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    • H Offline
      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 😞
          @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 😉

                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)
                R 1 Reply Last reply 9 Dec 2018, 16:56 Reply Quote 0
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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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                                  Ingo
                                  last edited by 8 Jan 2019, 17:42

                                  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 9 Jan 2019, 21:04

                                    @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 10 Jan 2019, 10:31

                                      @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 22 Jan 2019, 02:08

                                        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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                                          Ingo
                                          last edited by Ingo 22 Jan 2019, 08:00

                                          Are you executing adb install MobileAssistant_1.apk on your PC? That would explain the pm: command not found.
                                          You have to transfer the apk to the phone and do adb install ... there (assuming you have installed adb on the phone first; which by the output of dpkg is the case).
                                          Basically this: https://forums.ubports.com/post/14834

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                                            Guy @Ingo
                                            last edited by 23 Jan 2019, 11:13

                                            @ingo thanks for the reply, I have install the apk successed

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