Xiaomi Redmi 4X (santoni)

[aceclan]

@4htet , if You read again the steps I wrote:

• Reboot to Recovery, so ADB recovery is active , flash from Your Desktop:

path/to/halium-install -p ut path/to/rootfs.tar.gz path/to/system.img

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Explain:

When You are in recovery mode and connect the USB cable, the ADB recovery mode is active. (I suppose You already have android SDK, ADB , fastboot tools...)
To check use command:
adb devices
in fastboot :
fastboot devices

so in this step won't flash from TWRP GUI, just use TWRP for adb, and reboot.

How to flash, was specified already by @Danct12 , read here:
http://docs.ubports.com/en/latest/porting/installing-16-04.html

the basic is ->
path/to/halium-install -p ut path/to/rootfs.tar.gz path/to/system.img,

Best regards,
Alex

[4htet]

@aceclan Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions. Now , when the terminal tell me to set password, this message is showing continuously. "chroot: failed to run command 'passwd' : Exec format error failed, please try again"

Edit: Now I know that I cant chroot into rootfs on my redmi4x which means qemu-user-static is not working on my Ubuntu 19.04. Still can`t find the fix for that.

[A Former User]

Hey, I'm having some problems getting my 4X to boot into UT. I'm on Ubuntu 18.04 and downloaded latest System and Boot image from the Github. I also unlocked my bootloader and flashed newest TWRP. After that, I flashed Halium-Boot through fastboot. After booting back to TWRP( to get ADB to work) I started normally flashing with halium-install.
Everything seems to be fine. It asked me for password and flashed system and rootfs to /data. After that while trying to boot the OS, it just locks up on Mi Logo and on dmesg -w I see:

Here's the last message from Halium-Install:

I really don't know what's the problem here. I tried reformatting /data, /system, /cache etc. and same results, I also tried installing LineageOS 16 (Official) and install ut on top of that but still the same thing.
Any help is appriciated!

[flohack]

@BlackOtton Well you are in emergency telnet mode, maybe you should use telnet to connect to the shown IP and see what dmesg says there ^^

[Danct12]

@4htet Make sure qemu-user-binfmt is installed on your host.

[Danct12]

@BlackOtton Is your data partition f2fs? If it is then change it back to ext4.

[4htet]

@Danct12 Now booting on Ubuntu. Thx for ur help.

[A Former User]

@Danct12 Thanks, reformatting /data to ext4 finally worked.

[aceclan]

@4htet , I also had many problems with halium-install, I've spent a lot of time to figuring out , using manjaro linux ...

I've installed the : qemu-arm-static , binfmt-qemu-static, simg2img from simg-tools package

and changed a line in function setup_passwd() ,from "halium-install/functions/distributions.sh"

   do_until_success sudo chroot "$ROOTFS_DIR" passwd $user
        to
   sudo chroot "$ROOTFS_DIR" passwd $user

on the halium install script are described the dependencies:

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"
Halium installer script
Copyright (C) 2017 JBBgameich
Copyright (C) 2017 TheWiseNerd

License: GPLv3

dependencies: qemu binfmt-support qemu-user-static e2fsprogs sudo simg2img
"

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best regards,
Alex

[aceclan]

Hello @Danct12 ,

Flashing again Your last build, Mon 09 MAR, without any wipe -> all my settings were kept, this is normal? This is a feature? ... because of user data is stored in santoni:/data/user-data/phablet ?

Another problem network interface from computer disappearing during the UB boot.
Appearing for a short time then disappear.

[aceclan]

@aceclan
Resolved, flashed the anterior.

[danqo6]

@aceclan Your home directory should stay intact, I flashed my nexus 5 on legacy build with halium 7.1 build and everything worked fine.

[4htet]

I tried to log in to google account to sync my contacts. But at the log in page, keyboard is not popping up( not showing) . And one more thing, my language BURMESE letters are not showing in sms. Showing only square characters. I tried to install fonts and it is saying read only file system. Any IDEA?

[bisaalz]

Please help me i tried everything always stuck at mi logo, i formated the data and flashed it and still stuck at mi logo never booted to ubuntu. please someone provide step by step process

[Danct12]

@4htet Keyboard not popping up at Google page is probably a UBports error, the same issue is on Oneplus 3.

And read-only file system, you can try sudo mount -o rw,remount / to remount the rootfs as root.

But your language issue is weird, it could be a UBports issue unless someone tested it on official supported device.

[Danct12]

@bisaalz Format your /data partition as ext4.

[danqo6]

Same for me, format data as ext4 does not help. I am unable get any logs, dmesg -w on PC does not show anything, /sys/fs/pstore/console-ramoops file does not exist. I am unable to boot your recovery, sudo fastboot boot recovery.img show only mi logo. I tried to downgrade firmware, compile system by my own, many recovery images. But I am unable to boot this (and recovery from that post too). Some people on XDA have similar problem. I was using lastest MIUI 11.2 before.

[danqo6]

@Danct12 maybe we should update blobs, I am not sure what else to do.

[Danct12]

@danqo6 Perhaps you could try to flash a LOS 14.1 rom first and see if LOS loads.

[aceclan]

@danqo6 , from the fastboot mode, check first:
$ fastboot devices
330915847d15 fastboot

then download and use: Latest TWRP

$ fastboot boot twrp-3.3.1-0-santoni.img
Sending 'boot.img' (24844 KB) OKAY [ 0.783s]
Booting OKAY [ 0.715s]
Finished. Total time: 1.615s

After Backup ALL and copy TWRP folder to Your PC,
full format: Wipe/Format Data is needed to remove encryption

After flash system.img and rootfs.tar.gz don't forget to boot again to fastboot and flash hallium-boot.img:
fastboot flash boot halium-boot.img