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    Flashing Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 6p

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        anmol92verma
        last edited by NeoTheThird

        Hi
        I am a nexus 6p user and android application developer , i want to port ub touch to nexus 6p, has anyone started yet ? or not then please i need to know the instruction , and what has to be downloaded ? i used ***phablet-dev-bootstrap ***command to download repos but i see it is downlaoding a lot of useless stuff for other devices, can anyone help me here ? πŸ˜„
        Thanks.

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          ChrisLuck
          last edited by ChrisLuck

          Yes it is downloading 15GB and also some "useless stuff for other devices".
          But this useless stuff is very small, maybe 50MB.

          Your next step will be to find the device and kernel sources for your device and place them in the appropriate folders.
          You also have to either download the vendor blobs or extract them from your phone.

          It also helps to have the cyanogenmod sources for your device as reference. (another 30GB)

          After these steps you can try to build Ubuntu touch for your device. There will be a lot of errors and you will have to solve them one by one πŸ˜‰

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            anmol92verma
            last edited by anmol92verma

            Hi there! Thanks for the reply , i have downloaded it , it was 16 GB , My device is Nexus 6p and code name is Angler , please tell me where to put what, in which folder , like device ,kernel and vendor blobs , also i have downloaded the armhf zip file and it was xenial and not vivid, Thanks a TON! πŸ‘

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              ChrisLuck
              last edited by ChrisLuck

              Please take a look at the Ubuntu porting guide: https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/start/ubuntu-for-devices/porting-new-device/#anchor3
              Your device/huawei/angler/BoardConfig.mk will have a variable TARGET_KERNEL_SOURCE which has to point to your kernel sources.
              The guide is a bit unspecific about the vendor blobs so i suggest to read the following: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Build_for_angler#Extract_proprietary_blobs

              Good luck πŸ™‚

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                ChrisLuck
                last edited by ChrisLuck

                One problem you will run into is, that the vendor blobs that you have to extract from your phone are designed for android 6.0.0 or 6.0.1 while the source you downloaded with phablet-dev-bootstrap is based on android 4.something

                I heard chances are high that this will not work together 😞

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                  anmol92verma
                  last edited by

                  so whats to be done now ? is there any possibility ?

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                    flohack
                    last edited by

                    Current state of Nexus 6P porting: https://github.com/Halium/projectmanagement/issues/56

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                      unknown123abc @anmol92verma
                      last edited by

                      @anmol92verma said in Flashing Ubuntu Touch on Nexus 6p:

                      also i have downloaded the armhf zip file

                      I know this post quite dated by this point. But I would assume that armhf is the wrong architecture for the Nexus 6p as it is running a 64bit processor instead of 32bit like the nexus 5.

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                        flohack @unknown123abc
                        last edited by

                        @unknown123abc I agree but the thing is, until recently we did not have a working arm64 rootfs available. But this will get better now.

                        That said, I had no time in the last months so my Nexus 6P is stalled again , sorry 😞

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                          flohack
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                          Guys did you see, I got a working port now ^^

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