Installation to Google Pixel 3a XL
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Hi all!
@arubislander nice to hear, and to be clear, no irony needed. In a worse scenario nobody except a bunch of savvy developers would have tried using Ubuntu on that specific phone.
It is good to know that it actually can work in a friendly way as expected.
Unfortunately I have run into more problems since writing my last post here:
My "easy" 7 step dance course only works while running the android 9 version that is supposed to be prefered by the instalation program.
After that the installation program has flashed it's own version of boot.img using fastboot, the recovery i nowhere to be seen anymore. Neither with my seven step tango or by any other more traditional means. After consulting a few search engines without any luck I went the ai-chatbot way and got the suggestion that some android implementations keep the recovery code in the boot.img, if that is the case with the suggested android version, the instruction needs to be updated.I am going to download a few other builds of android 9 from Google in hope that I may strike "gold", using one of them.
On my XL the recovery worked fine after flashing boot.img.If that does not work, I will have to figure out whatever magic the install tool is using and then flash things in another order to get all the higher level stuff installed before I flash the boot-program.
If somebody could help me figuring out where the low level install procedure is documented (the one implemented by the user friendly installation program) and where I can download the installation files, then you will make me quite a happy man...
By the way, am I overly adventurous if I try the 24.04.2 nightly?
/r
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@MrT10001
Thanks, I will try that.
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Consider testing out the new halium 12 port with VoLTE. Need more testers to work out the bugs.
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@rocket2nfinity
I will gladly do that as soon as the fine phone fimally accepts som ubuntu binaries
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Yes, the second install went a little bit further, I got the wipe option that I have been told about which is splendid
It did some wiping and formatting, it also did some interesting things in recovery mode and that is a sign of progress too.
When booting the first time it shows the Linneage logo for a few minutes and then I will finally end up in fastboot with an intetesting reason
Yes, it actually use the term reason:
no valid slot to bootInteresting, I tried both 24.04-1 and dito -2
If it was not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all.../r
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@arubislander
I had stock android an linneage has never touched this device.
To be exact, it may not be te linneage logo because there are extra red rings inside the somewhat spectacle like logo of linneageThis new and interesting logo appeared after installing ubuntu
It showed up te first time right before entering the recovery mode
Before installing ubuntu I had a dead amdroid while the recovery was initialising, now i have the modified linneage logo with extra red rings instead
Even if it looks nice I am as clueless as ever on where to procede next
/r
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Well, there is something new going on here.
After flashing the boot.img I was usually stuck watchin the Google logo until runnimg out of batteryAs I successfully(?) installed everything (apparently with erroneous config, but acording to the install program with all bits transfered and placed wherever they where supposed to go) I did that while watching a recovery screen that did not look like the one I had after installing stock android 9 from Googles repository. Then after rebooting I got stuck in fastboot. I can no longer reach recovery.
Hence this actually is an umprovement. Earlier i could only install boot.img before the recovery broke. Now I can install everything before everything but fastboot and power off breaks./r
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Finally some real luck!
Waited 10 minutes extra after the message telling me to enter recovery appeared before going manually to recovery.
And yes those Linneage OS looking logos both while booting into recovery and while booting into the operating system.As long as everything is working and all graphics is serious and decent, I am all in. I p ly reported because someone more than me could get confused.
Have fun and keep up with the good work.
Thanks for all help and suggestions./r
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@r0lle can you take a picture of those logos?
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