This is a request thread for developers to port non-Android operating systems to the Nexus 6P.
Hello there, Nexus 6P users and developers!
Here in this thread, I will put forward the rationale for developers to port mobile operating systems that don't have a robot as a logo to our device.
The Nexus 6P is a device with an incredibly active developer and user base, akin to those of prior Nexus devices. Being a Nexus device, it has relatively good support from Google,the source code necessary binaries can be found on Google's official repositories and developer websites; the custom ROM development scene is very much alive and vibrant as a result. The only thing lacking are the ports of other platforms. We have the install base to test ports (probably), we have CM/LineageOS support (useful reference base) and we very likely have devs who can do it (you know who you are).
As for the users, please comment down below for what operating systems you would like to see on your Nexus 6P so that we can grab the attention of those heroes rattling away at their keyboards! Developers can reply to a request directly or PM me if you want to talk. It would be nice if the coders would respond.
Additional stuff:
There is a UBports page for the Nexus 6P (angler) here: https://devices.ubports.com/#/angler
Our sister device Nexus 5X (bullhead) has progressed a bit further on UBports: https://devices.ubports.com/#/bullhead
The Nexus 5X is officially supported by KDE Plasma Mobile, so there is hope: https://plasma-mobile.org/devices/
Thanks towards developers for making users happy with ROMs, kernels, etc. The community is grateful for your support! :good:
EDIT: I mistakenly indicated on the poll that KDE Plasma Mobile was based on Ubuntu Touch. Apparently, this is no longer the case. My sincerest apologies.
Would like to see Ubuntu touch being ported to it.. but it seems like even Canonical has also abandoned it... So don't see anything else coming to life except Android and iOS...
Ubuntu Touch Canonical support
rohit25 said:
Would like to see Ubuntu touch being ported to it.. but it seems like even Canonical has also abandoned it... So don't see anything else coming to life except Android and iOS...
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It seems that they're holding off until the new Snap-based system is fully in place. Until then, it'll probably stay in maintenance mode.
Maybe go see Plasma Mobile?
Contacting porters
Has anyone been able to contact a porter? I'm just posting to check.
I'm currently in contact with someone who can attempt to port Plasma Mobile to the Nexus 6P.
Plasma mobile for me! Ubuntu touch would be awesome too but Plasma looks great!
Plasma! Plasma! Plasma! Although for Plasma we also need Ubuntu Touch! Ubuntu Touch! Ubuntu Touch!
The other ones are cute too...
Y tho
I would really want to try bugfree Nugat MIUI
MikiGry said:
I would really want to try bugfree Nugat MIUI
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MIUI is Android
MikiGry said:
I would really want to try bugfree Nugat MIUI
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This thread is for requesting ports of non-Android OSes to the Nexus 6P. MIUI is a heavily skinned distribution of Android, hence it doesn't belong here. Please discuss about it in a more appropriate thread.
Plasma Mobile and Ubuntu Touch
MidnightDevil said:
Plasma! Plasma! Plasma! Although for Plasma we also need Ubuntu Touch! Ubuntu Touch! Ubuntu Touch!
The other ones are cute too...
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Plasma Mobile is no longer based on Ubuntu Touch proper. It uses a customized Ubuntu container, but it's not the one from UT. It's (as if time of posting) using an AOSP/LineageOS core as a base. However, it doesn't use ART or Dalvik; this is what makes it a non-Android system.
I actually mistakenly believed this outdated information for a while (see original post) until I did more research into it.
From a technical standpoint, this means that a Plasma Mobile port doesn't need a pre-existing Ubuntu Touch port to be brought over to our device. However, its development could help Ubuntu Touch and other OSes (e.g. Sailfish OS, LuneOS, etc.) come afterwards .
On the (probable) end of Ubuntu Touch
Despite various users and developers planning on continuing UT to some extent, for now it seems that Ubuntu Touch is essentially dead.
What would you want in place of Ubuntu Touch?
Update: Ubuntu Touch lives on in the form of UBports, a community fork of Ubuntu Touch.
