Can anybody build the CopperheadOS for our Pixel? Maybe with a small Donation?
https://copperhead.co/android/docs/building
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Greetings
what does this include? and your in the wrong thread
robotnikz said:
Can anybody build the CopperheadOS for our Pixel? Maybe with a small Donation?
https://copperhead.co/android/docs/building
If it is not allowed to ask such things here, please send me a PM.
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But they have a download link for Pixel on their website: https://copperhead.co/android/downloads
Is it because they say: "available via purchase soon"?
uodii said:
But they have a download link for Pixel on their website:https://copperhead.co/android/downloads
Is it because they say: "available via purchase soon"?
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You need a login to download it. I assume you only get a login after purchasing a license from them.
uodii said:
But they have a download link for Pixel on their website: https://copperhead.co/android/downloads
Is it because they say: "available via purchase soon"?
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Yes you have to purchase it or build it yourself. But I am not able to build it myself
robotnikz said:
Yes you have to purchase it or build it yourself. But I am not able to build it myself
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If they are selling security and the OS I dou t that they allow anyone to build their software. If you can build from their sources I dou t it includes any of their additional software and is pro ably just bare android
devilsadidas said:
If they are selling security and the OS I dou t that they allow anyone to build their software. If you can build from their sources I dou t it includes any of their additional software and is pro ably just bare android
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No. It is allowed to build from their sources.
robotnikz said:
No. It is allowed to build from their sources.
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I tried to build it two times. The first built with no errors but the files weren't in zip format and I couldn't figure how to flash them. My second failed because I still need to get by build environment set up again. I just re-installed Linux a few days. I just switched to Linux Mint permanently a few weeks ago from Windows so I've been dealing with the transition. I have the source downloaded so I'll be tinkering with that when I have time. Hopefully something good will happen in a few days on my end. Till then this thread needs to be moved to the Q&A section. I'm glad you threw the question out there and hopefully others will join the party.
Misterxtc said:
I tried to build it two times. The first built with no errors but the files weren't in zip format and I couldn't figure how to flash them. My second failed because I still need to get by build environment set up again. I just re-installed Linux a few days. I just switched to Linux Mint permanently a few weeks ago from Windows so I've been dealing with the transition. I have the source downloaded so I'll be tinkering with that when I have time. Hopefully something good will happen in a few days on my end. Till then this thread needs to be moved to the Q&A section. I'm glad you threw the question out there and hopefully others will join the party.
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Thank you very much for your effort. I am also on Mint but I am not familiar with building ROMs. Maybe I'll have a look at it someday
robotnikz said:
Thank you very much for your effort. I am also on Mint but I am not familiar with building ROMs. Maybe I'll have a look at it someday
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My guess is that they don't mind private builds. However, I would doubt they would be okay with a build being posted in a forum like this. Also, from reading their website it appears when you pay, you're getting the support of the devs directly as well as their updates pushed directly to your phone without having to do new builds like you will without a license. I could be slightly off but I think that was the gist of it.
robotnikz said:
Thank you very much for your effort. I am also on Mint but I am not familiar with building ROMs. Maybe I'll have a look at it someday
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Same here. I used to build ROMs for Samsung and AOSP is pretty foreign to me but I am learning. It's quite a bit for me between real life, a new OS and AOSP. It's cool though, my 40+ year old brain was getting a bit stale.... Anyway I tried again today for a few hours and made some progress. I successfully compiled a generic build but when I try sailfish I get a user error and it tells me to change user. Seeing that the official build isn't available for purchase I think they blocked the build process some way. I can compile Pure Nexus no problem so it's not my set up, probably their directions. But on the other hand it could be on my end. Either way I'll still be looking into it.
Is there a way to compile this os with gapps already built in for personal use. After building and flashing it on my phone I found the lack of certain Google services very annoying. Flashing gapps after installing the os didn't work. Also if you're on T-Mobile no data connection unless you change settings in apn, I wonder if flashing stock vendor img would help with that.
robotnikz said:
Can anybody build the CopperheadOS for our Pixel? Maybe with a small Donation?
https://copperhead.co/android/docs/building
If it is not allowed to ask such things here, please send me a PM.
Greetings
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did you did it, can you instruct this ?
robotnikz said:
Can anybody build the CopperheadOS for our Pixel? Maybe with a small Donation?
https://copperhead.co/android/docs/building
If it is not allowed to ask such things here, please send me a PM.
