Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners
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Why is the old installs of the apps still exists in the install history? and how do I check if I did install the new rootfs?
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@Rondarius Oh no not really. Switching rootfs is very easy with UT. Why you see old Apps and settings? Because the roo file system is ready-only and can be replaced at any time, it wont hurt your apps or data. You would need to remove 2 folders in recovery if you really want to do this. later the installer will do this for you, when I managed to bring N6P to the installer
Best bet is that you try
file /bin/ls
and see what comes up. That would determine the bitness of the executable file, and therefor which rootfs is being used.
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The terminal app crashes at launch
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@Rondarius Yeah you now have 32bit apps installed that might be a problem. On the other hand that was preinstalled, not sure. You might have to use ssh via RNDIS, try ssh phablet@10.15.19.82
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ssh worked and I used the ip-adress that the N6P was using on my network. I am runing 64 bit. When I reflashed the phone i didn't tuch the recovery image, that explains why I had all of the settings and apps from previous install.
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I reinstalled the terminal app and now it works just fine
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@Rondarius So yes it seems you are on 64bit now. Beware that Bluetooth most likely doesnt work but I will fix that..,..
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How about rotation? It works for me but not for rocket2infinity. Is it something that was causing problem from the 32? Because i did not update to the latest version on 32bit before the change to 64bit. -
@Flohack Would gstreamer-droid based camera work on this build?
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@Rondarius I am not sure, I will ask Ratchanan. Basically it should in some way
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@Rondarius That's interesting. You have rotation and I don't. I updated my apps as well because they were crashing. After updating, they were fine.
@Flohack How does the new rootfs affect the sensors? Would it be wise to flash everything from scratch like Rondarius did? I used the halium-install script, which worked fine.
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@Flohack Or would it be better to flash the last custom rootfs you did then re-do 64bit like @Rondarius did. Because he says he never went to the upstream rootfs. That is when rotation broke.
Rotation worked on your last rootfs, as it apparently does on your new 64bit rootfs. But updating from the upstream rootfs keeps rotation broken
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The rootfs be it 32 or 64 bit should not have any effect on the sensors. But the 64bit rootfs has a few differences to 32bit stable. I also see this rotation problem, and to me it looks more like a situational bug that occurs from boot to boot. But not sure, I need further investigations.
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@rocket2nfinity BTW the latest rootfs has no modifications from my side, you can grab directly the ones from our CI server, which are nightly devels. So I really would like to know whats going on here. So rotation is always fine in 64bits?
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@Flohack Rondarius says his rotation is fine on 64 bits. Mine hasn't been functional since I went to the upstream rootfs. It last worked on your 32bit rootfs. So I don't know. Maybe it's something else keeping it and other sensors from functioning.
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@rocket2nfinity @Flohack I have rebooted my phone a couple times and rotation has worked every time.
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I'm sorry that this might be just a little bit off topic, but I have a Nexus 6p and am super happy to see that Ubuntu Touch is on its way.
However, I am also affected by the bug that makes the phone shut down at low battery levels. So one stupid question:
Does restricting the phone to only using four cores solve the problem of random shut downs, or is it merely a necessity to get the phone working at all? -
@potet yes reducing to 4 cores can help with that problem. Its basically a wear-out, my device would have even rebooted with full battery. Basically flash the 4-cores-TWRP and let it run to low battery, then you can check independently of UT...
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@Flohack That's amazing, thank you so much! Had more or less given up on giving it a new life.
I'm currently separated from it for a few weeks, but hopefully I'll manage to contribute in some way once I get it back.
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@Flohack Well this is interesting - turned on my N6P today, it did a bunch of app updates and now rotation works. So something is/was causing a sensor crash. Maybe it will give you an idea of what's causing it. The only system apps that updated though were clock, calendar, file manager, open store and terminal. Have no idea what that might have to do with sensors.
Bluetooth still doesn't work though.
Accelerometer does!
