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Re: Call for testing: experimental 4.4.2 based images

 

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:01 AM, Shuduo Sang <sangshuduo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
> <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Shuduo Sang <sangshuduo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo
>>> <ricardo.salveti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hey,
>>>>
>>>> As some of you already know, I'm currently porting our Android code
>>>> base to 4.4.2 (we're currently based on 4.2.2), and enabling support
>>>> for a few additional devices (not all are officially supported though,
>>>> but I'm happy to help the community builders).
>>>>
>>>> Just got to the point when bug reports are actually useful, so if you
>>>> have either a grouper (Nexus 7), manta (Nexus 10), mako (Nexus 4), flo
>>>> (Nexus 7 2013) or hammerhead (Nexus 5), and want to help testing the
>>>> 4.4.2 changes, this is for you :-)
>>>>
>>>> Remember, this is still an experimental build, so don't expect
>>>> everything to be perfect or working as it should. Also make sure to
>>>> have a backup of our previous image and data, as the following
>>>> procedure will wipe everything.
>>>>
>>>> Flashing 4.4.2 based Ubuntu touch images:
>>>>
>>>> 1) Flash the original 4.4.2 based Android image from
>>>> https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images ($ sudo
>>>> ./flash-all.sh) - needed to make sure you're using the right
>>>> bootloader and radio fw
>>>> 2) Unlock your bootloader: $ fastboot oem unlock
>>>> 3) Boot the device with the original 4.4.2 image and reboot to bootloader
>>>> 4) At the bootloader, flash boot, recovery and system for your device
>>>> (http://people.canonical.com/~rsalveti/aosp/<device>)
>>>>   - fastboot flash boot boot.img
>>>>   - fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
>>>>   - fastboot flash system system.img
>>>> 5) Boot into recovery and flash Ubuntu using
>>>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-touch/daily-preinstalled/pending/trusty-preinstalled-touch-armhf.zip
>>>> (adb push <zip> /sdcard, then flash via menu, or use sideload).
>>>> 6) Reboot, and use phablet-network (from your host) to setup the network
>>>> 7) Enable my personal PPA (latest MIR): sudo apt-add-repository ppa:rsalveti/ppa
>>>> 8) Install latest MIR packages: apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade
>>>> 9) Enable MIR: $ touch /home/phablet/.display-mir
>>>> 11) Reboot and profit!
>>>>
>>>> Please let me know if you have any issues, and also let me know about
>>>> possible new bugs that might happen with this new image.
>>>>
>>>> Here's what I built and tested:
>>>> - grouper (not officially supported): working as before, not many changes
>>>> - mako (officially supported): working as before
>>>> - flo (officially supported): shell rotation is not yet implemented,
>>>> and side stage is not fully functional
>>>> - hammerhead (not officially supported): couldn't test, don't have a device
>>>> - manta (still officially supported): better and faster
>>>>
>>>> Video playback is the only feature that's known to be broken, and we
>>>> should hopefully get this fixed next monday.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I installed this image on Nexus 7 (2013) and it works great except
>>> video broken issue. I wonder Nexus 7 2013 has same SoC/GPU as Nexus 4.
>>> But the image based on Android 4.2 can play video well. Does that mean
>>> video playback will be broken on Nexus 4 too?
>>
>> Yeah, video playback is broken for all 4.4.2 based images. We should
>> hopefully get this fixed tomorrow.
>>
>
> Really good news.
> BTW, do you know when new 4.4.2-based image will be put on official
> channel then we can install
> by dualboot.sh?
> Thanks.

We still need to land a few changes (mostly Mir) and work on some
bugfixes, but I'd hope we can do the switch already next week.

Cheers
-- 
Ricardo Salveti de Araujo


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