Pro1x with SailfishOS

[DillonM 10]

Sad to say but I am going to have to switch over to lineage or stock. After too many missed calls or unreceived texts from my SO, i am being request to fix the situation. and to not have to explain why the phone is worth a step down from my old note 20 ultra, i need the pro1-x to be more reliable (probably less bleeding edge) for a daily driver.

Edited March 6, 2023 by DillonM

[claude0001 1,341]

2 hours ago, DillonM said:

Sad to say but I am going to have to switch over to lineage or stock. After too many missed calls or unreceived texts from my SO, i am being request to fix the situation. [...]

You've probably thought about this, but just in case:

The Pro1X has connection issues with LTE and GSM (calls). We do not know why, but we believe it is either: a problem in the hardware (yikes!) - or - a fault in the stock Android drivers and firmwares, which also SFOS is using. The latter (if existing) might be fixed in a future OTA from F(x)tec (that, eventually, also SFOS would pick up, I guess), but we do not know for sure.

There are many (many!) people reporting missed calls and general mobile connection issues in, both, stock Android and Lineage. I'm one of them, as you might have guessed.

I'm sorry for not being able to provide a solution to your problem. Just be warned that ditching your SailfishOS might not actually change anything to your troubles ...

Edited March 6, 2023 by claude0001

[DillonM 10]

ya but at least i can say that i am trying to resolve the issue. and i get practice in flashing and restoring. 

[claude0001 1,341]

8 minutes ago, DillonM said:

ya but at least i can say that i am trying to resolve the issue. and i get practice in flashing and restoring. 

that's the spirit. 👍

[kif 1]

Hi

Is anyone working on the Sailfish 4.5 update for the pro1x ?

[Justin 23]

Hi kif,

4.5.0.18 is ready at least for the Pro1X. Not sure about x.19?

@piggz posted the following instructions on telegram:

step 1, edit this file as such

[defaultuser@Pro1-X ~]$ cat /usr/share/ssu/features.d/adaptation-community.ini

[adaptation-community]

repos = adaptation-community

pattern = Feature community adaptation

description = Enable ssu for community ports

 

[repositories]

adaptation-community = https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/nemo:/testing:/hw:/fxtec:/halium-qx1050:/%(release)/sailfish_%(release)_%(arch)

adaptation-community-kernel = https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/nemo:/testing:/hw:/fxtec:/halium-qx1050:/%(release)/sailfish_%(release)_i486

step 2 edit this file

[root@Pro1-X defaultuser]# cat /usr/share/ssu/features.d/adaptation-halum.ini

[adaptation-community]

repos = adaptation-halium

pattern = Feature halum adaptation

description = Enable ssu for community ports based on halium

 

[repositories]

adaptation-halium = https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/nemo:/testing:/hw:/halium:/11:/%(release)/sailfish_%(release)_%(arch)

then

ssu re 4.5.0.18

ssu ur

zypper ref

zypper in community-adaptation-testing

zypper dup

 

Hope this helps,

[kif 1]

Thanks Justin

I'm not on telegram, and had missed this.

My Pro1x now is up-to-date.

[pAn 12]

Hi,

does someone know, how to change the wifi regulatory domain? The iw reg set doesn't seem to help, I still miss two wifi channels, which worked with stock android. I guess it may have sometning to do with the ueventd reporing this:

[11858.906940] ueventd: firmware: could not find firmware for regulatory.db
[11858.907011] ueventd: firmware: attempted /etc/firmware/regulatory.db, open failed: No such file or directory
[11858.907071] ueventd: firmware: attempted /odm/firmware/regulatory.db, open failed: No such file or directory
[11858.907130] ueventd: firmware: attempted /vendor/firmware/regulatory.db, open failed: No such file or directory
[11858.907196] ueventd: firmware: attempted /firmware/image/regulatory.db, open failed: No such file or directory
[11858.907412] ueventd: firmware: attempted /vendor/firmware_mnt/image/regulatory.db, open failed: No such file or directory
[11858.907719] ueventd: loading /devices/platform/regulatory.0/firmware/regulatory.db took 2ms

when I try to do iw reg reload. Any idea?

