Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122)

jro · 5 Jun 2020, 14:13

@Keneda The actual issue is that Ubuntu Recovery reboots every 30 seconds or so. So before the Ubports installer gets anything done, the connection is lost. I found another owner of the same phone in the telegram chat who experienced exactly the same. I have pulled the /tmp/recovery.log from the device, I hope that it contains anything of use.

Keneda · 6 May 2020, 14:17

@jro said in Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122):

the ubports installer always wants to reboot into fastboot mode, but the devices always ends up in ubuntu recovery.

With that i though you where ending in getting stuck with recovery, not a recovery reboot loop.

jro · 6 May 2020, 15:01

@Keneda Yes, it took me a while to understand that. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to get a log showing as to why it keeps rebooting. I am not sure as to how I am supposed to submit a useful issue on github.

jro · 6 May 2020, 15:52

@jro Fixed it now, the key was to first install the OEM binaries for AOSP, as explained on XDA Developers. Great! Again, however, this has shown that vendor-locked devices are a nightmare, and as long as this is the case, one click installs will more often than not fail...

Keneda · 6 May 2020, 17:33

@jro said in Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122):

as explained on XDA Developers.

Stated here in original poster first post from beginning...
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3229/sony-xperia-x-suzu-f5121-f5122/1

c4pp4 · 7 May 2020, 20:53

@cybershaman said in Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122):

Secondly: I seem to be confused about the possibility to have Anbox on the Xperia X. Seems I do not have any repository that contains the "anbox-ubuntu-touch" binaries, no is there the "anbox-tool" binary preinstalled on the image.
If I read @c4pp4 's reply right, however, anbox-ubuntu-touch should be able to install via apt.
I have the ubports repo added via /etc/apt/source.list.d and apparantly am on the devel update channel fredldotme and receive updates, latest 2020-04-28/2.

Launch UT Terminal app and try to simulate an installation:

apt-get -s install anbox-ubuntu-touch

Submit a report of the command.

c4pp4 · 7 May 2020, 20:59

Audio is crackling... speakers, headphones... doesn't matter. Is it only in my case?

christophe14 · 8 May 2020, 10:46

@c4pp4
No, same for me.

cybershaman · 13 May 2020, 11:47

@c4pp4 Thank you for the reply!
The anbox-ubuntu-touch package was available all of a sudden a week or so ago. Got everything installed and running.
Perhaps this was all related to the OTA updates.

c4pp4 · 14 May 2020, 06:34

@christophe14
I think I got something. I've tried some audio files with sampling frequency 48kHz and the output was clear. If you don't have some you can convert any via ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i "original.mp3" -ar 48000 "new.mp3"

Maybe it has something to do with rate=48000 in /etc/pulse/touch.pa file:

.ifexists module-droid-card-24.so
load-module module-droid-card-24 rate=48000 quirks=+unload_call_exit
.endif

I'm not sure how to change the rate and test it. Maybe @fredldotme could help.

fredldotme · 14 May 2020, 18:27

@c4pp4 nice catch!

What you can do to test small modifications to the Halium portion (where this file is from):

Reboot into recovery
Connect to the device via ADB
Mount the Halium system image: mount /system/var/lib/lxc/android/system.img /tmp
Edit the Halium override file to your liking: nano /tmp/halium/etc/pulse/touch.pa
Unmount the Halium image again: umount /tmp

I'd say you can then go ahead and make a pull request on GitHub with your changes if you manage to find a fix for your issues.

c4pp4 · 14 May 2020, 22:32

@fredldotme
Thank you. Unfortunately changing touch.pa has no effect on quality.

c4pp4 · 15 May 2020, 01:19

@fredldotme
/etc/pulse/daemon.conf

default-sample-rate = 44100
alternate-sample-rate = 48000

/etc/pulse/touch.pa

.ifexists module-droid-card-24.so
load-module module-droid-card-24 rate=44100 quirks=+unload_call_exit
.endif

syslog

May 15 03:06:10 ubuntu-phablet pulseaudio[6939]: [pulseaudio] droid-util.c: Requested sample rate 44100 but got 48000 instead.
May 15 03:06:10 ubuntu-phablet pulseaudio[6939]: [pulseaudio] sink.c: Default and alternate sample rates are the same.

It always falls to 48kHz. It's weird.

c4pp4 · 15 May 2020, 08:35

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jro · 23 May 2020, 08:54

@c4pp4 It is strange though, that there is no documented way of getting the ubports version of android to use rootfs-overlay, just as the snap version does. Indeed, repacking the squshfs isn't such a big deal (although I wouldn't have known of the parameters you used, but still, just dropping a file into the overlay directory tree would make things so much easier!
BTW, the sound that you get from android apps after completing this step is quite choppy, not really suitable for real use, more a proof of concept.

jro · 23 May 2020, 09:50

@fredldotme said in Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122):

@c4pp4 nice catch!

What you can do to test small modifications to the Halium portion (where this file is from):

Reboot into recovery

Connect to the device via ADB

Mount the Halium system image: mount /system/var/lib/lxc/android/system.img /tmp

There is no directory /system/var/lib in recovery mode, I also cannot find a system.img anywhere. Has this changed recently?

Edit the Halium override file to your liking: nano /tmp/halium/etc/pulse/touch.pa

Wouldn't this be the file /system/halium/etc/pulse/touch.pa?

EDIT: losetup -a says that /dev/loop0 is pointing to /halium-system/var/lib/lxc/android/system.img, yet there is no directory /halium-system. How can I access it?

Hris · 24 May 2020, 00:31

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Linux Klaus · 24 May 2020, 10:02

@fredldotme thank you so much for your awesome work. I just flashed the port a few days ago and everything is working super smooth.

I followed during the installation process your instructions and of @christophe14 (post 160). It helped me a lot.

The ubports installer caused a lot of trouble during the installation. I got a lot of error messages (they are already on github). The biggest problem for me was for some reason to boot into fastboot mode. It took me easily 40 attempts. Don't know why. For some reason the ubports installer also did not recognised the device (all the necessary drivers were installed. Switched over to the installer on fedora and did not had any problems.

Keep up the great work. I am amzed by this wonderful community and what you all have already achieved.

c4pp4 · 28 May 2020, 07:18

@jro
What is the output of

adb shell ls

when the device is connected in recovery mode?

c4pp4 · 31 May 2020, 14:14

Some audio tweak:

boot device into recovery
mount system.img:

adb shell mount /system/var/lib/lxc/android/system.img /tmp

when playing 44.1 kHz audio stream the sound is crackling, default sample rate is 48 kHz and I think the resampler is too slow, fix it using higher latency via deep buffer flag:

adb pull /tmp/etc/audio_policy.conf
sed -i '/AUDIO_OUTPUT_FLAG_PRIMARY/{s/FAST/DEEP_BUFFER/}' audio_policy.conf
adb push audio_policy.conf /tmp/etc

ringtone volume is too low, it's played via output-speaker+wired_headphone port, set appropriate acdb_id:

adb pull /tmp/etc/audio_platform_info.xml
sed -i '/Custom mapping starts here/a \        <device name="SND_DEVICE_OUT_SPEAKER_AND_HEADPHONES" acdb_id="799"/>' audio_platform_info.xml
adb push audio_platform_info.xml /tmp/etc

sound is distorted when max volume is used, correct max volume:

adb pull /tmp/etc/mixer_paths.xml
sed -i -e '/RX7 Digital Volume/{s/92/86/}' -e '/RX8 Digital Volume/{s/92/86/}' mixer_paths.xml
adb push mixer_paths.xml /tmp/etc

umount system.img:

adb shell umount /tmp

reboot the device