Updates on Mir and OTA-8 (and watch out, Edge channel users)

[zubozrout]

I was wondering what's the best place to write about this and maybe more people will see this here.

It relates to Meizu MX4 (arale) and it seems I am unfortunately not able to run the latest edge releases on my phone.
I can use any of the following two commands but it always end up with my phone being not bootable as on power-on it always gets stuck at the boot logo:

system-image-cli --switch ubports-touch/16.04/edge --progress dots
ubuntu-device-flash --server=http://system-image.ubports.com touch --device=arale --channel=ubports-touch/16.04/edge

Do I by any chance need to do a full wipe first? But I doubt that's it.

Edit: And if I do:
system-image-cli --switch ubports-touch/16.04/edge --progress dots -r 22 for instance
the system seems to boot just fine. But nothing newer boots

Edit 2: So I've tried to wipe my phone completely and am still stuck on boot logo even with the latest revision (27). But it is apparently not affected by the latest Mir and Unity8 changes since 1. it is stuck right at the start, 2. revision 23 is much older, from "2019-01-02", and still doesn't work, even though rev 22 from "2019-01-01" does.

Actual report: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/1052

[UniSuperBox]

@zubozrout, hmm, looks like the MX4 is the only one with this problem. That's weird.

[zubozrout]

@UniSuperBox Yup :(, but it is not the first time I've experienced something like that. Last year when Xenial was still pretty much testing it (devel) also didn't work on arale for some time.

Edit: Oh, it was something else: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/901/xenial-ui-constantly-freezing-at-least-on-mx4 + https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/issues/434
In that case this is a new thing for me

[UniSuperBox]

In case anyone is only following along here, we've got the issue listed in the main post mostly solved (there's still some noticeable stutter). If you bring your Qualcomm device to the Edge channel, you'll get to experience the new Unity8 and Mir!

[ernest]

@UniSuperBox said in Updates on Mir and OTA-8 (and watch out, Edge channel users):

In case anyone is only following along here

Of course we are ! Thanks

[domubpkm]

@UniSuperBox Every step gone through is a good news. Congratulation.

[A Former User]

someone try on FP2?

[ernest]

@UniSuperBox

I'm amazed to be able to switch between edge and devel channel in 5 minutes... hop hop a small trial and bug reporting for 30 minutes then prior to sleep i switch back to devel for the next day.
I've the same feeling than when clickable got launched

[kugiigi]

I don't get updates on my bq E5 anymore for days already but I get them on my Nexus 5. Is that intentional?

[Nikfrager]

Which channel? I'm on rc and I got an update last Wednesday (preOTA8).

[advocatux]

@kugiigi probably you know it but just in case, you can see what's available at http://system-image.ubports.com/ubports-touch/16.04/

[kugiigi]

@advocatux Thanks. Confirms that no image builds for vegetahd since 27.02.
I wonder why though. Looks like only Nexus 5, FP2 and OPO has builds since that date.