 viewsread 8 August 2026
32. Where can I get the source code? There is not one file or zip holding Ubuntu Touch's source code. Ubuntu Touch is based on Ubuntu. That is why we keep the Ubuntu numbering and naming for main versions like 20.04 focal or 16.04 xenial. However Ubuntu Touch does make modifications and adds new software on top of Ubuntu to provide the best convergent experience. Ubuntu Touch's source code can be found in over 400 r…
26 Apr 2023, 18:17 UTC≈5,090 viewsread 8 August 2026
31. Is Ubuntu Touch fully open source? Ubuntu Touch is fully open source, however the drivers that are needed for utilizing the hardware might be proprietary. Then they can not be distributed with Ubuntu Touch. This is the reason why installing the correct Android version, before installing Ubuntu Touch, is crucial. For more details about that interaction, please see https://t.me/UTFAQ/42.
13 Jan 2023, 22:12 UTC≈6,130 viewsread 8 August 2026
30. Is there a way to move the launcher to the right side of the device instead of the left side? Technically, of course everything can be done. But in UT the edges do have certain actions assigned to them like triggering the app drawer, switching between apps, opening the indicators or bottom edge. In order to move the launcher to the right, the whole interaction system for all those actions would need to be rewrit…
11 Jan 2023, 17:13 UTC≈4,990 viewsread 8 August 2026
29. How do I report a bug 🪲? Reporting bugs is a great way to contribute. Only if developers know about an issue can they try to fix it. You are not sure where that issue should be reported? You think it might be a system issue? A general approach is described in our docs. Please follow those instructions (check if already reported, reproduce and document which steps exactly do cause the issue, report or comment).…
30 Nov 2022, 22:08 UTC≈5,190 viewsread 8 August 2026
28. What do the version numbers of the release channels mean? The version numbers seen in the update section are device specific, the device independent "update number" can be found in the about section of system settings. At the moment of writing you'll see ubuntu 16.04 followed by a "update number". This "update number" follows a different naming scheme depending on the update channel: For stable channel the upda…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @UTFAQ. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Citation-graph rank
Citation-graph rank — 45,377 of 1,584,420entries in the measured graph. A weighted position computed from the forward and mention edges below — republished posts weigh more than named mentions — and recomputed periodically, over the whole graph. Published only as this ordinal position, never as a score: a position is a fact, and a score printed beside one channel’s name would read as a verdict this register does not make. The two counts beneath stay separate for the same reason mentions are never summed with forwards anywhere else on this page — a named-by count costs nothing to manufacture. The top 100 by this measure, or how it is computed.
Mentions
Named by 2 registered channels — every channel on the register whose own posts have named this one, by its current username or any other username it currently holds, merged from two separately captured readings of the same fact so a namer caught by only one of them is not missed and a namer both caught is not counted twice. A username this channel has since dropped is not matched — that handle may belong to someone else now, and crediting today’s namer to yesterday’s owner would misattribute it.
Named by
Channels on the register whose posts name this channel's handle.
Names
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Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 21 August 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Ubuntu Touch FAQ” (@UTFAQ), 1,705 subscribers as measured 21 August 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/UTFAQ.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.