@jro Apparently, this port is really abandoned, which is sad as the OP3 is far far better than the officially supported OP one, and in my experience, still widely available

@poVoq I had been looking forward to flashing UT on my OP3, but when I did it, I found the experience to be quite wonky and then I only then I found out that this device is essentially unmaintained, so that bug linger on unfixed and new bugs accumulate with nobody to take care of them. I have now flashed /e/ on this phone, which gives me a far superior experience.

As Ubuntu 20.04 has been out for a while now, I wonder when it will come to the OnePlus3. Unfortunately, on the device page, I cannot find any related information, and when I click on "report issue", I am redirected to a Github repository for Halium for the OnePlus3 with no obvious connection to Ubuntu Touch. Is this device abandoned?

I have right now installed OTA 25 on a OnePlus 3 (not 3T), and I'm sorry to say that rotation does not work.

@kristatos I am not sure if I correctly interpret what I see at gitlab, but if I do, nothing seems to be happening regarding the port to 20.04.

@immychan Have you found any solution to it?

@thilov Actually, with regard to Linux smartphones, it clearly does mean that the phone can convert itself into a full desktop computer when connected to a full display & keyboard. That's also how it is being described on the Ubports website. And again, with my pinephone it works: I plug in a USB-C port and everything connected to the USB-C port - display, keyboard, mouse, ethernet etc - becomes available. I don't know whether it works with Ubuntu Touch on the pinephone, its support of the PP hardware looks incomplete for now. But with other distros, it does work.

@keneda that's a figure of speech. (But I actually bought the UBPorts community edition of the pinephone, btw). However, convergence was a major selling point for Ubuntu back when they fundraised for the Ubuntu Edge, that 17 million USD kickstarter, years ago... And today, it figures prominently on the UB Ports website, thus I was thinking, that it is already usable. As mentioned, I also have a pinephone, and while I have not tested with Ubuntu Touch, all the other distros I have tested on it, including Mobian, Manjaro Arm, PostMarket OS, all support convergence out of the box. Unfortunately, the Pinephone's hardware is pretty modest, so this is basically a proof of concept, so something you really want to use as a replacement for your laptop. But the hardware of the Oneplus One is reasonably powerful, thus I was hoping that convergence somehow works with it.

@flohack really? Wasn't convergence meant to be one major selling point?

I recently got me a Oneplus One, as it is one of the best supported devices. But I wasn't aware, that has no USB-C jack, so that my USB-C dock isn't compatible. Is there another way of hooking the device up to an external display?

@fredldotme said in Sony Xperia X (suzu/F5121 & F5122):

@c4pp4 nice catch!

What you can do to test small modifications to the Halium portion (where this file is from):

• Reboot into recovery
• Connect to the device via ADB
• Mount the Halium system image: mount /system/var/lib/lxc/android/system.img /tmp

There is no directory /system/var/lib in recovery mode, I also cannot find a system.img anywhere. Has this changed recently?

• Edit the Halium override file to your liking: nano /tmp/halium/etc/pulse/touch.pa

Wouldn't this be the file /system/halium/etc/pulse/touch.pa?

EDIT: losetup -a says that /dev/loop0 is pointing to /halium-system/var/lib/lxc/android/system.img, yet there is no directory /halium-system. How can I access it?

@c4pp4 It is strange though, that there is no documented way of getting the ubports version of android to use rootfs-overlay, just as the snap version does. Indeed, repacking the squshfs isn't such a big deal (although I wouldn't have known of the parameters you used, but still, just dropping a file into the overlay directory tree would make things so much easier!
BTW, the sound that you get from android apps after completing this step is quite choppy, not really suitable for real use, more a proof of concept.

@jro Fixed it now, the key was to first install the OEM binaries for AOSP, as explained on XDA Developers. Great! Again, however, this has shown that vendor-locked devices are a nightmare, and as long as this is the case, one click installs will more often than not fail...

@Keneda Yes, it took me a while to understand that. Unfortunately, there seems to be no way to get a log showing as to why it keeps rebooting. I am not sure as to how I am supposed to submit a useful issue on github.

@Keneda The actual issue is that Ubuntu Recovery reboots every 30 seconds or so. So before the Ubports installer gets anything done, the connection is lost. I found another owner of the same phone in the telegram chat who experienced exactly the same. I have pulled the /tmp/recovery.log from the device, I hope that it contains anything of use.

I unlocked the bootloader, ran the UBPorts installer but it only installed the Ubuntu recovery, not the actual system. How can I manually install ubuntu touch? the ubports installer always wants to reboot into fastboot mode, but the devices always ends up in ubuntu recovery.