Fairphone 2 Ubuntu Touch

I’m sorry to be the bad guy here, but Ubuntu-Touch doesn’t replace the Android part as it is built on top of it, right ? So, event if it’s built on Lineage OS (which is a fork of Android), we’re still depending on Google in some ways… So we would be nearly leaving Android, but not completely :frowning:

But I have some hope in the PostmarketOS project, which aims to replace the Android kernel by something else as independant as possible : there’s already a porting effort for the FP2 :grinning:

Hi everyone. I started installing (trying to) on my FP yesterday. I followed up this tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVCbzuvV7QU&t=142s

But I could never enter the recovery mode. Instead, I had a full blue screen and my system seems screwed because I cannot do anything else then booting in fast mode. I followed the first step restarting in fastboot but the process got stopped.

Any idea of how I could do something about it very welcome. As I cannot use my phone anymore, a solution in order to get back to android would be very nice. Or towards Ubuntu but the fact is that I have no phone anymore :frowning: And also, can someone tell me is this like irreversible or will this phone work one day again ? … I’m a bit worried about this

Here is the support article how to manually install Android again: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/207914363

When you get that running and still want to try ubuntu touch, I would use the UBports installer instead of MDT: https://ubports.com/page/ubuntu-fairphone-2

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Thanks, I did as it is said in the first link but I get stuck at step 7, not because my phone isn’t found like it is anticipated there, but simply because after having written sh flash-for-unix.sh in the terminal it says “Validation complete.” And that’s it. Nothing happens.

Hum. Sorry. Apparently I was just not in root terminal. Thanks! It worked! Thanks man

Glad you could work it out :slight_smile:

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Hi again. I hope I don’t ask for too much of your time. But when I follow the steps in the ubports.com Linux tuto, it still get stuck in the install process. My phone gets recognised by ubports-installer then I start the process of installing normally (no data wiping) but then it says it’s getting installed, my phone reboots and then it stays like that.

Any idea of the reason? What should I check? My system is up to date

Hello !
I can try to help you, don’t worry :slight_smile:

  • do you have adb installed ? Is your device listed when typing “adb devices” in a terminal?
  • could you try launching the ubports-installer in a terminal, so you have all the details listed, a.o. to check if it was able to flash the recovery file, etc…
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I had to start the installer on linux with sudo from the terminal. After that it worked.

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I just updated the initial post to extend the known problems, now separated by (major) version: no flash in 15.04 and no virtual keyboard in 16.04

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Thanks for you replies.

I did what you said. First I was having the same problem then I finally (finally!) thought maybe I should retry the whole procedure in root mode (starting ubport in root terminal) and it finally worked! Thanks for your help really.

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Hi everyone,

As much as I love Ubuntu Touch on my Fp2, I have way too many issues to be able to appreciate it without getting frustrated and use it as my primary device.

I wrote on the UBports forum about my issues but got no answers. Maybe other Fp2 users got the same problems as me and could help me out. :slight_smile:

Critical issues:

  • Phone is really hot on the top part of the back. When running or even just while charging.

  • My battery goes from fully charged to dead in 2-3 hours. (Maybe related to the fact that it is heating?)

Secondary issues:

  • I can’t download things from the browser, it always say (Network error 301 protocol blob)

  • Camera app not working, the display stay black (it is the older fp2 camera module).

  • Gallery app not working, the display stay white with the charging wheel turning forever. I tried uninstalling both apps and redownloading but it is the same.

I am a beginner/basic user so maybe there’s some things I am not doing right. Anyways, thanks for your time and help!

OTA 3
Channel: Stable

Well, I had the problem that I couldn’t finish my registration in the Ubports forum as the confirmation never arrived to either of my main email addresses. :wink:
Finally got around that by using a third…

In the meantime, first answers arrived in the Ubports forum, so it’s probably best to continue there?

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:slight_smile:

See here: https://forums.ubports.com/topic/839/lots-of-issues-on-my-fp2-ota3-help-plz/4

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thanks, I’ll continue overthere!

I read it will be possible to use Android Apps in UBPorts in near future. Is there a timeline for this? Or is Anbox already running on UBPorts for FP2?

Hello,

Running Anbox will only be possible when 16.04 will be released. At this time there is no release date, and Anbox doesn’t run on Ubports 15.04. You can check the milestone progress here : https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/milestones.

If you wish, you can try 16.04 with the Ubports-installer, but expect (a lot of) bugs !

Cheers :slight_smile:

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I actually didn’t check anbox when I had 16.04 installed for a couple of days. My impression was that not much works at the moment and in the Ubports welcome room at Telegram someone told me to wait at least a month before using 16.04 on the FP2.
What I tried can be found here: UBPorts 16.04 updates + feature tests

The next OTA update for 16.04 doesn’t have a due date yet: https://github.com/ubports/ubuntu-touch/milestone/7

But I can’t say if that version is supposed to already support anbox.

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@anon59030904 and @Ingo Thank you very much, so I have to wait a little bit.

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