[pAn 12]

Hi,

I tried to do some analysis of the waydroid crashes and I've found this:

1) when waydroid is terminated, most probably the kernel panics

2) the phone reboots as it should, but enters the edl mode

3) I cannot get from the edl mode in any other way than hardreboot (holding the power button long enough), edl reset doesn't work. I've even tried different --resetmode values.

4) most probably as a reason for 2) and 3) the /proc/last_kmsg is empty after the reboot

5) if I try to force the panic in recovery mode in userdebug recovery from fxtec, the behavior is the same, so this probably has nothing to do with SFOS

 

Anyone knows anything about this? The /proc/last_kmsg would be very usefull for debugging the waydroid crash.

[pAn 12]

A little update:

1) the after panic reboot to edl seems to be by design this way. Why edl reset doesn't work is still unclear to me.

2) the empty /proc/last_kmsg is probably because there is no PSTORE, hopefully PSTORE_RAM will work otherwise I'll have to learn how to get the information from the edl.

 

I am going to learn how to compile the kernel for this thing:)

[pAn 12]

Hi,

 

after many tries I was finally able to bypass the edl panic reboot and enable th psram console. If you are interested in details, let me know, but right now I am not even sure which of my changes are necessary for this. Anyway I have the panic log from the waydroid crash, see the attached file. And now debug what is happenning...

waydroid_crash.log

[matf-kabouik 414]

A new thread that may interest some of you here:

 

[pAn 12]

I`ve found solution for the waydroid crashes - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.28 specifically the commit https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.28. It is a one line change and it works. I'll provide more soon, but now I am busy with other things. I wanted to share at least the experimental boot image, but I can attach max 2MB files. Any suggestion for a sharing platform?

[piggz 67]

3 hours ago, pAn said:

I`ve found solution for the waydroid crashes - https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.28 specifically the commit https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.4.28. It is a one line change and it works. I'll provide more soon, but now I am busy with other things. I wanted to share at least the experimental boot image, but I can attach max 2MB files. Any suggestion for a sharing platform?

if you point me to the patch i can add it to the devel: version

[pAn 12]

The waydroid crash should be fixed by this:

diff --git a/drivers/android/binderfs.c b/drivers/android/binderfs.c
index 14a4bef358cd..3fd7cf48c39e 100644
--- a/drivers/android/binderfs.c
+++ b/drivers/android/binderfs.c
@@ -448,6 +448,7 @@ static int binderfs_binder_ctl_create(struct super_block *sb)
        inode->i_uid = info->root_uid;
        inode->i_gid = info->root_gid;
 
+       refcount_set(&device->ref, 1);
        device->binderfs_inode = inode;
        device->miscdev.minor = minor;
 

The edl reboot and pstore console is more complicated and I need to clarify what is really needed.

[piggz 67]

@pAnthanks for figuring this out ... New kernel is built and working in the devel channel at https://build.sailfishos.org/package/show/nemo:devel:hw:fxtec:halium-qx1050/kernel-adaptation-halium-qx1050 ... if you have any more patch suggestions let me know

[Joubolei 0]

i just tried to flash the sailfish rom - pro1x phone is stuck in the power by android screen/boot. i was going to try to download the other artifac zip file from ubuntu touch from the beginning of this forum - but the link doesn't work. is there a way to fix the boot process to boot into the sailfish os i have flashed to it?! i did used the flash.sh to do that. but didn't seem to work at all.

[matf-kabouik 414]

I believe it no longer is necessary (or even recommended) to use the boot partition from Ubuntu Touch with latest SFOS builds. Have you tried using just the SFOS zip and the script in it? Please confirm so that I can adjust the instructions in the first post accordingly.

 

 

[pAn 12]

On 5/14/2023 at 11:16 AM, piggz said:

@pAnthanks for figuring this out ... New kernel is built and working in the devel channel at https://build.sailfishos.org/package/show/nemo:devel:hw:fxtec:halium-qx1050/kernel-adaptation-halium-qx1050 ... if you have any more patch suggestions let me know

No problem. BTW this has been in the UT kernel repository since March, just the linux submodule in SFOS one is pointing to an old commit. I noticed after solving on my own 🙂

 

I have attached 3 patches, but I am not completely sure if they should be integrated into official build, they are useful mostly for debugging. They disable the panic reboot into EDL and enable the ramoops pstore, so the panic log can be found after reboot in /sys/fs/pstore. I chose the address for the storage from one the segments marked as System RAM in /proc/iomem. I am not sure if it is a good choice, but it works 🙂

003-disable_wd-enable_pstore.patch 002-disable_download_mode.patch 001-ramoops.patch

[Joubolei 0]

On 5/17/2023 at 3:56 PM, matf-kabouik said:

I believe it no longer is necessary (or even recommended) to use the boot partition from Ubuntu Touch with latest SFOS builds. Have you tried using just the SFOS zip and the script in it? Please confirm so that I can adjust the instructions in the first post accordingly.

