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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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                Johanno last edited by

                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

                  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

                    Maybe this is useful feedback 😉

                    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)
                    • Bücherhallen (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

                      @ingo also Telegram works

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                        marc_aurel @Ingo last edited by

                        @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

                          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

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

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                              frapie last edited by

                              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

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

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                                  marc_aurel @BodoW last edited by

                                  @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

                                    @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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                                      Ingo last edited by

                                      Someone suggested the following somewhere

                                      mkdir -p /home/phablet/AnboxHome
                                      sudo chmod -R 777 /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/media/0
                                      sudo mount --bind /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/media/0 /home/phablet/AnboxHome
                                      

                                      But with the clear hint that making things 777 generally is not a good idea.
                                      Of course the minimal way would be just the second line. The other are just there to have an easier/shorter path.

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                                        BodoW @marc_aurel last edited by

                                        @marc_aurel You're right. Sorry, I didn't have a shell open when I was writing my response and didn't remember that you had to "sudo su" or "sudo -i" first (as @matteo mentioned). I'd prefer this way as I would have a bad feeling about 777ing a directory permanently.
                                        Besides that: Does it work now?

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                                          marc_aurel @BodoW last edited by

                                          @bodow Thanks for the advice. The following approach works:

                                          sudo su
                                          cp contacts.vcf /home/phablet/anbox-data/data/media/0/contacts.vcf
                                          

                                          I resume. The system integration of Anbox seems to be very limited. The apps are shown in the app scope and the apps have hardware access with network and storage. I think, that's it.

                                          It's possible to copy files with adb shell, but this is not for an average consumer.

                                          It seems there is not service or data sharing. I haven't tested notifications, yet.

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                                            Guy last edited by

                                            hi, i was trying use anbox on my nexus 5 device, and got /bin/bash: pm: command not found error, do you know this?

                                            # install command
                                            ➜  Downloads adb install MobileAssistant_1.apk
                                            [100%] /data/local/tmp/MobileAssistant_1.apk
                                            /bin/bash: pm: command not found
                                            
                                            # adb shell infos
                                            root@ubuntu-phablet:~# dpkg -l | grep anbox
                                            ii  anbox                                                8+0~20180916133012.39~1.gbpe34b59                            armhf        Container-based approach to boot a full Android system on a regular GNU/Linux system
                                            ii  anbox-common                                         8+0~20180916133012.39~1.gbpe34b59                            all          Common files necessary for Anbox
                                            ii  anbox-ubuntu-touch                                   8+0~20180916133012.39~1.gbpe34b59                            all          Files necessary for Ubuntu touch
                                            root@ubuntu-phablet:~# dpkg -l | grep android-tools-adb
                                            ii  android-tools-adb                                    5.1.1r36+git20160323+ubports1+0~20181125103222.6~1.gbpc708bb armhf        Android Debug Bridge CLI tool
                                            ii  android-tools-adbd                                   5.1.1r36+git20160323+ubports1+0~20181125103222.6~1.gbpc708bb armhf        Android Debug Bridge Phone Daemon
                                            root@ubuntu-phablet:~# anbox-tool status
                                            Kernel: OK
                                            System: OK
                                            Enabled: YES
                                            Running: YES
                                            
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