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

potet

Speaking of WiFi, one of the bugs Im experiencing (development channel) is that the wifi connection occasionally drops when the device is idle for some hours. It will cease to be connected, and my solution has been to reboot. Not sure if this is a known bug, leg me know if you would like some diagnosis or another.

rocket2nfinity

@Flohack Installed beta installer, erased rootfs.img and system.img. Then ran installer with -f angler.json and it worked like a charm. Did not wipe data or cache since mine was already on your ubuntu build. Much impressed.

Any word on Anbox for N6P?

rocket2nfinity

No channels to select it seems, other than the one you installed with...

On edge, bluetooth works. Rotation and all sensors do not - no gps, no rotation, no accelerometer. Will re-install all apps, reboot, and see if it clears.

Edit: Re-installed switching to DEV. Interesting. All sensors and rotation now work, but Bluetooth no longer does. Hotspot does not work. Still can't fetch other channels.

Camera works except video. Flashlight works, but camera flash does not when taking pictures.

flohack

@potet Yeah I have the same, I am currently almost never using WiFi because of this. Its basically a crash in the (for whatever reason Huawei chose to use a) PCI Express link between CPU/SoC and WiFi chipset. The driver wants to suspend or wakeup the WiFi card but smth goes terribly wrong. Sliding the WiFi enable switch from the indicator should fix it, no need to reboot.

flohack

@rocket2nfinity Bluetooth seems hit-or-miss at startup, its a reace condition, and not depending on the channel I think. So after enough reboots it should also work in devel

And yes, sensors are broken currently in edge, that affects all devices.

Rondarius

@Flohack @rocket2nfinity Is it possible to keep settings, apps, contacts etc if I use the installer or should I backup the phone? It's my daily driver.

Keneda

@Rondarius
With installer you should be able to keep your device settings, data and app, yes (by not choosing the "wipe" options).
But you should backup still, as you never know what can happen with skynet kind ^^

flohack

@Rondarius yes NEVER choose WIPE option in the installer...

you could, for backup, adb pull the 2 folders /data/user-data and /data/system-data to a backup folder on your PC to be sure. That should cover all Apps, data and settings.

rocket2nfinity

@Rondarius Yes, my settings and data remained. That is why I did not wipe data, just manually deleted the two files using TWRP, before using the installer.

rocket2nfinity

And my bluetooth and channel options are back.

trashcat

@Flohack i originally installed with the helium installer and then reinstalled with the installer and had no problems.

gerg

Hey all,

I've been lurking for a while trying to replicate what you're doing on my 6P. I realize this is a super basic prereq, but I've been failing to revert to 7.1.2 and it's to the point that I'm not sure where else to turn. After getting the most recent platform tools from Google and downloading the exact image you linked above, I keep getting stuck here:

./fastboot -w update image-angler-n2g48c.zip

and getting

fastboot: error: Couldn't parse partition size '0x'.

I've tried directly unzipping and doing

./fastboot flash boot boot.img

and getting the same result. I'd really love to help you guys test things out and just need to get past this stupid hurdle.

Thanks in advance.
-G

A Former User

@gerg
1-try to unzip the file, you will end up with a zip file, a bootloader image and a radio image.
2-unzip the file "image-angler-n2g48c" which contain the (boot-system-recovery-vendor) images
3-follow these instructions
fastboot flash bootloader bootloader-angler-angler-xx.xx.img
fastboot flash radio radio-angler-angler-xx.xx.img
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
fastboot flash system system.img
fastboot flash vendor vendor.img

gerg

@ftnirp Thanks so much for your response.

I tried running it as you described, but ran into the same error I'd previously encountered.

./fastboot flash boot boot.img

still results in

fastboot: error: Couldn't parse partition size '0x'.

I've tried searching for solutions to this -- many people have success by flashing to boot_a or boot_b but neither of those modifications have helped me.

A Former User

@gerg
if you are using windows try this

https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=83378205&postcount=4

flohack

@gerg you should run the script provided by Google, do not try to do all the work yourself

flohack

The partition error with 0x means your fastboot is too new probably. But anyways, try to do it as described by Google, with the shell script (whose name I forgot).

flohack

Finally!

Nexus 6P is in the installer!!!

gerg

@Flohack
Hah too new?? Oh boy ok I'll try using an older version.
I started out using the flash-all.sh script included with the image but started running into these errors. That's when I ended up digging into it and trying to do it manually. I'll see if I can get it working with an older version of fastboot then.

Rondarius

@Flohack I managed to install UT with the installer. I used the version of adb + fastboot that is in the Synaptic package manager, 1:8.1.0-r23-5ubuntu2. I use Pop OS! Great work!