@AlainW94 Awesome, this has worked! I'm in Ubuntu Touch setting it up now! Thanks for your help, I thoroughly appreciate it.

@AlainW94 Now I'm working on being able to use the device without using the lock button (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2462/ut-on-meizu-mx4-without-using-physical-buttons/15). Just set up adb shell and monitoring dbus for the right commands to lock+sleep the phone using a launcher icon rather than the physical button.

Also @AlainW94, I'm working on a blog article about my whole UT setup experience. Would I be OK to include a section on your ubports-installer code change? I will give full and clear credit with your name, Twitter, own blog, whatever you want.

@AlainW94 @Lakotaubp Hi, the article is now live!

https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/installing-ubports-ubuntu-touch-on-the-meizu-mx4-ubuntu-edition/

Thank you all for your help, I thoroughly appreciate it!

Hi,

I'm installing UT on my Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition, and during the flashing process in ubports-installer I'm getting the following:

debug: fastboot: flash; [{"type":"recovery","url":"http://cdimage.ubports.com/devices/recovery-arale.img","checksum":"27160d1ce2d55bd940b38ebf643018b33e0516795dff179942129943fabdc3d8","path":"/home/j/snap/ubports-installer/183/.cache/ubports/images/arale"}]
info: Booting into recovery image...
error: Devices: Error: Fastboot: Unknown error:  downloading 'boot.img'...
OKAY [  0.702s]
booting...
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 0.716s

It seems as though this is a known problem, but as of yet I cannot find a solution. There are previous bug references here and here.

I'm using Xubuntu 18.04 with the ubports-installer snap. The error message says I'm using an out of date version, but I've tried with ---stable and --edge and they both give me 0.1.21-beta.

Please could somebody advise?

Thanks

@AlainW94 I'm just working on my article now. Which credit would you like me to give? Do you have a website, Twitter, etc that you'd like a link to? As well as a link to your forum profile?

@Lakotaubp I've put these changes in staging, and they'll go live at my next push. Thanks for your help!

@Lakotaubp All updated, please let me know if you have any further suggested changes. Thanks

@Lakotaubp All updated, please let me know if you have any further suggested changes. Thanks

@Lakotaubp I've put these changes in staging, and they'll go live at my next push. Thanks for your help!

@Lakotaubp Thanks for the feedback! Regarding those two things - do you want me to clarify the UBports Foundation bit in the article, or is this not a concern for now? Also, I will add a link to the other versions of the installer.

@AlainW94 @Lakotaubp Hi, the article is now live!

https://www.jamieweb.net/blog/installing-ubports-ubuntu-touch-on-the-meizu-mx4-ubuntu-edition/

Thank you all for your help, I thoroughly appreciate it!

@AlainW94 I'm just working on my article now. Which credit would you like me to give? Do you have a website, Twitter, etc that you'd like a link to? As well as a link to your forum profile?

@AlainW94 Thanks for taking the time to have a look.

Unfortunately, I think that all of the dbus messages were actually related to locking the phone, I only ran the monitor command for about 2 seconds - just enough time to press lock.

Ideally I'd like to find the command that actually triggers all of this off and just create a launcher for that, rather than trying to reverse engineer with dbus commands.

@AlainW94 I've set up an adb shell and run this command to see what happens on dbus when I press the lock button. Unfortunately there are dozens/hundreds of dbus commands in the log output, rather than just one command that I can put in a launcher.

Do you know whether there is a way to find the overarching command that triggers all of this off when the lock button is pressed?

On a side note, it looks like most of the dbus commands when pressing the lock button are to make the screen fade out over a short period.

@AlainW94 Now I'm working on being able to use the device without using the lock button (https://forums.ubports.com/topic/2462/ut-on-meizu-mx4-without-using-physical-buttons/15). Just set up adb shell and monitoring dbus for the right commands to lock+sleep the phone using a launcher icon rather than the physical button.

Also @AlainW94, I'm working on a blog article about my whole UT setup experience. Would I be OK to include a section on your ubports-installer code change? I will give full and clear credit with your name, Twitter, own blog, whatever you want.

@AlainW94 Awesome, this has worked! I'm in Ubuntu Touch setting it up now! Thanks for your help, I thoroughly appreciate it.

@AlainW94 Just as a side note before I move forward with this - is there a way to download the source for a snap package, a bit like apt source? Or should I just pull it from GitHub?