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doniks

@free.rage Just thinking out loud here: Can you see a difference in the database between the threads that you DO see in the app and the ones that you DONT see?

doniks

@Tonoxis Well, hallo there! Pleasure to meet again :)

I was actually thinking the other day to ping you on xda whether you would be interested to help :)

As for "releasing", I hadn't actually intended to upload the kernel image itself anywhere ... you know it's not in any way in a consumer ready state. The screen is black you can talk to it with commandline stuff over a usb cable. It is exciting :) but only for a certain audience. People should be able to build it with the instructions above and then have all the sources and infrastructure such that they can also actually improve upon the current state. Or do you think it would make sense to upload the images?

As for supporting flo - Well, it might "just work", right?! Similar with how we did it back in the day the other way around where your TonoKrnl "just worked" on my deb.

PS: updated first post for NFC & vibration. thx!

doniks

update: got hwcomposer working with some help from bshah, updating first post

doniks

I'm trying to get Halium running on the Nexus 7 2013 gsm variant "deb".

I've made a few steps already, but so far no user interface on the screen yet. I'm going to summarize where I am, so:

I don't forget what steps I took
Others can help to move this further

Setup sources

Follow the steps here https://github.com/Halium/docs/blob/master/porting/index.md for halium-7.1
write local_manifest as explained here https://wiki.ubports.com/wiki/Setting-up-Your-Tree-for-CM12.1-Devices
lineageos kernel sources: https://github.com/LineageOS/android_kernel_google_msm
my local_manifest : https://gist.github.com/doniks/7ee302c7792450761332d8f8712f29f6
binaries : https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/drivers MOB30X

Kernel image

build

source build/envsetup.sh 
add_lunch_combo lineage_deb-userdebug
lunch lineage_deb-userdebug
mka mkbootimg
mka hybris-boot

test and debug

Follow steps here https://github.com/Halium/docs/blob/master/porting/index.md#debugging
if you want to force init into telnet, add kernel parameter bootmode=debug:

fastboot -c "$(abootimg -i hybris-boot.img | sed -ne '/cmdline/s/. cmdline . //p' ) bootmode=debug" boot hybris-boot.img

config

the kernel config is this: kernel/google/msm/arch/arm/configs/lineageos_flo_defconfig
Primary source to check for wrong configs: https://github.com/lbt/mer-kernel-check
Secondary source: https://github.com/janimo/phablet-porting-scripts/blob/master/kernel/check-config
(maybe also: CONFIG=out/target/product/deb/obj/KERNEL_OBJ/.config lxc-checkconfig ? )
my kernel config: https://gist.github.com/doniks/7406a87e5f15e1eab5a64aa90ad8f633

patches

Android image

cd halium
mka systemimage
ls -l out/target/product/deb/system.img

Rootfs

get it

Should be this: https://github.com/Halium/rootfs-builder/ but I couldn't get it to work, so
I use this: http://bshah.in/halium/halium-rootfs-20170630-151006.tar.gz

install it

to install the rootfs you need working adb on the N7. I use this twrp recovery: https://eu.dl.twrp.me/deb/twrp-3.0.2-0-deb.img.html (had some problems with 3.1.1-0)
boot into twrp recovery

git clone https://github.com/Halium/halium-scripts
./halium-scripts/halium-install halium-rootfs-20170630-151006.tar.gz halium/out/target/product/deb/system.img

The N7 should reboot and get to the point where it announces usb networking:

lsusb -vd 0fce: | grep -i serial
  iSerial                 3 GNU/Linux Device on usb0 10.15.19.82

reboot into twrp recovery to set the root password

adb shell
cd /data
mkdir mnt
mount rootfs.img mnt/
chroot mnt /bin/bash 
export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:$PATH
passwd

connect to it

reboot the device and wait for usb networking on the N7 to come up as above
configure usb network on your desktop similar to before : https://github.com/Halium/docs/blob/master/porting/index.md#debugging-via-telnet

sudo ip address add 10.15.19.1 dev enp0s20f0u7 
sudo ip route add 10.15.19.82 dev enp0s20f0u7

login via ssh

ssh root@10.15.19.82

fix path variable

echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH

Status

That's how far I got.

what works

test_lights makes the led breathe
EGL_PLATFORM=hwcomposer test_hwcomposer shows rotating spiral! I need echo 200 > /sys/class/leds/lcd-backlight/brightness to turn up the display brightness, so I can actually see the spiral :)
wifi: http://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/wifi.html

nmcli d # no wlan0
echo 1 > /dev/wcnss_wlan 
echo sta > /sys/module/wlan/parameters/fwpath 
nmcli d # shows wlan0
nmcli dev wifi # list wifis 
nmcli dev wifi connect <SOMEOPENWIFI>
ping -c 2 8.8.8.8
ping -c 2 debian.org
# install some missing packages
apt update
apt install openssh-client bash-completion nano

buttons: evtest /dev/input/event5
touchscreen: evtest /dev/input/event0

what doesn't work

test_audio nothing to hear

ACDB init open file failed
[ACDB Init]->File is not found on the system
[ACDB Init]->ACDB init success!

