[ROM][UBtouch][SM-T58X] Ubuntu Touch for the galaxy tab a 2016

[antoine62]

Ubuntu touch for the galaxy tab a 2016 wifi and galaxy tab a 2016 lte (untested)

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What is it?

As the title said, this is Ubuntu touch for the galaxy tab a 2016, a GNU/Linux os.

What is Ubuntu Touch?

Ubuntu Touch is the touch-friendly mobile version of Ubuntu.
This operating system is developed and maintained by UBports: An international community of passionate volunteers.
This means Ubuntu Touch is 100% community driven and independent.

What is Halium?
Halium is the collaborative project to unify the Hardware Abstraction Layer for projects which run GNU/Linux on mobile devices with pre-installed Android.

/!\ This is NOT an android based OS, android apps wont run without anbox (currently unavaible). Do NOT flash magisk, gapps or any android related zip on top of it.


What's working:
Actors: Manual brightness
Sensors: Touchscreen
Sensors: Rotation
Network: WiFi
Misc: Battery percentage
Misc: AppArmor patches applied to kernel (Kernel 3.4, 3.10, 3.18)
Misc: Shutdown / Reboot
Misc: RTC time is used after reboot

Working with additional steps:
GPU: Boot into UI

What's not working:

Only 5 apps works, will try to fix it
Problems with waking from sleep.

Misc: Anbox patches applied to kernel
Misc: Offline charging
Sound: Earphones
Sound: Loudspeaker
Sound: Microphone
USB: MTP access

-- Will not work due to the treble port breaking them --
Sensors: GPS - SM-T580 only
Sound: Volume control

Untested:
Actors: Torchlight
Camera: Flashlight
Camera: Photo
Camera: Video
Camera: Switch between back and front camera
Cellular: Carrier info, signal strength - SM-T585 only
Cellular: Data connection - SM-T585 only
Cellular: Incoming, outgoing calls - SM-T585 only
Cellular: MMS in, out - SM-T585 only
Cellular: PIN unlock - SM-T585 only
Cellular: SMS in, out - SM-T585 only
Cellular: Change audio routings - SM-T585 only
Cellular: Voice in calls - SM-T585 only
Endurance: Battery lifetime > 24h from 100%
Endurance: No reboot needed for 1 week
GPU: Hardware video decoding
Misc: Online charging
Misc: Recovery image
Misc: Reset to factory defaults
Misc: SD card detection and access - only for devices that support it
Network: Flight mode
Network: Hotspot
Sensors: Automatic brightness
Sensors: GPS - SM-T585 only
Sensors: Proximity
(USB: ADB access - disabled atm due to no middleware)

How to install:
https://github.com/antoine62/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870/wiki/How-to-install

How to update:
TODO

Tanks to:
@Valera1978 for the treble port & everybody who contribued to it
@CactiChameleon9 for helping me
The ubports team

Status:UNSTABLE
Kernel sources: https://github.com/antoine62/android_kernel_samsung_exynos7870/

 

[antoine62]

Reserved

 

[antoine62]

Reserved2

 

[twfs]

Holy cow been waiting for this can't wait to flash!! Thank you

 

[antoine62]

Holy cow been waiting for this can't wait to flash!! Thank you

Its unstable currently, but i will fix the bugs! And i may have found why audio doesnt work on treble, so audio will be working one day, like everything else

 

[Mohamed677]

Thanks for all this work, I hope you can fix the mistakes

 

[antoine62]

I somehow fixed touch not working after waking up by building it using the full halium sources, i will soon make a new release, and im still searching why apps doesnt work.

Offline charging and bluetooth may be easy to fix too.

EDIT: Nvm its still broken

 

[antoine62]

I think that i will retry to build halium using the lineage-16.0 branch, using the outdated treble port will just bring issues, and i may have know why the system image didnt worked: i used the wrong rootfs & i didnt apply patches...

 

[Kostareka]

I think that i will retry to build halium using the lineage-16.0 branch, using the outdated treble port will just bring issues, and i may have know why the system image didnt worked: i used the wrong rootfs & i didnt apply patches...

Wait for these fixes and thank you for all the work and I hope it's a good ROM

 

[antoine62]

I got the system image to build without errors, so this mean that we will not need the treble port anymore, but apparently the halium7 rootfs installation is different from the halium9 version.

 

[Kostareka]

I got the system image to build without errors, so this mean that we will not need the treble port anymore, but apparently the halium7 rootfs installation is different from the halium9 version.

Very excited to try it

 

[Chuppah_ST]

I installed the rom by following all the exact same steps but apparently when I try to start some apps such as file manager, openstore, terminal etc. they immediately crash.
I don't really know how could I solve the problem.
Any help?

 

[antoine62]

I installed the rom by following all the axact same steps but apparently when I try to start some apps such as file manager, openstore, terminal etc. the immediately crash.
I don't really now how could I solve the problem.
Any help?

Wait for a fix, its "normal". That's why the rom is unstable. I'm working on fixing this when i have some free time, and i dont have a lot of free time currently.

It may also be fixed on the non-gsi build that i cant install curently

 

[Chuppah_ST]

Wait for a fix, its "normal". That's why the rom is unstable. I'm working on fixing this when i have some free time, and i dont have a lot of free time currently.

It may also be fixed on the non-gsi build that i cant install curently

there is a non-gsi build?

 

[antoine62]

there is a non-gsi build?

Yes, not released currently.
That's what i was doing during the last 2 weeks.

It will be easier to debug this one because i have more control over the vendor and there's no problem with sound and gps.

I may stop building for smt-585, because modem will never work if i cant debug it, and maybe the same thing for gps, and the sm-t580 versikn should work on the sm-t585.

 

[Chuppah_ST]

Yes, not released currently.
That's what i was doing during the last 2 weeks.

It will be easier to debug this one because i have more control over the vendor and there's no problem with sound and gps.

I may stop building for smt-585, because modem will never work if i cant debug it, and maybe the same thing for gps, and the sm-t580 versikn should work on the sm-t585.

sad cuz I have sm-t585

 

[Kostareka]

sad cuz I have sm-t585

+1 i have sm-t585

 

[antoine62]

I may build for the sm-t585 then, but you will need to help me to debug ril if you want it. Anyway, before doing this, i need to debug halium9 because the non-gsi build doesnt boot to ui (black screen, no spinner), but it boots to ubuntu touch and usb work

 

[Chuppah_ST]

I may build for the sm-t585 then, but you will need to help me to debug ril if you want it. Anyway, before doing this, i need to debug halium9 because the non-gsi build doesnt boot to ui (black screen, no spinner), but it boots to ubuntu touch and usb work

For sure i'll help you, maybe we could chat on telegram to make things easier, don't knoe.

 

[Kostareka]

I may build for the sm-t585 then, but you will need to help me to debug ril if you want it. Anyway, before doing this, i need to debug halium9 because the non-gsi build doesnt boot to ui (black screen, no spinner), but it boots to ubuntu touch and usb work

i'll help you

 

[antoine62]

For sure i'll help you, maybe we could chat on telegram to make things easier, don't knoe.

Sure, i may do a bridged discord channel/matrix room/telegram group soon, but first i need to gt the non-gsi version to boot to gui.