Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners
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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!
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@Flohack rotation crashed again. Any logs I can get you that might be of use to fixing the sensor crash problem?
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@rocket2nfinity No idea, honestly. It must be smth in the Android part. So look for logcat maybe...
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@Flohack @rocket2nfinity It seems that updating the calculator app crashed the rotation. It was the only update I had today. I didn't try the rotation before i made the update, but since my rotation worked before without crashing makes me asume that it was that update that made rotation to stop working. And I could be wrong too
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@Rondarius That is just strange.
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Yes I know. The app has nothing to do with sensors, so there must be something else that made the rotation to stop working. And still it was the only thing I did with the phone after I booted it up.
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On a positive note, I've been playing with Libertine on the N6P. It's a lot more usable than on the N5. The N5 can barely keep a program open much less play a video or an audio stream. But as long as you keep the bandwidth down, the N6P can. Makes me really curious to try Anbox on it.
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@rocket2nfinity Great to here that Libertine is more stable on this device, I haven't played around with it yet.
@Flohack The only log that I found using the file manager was the udev.log, do you have any use of this file?
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Not rebooted it for a week.
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@Kosakanao Let the battery sit charging for a while. Your battery may need to be replaced. Mine did that before I had to replace it.
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Edit @Flohack @rocket2nfinity And my rotation works again. And I think I have a solution too. I forgot to turn of my phone the other day so it was on until the battery lost all charge, this doesn't turn of the phone instead I think it crashes and loosing the connections to the sensors. I did the same "mistake" last night and had to recharge my phone from zero and now my rotation works again.
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@rocket2nfinity @Flohack When I did a soft reboot it lost rotation again, after a couple of reboots, rotation is back again. I guess it had nothing to do with empty the battery.
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Just made a VoIP call with Google Hangouts. So microphone works. So, @Flohack is there a certain set of commands I can use to play with the audio settings to enable audio for the dialer?
Same question with camera - can you point me in the right direction as to where I can try to enable it?
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@rocket2nfinity I am afraid both things require elevated knowledge of how Android works and how actually Ubuntu Touch tries to emulate that environment. For the call audio the routing is made involving pulseaudio, a pulseaudio module, a stub Android service call mini-audioflingerglue and then Android stuff itself. The problem is the debugging there, I did never receive any sensible log entry what could be wrong.
Samew goes for the camera, I tried the new approach by Ratchanan from here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3257/how-to-test-gstreamer-droid-based-camera-support-in-ubuntu-touch-for-halium-7-1-based-port but I was unsuccessful also. So, either in the Android container or in UT side we still have a permission problem, some missing service or whatever ^^ -
@Flohack Above my skill level then. I tried to produce a logcat but it didn't output anything. I also tried dmesg which did produce a lot of info including some errors. But, beyond my skill level to interpret its meaning. I can forward it to you if your N6P is still down
