Nexus 5 Wifi problems with AnBox

[polyglossia]

So, basically, unless I'm some sort of programmer, I can't put Anbox on this system, and install Spotify on my phone...

[flohack]

@polyglossia You can try, but as said before, you need at least the kernel from the devel channel. With next OTA-12 update this will go to stable, then its easier to install Anbox.

[flohack]

Also, Anbox probably cannot playback any sound right now.

[wilson]

@Flohack I am having this issue even after freshly installing the devel branch of Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 5. After installing the Anbox boot image and restarting the phone I only have LTE connection but no WiFi connection. Any advice?

[dobey]

@wilson You don't need to flash a different boot image with devel. If you want devel + anbox, then reflash UT from devel and don't change the boot image.

[wilson]

@dobey Thanks! I'll try that and see how it goes.

[nontrivial]

I just ran into this issue as well. Perhaps it's time to update the official UBPorts documentation to mention the problem and solution? I would be happy to submit a change for the documentation, but I don't think I'm the best qualified person to do it.

However, now that I have reflashed to devel and installed the software, I have a new problem. When I run anbox-tool install it throws out a warning "start: Unknown job: anbox-session" and seems to hang. If I break out the trace says it is in a loop waiting for anbox to start. Then when I run anbox-tool status it says it is enabled but not running.

So any suggestions on how to resolve the issue? If not, is uninstalling the packages sufficient to uninstall anbox?

[antonyj]

Hello,

I had the same problem with my Nexus 5 today when I tried to install Anbox.

First, adb is not working with my Nexus 5 on Ubuntu Touch, so I used the terminal to reboot in bootloader, then I was able to flash the boot-img with fastboot.
Since this moment, the Wifi controller was not detected :

ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

Since the boot image for Anbox broke the Wifi, and no simple mean exists to repair it, I tried to put back the original boot image with Wifi working : I can't understand why it doesn't solve the problem at all.
I am reinstalling Ubuntu Touch in devel version, I'll let you know if it corrects the problem.

I think the doc page (https://docs.ubports.com/fr/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html) should not consider that Anbox supports the Nexus 5 and the buggy boot image (http://cdimage.ubports.com/anbox-images/anbox-boot-hammerhead.img) should be urgently removed to save hours of labor to people that finally get a completely useless phone...

As proposed by @nontrivial on July, I can help to correct the doc. What should I do for that ? Send a corrected version of the HTML file on the forum or to a particular person ? Don't hesitate to tell how we can help.

Thanks,

[antonyj]

As @nontrivial did, after reinstalling Ubuntu Touch in devel version, I got :

start: unknown job: anbox-session

I think I got that because I ran "anbox-tool install" as root whereas it is not asked. I was able to correct this with :

sudo chown -R phablet: anbox-data/
anbox-tool upgrade

Now anbox works fine and I was able to install an APK.

[doniks]

@antonyj said in Nexus 5 Wifi problems with AnBox:

I can help to correct the doc. What should I do for that ? Send a corrected version of the HTML file on the forum or to a particular person ? Don't hesitate to tell how we can help.

make a pull request at https://github.com/ubports/docs.ubports.com/ with your proposed changes

[stanwood]

@antonyj Indeed, do not download the Anbox image on the Nexus 5. It is already pre-installed by default. Doing so might creating bugs.

Just start here:
sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo apt update
sudo apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch android-tools-adb
anbox-tool install
exit

If you have an error message telling you an insufficient memory in /var, you can try as following:

sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt # delete the apt cache; frees space on system image
sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0 # space reserved exclusively for root user on system image set to zero
sudo apt update # recreate apt cache to install Anbox and adb
sudo apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch android-tools-adb
sudo mount -o ro,remount /
exit