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        pawlinski @gb
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        @gb said in Development testers for Anbox:

        Hi,

        I´m testing it in M10 FHD (frieza).
        I just installed ubports from scratch (16.04 dev) and try the instructions post by Marius.

        Doing "sudo apt-get upgrade", I´m facing:
        "E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/."

        How can this be possible? I just installed the system and there is no space left?
        Do I have to install the hole thing into a Libertine container?

        You can try (it has helped me):

        sudo mount -o rw,remount /

        sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

        sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0

        sudo apt update

        sudo apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch

        sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

        sudo mount -o r,remount /

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          honigwald
          last edited by honigwald

          @pawlinski I'm having the same issue. Installation was successful after cleaning the cache several times. but when I try to install anbox-tools I get the same error as @padraic .

          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
          Kernel: NOT OK
          System: NOT FOUND
          Enabled: NO
          Running: NO

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            gmelchett @honigwald
            last edited by

            @honigwald What does sudo anbox-tool status say? On my Nexus 5, sudo vs no sudo shows different status.

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              honigwald @gmelchett
              last edited by honigwald

              @gmelchett Hi. This is the Output I get.
              0_1540939338796_Screen Shot 2018-10-30 at 23.41.55.png

              Until now, I've resized /dev/loop0 to 3GB and reinstalled everything without success.

              Btw.: I'm using BQ M10 FHD

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                ursfan @pawlinski
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                @pawlinski Have you installed the boot.img for frieza with fastboot?

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                  Ingo
                  last edited by

                  Just tried anbox for the first time on my Fairphone 2. Installed a few apps (pulling APKs from my android device using this description).

                  As expected, my bike sharing app doesn't work as it uses google services.
                  But spotify works 😉

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                    pawlinski @ursfan
                    last edited by

                    @ursfan Yes.

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                      Yougo
                      last edited by

                      Hi, has anyone tried to install anbox on a bq M10 HD yet?

                      i have , but anbox-tool is telling me i need to flash the kernel, but i did that?!

                      i followed instructions from here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

                      might there be some step missing? or is the anbox-boot-cooler.img not functional?

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                        arubislander @Yougo
                        last edited by

                        @yougo: Just stating the obvious, but it is a mistake that I made initially when trying anbox on my M10FHD: Did you use the correct name for the boot partition when flashing the boot image (boot instead of bootimg)?

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                          marc_aurel
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                          Exciting progress. I sucessfully installed Anbox on my FP2. For installing additional apks; I tried to install adb android-tools-adb:

                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo apt install android-tools-adb
                          Reading package lists... Done
                          Building dependency tree       
                          Reading state information... Done
                          The following NEW packages will be installed:
                              android-tools-adb
                          0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 108 not upgraded.
                          Need to get 64.1 kB of archives.
                          After this operation, 152 kB of additional disk space will be used.
                          E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
                          

                          This is confusing, because the system info says, that there is more than 23 GB free space on my FP2.

                          Some idea to resolve this issue?

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                            Ingo
                            last edited by

                            Using pawlinskis approach from https://forums.ubports.com/post/14023

                            sudo mount -o rw,remount /
                            sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt
                            sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0
                            sudo apt update
                            sudo apt install android-tools-adb
                            sudo mount -o ro,remount /

                            The system image has just 2 GB and the commands above free some of that space. The 23 GB free storage you mentioned is the part of the storage reserved for user data.

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                              haveaniceday
                              last edited by haveaniceday

                              @honigwald I have the same problem. BQ Aquaris FHD (frieza).
                              Flashed the the kernel as shown at docs.ubports.com, but anbox-tool status says:

                              phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                              Kernel: NOT OK
                              System: NOT FOUND
                              Enabled: NO
                              Running: NO
                              

                              Prior to installing I grew the ubuntu.img / system.img to have enough space for apt on /.
                              Somehow the kernel does not get installed... Anyone has solved this?

                              Maybe this is relevant: I bought the Android version of the tablet - then installed UBports UT. Maybe this changes the boot partition / image?

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                                haveaniceday @arubislander
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                                @arubislander So did I. Maybe boot is incorrect?

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                                  haveaniceday
                                  last edited by

                                  I just used ubports-installer to flash 16.04/rc onto the frieza, then resized the partition, then installed anbox using the doc.ubports.com tutorial. No success 😞
                                  @mariogrip How did you do it?

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                                    Johanno
                                    last edited by

                                    Hi,
                                    I've tried it on BQ m10 FHD and it does not seem to work.
                                    I've flashed the Kernel and installed anbox-tool but i can't install it, because it says the Kernel isn't installed.

                                    phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
                                    Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!
                                    
                                    phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                                    Kernel: NOT OK
                                    System: NOT FOUND
                                    Enabled: NO
                                    Running: NO
                                    

                                    I tried reflashing it a couple of times, without success.

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                                      delijati
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                                      Can someone point me to the used kernel source for bacon anbox. The one in github seams not to have the "anbox" changes.

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                                        Ingo
                                        last edited by Ingo

                                        Maybe this is useful feedback 😉

                                        These are the apps that work for me with anbox on Fairphone 2

                                        • CatLog
                                        • Onleihe
                                        • Spotify
                                        • Threema (Polling instead of Push notifications)
                                        • WhatsApp (probably also polling)
                                        • my banking app

                                        But please take note: I haven't tested those in depth and am not using them on my daily driver, so maybe some problems went unnoticed so far.

                                        What didn't work

                                        • AdAway (needs root)
                                        • Bücherhallen (doesn't run without gapps; managing wish list works)
                                        • car2go (doesn't run without gapps)
                                        • DB Navigator (crashes immediately on start)
                                        • Drive Now (doesn't run without gapps)
                                        • Firefox (looks as if it works, but web pages are rendered entirely black)
                                        • iButtons (simply doesn't start)
                                        • Real Drum (simply doesn't start)
                                        • Stadtrad (doesn't run without gapps)
                                        • vlc (upper third of screen remains black, the app window seems shifted down and lower part is not visible)
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                                          rocky58 @Ingo
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                                          @ingo also Telegram works

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                                            marc_aurel @Ingo
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                                            @ingo Thanks for your recommendation. The installation did work, but then a system update of UBports has detroyed my Fairphone. No, problem, it is a developer device. I was able to recover my Fairphone and install Anbox abein with the android tools as described on the documentation page: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

                                            I could mange to install FDroid from a download and then Yalp Store within FDroid. Running Yalp Store seems to be to abitious. Yalp Store crashes while logging into the Play Store. So, in general Anbox is working on my Fairphone.

                                            Sometimes the interaction with Android apps is liettle bit tricky because of the missing back navigation button on the system level. Alien Davlik adds a navigation bar with a back button. Maybe this could be an approach for Anbox either. The disadvantage would be a smaller screen.

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                                              marc_aurel
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                                              I payed around with Google apps to check the system integration. It seems, that Anbox is completely isolated.

                                              Does someone know, where I can find the storage for Anbox? I try to import an adressbook export in the related Android App.

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