Ubuntu touch

[TioCareca]

I am now starting to read the documentation related to Ubuntu touch and how to build that, any experienced dev want to share some lights on how to build that for our beloved pocophone?


https://docs.halium.org/en/latest/porting/first-steps.html

 

[thanas]

I'm in

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[TioCareca]

I'm in

This project uses android 7.1 base, not existing for our phone...
Don't known if we can use 8.1 base...

 

[thanas]

Device tree is portable but haven't read at all about Ubuntu touch. What about vendor fw?

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[TioCareca]

Vendor blobs go in the vendor/ folder in Halium source tree
Thats the info they give...

 

[thanas]

Contact me on telegram. I will research as well about this. Have a good system however I have space management issues so don't know if I'm able to compile myself. @thanas8

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[Adriano-A3]

Go on guys!

 

[TioCareca]

@abhishek987 do you think its possible to port ubuntu touch to pocophone?
Care to help?

 

[TioCareca]

@milouk care to participate?

 

[TioCareca]

@Shahan_mik3 can you help?

 

[TioCareca]

@CosmicDan mind to help?

 

[TioCareca]

Well the place project is stopped is here:

This the instructions:

The Device Repository

Next, we’ll fill the manifest with information. Start with your device repository. Create the following line between the <manifest> and </manifest> tags, replacing the information inside the square brackets with your own:

<project path="device/[manufacturer]/[device]" name="[repository name]" remote="[remote]" revision="[revision]" />

Note

The revision attribute may be omitted if the default revision for this remote is the one that you wish to use.

If you’re not sure of your remote, jump down to Remotes.
Dependencies

Now create more lines like the previous, using the cm.dependencies or lineage.dependencies file you found earlier in your device repository. This file lists all of the other repositories that you need to build for your selected device. It’s listed in a fairly straightforward way, so create a line for each of the entries in there using the following template:

<project path="[target_path]" name="[repository]" remote="[remote]" revision="[revision]" />

The target path is found in the repository’s name. The preceding “android” or “proprietary” is omitted and underscores are replaced with slashes. For example, android_device_lge_bullhead goes in device/lge/bullhead.

This is the file builded:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<manifest>
<project path="device/xiaomi/beryllium" name="android_device_xiaomi_beryllium" remote="los" />

<project path="kernel/xiaomi/sdm845" name="los/android_kernel_xiaomi_sdm845" remote="los" revision="pgz-14.1-eb8" />

<project path="vendor/xiaomi" name="proprietary_vendor_xiaomi" remote="them" />

<project path="device/xiaomi/sdm845-common" name="android_device_xiaomi_sdm845-common" remote="los"/>
</manifest>

And this is the error:

[email protected]:/media/x/x/hal$ ./b.sh
including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh
including sdk/bash_completion/adb.bash
including vendor/cm/bash_completion/git.bash
including vendor/cm/bash_completion/repo.bash
build/core/product_config.mk:254: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/xiaomi/beryllium/lineage.mk]]: "build/target/product/product_launched_with_o_mr1.mk" does not exist. Stop.
Device beryllium not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from LineageOS Github (http://github.com/LineageOS).
Found repository: android_device_xiaomi_beryllium
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vendor/cm/build/tools/roomservice.py", line 263, in <module>
default_revision = get_default_revision()
File "vendor/cm/build/tools/roomservice.py", line 117, in get_default_revision
return r.replace('refs/heads/', '').replace('refs/tags/', '')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
build/core/product_config.mk:254: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/xiaomi/beryllium/lineage.mk]]: "build/target/product/product_launched_with_o_mr1.mk" does not exist. Stop.
build/core/product_config.mk:254: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/xiaomi/beryllium/lineage.mk]]: "build/target/product/product_launched_with_o_mr1.mk" does not exist. Stop.

