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Notch hack for Focal devices (specifically Volla Phone X23 )

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      treebeard
      last edited by 24 Jun 2023, 21:05

      Re: Notch hack for affected devices Volla phone

      I attempted the notch hack on a Volla Phone X23. It hit issues as show below. Is there anything simple I can do to fix the issues? Otherwise I'll have to be patient as I'm not a linux/mobile developer

      GX4 is the underlying Gigaset handset.
      The phone has plenty of memory and file space.

      phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ ./apply-notch-hax.sh
      No device specified, detecting device name...
      WARNING: linker Warning: "[vdso]" unused DT entry: unknown processor-specific (type 0x70000001 arg (nil)) (ignoring)
      Device is 'GX4'
      Using diff '/home/phablet/.cache/lomiri-notch-hax/GX4.diff'
      System utility 'patch' not found, starting installation...
      [sudo] password for phablet:
      Hit:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal InRelease
      Get:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal-updates InRelease [114 kB]
      Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal-backports InRelease [108 kB]
      Get:4 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports focal-security InRelease [114 kB]
      Hit:5 http://repo.ubports.com focal InRelease
      Fetched 336 kB in 11s (31.9 kB/s)
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      167 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.
      W: No sandbox user '_apt' on the system, can not drop privileges
      Reading package lists... Done
      Building dependency tree
      Reading state information... Done
      Suggested packages:
      ed diffutils-doc
      The following NEW packages will be installed:patch
      0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 167 not upgraded.
      Need to get 98.1 kB of archives.
      After this operation, 229 kB of additional disk space will be used.
      E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
      phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$

      2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
      2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
      2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

      T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 09:02 Reply Quote 0
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        treebeard @tera
        last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:47

        @tera I'm using a SDHC card from my previous phone. I wonder if reformatting it will help

        2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
        2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
        2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

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          tera @treebeard
          last edited by tera 25 Jun 2023, 09:02

          @treebeard try this with a tmp folder somewhere:

          sudo mount --bind tmp/ /var/cache/apt/archives/
          

          A note that the GX4 profile do not exists,i used yggdrasilx with success fyi

          T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 09:45 Reply Quote 1
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            treebeard @tera
            last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 09:45

            @tera Thanks. After some trial and error I did;

            $sudo su (mount requires su mode)
            #mount --bind /tmp /var/cache/apt/archives (note the slash before 'tmp')
            #exit (exit su mode)
            $./apply-notch-hax.sh (only runs in normal user mode)

            It got further through updating packages before running out of space further along.

            I've had a brief look at trying to allocate more space in the mount command but can't see anything obvious. I'll read up more later today.

            2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
            2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
            2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

            T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 10:12 Reply Quote 0
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              tera @treebeard
              last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:12

              @treebeard it workedforme, but use a temp folder in your home, /tmp has limited space as far as i recall

              T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 10:26 Reply Quote 1
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                treebeard @tera
                last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:26

                @tera I'm not a linux dev so may be making simple mistakes.

                i created a Temp folder and added a 'test' file.
                ls ./Temp showed the file
                ls /var/cache/apt/archives showed the file

                I reran the script and this is the output:

                screenshot20230625_112231441.png

                2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
                2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
                2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

                T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 10:37 Reply Quote 0
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                  tera @treebeard
                  last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:37

                  @treebeard strange, i rechecked my history and it matches... Can you check the space available with the output of:

                  df -h /var/cache/apt/archives/
                  
                  T 2 Replies Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 10:45 Reply Quote 0
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                    treebeard @tera
                    last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:45

                    @tera Very odd...

                    screenshot20230625_114230427.png

                    2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
                    2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
                    2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

                    T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 10:48 Reply Quote 0
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                      treebeard @tera
                      last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:47

                      @tera I'm using a SDHC card from my previous phone. I wonder if reformatting it will help

                      2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
                      2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
                      2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

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                        tera @treebeard
                        last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 10:48

                        @treebeard i would reboot and starts again, here is a extract from my history:

                        mkdir tmp
                        sudo mount --bind tmp/ /var/cache/apt/archives/
                        wget -O apply-notch-hax.sh https://git.io/JtIpG
                        ./apply-notch-hax.sh yggdrasilx
                        
                        T 1 Reply Last reply 25 Jun 2023, 12:01 Reply Quote 0
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                          treebeard @tera
                          last edited by 25 Jun 2023, 12:01

                          @tera That set of commands worked thanks.

                          It took a few attempts as I forgot that rebooting would end the tmp mount.

                          The time is now visible. The icons around the notch still overlap but it's a step further to have the time visible.

                          Thank you 👏

                          2015 BQ Aquaris E4.5
                          2021 Volla Phone (Ubuntu Touch)
                          2023 Volla Phone X23 (Ubuntu Touch)

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