Development testers for Anbox

mariogrip

@mihael anbox disable stops all anbox services[0], so if that work we can rule out that the kernel is an issue. I would assume its an android app stealing your battery, but if you don't have other apps then per-installed please tell me then i need to dig into it.

[0] Anbox consists of two always running services, one root service that creates and managers the container itself (anbox-container) and one running as users acting as the fronted providing the container with graphics windows, audio, scaling etc (anbox-session).

mihael

@mariogrip Thank you for all the help! Yes, I installed WhatsApp and Viber. Do you thing the battery drainage might be because of these two apps?

Yes, anbox-tool disable stops the battery drainage so is definitely not the kernel's fault.

I was misled by the situations when android apps would not start (thinking this is because of the container not running) but the battery drainage being still constant. Later I discovered that the services can be stopped with anbox-tool disable and then battery drainage stops.

There is still this question: sometimes the android apps would not start and I cannot login into the container and then my only solution is to restart the device. Is there a command to restart the android services or the container or something?

Again, thank you!

Alkis

was anyone able to update FDroid's repos? Because I can't.

Stefano

@mihael Yes, there is a high battery drain while Anbox is runnning, even whith no open app(android)
I installed some other apps as well.
When : sudo anbox-tool disable.
the battery drain stops, or get's back to normal.

Stefano

@mariogrip works like a charm. Mobile and wifi connections works normal.

Stefano

@mariogrip Any chance to implement Lineage Privacy Guard where we can disable startup apps and/or control the permissions?

Stefano

@mariogrip My android apps that require network access(mobile data, wifi) can't connect to internet.

Stefano

@alkis My Fdroid works just fine, downloading apps, installing, updating(Fdroid itself updated just fine)

malditobastardo

Hi, any idea how to uninstall single apps? I just messed up my anbox by installing a "Booking.com" app and now I want to just delete it because it goes crazy. Thank you

mihael

@stefano Whatsapp and Viber work for me...

Stefano

@mihael That's interesting. Have you tried Chrome, Chromium or any other Browser? It just hangs here.

Stefano

@malditobastardo install Root Uninnstaller app and then its easy.

A Former User

@malditobastardo You can do this also when you do this:

adb shell
sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo apt update
sudo apt install android-tools-adb
anbox-tool app-list
this is a example of the app-list installed apps on your device:
Aftershock (com.asvcorp.aftershock)
adb uninstall com.asvcorp.aftershock

mihael

@stefano Chrome doesn't work. Opera mini neither...

joe

So how would one uninstall anbox completely?

joe

Not sure if a bug or not, but when I run:

sudo lxc-console -ndefault -P /home/phablet/anbox-data/containers -t0

The out put is:
https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/bxDsZ4Qv3z/

And it keeps looping over and over...

Stefano

@joe sudo apt remove anbox-tool
sudo apt purge anbox-tool
???
Flash it over with Ubports installer without wipe?

malditobastardo

@xray2000 Thank you a lot, this worked perfectly

@Stefano thanks for your tip I will try it next time

zx81

Hi
i'm having a play around with my pro 5 and trying to install Anbox to see what works etc
for some reason it seems to have got stuck on the install at his point and keep getting this reply :

"sudo fastboot flash boot anbox-boot-turbo.img
[sudo] password for ****:
sudo: fastboot: command not found"

am i doing something wrong here ?

thanks
p.s i'm fairly new to all this and am using terminal on linux mint if that has any bearing on things ?

Stefano

@zx81 Fastboot is not installed on your PC.
Install (on 16.04 ) sudo apt install phablet-tools
Or on (18.04) sudo apt install fastboot

Then, You should type:
sudo fastboot flash bootimg anbox-boot-turbo-test.img