GloDroid (Android-13)

[gamerminstrel]

Is there a team or anyone in particular actively working on GloDroid? Looking at their github page (https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_device) it looks like no one's uploaded anything in a couple months.

I'm just curious, is progress waiting on more of the pinephone's hardware drivers to make it into the Linux mainline kernel?

[rsglobal]

Is there a team or anyone in particular actively working on GloDroid? Looking at their github page (https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_device) it looks like no one's uploaded anything in a couple months.

I'm just curious, is progress waiting on more of the pinephone's hardware drivers to make it into the Linux mainline kernel?

Hi, 

We are always working on it. Sometimes our work is shifted to AOSP components, which isn't visible in the device repo.

We had an issue after switching pinephone from kernel v5.8 to 5.9 (and v5.10), which blocked our release cycle.
Kernel isn't booting after soft reset. (Dmesg hangs at emmc partition probing.)

Since our strategy to patiently wait for someone else fix it has failed, we will probably continue live with this bug.


I plan to publish next pre-release in mid of Jan 2021.

[kred]

Is there a team or anyone in particular actively working on GloDroid? Looking at their github page (https://github.com/GloDroid/glodroid_device) it looks like no one's uploaded anything in a couple months.

I'm just curious, is progress waiting on more of the pinephone's hardware drivers to make it into the Linux mainline kernel?

Hi, 

We are always working on it. Sometimes our work is shifted to AOSP components, which isn't visible in the device repo.

We had an issue after switching pinephone from kernel v5.8 to 5.9 (and v5.10), which blocked our release cycle.
Kernel isn't booting after soft reset. (Dmesg hangs at emmc partition probing.)

Since our strategy to patiently wait for someone else fix it has failed, we will probably continue live with this bug.


I plan to publish next pre-release in mid of Jan 2021.

[Shatur]

Are updates possible between GloDroid builds?

[ludix]

Are updates possible between GloDroid builds?

I never used GloDroid, but I'm using custom ROMs on my Android devices (namely the privacy aimed /e/ OS which is based on LineageOS) and normally you can dirty flash newer updates if they're on the same Android Version. If things start acting weird, wipe the caches.

Updates for custom ROMs are often distributed as images you can either use for initial flashing or flashing over an existing installation.

[Shatur]

Are updates possible between GloDroid builds?

I never used GloDroid, but I'm using custom ROMs on my Android devices (namely the privacy aimed /e/ OS which is based on LineageOS) and normally you can dirty flash newer updates if they're on the same Android Version. If things start acting weird, wipe the caches.

Updates for custom ROMs are often distributed as images you can either use for initial flashing or flashing over an existing installation.

Yes, I also updated a firmware on another phone like this, but I tested reinstalling GloDroid and data was erased. Not sure if is there a way to perform a dirty flash.

[Shatur]

Is it possible to build it with serial console disabled?

[kschepps]

I successfully install GloDroid, but I want to keep trying different OS's on my Pinephone. After installing GloDroid, I can no longer boot into JumpDrive. How can I revert what was done by GloDroid? I still would like to come back to GloDroid at some point, but I don't want to shut the door on other OS's by doing so.

Thank you!!

[Shatur]

I successfully install GloDroid, but I want to keep trying different OS's on my Pinephone. After installing GloDroid, I can no longer boot into JumpDrive. How can I revert what was done by GloDroid? I still would like to come back to GloDroid at some point, but I don't want to shut the door on other OS's by doing so.

Thank you!!

You can install it on eMMC and use SD Card for Jumpdrive with other OS's. Or vice versa.

[arseny1991]

Is there still any development on GloDroid for the Pinephone? I wanted to use the phone as a fully De-Googled Android device with physical hardware switches while Linux distros mature a bit more. But seems like all Android development is abandoned