[WIP][DEV] Ubuntu Touch for Sony Xperia Z Ultra

blueether · Jun 28, 2014

Ok lets get this going:

Welcome to The Ultra Collective

Development for the ZU including:

ROMs:
- Carbon
- Ubuntu Touch
- AOSP
Kernels:
- CM11 dt2w
- BluePimp (Port of Z1 Pimped Kernel)

Kohelet · Jun 30, 2014

KalleEatingBrain said:
Ah nice, when I last checked CM-11.0 was not working with the 4.4.2r2 branch. I think I know how to fix the problem with the *.apk. Basically you have to remove all java dependencies from all the makefiles. I will look it up, so I can tell you what to grep for. Do you have a git repo we can work on, or should I add you to mine (which is just a fork of the CM-repos)? I will take a look at the sound in the next days. Thanks for you list!
Keep it up,
Kalle

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It would seem that the UT wiki does somewhat describe this process. This article discusses building UT from fresh AOSP sources (making your own changes). Perhaps that is what needs to happen here.

KalleEatingBrain · Jul 3, 2014

Better documentation incoming

Hi,
I attended the ubuntu-on-air session on tuesday and was told that some devs might take a look at the porting guide in the Ubuntu Touch Wiki which is - what the guys from cannonical admitted - hopelessly outdated. I was told, the developement went on so fast, there was no time to document it for the community. They are getting money for OEM/RTM installation of Ubuntu Touch, so they are focusing on that, even though the community ports are an essential part of the project. I will update this post, as I come to know when the update of the porting guide will happen.
Best regards,
Kalle

If someone is reading this but does not know how to contribute: Why not donate some money to donations@ubuntu.com via PayPal and claim that you want a better porting guide? Might speed up the whole affair.

Kohelet · Jul 9, 2014

KalleEatingBrain said:
Hi,
I attended the ubuntu-on-air session on tuesday and was told that some devs might take a look at the porting guide in the Ubuntu Touch Wiki which is - what the guys from cannonical admitted - hopelessly outdated. I was told, the developement went on so fast, there was no time to document it for the community. They are getting money for OEM/RTM installation of Ubuntu Touch, so they are focusing on that, even though the community ports are an essential part of the project. I will update this post, as I come to know when the update of the porting guide will happen.
Best regards,
Kalle

If someone is reading this but does not know how to contribute: Why not donate some money to donations@ubuntu.com via PayPal and claim that you want a better porting guide? Might speed up the whole affair.

That's good to know! In the mean time, I'll start looking at the builds for odin to see if I can determine enough from that to get a working build for togari.

velvetmxo · Aug 23, 2014

How is this coming along?

Kohelet · Sep 2, 2014

blueether said:
Ok lets get this going:

Welcome to The Ultra Collective

Development for the ZU including:

ROMs:

Carbon

Ubuntu Touch

AOSP

Kernels:

CM11 dt2w

BluePimp (Port of Z1 Pimped Kernel)

Any new developments on this front? I recently moved so I haven't been getting after it lately, but I'm still curious to see this continue....

Part of me is thinking that since the kernel sources are on github it might be easier to start with the kernel and build UT from there instead of working from the CM parts....

Thoughts?

KalleEatingBrain · Sep 2, 2014

postponed

Hi,
Following the mailing list the RTM is more of a priority than the porting to new devices, so I'm waiting for this to pass. Anyways, I looked at the possibility to use a "handbuild" kernel and than adding system and stuff from another device. i assume there are already plenty of How-Tos and guides about decompiling the kernel and editing the ramdisk and also compiling the android kernel and adding desirable features, but if you want me to I could do a write-up in @blueether s dev thread.
Regards,
Kalle

Pallavgarg10 · Nov 19, 2014

Any Updates on the project???????????????

supergear · Nov 19, 2014

Project is dead

Pallavgarg10 · Nov 20, 2014

Why am i not surprised
Oh well

Triflot · Nov 20, 2014

Actually, now that our beloved Masters of Development are getting pure AOSP sources working for our devices, I think this may be easier to do.

Kohelet · Nov 20, 2014

Unfortunately, it seems that the Ubuntu Touch team is primarily focused on completing work for the BQ and Meizu phones that will be sporting Ubuntu Touch. That said, significant changes have been made to the OS that make the current porting guide completely unusable for porting. Which means people who want to port are left to do a lot of heavy lifting on their own with no support from the team working on the core of the OS because, as KalleEatingBrain mentioned, porting is just not a priority of theirs at the moment.

