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Focal and Waydroid news for Lenovo X605

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved Lenovo Tab M10 X605F/L
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      Resonus @Luksus
      last edited by 4 Mar 2023, 12:11

      @luksus Thanks for responding.

      I've installed the qdl utility.
      Tablet is a 3GB RAM - 32GB ROM version.
      Pretty sure I'm not doing the qdl bit right. I've downloaded and extracted the ROW.
      Installed qdl and run 'qdl prog_emmc_firehose_8953_ddr.mbn rawprogram_unsparse_upgrade.xml patch0.xml' from the top level folder of the ROW.

      I get the error.
      Waiting for EDL device
      *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
      Aborted (core dumped)

      Even before I've tried to connect the Tablet. I've read all I can online about installing and using qdl. I'm running Ubuntu.

      Lee.

      L 1 Reply Last reply 4 Mar 2023, 23:41 Reply Quote 0
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        Luksus @Resonus
        last edited by 4 Mar 2023, 23:41

        @resonus
        So before connecting, the device needs to be turned off.
        And when connecting hold both volume buttons pressed until qdl tool on pc starts to do something.

        If you did it like that, maybe your qdl tool is broken. Did you install it through snap?

        Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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          Resonus @Luksus
          last edited by 5 Mar 2023, 12:39

          @luksus Hi.
          Yes, I did through snap.
          I did get the Tab into edl mode, but connected or otherwise I get the same error.
          Is there a step by step (idiots) guide to installing and using? Sure I've miss-stepped somewhere.
          L.

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            Luksus @Resonus
            last edited by Luksus 3 May 2023, 13:15 5 Mar 2023, 13:10

            @resonus if you can, try to compile the qdl utility by yourself and use this version.
            That worked for me when I had issues with precompiled qdl packages.
            You can follow this guide:
            https://github.com/96boards/documentation/blob/master/consumer/guides/qdl.md

            Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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              Resonus @Luksus
              last edited by 5 Mar 2023, 17:10

              @luksus
              Tried a couple of things, got the same error using the compiled qdl utility.
              So I thought I'd try a different machine entirely. I have a spare Pi hanging around, gave it a fresh install and installed qdl and curiously got the exact same error.
              Waiting for EDL device
              *** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated
              Aborted
              At least I'm consistent! 🙂
              L.

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                Luksus @Resonus
                last edited by 7 Mar 2023, 09:22

                @resonus I tried to write down my step on flashing the X605 here:
                https://forums.ubports.com/post/71223

                Please lets move the discussion there, if you have further questions regarding qdl.

                Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                  muskist @Luksus
                  last edited by 21 Mar 2023, 19:00

                  @luksus
                  Thanks for the instructions!
                  Is it possible to do this on a 2GB-device? The device can't be booted to recovery if it's a UT-recovery. But is that even necessary?

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                    Luksus @muskist
                    last edited by 21 Mar 2023, 19:12

                    @muskist No, recovery is not necessary.
                    You can flash boot and system partitions on the 2GB version too.
                    You just won't get ever OTA updates for it.

                    Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                      muskist @Luksus
                      last edited by 21 Mar 2023, 19:22

                      @luksus
                      Thanks! I'll give it a try.

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                        muskist @Luksus
                        last edited by muskist 22 Mar 2023, 14:58

                        @luksus
                        Installed it and it booted!

                        How did you install waydroid? The old way:

                        sudo -s
                        mount -o remount,rw /
                        apt update
                        apt install waydroid -y
                        waydroid init
                        

                        ?

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                          Luksus @muskist
                          last edited by 22 Mar 2023, 15:05

                          @muskist no, waydroid is already installed.

                          just do sudo waydroid init or use the waydroid helper app.

                          Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                            muskist @Luksus
                            last edited by 22 Mar 2023, 15:26

                            @luksus
                            Thx!

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                              muskist @Luksus
                              last edited by 22 Mar 2023, 21:48

                              @luksus
                              Sadly I get command not found when doing sudo waydroid init

                              Sure Waydroid is installed? Or is it not in $PATH?

