realme X RMX1901 (CN Chinese version) Halium 9

[almas]

I followed Porting guide and created a halium-boot.img file and flashed with fastboot successfully.
But my phone couldn't boot up with the error message "the current image (boot/recovery) have been destroyed and can not boot"

I did following:

1. mkdir halium && cd halium
2. repo init -u https://github.com/Halium/android -b halium-9.0 --depth=1
3. repo sync -c -j 16
4. code ./halium/devices/manifests/realme_RMX1901.xml
   Added following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
	<remote name="sagar" fetch="https://github.com/SagarMakhar" />
	<project path="device/realme/RMX1901" name="android_device_realme_RMX1901" remote="sagar" revision="lineage-16.0" />
	<project path="device/realme/sdm710-common" name="android_device_realme_sdm710-common" remote="sagar" revision="lineage-16.0" />
	<project path="kernel/realme/sdm710" name="android_kernel_realme_sdm710" remote="sagar" revision="lineage-16.0" />
	<remote name="almas" fetch="https://github.com/almas" />
	<project path="vendor/realme/RMX1901" name="android_vendor_tree_realme_RMX1901" remote="almas" revision="master" />
</manifest>

I didn't find official Lineage OS sources. But I found unofficial ones and used them.

5. I extracted vendor blobs from stock firmware with the Android 9 version following the guide https://baalajimaestro.me/posts/extract-vendor/
   Then I created a repo and added extracted vendor blobs to the https://github.com/almas/android_vendor_tree_realme_RMX1901
6. ./halium/devices/setup RMX1901
7. hybris-patches/apply-patches.sh --mb
8. source build/envsetup.sh
   result was:

including vendor/lineage/vendorsetup.sh

9. breakfast RMX1901
   result was:

including vendor/lineage/vendorsetup.sh
Trying dependencies-only mode on a non-existing device tree?

============================================
PLATFORM_VERSION_CODENAME=REL
PLATFORM_VERSION=9
LINEAGE_VERSION=16.0-20221014-UNOFFICIAL-RMX1901
TARGET_PRODUCT=lineage_RMX1901
TARGET_BUILD_VARIANT=userdebug
TARGET_BUILD_TYPE=release
TARGET_ARCH=arm64
TARGET_ARCH_VARIANT=armv8-a
TARGET_CPU_VARIANT=kryo300
TARGET_2ND_ARCH=arm
TARGET_2ND_ARCH_VARIANT=armv8-a
TARGET_2ND_CPU_VARIANT=cortex-a75
HOST_ARCH=x86_64
HOST_2ND_ARCH=x86
HOST_OS=linux
HOST_OS_EXTRA=Linux-5.15.0-50-generic-x86_64-Ubuntu-20.04.5-LTS
HOST_CROSS_OS=windows
HOST_CROSS_ARCH=x86
HOST_CROSS_2ND_ARCH=x86_64
HOST_BUILD_TYPE=release
BUILD_ID=PQ3A.190801.002
OUT_DIR=/home/dd/Projects/halium-9/out
PRODUCT_SOONG_NAMESPACES= hardware/qcom/audio-caf/sdm845 hardware/qcom/display-caf/sdm845 hardware/qcom/media-caf/sdm845
============================================

10. ./halium/halium-boot/check-kernel-config ./kernel/realme/sdm710/arch/arm64/configs/RMX1901_defconfig -w
    (I ran this 2 times and got the message "Config file checked, found no errors.")
11. code device/realme/RMX1901/BoardConfig.mk
    Edited like below:

#
# Copyright (C) 2019 The LineageOS Project
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
#

# Inherit from Xiaomi sdm710-common
include device/realme/sdm710-common/BoardConfigCommon.mk

DEVICE_PATH := device/realme/RMX1901

# Assert
TARGET_OTA_ASSERT_DEVICE := RMX1901,RMX1901CN

# HIDL
DEVICE_MANIFEST_FILE := $(DEVICE_PATH)/manifest.xml

# Kernel
TARGET_KERNEL_CONFIG := RMX1901_defconfig

BOARD_BUILD_SYSTEM_ROOT_IMAGE := true

# Verified Boot
BOARD_AVB_ENABLE := true
BOARD_AVB_MAKE_VBMETA_IMAGE_ARGS += --flag 2

# Inherit from the proprietary version
-include vendor/realme/RMX1901/BoardConfigVendor.mk
BOARD_KERNEL_CMDLINE += console=tty0

BOARD_ROOT_EXTRA_FOLDERS := \
 /firmware \
 /dsp \
 /persist

11. mka mkbootimg
    No error and got message "#### build completed successfully (55 seconds) ####"
12. export USE_HOST_LEX=yes
13. mka halium-boot
    It created halium-boot.img file with size 19M. But boot.img file in stock firmware size was 64MB.

What did I do wrong? Please help me.

