Waydroid Clipboard Broken - Permanently

Connor · 31 Jul 2022, 13:31

@domubpkm I see what you're saying, but search engines, and particularly the one used on this website, are not really that great at finding answers. They don't understand context, and the technical details behind the problem, and indeed, nor may the searcher. As someone who has spent two full days searching both here, and in Google, for information on fixing the clipboard in Waydroid and uninstalling Waydroid completely; relevant and up to date information is hard to come by, and if it exists, it is often buried in a mass of unrelated posts. It doesn't help that most people only know certain symptoms of their problem, and not what the actual cause is.

thousandtopics · 11 Aug 2022, 04:47

@lakotaubp I already tried that, it doesn't work completely well

thousandtopics · 11 Aug 2022, 04:51

@domubpkm I don't know if everyone most of the people does, but I search, search a lot. Something very "funny" I found are some answers to some questions I have with 3 years in the forum not answered. I think that there are priorities for certain topics. I can understand why of course. So, don't worry I'll keep asking things and reviving old threads that shouldn't be unattended . . . yet

thousandtopics · 8 Nov 2022, 05:44

@connor In addition to that, I think that people here that are super technicall and just understad all in code is that. They need to understad us, non-very techy people, because people that know less than us, know even less . . . are the target market. The ones who might fill the project with donations and stuff.

just, if get into a solution, create a post in the forum and add Guide at the tittle of the post. Believe me, it's going to help us a lot, tech savvy people can check the post and add retro to the post. So we follow the steps that's it!

We just want to add our grain of sand to the castle, just let us guides to let us help or at least just follow the post steps. We love you guys, stay safe and eat your vegetables

Lakotaubp · 11 Aug 2022, 05:03

@thousandtopics The best thing with old threads especially if they are long, is start a new thread and use the old one as a reference point. Saves a lot of scrolling.

thousandtopics · 11 Aug 2022, 05:05

@lakotaubp well, that works too

picrard · 31 Aug 2022, 05:16

@thousandtopics / @Connor

......my clipboard is also dead, using a Fairphone 3+, I have installed ubport and after that via the installer waydroid, why is the "Google" button in the upper right corner of the installer,
(does it start initiation with waydroit init -s GAPPS after installation????) when it doesn't work, I would have been better I havent pressed it, don't know what's now, maybe this is the issue, why the clipboard doesn't work?

So what do I have to do now? Reinstall Ubuntu and Waydroid without GAPPS ???

Is the issue also present when you don't install the non Google version?

I had seen a fix via adb(https://webplover.com/blog/android-10-clipboard-solution/), but I can't find andy phone with

adb devices

in the terminal of UBports...

any solutions without reeinstalling the whole system?

Lakotaubp · 31 Aug 2022, 06:06

@picrard You could try removing WayDroid with WayDroid helper then reinstalling following these instructions https://forums.ubports.com/topic/5907/open-ubuntu-touch-to-all-android-applications/115 try switching the screen off funcrion to never or a longer time while installing.

Connor · 16 Oct 2022, 16:31

I managed to resolve my issue of the clipboard not working in Waydroid by simply installing an older image of Waydroid, I believe it was from May 2022. The clipboard worked again and I was able to install GApps again without any problems.

picrard · 16 Oct 2022, 16:31

@connor could you please explain a little bit more, how you have fixed the issue, I have still this problem with the clipboard, have now installed waydroid a several time, but ->paste still doesn't work, it's frustrating....thank you

Talkless · 25 Oct 2022, 08:39

Installed Waydroid using Waydroid Helper for the first time on my Volla Phone X, and too noticed that clipboard does not work.

Talkless · 25 Oct 2022, 09:20

I've reported it upstream: https://github.com/waydroid/waydroid/issues/556

Talkless · 25 Oct 2022, 19:03

It seems that paste does not work even within Waydroid, i.e. if I copy from one Android app, I cannot paste to another Android app. There's no Paste, just Cut, Copy, ...

Connor · 11 Oct 2022, 17:14

@picrard I uninstalled and reinstalled many times without success, I think that the problem lies with the Waydroid image itself, so reinstalling just re-added the problem each time. I have no idea if it has been fixed in the meantime.

What I did to fix it, and I have since used this to fix other Waydroid problems. Is simply download an older Waydroid image from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/waydroid/files/images/

You have to download both a system and a vendor image, I assume from the same date. I used one from May 2022. Make sure you have Waydroid installed, and then simply delete the existing images from the folder:

/var/lib/waydroid/images/

There should be a system.img and a vendor.img in there. Delete those and copy over the system.img and vendor.img you downloaded into that folder. You can use the command line or the File Manager to do that. Then just start Waydroid. All your setings and files in Waydroid should still be there.