[Halium 9 / GSI] using the Oneplus 6
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After dropping my previous phone on the street, wrecking it, i got myself a nice shiny second hand OP6 to have a UBPorts phone. Whilst searching for possible devices, i noticed a lack of reports on the forum on how well the port is - so here goes my review for the OP6.
TL:DR;
You can daily drive it if you have to. Notable problems are lack of sleep mode (so you're going to have to charge it overnight), and that the camera crashes immediately (which i can live with).Mobile data, both sims, bluetooth, wifi etc all work.
How to get it
Please check here: https://github.com/ubports-oneplus6/documentation
There's a discord group referenced, joining there will allow you to ask questions about OP6 and OP6T.Longer review
First off, the OP6 is a nice piece of hardware. Fast chip, good screen, decent battery, and a headphone jack. It plays out well running ubports - it's very smooth (much better then my old BQ), and even without sleep functional it'll last you the day easily.Stability wise, it's pretty OK. So far i've seen one spontaneous reboot per day. Keeping many apps open is no issue at all (including a 10-tab morph). Some apps (Futify for instance) do disappear - but i assume that's because of Futify. Also, very important, I haven't missed any calls yet.
Looking for the future, with the GSI not getting updates anymore, I'm looking forward to getting a "real" OTA-able phone setup. I'll post some more when I have been able to drive it.
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@rogier-oudshoorn glad to see up-to-date reports on this.
I am myself on a 6T. Would like to give this a run, perhaps get involved in development, however IMHO "gettjng started" at the moment seems a little prohibitive.
I presume you created your own image; does it exist somewhere to try?
I may have to get myself a development environment configured!
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@damiensturdy Nice to see the post is usefull. I've updated my post with a link to the documentation, that'll tell you how to download and install the GSI version.
Note: the GSI isn't getting updated so what you can install now is the last version of this installation, there's work ongoing to have a real OTA-able device, as well as getting mainline base running.
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@rogier-oudshoorn thanks! I am far from ready just yet but I am a developer with plenty of Linux experience, and some Android experience. I haven't worked on anything in a while but I intend on getting myself an environment set up for this in the next few days.
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@rogier-oudshoorn This post inspired a Fajita purchase, so if I have any stupid questions about the install process you shall see them soon!
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Does anyone have a timeline for when a newer GSI will be available for testing? Or better when the 6/6T will get UBports installer integration and OTA support?
Also for anyone installing this be sure to use the files from the release section of the repo not the old ones linked to in the README. EDIT: I have created a pull request on GitHub to update the links in the README.The newer release has proper sleep. I have had my phone on (without a SIM card) for 3 days and it is at 50%. The wifi shuts down while asleep and takes some time to initialize after waking up. Also the camera now works and that includes flash and zoom unlike in the OP's review.
OnePlus One with UT OTA-15 daily driver. I would be testing the Halium 7.1 port if I could roll back to OTA-15
OnePlus 6T PostmarketOS Custom Gnome on Mainline Kernel -
@antidroid I'm not totally sure there is a set timeline: I think basically someone needs to upload a recovery image and then basically submit it for inclusion. With the update you mentioned, it sounds like 6/6T are right around the corner for inclusion. Sadly, I have yet a few days to wait for the power of the FAJITA.
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@antidroid said in [Halium 9 / GSI] using the Oneplus 6:
Does anyone have a timeline for when a newer GSI will be available for testing? Or better when the 6/6T will get UBports installer integration and OTA support?
@totalrando said in [Halium 9 / GSI] using the Oneplus 6:
@antidroid I'm not totally sure there is a set timeline: I think basically someone needs to upload a recovery image and then basically submit it for inclusion. With the update you mentioned, it sounds like 6/6T are right around the corner for inclusion. Sadly, I have yet a few days to wait for the power of the FAJITA.
The switch to an OTA based build (that you can flash with fastboot) is work in progress. I've got a recovery booting (but lacking adb and there's mountpoint issues), and there's some associated issues with the regular boot now as well.
Please find us on discord or telegram if you think you can help
