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Ubuntu Touch on Sony Xperia X

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      hsabun
      last edited by 1 Oct 2018, 16:31

      Sir any progress

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        fredldotme
        last edited by 13 Oct 2018, 14:16

        Progress update: I managed to get Bluetooth working, currently investigating ways on how to enable audio support.
        Out-of-the-box ALSA-only audio seems to be further away than anticipated.
        If anyone with a Sony Xperia X (single- or dual-SIM) would like to help, contributions are welcome. 🙂

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          fredldotme
          last edited by fredldotme 22 Oct 2018, 19:03

          Status update:

          Device sensors like the orientation sensor as well as GPS location should now work.
          Also, due to recent changes in the rootfs itself it should be possible to boot Ubuntu Touch (xenial-edge) using the Halium 7.1 based device HAL.
          Merging all required changes to the device-specific repo manifest back into Halium is pending , so if anyone is interested in helping it's necessary to sync the repositories from my GitHub.
          EDIT: Pushing most current state will be done as soon as I'm not on a metered internet connection.
          EDIT: 2018-10-27: repowerd issue fixed

          Remaining graphical issues:

          • repowerd SIGSEGV (SIGILL under gdb)
          • Fix unity-system-compositor armhf builds to run on arm64 kernels

          Remaining issues related to media support, specifically:

          • Audio (calling is untested)
          • Video decoding
          • Camera (incl. video encoding)
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            UniSuperBox
            last edited by 22 Oct 2018, 19:19

            repowerd SIGSEGV (SIGILL under gdb)

            You can type continue to keep running after a SIGILL in GDB. It seems pretty common for Hybris software to throw those.

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              dobey @UniSuperBox
              last edited by 22 Oct 2018, 19:59

              @unisuperbox It's openssl I think, which is probing for features and traps SIGILL, but when running under gdb, it pops up. So yeah, probably should tell gdb to ignore SIGILL, to be able to run anything under it.

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                fredldotme
                last edited by fredldotme 27 Oct 2018, 16:37

                I've assembled an image for those who are interested in testing and contributing to Ubuntu Touch.

                Downloads:
                Current: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a3JtU2TIFg7E53z2pHoveOtOj7LYxJyW
                https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Pmp3sfOs3g5mAb4_W4780-pX4KPliy2F
                https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZmdXFDPDCDkYmVnHC1uf2dYZ8MH6bxwK
                https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Ql84ucDlatauuXpqBU-k-jKzdqotYAaB
                https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OJjTosp7jFaYhEYYkB9Mxf3lA0HPIXY6

                Instructions (tested on Ubuntu 18.04):

                • Linux PC with adb and fastboot properly set up
                • Recent UBPorts rootfs image from the edge devel channel (tested with build #88):
                  https://ci.ubports.com/job/xenial-rootfs-armhf/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/out/ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz
                • TWRP Recovery (tested with version 3.2.3-0)
                • Android 7.1 (Kernel 4.4) Loire OEM binaries
                • Flash script: halium-install

                After successfully flashing the recovery image the OEM binaries need to be flashed onto the oem partition:

                unzip SW_binaries_for_Xperia_AOSP_N_MR1_5.7_r1_v08_loire.zip
                fastboot flash oem SW_binaries_for_Xperia_AOSP_N_MR1_5.7_r1_v08_loire.img
                

                System images:

                ./halium-install -p ut ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.img
                adb reboot bootloader
                fastboot flash boot halium-boot.img
                fastboot reboot
                

                Post-installation steps

                Either make sure to properly set up the USB-Ethernet connection OR enter the commands in the Terminal app.

                USB Ethernet:

                0_1540657764809_Bildschirmfoto von 2018-10-27 18-28-39.png

                SSH shell connection:

                ssh phablet@10.15.19.82
                

                Enable audio in calls

                # Mount rootfs read-write
                sudo mount -o remount,rw /
                
                # Install updated packages
                # When asked to override maintainer files just answer with Y
                sudo ubports-qa install xenial_-_haliumfixup
                sudo apt install pulseaudio-modules-droid-24 pulseaudio-modules-droid-glue-24
                
                # Mount rootfs read-only and reboot
                sync && sudo mount -o remount,ro / && sudo reboot
                
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                  hsabun
                  last edited by 27 Oct 2018, 17:04

                  Thank you sir, i will try to flush ubuntu touch on my xperia x as soon as my broken screen is fixed.
                  Sir can you help me with link to buy original screen for xperia x. If we are allowed to share such information on this forum.

