[Beta] Pixel 2 installer config

agates · 18 Aug 2021, 23:33

@flohack best email I've gotten all week! Will give it a shot.

flohack · 19 Aug 2021, 06:55

Here is the instruction how to flash:

Download https://ci.ubports.com/job/UBportsCommunityPortsJenkinsCI/job/ubports%252Fcommunity-ports%252Fjenkins-ci%252Fwalleye-taimen/job/main/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/halium-boot_walleye.img and flash this with fastboot flash boot halium-boot_walleye.img

Good Luck!

i2097i · 9 Mar 2021, 03:50

I am unable to get past the recovery step. Everything seems to work, I reboot to recovery and I can interact with the UBports recovery mode interface but it never continues from that point. Any ideas?

Update: It seems to hang on the

Preparing system image
Mounting partitions...

section after the reboot to recovery (screenshot attached).

It could be that I am not giving it enough time so I am going to leave it throughout the night. Here is the verbose output of my UBPorts session:

...
info: Downloading 8 files
info: Downloaded file 1 of 8
info: Downloaded file 2 of 8
info: Downloaded file 3 of 8
info: Downloaded file 4 of 8
info: Downloaded file 5 of 8
info: Downloaded file 6 of 8
info: Downloaded file 7 of 8
info: Downloaded file 8 of 8
verbose: running core action write
verbose: running adb action wait
verbose: running adb action preparesystemimage

Thanks!

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 06:59

Pixel 2 does not boot into UI anyways, I would ask you to wait a bit until we can get this sorted out finally. If you like, you can help debugging it maybe, if you are ok with using adb and fastboot directly.

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 09:57

Ok guys lets try a different approach. Can you please enter fastboot, flash that image into boot: https://twoot.bin.org.in/nextcloud/index.php/s/mzfmYJscqPyM2Bc with fastboot flash boot boot.img - so far so old.
Now: DO NOT reboot, but select Boot to recovery. Does this bring up our UT recovery screen?

Thanks!

i2097i · 3 Sept 2021, 10:35

@flohack

Booted to fastboot
ran fastboot flash boot boot.img with this img

I am not sure what is meant by DO NOT reboot, but select Boot to recovery. After running the fastboot command should I just use volume up/down to make the recovery reboot option be visible? Not sure if it is supposed to do something at that point.

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 10:44

@i2097i Yes exactly, select manually the recovery option.

i2097i · 9 Mar 2021, 11:00

@Flohack
yes, if I press the power button on recovery, it boots to UBPorts Recovery.

I also wanted to mention that I let this run all night and it was still on the verbose: running adb action preparesystemimage when I woke up this morning.

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 13:35

@i2097i Oh yes please dont do that, to not damage your display if its not turned off by recovery - the install will not take longer than a few minutes, otherwise its broken
Ok but good to hear, we have a working recovery...

So actually the kernel is fine. Can you do the following then:

Boot into recovery
Check with adb devices that you can see the device
use adb shell to gain shell access into the recovery
Issue a mount data that should get userdata online
Do a ls -la /data and paste the result here

Thanks!

i2097i · 3 Sept 2021, 15:28

@Flohack The screen does turn off after a certain amount of time so my display is all good!

Here is the output:

: adb shell
root@walleye:/ # ^C                                                                                                                                                                          
130|root@walleye:/ # pwd
/
root@walleye:/ # ls -la /data
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 0 1970-01-01 00:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 0 1973-04-20 00:54 ..
root@walleye:/ #

/data is empty it seems.

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 16:08

@i2097i Did you mount data? can you check with simply typing mount ? Its unlikely that it is fully empty

i2097i · 3 Sept 2021, 18:43

@Flohack

My bad - I did not run mount data. Now adb shell is just hanging. Is there some where that I can see logging for this?

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 18:45

@i2097i No, adb is a very quiet protocol - try unplug/replug and reconnect

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 18:45

@i2097i Or do you mean the mount command does not finish?

i2097i · 3 Sept 2021, 18:49

@Flohack

this is the general gist of what I am doing:

adb reboot recovery && adb wait-for-recovery && adb shell "mount data" && adb shell "ls -la /data"

I haven't been able to get any adb commands to run on the device itself (adb devices works)

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 19:07

@i2097i Just try to get adb shell working to get an interactive shell

i2097i · 3 Sept 2021, 19:08

@Flohack same issue - I'm going to factory restore this device and try again. I'll post my findings asap.

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 19:23

@i2097i a simple adb shell should never get stuck, yes do that plz. And use an Android 9 image maybe to flash a few system partitions with the right version

i2097i · 3 Sept 2021, 20:23

@Flohack Yeah, the hanging of adb shell is likely on my end somehow. I am going to try a different cable along with rebuilding.

Yeah, I'll have to get these partitions cleaned up . I've been using the last Pie update PQ3A.190801.002 (5670241) to refresh.

flohack · 3 Sept 2021, 20:28

@i2097i I agree thats the one I would have taken too