Call for testing: Samsung S3 Neo (s3ve3g) owners

hsce1

Thanks to @Flohack, @Nandell, @Speiburger, ... I also managed to install Ubuntu Touch on the S3Neo. Here is a short summary of the steps that were necessary: https://pad.ubports.com/p/k6P5Z9kPu1R5t_ocx3J-
They closely follow @Flohack's description on top of this thread.

flohack

I am excited! Works for most people now. Can someone please confirm if MMS in and out is working?

zenfunk

I have no clue why, but following @hsce1 's instructions worked for me, I got Ubuntu touch on my SIIIneo. Thanks everyone!!!!

ebet14

Hey there,

I also followed @hsce1 instructions and it worked.
@Flohack you did a great job !!!

zenfunk

I got to play a bit with my new phone today. Wohooooo!

Not sure where to put the bugreports, also, I am not sure if they are halium or ubports specific.
Here they are:

Battery indicator seems to be a bit arbitrary. while on charge and then later while in use it got stuck at two percent for quite some time.

Performance: not very fast most of it is UI related I think. Probably caused by the lack of hardware acceleration? (If so, how could we get this going?)

Couldn't get the Falcon launcher to run. It installed fine but then I never saw a way to activate it.

Scaling of fonts in the UI (via UT tweak tool) is buggy, when set to 20 some Dialogs and screens do not fit hte display anymore.

Cheers and thanks to all involved here,
Christian

hsce1

@Flohack Yes, MMS in and out works!

cyclone018

The link is missing. Was the project abandoned?

Lakotaubp

@cyclone018 This one https://pad.ubports.com/p/samsung-s3neo-alphatesting If it is it's at the bottom of the very first post in this thread

flohack

@cyclone018 It is not really abandoned, but the S3 Neo is on the edge of hardware support, so I do not invest much time with it atm. That said, its a bit slow and camera is not working (dont start the camera, you will get into a busy-loop that will drain your battery ;)) but other thatn that its a good opportunity to test-drive UT for example.

sunrunner

Just stumbled across this, when looking at ubuntu touch devices and different ports available.

I got a clean samsung s3-neo, which i'd like to experiment with.

I've flashed loads of roms in the past and just trying to understand all the instructions.

Basically I need to get TWRP 3.3.3-1 and install via hemidall in a linux environment (or Odin in windows)
(i understand this part well enough)

Seen your link for the images here
https://twoot.bin.org.in/nextcloud/index.php/s/y6YosPpXFwoLDJW

I'm guessing you use ADB with the *.img files (hallium boot.img and system.img) ??

any help appreciated

Sun

flohack

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

Hello, nice that you want to try it. So yes the halium-boot.img goes into the boot partition, but here is the guide from the beginning of this thread in case you missed it: https://pad.ubports.com/p/samsung-s3neo-alphatesting

That should explain a lot - let me hear what happened

BR

flohack

God! Someone again destroyed the pad meh! Its missing now information, I quickly restored it from a backup, so I hope you can be successful with it

sunrunner

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

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

Hello, nice that you want to try it. So yes the halium-boot.img goes into the boot partition, but here is the guide from the beginning of this thread in case you missed it: https://pad.ubports.com/p/samsung-s3neo-alphatesting

That should explain a lot - let me hear what happened

BR

Thanks. Used to doing this sort of things in windows and not messed with it in linux. Phone being a pain, when trying to get it recognised in download mode.
Got the all the SDK stuff installed. Any thoughts re linux recognising device in download mode ? Changed cables and did all that. Running ubuntu 18.

Nathan123

I will try to get an S3... Wanna help.

sunrunner

didn't realise that ADB is such a pain. Updated bootloader on phone. rooted phone, and for some reason cant get the thing to recognise in download mode.

sunrunner

Ok. got to the last step and seemed to fail at the end. "heimdall flash --BOOT halium-boot.img".

got the below message. Any advice !! ?
Many thanks
Sun

Beginning session...

Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
ERROR: Failed to send request to end PIT file transfer!
ERROR: Failed to download PIT file!
Ending session...
ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!
Releasing device interface...

sunrunner

Cracked it ! It was a version issue with hemidall. 1.4.2 seemed to resolve the issue.

Huge thanks to @hsce1 for this documentation, it really helped a lot.

Just playing about with Ubuntu Touch and getting familiar with stuff.

Only got about 2 % space free tho .

Mohsen1220

ill jump in SAP , when the camera fix will come ?

flohack

@Mohsen1220 I am not sure now. We are seeing that basically all cameras fail with Halium and wwe need to change the whole camera access to GStreamer and a droid module to interface. While this works reasonably well for Halium 7.1 there is currently no one working on a backport to 5.1 - I can take a look how much work this is, but I cannot tell when

flohack

To all testers, I see a regression regarding the modem, it does not start correctly anymore. Can one of you insert a SIM card and test the functions of the modem?