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    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Lenovo Tab M10 X605F/L
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      • KenedaK Offline
        Keneda @Lakotaubp
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        @lakotaubp said in Unable to boot:

        Guessing there is only a dev channel for updates?

        Guessing too as this device was ported not long ago, and added to installer recently.

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          muskist @Lakotaubp
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          @lakotaubp

          No, the device page https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/device/x605/ says both rc and devel.

          I'm pretty sure my device was/is on rc.
          Which is strange because the above device page says that devel was updated yesterday.

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          • LuksusL Offline
            Luksus
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            The latest update went well for me on my X605L.

            Was the device connected to a power cable or docking station while rebooting?
            In this case, take it out / pull the cable, try to turn it off with long press on power button and try a restart.

            If this does not help, boot into fastboot, connect to pc and type in terminal: fastboot continue.
            If that is still not enough, disconnect and turn it off again.
            Then boot into recovery and from there hit reboot again.

            If it is still not booting, try reinstalling with ubports installer + bootstrap option.

            This device can be very picky about reboots. There where times were it didn't want to boot for me either, but then after X attempts it magically did work again.

            Besides that, I currently encounter strange reboots on starting unity8/lomiri in devel. First only on the FP3, now I've had it on the X605 too.
            The unity loading screen is visible, at some point the dots stop moving, the display goes black and then it reboot automatically... But that seems to be a different issue.

            Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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            • MrT10001M Offline
              MrT10001
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              Hi all, worked perfectly for me. Yeah, it boots into scaled mode and not desktop. I did charge it up to 90% and unplugged the power cable. I have found with this tablet and a lot of other devices is to be patient on reboots - it can take some time.

              Xiaomi Redmi Note 7.... And more...
              I have too many devices...

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                muskist @Luksus
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                @luksus said in Unable to boot:

                In this case, take it out / pull the cable, try to turn it off with long press on power button and try a restart.

                Doesn't work. Only "Lenovo" splash screen.

                If this does not help, boot into fastboot, connect to pc and type in terminal: fastboot continue.

                Doesn't work either. Says

                $ fastboot continue
                Resuming boot                                      OKAY [  0.006s]
                Finished. Total time: 0.006s
                

                but "Lenovo" splash screen remains.

                If that is still not enough, disconnect and turn it off again.
                Then boot into recovery and from there hit reboot again.

                Same result.

                Recovery lets me view a file named /cache/ubuntu_updater.log. Shows an number of error messages. Is this of interest?

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                • LuksusL Offline
                  Luksus @muskist
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                  @muskist yes sure, please show the logs.

                  Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                    muskist @Luksus
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                    @luksus
                    Will do later. Will have to copy by hand.

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                      muskist @Luksus
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                      @luksus

                      Hope it's readable.

                      UBports Recovery -> View logs -> /cache/ubuntu_updater.log

                      image20220603_194027135-klr.jpg

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                      • LuksusL Offline
                        Luksus @muskist
                        last edited by

                        @muskist hm, looks like there was an rc update, but I did not know that a new rc was already released.

                        I think your best option would be, trying to reinstall using the ubports installer and choosing the dev channel and bootstrap option.

                        Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                          dtarrant @Luksus
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                          @luksus
                          Just upgraded my TB-X605F on devel channel and all went smoothly.
                          Re-booted without a hitch. ☺

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                          • fhendrikxF Offline
                            fhendrikx
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                            @keneda Thanks.. I've gone through UBports installer and it finished the update, and is now booting again.

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                            • KenedaK Offline
                              Keneda @fhendrikx
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                              @fhendrikx
                              Wich channel ?

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                              • LakotaubpL Offline
                                Lakotaubp
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                                Not 100% sure this is for this issue but seems to be. From Alfred in Q&A group

                                "Same happened to the JingPad. The problem seems to stem from the fact that GSI ports overlay device-specific changes to the rootfs in a horrible way compared to traditional ports. GSIs do that at install-time of the update, meaning the rootfs-tarball can trump the device-tarball's contents.

                                Traditional ports on the other hand overlay changes at runtime, on the fly during boot"

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                                • fhendrikxF Offline
                                  fhendrikx @Keneda
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                                  @keneda It's on RC

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                                    muskist
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                                    Succeeded installing rc using ubports installer.

                                    Only one problem when adb didn't see the device after booting to recovery. Worked out at the second try.

                                    Improvements:

                                    • Lomiri starting into staged mode
                                    • Immediately switching portrait/landscape mode when rotating the device. Was reacting kind of sluggish before
                                    • Display going dark immediately after pushing power button as opposed to before when it took about 5 seconds

                                    Thanks @luksus!

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                                    • LuksusL Offline
                                      Luksus @Lakotaubp
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                                      @lakotaubp said in Unable to boot:

                                      The problem seems to stem from the fact that GSI ports overlay device-specific changes to the rootfs in a horrible way compared to traditional ports. GSIs do that at install-time of the update, meaning the rootfs-tarball can trump the device-tarball's contents.

                                      But for me, that doesn't explain, why it works with the ubports-installer. It is actually doing the same. Except of, if the OTA was an incremental update, then something may be corrupted during the setup.
                                      And there were no issues for the FP3, in this regard. So I doubt, that the GSI method was the root cause here.

                                      I believe the X605 is very sensitive about touching the system-partition/rootfs.
                                      For example, if you make the rootfs writable for changing some overlays or installing something through apt and you forget to mount it read-only again before rebooting, it will be stuck at bootlogo too, in most cases. No idea, whats happening there.

                                      Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                                      • LakotaubpL Offline
                                        Lakotaubp @Luksus
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                                        @luksus Maybe updates are landing on top of the existing system and not merging correctly, where as the installer reinstalls everything not just the updated files so all works. Just a thought.

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                                        • LuksusL Offline
                                          Luksus @Lakotaubp
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                                          @lakotaubp Yes, that is what I meant by "incremental".
                                          But I don't believe that this is the case for the first RC update for about a month.

                                          Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                                          • arubislanderA Offline
                                            arubislander @Luksus
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                                            @luksus said in Unable to boot:

                                            @lakotaubp Yes, that is what I meant by "incremental".
                                            But I don't believe that this is the case for the first RC update for about a month.

                                            It could well be incremental still, since it is only next one in number since the previous one.

                                            I don't think the amount of time between updates matters, only the amount of updates skipped.

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                                            • LuksusL Offline
                                              Luksus @arubislander
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                                              @arubislander I think it matters, how much packages have changed.

                                              Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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