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Hello,
I have successfully found a way to build sailfish cos , if you are interested .
ksuhiyp said:
Hello,
I have successfully found a way to build sailfish cos , if you are interested .
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Would be great. I'm very interested.
ksuhiyp said:
Hello,
I have successfully found a way to build sailfish cos , if you are interested .
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I'm also very interested! Tell how you did it
Pixel 2 CopperheadOS
Anyone have tryied to compile from source copperhead for Pixel2 phone?
I am also very interested! Could you please share? May be for a donation....
ksuhiyp said:
Hello,
I have successfully found a way to build sailfish cos , if you are interested .
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Hey,
over the last few weeks I've used my Christmas vacation to start working on the Z18 again. However since work is coming up again soon, I won't have that much time (and nerves) for working on this properly until the end of summer probably.
That's why I want to share my codebase with you, so maybe someone can pick up where I left off (and really, it's nothing big I did. I merely set up the device tree and made it compile more or less. It doesn't boot because of avb and I'm not aware of any way around that)
The device tree can be found here. It's still using a prebuilt kernel but I'll work on fixing the kernel source to a compileable state next.
If anyone wants to get involved, help or pick this up, feel free to do so. The community and I are always happy for help.
Explanations of what the next steps would be can be found below.
Again, do not install this unless you want to softbrick! It's not useable at all and will currently fail at boot verification!!
So what's next?
Fixing avb2.0: This isn't an easy task. How I understand, it either needs the official keys or I failed at signing the build with test keys from LineageOS. Either way this is the first step and top priority so the device boots again at least
EDIT: It seems that https://github.com/rockchip-linux/tools/tree/master/linux/Linux_SecurityAVB might be of some use (given that youyim123, the guy who also did the TWRP for Z18 starred this project). However I don't speak Chinese and putting my device in the hands of Google Translate is risky.. so anyone willing to translate, I'm open for DMs or anything
EDIT2: avb is working, so we can move on to breaking our system now (yay)
Hi, Its a long time i am waiting for a suitable rom to be installed in my Nubia Z18. Can you tell me when this rom can get out? Your effort is highly appreciated.
Zahidul Hasan said:
Hi, Its a long time i am waiting for a suitable rom to be installed in my Nubia Z18. Can you tell me when this rom can get out? Your effort is highly appreciated.
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Sorry but I can't give you any ETA on this. I'm working on it in my little free time and I'm not even sure what I'm really doing with this. The source is all on the GitHub repo I linked in the OP though, so if you're hesitant and want to get a working ROM, just get involved. It's really not that hard, all it requires is time, patience and lots of googling for weird error messages and further features you want to implement.
You can mostly follow the guide here https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/bacon/build just replace the bacon command with nx606j-eng and you're good to go and build this yourself. Maybe you can figure out avb since I can't do it by myself, so any help is appreciated.
Dear Sir, Thank you so much for your reply. Last day i tried to push a TWRP from here TWRP installed, but failed to install any gaapps. although process said success.
curtisy said:
Sorry but I can't give you any ETA on this. I'm working on it in my little free time and I'm not even sure what I'm really doing with this. The source is all on the GitHub repo I linked in the OP though, so if you're hesitant and want to get a working ROM, just get involved. It's really not that hard, all it requires is time, patience and lots of googling for weird error messages and further features you want to implement.
You can mostly follow the guide here https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/bacon/build just replace the bacon command with nx606j-eng and you're good to go and build this yourself. Maybe you can figure out avb since I can't do it by myself, so any help is appreciated.
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Dear Sir, Thank you so much for your reply. Last day i tried to push a TWRP from here TWRP installed, but failed to install any gaapps. although process said success.
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Yeah, that thread, if most of the development threads on the Z18 so far, was made by me. I also mentioned in post #3 that flashing Gapps doesn't seem to be working and I was trying to ask the GApps team for help. I never got an answer though, so I stopped looking into this and instead focused my effort on providing a working Lineage build for everyone. The result of that is this thread here
Hey curtisy, are u building lineage OS forZ18 right now?
im chinese and can help to test this rom if need tester, I've a Z18 on hand rite now and still finding a solution to solve the "GAPP" problem
try to flash GAPP package but no luck!
hope the Lineage can release soon for testing~tks!
sky104hk said:
Hey curtisy, are u building lineage OS forZ18 right now?
im chinese and can help to test this rom if need tester, I've a Z18 on hand rite now and still finding a solution to solve the "GAPP" problem
try to flash GAPP package but no luck!
hope the Lineage can release soon for testing~tks!
