Ubuntu Phone for the HTC HD2

wojsed · Mar 1, 2013

HTC Desire and Nexus One are good sign for future Ubuntu on our HD2

z3nful · Mar 1, 2013

I've gotten the rom itself to build right for the HD2, but the jellybean kernel has a few things that aren't compiling right, namely, the Kernel Namespace Support for networking. Which I should probably just ignore for now anyways since wifi doesn't work yet for Android CM10.1 on HD2.

If I get time today, ill try to get an installable zip setup.

Spaqin · Mar 1, 2013

That's great news! I hope it will boot without problems :3

By the way, do we know what's the cause of that Kernel Namespace Support error and WiFi not working on 4.2? I'm pretty sure Desire has it working and there aren't many differences...

Robbie P · Mar 1, 2013

z3nful said:
I've gotten the rom itself to build right for the HD2, but the jellybean kernel has a few things that aren't compiling right, namely, the Kernel Namespace Support for networking. Which I should probably just ignore for now anyways since wifi doesn't work yet for Android CM10.1 on HD2.

If I get time today, ill try to get an installable zip setup.

Thanks, looking forward to it

FYI marc1706 posted a jb kernel with bcmdhd support here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35571547&postcount=167
I think he tried it on 4.2.2 rom here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38059342&postcount=37 and then posted this http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38063992&postcount=47

john francis · Mar 5, 2013

z3nful said:
I've gotten the rom itself to build right for the HD2, but the jellybean kernel has a few things that aren't compiling right, namely, the Kernel Namespace Support for networking. Which I should probably just ignore for now anyways since wifi doesn't work yet for Android CM10.1 on HD2.

If I get time today, ill try to get an installable zip setup.

Thanks for your work. where can i get the installable zip?

lkashl · Mar 6, 2013

z3nful said:
I've gotten the rom itself to build right for the HD2, but the jellybean kernel has a few things that aren't compiling right, namely, the Kernel Namespace Support for networking. Which I should probably just ignore for now anyways since wifi doesn't work yet for Android CM10.1 on HD2.

If I get time today, ill try to get an installable zip setup.

Haha network compatibility is irrelevant if it means we can get our hands on the ROM early

Thanks for porting it over!

z3nful · Mar 6, 2013

Development for this slightly slowed over the weekend as I broke my Nexus 4 and had to go back to using my HD2 as the business phone, but I should have something soon. Its going to be magldr only at first, and probably only fit on US HD2 (since EU has half the space)

Once I have it up, if someone with knowledge of SD builds and Native SD can give a quick hand (I never had time to do more than nand installs), we can get it working for all models.

Sent from my NexusHD2 using xda premium

Johrans · Mar 6, 2013

z3nful said:
Once I have it up, if someone with knowledge of SD builds and Native SD can give a quick hand (I never had time to do more than nand installs), we can get it working for all models.

Sent from my NexusHD2 using xda premium

there are some tuts about that sow thats no problem for the most guy's/developers here/

lyh1 · Mar 6, 2013

They have Multi rom bootloader which use Nexus 7 internal storage to boot Ubuntu Touch without wiping the Android partition.
Can MagLdr do the trick too?

Multi boot installtion video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-FRRzkhFiw

Robbie P · Mar 6, 2013

z3nful said:
Once I have it up, if someone with knowledge of SD builds and Native SD can give a quick hand

Will give it a go ASAP (as soon as posted

)

tucahara · Mar 7, 2013

HTC Desire

john francis said:
Thanks for your work. where can i get the installable zip?

You can have a look on HTC Desire port:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2174528

john francis · Mar 7, 2013

tucahara said:
You can have a look on HTC Desire port:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2174528

Thanks but i have a HTC HD2. I'll just wait till there's a port for my device.

Robbie P · Mar 8, 2013

Hi z3nful, I don't know if you are having problems porting this, or if you are just busy with real life

, but I know that hopkinskong has been trying to compile it ( here ), and has expressed an interest (via PM) in possibly liaising with you. Also Sir sternas (WM6.5 Artemis ROM) is working on it too ( http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38252901&postcount=42671 and http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38678701&postcount=42702 ) I think. Perhaps you should all get together.