Spurring other OS development
To help with bringing non-Android Linux distributions to the Nexus 6P, I've made an initial port of Halium as a base for any future ports.
Spurring other OS development
To help kickstart bringing other OSes to the Nexus 6P, I've made an initial port of Halium for future ports of non-Android Linux distributions to build upon.
Ignore this; this is an accidental double post.
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Hey Guys!!!
Ever heard of BOOT TO GECKO?!
Mozilla created Firefox, Seamonkey, Thunderbird, and now a smartphone operating system, known as Boot To Gecko, or Mozilla OS...
I am planning on working to port this amazing operating system to our smartphone, it will probably be a BIG project; which is another topic.
Is any developers here in our LG Optimus One area of XDA willing to work with me to get Boot To Gecko on our P500s? It would be amazing, even if it is on a linux/android based port (or themed ROM maybe... port itself is better)
So yeah
Also, I have not a lot of spare time during day between 9am-6pm because of work, so around nighttime I am free, so is on weekends...
I would love to see this on our phones, even sideloaded (multiboot) capability would be amazing, then we could have endless possibilities! I would have DoozzzedUIv4 and Mozilla B2G, and it would be amazing.
I would say good luck, but I'm the one to be working on it
CJ
8-year bump just for add information that may be relevant to anyone reading this post:
on B2G GitHub, there's a pull request for adding support for the P500 in the build process, so it should be compatible if someone compiles it.
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MLX said:
8-year bump just for add information that may be relevant to anyone reading this post:
on B2G GitHub, there's a pull request for adding support for the P500 in the build process, so it should be compatible if someone compiles it.
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Man someone did all that work only for it to never see the light of day, its been so long that not only the phone died but the os too. Hard to believe that my 150 dollar phone is more than 16 times more powerful than this.
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Man someone did all that work only for it to never see the light of day, its been so long that not only the phone died but the os too. Hard to believe that my 150 dollar phone is more than 16 times more powerful than this.
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Yeah, funny enough I have a LG P350 (not a p500), I would have tried to build it nowadays (just for the sake of trying) lol
MLX said:
Yeah, funny enough I have a LG P350 (not a p500), I would have tried to build it nowadays (just for the sake of trying) lol
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I used to have an LG P500, the battery bloated a few years ago so I got rid of it thinking I wont miss it. Oh well that was a mistake. There is cyanogen os for the LG P350 so it would be easy to port firefox os overlay to the phone, it should run great as all the applications are minimalist. I am currantly trying to port Lineage 18.1 for my Samsung A11 but I am having issues with the camera, phone calls, etc. Android porting used to be so much more simpler back then, or I am just too unfamiliar with the new environment. The phone is armv6 so the maximum android version it can run without being extremely slow is android 4.4. I could get the lastest twrp version working but it would be useless on it. Postmarketos should run nicely on it.
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I used to have an LG P500, the battery bloated a few years ago so I got rid of it thinking I wont miss it. Oh well that was a mistake. There is cyanogen os for the LG P350 so it would be easy to port firefox os overlay to the phone, it should run great as all the applications are minimalist. I am currantly trying to port Lineage 18.1 for my Samsung A11 but I am having issues with the camera, phone calls, etc. Android porting used to be so much more simpler back then, or I am just too unfamiliar with the new environment. The phone is armv6 so the maximum android version it can run without being extremely slow is android 4.4. I could get the lastest twrp version working but it would be useless on it. Postmarketos should run nicely on it.
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actually b2g can't be even built because of the repositories being down, while archives exist you need to patch the source to use the correct paths and that's something most people won't do to run an outdated os
btw I also got twrp3 on some armv6 devices, a nice but useless things indeed
Hello,
First I want to thank everyone that contributed in development of software for our Samsung Galaxy Ace II. Especially Team Canjica, Rox and many many others!
Jolla, the producent of Sailfish OS, has just released the LibHybris 1.0, which allows the devs to build the Sailfish OS for ANY Android device running CyanogenMod 10.1. It is THE BIG CHANCE for our device!
