long time for waydroid init

RJDan

I wanted to test waydroid on my FP5.
I ran sudo waydroid init , provided my password and waited for nearly 20 minutes. It seems like nothing is happening.
How long should the init process take?

ikoz

@RJDan Have you tried the waydroid helper app? I think it has workarounds for some problems.

RJDan

@ikoz , I have. It does not go passed the 'Preparing to download system image' message. I think it is also stuck somewhere.

Ida_

It can take a long time. Like really long. I use waydroid helper if I need to initialize or reinstall, then leave the screen on with the phone charging. Sometimes it takes five minutes, sometimes 50 minutes. I'm also on FP5.

kugiigi

@RJDan I don't know what's causing this but it does happen to some people from time to time. Probably the servers? In any case, it can take 5 mins or an hour in my experience

RJDan

@kugiigi
You were right, I needed to wait. Two hours later it is extracting system image. Now I wait for this.
Thank you!

RJDan

Installation successful!

Sentinel

I have the same problem, but waiting an hour(s?) did not help on my Poco X3 NFC, with Ubuntu Touch 24.04.0 .

I tried both from the Terminal & using Waydroid Helper. If I Ctrl-C the Terminal, I see that Python has been stuck on connect(), i.e. the download never even starts.

The only way I can get it to install is manually download the needed images to the right place & then run "waydroid init -f". No idea why, as Android apps can access the network just fine, and sourceforge.net doesn't block me from accessing it (but maybe it blocks Python's default user agent?).

But I cannot recommend my solution, because some things like GPS seems broken, but someone else says it should work.

Ernst-Jan15

@Sentinel Hi All,

I'm just now running the install from within the waydroid helper app. Back on the stable OS it shows me that the dowload speed is around 200KB/s, the is about 900MB to download. So yes, a verry slow connection for this app...

EJ