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I'm not building it right now. As I said, the project is pretty much on standby for anyone to take it where I left it but I'm still working on it sometimes and try to get it to work. The big issue is that the Z18 uses avb2 which I'm not sure how to bypass and which is also why the Lineage I built will not boot correctly. I don't want to seem rude saying this over and over again, but rather than testing, it would help if I had some more people to get involved. Just download the source and follow the instructions I mentioned in post#4. Progress will be much faster if there was a team behind this and not only one guy who doesn't know what he's doing most of the time. Also getting support in the Lineage IRC is tedious because I can't be online 24/7, so having some more people nag about avb2 there would also be of huge help.
And when there finally is something to test, not only will you be satisfied by your own achievement, but you can also be the initial tester since you built the ROM yourself.
PS: The Gapps issue is probably because of avb2 as well, however I'm not too sure about that
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I'm not building it right now. As I said, the project is pretty much on standby for anyone to take it where I left it but I'm still working on it sometimes and try to get it to work. The big issue is that the Z18 uses avb2 which I'm not sure how to bypass and which is also why the Lineage I built will not boot correctly. I don't want to seem rude saying this over and over again, but rather than testing, it would help if I had some more people to get involved. Just download the source and follow the instructions I mentioned in post#4. Progress will be much faster if there was a team behind this and not only one guy who doesn't know what he's doing most of the time. Also getting support in the Lineage IRC is tedious because I can't be online 24/7, so having some more people nag about avb2 there would also be of huge help.
And when there finally is something to test, not only will you be satisfied by your own achievement, but you can also be the initial tester since you built the ROM yourself.
PS: The Gapps issue is probably because of avb2 as well, however I'm not too sure about that
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OK I understand your situation, probably not as many ppl own this phone at all...there are many ppl doing developement in Oneplus 6 which I actually own that phone, the Z18 is actually my fd, therefore I cannot keep the phone long...just wonder if there have more ppl involve to this...the "avb2" I'll check to see if anyone on the net doing this, haha! the only solution is more developer involve to this phone!
sky104hk said:
OK I understand your situation, probably not as many ppl own this phone at all...there are many ppl doing developement in Oneplus 6 which I actually own that phone, the Z18 is actually my fd, therefore I cannot keep the phone long...just wonder if there have more ppl involve to this...the "avb2" I'll check to see if anyone on the net doing this, haha! the only solution is more developer involve to this phone!
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As a quick update for everyone here as well because the discussion has somewhat shifted to the TWRP thread I worked around avb now. I also have a system.img but it's not working as of yet. If you want to get stuck in a boot loop, feel free to ask here and I'll attach the files in the OP for you to try and modify. Without building from source, there's probably not that much you can do though.
Hint: try booting phh-treble GSI first.
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Hint: try booting phh-treble GSI first.
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Thanks! Going to try that later but out of curiosity, isn't the reason this phone doesn't have google services out of the box that it wasn't certified by google? If so it's not treble compatible either right? Or am I missing something?
curtisy said:
Thanks! Going to try that later but out of curiosity, isn't the reason this phone doesn't have google services out of the box that it wasn't certified by google? If so it's not treble compatible either right? Or am I missing something?
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An uncertified device can be freely Treble compatible, so it's really worth to try. Remember to join the Telegram chat of phh-treble if you happen to need some quicker response.
j1505243 said:
An uncertified device can be freely Treble compatible, so it's really worth to try. Remember to join the Telegram chat of phh-treble if you happen to need some quicker response.
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Awesome. Thank you for the heads up! Might be worth to invest some time in this again then.
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Hint: try booting phh-treble GSI first.
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Alright, I tried and I don't think it's working. I get stuck in a bootloop again which repeats every few seconds.
Since I got Lineage compiled, wouldn't it be a better idea to just get that working and be done with it?
Any help is much appreciated!
Hello curtisy, I wish you good luck with your work on the Nubia Z18. I'd love to help you, but unfortunately I have no skills at android developing. Anyway... in case you will get LineageOS to run, I'd be very happy to post an instruction for the installation on my website chinahandys.net. Liebe Grüße, Joscha
curtisy said:
Alright, I tried and I don't think it's working. I get stuck in a bootloop again which repeats every few seconds.
