Call for testing: Samsung S3 Neo (s3ve3g) owners

flohack · 4 Feb 2020, 18:27

@zenfunk Ok I will compare with my device. Can you please also send me a getprop output from recovery? Thx

zenfunk · 4 Feb 2020, 19:00

flohack · 4 Feb 2020, 19:13

@zenfunk Hmm what OS was installed before? Would you mind trying to reset to Android 5.1? It might have some effect, because otherwise I am not sure whats going on ^^

zenfunk · 2 Apr 2020, 20:11

it was lineage 7.1.
I just reformated /data to ext3, but no improvement.
There are two different kinds of s3 neos around. One with Sony and one with a Samsung camera module. May this be it (not sure which one I have. Will reflash android 5.1 (which one did you use) and then we'll see.
Thank you very much for your time and efforts,
Chris

flohack · 4 Feb 2020, 20:12

@zenfunk Hmm the camera should not block the UI to start, actually. Very weird also that you do not get ssh connection. Did you specify -p ut parameter when installing?

zenfunk · 5 Feb 2020, 20:22

Actually I didn't use -p ut because the script then exits.

./halium-install -p ut ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.img
usage: ./halium-install rootfs.tar[.gz] system.img [release]

positional arguments:
    rootfs.tar[.gz]
    system.img

optional arguments:
    release: run common post installation tasks for release.
             supported: none, halium, pm, ut
             defaults : none

zenfunk · 2 May 2020, 20:38

./halium-install ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.img ut

works, I'm trying to boot as we speak. I keep you posted.

zenfunk · 5 Feb 2020, 22:26

Well, with the above command I got to pick a unix password, but still hangs at the boot screen.

flohack · 5 Feb 2020, 22:59

@zenfunk Hmm seems to be the wrong halium-install, how did you get it? The right one has the parameter -p ut as first argument.

zenfunk · 6 Feb 2020, 05:48

I got it from there: https://gitlab.com/JBBgameich/halium-install/-/releases
I downloaded the zip file, unzipped everything, put the imagefiles in the folder as well and ran the script.

flohack · 6 Feb 2020, 19:13

@zenfunk Ohhh thats very old! The continous release is not working anymore it seems. Can you please try to clone the code instead directly? Have you got experience with git?

zenfunk · 6 Feb 2020, 20:21

Funny, I just did this.
The -p ut option works now. dmesg output is:

[ 9620.086869] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 20 using ehci-pci
[ 9620.200193] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 2.28
[ 9620.200199] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 9620.200203] usb 2-1.2: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[ 9620.200206] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[ 9620.200210] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: Halium initrd Debug telnet on port 23 on rndis0 192.168.2.15 - also running udhcpd
[ 9620.207225] rndis_host 2-1.2:1.0 eth0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2, RNDIS device, 00:00:00:00:00:00
[ 9620.250120] rndis_host 2-1.2:1.0 enp0s29u1u2: renamed from eth0
chris@funkbook:~$ ssh phablet@192.168.2.15
ssh: connect to host 192.168.2.15 port 22: Network is unreachable

On reboots I don't even get the RNDIS device.

Will start over...

zenfunk · 6 Feb 2020, 20:43

I tried again with an 5.1 Android, used the cloned installer, used your heimdall, and now I don't even get to the ubuntu boot screen.

No clue what to do next.

flohack · 6 Feb 2020, 20:59

@zenfunk said in Call for testing: Samsung S3 Neo (s3ve3g) owners:

used the cloned installer, used your heimdall, and now I don't even get to the ubuntu boot screen.

Hmm sounds weird. what does dmesg say

zenfunk · 6 Feb 2020, 21:01

[14506.583270] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 41 using ehci-pci
[14506.691529] usb 2-1.2: no configurations
[14506.691542] usb 2-1.2: can't read configurations, error -22
[14506.779122] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 42 using ehci-pci
[14507.079205] usb 2-1.2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[14507.297126] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=18d1, idProduct=d001, bcdDevice= 2.28
[14507.297133] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[14507.297137] usb 2-1.2: Product: SAMSUNG_Android
[14507.297140] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: SAMSUNG
[14507.297143] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: halium-initrd
[14507.301658] rndis_host 2-1.2:1.0 eth0: register 'rndis_host' at usb-0000:00:1d.0-1.2, RNDIS device, 00:00:00:00:00:00
[14507.362236] rndis_host 2-1.2:1.0 enp0s29u1u2: renamed from eth0

flohack · 6 Feb 2020, 21:50

@zenfunk Looks like now we are kinda stuck with the init. Can you send me again cmdline you used for halium-install?

flohack · 6 Feb 2020, 22:26

I just found out that I linked the wrong halium-install release, in case you dont want to clone. Please use only this: https://github.com/JBBgameich/halium-install/releases

zenfunk · 2 Jul 2020, 06:00

OK, I slept it over and also think that there is something wrong with halium-install.
I clone the script from git, put all the imagefiles in this folder and run:

./halium-install -p ut ubports-touch.rootfs-xenial-armhf.tar.gz system.img

Of course halium-install is not installed system whide that is why I have to use the ./ . I now think that there might be the culprit since your instructions don't use it.
When I use make, it gives me a script called halium-install-standalone.sh in a local bin folder which cannot be installed (no "make install" available). When I run hte standalone script it exits with an error BTW. I found no instructions about how to install the current halium- install system wide. I am sure chucking the script in /usr/bin won't do it :).

~~Your link ( https://github.com/JBBgameich/halium-install/releases) gets me to a page where I don't see any link to download stuff, what am I missing?~~ Edit: found it, it is under Assets.

flohack · 7 Feb 2020, 08:42

@zenfunk Ok seems standalone is broken a bit - I will remove the instructions to use it. Note that there is no option to install it systemwide, so its just a convenient way to not use git for cloning.

So please do only use the git clone method

zenfunk · 7 Feb 2020, 17:00

With standalone I don't mean the zipped version. When you do "make" in the cloned folder a script gets creeated that is called halium-install-standalone.sh and that doesn't work.

With systemwide I meant that you seem to have your halium install script in your $PATH since you don't have a ./ in front of your "halium-install" command (if you have, your instructions are wrong).

I used the git clone files and they do not work on my setup (see the four last posts).