Hey, great work! Will you be pushing your work to the UBports project? Maybe Mariogrip could help you raise some funds to boost your development since he’s collecting donations through Paypal and Patreon.
We are using the sources of ubports to build our version, changes adapted in the code are pushed back to github so everything is open and fair. We already have contact with Marius Griphard, together our goal is to create a 100% working Ubuntu touch for the Fairphone 2.
system.img_audio ->audio working
system.img_camera ->camera working
rename to system.img and use the guide from step 6 to flash.
We’re still looking for a developers with experience with CM/ Ubuntu touch / android building.
Do you want to help us create a fully functional Fairphone 2 Ubuntu Touch image? We have created a special telegram group to share knowledge, ideas and solutions. Click here to join the Telegram group Fairphone 2 Ubuntu Touch
Maybe. As far as I know, Ubuntu Touch gets the device hardware features through a minimal Android image running in a LXD container. So technically, they are configuring and building Android (from which sources, AOSP or CM? I don’t know that), which should have similarities.
We’d love to help, but with CM we still in the “boot to something, for Pete’s sake!” phase, not dealing with hardware issues yet.
Would be very cool! I thought ubports was dead, but maybe there is hope
Unfortunately I don’t have coding skills. Any other way one could help?
Cheers!
Hello ! Nice to hear that you are working on this project I’ll soon try your alpha version !
But before, I have a question concerning the way to go back to FP-Open after testing Ubuntu… I have a TWRP image of my working FP-OpenOS, is it easy to reload it after Ubuntu installation ? As we installed a specific recovery.img, I assume TWRP is no longer installed, is it possible to “fastboot flash” the recovery.img of TWRP on top of the Ubuntu installation or it will break it?
UBports is still alive! The main developer is coding fulltime on multiple devices in his spare time.
You can help if you know someone with coding skills, spread the word and help build our community
If you have the TWRP recovery.img you always could reflash it(fastboot flash recovery TWRPrecovery.img). Before you flash our version make a NAND backup zo you have a complete backup of you current rom.
Yo, first of all a big THANKS for your work. Without you I wouldn’t have Ubuntu on my Fairphone 2. Unfortuneately it seems as if Wifi was broken with system.img_camera, while it was running fine with the old system.img. Perhaps you might wanna check that. Please tell me if I can do supply you with anymore information regarding this issue.