Porting Ubuntu Touch to Motorola Moto G5 (cedric)
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The device is equipped with:
- 5" HD 1920x1080 screen
- 3/2GB RAM,
- 32/16 Gb ROM,
- Qualcom(c) Snapdragon(c) 430 (msm8937) up to 1,4GHz
as in his specs page (https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_moto_g5-8454.php).
Following features works well:
Graphical User Interface, with unity8 (8.17+ubports5+0) and mir (0.24.20ubuntu11) for 32 bits libraries,
Data connection: up to 4G ,
wifi
Audio
Anbox(~50% of stock rom productivity)
GPS: it passes test_gps but not showing its location using Ubuntu Touch Platform API,
Screen rotation, using Ubuntu Touch Platform API, too. Rotation block also works,
SMS: inbound and outbound fully working, and notifications appear in the menu,
Calls,
test_sensors produces a congruent output,
Power, Volume up and down buttons (even to take printscreen)Still to improve:
LEDs: manually working, but no sign of them to be used with notifications,
Bluetooth:
Apparmor patch: still working on,
Camera and Video decoding,
Notification and online acoounts
Dual slot SIM (only works 1st, even though in the past both were seen and connected to Network)
Audio for notification about inbound calls, alarm audioAt this moment it has been successfully tested with:
UT rootfs: https://ci.ubports.com/job/xenial-rootfs-armhf/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/out/ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz
Plasma Mobile https://images.plasma-mobile.org/caf-rootfs/pm-rootfs-20190703-055501.tar.gz. See also https://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/install-build/plasma-mobile.html
Halium-based rootfs https://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/install-build/reference-rootfs.html