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    S3 Installer: Now looking for beta testers ...

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    • Flohack
      Flohack last edited by Flohack

      ... well thats unfortunate, now that everything is ready with the Samsung S3 Neo to join the installer, it turns out that Halium 5.1 does not want to build on the new 20.04 build hosts with GCC 9 - we are working on a fix, stand by.

      Already solved!

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      • Flohack
        Flohack last edited by

        Oh well turns out it went faster as expected... Now looking for beta testers for the installer... 🙂

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          Anarchronox @Flohack last edited by

          @flohack
          Hi, I have a S3 neo lying around here for many years. I'd really like to test the ubports installer.

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            Anotherlinuxnoob last edited by

            Same here it's just collecting dust right now so I'm in

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            • Flohack
              Flohack last edited by

              Well its already real, you can install now with the UBports Installer found here: https://github.com/ubports/ubports-installer/releases

              Enjoy 😉

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                Vartojas last edited by

                Successfully Installed Samsung III Neo without any problems besides my impatience in the end. (tried to reboot before the installation process was finished - that's why i needed to flash a second time. maybe a little remark in the installer like - don't switch off your phone until ... - might be helpful for ignorant people like me)
                After the rather annoying pinephone experience i am now again a happy user of a functioning (and especially: affordable) ut device.
                thx to the porter!

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                  owlbrick last edited by owlbrick

                  Hi, tried the installer but the device reboots to Samsung splash screen.

                  Let me know which info I can provide you.

                  I can access adb shell while the device is stuck at the splash screen: if i run "uname -r" it returns the name of the ROM I had previously installed (even if I wiped the system in theory). So it's safe to say it did not install ubuntu...?

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                  • Flohack
                    Flohack @owlbrick last edited by

                    @owlbrick How can you run uname -r, how did you connect to the device?

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                      owlbrick @Flohack last edited by owlbrick

                      @flohack The phone reboots to system after install, but hangs on samsung spash screen. I can connect to adb shell and run uname -r, but as it shows cyanogenmod (the ROM I had previously installed) I get that installation was not successful.

                      Could you point me to manual installation guide? If running it manually doesn't solve the problem we can rule out the installer.

                      I looked at https://pad.ubports.com/p/samsung-s3neo-alphatesting, but there seems to be a nextcloud link which is now empty (also someone translated it in spanish, but previous versions are accessible).

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                      • Flohack
                        Flohack @owlbrick last edited by

                        @owlbrick The installer works, and no, its not easy to install UT manually. You have to convert, resize partition images, mount images into images or unpack image files into a partition ^^

                        Thats why we have the installer. You can send me a log though, the installer creates a new one every time when you start it, so let it run through once, and then send me this. Somehwere in cache folder ^^

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                          owlbrick last edited by owlbrick

                          @Flohack Ok, I did some research... I had data and cache partitions formatted as f2fs while ubuntu needs ext4. Fixing this made possible to install Ubuntu Touch. Maybe it could be useful to say it in the installer!

                          Now I have another problem: phone is stuck at loading screen with the five flashing dots. How can I debug this?

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                          • Flohack
                            Flohack @owlbrick last edited by

                            @owlbrick Oh thats interesting, another user reported the same. It might be because of our devel channel is getting updates for Qt 5.12 - I will try to find out

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                            • Flohack
                              Flohack last edited by

                              Hi guys, yes, update 80 seems to break UI. I am looking into removing that faulty one 😉

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                              • Flohack
                                Flohack last edited by

                                Unfortunately update cannot be easily removed, but we found the problem and are working on a fix....

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                                • Flohack
                                  Flohack last edited by

                                  Fix is committed. Now comes the fun part: You need to reinstall 🙂 - Boot to recovery with Vol-Up plus Power, until you see the recovery screen. From there take the installer. You can uncheck "Bootstrap" to make install a bit faster, and you MUST uncheck "Wipe userdata" obviously 😉

                                  Good Luck!

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                                    owlbrick @Flohack last edited by

                                    @flohack Wow that was quick! It worked!

                                    BTW I have something to report with the installer. After starting the installation with the phone in recovery, the phone rebooted to recovery again while the installer was downloading Ubuntu. After this, the installer got stuck on the "Preparing system image" screen. As I noticed that my machine didn't recognize any new device connected, I unplugged and replugged the phone (this time my machine recognized the device connected) and the installer immediatly started sending the image and correctly completing the installation.

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                                    • Flohack
                                      Flohack @owlbrick last edited by

                                      @owlbrick Humm yes S3 Neo needs an unplug/plug event to see new host 😛 I will update the popups

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