Posts made by MrT10001

@Ad As @domubpkm stated, only fastboot is needed. Fastboot is also the boot loader, so boot to fastboot, open the UT installer and manually select your device from the drop down list on the installer front page. Connect your device and set the installer going, following the instructions and NOT leaving the wipe data bo unticked.

@Ad If the device is low on charge it may hang on the OP logo. Before you run it through installer again, boot into recovery and wipe the cache. You may have an app or background process causing the boot hang.

@jam1388 If you are in the USA, you need 4G VolTe which is coming to some devices on UT, but has been a challenge to do so has taken a long time. You may also find that using a ROM not stipulated by the porter may cause issues like no wifi, data and the like so it is always wise to use the ROM the porter has used. Likewise if the device is SIM locked, you will have to revert to Android to get it unlocked if the carrier allows. It rarely works SIM unlocking on UT or even a custom Android ROM.

@jam1388 It requires the Android version stipulated in the devices page in order for it to work. It will not work otherwise and may end up with a boot looping Device.

@stefancito70 That means your Android installation is on the other slot, but hasn't installed correctly. You may have to try again.

@stefancito70 If slot B is active, change it to slot A.

If booting after changing the Slot, boot into recovery and wipe the cache and reboot.

@stefancito70 Usually you open up a terminal in your folder were fastboot and ADB is situated. I use Windows ,and I have Android Studio installed, so open a terminal in the platform-tools folder.

@stefancito70 Power off the device than boot into Fastboot mode.

In fastboot, attach the device to your PC.

In the fastboot terminal of your PC run the command:

./fastboot getvar current-slot

This should show you which slot is active - there are two slots A and B

If Slot A is active, change it to Slot B:

./fastboot --set-active=b

Reboot and see if your phone boots.

@stefancito70 no, it should start straight away. Is your device being picked up in fastboot mode, i.e. run the command:
fastboot devices

@stefancito70 Do not press start, leave it at the screen that says fastboot.

Then run flash all command.

@stefancito70 OK. Download the flash file PQ3B.190801.002, Aug 2019 from here.

Extract the file.

Boot your device into fastboot mode and attach it to the PC.

In the extracted file folder, open a terminal and run the
flash_all.sh

Leave it to do it's thing and hopefully you should get a boot into Android for install for UT. Set it up and check everything is working.

@stefancito70 Let me know how it goes. It is late and I am off for some sleep. Persevere and patience, you will get there.

@stefancito70 Ensure your fastboot and ADB drivers are the latest. Ensure you have the latest version of Chrome. Try another USB cable and port. Make sure you have few things running in the background - make sure you do all your Mint updates. Make sure your phone is in fastboot mode i.e. the bootloader.

Boot the device into recovery and then use the ADB commands to pull the data from the he device onto the PC. If your device is seen if file manager such as nautilus can you not pull your data off from there?

Yes, follow @saveurlinux advice and use the Android flash tool in Google Chrome to put the correct version of Android for the installation of Ubuntu Touch on the device. You need to put the device into fastboot mode, so power of the device and use the correct power and volume button combo to get into fastboot mode.

@shodan It looks like you have the T-Mobile METRO version of the OP N10 5G.

Get the device SIM unlocked from T-Mobile (you will have probably buy a T-Mobile METRO SIM, put some credit on it and make a call to allow you to unlock) if you can, i.e. research to see if T-Mobile will allow you to SIM Unlock and what the process is.

Once SIM unlocked, you should then flash the ROM indicated in the devices page on UT using the MSM download tool bundled with it, and the device must be in EDL mode.

Then unlock the bootloader.

Then install UT.

IT IS IMPORTANT TO GET THE SIM (NETWORK) UNLOCK FIRST BEFORE ATTEMPTING ANYTHING ELSE.

If you are not sure, have not done this before I would follow @arubislander advice and not attempt it as you may end up with a bricked device. Even if you can get it SIM unlocked and you are not sure, sell the device on and get a global SIM free device.

This is a useful resoursce : linky - but I would strongly advise NOT following the first post on the thread.

As a disclaimer, if you decide to try as in nothing gained, nothing lost, I cannot be held responsible for you bricking the device or data loss.
My advice overall would be to sell the device on as you cannot return it and get a network unlocked version of the N10 5G, or N100, or Pixel 3a/3aXL, OnePlus 5/5T or Oneplus 6/6T. As of this moment 4G VolTe and 5G are not supported on Ubuntu Touch for various reasons, but thanks to a monumental effort by developers, it is coming, but only on certain devices.

@Aldroid You need to use the stipulated ROM, as this is what the porter used to create the port for the correct vendor BLOBs, partition size and kernel. If you use a different Android ROM, things won't work such as WIFI.
The names you see are the codenames for the device, such as Surya, jasmine _sprout and the like.

@Josele13 Having ADB installed makes it easier to boot into EDL mode in order to flash the correct ROM. If you read back through the telegram chat I helped someone install with diagrams for clarity.

@reikred It won't work. The port is specific for the device for various reasons, such as the partition sizes, vendor BLOBs, kernel and so on. Likewise, even though UT is Linux, it is different from a desktop Linux install, the system is read only to protect it, apt doesn't work unless you want a high chance of breaking the system and there are other differences.

If you try, you have a good chance of bricking the device if you don't know what you are doing and not being able to recover from it.

If you are not wholly bothered, buy a device that is on the installer and works, but lets say has a cracked screen as these can be quite cheap. I think for what you want to do, you would be better off looking at x86_64 thin clients, laptops or SBC's (like the Pi) and a desktop orientated Linux distro.

It will be difficult if you really want to try.

@davidfr The hardware is different, I would avoid trying it at the moment unless you can recover the device, Xiaomi aren't the easiest to get back to stock Android compared to others. A port has been worked on but it has gone a bit quiet - when I looked into the history there was a sound issue.