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        nero355 @Carlo
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        @carlo
        It was mentioned here when I was flashing my BQ phone back to the old Canonical Ubuntu Touch so that I could use the UBports Installer to flash the UBports Ubuntu Touch version : https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/install.html#install-on-legacy-android-devices
        It links to : https://web.archive.org/web/20180118130643/http://www.mibqyyo.com/en-articles/2015/09/16/ubuntu-android-installation-process-for-bq-aquaris-e4-5-and-e5/
        So just do this :

        sudo apt-get remove modemmanager
        

        Or any of the following options : https://askubuntu.com/questions/216114/how-can-i-remove-modem-manager-from-boot
        With my favorite beeing this one :

        sudo apt-get purge modemmanager
        

        It should delete it completely without anything of it left on your system! 😉

        Good luck!

        My phones :

        • BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Phone Edition - Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS
        • ZUK Z2 Pro - ZUI Android 8.x
        • Xiaomi Mi 9T - Jolla SailFish 3.4.x Community Build

        P.S. : I am NOT a developer! ;)

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          Carlo @nero355
          last edited by Carlo

          @nero355 I tried but got same error, but I may be onto something. I run halium-install in verbose mode and I got this error:

          D: Chosen rootfs is ../ubuntu-touch-android9-arm64.tar.gz
          D: Chosen android image is ../GSI/system/var/lib/lxc/android/android-rootfs.img
          D: Chosen release is ut
          D: Compress images before pushing: false
          
          I: Writing rootfs into mountable image
          Formatting '.halium-install-imgs.Jb3Is/rootfs.img', fmt=raw size=3221225472
          mke2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
          Discarding device blocks: done                            
          Creating filesystem with 786432 4k blocks and 196608 inodes
          Filesystem UUID: 80532b4d-daba-4b3e-a4ca-92c1846aaa89
          Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
          	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912
          
          Allocating group tables: done                            
          Writing inode tables: done                            
          Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
          Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done 
          
          
          gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
          tar: Child returned status 1
          tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
          I: Cleaning up
          
          

          So the problem is that, other than the boot image, nothing is being flashed. I have no idea of how to fix this though.

          EDIT: ubuntu-touch-android9-arm64.tar.gz Was corrupted LOL, I am in pain.
          EDIT 2: Now halium-install is really flashing the image. Will update you as soon as I try booting it up.

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            nero355 @Carlo
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            @carlo said in Trying to boot nexus 9:

            gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
            tar: Child returned status 1
            tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
            

            That look a bit like the bunzip2 issue I had with my Jolla Sailfish ROM : The tar -x command counts on the file to be gzipped but it was bzipped so I got Error 7 in TWRP over and over again! 😞

            Can you unpack/repack the file into a regular .tar file and edit the associated scripts to refer to that new file by any chance ?!

            My phones :

            • BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Phone Edition - Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS
            • ZUK Z2 Pro - ZUI Android 8.x
            • Xiaomi Mi 9T - Jolla SailFish 3.4.x Community Build

            P.S. : I am NOT a developer! ;)

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              Carlo @nero355
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              @nero355 It "worked" but still not booting. Mabye some depencencies are missing.

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                NVriezen @Carlo
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                @carlo You can connect through telnet right?
                If you can, do dmesg there and drop the output in a pastebin.
                Then drop the link here so we can watch along what happens during boot.

                HTC J Butterfly 3

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                  Carlo @NVriezen
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                  @nvriezen No, telnet does not work (host closes the session)

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                    NVriezen @Carlo
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                    @carlo said in Trying to boot nexus 9:

                    @nero355 It "worked" but still not booting. Mabye some depencencies are missing.

                    What worked exactly then?
                    Did the flashing return without errors?

                    If so, maybe something went wrong with making halium-boot.
                    Make sure that when running the kernel configuration test there are no red lines popping up.
                    If there are, even though the script says no errors were found, you need to fix them.

                    HTC J Butterfly 3

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                      Carlo @NVriezen
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                      @nvriezen I will try again. The script is not returning errors found anymore so I will look for red lines

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                        Carlo @Carlo
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                        There is a thing I didn't see the first time. When I run breakfast flounder it sayes: Trying dependencies-only mode on a non-existing device tree. What does it mean?

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                          NVriezen @Carlo
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                          @carlo said in Trying to boot nexus 9:

                          There is a thing I didn't see the first time. When I run breakfast flounder it sayes: Trying dependencies-only mode on a non-existing device tree. What does it mean?

                          I get that same message. As far as I know that doesn't matter and you can just ignore it.
                          If no other errors are popping up then the only thing I can recommend is going to the Telegram group and ask for help there.
                          They already helped me out twice when I really was stuck and didn't have any clue anymore.

                          HTC J Butterfly 3

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                            NVriezen @NVriezen
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                            @Carlo Did you apply the hybris patches btw?
                            You definitely need those and may solve the issue if you haven't applied them yet.

                            HTC J Butterfly 3

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                              Carlo @NVriezen
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                              @nvriezen I did. Thanks for the help btw, I will ask on telegram and post the answer if I find it

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                                Carlo @Carlo
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                                @carlo I surrender for now. Probably some dependencies are missing.

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