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I am a fan of ubuntu operating system. I have been using ubuntu as my pc OS from a last few years. I had heard that ubuntu had also launched the Os for mobile phones named ubuntu touch. I have a mobile phone named Micromax Canvas Doodle 3. But when I installed ubPorts installer , I did not find its name. Can you please tell , If there is other way of installing it on my phone. Do Ubuntu Touch is made only made for a fixed a number of mobile phones ?of which my phone is not a part of.

Tanmay Lodhi
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The support of devices is created one-by-one and not every device is supported.

While Ubuntu Touch is considered a comminuty-project as a whole, there are some devices that are considered to have "official" status because they are maintained directly by the UBports team. Those devices are listed on the Ubuntu Touch devices page.

In the case of your device, it isn't listed on the page, which means you will have to go for an "unofficial" image at most (essentially, an immage that a member of the community put together, with no support from the UBports team). One possible source for those images (while the forum is mainly focused on Android) would be XDA-Developers.

Worst case would be that nobody made an image for your phone and you'd have to put it together yourself. However, that might be a complicated process and a guide or step-by-step list of instructions can't easily be made. Two sources of information would be the official page about porting and this AskUbuntu answer. Also, XDA-Developers would help a lot here as well, since getting Android/CyanogenMod/LineageOS to run on your device is apparently considered an important step in porting Ubuntu Touch.

EDIT: Assuming that the "Micromax Canvas Doodle 3" is also known as "Micromax A102", here is the device-specific XDA subforum for your device, where you might obtain a base-ROM for starting development or maybe even an unofficial build of Ubuntu Touch.

Tim Schumacher
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UBports (the living fork of Ubuntu touch) is currently available for the devices listed on https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

Your device is indeed not supported. You could try to port your device, provided there is a working LineageOS build for it, but it is not exactly a trivial task to do.

Bruni
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