Call for testing: Google/Huawei Nexus 6P (angler) owners
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@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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@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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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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@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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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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@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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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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@phillip-walters Not sure, maybe 2 or 3 minutes. Do you get anything in dmesg -w on the host?
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No. No RNDIS interface or anything. I'm wondering if my phone is hosed up.
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@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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@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.
I´m an idiot, I did not take out my contact lenses this eve, and so I couldnßt really see what I was doing
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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@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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@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
but lets seeI 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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@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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@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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Good News! Tomorrow I should get a new device
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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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@Flohack Sorry for taking so long to reply. I will give that a try.
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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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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
-videoWhat 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!
