UNOFFICIAL Ubuntu Touch for Redmi 4X (santoni)

[PierceB]

Yes i have exactly the same problem. Go back to LOS 16 does work but Ubuntu does not Boot.

 

[Samwei14]

Maybe you could try another recovery ? Like Orangefox ?

Hi, I gave it a try. First thing I removed encryption which I thought might cause problems. I moved to PixelExperience 10 and flashed OrangeFox 9.0.
The result is the same, bootloop on the initial screen, OrangeFox even says that no system is installed (TWRP does not warn about this).

 

[TomixUGA]

Hi, I did exactly that:
1) I have TWRP 3.3.1-0 and latest Lineage OS 16 installed
2) I flash Ubuntu zip without wiping anything - I am stuch at the initial MI logo
3) I tried to flash boot.img on top of that - still no luch, stuck at the initial MI logo
I have backup of Lineage OS, so no problem (just need to carefully press volume up+volume down+power to get to recovery)
but I would like to find out what is the proble and try Ubuntu...

Thank you

I don't know why but sometimes it doesn't work. I reinstalled Android and then UT booted successfully (Pixel Experience 9.0). Maybe some encryption stuff

 

[TomixUGA]

Hi, I gave it a try. First thing I removed encryption which I thought might cause problems. I moved to PixelExperience 10 and flashed OrangeFox 9.0.
The result is the same, bootloop on the initial screen, OrangeFox even says that no system is installed (TWRP does not warn about this).

I reinstalled Android (Pixel Experience 9.0) and then it successfully booted. I don't know what's the problem. This method isn't officially supported. I found it myself.

 

[Samwei14]

I reinstalled Android (Pixel Experience 9.0) and then it successfully booted. I don't know what's the problem. This method isn't officially supported. I found it myself.

Thank you, it would be perfect if you could point us where to download exactly the same version of TWRP and Android ROM you used (I downloaded PixelExperience 9.0 from this thread https://t.me/s/r4xchannel?q=#PIXELEXPERIENCE but that one November 2019 is unstable, reboots right after instllation,and installing on top of it did not help...) Thank you

 

[newbie_or_not_newbie]

I tried flash of UB Ports.

I have AICP Pie installed. After backing up boot.img of AICP, I only flashed UBports zip. No wipe. It works.

 

[Samwei14]

I tried flash of UB Ports.
I have AICP Pie installed. After backing up boot.img of AICP, I only flashed UBports zip. No wipe. It works.

Hi, thank you very much, I can confirm it works with the latest AICP Pie rom - great!
Could someone please tell me which packages to update to get sound and bluetoooth working? Because when I try to update all, something breaks and I am again in bootloop. This is what I did in terminal:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
sudo touch /userdata/.writable_image
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
it updates many packages, first time the configuration froze at some 55%, second time I updated keyboards separately as that was the point where it hang, but then again dpkg exited with code 1 when installing some lxc-android package (attached image)... after reboot ubuntu did not boot, so I have to do all again. Also would be perfect if I coudld ssh to the phone, but was not successful - it is enough that computer and phone are on the same wifi? Computer could not see the phone.
Thank you and sorry for the long post, at least it is booting now and I can test

 

[Samwei14]

Ok, so I guess now we have to continue in the ubports forum

 

[aceclan]

Improovements

As I see here, some things are fixed, can You help me to compile from github actions... ?

https://forums.ubports.com/topic/3682/xiaomi-redmi-4x-santoni/2

If it possible I would like to try dual boot with original rom.

Alex

 

[povoking]

could you pls update it to the last version ?

 

[ManuXD32]

Hi, everytime i try to install it (even in a clean flash) mi phone stucks in a bootloop. Can anyone explain how to install it? Thanks

 

[TomixUGA]

Hi, everytime i try to install it (even in a clean flash) mi phone stucks in a bootloop. Can anyone explain how to install it? Thanks

You can try formatting whole data partition. In TWRP click wipe and then click format data. This should also remove any encryption and will (obviously) remove all your data.

 

[PierceB]

Hi, thank you very much, I can confirm it works with the latest AICP Pie rom - great!
Could someone please tell me which packages to update to get sound and bluetoooth working? Because when I try to update all, something breaks and I am again in bootloop. This is what I did in terminal:
sudo mount -o remount,rw /
sudo touch /userdata/.writable_image
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
it updates many packages, first time the configuration froze at some 55%, second time I updated keyboards separately as that was the point where it hang, but then again dpkg exited with code 1 when installing some lxc-android package (attached image)... after reboot ubuntu did not boot, so I have to do all again. Also would be perfect if I coudld ssh to the phone, but was not successful - it is enough that computer and phone are on the same wifi? Computer could not see the phone.
Thank you and sorry for the long post, at least it is booting now and I can test

Did work for me with AICP installation first. Really nice so see the phone runing without android. but for daily use i will run linage for microG to run some google play apps. or is it possible to run android apps with ubuntu touch?

 

[suoko]

@TomixUGA how did you create the zip?
Did you use a tool like this shadow53.com/android/zip-builder/download/ or you have a script?
Thanks

 

[TomixUGA]

@TomixUGA how did you create the zip?
Did you use a tool like this shadow53.com/android/zip-builder/download/ or you have a script?
Thanks

I manually created the zip, copied system files, then I created file (updater-script) in the zip, looked on Google for syntaxes and "coded" the updater-script.

Btw the script is located in: (the zip file) META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script

 

[TomixUGA]

@TomixUGA how did you create the zip?
Did you use a tool like this shadow53.com/android/zip-builder/download/ or you have a script?
Thanks

I created a zip file, copied system files into it, then I created a new file (updater-script) and "coded" the script with syntaxes found on Google.

Btw the script is located in: (the zip file) META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script

 

[suoko]

I created a zip file, copied system files into it, then I created a new file (updater-script) and "coded" the script with syntaxes found on Google.

Btw the script is located in: (the zip file) META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script

Thanks a million!
Do you think this procedure will work? https://forums.ubports.com/post/30871

 

[sis71]

Hello, I tested it. Great work!
Works great, but is a bit choppy. The "dual boot" also works, but is a bit cumbersome. Is there anything easier?

 

[wmxuan]

If I can customize the horizontal screen, then most of the Ubuntu desktop applications can run normally.

 

[PomocnyInaczej]

Installed using adb sideload 'adb sideload ubuntu.zip' after that configured server for minecraft, its working (not bad not terrible xD)