test_camera

library "libcamera_compat_layer.so" not found
Segmentation fault

test_egl segfaults
test_egl_config says: Starting test (EGL_PLATFORM=(null)) and then it sits there forever and cannot be killed
test_glesv2 segfault
test_gps, honestly I don't know whether that output below constitutes success of failure ... since I can't recognise any coordinates, I think it failed. I've waited 5 minutes or so. There are more *** tracking lines but no coordinates

*** setup signal handler
*** get gps interface
*** device info
 id = gps
 name = loc_api GPS Module
 author = Qualcomm USA, Inc.
*** init gps interface
*** set capabilities
capability is 00000007
 ** Creating thread: 'Loc_hal_worker' (start=0xb69f23b5, arg=0x1d02080)
 ** After thread_create: 'Loc_hal_worker', error=0 (start=0xb69f23b5, arg=0x1d02080)
 **** Thread wrapper start (start=0xb69f23b5, arg=0x1d02080) ****
*** setting positioning mode
*** start gps track
*** gps tracking started
*** tracking....

test_input

library "libis_compat_layer.so" not found
Segmentation fault

test_media, get a video from http://bbb3d.renderfarming.net/download.html

scp bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4 root@10.15.19.82:
ssh root@10.15.19.82
test_media bbb_sunflower_1080p_60fps_normal.mp4
library "libmedia_compat_layer.so" not found
Segmentation fault

test_nfc

Starting test_nfc.
Finding NFC hardware module.
test_nfc: test_nfc.c:156: testNfc: Assertion `hwModule != NULL' failed.
Aborted

test_recorder

Test application for video recording using the camera
Recording start with volume up button. And stops with volume down.
The result is stored to /root/test_video.avi

library "libcamera_compat_layer.so" not found
Segmentation fault

test_sensors

library "/system/lib/hw/sensors.oem.so" not found
libsensor_add_waiting_client adding cb 0
Hardware module ID: sensors
Hardware module Name: Qualcomm Sensors Module
Hardware module Author: Qualcomm Inc.
Hardware module API version: 0x1
Hardware HAL API version: 0x100
Poll device version: 0x1000001
API VERSION 0.1 (legacy): 0x1
API VERSION 0.1: 0x65537
API VERSION 1.0: 0x16777217
API VERSION 1.1: 0x16842753
API VERSION 1.2: 0x16908289
API VERSION 1.3: 0x16973825
API VERSION 1.4: 0x17039361
libsensor_add_waiting_client adding cb 1
Got 0 sensors

test_wifi 1 says :

Cannot load driver (err -1)

not supported

test_vibrator, segfaults, but anyway the N7 doesn't have a haptic motor to vibrate

Segmentation fault

What's next?

Honestly, I'm not sure how to proceed now :) I guess trying to get further test_XYZ's to work and maybe figure out how I could try a ubports rootfs?!

Any tips or feedback appreciated!

doniks

Very nice, thank you!

While scanning through it, I see lot's of replicated code in the last example with the Buttons. Isn't there a way to make something like a CalcButton, which has all the common properties (sizes, color) and can be reused. I don't actually know what the syntax for this is (guess why I'm interested in a UT programming course :-P ), but I expect that this is possible and would be a nice rounding up of the chapter.

doniks

Good to hear that it worked!

I didn't really get what solved it now. In the command you posted there was neither a su nor a sudo.Would be nice if you feed back to mdt what they did wrong and what needs to change such that it just works for the next guy

doniks

@tH3f0rC3

well it's not that difficult to pull the magic out of the tool ( :-P sorry )

Read through from here

https://github.com/MariusQuabeck/magic-device-tool/blob/master/launcher.sh

to ... I don't know where it leads you, probably

https://github.com/MariusQuabeck/magic-device-tool/blob/master/devices/nexus5/ubuntu/legacywipe.sh

and execute the actual commands manually to narrow down what fails where.

doniks

@ZeroPointEnergy said in Syncthing click package:

Not sure if that mail even reached their mailing list since it seams to be private and I'm not sure I'm even able to post in there if I'm not a member. Does anyone know if it is ok or even possible to just add a unconfined app to the store or what the proper channels are? (Other than telegram, seriously, I don't want to join yet another of those messenger thingies).

The #ubports irc channel is connected to that telegram group, so if you post there you will be heard. I also think that in this forum you should be heard, but nudging them on irc can help.

Looking forward to having syncthing!

doniks

Oh. Could be. I haven't actually tried. In my memory vulgry is ex downow and a torrentclient. But I could be mistaken.

doniks

@advocatux said in Torrent app?:

@Scott-Marley, I think you mean DowNow, and it worked with other torrent services, not only TPB.

If I remember it right it didn't work in all Ubuntu Phone models, maybe that's why it's disappeared from the store.

https://launchpad.net/downow

FYI, seems it is back to the openstore : Vulgry (had been renamed previously)

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