[Porting] Call for Testers

michi2302 · 10 Feb 2021, 08:43

so now the phone boots up !!
the problem was the recovery.img I downloaded from http://twoot.bin.org.in/nextcloud/index.php/s/2Zk2Lz8cZCdqArT

now I installed trwp an all went fine...

thx for help - have a nice day

Ianus · 10 Feb 2021, 10:00

@michi2302
You need the phone to be in TWRP to run halium-install-standalone.sh.
The filesystem you see from adb in TWRP and in Android/Ubuntu Touch is different.
I think recovery.img contains the original recovery, which I can't find how to use adb to connect to.

Shadowbird2468 · 11 Feb 2021, 21:08

I'd like to learn more about UT dialing software. Could someone point me towards right direction, where I should start studying and looking into in all that stuff, in order to learn to help with the development. I tested and saw that the phone dials and rings, but after accepting a call, there is no voice been sent or received. Also couldn't end the call and even if the other person ends it, it will still look like the call is on with the OT phone. (I rebooted the phone to get the call off). Also sometimes it seemed like there was 2calls on at the same time with the same person. So, what kind of a problem we are dealing with here?

flohack · 12 Feb 2021, 09:38

@shadowbird2468 The problems are that calling in general has issues in Halium 9. Currently it makes no sense I believe you look into this things, there are other people already on it. There are 3 or 4 services involved in calling, plus the Android container also ^^

A Former User · 13 Feb 2021, 22:16

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A Former User · 14 Feb 2021, 05:08

Install went smoothly. No issues.

I'm in the USA on Tmobile. It does not see a sim card or even mention the option of mobile network in settings. I have tried both sim slots.

Wifi works great, but the icon doesn't always show up despite connecting and working.

Camera works great, video included. Best I've used so far.

One small bug I have noticed is that I cannot always swipe right from left edge to open the app drawer.. Sometimes it will and other times nothing happens no matter how many times I try.

GPS seems to work just fine for me. So does bluetooth, though I didn't test it very long.

It lets me set my fingerprints and reads them fine, but the option to use it to unlock the screen is greyed out.

Honestly, besides the swipe issue, if I had mobile network and data this thing would daily driveable. Can't wait to see this one as a stable release. Everything is quick and smooth and I really like it. Great job yall!

nametable · 18 Feb 2021, 00:55

Installation was fairly easy.

The main issues/things that don't work expect that I've noticed are:

WiFi issues (networks showed at first but later do not show up at all)
Mobile Data issues (txt works OK, device has ip from carrier but connection still does not work)
- I am in the US with TMobile
- Unlike @drym4rch0n , my device does recognize the sim in slot one as TMobile
- Looks like it would work with some tweaks (although I'm not sure what those are yet)
Sound in calls does not work
Bluetooth Audio does not work (although discovery and pairing seemed to work ok)
Touch buttons do not do anything currently
Slider does not do anything

Overall, I am impressed with how much does work!
Where can I find the source and instructions for trying to build myself? I might be interested in trying to hunt down some bugs.

flohack · 18 Feb 2021, 08:39

Thanks for trying out!

Yes I can publish build instructions here...

Just some notes:

Touch buttons are entirely disfunctional in Ubuntu Touch, there is no UX that involves using that buttons, so its no device issue
Slider button is unique to Oneplus 5 - what does it do in Android if you know?
Fingerprint reader wakes up the device currently since it emulates "keypresses"

AntiDroid · 18 Feb 2021, 09:38

@flohack said in [Porting] Call for Testers:

Slider button is unique to Oneplus 5 - what does it do in Android if you know?

The OnePlus 6T has a slider on the side above the power button that in Android switched between Silent, Vibration and Ringer.

Lakotaubp · 18 Feb 2021, 10:24

@antidroid The silent mode works on the OP3 running UT from the slider (jfi) not sure about vibration.

Keneda · 19 Feb 2021, 05:04

@flohack said in [Porting] Call for Testers:

Touch buttons are entirely disfunctional in Ubuntu Touch

But those buttons can be activated, i know because on my MX4 the touch button works (now triggers app drawer, in the canonical era it was app launcher). ^^

I don't say it's easy, but possible

p4p1 · 20 Feb 2021, 18:10

Amazing work everything works fine even apt I had to remount the file system in rw to get it to work other than that everything was fine except phone nor SMS I did not have the prompt to enter my pin I'm using a french sim card thow so maybe that why it did not work. Are french phone carriers supported by UT?

flohack · 22 Feb 2021, 12:27

@p4p1 Yes all carriers are basically supported

Ianus · 5 Mar 2021, 17:25

I have found how to workaround the WiFi symbol and AP list problem.
Connect from ssh and restart the desktop with the following command.

sudo service lightdm restart

This doesn't work when executing from the internal terminal. The phone just goes black.

Raysun96 · 6 Mar 2021, 09:46

@ianus another way:
Install UT Tweak Tool and select system / restart unity 8

yehuda · 7 Mar 2021, 16:18

I see one for sale for $130 I'm getting it
It looks like you guys are working on it and I'd be thrilled to help test it

I'm assuming this will be a fully functioning smartphone within the next year

flohack · 19 Apr 2021, 22:24

Since Saturday we now have call audio working, so the only real drawback is now that the WiFi does not show up on every boot, and we cannot put it right into the installer now. But, with the description in the beginning of this thread you can install the latest images and now have more features working

TroubbleGum · 1 May 2021, 12:10

I have a Oneplus 5, doesn't boot past "1+ powered by Android" screen after following all instructions.

After running the script, I end up with these in /data

android-rootfs.img lost+found media rootfs.img

That should be correct with -s

Has anyone here gotten the current images to run on a Oneplus 5?

j0e · 25 May 2021, 20:07

Hi everyone, I'm very happy to see this happening as a owner of both devices (5 and 5T). Not being a developer i would be very happy to help out with testing.
The building/flashing process (following the instructions on the pad) just works very flawlessly, but unfortunately I'm not being able to run the OS. I am using the oneplus5 to try this out and I am getting the same result many already got in this thread: stuck on oneplus logo.

i checked the presence and size of the files on /data/ :
487043072 android-rootfs.img (slightly smaller then someone above)
3221225472 rootfs.img

I've spot this on nautilus

and this is what dmesg says about it

i hope this can help someone to help me back. ask any questions i can try whatever.

flohack · 25 May 2021, 21:36

@j0e Did you have encrypted partitions before?