HypoTurtle · Mar 30, 2013

Anyone got any further with this... we have a CM10.1 with wifi now.
I have managed to get it running on my tablet so may be able to help reading logcats etc.
Feel free to PM

hopkinskong · Apr 3, 2013

I need some help from other devs, or if you have knowledge about *building* Android (CM10.1), please PM me.

HypoTurtle · Apr 3, 2013

hopkinskong said:
I need some help from other devs, or if you have knowledge about *building* Android (CM10.1), please PM me.

Most of what you need is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices/tf300t
With a few adaptions, it should build, for the custom manifest leave libybis and platform-api as they are and change the kernel to Sportstar89's (or tytungs latest), and the device line to Sportstar89's found here. Such as:

Code:

<project path="ubuntu/hybris" name="f69m/ubuntu-phablet_libhybris" remote="github" revision="refs/heads/master" />
<project path="ubuntu/platform-api" name="f69m/ubuntu-phablet_platform-api" remote="github" revision="refs/heads/master" />

<project path="kernel/htc/leo" name="Sportsstar89/android_kernel_htc_leo" remote="github" revision="refs/heads/cm-10.1" />
<project path="device/htc/leo" name="Sportsstar89/android_device_htc_leo" remote="github" revision="refs/heads/cm-10.1" />

Most of the rest you should be able to see what needs modified. (Haven't actually built CM10.1 (don't have the hardware) so didn't PM).

warriorvibhu · Apr 4, 2013

Hey,
From what i have seen, i ported and installed Ubuntu touch on one of the nexus devices .. though it was pretty straight forward but the version they have released is absolutely non usable, most of the apps there, are placeholders and settings is not accessible at all. But do not go by my information, my information is more than a month old when they released developer preview and i was so disappointed with their efforts that after that i stopped following them so if they have released some new version or updates after that i have no idea but think about it ...
Best Regards
V

hopkinskong · Apr 4, 2013

I didn't met any compiling problem.
Instead, my base Android is not working.
It seems that everything i built were useless.
All of my services crashes, included surfaceflinger, servicemanager, etc.
I traced the logs, all of them crashes for Seg. Fault, and the reason is, all of them cannot allocate/map memory.

HypoTurtle · Apr 4, 2013

hopkinskong said:
I didn't met any compiling problem.
Instead, my base Android is not working.
It seems that everything i built were useless.
All of my services crashes, included surfaceflinger, servicemanager, etc.
I traced the logs, all of them crashes for Seg. Fault, and the reason is, all of them cannot allocate/map memory.

Care to post the logs?

Few questions...
Which release of armhf are you using? (the tablet that I have UT running on, doesn't work with builds from the past week).
Is the log crashing/looping at ubuntuappmanager?
Are you sure init.rc has been correctly modified (if you have a boot animation then I'd guess init.rc wasn't modified during the build)?
If your compiled zip is ~50MB and you have the ubuntu specific parts (ubuntu_chroot, ubuntuappmanager, uchroot and lib*_compat_layer.so's), then I'm sure it was built fine.
Have you done the manual changes that are needed, kernel config etc.

hopkinskong · Apr 4, 2013

HypoTurtle said:
Care to post the logs?

Few questions...
Which release of armhf are you using? (the tablet that I have UT running on, doesn't work with builds from the past week).
Is the log crashing/looping at ubuntuappmanager?
Are you sure init.rc has been correctly modified (if you have a boot animation then I'd guess init.rc wasn't modified during the build)?
If your compiled zip is ~50MB and you have the ubuntu specific parts (ubuntu_chroot, ubuntuappmanager, uchroot and lib*_compat_layer.so's), then I'm sure it was built fine.
Have you done the manual changes that are needed, kernel config etc.

All of my Android services crashed, this include surfaceflinger, servicemanager, media, etc.
They all have Seg. Fault (MAPERR), which i think they cannot allocate memory properly.
This could be the problem of the program, or the kernel.
Currently, i am using 2.6.x kernel (the old one), maybe this is the problem.
Later on, i will try 3.x kernel (which is from https://github.com/hopkinskong/android_kernel_htc_leo).

My compiled zip is ~42MB and i confirm that ubuntu_chroot, ubuntuappmanager, uchroot, ubuntu-session, hybris (which communicates with android's HAL [I didn't confirm that yet]) is exists.

Here is your log file requested: (I am just giving out FEW ONLY, because the rests are just the same (SEGV_MAPERR).
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5677367/
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5677369/
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/5677371/

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