Some messages never send when the first attempt was in an area of low signal quality

[Great White]

I was on the train ealier & went through numerous regions of low signal quality. The messages I attempted to send in these areas were subsequently never sent; even when the signal quality improved to almost full strength signal on 4G. In the attached screenshot, the affected messages still haven't sent.

[Michał Karnicki (karni)]

Hi greatwhite,

Thank you for reporting this. This is currently not implemented (long story short, we made that decision), but we may change it in the future. You can retry sending a message manually by swiping on a mesasge to left and selecting retry icon.

[Great White (greatwhite)]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back to. Sadly I've decided to send my Ubuntu phone back. The OS is a little bit too beta to be my daily driver. I also wasn't really not a fan of the way they implemented software updates, & locked down most of the file system as read-only. I mean, what's wrong with just having a custom repository & using apt-get? What would be wrong with me installing headless processes that run in the background like netatalk or syncthing? Anyhow, I'm ranting & none of this is not your fault.

Thank you again.

[Michał Karnicki (karni)]

Hi greatwhite,

I'm sorry to hear your decision. While this is outside the scope of this bug, allow me to say that the file system is read-only for a number of reasons (security, image delta-based updates), but you are free to fiddle with it and mount it read-write:
$ adb shell
$ sudo mount -o rw,remount /

Note that this simply means a delta-based update is not guaranteed to work, but there are ways to reset the image to pristine one, without using your user data. Regarding headless processes, it is all in the name of good power management. Currently the phone goes into deep sleep, we don't have such concepts as Android service for instance, for non-confined apps (although push, for instance, can temporarily wake up the apps). If you would like to provide feedback on the phone in general, please do not hesitate to e-mail <email address hidden> , thank you.

[erikonthenet (erik-loosman)]

Back on topic, this bug may be a duplicate with #1460475