Hello everyone,
I've managed to make a build that boots with the latest versions of ubuntu touch and I wanted to share it with you because I've also been following this thread eager to install ubuntu touch on my phone, although the method to install still might be complicated for some at the moment.
So first off you need to be using Linux, as I don't think project rootstock works on Windows
To install it you must follow the instructions I found here which are, in a terminal:
then to get the rootfs with the mir fixes
but once the screen turns off it takes a while or a reboot to get it back on
Once that part is finished download all the files at the end of the post and put them in the project-roostock-ng directory to make things easier
then in the same terminal with your device connected to bootloader:
Reboot your device to recovery and do a full wipe, once that's done, with your device still connected to usb, in the same terminal type:
and your device should load the ubuntu lockscreen
Here are the files for m7ul:
system.img
boot.img
recovery.img
70-m7ul.rules
m7ul.conf
for m7spr (not tested):
boot.img
recovery.img
system.img
and download the 70-m7ul.rules and m7ul.conf but replace m7ul with m7spr
What works:
UI
camera
auto-rotation
Wifi (tested only on at&t version)
Audio (I've managed to get audio to work if the headphones are plugged in but not all the way, you really gotta find the sweet spot so it's not really useable yet but it's still progress.)
What doesn't work:
GSM
etc
it should run more smooth and the phone should get less hot
Backup file - http://www.mediafire.com/download/2xnfez828442k3l/2014-06-17--17-26-37.zip
I also found a way to have the same kind of dual boot setup canonical made for the nexus 4 by flashing the boot.img (the newer one can be found here http://www.mediafire.com/download/i9kmmwvc3gmb0kb/boot.img) on the recovery partition and keeping the internal rom's boot on the boot partition, so in theory if you flash a rom without wiping after flashing the backup and you flash the boot.img I provided on the recovery partition it should also work and then to get ubuntu you reboot in recovery and to get android you just boot normally, the problem is you lose your recovery temporarily and you have to reflash it if you want to use it until canonical finds a different way or I manage to get it to work with multirom.
I've managed to make a build that boots with the latest versions of ubuntu touch and I wanted to share it with you because I've also been following this thread eager to install ubuntu touch on my phone, although the method to install still might be complicated for some at the moment.
So first off you need to be using Linux, as I don't think project rootstock works on Windows
To install it you must follow the instructions I found here which are, in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install android-tools-fsutils qemu-user-static bzr
android-tools-adb
bzr branch lproject-rootstock-ng
cd project-rootstock-ng
then to get the rootfs with the mir fixes
which takes a little while or you can download the tar.gz from here
but once the screen turns off it takes a while or a reboot to get it back on
Once that part is finished download all the files at the end of the post and put them in the project-roostock-ng directory to make things easier
then in the same terminal with your device connected to bootloader:
Reboot your device to recovery and do a full wipe, once that's done, with your device still connected to usb, in the same terminal type:
your device should reboot on its own, once you get to the black screen type:
and your device should load the ubuntu lockscreen
Here are the files for m7ul:
system.img
boot.img
recovery.img
70-m7ul.rules
m7ul.conf
for m7spr (not tested):
boot.img
recovery.img
system.img
and download the 70-m7ul.rules and m7ul.conf but replace m7ul with m7spr
What works:
UI
camera
auto-rotation
Wifi (tested only on at&t version)
Audio (I've managed to get audio to work if the headphones are plugged in but not all the way, you really gotta find the sweet spot so it's not really useable yet but it's still progress.)
What doesn't work:
GSM
etc
it should run more smooth and the phone should get less hot
Backup file - http://www.mediafire.com/download/2xnfez828442k3l/2014-06-17--17-26-37.zip
I also found a way to have the same kind of dual boot setup canonical made for the nexus 4 by flashing the boot.img (the newer one can be found here http://www.mediafire.com/download/i9kmmwvc3gmb0kb/boot.img) on the recovery partition and keeping the internal rom's boot on the boot partition, so in theory if you flash a rom without wiping after flashing the backup and you flash the boot.img I provided on the recovery partition it should also work and then to get ubuntu you reboot in recovery and to get android you just boot normally, the problem is you lose your recovery temporarily and you have to reflash it if you want to use it until canonical finds a different way or I manage to get it to work with multirom.
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