UBports Forum

oli.sax

Hello ! I just finished watching the Live-porting session of Halium on FP2, this is awesome to see the process behind the scenes !

I get a little lost on the kernel-backporting part, though

Is it possible to test the new image on my FP2, and how? I'm really curious how the new halium-7.1 port change FP2 stability...

oli.sax

Hi !
Half year ago I did a wiki post on carddav synchronisation.
Now the wiki redirects to the docs.ubports.com, this wiki page is not anymore accessible...
Is it possible to access the old wiki, so I can convert the article to RST and commit it to the docs?

Thanks,
Olivier

oli.sax

@jjurgen @elastic Hello friends and nice Sunday I watched the Community Update 21 and the team was asked about a possible support for a multiboot solution (minute 40 in the video). They answered that this is already possible with kernel patches but it is difficult to maintain. As they are focussing on Anbox for the "Android apps one cannot do without" they hope multiboot will not be anymore necessary...

However, on the comments below the video, user Martin Kozub said the following:

Just as mentioned in the video dualboot with Android is possible but it can even work with the regular Ubuntu Touch recovery. See this manual for MX4 (but it should be possible to adapt for any device) https://iubuntu.cz/dualboot-mx4.html

oli.sax

Hello ! That is a good experimentation, and having a working multi-boot can be a great added value

From the Fairphone forum, it seems that the order of installation could be crucial! Quoting @z3untu :

It 100% doesn’t work as a second rom right now. It could maybe work, if you install EFIDroid (from Android), create a second rom (from Android), flash Ubuntu Touch (via recovery/fastboot), put the boot.img from Ubuntu Touch into the correct location (don’t know where right now), flash the boot.img from EFIDroid and then theoretically it could maybe work.

Ubuntu Touch as a secondary rom isn’t supported yet but I meant that it might work as the primary rom.

oli.sax

I posted a commit for updated installation instructions

oli.sax

Thank you for your answer, @WLBI !
I find quite funny that Ubuntu needs a Microsoft device for convergence

Anyway, as you also first tried with an incompatible device, it seems that the protocol is not as universal as I initially tough...

oli.sax

Hello !
This message just to inform you that Chris Hoffmann (main porter of LineageOS for the FP2) just proposed us to test a newer kernel (3.4.113, compared to 3.4.0 on official FP OS) on this topic of the fairphone forum.

As Marius always say : new developments benefit to all OS, so I'm wondering if this newer kernel could benefits to the UBports project?
Could it be safe to try it "as it is" (boot.img) or is it unlikely to work?? (e.g. if some specific patches are needed for UT?)

/!\ I didn't tested it on Ubuntu Touch - proceed at your own risks /!
Olivier
EDIT: source code is here (I think this branch)

oli.sax

@tera Ok thank you, I found the solution

Putting Firefox in "Dark theme" (about:addons -> Themes -> Dark) did nothing, but adding ui.systemUsesDarkTheme = 1 in about:config did the trick

oli.sax

Today in Youtube suggestions I say this "pre-UBports" video, showing an elegant dual-boot app on a Nexus device. Installation instuctions can still be found but as the repo was last updated in 2014 I seriously doubt this can help us somehow...

oli.sax

@tera Ok thank you, I found the solution

Putting Firefox in "Dark theme" (about:addons -> Themes -> Dark) did nothing, but adding ui.systemUsesDarkTheme = 1 in about:config did the trick

oli.sax

@jezek said in Halium 7.1 Test Channel:

@Flohack As @TobsEnd claimed, there is a lineageOS for FP2, so it would make more sense to skip the 7.1 and go for 9 instead. The Waydroid project, which works on halium 9 looks very promising.

Is it even teorically-possible to run Waydroid on (hypotically) Halium 9-FP2 ?
From this post I read that (as Waydroid is based on Treble) a phone with android 9 as base (for vendor partition,...) is required (I hope I'm wrong )

oli.sax

Hello!

Unlike Marius that never sleep , I heard in Q&A102 that with Documentation in dark mode, Yumi goes to sleep:

[...] he completed his work on the Documentation theme. The layout is easier to navigate, as it adopts some conventions which are well established elsewhere. It also now has a dark theme and in that theme Yumi goes to sleep, which is cute.

But it's not clear for me how to put docs.ubports.com in dark mode, how do you do that? I tried navigating from a webbrowser in dark mode but nothing changes...

Cheers,
Oli

oli.sax

@007fred50 said in Fairphone 3 (FP3):

Nice it works now ! thanks

Hello Fred! So you were able to downgrade your FP3+ to Android 9 then install UT GSI; and Ubuntu Touch is working on FP3+?

If that is the case it's nice, it means we can develop a unique image for both FP3 and FP3+

oli.sax