@mrt10001 said in I hosed my UT install.....:

I was messing around with Waydroid today with a spare two minutes and accidentally hosed UT. My fault being too impatient waiting for some thing to install so I stopped the process and rebooted the phone 🙄 (yes idiot).

I would not expect to brick my phone by doing that to be honest ?! 😲

Can anyone explain this ?! 😕

Add aTox (Tox messaging client) as tested and working on Waydroid - Redmi Note 9 Pro.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

@phiibuntu a workaround i'm using to copy files and text between ubuntu touch and waydroid is to install k9 mail in waydroid and set to use smtp with a spare email address that I also configure in dekko.

Then i can email to myself from either environment and the email also appears in the other environment.

Theres a 20mb file size limit in emails. If you install 'ftp server free' in waydroid (from f-droid) with anonymous access enabled you can retrieve files of any size from waydroid using the ubuntu touch browser pointing at the ftp server address. I haven't tried but accessing a UT ftp server from waydroid may work in the opposite direction.

Also while The UT file manager app can't navigate to the waydroid data folder, a UT terminal can access waydroid folders, e.g to list your waydroid folders:

sudo ls ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0

The Downloads folder etc are all in there, so to copy a file like an installer called myfile.apk from your UT Downloads folder to the waydroid download folder open a UT terminal and enter for example:

cd Downloads
sudo cp myfile.apk ~/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/Download

Launching the UT file manager from a terminal in SU mode may well make moving files very easy. I'm just not sure what the UT file manager app is called yet.

@devbrones
You should forget about anbox.
Waydroid is what you need, read with care, ask questions if needed.
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5907/open-ubuntu-touch-to-all-android-applications/114

@treebeard I had the same issue, but instead of uninstalling and trying again I just gave up and thought I would have a broken installation now.

Some time later when I unlocked the phone, I was suddenly presented with an android lockscreen, so in fact the installation worked. I can also install/use android apps.

No idea what went wrong during the installation though.

@stanwood Im using WayDroid on Samsung Galaxy S10 for a while now. It works just perfectly without any issues.
You might consider adding it to your list (https://forums.ubports.com/post/58835)

Have a nice Day,
Schmuel

@magnargj great, I also installed Aurora store. Also Waydroid helper is a must have to remove Icons and stop waydroid when it cause problems.
I agree, I keep Waydroid in case I suddenly find an android app I need 🙂

@chrisewcs Same issue on Volla Phone, OTA-21 stable.
According to a few identical user feedback, I just opened an issue on Github:

https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1915

Also edited the main installation guide here:

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5907/open-ubuntu-touch-to-all-android-applications/115

@stanwood
Hi, thank you, I talked to him and it looks like there is no problem with missing kernel option. I made an issue: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/issues/268

On my OnePlus 5T, I can now install Waydroid using the Waydroid helper app and it seems to work fine. Thanks for making this happen @Flohack , I will now start messing with it to see what Waydroid already can do on this device 🙂

@tuxracer I have never rooted an android image or hid this fact but if you want to patch the android Images Waydroid uses you need these two (I think):

https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/vendor/waydroid_x86_64/lineage-17.1-20211021-MAINLINE-waydroid_x86_64-vendor.zip/download

https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/vendor/waydroid_arm64/lineage-16.0-20211020-HALIUM_9-waydroid_arm64-vendor.zip/download

If you want to know it for sure you can find the used images by Waydroid under "/var/lib/waydroid/images"(if waydroid is installed) and all available images under https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/

Patch whatever needs to be patched and make the system read/write with these commands:

sudo -s sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Put the patched files in "/var/lib/waydroid/images" and delete the old ones.
Now run:

waydroid init reboot

No guarantee that this will work though.

As of todays Devel update the OP5/5t can now also be added to the list thanks to @flohack for the kernal patches.

I don't think Nexus 5 is capable of running Waydroid. It needs a port that is based on Halium 9 or 10 to run.

@migue5862 Waydroid doesn't work with anything under Halium 9 (the abstraction layer that talks to the android bits of your phone) and given your error, my guess is you're stuck with anbox. Check your phone under settings/ about /os- in device version description u should see sth like that "userdebug-9.1.".
If it's 5 or 7, anbox is the way, unless there's a halium-dev channel for your device that runs halium 9.
Anbox is not supported anymore, but it's still able to run a few things. You better be command-line savvy though, because it's a pain to install, manage and uninstall.

@ruditimmer Can't find that one. Anyway, thanks! I'll mark this solved.

@saveurlinux hum, maybe I'm wrong. I cas see that application folder have changed, maybe it is the reason ?
it use to be for exemple with firefox:
org.mozilla.firefox.desktop
and now it is:
waydroid.org.mozilla.firefox.desktop

@arubislander said in Waydroid folders > Where in UT ?:

Ah, no.. your post was clear.

I know, I was a kind of ironic 👽 but friendly 👼
thanks anyway.