Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners

eaceto · 13 Jan 2020, 14:19

@Flohack I am in!

Zose · 13 Jan 2020, 15:42

@Flohack Yes, i can also if you want, actually i have Nethunter at my Angler

jandc · 14 Jan 2020, 08:57

@Flohack I've got an old Angler lying around and would be happy to lend a hand

flohack · 14 Jan 2020, 12:59

Ok so 3 people alredy, great. Will start putting out instructions today probably.

wbrawner · 15 Jan 2020, 04:27

I'd like to help out here too, assuming there is still room.

kodaxx · 15 Jan 2020, 04:38

I'm in also, have a spare angler

flohack · 15 Jan 2020, 07:33

Yes guys! 5 people are here, we can start with the test. First let me add new things that work:

GPS
Mobile data (always at 2G, doesnt go to 4G immediately)
SMS

I will try to set up a download for the needed image files so you can flash them.

BR Florian

flohack · 15 Jan 2020, 09:27

We will track installation progress for all of you here: https://pad.ubports.com/p/nexus-6p-alphatesting - Please set a name for your writing color on the top right, so that I know who wrote what

I made a first task for you there: Installing the right recovery.

wbrawner · 15 Jan 2020, 13:02

I just replied there with my info (I appear to be pink on my side), but where do we get the special recovery from?

flohack · 15 Jan 2020, 14:33

@wbrawner I added the link into the pad now If it does not work, I can send mine from home. Please use that recovery and try to go below 20% to see if it would reboot or shutdown.

wbrawner · 15 Jan 2020, 14:42

@Flohack Thanks, I'll give that a shot!

wbrawner · 15 Jan 2020, 16:22

@Flohack so I flashed the special TWRP and disabled the screen dimming so that the battery would just drain until it died. The percentage dropped to 0% and stayed there a while before the percentage just disappeared altogether. O had to leave for work but the phone still hadn't turned off by that point.

flohack · 15 Jan 2020, 19:33

@wbrawner Sounds interesting, isn´t it ^^

kodaxx · 15 Jan 2020, 21:03

@Flohack said in Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners:

https://pad.ubports.com/p/nexus-6p-alphatesting

Got recovery installed, ready to go for the next step

flohack · 15 Jan 2020, 21:35

I am nearly done with preparations and uploading. But I found we can only use 32bit rootfs for the moment, so I am finishing this now. Should be ready in 20mins...

flohack · 15 Jan 2020, 21:53

Ok we are good to go! 32bit ARMHF image confirmed to work here.

kodaxx · 16 Jan 2020, 05:46

Can the halium-install script be run on osx?

flohack · 16 Jan 2020, 07:41

@kodaxx Oh I have to ask, but I see those dependencies:

qemu-user-static
qemu-system-arm
e2fsprogs
simg2img

I am not sure you will be able to have commands from those packages avaiable in OSX.

flohack · 16 Jan 2020, 07:42

@kodaxx The problem is that the images must be mounted (ext4 file system), converted from sparse to full image for the system.img etc. Those things might be specific. On the other hand, if you can build Android on Mac, maybe, then this tools could be available. Otherwise maybe you can try a virtual machine with Ubuntu?

wbrawner · 16 Jan 2020, 12:39

@Flohack I'm able to get the install to happen but the device doesn't boot. It gets stuck at the Google splash screen indefinitely. I put some more details in the pad. Any ideas where to go from here?