Posts made by wgarcia

@MrT10001 There is currently a note saying that due to a bug the ISO is oversized:

https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

@delijati I used waydroid in the original Volla (until July 2023), the Volla 22 (from July 2023) and the Pixel 3a XL (since some days ago).

Waydroid in general has improved a lot, it used to crash much more often. But among these phones, by far where I find it smoother and more stable is in the Pixel 3a XL.

I finally managed to downgrade, quite unexpectedly.

I tried to install twrp recovery, to see if you could install the Android 9 image with it. I tried to flash it in fastboot mode with:

sudo fastboot flash boot twrp...img

(without sudo it wouldnt install)

and it got stuck in fastboot. I would not boot, or go to recovery, or anything.

Then I changed boot partition

fastboot set_active other

not that I had any idea on what I was doing, just as a result of desperation, since I saw this command somewhere. It moved from partition "a" to "b" but nothing changed.

Then out of boredom I went back to Google Chrome and Android Flash Tool and voilà, this time it downloaded and installed Android 9.

What a pain, it was a similar experience with an OP5 recently. It is a breeze to install UT, but downgrading Android can take you a full morning.

@MrT10001 said in Installation to Google Pixel 3a XL:

@wgarcia

You need to install the latest fastboot and ADB drivers.

I have the latest I think.

Once that is done you need to download the fastboot flash version which will have the flash all.sh file in it.

I've downloaded several, didn't see any "flash-all.sh" utility. Do you have a link to the one that has it?

I'm trying to install UT to a Gogle Pixel 3a XL.

I already unlocked the bootloader. It currently has Android 12, and so I'm trying to downgrade to Android 9, to the image that says in the devices page.

I downloaded the zip file corresponding to that image, but I don't know what to do with it. I've seen a "flash-all.sh" utility mentioned in other posts, but I can't find it to download from anywhere, I downloaded "platform-tools_r35.0.0-linux.zip " but this file is not here.

I tried to downgrade with Android Flash Tool in Chrome (from a linux machine). Chrome sees the device and connects to it, it starts the installation of the image. I puts the phone in fastboot mode, and then it aborts all the time (different cables, with "wipe data" and without, trying other options as "wipe al partitions" or similar.) The message is "Error connection", and "Error connecting to your device. Try disconnecting and reconnecting it. Failed to execute 'open' on 'USBDevice': Access denied. (open)".

So stuck here.

In the UT Telegram client Teleport, I cannot send images right now on the Volla Phone 22.

I see the attached image in Teleports, but the other party does not receive it. I cannot see it either in my own account if I open a client in the computer desktop or an Android device. I can send images from these two clients.

I opened an issue one month ago:

https://gitlab.com/ubports/development/apps/teleports/-/issues

Anybody else seeing this issue?

I've noticed this also, and I was a couple of days without notification sounds. Sound otherwise was working well.

Yesterday by chance I went to Settings -> Notifications, and clicked on the notification sound that I'm using.

Now I have notification sounds back.

It looks like a bug, but I don't know how to reproduce.

@arubislander Maybe if somebody from the community saves a kid of Zuckerberg from drowning, or something like that...

@Kratuzov Maybe you can get some more information if you open the terminal app, write:

waydroid log

provoke the crash, and check what the log says.

@magnargj Focal in the Volla 22 works without any major issues.

@jmlich said in Waydroid infos needed :

@wgarcia Acctually, I don't use any android applications, but waydroid sound like a way to bypass gap until native applications are written. There is usually one or two apps which locks people to android.

In that case UT works well, but some people think they can keep both an Android phone and a UT phone with Waydroid, which is not the case.

@jmlich In my opinion if you need Android apps a lot, UT is not a good choice. Waydroid is a good complement of UT for Android apps you really need, but if you need a lot of them, I think a good advise is to better stay in Android. For instance if you use Whatsapp a lot, UT will not be ideal.

You should use UT if you have UT apps for all your basic needs, except a few ones, like bank apps or public apps only available in Android and Iphones.

In UT 16.04 suspension for an app could be disables with UT Tweak. Now this app is still not available for 20.04. Is there any way to disable app suspension from the command line in 20.04?

Long downloads require to disable the terminal from suspending, IMHO.

@ma Waydroid for me kept its configuration (apps installed and so on) after the upgrade to 20.04. You have just to "init" it again, no need to reinstall it.

@uwahl I opened a ticket for this:

https://gitlab.com/ubports/porting/reference-device-ports/android9/volla-phone/volla-yggdrasil/-/issues/12

Since my device sometimes forgets about a wifi connection and the password has to be reentered, if it is a long and complicated wifi password copying and pasting can be very helpful.

@ebsigma The Pinephone and the Librem 5 phones have hardware switches to turn off GPS, wifi antenna, cell phone antenna, and so on. Unfortunately UT is still not very operative on those devices.

@treebeard It's even worse that public institutions also require the use of Android or IOS for the most basic tasks. My municipality has a lot of services like the public bike system or the street parking payment system that cannot be run on a web page, only with a phone running the duopoly.

@ckrnkfrnchmn I think waydroid never connected to wifi. There are Android apps I think to fake wifi for other apps.

@Equareo Same for me, right now I just use the Pinetime to check the time.

@klh Yes, sorry, Pinetime.