Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners
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Hi @Flohack, is it possible to join this project? I have purchased an Angler.
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@Rondarius Sure, you find the installation guide linked somewhere at the beginning of this thread. If you have questions just ask.
The most important thing I repeat here: You must flash the stock Android 7.1 before you try to install (this device has a vendor partition and its version needs to match the version of the port. You can use latest 7.1.2 from Google´s pages.
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I haven't used the phone and don't know if it suffers the 4 core bug. Should I use only 4 cores?
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@Rondarius Well you can test easily: Use the normal TWRP recovery first, and see if its stable. The bug will almost immediately trigger reboots, also with the recovery. So I would give it a shot, my second device doesn´t have it, and runs now with all cores very nicely
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@Flohack Installed. Bluetooth does indeed turn on and off over again without hang up. Hotspot still does not work, calls appear to connect but no audio. You have MMS/SMS as not functional in the list, but I just sent and received both from my device just fine, notifications and all.
I only installed halium as you instructed since system image was the same date as the last update
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@rocket2nfinity Yes you did absolutely correct, I just had a new kernel. Thanks for confirming MMS/SMS I have no SIM card in my hands now. Small progress
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@Flohack Correction - SMS/MMS allows you to input text if you initiate the message. Strange thing when you receive a message though, keyboard will not come back up for you to reply back. But the device can initiate and receive messages. Just not reply back because no keyboard.
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@rocket2nfinity Well thats a problem of UT itself, not of the device port I hope
- I also moved PIN unlock to Working state because I remember it was ok.So to summarize: Big issues are camera and voice in calls. I will try to work on this more. Hotspot is lower prio for me
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@Flohack and USB debug developer mode is not working for me
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@rocket2nfinity well Halium ports do not support adb, and so the switch in the phone is meaningless. You can always ssh into it like this: ssh phablet@10.15.19.82
BR
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@Flohack Then how is it working on the Nexus 5 when installing Anbox? Enable USB debugging in developer mode, adb shell from host and install Anbox. Or is that not using USB debugging?
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HAHAHA....
Finally I flashed the phone
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@Rondarius Aaaaaand?
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All 8 cores is working. It feels very smooth and responsive. I had som problems during installation.
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@Rondarius Please tell us about your problems then...
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I don't know where to start
First the phone was upgraded to android 8 so I had to install factory image. The flash-all script installed bootloader and radio img after that it gave an error and stopped. I flashed the phone manuelly instead. Missed a few steps and managed to start the greeting page in android. Was that enough to encrypt the phone? because I got stuck on the Google bootlogo when I tried to start the phone after that I installed UT. -
@Rondarius said in Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners:
d to start the phone after that I installed UT.
Well yes, you will need to use TWRP to format data partition if you started into Android. Basically you dont even need to start into it but it can happen. Though data encryption takes a long time.
Anyways, that is out of my hands, its an unfortunate decision that some devices have a vendor partition, I dont see any benefit from this at all
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So I tried to reflash factory img and UT without wiping the phone, and still just got to the Google logo. I tried this a couple of times until I went all the way back and did it all from the beginning. I thought I just would let the phone be hanging on the Google logo and see if something happened and it booted up in UT
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@Flohack I was thinking of writing a guide on how to flash the phone. There is a lot of steps to do and it is very easy to do something wrong. I usually use the gui/terminal combination when doing things on my computer, I just can't manage to do all in the terminal. Maybe it would be easier for others to follow such a guide?
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@Rondarius Well I would love to hearing from you where my guide was not written well enough
Just I want to prevent to have multiple guides, as this already happened to my Samsung S3 port ^^ - I would ask you to directly add/change things in the pad.ubports.com link. Also, such a guide can be a general guide for all phones, so if you want to do something with screenshots etc. then please lets try to make it more device-indepenendet. We cannot maintain picture-rich guides for all models.But yes, why not, step ahead