Posts made by j.mackay93

@nitanmarcel Cheers everyone, I'll give this a crack tonight and try to retain userdata, let you know how it goes!

Hi all!

I was notified this morning that an update was available on rc channel (update version 15 if that means anything).

Anyway, the update seemed fine, but afterwards during the initial boot the phone gets stuck on the "Redmi Powered by Android" splashscreen.

Not sure what to do, but thought I should share this in case someone else has an issue.

Cheers!

Ubuntu Touch:

Made YU
.......by
Loved MI

(dots purely because spaces got ignored?)

@phiibuntu Beaut!! I'm really happy for you!

And so thankful to everyone else who has worked hard on this project

@phiibuntu Hi all, I got this working today, it turned out to be quite simple. Now, I am unsure of all the caveats, but this is what I did and it worked after not behaving for a long time:

1. Turn location on

2. Go to system settings > security & privacy > locking amd unlocking > lock when idle: Never

3. Get the SensorStatus app

4. Set it to never suspend with the UT Tweak tool app

5. Reboot

6. Open sensosstatus app, go to GPS

7. Leave next to the window for some time (it wasnt excessively long, but i also wasnt paying attention). I think the point is to stay still.

8. After some time it got a lock and started reporting my location! Unav and whatever else works now!

So are all these steps necessary? Idunno. But its what i did and it worked! Hope this helps!

Cheers

@Phiibuntu so in the end all i did was

sudo -s
mount -o remount,rw /
apt install waydroid
waydroid init
reboot
sudo -s
waydroid container start
exit

And after that I had a happy Xiaomi UT20

@Phiibuntu yep just like @stanwood said, doing apt upgrade breaks things (morph, axolotl, messing for me) but apt update is alright. Probably best to start fresh again.

Also, i think you can easily and safely install waydroid through the waydroid helper app now. I havent done it, but i think i heard that it des all the hard work.

@phiibuntu I had this when I first got my UT xiaomi note 9s. I had made the system read/write, installed waydroud, got it working and then broke my UT apps. I think I must have done sudo apt upgrade and killed something. After a clean install, installing waydroid, and no upgrade everything is nice now.

This isn't really a solution, but I hope it helps!

@lakotaubp its 128 GB, formatted as fat32 (vfat).

I haven't gotten the external drives manager to detect the card yet which is a shame.

I made two little scripts and placed them in the home directory to mount and unmount the card under /media/phablet/<sdcardlabel>, then run them as needed in terminal (I don't know how to execute bash scripts by touch from file explorer). I also am unsure how to automatically run scripts as root at startup, but oh well.

The sd card now shows up under file explorer (once the program is closed and opened again).

The first: mount_sd.sh

#!/bin/bash

# run as superuser

# Create mount location variable
mntloc=/media/${SUDO_USER:-$(whoami)}/$(lsblk -I 179 -o LABEL | tail -n 1)

# Make a mount folder, hopefully MAJOR id stays 179
mkdir -p $mntloc

# Mount the sdcard!
mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 $mntloc -o uid=32011

And the second: umount_sd.sh

#!/bin/bash

# run as superuser

# Create mount location variable
mntloc=/media/${SUDO_USER:-$(whoami)}/$(lsblk -I 179 -o LABEL | tail -n 1)

# Unmount the sdcard!
umount $mntloc

Note that I'm assuming there is only one inserted sd card which is why I can use tail to get the label. Also, I assumed the MAJOR id is 179...I don't know if this will be static across other phones or even over time, but I found it with lsblk | grep mmc and copied the MAJ column.

G'day,

I'm new here, and I recently got UT up on the Redmi Note 9S (thanks all you legends!) but can't seem to access my inserted SD card.

I can ssh in, manually mount the card to some directory, and see the contents in the file manager. But playing music or accessing the card through external drives doesn't work.

Am I missing something or is this a known limitation?

Cheers!