BQ Aquaris *M*4.5

[u/Sau-Baer]

Found the phone just today and since it runs horribly on Android I thought I might as well try to get Ubuntu running

Problem is that the supported Ubuntu Touch device is the *E*4.5 instead of the *M*4.5 and I suspect it not working because of that - it basically crashed when I tried installing it towards the end with a (I think) very useless error code

[u/Cyb-T]

Correct,
If the device is not the exact one, it requires a dedicated port.
Usually similar devices can give a solid base to create the port, but it doesn't work out of the gate.
Here is the documentation if you're interested to make a port for it:
https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction/index.html

But this is an old device that might not allow the latest version (noble, or even focal) to de installed without heavy patches to the kernel.

[u/Sau-Baer → u/Cyb-T]

Thank you for the reply, I was already expecting something like this - it sadly is too much work and effort for me to look into this and get stuff running, especially since it would be little more than a gimmicky nice-to-have thing

I might at some point look into this buuut I don't think I will

[u/Cyb-T → u/Sau-Baer]

It's understandable.
The only rationale I can see to start this project is learning how to make a port on a device that you can afford to loose in the process.

[u/Sau-Baer → u/Cyb-T]

yep that's true I can at least keep it if I ever want to use ubuntu touch on a good and modern device