I've been monitoring their IRC and mailing list for relevant updates when I have time, but for the moment I've found it wouldn't be a good use of time to bang my head against Ubuntu Touch. Especially when the documentation of it is seriously outdated with no sign of being updated any time soon.

KalleEatingBrain · Nov 20, 2014

Kohelet said:
Unfortunately, it seems that the Ubuntu Touch team is primarily focused on completing work for the BQ and Meizu phones that will be sporting Ubuntu Touch. That said, significant changes have been made to the OS that make the current porting guide completely unusable for porting. Which means people who want to port are left to do a lot of heavy lifting on their own with no support from the team working on the core of the OS because, as KalleEatingBrain mentioned, porting is just not a priority of theirs at the moment.

I've been monitoring their IRC and mailing list for relevant updates when I have time, but for the moment I've found it wouldn't be a good use of time to bang my head against Ubuntu Touch. Especially when the documentation of it is seriously outdated with no sign of being updated any time soon.

Thanks for having my back

It's not that I stopped working on this, but I just don't make any progess and the support for porting is really bad. In the beginning I thought Ubuntu Touch might be a big thing because of the good community, but right now Cannonical is not very community friendly to anyone who doesn't have a Nexus device. Just take a look at the supported devices: Everything stopped after maybe 5 initial builds within the first 2-3 month after launch. I talked to the guy who maintains the UT build for the Xperia Tablet Z, which is like the only device that get's any updates, and he is willingly to help, but he says that it's really hard, even for someone who might have a extended knowledge of android development and linux.

Is anyone interested in joining me for porting FireFoxOS? They have a nice and clean porting guide and use Android 4.4 sources as default, so we could use CM sources. I want to have a exotic OS on my phone, that's why I started this xD

Kohelet · Nov 20, 2014

KalleEatingBrain said:
Thanks for having my back
It's not that I stopped working on this, but I just don't make any progess and the support for porting is really bad. In the beginning I thought Ubuntu Touch might be a big thing because of the good community, but right now Cannonical is not very community friendly to anyone who doesn't have a Nexus device. Just take a look at the supported devices: Everything stopped after maybe 5 initial builds within the first 2-3 month after launch. I talked to the guy who maintains the UT build for the Xperia Tablet Z, which is like the only device that get's any updates, and he is willingly to help, but he says that it's really hard, even for someone who might have a extended knowledge of android development and linux.

Is anyone interested in joining me for porting FireFoxOS? They have a nice and clean porting guide and use Android 4.4 sources as default, so we could use CM sources. I want to have a exotic OS on my phone, that's why I started this xD

Is ffOS stable enough to be used as a daily driver?

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I asked around in IRC to see if they have plans to update the porting guide any time soon. One of the devs said that once they've completed work on the devices that will have UT preinstalled (the BQ and Meizu phones), he'll work on getting a new porting guide out...At that point I'll probably give porting another shot.

Pallavgarg10 · Nov 20, 2014

With all due respect if you want an exotic os i suggest SAILFISH OS
That os is in desperate need of a large screen device like z ultra
Please consider porting SAILFISH OS
Thanks

Pallavgarg10 · Nov 21, 2014

Here is a thread about the HADK

http://xdaforums.com/jolla-sailfish/general/hakd-release-1-0-t2820012

Also this

http://releases.sailfishos.org/sfa-ea/2014-07-18_SailfishOSHardwareAdaptationDevelopmentKit.pdf

Pallavgarg10 · Jan 12, 2015

Any update on Ubuntu touch progress

Kohelet · Mar 2, 2015

New Porting Guide

It seems there's a new porting guide up now. I'll give it a shot and report back here on the results.

QWERTZQWERTY · Mar 14, 2015

Any Progress in Porting Ubuntu Touch ? Someone ? :'(

Kohelet · Mar 21, 2015

QWERTZQWERTY said:
Any Progress in Porting Ubuntu Touch ? Someone ? :'(

I'm been working on it since the new porting guide came up. As I write this I'm actually creating a local mirror since I have multiple Xperia devices I'd like to see it on. As for my own progess, I gave it a shot about a week ago but ran into issues that I think were because I didn't have a clean aosp tree to start with. I'm going to start fresh once I have both the aosp and ubuntu source trees mirrored. We'll see how far I get...my goal at this point is just to get something that will boot on the Ultra (or the Z2 for that matter).

If you're up for the challenge I'd recommend giving the porting guide a shot. If you combine the steps in that with the steps from the sony guide for building aosp some decent progress might be made. The more people looking at it the better.

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