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    [Beta] Pixel 2 installer config

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      • flohackF Offline
        flohack
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        Alright here are some generic steps to see where we are:

        1. Check that kernel actually boots correctly:
        • On your host, enter dmesg -w and then power up the device
        • connect your USB cable. See if the host sees a new USB device
        • IF there are any messages about RNDIS coming up, try to ping 192.168.2.15 or 10.15.19.82 and eventually try either telnet on 192.168.2.15 or ssh (with user phablet) on 10.15.19.82

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          BifPowers @flohack
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          @flohack Unfortunately I'm not getting anything from any of those steps. I'm on Windows 10 currently, and tried with both PowerShell and WSL Ubuntu.

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            Jay Ajit Mate
            last edited by Jay Ajit Mate

            I'm on arch linux and using the appimage installer. It gets stuck on "preparing system image/mounting partitions'
            tried using an ubuntu vm -same problem

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            • flohackF Offline
              flohack
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              HOLY CRAP!
              I did not see that this devicetree uses 2 kernel configs for each device. I only patched the one for XL. I push now some changes to add also muskie.

              Can someone in roughly 24hrs from now try again to install Pixel 2? I bet its working then πŸ˜‰

              BR Florian

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                agates @flohack
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                @flohack best email I've gotten all week! Will give it a shot.

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                • flohackF Offline
                  flohack
                  last edited by

                  Here is the instruction how to flash:

                  • Download https://ci.ubports.com/job/UBportsCommunityPortsJenkinsCI/job/ubports%252Fcommunity-ports%252Fjenkins-ci%252Fwalleye-taimen/job/main/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/halium-boot_walleye.img and flash this with fastboot flash boot halium-boot_walleye.img

                  Good Luck!

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                    i2097i
                    last edited by i2097i

                    @flohack

                    I am unable to get past the recovery step. Everything seems to work, I reboot to recovery and I can interact with the UBports recovery mode interface but it never continues from that point. Any ideas?

                    Update: It seems to hang on the

                    Preparing system image
                    Mounting partitions...
                    

                    section after the reboot to recovery (screenshot attached).

                    It could be that I am not giving it enough time so I am going to leave it throughout the night. Here is the verbose output of my UBPorts session:

                    ...
                    info: Downloading 8 files
                    info: Downloaded file 1 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 2 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 3 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 4 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 5 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 6 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 7 of 8
                    info: Downloaded file 8 of 8
                    verbose: running core action write
                    verbose: running adb action wait
                    verbose: running adb action preparesystemimage
                    
                    

                    Thanks!

                    Screenshot from 2021-09-02 23-45-23.png

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                    • flohackF Offline
                      flohack
                      last edited by

                      Pixel 2 does not boot into UI anyways, I would ask you to wait a bit until we can get this sorted out finally. If you like, you can help debugging it maybe, if you are ok with using adb and fastboot directly.

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                      • flohackF Offline
                        flohack
                        last edited by

                        Ok guys lets try a different approach. Can you please enter fastboot, flash that image into boot: https://twoot.bin.org.in/nextcloud/index.php/s/mzfmYJscqPyM2Bc with fastboot flash boot boot.img - so far so old.
                        Now: DO NOT reboot, but select Boot to recovery. Does this bring up our UT recovery screen?

                        Thanks!

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                          i2097i @flohack
                          last edited by

                          @flohack

                          • Booted to fastboot

                          • ran fastboot flash boot boot.img with this img

                          I am not sure what is meant by DO NOT reboot, but select Boot to recovery. After running the fastboot command should I just use volume up/down to make the recovery reboot option be visible? Not sure if it is supposed to do something at that point.

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                            flohack @i2097i
                            last edited by

                            @i2097i Yes exactly, select manually the recovery option.

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                              i2097i @flohack
                              last edited by i2097i

                              @Flohack
                              yes, if I press the power button on recovery, it boots to UBPorts Recovery.

                              I also wanted to mention that I let this run all night and it was still on the verbose: running adb action preparesystemimage when I woke up this morning.

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                                flohack @i2097i
                                last edited by

                                @i2097i Oh yes please dont do that, to not damage your display if its not turned off by recovery πŸ˜‰ - the install will not take longer than a few minutes, otherwise its broken πŸ™‚
                                Ok but good to hear, we have a working recovery...

                                So actually the kernel is fine. Can you do the following then:

                                • Boot into recovery
                                • Check with adb devices that you can see the device
                                • use adb shell to gain shell access into the recovery
                                • Issue a mount data that should get userdata online
                                • Do a ls -la /data and paste the result here

                                Thanks!

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                                  i2097i @flohack
                                  last edited by

                                  @Flohack The screen does turn off after a certain amount of time so my display is all good!

                                  Here is the output:

                                  : adb shell
                                  root@walleye:/ # ^C                                                                                                                                                                          
                                  130|root@walleye:/ # pwd
                                  /
                                  root@walleye:/ # ls -la /data
                                  total 0
                                  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 0 1970-01-01 00:00 .
                                  drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 0 1973-04-20 00:54 ..
                                  root@walleye:/ # 
                                  

                                  /data is empty it seems.

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                                    flohack @i2097i
                                    last edited by

                                    @i2097i Did you mount data? can you check with simply typing mount ? Its unlikely that it is fully empty

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                                      i2097i @flohack
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                                      @Flohack

                                      My bad - I did not run mount data. Now adb shell is just hanging. Is there some where that I can see logging for this?

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                                        flohack @i2097i
                                        last edited by

                                        @i2097i No, adb is a very quiet protocol - try unplug/replug and reconnect

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                                          flohack @i2097i
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                                          @i2097i Or do you mean the mount command does not finish?

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                                            i2097i @flohack
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                                            @Flohack

                                            this is the general gist of what I am doing:

                                            adb reboot recovery && adb wait-for-recovery && adb shell "mount data" && adb shell "ls -la /data"
                                            

                                            I haven't been able to get any adb commands to run on the device itself (adb devices works)

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                                              flohack @i2097i
                                              last edited by

                                              @i2097i Just try to get adb shell working to get an interactive shell

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