Call for testing: Samsung S3 Neo (s3ve3g) owners

zenfunk

BTW, AFAIK I never was asked for my passwords during install as was indicated by your instructions.

Enter your local host´s sudo password when prompted the first time
The second time, enter the intended device lock password

zenfunk

OK, I redownloaded the files, the checksums match. Reflashed with your heimdall (still no passwords though). Same result, the device hangs at the bootscreen, I even left it overnight. RNDIS comes up in dmesg. Any Ideas on how to get some logfiles off of that thing?

flohack

@zenfunk said in Call for testing: Samsung S3 Neo (s3ve3g) owners:

DIS comes up in dmesg. Any Ideas on how to get some logfiles off of that thing?

Sure, which IP does dmesg on the host tell you? Paste the relevant part of dmesg to a pastebin and link it here.

zenfunk

https://pastebin.com/FDBjLFHy

flohack

@zenfunk Ok that looks not so bad, use ssh phablet@10.15.19.82 to get inside - I will tell you what to look for, but basically use dmesg and /system/bin/logcat to get an idea whats going on. The phone has booted but is not able to get into graphics mode, we will find out why.

zenfunk

chris@funkbook:~/Downloads/s3neo/halium-install-continuous$ ssh phablet@10.15.19.82
ssh: connect to host 10.15.19.82 port 22: Network is unreachable

not good...

flohack

@zenfunk Then please hold VOl-Up, Press power until you get the blue text for recovery. Then, in recovery, use cat /proc/last_kmsg to see what goes wrong there...

zenfunk

https://pastebin.com/pNmtTZ9z

this is last_kmsg

flohack

@zenfunk Ok I will compare with my device. Can you please also send me a getprop output from recovery? Thx

zenfunk

Getprop:
https://pastebin.com/mtLE75cj

flohack

@zenfunk Hmm what OS was installed before? Would you mind trying to reset to Android 5.1? It might have some effect, because otherwise I am not sure whats going on ^^

zenfunk

it was lineage 7.1.
I just reformated /data to ext3, but no improvement.
There are two different kinds of s3 neos around. One with Sony and one with a Samsung camera module. May this be it (not sure which one I have. Will reflash android 5.1 (which one did you use) and then we'll see.
Thank you very much for your time and efforts,
Chris

flohack

@zenfunk Hmm the camera should not block the UI to start, actually. Very weird also that you do not get ssh connection. Did you specify -p ut parameter when installing?

zenfunk

Actually I didn't use -p ut because the script then exits.

./halium-install -p ut ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.img
usage: ./halium-install rootfs.tar[.gz] system.img [release]

positional arguments:
    rootfs.tar[.gz]
    system.img

optional arguments:
    release: run common post installation tasks for release.
             supported: none, halium, pm, ut
             defaults : none

zenfunk

./halium-install ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.img ut

works, I'm trying to boot as we speak. I keep you posted.

zenfunk

Well, with the above command I got to pick a unix password, but still hangs at the boot screen.

flohack

@zenfunk Hmm seems to be the wrong halium-install, how did you get it? The right one has the parameter -p ut as first argument.

zenfunk

I got it from there: https://gitlab.com/JBBgameich/halium-install/-/releases
I downloaded the zip file, unzipped everything, put the imagefiles in the folder as well and ran the script.

flohack

@zenfunk Ohhh thats very old! The continous release is not working anymore it seems. Can you please try to clone the code instead directly? Have you got experience with git?

zenfunk

Funny, I just did this.
The -p ut option works now. dmesg output is:

[ 9620.086869] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 20 using ehci-pci
[ 9620.200193] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 2.28
[ 9620.200199] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 9620.200203] usb 2-1.2: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[ 9620.200206] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[ 9620.200210] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: Halium initrd Debug telnet on port 23 on rndis0 192.168.2.15 - also running udhcpd
[ 9620.207225] rndis_host 2-1.2:1.0 eth0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2, RNDIS device, 00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 9620.250120] rndis_host 2-1.2:1.0 enp0s29u1u2: renamed from eth0
chris@funkbook:~$ ssh phablet@192.168.2.15
ssh: connect to host 192.168.2.15 port 22: Network is unreachable

On reboots I don't even get the RNDIS device.

Will start over...