Don't have a product spec for: 'lineage_beryllium'
Do you have the right repo manifest?

including vendor/cm/vendorsetup.sh
build/core/product_config.mk:254: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/xiaomi/beryllium/lineage.mk]]: "build/target/product/product_launched_with_o_mr1.mk" does not exist. Stop.
Device beryllium not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from LineageOS Github (http://github.com/LineageOS).
Found repository: android_device_xiaomi_beryllium
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "vendor/cm/build/tools/roomservice.py", line 263, in <module>
default_revision = get_default_revision()
File "vendor/cm/build/tools/roomservice.py", line 117, in get_default_revision
return r.replace('refs/heads/', '').replace('refs/tags/', '')
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'replace'
build/core/product_config.mk:254: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/xiaomi/beryllium/lineage.mk]]: "build/target/product/product_launched_with_o_mr1.mk" does not exist. Stop.
build/core/product_config.mk:254: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/xiaomi/beryllium/lineage.mk]]: "build/target/product/product_launched_with_o_mr1.mk" does not exist. Stop.

Don't have a product spec for: 'lineage_beryllium'
Do you have the right repo manifest?

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[tejjoshii]

following for any update....
I hope you guys succeed... I heard it is quite difficult to port ubuntu touch for not supported device and people face many errors so they give it up. BTW i don't know anything about rom development. I am a total noob.
But best wishes to you guys

 

[thanas]

Anyone wanting to join glad to hear

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[Linux Klaus]

This sounds like a great idea. I am following the ubports community since a long time and just love the project. I cross my fingers that you succeed. I can't offer any help as I am lacking the brain capicity to code but my thoughts are with you. As @ tejjoshii already said, I also believe the porting processs is super complicated.
Have you heard of Maru OS. It's based on lineage os and debian or ubuntu. The building process seems pretty straight forward. You just need to patch the lineage os files with the maru os files. As our device sadyl doesn't have hdmi out we could usegoogle chromecast to mirror it to a screen (that#s how they do it with the nexus 5x)- Maybe that would be for the meantime a good alternative. It combines the good two worlds of android and linux. When you connect it to a screen it boots up a full linux system. It's fully open source At the moment the htc 10, samsung galaxy s9, nexus 5 and nexus 5x and some other devices are supported.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maru-os-dev

https://maruos.com/#/

 

[thanas]

Gave up on it too much effort to do alone since it's no Android to Android port. I'll reconsider if anyone contributes

 

[dsvilko]

I know it's not exactly ubuntu touch but I am running a recent Ubuntu installed alongside the Android through UserLAnd app. My phone is not even unlocked/rooted (the app uses proot). Thanks to the fast built-in storage on our phone, it's actually running quite decently. The xfce4 desktop is quite usable and so are the more demanding programs like gimp, inkscape, libreoffice, rawtherapee. The speed is comparable to my older iMac with the i5 processor. As you don't get a direct display access, you start X through vncserver and connect to it through an android vnc client. It's cool that it basically acts just like another android app so you get to enjoy the best of both worlds. It's too bad we can't easily connect our phone to and external monitor like I could with my old galaxy S5.
I've been running a linux distro on my phones for more than 7 years and for me it's one of the coolest things about android - that you can reuse existing linux kernel to run a full linux distribution.

 

[Linux Klaus]

You might want to have a look at this thread:

https://forum.xda-developers.com/poco-f1/help/maru-os-pocophone-t3900651


Maybe we have soon Linux (Debian) and lineage os up and running on our beloved pocophone. Connect it to a screen via chromecast and you'll have a proper convergence experience. One of the devs of the maru OS team is interested to port for the poco

 

[dsvilko]

Can someone explain what would maru OS offer that is not already available through UserLAnd?

 

[Linux Klaus]

Can someone explain what would maru OS offer that is not already available through UserLAnd?

Please correct me if I'am mistaken I don't have much experience with userland. When you run linux through userland can you mirror it to a big screen? But I believe the difference is that when you start Linux through userland you can't use the android part of the phone at the same time. Is that correct?

With Maru OS I believe it's different. Once you connect your phone with a cable or wirelesse solution to a screen it automatically boot up full linux distro (people are running ubuntu and debian at the moment and some seem keen to experiment with kde). Yo can use still the android part of your phone as regular, do phone calls etc.?


Here is an older video to give you a rough idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF7yK7HAyVM





Here is also a great interview with one of the main devs at latenight linux.





https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-59


You might also want to read though the posts in their dev group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/maru-os-dev