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      ursfan last edited by ursfan

      I have another issue. With adb installed on my phone I got problems on OPO because no connection is possible. The command 'adb devices' states the emulator is offline, even though it was possible to start apps. But can't install others. How can Anbox be visible as device again?

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        ursfan last edited by ursfan

        Can it made possible to use emojis for the Android Keyboard in Anbox for typing? For now they are not usable, because they all are displayed as crossed boxes.

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            TartanSpartan @joe last edited by TartanSpartan

            @joe I agree. I would like to draw everyone's attention to this issue, and as I say, we need a way to start from fresh with Anbox without having to reinstall Ubuntu Touch. This is especially important for when Anbox is entirely stable and becomes a part of the system image for a future UT OTA.

            https://github.com/ubports/anbox/issues/24

            Sister issue regarding the importance of being warned or even blocked from installing problematic apps, as desktop snap-based Anbox implementations already do:

            https://github.com/ubports/anbox/issues/25

            I'm also wondering if Anbox can be destabilised if users try to install APKs beyond a certain storage level? Like, if we install several apps which are each ~100MB, and this is from a starting point of say 1.5GB free storage space left, is there a point at which things start to break? And I mean before running to to 0MB left.

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              te-online @gb last edited by

              @gb I had to enlarge the system partition on my Nexus 5 to install everything, if I remember correctly. Maybe that's your issue? I think I followed this script https://github.com/plasma-mobile/plasma-phone-dev-setup/blob/master/usr/bin/resize-root-partition with minor adjustments, but caution I don't remember since it's been a while – do it on your own risk 😉

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                pawlinski @padraic last edited by

                @padraic said in Development testers for Anbox:

                anyone successfully get frieza working? I tried but am told that

                phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
                Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!
                

                Pretty sure I went through the procedures correctly but maybe I missed something. If I don't hear back from anyone I'll try again in a couple of days and open an issue if it still doesn't work.

                I have the same problem

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                  pawlinski @gb last edited by

                  @gb

                  @gb said in Development testers for Anbox:

                  Hi,

                  I´m testing it in M10 FHD (frieza).
                  I just installed ubports from scratch (16.04 dev) and try the instructions post by Marius.

                  Doing "sudo apt-get upgrade", I´m facing:
                  "E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/."

                  How can this be possible? I just installed the system and there is no space left?
                  Do I have to install the hole thing into a Libertine container?

                  You can try (it has helped me):

                  sudo mount -o rw,remount /

                  sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

                  sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0

                  sudo apt update

                  sudo apt install anbox-ubuntu-touch

                  sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt

                  sudo mount -o r,remount /

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                    honigwald last edited by honigwald

                    @pawlinski I'm having the same issue. Installation was successful after cleaning the cache several times. but when I try to install anbox-tools I get the same error as @padraic .

                    phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                    Kernel: NOT OK
                    System: NOT FOUND
                    Enabled: NO
                    Running: NO

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                      gmelchett @honigwald last edited by

                      @honigwald What does sudo anbox-tool status say? On my Nexus 5, sudo vs no sudo shows different status.

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                        honigwald @gmelchett last edited by honigwald

                        @gmelchett Hi. This is the Output I get.
                        0_1540939338796_Screen Shot 2018-10-30 at 23.41.55.png

                        Until now, I've resized /dev/loop0 to 3GB and reinstalled everything without success.

                        Btw.: I'm using BQ M10 FHD

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                          ursfan @pawlinski last edited by

                          @pawlinski Have you installed the boot.img for frieza with fastboot?

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                            Ingo last edited by

                            Just tried anbox for the first time on my Fairphone 2. Installed a few apps (pulling APKs from my android device using this description).

                            As expected, my bike sharing app doesn't work as it uses google services.
                            But spotify works 😉

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                              pawlinski @ursfan last edited by

                              @ursfan Yes.

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                                Yougo last edited by

                                Hi, has anyone tried to install anbox on a bq M10 HD yet?

                                i have , but anbox-tool is telling me i need to flash the kernel, but i did that?!

                                i followed instructions from here: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

                                might there be some step missing? or is the anbox-boot-cooler.img not functional?

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                                  arubislander @Yougo last edited by

                                  @yougo: Just stating the obvious, but it is a mistake that I made initially when trying anbox on my M10FHD: Did you use the correct name for the boot partition when flashing the boot image (boot instead of bootimg)?

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                                    marc_aurel last edited by

                                    Exciting progress. I sucessfully installed Anbox on my FP2. For installing additional apks; I tried to install adb android-tools-adb:

                                    phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ sudo apt install android-tools-adb
                                    Reading package lists... Done
                                    Building dependency tree       
                                    Reading state information... Done
                                    The following NEW packages will be installed:
                                        android-tools-adb
                                    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 108 not upgraded.
                                    Need to get 64.1 kB of archives.
                                    After this operation, 152 kB of additional disk space will be used.
                                    E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
                                    

                                    This is confusing, because the system info says, that there is more than 23 GB free space on my FP2.

                                    Some idea to resolve this issue?

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                                      Ingo last edited by

                                      Using pawlinskis approach from https://forums.ubports.com/post/14023

                                      sudo mount -o rw,remount /
                                      sudo rm -r /var/cache/apt
                                      sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/loop0
                                      sudo apt update
                                      sudo apt install android-tools-adb
                                      sudo mount -o ro,remount /

                                      The system image has just 2 GB and the commands above free some of that space. The 23 GB free storage you mentioned is the part of the storage reserved for user data.

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                                        haveaniceday last edited by haveaniceday

                                        @honigwald I have the same problem. BQ Aquaris FHD (frieza).
                                        Flashed the the kernel as shown at docs.ubports.com, but anbox-tool status says:

                                        phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                                        Kernel: NOT OK
                                        System: NOT FOUND
                                        Enabled: NO
                                        Running: NO
                                        

                                        Prior to installing I grew the ubuntu.img / system.img to have enough space for apt on /.
                                        Somehow the kernel does not get installed... Anyone has solved this?

                                        Maybe this is relevant: I bought the Android version of the tablet - then installed UBports UT. Maybe this changes the boot partition / image?

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                                          haveaniceday @arubislander last edited by

                                          @arubislander So did I. Maybe boot is incorrect?

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                                            haveaniceday last edited by

                                            I just used ubports-installer to flash 16.04/rc onto the frieza, then resized the partition, then installed anbox using the doc.ubports.com tutorial. No success 😞
                                            @mariogrip How did you do it?

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