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    Installing Android on BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Edition

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      Vincent_R last edited by

      Hi guys!
      I recently broke the touchscreen of my "Aquaris E5 Ubuntu edition"-phone.
      I bought another but it does not work properly. The screen has the android-3-buttons at the bottom which was not the case on the original one. I suspect it behaves differently from the original one. Actually, it looks like the touchscreen is not calibrated. There is a scale and an offset . I found no way to calibrate it in on UBports.

      So ... I would like to try install an android system. I visited this page : https://docs.ubuntu.com/phone/en/devices/reinstalling-android but no android image is given for "BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu edition".

      Could someone give a piece of advice about all that.
      Thanks
      Vincent

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        advocatux @Vincent_R last edited by

        @Vincent_R hi, try here https://www.bq.com/en/support/aquaris-e5/support-sheet

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          Vincent_R last edited by

          @advocatux : thank you. Actually, I had already downloaded this before but the zip does not contain the flash_all.sh. I can use fastboot to do it manually (source) but I do not know which .img files I must install nor if the order is critical. Below is the list of img files:

          boot.img
          boot-verified.img
          cache.img
          ramdisk.img
          ramdisk-recovery.img
          ramdisk-recovery-bthdr.img
          recovery.img
          recovery_bthdr.img
          recovery-verified.img
          secro.img
          secro-verified.img
          system.img
          userdata.img
          

          Below are the other files:

          APDB_MT6582_S01_L0.MP2_W15.28
          BPLGUInfoCustomAppSrcP_MT6582_S00_MOLY_WR8_W1449_MD_WG_MP_V1_1_wg_n
          EBR1
          lk.bin
          lk-verified.bin
          logo.bin
          logo-verified.bin
          MBR
          MT6582_Android_scatter.txt
          preloader_vegetahd.bin
          

          thank you

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            advocatux @Vincent_R last edited by

            @Vincent_R IIRC the problem is that in the Drivers&Tool.rar file, the content is Windows only. You need to use SP Flash tool for Linux (https://spflashtool.com/download/).

            Please see this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9OQovPAbw4 to get a general idea of the process (that video shows Windows but the process is similar in Linux).

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              advocatux @Vincent_R last edited by

              @Vincent_R just to be clear, you can find that Drivers&Tool.rar file I'm talking about at https://www.bq.com/en/support/aquaris-e5/support-sheet clicking on "Drivers Drivers and utilities" (that'll download this https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/bq-file-sharing/Drivers%26Tool.rar).

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                Vincent_R last edited by

                @advocatux : thank you. I finally managed to install android on the phone with your help.
                Unfortunately, the touchscreen keeps working bad with Android. I will ask a refund to aliexpress seller.
                Have a nice day.

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