modules:composer.user_said_in, @ericarthurc, Is trying to port this myself for the Pixel 2 XL even worth it? If it even works?

@doniks Oh I mean I definitely want to :D. I just heard somewhere that phones that came with 8.1 had some file system differences that were causing issues with this.

mhm, not sure about file system differences, but 8.1 might impose some challenges. Halium must be able to deal with the android version. It shouldn't be impossible though and there was some work happening. You'd better check in the Halium irc/tg/matrix channel: https://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/first-steps.html#getting-help

And I know the Pixel 2 XL uses a a/b system partition format.

I'm quite sure I've seen porters that had success with a/b partitioning schemes. I don't think this is a big problem. For starters, I guess you just only use one of them.

modules:composer.user_said_in, @ericarthurc, Is trying to port this myself for the Pixel 2 XL even worth it? If it even works?

Title says it all :D would it be worth my time working on this for the Pixel 2 XL?

Well, if you really can't find any other reason after searching your soul, you could always fall back to the good 'ol hacker reason: "Because, I can!" :)

check out the link @advocatux gave you and give it a shot!

modules:composer.user_said_in, @rulionlisk, Building the kernel

@doniks yes that creates the boot.img and system.img (and a recovery.img as well)

flashing the kernel is easy:

fasboot flash boot boot.img

If there are changes made to system.img the easiest way I have found to flash is to

adb push system.img system.img
adb reboot recovery

and in recovery there is an option (can't remember exact names) under ubuntu options to flash system - make sure you navigate to user_data (or wherever you pushed it to if different) - the first system.img option that I saw (and pressed) stopped my phone from booting...

ok, clear. thanks!

Not sure what you mean by which rootfs, I just used what was pulled in and only tried changing a few kernel config options and modules :)

what I meant is how did you get the operating system installed. so far we're only talking kernel and android container: "system.img"

... ah, I guess I get it: Your device is supported by ubports installer, you just install as usual and AFTERWARDS starts all the fun described here?!

@rulionlisk nice! Does that result in a boot.img then? Also system.img? Which rootfs do you use? How do you install to device?

Oh and of course, the elephant in the room: How's 16.04 coming along?

Do you know whether/how one will be able to develop apps that work on UT and on Purisms phone shell?

I assume that eventually (in the future) UT will move away from the ubuntu sdk to qt quick. If there is a transition, it would be nice to move into the right direction. I am assuming that compatibility between qt quick apps for UT and plasma mobile should not be a great challenge. But purisms phone shell is gtk based, so compatibility will be harder.

On that note, any news about qt quick app templates?

After re-reading my own question, I realize I put a lot of assumptions in there :) ... Feel free to just elaborate on the general topic as you see fit :)

What do you think about the scalability of communicating mostly in telegram?

I know that the volume has surpassed a level that I can deal with. I regularly find hundreds of unread messages. For me that means, I ignore tg until, I need something, like for example ask a question in the App developers channel. Then I hang around for max 1h, wait for an answer, check two or three posts above me.

I become a more and more selfish telegram channel consumer, rather than contributing a lot.

Now, the forum exists and it does support an asynchronous, threaded communication, (while tg is basically synchronous and single thread), but it seems people default to tg, are usually pointed there first and the vast majority of the communication goes there, which is out of my sight.

How are you guys holding up with the volume? What's your thoughts?

Edit: After thinking about this for a bit more, maybe I just need to adjust my mindset. I never ever even considered "keeping up" with irc, why should this be a consideration for tg...

modules:composer.user_said_in, @unisuperbox, Radio app that uses Headphones as antenna

I don't believe any of our current devices have an FM radio.

FWIW, I remembered now a report of some specific bootmode ("factory"? or maybe it's just normal recovery) on some (one?) of the BQ devices that spoke about some kind of hardware test facilities that DID play fm radio:

It's in German and doesn't have much detail

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Ubuntu_Touch/Tipps_und_Tricks/#UKW-Radio

Someone with a 4.5 (which I think is what he had) could try.

@flohack I think the challenge starts even lower. Which phones do actually have an fm radio, have the antenna hooked up, kernel has a working driver? And then we get to the libhybris and app questions.

@FishFingers44
But yeah, I'd like to have it as well :)

@hoh61 uhhhhm, I'm not convinced. Now, I never held an M10, so I can't say I know, but I'm quite sure.

Got some spare time at your hands? Feel like flashing back the vivid version and showing some command line output?