Sailfish OS is a lot faster and smoother OS than Android. Our device with just 768 MB RAM and dual core Novathor CPU should perform a lot better on Sailfish than on Android. And it is possible to run Android apps on Sailfish too!
http://www.jollausers.com/2014/07/sailfish-os-hardware-adaptation-dev-kit-release-1-0/
So I want to ask our great community to try to port Sailfish OS for our device. We have the very good working CM 10.1, so we should try! It can be the second life for our device
I hope we will start the great discussion and the devs will be helpful
Please, port this amazing system to Ace II
Cheers
I dig this! If someone wanted to develop this i would be happy to try this os.
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Even though I'm migrating to the fastest android phone ever, if SailfishOS is released for the Ace 2, I would be a VERY happy man! Please make it happen! Many of us don't use the Ace 2 for 3D gaming anyway, so a lack of apps on SailfishOS is negligible! :good:
Any response from developers?
Well, i do not know how it's done, but cm 10.1.x is quite slower, than 10.2's, so wouldn't be lost what is gained?
Only the kernel from CM 10.1 is used for drivers purposes. Anything else is just pure Sailfish, and it should be A LOT MORE FLUID AND FAST than any Android version.
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Only the kernel from CM 10.1 is used for drivers purposes. Anything else is just pure Sailfish, and it should be A LOT MORE FLUID AND FAST than any Android version.
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...if you say so..ok, thx for clarification. but you know , that newer kernels(10.2 minimum) are main source of speed of actual roms? Even not roms itself, you know..
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...if you say so..ok, thx for clarification. but you know , that newer kernels(10.2 minimum) are main source of speed of actual roms? Even not roms itself, you know..
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I dont think that kernel in CM 10.1 is a lot different than kernel from CM 11. We must ask @Rox, but I think that backporting some features from CM11's kernel wont be too hard. Lets hope so
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I dont think that kernel in CM 10.1 is a lot different than kernel from CM 11. We must ask @Rox, but I think that backporting some features from CM11's kernel wont be too hard. Lets hope so
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...well, optimist, good luck..
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...well, optimist, good luck..
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I think they are a realist myself, as this is an old, yet highly dev supported, phone, and due to it's rubbish GPU, will highly benefit from SailfishOS, as 3D games are useless on this device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/jolla-sailfish/general/hakd-release-1-0-t2820012
Also, this.
Supposedly most android apps should be compatible too so this should be a fun experience
No one is interested in porting it?
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As far ad I know, android apps work only on the original jolla phone. Porting does not support them yet.
Source: a friend of mine installed it on the nexus 4
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Hi don't get me wrong IS looks great but don't know about devs.. To be honest here is lack of drugs and I think that for android L wait more people than for this.... On the other hand would be use full to contact someone from other teams that have recently ported the latest versions to ace2 if they don't plan to do it again... But this is not you have asked for.... I know. But the community for android is bigger sorry for that and clean one runs the smoothest yeah not clean but with lot of use full features like from carbon.... But if there is a def that likes this more than android l... Would be happy to try also this out.... But have to pedal for community too to consider the total demand over local projects
just my guess, android 5.0 needs updated binary whilst the sailfish need only binary up to cm 10.1
so there will be a bit performance gap because of driver needed
but well that was just a wild guess :cyclops::cyclops::cyclops:
Hi ,
I am a android developer and i am learning qt/qml for ubuntu touch apps , is ubuntu touch port for nexus 6p available ? is someone building it ?
Thanks!
No that project is almost abandoned at this point don't count on too many ports even the existing ports never really worked.
I'm interested on It. I have a Oneplus TWO but a port on Nexus 6P is interesting because share the same SoC of OPT.
I am interested in Ubuntu touch on any device in the US. The Nexus 6p would be good start point for a port considering the new USB-c, 3400mah battery and other good specs. We (Ubuntu and the community) really need to focus on one good device to port every two years. Let's start with this one.. now how to get started?
*Our hardest hurdle will be getting it working on CDMA.
