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    Possible to reduce bootimg size or resize /boot?

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      EliCh
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      Hi everyone,

      I have struggled for days to revive my old device (Huawei MT7 / PE) with Ubuntu Touch. And finally passed the compilation.

      However, what bothered me is that the output halium-boot.img is of size 17700864 while partition /boot is of size 14680064.

      Are there any way to resize eMMC blocks of Android devices?

      Or are there some drivers unnecessary for Ubuntu that I can remove them from kernel?

      Any other ideas are welcome.

      Thanks at all !

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        AppLee @EliCh
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        Hi and welcome @elich

        If I understand (at least a bit) your post, you're trying to port Ubuntu Touch to your device (Huawei MT7).
        So I moved your post to the porting category.

        Thanks for your efforts to bring Ubuntu Touch to a broader public..

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          Keneda @EliCh
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          @elich
          Did you previously install a custom rom on this phone ?
          From then did you reinstall last halium compatible factory rom on the device (the one you based your port on)?

          2015-2023 : Meizu MX4 now in legacy drawer by lack of pristine battery šŸ˜«
          2023-***** : Nexus 5 (16.04 OTA 25) for daily use, slowly dying šŸ¤•
          2024-***** : Fairphone 5 waiting UT for freedom šŸ˜‰
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            nero355 @EliCh
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            @elich said in Possible to reduce bootimg size or resize /boot?:

            However, what bothered me is that the output halium-boot.img is of size 17700864 while partition /boot is of size 14680064.

            Are there any way to resize eMMC blocks of Android devices?

            I am not an expert but as far as I know it should be possible if you can flash TWRP to the phone first ?!

            I have seen some posts in the past where some guys were messing with the partitions of a phone and I think they were succesfull...

            Please check XDA Developers Forum for more information and as always : Good luck! šŸ™‚

            My phones :

            • BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Phone Edition - Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS
            • ZUK Z2 Pro - ZUI Android 8.x
            • Xiaomi Mi 9T - Jolla SailFish 3.4.x Community Build

            P.S. : I am NOT a developer! ;)

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              EliCh @AppLee
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              @applee Oh yes, I misunderstood the categories. Thanks !

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                EliCh @Keneda
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                @keneda Currently a cm-based MIUI OS runs on my phone but this is my first trail to porting halium boot to a device

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                  EliCh @nero355
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                  @nero355 Thanks for your suggestion !

                  I heard that TWRP is useful but I found it provides partition tool only for ext4 blocks ...

                  I am trying to understand how it modify DPT however reviewing source code is a hard work ...

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                    EliCh
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                    Oh it seems that I have post a stupid question ...

                    After searching, I learned that there is an adapted version of gparted (named parted or parted for Android) to edit DPT.

                    Whence it is easy to remove and remake partitions, just like working on desktop systems.

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                      nero355 @EliCh
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                      @elich said in Possible to reduce bootimg size or resize /boot?:

                      @nero355 Thanks for your suggestion !

                      I heard that TWRP is useful but I found it provides partition tool only for ext4 blocks ...

                      Weird... šŸ˜ž

                      I can remember the same guys doing some F2FS related things too ?!

                      My phones :

                      • BQ Aquaris E5 HD Ubuntu Phone Edition - Ubuntu Touch 16.04 LTS
                      • ZUK Z2 Pro - ZUI Android 8.x
                      • Xiaomi Mi 9T - Jolla SailFish 3.4.x Community Build

                      P.S. : I am NOT a developer! ;)

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                        Emphrath @nero355
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                        @nero355 yes, twrp does f2fs

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