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                                Luksus @muskist
                                last edited by 23 Mar 2023, 07:58

                                @muskist thats strange, are you sure you downloaded and installed the Focal build and not Xenial?
                                I am sure, that waydroid should be installed as default and accessible from the terminal.

                                Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                                  muskist @Luksus
                                  last edited by muskist 23 Mar 2023, 09:02

                                  @luksus said in Focal and Waydroid news for Lenovo X605:

                                  @muskist thats strange, are you sure you downloaded and installed the Focal build and not Xenial?

                                  Good question! I was able to install TELEports for 20.04 (v1.17.1) so I thought it's 20.04.

                                  But UT Tweak Tool told me it's 16.04.7 LTS. And Waydroid didn't show up.

                                  So I downloaded the artifacts.zip again from the link you gave above. I chose the latest one saying "passed" and "devel-flashable: archive". Maybe that's the wrong one?

                                  EDIT: Just saw it: "devel-flashable:archive" != "devel-flashable-focal:archive" - sorry for the fuss! I'll try again.

                                  Still wondering about TELEports v1.17.1 ...

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                                    Luksus @muskist
                                    last edited by 23 Mar 2023, 09:52

                                    @muskist yes, the latest build is marked as canceled, but I just canceled the xenial build, you can still download the flashable-focal zip.

                                    I know it is a little bit confusing.

                                    Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                                      muskist @Luksus
                                      last edited by 24 Mar 2023, 10:03

                                      @luksus
                                      Unfortunately it doesn't work.

                                      After flashing boot.img and ubuntu.img and doing fastboot reboot
                                      the device gets stuck in a loop:

                                      • starting with vibration
                                      • showing the "Lenovo" screen for about 40 seconds
                                      • screen goes dark
                                      • starting with vibration
                                      • showing the "Lenovo" screen for about 40 seconds
                                      • ...

                                      I suppose you did it on a 3GB/32GB device?
                                      Maybe it's the known unsuitability of the 2GB/16GB device.

                                      I will stop trying unless you have another tip. But please don't waste your time on this! You're doing great work on the 3GB/32GB device (and I have one of those, too 🙂 )!

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                                        muskist @muskist
                                        last edited by 25 Mar 2023, 11:05

                                        @muskist said in Focal and Waydroid news for Lenovo X605:

                                        @luksus
                                        Unfortunately it doesn't work.
                                        [...]

                                        Success!
                                        I flashed boot.img from artifacts.zip for 16.04 and ubuntu.img for 20.04. Device booted, starting 20.04 afterwards.
                                        "Ein blindes Huhn findet auch mal ein Korn" - German saying, meaning "A blind hen also finds a grain of corn once in a while" (according to deepl.com).

                                        Made my weekend.

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                                          Luksus @muskist
                                          last edited by 25 Mar 2023, 12:00

                                          @muskist said in Focal and Waydroid news for Lenovo X605:

                                          I flashed boot.img from artifacts.zip for 16.04 and ubuntu.img for 20.04. Device booted, starting 20.04 afterwards.

                                          Interesting, since boot.img should be be the same for both...

                                          @muskist said in Focal and Waydroid news for Lenovo X605:

                                          "Ein blindes Huhn findet auch mal ein Korn"

                                          Der war mir neu 😉

                                          Devices: BQ e4.5, Fairphone 2, Fairphone 3, Lenovo X605F, Pinephone, Moto Z2 Force, OnePlus5T

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                                            muskist @Luksus
                                            last edited by 13 Aug 2023, 17:38

                                            @Luksus said in Focal and Waydroid news for Lenovo X605:

                                            there are first working focal-builds for the X605.
                                            Who want's to try it, needs to download the devel-flashable-focal:archive of the latest focal branch build, from this site:
                                            https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/community-ports/android9/lenovo-tab-m10-fhd/lenovo-x605/-/pipelines

                                            Is it possible to try and flash the latest devel-flashable-focal:archive, e.g. #860314125 from "three months ago"?

                                            Does it even make sense? You are constantly improving, I suppose. 🙂

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