Device Bootloops After Flashing Images [boot.img , system.img , dtbo.img , vendor_boot.img] [Motorola Moto G52] [Halium 13]

[systemmaniac2010]

Device Boot Loop Issue While Porting to Ubuntu Touch (Halium 13)

I am trying to port my device to Ubuntu Touch, using Halium 13. I have flashed the images to the right partitions, but I encountered a boot loop with the following behavior:

Boot Loop Sequence

1. The device shows the Motorola start-up logo for one second.
2. The device shows the unlocked bootloader warning screen for 6 seconds.
3. It shows the Motorola logo again for 6 to 10 seconds, but now with a horizontal pixelated line on the screen.
4. It then shows a blank screen for 5 to 10 seconds.
5. The cycle repeats, but the line gradually moves down on each reboot.

Troubleshooting Performed

At this stage, I entered the fastboot bootloader and tried:

fastboot boot twrp.img

However, the device immediately started boot looping.

I then replaced dtbo.img with the one from the latest LineageOS 20 build available for my device.

After this change, the horizontal line disappeared.

I was able to successfully boot TWRP using:

fastboot boot twrp.img

Logging Investigation

I attempted to read the pstore logs but couldn't find any useful output.

I suspected the kernel might not have been built with the required logging options enabled.

To address this, I:

• Created a separate logging.config file with the right kernel flags.
• Added it to deviceinfo.
• Verified that the options were correctly applied to the generated .config file located at:

workdir/downloads/KERNELOBJ

• Added the appropriate kernel command-line parameters to the vendor cmdline in the deviceinfo file.

Current Status

Despite these changes:

• The device still does not boot properly.
• USB does not become available.
• The pstore directory remains empty even after enabling all relevant logging flags and kernel parameters.

Source Tree

For debugging and error analysis, the device source tree is available at:

• https://gitlab.com/systemmaniac2010/motorola-rhode

Please help me out with this.

[Keneda]

Sorry i'm not skilled in porting or coding, but be patient someone will surely help you.
Also did you try the telegram ubports porting group ?

[systemmaniac2010]

@Keneda Thanks for your concern my friend. I have reached out to the telegram group and a member going by the username Pavel has provided help regards to this issue.

[systemmaniac2010]

Quick update: Upon reaching out to the Telegram UBPorts Porting forum, Pavlov, a member of the group suggested me to intentionally cause a panic in the init script and stated that after that, hopefully the crash handler can initialize a shell connection for me. I've tried his approach and I also ran the mer_kernel_check utility on the .config file produced during the build process inside workdir/downloads/KERNEL_OBJ and all the flags that came out to be "NOT SET" and were required for halium to work were set in a separate devspecific.config file which has been pushed to the kernel repository but even after all this I face the same issue at the end. Please let me know where I have gone wrong with my approach to implementing the panic in the init script

Quick update: Upon reaching out to the Telegram UBPorts Porting forum, Pavlov, a member of the group suggested me to intentionally cause a panic in the init script and stated that after that, hopefully the crash handler can initialize a shell connection for me. I've tried his approach and I also ran the mer_kernel_check utility on the .config file produced during the build process inside workdir/downloads/KERNEL_OBJ and all the flags that came out to be "NOT SET" and were required for halium to work were set in a separate devspecific.config file which has been pushed to the kernel repository but even after all this I face the same issue at the end. Please let me know where I have gone wrong with my approach to implementing the panic in the init scriptscript

Kernel Repository:https://gitlab.com/systemmaniac2010/kernel_motorola_sm6225

Device Repository:https://gitlab.com/systemmaniac2010/motorola-rhode

[Keneda]

@systemmaniac2010 said:

I have reached out to the telegram group and a member going by the username Pavel

Glad you found support.