@advocatux said in Install Fail with Installer:

@batteryjuice4 it's better to start the installer first and then plug the device.

Yes, I followed instructions.

@stefano No worries, we cannot just focus on the Librem, we want to be as broad as possible, as our users might not be happy if just locked into one hardware.

There are many porters doing Halium ports right now, see https://github.com/Halium/projectmanagement/issues and WOW there are many good starting points for new devices already. Hopefully some of them will be great UT devices one day!

@qusay said in Halium sources ,Porting UT on Note 3 N9008:

Hi,i'm trying to port ubuntu touch to note 3 n9008 the chinese version ,we
all know that you must first get halium sources but my internet connection is bad ...real bad,so how many GBs is the sources tree?

I think I heard people say 20 GB.

the device doesn't have an official cm or lineage will it affect the process of porting?

Well, if there is an inofficial port that works well, it won't have much effect. But if nobody has ported any rom then you are facing a very big challenge!

@4cc501 this is the list of supported devices http://ubuntu-touch.io/devices Go for the most potent one (depending on your budget). Anyway, OPO is a good phone.

If you have the knowledge and patience, you can try to port a different phone model yourself https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/introduction.html

@dda hi, that phone is not ported yet, and it seems the porting is in a very early stage.

Just in case you don't know it, there are language focus groups on Telegram. See the list here https://ubports.com/telegram-welcome

Hello, dohniks,

First of all thank you for all help you have given me so far on porting halium to Le Max2.

I did just what you said, and here you have the results:

Images mounted on laptop:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/HZNMnF3BXq/

From twrp BEFORE booting once:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/XzfP99XqHW/

BUT....

My friends, I do not know what happened, but I tried to login in ssh and guess what?! it worked! If you ask me if I did anything different from other times I am totally sure I did not. I don't really know why this worked this time. The only information I can give you about this is the following:

When I failed to login ssh I was first running Linux Mint 18 and after Ubuntu 16.04. (Linux mint 18 is based on Ubuntu 16.04 {coincidence?})
My phone was running Lineage 15.1 official (android 8.1) before I format my partitions.

Now WHEN IT WORKED, I was running a stock-based rom, upon android 6.0 and ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Do you think any of it has relation with my fails and my recent success?

You cannot install Ubuntu Touch on a device that it has not been ported to. That's why the installer will not recognize your device.

If you would like to port Ubuntu Touch to your device (porting is not the same as installing), please see the documentation.

@gabriel I think is a good idea to save the whole content of /home to get everything, it gives you peace of mind.

Anyway the content you're asking for is in .local/share/evolution/

@einstein212 Yes the best would be to have a hardware platform with all open drivers. World should start a petition towards Qualcomm 🙂

@rossrosh: Like Flohack said, the UBPorts installer exists and works great, see here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/976/ubports-installer-excellent-user-experience

@sanjusethi Abhishek Mudgal is working on it.

See http://docs.halium.org/en/latest/supplementary/devices/wt88047.html

@idikiy you should join the Halium working group to help you with that.

There are several ways to do it:

Telegram: https://t.me/halium Matrix: #halium:disroot.org IRC: #halium@freenode.

@zoomer296 Haha does not sound fun, yes. But a porter needs also the device in his hands, so you need to find someone who got this thingie AND is interested in porting, this is sometimes not so easy.

@flohack said in Samsung porting notes, a loose collection:

Instead, the device needs to be brought into "Download Mode". This can be achieved by:

Manually by pressing Vol-Down, Home and Power button until the green warning text appears

On my Samsung Galaxy S8, there is no physical home button, only virtual on the display.
I figured out, instead of the Home-Button, I need to press the Bixby button, below Vol-Down,
then the green warning text appears...

It is a windows phone , My wife has an old one that i've tried messing with to no avail so far

shame really is it seems a good quality phone