[almas]

I unpacked boot.img

Stock:

python ./unpack_bootimg.py --boot_img ./stock/boot.img                          
boot magic: ANDROID!
kernel_size: 13590538
kernel load address: 0x00008000
ramdisk size: 0
ramdisk load address: 0x01000000
second bootloader size: 0
second bootloader load address: 0x00f00000
kernel tags load address: 0x00000100
page size: 4096
os version: 9.0.0
os patch level: 2019-08
boot image header version: 1
product name: 
command line args: console=ttyMSM0,115200n8 earlycon=msm_geni_serial,0xA90000 androidboot.hardware=qcom androidboot.console=ttyMSM0 video=vfb:640x400,bpp=32,memsize=3072000 msm_rtb.filter=0x237 ehci-hcd.park=3 lpm_levels.sleep_disabled=1 service_locator.enable=1 androidboot.configfs=true androidboot.usbcontroller=a600000.dwc3 swiotlb=1 firmware_class.path=/vendor/firmware_mnt/image loop.max_part=7 buildvariant=user
additional command line args: 
recovery dtbo size: 0
recovery dtbo offset: 0x0000000000000000
boot header size: 1648

My build:

python ./unpack_bootimg.py --boot_img ./halium-boot.img 
boot magic: ANDROID!
kernel_size: 14909529
kernel load address: 0x00008000
ramdisk size: 4109941
ramdisk load address: 0x01000000
second bootloader size: 0
second bootloader load address: 0x00f00000
kernel tags load address: 0x00000100
page size: 4096
os version: 9.0.0
os patch level: 2022-01
boot image header version: 0
product name: 
command line args: console=ttyMSM0,115200n8 earlycon=msm_geni_serial,0xA90000 androidboot.hardware=qcom androidboot.console=ttyMSM0 video=vfb:640x400,bpp=32,memsize=3072000 msm_rtb.filter=0x237 ehci-hcd.park=3 lpm_levels.sleep_disabled=1 service_locator.enable=1 androidboot.configfs=true androidboot.usbcontroller=a600000.dwc3 swiotlb=1 firmware_class.path=/vendor/firmware_mnt/image loop.max_part=7 androidboot.selinux=permissive console=tty0
additional command line args: 

[almas]

I flashed vbmeta and dtbo before flash boot. Now it seems succeeded to boot. But it's in boot loop.

fastboot flash vbmeta vbmeta.img --disable-verity --disable-verification
fastboot flash dtbo dtbo.img
fastboot flash boot halium-boot.img

[almas]

@almas said in realme X RMX1901 (CN Chinese version) Halium 9:

I unpacked boot.img

Unpacked out files:

Stock:

kernel 13M 
ramdisk 0B 

My Build:

kernel 14M 
ramdisk 3.9M

[almas]

14. Downloaded the Halium 9.0, arm64 (64 bit): ubuntu-touch-android9-arm64.tar.gz (https://ci.ubports.com/job/xenial-hybris-android9-rootfs-arm64/)
15. Downloaded and extracted the Halium 9 LXC container image (GSI). (Link on the manual https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/build_and_boot/Halium_install.html was broken. I downloaded halium_halium_arm64.tar.xz from https://ci.ubports.com/job/UBportsCommunityPortsJenkinsCI/job/ubports%252Fporting%252Fcommunity-ports%252Fjenkins-ci%252Fgeneric_arm64/job/main/)
16. Downloaded and extracted https://gitlab.com/JBBgameich/halium-install
17. I executed the following commands when I entered custom recovery and plugged the phone into the computer.

adb devices

./halium-install-master/halium-install  -p ut -s ./ubuntu-touch-android9-arm64.tar.gz ./system/var/lib/lxc/android/android-rootfs.img 

But currently, it's in a boot loop...

[almas]

$ ./halium-install-master/halium-install  -p ut -s ./ubuntu-touch-android9-arm64.tar.gz ./system/var/lib/lxc/android/android-rootfs.img

Here is the output:

D: Chosen rootfs is ./ubuntu-touch-android9-arm64.tar.gz
D: Chosen android image is ./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
I: Writing android image into mountable image
I: Running post installation tasks
enabling SSH ... [done]
Please enter a new password for the user 'phablet':
Enter new UNIX password: 
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: password updated successfully
I: Shrinking images
e2fsck 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
resize2fs 1.45.5 (07-Jan-2020)
The filesystem is already 138429 (4k) blocks long.  Nothing to do!

I: Unmounting images
I: Pushing rootfs and android image to /data via ADB
I:    Pushing rootfs to /data via ADB
.halium-install-imgs.DQXbh/rootfs.img: 1 file pushed. 32.9 MB/s (3221225472 bytes in 93.286s)
I:    Pushing android image to /data via ADB
.halium-install-imgs.DQXbh/system.img: 1 file pushed. 32.7 MB/s (576184320 bytes in 16.791s)
I:    Renaming to system-as-root compatible system image

real	1m50,149s
user	0m0,650s
sys	0m4,607s
I: Cleaning up
umount: .halium-install-rootfs.anHND: not mounted.