@ikoz said in Trying ubuntu-touch on an unsupported device:
Ubuntu Touch GSI
Oh, interesting. Just for reference I found some links to project Treble (even if Treble is a defunct project, a reference does not hurt).
https://xdaforums.com/t/gsi-arm64-a-ab-ubuntu-touch-ubports.4110581/
https://xdaforums.com/c/project-treble.7259/
Note to self: GSI stands for Generic System Image
@reikred Well, I guess the idea of having a semi-generic semi-functional UT, for unsupported devices, is a whole lot more complicated than what I was hoping for.
Apart from some of the constraints being mentioned:
It seems to me that one of the constraints being implied and applied, but not so much spoken of, is that a UT port MUST fit within the existing partition structure of the specific android device in question. I'm surprised by this. There really is no partitioning tool for re-partitioning the storage of Android devices? There also seems to be the matter of reusing some of the existing partitions that contain device-specific firmware, so there is that matter, too.
Hi, I am new here. Consider the following scenario. I have some old phones (say a moto-g6 and a moto g8-power), and I'd like to run ubuntu-touch on them.
Special circumstance: I don't care all that much whether the cellular part of the phone works. I just want to have linux and wifi and maybe ethernet-over-usb. Anything else is bonus. Basically, I would like to use these old phones as a replacement for raspberry pi or similar, just a generic little linux appliance.
QUESTION: Can I install one of the existing ports on such phones, and maybe get the basic functionality I need without having to go through a whole porting process? I know that ubports-installer only will install UT onto specific supported phones, so that method will not work. So I'm looking for info on
what are the odds it will work?
where to download existing images from?
a solid recipe for installing a ubport manually using fastboot flash commands, or the like.
how to chose an image (maybe one that is for a phone with a very similar chipset?)
Has anyone tried this?