Xiaomi Poco F1 (Beryllium)

joel

This is a port of Ubuntu Touch to Xiaomi Poco F1 (Beryllium).

Sources: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium
Kernel: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/android_kernel_xiaomi_sdm845
Device: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/android_device_xiaomi_beryllium
Halium: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/local_manifests/blob/master/roomservice.xml

What Works

Wifi
Bluetooth
Mobile Data
Calls
Audio
GPS
Fingerprint
Sensors

What Doesn't Work Properly

Dual Sim usage. Sometimes calls on sim 1 crash with dual sims. Best config is a single sim on slot 2.
The wifi driver doesnt go into sleep mode leading to battery drain when left on for a long time.
Overall Reliability. This is an early/initial effort to run linux on Poco F1. Expect lot of bugs.

You can track the overall porting status here : https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/projectmanagement/issues/20

Instructions
Requires Unlocked Bootloader and Custom Recovery (TWRP recommended). Backup your files. We will be doing a clean installation.

Wipe Dalvik/ART Cache, Cache, System, Data.
Download Android Pie firmware V11.0.5.0 from here and install it from twrp.
Download and install Lineage-16.0 (Pie) from twrp.
After installing lineageos, FORMAT DATA from twrp. (Your Internal Storage will be wiped)
Download the latest UBports GSI image from here and copy it to your device and install the zip file from twrp.
Download the latest halium-boot image from here
You can copy it to device, and use "Install Image" option in twrp to install the halium-boot.img to the Boot partition.
or
You can use your computer to flash the halium boot image using fastboot.
Reboot to the system. Ubuntu should boot.
Both the default username and password is "phablet". You can change it later from terminal using passwd command as in linux os.
To install the proper camera app with fix, open the terminal app in the phone
OR connect your phone to the computer with USB and ssh phablet@10.15.19.82
and run the following commands (Internet Required)
```
wget https://static.peat-network.xyz/junk/ubports/com.ubuntu.camera_3.1.2+gstdroid3_armhf.click

pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted com.ubuntu.camera_3.1.2+gstdroid3_armhf.click
```

Thats it!

Issues/Bug Reports
Feel free to report issues here: Github. Do attach the below logs for debugging:
kernel log:
dmesg

syslog:
cat /var/log/syslog

logcat:
sudo -s
then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/system/lib64 lxc-attach -e -n android -- /system/bin/logcat

Hack, Have Fun and Peace!

TotalSonic

@joel - Thanks so much for this!
What is the current status for camera, camera flash/zoom, torch, and video encoding/decoding for the F1?

Best regards,
Steve Berson

mikhael

@joel Thank you very much! Works great!

@TotalSonic said in Xiaomi Poco F1 (Beryllium):

What is the current status for camera, camera flash/zoom, torch, and video encoding/decoding for the F1?

Camera works, recording videos works, flash works, torch works. Haven't tried playing local video files other than taken with camera, but youtube in Morph works.

Fartroice

@joel said in Xiaomi Poco F1 (Beryllium):

This is a port of Ubuntu Touch to Xiaomi Poco F1 (Beryllium).

Sources: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium
Kernel: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/android_kernel_xiaomi_sdm845
Device: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/android_device_xiaomi_beryllium
Halium: https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/local_manifests/blob/master/roomservice.xml

What Works

Wifi

Bluetooth

Mobile Data

Calls

Audio

GPS

Fingerprint

Sensors

What Doesn't Work Properly

Dual Sim usage. Sometimes calls on sim 1 crash with dual sims. Best config is a single sim on slot 2.

The wifi driver doesnt go into sleep mode leading to battery drain when left on for a long time.

Overall Reliability. This is an early/initial effort to run linux on Poco F1. Expect lot of bugs.

You can track the overall porting status here : https://github.com/ubports-beryllium/projectmanagement/issues/20

Instructions
Requires Unlocked Bootloader and Custom Recovery (TWRP recommended). Backup your files. We will be doing a clean installation.
Wipe Dalvik/ART Cache, Cache, System, Data.

Download Android Pie firmware V11.0.5.0 from here and install it from twrp.

Download and install Lineage-16.0 (Pie) from twrp.

After installing lineageos, FORMAT DATA from twrp. (Your Internal Storage will be wiped)

Download the latest UBports GSI image from here and copy it to your device and install the zip file from twrp.

Download the latest halium-boot image from here

You can copy it to device, and use "Install Image" option in twrp to install the halium-boot.img to the Boot partition.
or
You can use your computer to flash the halium boot image using fastboot.

Reboot to the system. Ubuntu should boot.

Both the default username and password is "phablet". You can change it later from terminal using passwd command as in linux os.
To install the proper camera app with fix, open the terminal app in the phone
OR connect your phone to the computer with USB and ssh phablet@10.15.19.82
and run the following commands (Internet Required)
wget https://static.peat-network.xyz/junk/ubports/com.ubuntu.camera_3.1.2+gstdroid3_armhf.click

pkcon install-local --allow-untrusted com.ubuntu.camera_3.1.2+gstdroid3_armhf.click
Thats it!

Issues/Bug Reports
Feel free to report issues here: Github. Do attach the below logs for debugging:
kernel log:
dmesg

syslog:
cat /var/log/syslog

logcat:
sudo -s
then
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/system/lib64 lxc-attach -e -n android -- /system/bin/logcat

Hack, Have Fun and Peace!

Hi, will this receive OTA updates in line with the official UBports Rom?

AppLee

@Fartroice
If I'm correct, depending on how well featured is the port it will then be added to the installer:
https://forums.ubports.com/topic/4328/qa-checklist-for-ported-devices

But I don't know the details.