[DEV][Porting] Ubuntu Touch on Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100)

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Currently I'm trying to run Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview on my Note II
So far Ubuntu touch based on cm-10.1 it is quite simple to port to any device supported by cm.

For beginning there are some useful guides:

• Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview - Porting Guide
• How to Build CyanogenMod for Galaxy Note 2

And here we go:

First of all prepare the Build Environment

sudo apt-get install git gnupg flex bison gperf build-essential \
  zip bzr curl libc6-dev libncurses5-dev:i386 x11proto-core-dev \
  libx11-dev:i386 libreadline6-dev:i386 libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 \
  libgl1-mesa-dev g++-multilib mingw32 tofrodos \
  python-markdown libxml2-utils xsltproc zlib1g-dev:i386 schedtool

Install phablet-tools

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:phablet-team/tools
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install phablet-tools

To get the source code do bootstrap, it takes a looooong time and need about 15 GB of disk space

phablet-dev-bootstrap -j 4 ubuntu-touch

cd ubuntu-touch

Now we need to grab the n7100 specific git repositories.
In general we use CyanogenMode repositories with some changes made for ubuntu phone
For the moment I'm not sure whether it is all changes what we need, therefore I have fork them on git hub,
so just create a new file .repo/local_manifest.xml with content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
  <project name="drapalyuk/android_device_samsung_n7100" path="device/samsung/n7100" remote="github" revision="phablet-10.1" />
  <project name="drapalyuk/android_device_samsung_smdk4412-common" path="device/samsung/smdk4412-common" remote="github" revision="phablet-10.1" />
  <project name="drapalyuk/android_kernel_samsung_smdk4412" path="kernel/samsung/smdk4412" remote="github" revision="phablet-10.1" />
  <project name="drapalyuk/android_hardware_samsung" path="hardware/samsung" remote="github" revision="phablet-10.1" />
</manifest>

repo sync -j4

Extract proprietary blobs, expected you have all ready installed CM-10 on your phone, if not Install CM for n7100

cd device/samsung/n7100
./extract-files.sh

If you want to speed up subsequent builds after this one
Turn on caching

export USE_CCACHE=1

Start the build

. build/envsetup.sh
brunch n7100

After successfully build N7100 zip installer will be placed into out/target/product/n7100/cm-10.1-<date>-UNOFFICIAL-n7100.zip

Installation instructions:

• reboot in recovery
• wipe
• install the N7100 specific installer
• install the Ubuntu 12.10 Touch Preview, daily build quantal-preinstalled-phablet-armhf.zip
• reboot

DISCLAIMER: this is development preview do not install if you don't know exactly what you are doing
Latest N7100 specific image Here

To Be Continued...

Progress

could we use this on the tmobile note 2 also

Hi, i'm porting ubuntu touch on SGS3 i9300 (international) but i'm having issues addressed to a segfault of surfaceflinger not finding libandroid_runtime.so: any errors like this?

Flashing this ROM already work Unbuntu into N7100?


Thanks, I took several days trying to download the repo but always fails.

Originally Posted by allenjthomsen

could we use this on the tmobile note 2 also

I've never seen a straightforward answer to how to convert a n7100 rom to a t889 rom... Something to do with copy the kernel image out of a working t889 rom and into the n7100 rom? But I've also heard that some people get bricks trying!

If this rom doesn't work for a t889, could the same steps be followed, substituting in t889 where applicable, to make the right rom? I would just try it, but my phone is away for warranty repair

Originally Posted by gianguido

Hi, i'm porting ubuntu touch on SGS3 i9300 (international) but i'm having issues addressed to a segfault of surfaceflinger not finding libandroid_runtime.so: any errors like this?

Exynos GPU Mali lib*_mali.so need libandroid_runtime.so

Originally Posted by BoRoU

Flashing this ROM already work Unbuntu into N7100?

not completely I get console and can chroot into ubuntu, but no gui yet
but I'm working on

Originally Posted by drapalyuk

Exynos GPU Mali lib*_mali.so need libandroid_runtime.so


not completely I get console and can chroot into ubuntu, but no gui yet
but I'm working on

How did you get the Android part to build, I have been trying for two days and I just got it to even start compiling yesterday. Here is a link to my paste bin, I have the T-Mobile Note II so I am using t0lte (GT-N7105).

Also if you want I have a guid i was putting together until I hit this snag yesterday.I will upload it and let you look at it if you want to further edit your OP. Where did you fork your android_hardware_samsung folder ? I could not find one in the CM repositories I had to use another repository I found.

Re: [DEV][Porting] Ubuntu Touch on Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100)

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Are your CM sources older then the 24th ? On the 23 they fixed the MALI render issued and memory leak in CM 10.1.

Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app

Originally Posted by lgstoian

Are your CM sources older then the 24th ? On the 23 they fixed the MALI render issued and memory leak in CM 10.1.

Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app

Ha yeah they are from the 23 that is when i finished my repo sync and cloned my device files. I guess I need to re sync and redo my edits then try again. Also does this require the linaro toolchain?

I got past my above problem by going to device/samsung/t0lte/t0lte and taking out the following from it.

# Product specific Packages
PRODUCT_PACKAGES += \
    GalaxyNote2Settings

But I am still having troubles.

Edit: This is now my issue, got to find where to disable this.

make: *** No rule to make target `/home/tmacgnolia/UPP/out/target/product/t0lte/obj/SHARED_LIBRARIES/libTVOut_intermediates/export_includes', needed by `/home/tmacgnolia/UPP/out/target/product/t0lte/obj/EXECUTABLES/mediaserver_intermediates/import_includes'.  Stop.