UBports firmware for device "Volla Phone 22 with new display (mimameid_h12)" does not boot when using the "stable" or "rc" channels.
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Hi,
I had the display on my Volla Phone 22 replaced at a phone repair shop. The new display is not compatible with the stock Volla 22 UBports image, as was pointed out here in the forum. I.e. Android 12 (resp. Halium 12) is required for the new screen to function. Also the phone repair shop warned me about that issue.
The UBports installer offers a corresponding device image called
Volla Phone 22 with new display (mimameid_h12)
which appears to exist solely for these repaired Volla 22 phones to function again.I flashed my phone with that image multiple times, even before the display was replaced, and the phone always refused to boot with that firmware image.
The boot just gets stuck at the initial greeter showing
volla~~~
in white letters on black screen. Short press of the power button than switches off the phone.The installation otherwise ran through just as normal. And the phone can be rebooted into the fastboot mode just as usual.
The ubports installer terminal log output shows this:
info: Welcome to the UBports Installer version 0.10.0! info: device selected: mimameid_h12 info: Installing Ubuntu Touch on your Volla Phone 22 with new display (mimameid_h12) info: configuring... info: settings: {"bootstrap":true,"channel":"20.04/arm64/android9plus/stable"} info: Downloading 7 files info: Downloaded file 1 of 7 info: Downloaded file 2 of 7 info: Downloaded file 3 of 7 info: Downloaded file 4 of 7 info: Downloaded file 5 of 7 info: Downloaded file 6 of 7 info: Downloaded file 7 of 7 info: All done! Your device will now reboot and complete the installation. Enjoy exploring Ubuntu Touch!
After that final log line, the phone reboots into the installer showing the UBports logo and the "installing system update" text. I.e. so far everything works as usual. That installer screen is then shown for a few more minutes, then the phone reboots again just to be stuck in the
volla~~
startup greeter.Any ideas how to proceed with getting UBports installed onto my repaired phone? Is there any way I can collect more detailed information about that problem? If required I would even borrow my phone to any developers here that know how to debug this kind of issue. In the current state the phone is just a (pretty expensive) "brick" anyways.
cheers,
Dave
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The above installation used the "20.04/stable" channel.
Doing the install with the "20.04/rc" channel, results in the same stuck boot problem. For reference, this is the terminal log output when installing the 20.04/rc channel:
info: Welcome to the UBports Installer version 0.10.0! [4470:0907/222034.679356:ERROR:object_proxy.cc(622)] Failed to call method: org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName: object_path= /org/freedesktop/DBus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. info: device detected: k69v1_64_k419 warn: The device k69v1_64_k419 is not supported! info: device selected: mimameid_h12 info: Installing Ubuntu Touch on your Volla Phone 22 with new display (mimameid_h12) info: configuring... info: settings: {"bootstrap":true,"channel":"20.04/arm64/android9plus/rc"} info: Downloading 7 files info: Downloaded file 1 of 7 info: Downloaded file 2 of 7 info: Downloaded file 3 of 7 info: Downloaded file 4 of 7 info: Downloaded file 5 of 7 info: Downloaded file 6 of 7 info: Downloaded file 7 of 7 info: All done! Your device will now reboot and complete the installation. Enjoy exploring Ubuntu Touch!
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Installing the 20.04/devel channel does infact result in a booting Phone!!
This is the installer output for the 20.04/devel install:
info: UBports Installer restarting... info: device selected: mimameid_h12 info: Installing Ubuntu Touch on your Volla Phone 22 with new display (mimameid_h12) info: configuring... info: settings: {"bootstrap":true,"channel":"20.04/arm64/android9plus/devel"} info: Downloading 10 files info: Downloaded file 1 of 10 info: Downloaded file 2 of 10 info: Downloaded file 3 of 10 info: Downloaded file 4 of 10 info: Downloaded file 5 of 10 info: Downloaded file 6 of 10 info: Downloaded file 7 of 10 info: Downloaded file 8 of 10 info: Downloaded file 9 of 10 info: Downloaded file 10 of 10 info: All done! Your device will now reboot and complete the installation. Enjoy exploring Ubuntu Touch!
So is it a good idea to run 20.04/devel on Volla 22 phone for daily productive use?
Now I wonder about the expected timeframe for those magic changes in "devel" to trickle down into a "stable" release to use on my Volla phone...
cheers,
Dave