Send Some: UBports Installer Love (week 5)

Ingo

In the Fairphone forum someone asked why the installer doesn't automatically reboot to bootloader by issuing adb reboot bootloader.
In fact I do not know if the installer actually tries it and fails or if it by design wants the user to do the reboot manually.

advocatux

@ingo as I understand it (I might be wrong) the installer does this:

});
    downloadEvent.on("adbpush:done", () => {
        console.log("Done pushing files");
        console.log("Rebooting to recovery to flash");
        adb.reboot("recovery", () => {});
});

xqqy

@CiberSheep
It seems is much harder than I think of the porting job on halium.

But for unlock bootloader, I think if a user want to flash ubuntu-touch into their phone, they should already know these risks.
Rather than let user searching for how to unlock it, we can give them a easy way.
And of crouse installer should warn them before do the install job.

Ingo

@advocatux Yeah, but that is rebooting to recovery, not bootloader, i.e. a different step.

AnotherElk

@ingo said in Send Some: UBports Installer Love (week 5):

In the Fairphone forum someone asked why the installer doesn't automatically reboot to bootloader by issuing adb reboot bootloader.

Yeah, that was me, and that was only a minor detail I noticed with the UBports Installer. The major issue was that the installer didn't work for me (and I'm not the only one for whom it doesn't work), and there are no clear error messages to figure out what exactly it even tries to do and why that would perhaps fail.
To avoid some back and forth, I'll say it here, too:

If the installer would work like intended, I guess it would be super-convenient.
But it very obviously doesn’t work reliably yet, and so you can easily get stuck, because there is no alternative way given to install (at least on the Fairphone 2).

Not everybody is a developer able to patch the installer source code and build it from source, but there are experienced users out there.
You could just list the steps the installer is trying to do, and then let the users figure out manually what exactly fails why on their devices and how to prevent/ work around it … and with the feedback from this, the installer would improve in no time.

advocatux

@ingo yes, that's what I meant, that it only does those commands afaik

advocatux

@anotherelk the installer's code is at https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/ if you want to take a look

AnotherElk

@advocatux said in Send Some: UBports Installer Love (week 5):

@anotherelk the installer's code is at https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/ if you want to take a look

I can only wish the installer, which currently fails to impress on a "promoted device", the best of luck with this approach .

CiberSheep

Please, keep focus.
This thread is for sending design concepts for the installer, not bugs (there's a section for that).
Thanks

advocatux

@cibersheep yes, you're right, sorry. I should check which thread I am in before replying

CiberSheep

Time is up...
Let's have a break, as December seems to be busy month.

Stay tuned to your bat-channel