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    • I Offline
      Ingo
      last edited by 10 Nov 2018, 20:26

      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 ๐Ÿ˜‰

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        pawlinski @ursfan
        last edited by 12 Nov 2018, 12:38

        @ursfan Yes.

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          Yougo
          last edited by 17 Nov 2018, 10:24

          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 17 Nov 2018, 20:02

            @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 24 Nov 2018, 21:38

              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 25 Nov 2018, 11:55

                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 30 Nov 2018, 20:14

                  @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 30 Nov 2018, 20:15

                    @arubislander So did I. Maybe boot is incorrect?

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                      haveaniceday
                      last edited by 30 Nov 2018, 20:43

                      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 ๐Ÿ˜ž
                      @mariogrip How did you do it?

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                        Johanno
                        last edited by 30 Nov 2018, 22:14

                        Hi,
                        I've tried it on BQ m10 FHD and it does not seem to work.
                        I've flashed the Kernel and installed anbox-tool but i can't install it, because it says the Kernel isn't installed.

                        phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool install
                        Anbox kernel is not installed! Please flash this first!
                        
                        phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ anbox-tool status
                        Kernel: NOT OK
                        System: NOT FOUND
                        Enabled: NO
                        Running: NO
                        

                        I tried reflashing it a couple of times, without success.

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                          delijati
                          last edited by 3 Dec 2018, 13:00

                          Can someone point me to the used kernel source for bacon anbox. The one in github seams not to have the "anbox" changes.

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                            Ingo
                            last edited by Ingo 12 May 2018, 17:19 5 Dec 2018, 17:19

                            Maybe this is useful feedback ๐Ÿ˜‰

                            These are the apps that work for me with anbox on Fairphone 2

                            • CatLog
                            • Onleihe
                            • Spotify
                            • Threema (Polling instead of Push notifications)
                            • WhatsApp (probably also polling)
                            • my banking app

                            But please take note: I haven't tested those in depth and am not using them on my daily driver, so maybe some problems went unnoticed so far.

                            What didn't work

                            • AdAway (needs root)
                            • Bรผcherhallen (doesn't run without gapps; managing wish list works)
                            • car2go (doesn't run without gapps)
                            • DB Navigator (crashes immediately on start)
                            • Drive Now (doesn't run without gapps)
                            • Firefox (looks as if it works, but web pages are rendered entirely black)
                            • iButtons (simply doesn't start)
                            • Real Drum (simply doesn't start)
                            • Stadtrad (doesn't run without gapps)
                            • vlc (upper third of screen remains black, the app window seems shifted down and lower part is not visible)
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                              rocky58 @Ingo
                              last edited by 9 Dec 2018, 16:56

                              @ingo also Telegram works

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                                marc_aurel @Ingo
                                last edited by 14 Dec 2018, 14:43

                                @ingo Thanks for your recommendation. The installation did work, but then a system update of UBports has detroyed my Fairphone. No, problem, it is a developer device. I was able to recover my Fairphone and install Anbox abein with the android tools as described on the documentation page: https://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/userguide/dailyuse/anbox.html

                                I could mange to install FDroid from a download and then Yalp Store within FDroid. Running Yalp Store seems to be to abitious. Yalp Store crashes while logging into the Play Store. So, in general Anbox is working on my Fairphone.

                                Sometimes the interaction with Android apps is liettle bit tricky because of the missing back navigation button on the system level. Alien Davlik adds a navigation bar with a back button. Maybe this could be an approach for Anbox either. The disadvantage would be a smaller screen.

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                                  marc_aurel
                                  last edited by 18 Dec 2018, 15:26

                                  I payed around with Google apps to check the system integration. It seems, that Anbox is completely isolated.

                                  Does someone know, where I can find the storage for Anbox? I try to import an adressbook export in the related Android App.

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                                    greentree
                                    last edited by 2 Jan 2019, 16:45

                                    @pawlinski try to use test image (anbox-boot-$CODENAME-test.img)

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                                      frapie
                                      last edited by 2 Jan 2019, 20:46

                                      Hiya i just wanted to leave a link here. I accidentally started another thread. If you read into this link you'll find the instructions on how i installed Anbox on an OPO. So far successful. I just need some time to 'play' with it now to see where it is at and what can be done with it: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2202/anbox-for-opo/7

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                                        BodoW @marc_aurel
                                        last edited by 7 Jan 2019, 13:53

                                        @marc_aurel Storage is in ~/anbox-data/data/media/0/

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                                          marc_aurel @BodoW
                                          last edited by 8 Jan 2019, 15:34

                                          @bodow Thanks for the clear advice. Unfortunately I'm struggling with accessing the storage for Anbox.

                                          I tried to copy my address-book to the Anbox container:

                                          adb push contacts.vcf /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/media/0/
                                          adb: error: failed to copy 'contacts.vcf' to '/home/phablet/anbox-data/data/media/0/': remote Permission denied
                                          contacts.vcf: 0 files pushed. 142.5 MB/s (720808 bytes in 0.005s)
                                          

                                          I also can't access the media directory. I only can list the content of the data directory, but I can't switch to a subordinated directory.

                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/anbox-data/data$ sudo ls -l
                                          [sudo] password for phablet: 
                                          total 5136
                                          drwx------  2 root   root             4096 Dec 13 18:20 adb
                                          drwxrwxr-x  2 system system           4096 Dec 13 18:20 anr
                                          ...
                                          drwxrwx---  4   1023          1023    4096 Dec 13 18:20 media
                                          ...
                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/anbox-data/data$ cd media
                                          bash: cd: media: Permission denied
                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/anbox-data/data$ sudo cd media
                                          sudo: cd: command not found
                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/anbox-data/data$ 
                                          

                                          I have a similar problem if I use the file manage on the device. But I also tried an adb push command within the device without success.

                                          phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~/Downloads$ adb push contacts.vcf /data/sdcard/Download
                                          failed to copy 'contacts.vcf' to '/data/sdcard/Download': secure_mkdirs failed: Permission denied
                                          

                                          Some idea?

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                                            matteo @marc_aurel
                                            last edited by 8 Jan 2019, 17:41

                                            @marc_aurel just my 2 cents here. Did you try, before to navigate into the anbox folder, to type sudo su and gaining the root access?
                                            Second hint: you could try to move first your contacts file to an accessible folder, as for example Documents or Downloads, with adb push from your PC and then, from the terminal on your PC, you could type phablet-shell instead of adb shell, since I found out the latter has some limitations in writing on the phone partition. In the end, you could just copy your file, maybe better with root privilege, to /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/media/0/ using the cp or mv command.

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