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

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      kodaxx @flohack
      last edited by 21 Jan 2020, 17:07

      @Flohack yes, I have completely wiped. I have pushed other files with no issue. When I run the tool, it looks like it's working, once it gets to 100% pushing rootfs, I get this error and everything fails.

      At that point, pushing other files does not work either until I remount or wipe, and running the tool again immediately fails

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        flohack @kodaxx
        last edited by 21 Jan 2020, 19:38

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

        shing other files does not work either until I remount or wipe, and running the tool again immediately fails

        Can you try to psuh those files manually with adb? Lets at least see if that works. I dont want to tell it, but it might be that your flash ram is faulty.

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          kodaxx
          last edited by 21 Jan 2020, 20:00

          Try to push which files manually? I can push pictures or other random files manually using adb without issue. If you mean to push the image files, I'm not sure where those are located - they seem to be created in a temporary directory and then deleted?

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            flohack @kodaxx
            last edited by 21 Jan 2020, 20:57

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

            ey seem to be created in a temporary directory and then deleted?

            You can push the downloaded rootfs and the system.img for testing - they are bigger and hopefully trigger this error too.

            You might also want to try another cable to be sure.

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              flohack
              last edited by 22 Jan 2020, 20:27

              Sorry guys, I somehow destroyed the device during a repair, and now I need to see to get a replacement coming. So I wont be able to work on the port for some days. But believe me, I want this to be done still!

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                phillip.walters @flohack
                last edited by 23 Jan 2020, 02:35

                @Flohack That's the one I've been using. I'm gonna see if I can dig a little bit deeper. Sorry if it's a few days, though. Work is wiping me out.

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                  phillip.walters
                  last edited by 23 Jan 2020, 03:24

                  So I tried it again and it actually built and installed. When you say "Wait with some patience," how long are we talking?

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                    flohack @phillip.walters
                    last edited by 23 Jan 2020, 18:35

                    @phillip-walters Not sure, maybe 2 or 3 minutes. Do you get anything in dmesg -w on the host?

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                      phillip.walters
                      last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 02:08

                      No. No RNDIS interface or anything. I'm wondering if my phone is hosed up.

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                        rocket2nfinity @flohack
                        last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 06:51

                        @Flohack I'm a hardware guy. I'd be happy to help you troubleshoot your 6P if it wasn't something catastrophic

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                          flohack @rocket2nfinity
                          last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 07:35

                          @rocket2nfinity Well I changed battery, and that went fine, though one of the connectors became loose, so I planned another investigation for the next day.

                          On the next day, while being able to remove the parts which need to be warmed up with a hairdryer worked well, I could not get the cover off, and I used too much force and accidentially came between the screen and the PCB, instead between PCB and case. So the screen broke, and I have a full length of damaged area plus a crack in the screen.

                          IΒ΄m an idiot, I did not take out my contact lenses this eve, and so I couldnßt really see what I was doing πŸ˜‰

                          I wanted to get this as a daily driver, when I see that the porting status is well enough, but with that screen I cannot use it anymore. Instead I will look for a used one in medium condition, max € 100,-

                          It would be possible to change a screen (but then this unit also has the CPU bug and cannot run on all 8 cores, so I would not invest in it further) but I dont feel like doing this, or paying for that.

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                            rocket2nfinity @flohack
                            last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 19:53

                            @Flohack Not an idiot. These things are getting harder to service everyday. I especially hate the ones with locking latches. They are designed to break, thus rendering the device unserviceable (unless you get crazy with the glue).

                            I agree, not really worth it for a device with the cores disabled. However, ebay has plenty in your price range, and if you go on xda-developers and tell the community what you're doing with Ubuntu touch, I'm betting you'll get donations. I'd donate here if there was a button to, and I certainly will there if you do.

                            There are a lot of us with Nexus 6Ps who would love to get Ubuntu Touch, or any of the other halium based ports on it.

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                              flohack @rocket2nfinity
                              last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 20:54

                              @rocket2nfinity said in Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners:

                              Nexus 6Ps who would love to get Ubuntu Touch, or any of the other halium based ports on it.

                              Great motivation, thanks. I am already chasing 2 devices. So sad that it might not be here for FOSDEM. I wanted to show it off on the conference πŸ™‚ but lets see

                              I am not really active on XDA, do you think it makes sense for UT people to hook up there with the "real" Android community?

                              BR Florian

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                                rocket2nfinity @flohack
                                last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 23:46

                                @Flohack very sad, but still exciting.

                                I do think it's worth putting up UT ports up at xda-developers - for the devices that are known mostly working, on their specific device page. It might encourage the curious among the greater Android developer community to give UT a try. I myself have tried several OSes I wouldn't have (or even known about) if it hadn't been posted on XDA.

                                But if you don't, then add a donate button on ubports so we can encourage developers who are having successes with some monetary incentive. I have a few devices lying around that I would gladly put a port bounty on. For those of us who know enough to follow along and install a successful build but nothing more, this is how we can contribute to the project.

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                                  flohack @phillip.walters
                                  last edited by 24 Jan 2020, 23:55

                                  @phillip-walters Can you boot into recovery right after it locks up with PWR + VolUp, and then get the contents of /sys/fs/pstore/console_ramoops? We might try this

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                                    flohack
                                    last edited by 29 Jan 2020, 19:30

                                    Good News! Tomorrow I should get a new device πŸ˜›

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                                      flohack
                                      last edited by 30 Jan 2020, 20:22

                                      The new device has arrived. Unfortunately I somehow lost a few updates, so now I am back to a state where modem and network does not work...

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                                        phillip.walters @flohack
                                        last edited by 1 Feb 2020, 01:38

                                        @Flohack Sorry for taking so long to reply. I will give that a try.

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                                          flohack
                                          last edited by 6 Feb 2020, 22:26

                                          I just found out that I linked the wrong halium-install release, in case you dont want to clone. Please use only this: https://github.com/JBBgameich/halium-install/releases

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                                            rocket2nfinity
                                            last edited by rocket2nfinity 15 Feb 2020, 10:56

                                            I don't know how to colaborate with your color coded word document, but I have successfully booted Ubuntu Touch on my Nexus 6P!

                                            It took me many many hours of trying combinations to find out the only 7.12 Google images I could boot was the OTA. Factory would not install, lineage 14.1 builds would install but not boot. As soon as I loaded the last 7.1 OTA, and ran the halium script, it came right up. Someone more knowledgeable than I will have to figure out why the others did not work.

                                            Quick rundown of what works:
                                            -gui
                                            -WiFi and cell 4G LTE
                                            -audio
                                            -video

                                            What does not work:
                                            -camera (it crashes the OS hard requiring power + volume to reboot)

                                            Don't know if it works:
                                            -dialer and sms (I have a data only sim in it. will test again after I swap it out)

                                            This is awesome!

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