 

 

i used the install script, no errors when running it - after reboot it just hangs at powered by android.

[zstas 6]

On 3/30/2023 at 10:01 PM, Justin said:

Hi kif,

4.5.0.18 is ready at least for the Pro1X. Not sure about x.19?

@piggz posted the following instructions on telegram:

step 1, edit this file as such

[defaultuser@Pro1-X ~]$ cat /usr/share/ssu/features.d/adaptation-community.ini

[adaptation-community]

repos = adaptation-community

pattern = Feature community adaptation

description = Enable ssu for community ports

 

[repositories]

adaptation-community = https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/nemo:/testing:/hw:/fxtec:/halium-qx1050:/%(release)/sailfish_%(release)_%(arch)

adaptation-community-kernel = https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/nemo:/testing:/hw:/fxtec:/halium-qx1050:/%(release)/sailfish_%(release)_i486

step 2 edit this file

[root@Pro1-X defaultuser]# cat /usr/share/ssu/features.d/adaptation-halum.ini

[adaptation-community]

repos = adaptation-halium

pattern = Feature halum adaptation

description = Enable ssu for community ports based on halium

 

[repositories]

adaptation-halium = https://repo.sailfishos.org/obs/nemo:/testing:/hw:/halium:/11:/%(release)/sailfish_%(release)_%(arch)

then

ssu re 4.5.0.18

ssu ur

zypper ref

zypper in community-adaptation-testing

zypper dup

 

Hope this helps,

After upgrading the phone in the suggested way I no longer can use the camera application. Now it says "Illegal instruction" when I try to start it from the console.

[kif 1]

Unfortunately I must agree 😪

After upgrading, the camera and volume up and down stopped working.

Additionally, it is impossible to pause playback of sound or video, the gui stops updating the position, but the playback continues anyway, until the app is closed.

[kif 1]

The problems with the camera, torch, volume buttons and media player seems solved after a new update.

Thanks guys 😉

Edited October 1, 2023 by kif
spelling error

[thilo 0]

After I had my pro1X for one year now trying around a bit, trying to get waydroid to run, ... last week I decided to use it finally as a daily driver (even so I didn't mange to get waydroid tor run, plan was to use my old Sony Xperia XA2 for android apps via hotspot of the pro1X). I made an update as described above. Luckily I didn't see the problems, kif described, but some other really annoying problems:

Gallery doesn't work anymore. After taking very long for startup, it sometimes crashes and sometimes shows empty folders for pictures, videos and screen shots (shock). But luckily the pictures are still on the file system. Emptying the media database through help programs doesn't help.

In the camera application I see the old photos, but as soon as I want to get detailed information through the "i" button in the upper left corner, the camera app crashes.

GPS sensor doesn't work anymore.

Network is nearly not working. For some applications (weather, pure maps) it works, but not for the browser. Also using the pro1X as a hotspot, providing mobile data to others doesn't work.

Any Ideas, how I could get things to work again? Especially network?

[thilo 0]

On 10/20/2023 at 11:53 AM, thilo said:

Any Ideas, how I could get things to work again? Especially network?

I made a fresh install from the newest artifacts.zip and now it works again and is already sailfishos version 4.5.0.18. But still I can not start waydroid. It hangs during starting showing an endless turning waydroid icon. I followed the detailed description from github here. The only thing I didn't do, was flushing Adams 1.6.1 kernel. First I don't know, where to download it, second I don't know, whether it is already installed. So my questions: how can I check the actual android kernel? And if necessary, where can I download the 1.6.1 version of it? How can I install the new (sailfish?) kernel, which is mentioned above by piggz on May 14 (without breaking my system again)?