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I am interested in Ubuntu touch on any device in the US. The Nexus 6p would be good start point for a port considering the new USB-c, 3400mah battery and other good specs. We (Ubuntu and the community) really need to focus on one good device to port every two years. Let's start with this one.. now how to get started?
*Our hardest hurdle will be getting it working on CDMA.
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Hi, start from here and go here.
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No that project is almost abandoned at this point don't count on too many ports even the existing ports never really worked.
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Yeah it did sound abandoned, but they JUST released a new ubuntu touch tablet and also demoed a functional nexus 4 running ubuntu touch, with support for external monitor / keyboard / mouse. I think the future is still strong for Ubuntu Touch, even though we might not be seeing many updates publicly
Here is a video of it from March 6th, 2016
youtube com/watch?v=-aT5LE9f5aw (can't post URLs yet )
Hi guys, so nothing news for porting for 6p?
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I bought a Nexus 4 just so I could run Ubuntu Touch. Sadly, the battery won't hold a charge any more so I bought a Nexus 6P. Would love to get Ubuntu Touch working on my new 6P
I got a Project Tango tablet from work, it has k1 tegra chipset and it is stuck on original firmware, which is android 4.4.4 and doesnt performs very well on normal tasks as far as it is very powerfull hardware. Any chance I can upgrade it with custom firmware? Maybe shield tablet which has similar hardware without the special sensors?
Last time I had the tango (back in July 2016) there were no custom firmware/rom for it. I would check out the Tango Devs group on G+ to see if anyone has created an update for it.
Any news about this? Any help would be much appreciated.
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First off you are going to need root the device. Then a custom recovery. Then you can think of customs ROMS if you can work out the hardware and the appropriate drivers.
Just because it has the same processor as the Shield does not mean that all the other hardware is the same.
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First off you are going to need root the device. Then a custom recovery. Then you can think of customs ROMS if you can work out the hardware and the appropriate drivers.
Just because it has the same processor as the Shield does not mean that all the other hardware is the same.
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Thanks, the process is crystal clear, I just wanted to know if anybody already advanced anything in this device, but it feels as there is no progress at all, so It will be worth to sell this nearly new tablet and buy another device with more community working with it. A shame, with 128Gb emmc, 4Gb RAM and a powerfull processor...
It would be great if we could get any assistance from Google on this, I highly am doubtful they will release kernels but it is worth trying to petition them to release them, or anything of value towards this, to the community. The hardware is excellent on the tango Dev tablet, but at this point the software is absimal, and, as is, barely functions. I find most software cannot run and constant glitches make using it worse than a contemporary generic device despite an excellent touchscreen and the tegra processor.
I have rooted my Tango tablet, but what hopes do we have of a community rom running any newer version of Android? (5.1+) The shield tablet has similar hardware and could maybe be used as a base to develop from, as the basic kernel will be similar. anyone determine what wifi/Bluetooth hardware is on board the tango?
Come on Google, help us get full functionality and release the kernels!
Is there any one behind this project?
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It would be great if we could get any assistance from Google on this, I highly am doubtful they will release kernels but it is worth trying to petition them to release them, or anything of value towards this, to the community. The hardware is excellent on the tango Dev tablet, but at this point the software is absimal, and, as is, barely functions. I find most software cannot run and constant glitches make using it worse than a contemporary generic device despite an excellent touchscreen and the tegra processor.
I have rooted my Tango tablet, but what hopes do we have of a community rom running any newer version of Android? (5.1+) The shield tablet has similar hardware and could maybe be used as a base to develop from, as the basic kernel will be similar. anyone determine what wifi/Bluetooth hardware is on board the tango?
Come on Google, help us get full functionality and release the kernels!
Is there any one behind this project?
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if you want the development of the kernel at least started, make the kernel start logs. use the program syslog from Google Play for example.
I completely forgot that I found and downloaded the source code of the kernel on this tablet. The kernel is there version 3.10.24. With a strong desire, it could easily be adapted to the modern kernel 3.10.96.