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                    gmelchett
                    last edited by 28 Oct 2018, 11:24

                    @beidl First of all, thanks a lot for trying to port Ubuntu Touch to Xperia X.
                    I'm trying to follow your guide, but I'm getting stuck at halium-install.
                    It wants:

                    adb: error: failed to copy '.halium-install-imgs.yk2k5/rootfs.img' to '/data/rootfs.img': remote couldn't create file: Permission denied
                    .halium-install-imgs.yk2k5/rootfs.img: 0 files pushed. 154.0 MB/s (2817704 bytes in 0.017s)
                    adb: error: failed to copy '.halium-install-imgs.yk2k5/system.img' to '/data/system.img': remote couldn't create file: Permission denied
                    .halium-install-imgs.yk2k5/system.img: 0 files pushed. 116.0 MB/s (2686648 bytes in 0.022s)
                    

                    My Xperia's current status is that I've flashed twrp and the oem binaries via fastboot.
                    The phone is on Android 8.0, and not rooted.
                    Any idea what could be wrong?

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                      fredldotme @gmelchett
                      last edited by 28 Oct 2018, 11:57

                      @gmelchett Have you tried wiping data, cache and system partitions? Make sure to create a backup before wiping those partitions and flashing the Ubuntu Touch port.

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                        gmelchett
                        last edited by 28 Oct 2018, 12:35

                        @beidl Thanks for a quick reply. No, I didn't wipe data, cache and system partitions.

                        I've done that now from twrp, but there seems to be no mobile-side adb running when in twrp. And because I did wiping system, I have no Android to boot.
                        Any idea how to progress?

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                          fredldotme @gmelchett
                          last edited by fredldotme 28 Oct 2018, 12:47

                          @gmelchett could be you're missing udev rules on your Linux host to establish an adb connection. If you're on Ubuntu 18.04 you could try the following command:

                          sudo apt install android-sdk-platform-tools-common

                          Else I could publish a much bigger version of the udev rules file in a GitHub gist.

                          EDIT: on the other hand, adb wouldn't even be able to respond with a "permission denied" error in case the device-side adb daemon wasn't up and running.

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                            gmelchett
                            last edited by 28 Oct 2018, 17:01

                            @beidl adb was running just fine when I tried halium-install before wiping system + data + cache. I tested with adb shell. (Then I couldn't even ls /data without getting permission denied.) On second though, why is halium-install pushing files to /data and not
                            /storage/0/emulated (or what the "internal sd" card path's is.)?

                            A wild guess is that the system.img that halium-install creates is the provided system.img + the .tar.gz file. Maybe that could be fastboot flash'ed into system? But then, where would rootfs.img go? Hmm.

                            I don't know android's file system layout good enough. Have to do some reading up.

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                              gmelchett
                              last edited by gmelchett 11 Mar 2018, 16:14 3 Nov 2018, 14:03

                              Success at last! It is apparently very import to unlock at "latest android". I unlocked at Android 6.
                              I installed twrp like this:

                              sudo fastboot flash boot boot.img
                              

                              It will then always boot into twrp, but I didn't manage to flashing it to the recovery area to work.
                              Once booted into twrp, I had to format system, data & cache since the phone got encrypted by default.

                              Btw, ip configurtion from console:

                              sudo ip addr add 10.15.19.1/24 dev -your device- 
                              

                              For those of us that don't have a fancy GUI to help you with.

                              ubports on xperia x feels a bit sluggish compared to the nexus 5. A look at top, shows that unity8 consumes quite a lot of cpu when doing some ui interaction. I suspect no hw acceleration enabled?

                              edit: Some language corrections.

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                                gmelchett
                                last edited by 7 Nov 2018, 17:19

                                I've been playing around from time to time with Ubuntu Touch on the Xperia X. Over all it works very well, but a few things that are not really working (and not mentioned not to work above):

                                • Vibrator
                                • GPS
                                • Of the sensors, only accelerometer works
                                • A fully charged battery is reported to be at 67%.
                                • After pressing the power, it takes a few seconds before I can unlock it. Maybe related to the lack of graphic hw acceleration?
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                                  hsabun @fredldotme
                                  last edited by 12 Nov 2018, 14:53

                                  @beidl Sir any update on ut on xperia X

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                                    hsabun
                                    last edited by 29 Nov 2018, 11:49

                                    Hi any progress...

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                                      UniSuperBox
                                      last edited by 30 Nov 2018, 14:21

                                      @Hsabun, volunteer developers will post their progress on their own terms. Asking for updates may be seen as impolite. Please have patience and we will get there eventually. 🙂

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                                        hsabun
                                        last edited by 30 Nov 2018, 15:31

                                        Sorry, i won't be asking again.

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                                          joe
                                          last edited by 22 Jan 2019, 15:12

                                          Would this port also be related to the Sony Xperia XZ? or are they completely different devices when it comes to the code?

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                                            joe @joe
                                            last edited by 27 Jan 2019, 01:10

                                            @joe said in Ubuntu Touch on Sony Xperia X:

                                            Would this port also be related to the Sony Xperia XZ? or are they completely different devices when it comes to the code?

                                            I have made some first step attempts with this XZ port. I will start a new thread somewhere if it gets anywhere. Feel free to contact me if interested.

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