I have the possibility of getting this tablet sub $100 and would be extremely interested if a newer Android could be loaded here. Or even maybe something like UBports (formerly Ubuntu Touch)
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I completely forgot that I found and downloaded the source code of the kernel on this tablet. The kernel is there version 3.10.24. With a strong desire, it could easily be adapted to the modern kernel 3.10.96.
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I can't find this source anywhere, could you upload a copy? I know a few people, myself included are looking for it. Someone else who is looking https://plus.google.com/u/1/+GregWillardr3pwn/posts/V1K5XDBtKig
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I can't find this source anywhere, could you upload a copy? I know a few people, myself included are looking for it. Someone else who is looking https://plus.google.com/u/1/+GregWillardr3pwn/posts/V1K5XDBtKig
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They have been with me for so long that I don’t remember exactly where I downloaded them from. I remember that it was some kind of official site about the project of tango.
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They have been with me for so long that I don’t remember exactly where I downloaded them from. I remember that it was some kind of official site about the project of tango.
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So you don't know exactly if these were the most recent version of the source?
If these are not the latest, it's better than nothing. I'm going to share these with that other guy and on reddit. Thank you for uploading these.
For anyone following this, the latest kernel appears to be here https://github.com/r3pwn/android_kernel_google_yellowstone
Hi guys, orginal Android 4.4 is still the latest Rom available, correct ?
HI.. I need the ROM stock for this device, Someone?
Hi again.. I found this on github, someone know something about this project?
NVIDIA AOSP device tree for building Project Tango Android 7.0
https://github.com/Project-Google-Tango/android_device_google_yellowstone
Anonikat I looked at that too. How great would that be? A 7.0 N even if I'd loose some Tango functionality. I'd just like it as a regular tablet, personally.
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I have the possibility of getting this tablet sub $100 and would be extremely interested if a newer Android could be loaded here. Or even maybe something like UBports (formerly Ubuntu Touch)
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Closest I've seen so far that seems functional for the most part is LineageOS 15.1 (Android 8.1) that's listed as an unofficial release in this forum.
Here is TWRP recovery project for this device https://forum.xda-developers.com/sh...overy-project-tango-k1-atap-twrp-3-2-t3901519
i have heard that Sailfish os is being built for sony X right? So when will it release....im so exciting....
Who you heard it from that it's being built
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Who you heard it from that it's being built
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Mate, check this Link for further information.
If you're a fan of Jolla (a mobile platform that's part Linux, part Android and loosely based on Nokia's MeeGo project), good news. The company has announced it will be releasing an official version of its Sailfish operating system for a number of Sony Xperia handsets. The news came from the firm's press event at MWC this morning, and adds a big-name brand to the currently mixed list of devices that the plucky (persistent?) mobile software has officially been ported to.
The first device to work with Sailfish, or rather, the first handset to be shown running it at MWC, is the Xperia X. Jolla says that there will be more compatible models, but the X is what it chose to show it off. Of course, Sailfish is technically available on many devices already, if you're willing to work with an unofficial port, but this time Jolla's partnered with Sony and its Open Device Platform for better compatibility.
Despite Jolla showing Sailfish on a working handset here in Barcelona, it seems there are still a few kinks to iron out. A representative told me features like "double tap" (to wake the device) aren't working yet, and support for 64-bit devices isn't as comprehensive as it is for 32-bit models (if you're into custom software, you'll likely know which yours is).
It's always nice to see alternative operating systems finding their way to mainstream phones, and seeing a Sony Xperia X running something other that the default Android certainly makes it a little bit more eye catching. I tried it for a few minutes and could see that the basic navigation was working no problem. But mostly, if you're into Jolla (which enjoys a steadfastly loyal community), then this is above all a good sign that Jolla's still committed to what it's doing.
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If you want the official version, you'll still have to wait though. Jolla says it won't be out until late spring/early summer.
Regards
Very nice going to have a read up on this later then see what I can find out
I'll have to make my rom quick enough for people to try
No one on xx device will know me but I'm festa20 and can't get on my account. I did team Xperia roms was a long time ago but with the lack of support for this device I'm guna have a dig around with some stuff see what I can make