Since I got Lineage compiled, wouldn't it be a better idea to just get that working and be done with it?
Any help is much appreciated!
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Booting non-GSI will only be tougher :/ Capture deep level logs and inspect that. If you need help, join a phh-treble chat somewhere.
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Booting non-GSI will only be tougher :/ Capture deep level logs and inspect that. If you need help, join a phh-treble chat somewhere.
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Yeah that's actually the same point I stopped at with Lineage. Got it to boot to the Nubia logo, captured logs and I can see some weird errors. But getting replies on IRC is a pain, especially if I can only be online for 2hrs a day. That's why I had hoped someone would pick this up but to no avail. Guess I'll have to look into it again and experiment.
Thanks for your help so far! If there's any more tips you want to share, I'm always open for them
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Hello curtisy, I wish you good luck with your work on the Nubia Z18. I'd love to help you, but unfortunately I have no skills at android developing. Anyway... in case you will get LineageOS to run, I'd be very happy to post an instruction for the installation on my website chinahandys.net. Liebe Grüße, Joscha
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Hey, sure thing I actually know the site well and got the idea of getting a Z18 from your site. In case you know anyone that might be able to help with logs or anything, I'm always open for suggestions and help.
As a general rule of thumb, so far the process isn't exactly easy because it requires proprietary software. The issue is with boot verification, so to get around that, I rooted my phone with some Chinese Windows application (still trying to reverse that to get the actual keys..) then I could start flashing. The process is tedious though as every failure means reflashing the original rom as well as running the root tool again. I'll try to make it simpler and cross platform once the rom actually works. But it's still a long way to that point.
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Hey, sure thing I actually know the site well and got the idea of getting a Z18 from your site. In case you know anyone that might be able to help with logs or anything, I'm always open for suggestions and help.
As a general rule of thumb, so far the process isn't exactly easy because it requires proprietary software. The issue is with boot verification, so to get around that, I rooted my phone with some Chinese Windows application (still trying to reverse that to get the actual keys..) then I could start flashing. The process is tedious though as every failure means reflashing the original rom as well as running the root tool again. I'll try to make it simpler and cross platform once the rom actually works. But it's still a long way to that point.
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Unfortunately I personally don't know somebody who has the skills to support you. I have included a call for support for your project in our review.
Hi, I will start making some ROMs for this device but since I do not trust shady bootloader unlocking services I won't be able to test them myself before publishing them. If anyone with a unlocked bootloader is willing to test my future ROMs, I'd be very thankful.
Regards,
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Hi, I will start making some ROMs for this device but since I do not trust shady bootloader unlocking services I won't be able to test them myself before publishing them. If anyone with a unlocked bootloader is willing to test my future ROMs, I'd be very thankful.
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nice to hear that there is a new developer I would like to test.
MfG eracer
Maybe you and FluFlu should team up? :~
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Maybe you and FluFlu should team up? :~
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Well, I would be happy to work with anyone because I already built 3 ROMs and all gave me build errors. Maybe it's because I didn't prepare the device tree right, I don't know. I was accustomed to working on a older Huawei device, with far less complicated source code.
@FluFlu
Any interest in helping this chap?
I'm in for testing - CLT-L04 (Canadian-Mexico) all the best.
Hi,
Today I am here with new post.
As you know I am now posting new posts daily.
Many of you have a phone that is less popular and there is no active developer for that device but did you know that there is a way that you can be a developer of your own.
There is team Hovatek that they made up a tool to make TWRP maker tool which you can use to make your own TWRP recovery for your phone and be an engineer of your phone but note that your phone must have common chipset on it like Mediatek, Spreadtrum, etc and your android version must be Android 5,6,7,8,8.1,9 otherwise you need to port it your self.
I am making this post for people like me to help them get a test of Custom recovery.
Thanks, Folk.
I will continue it on Part 2
Roktim iH said:
Hi,
Today i am here with new post.
As you know i am now posting new post daily.
Many of you have phone that is less popular and there is no active developer for that device but did you know that there is a way that you can be a developer of your own.
There is team Hovatek that they made up a tool to make TWRP maker tool which you can use to make your own TWRP recovery for your phone and be a engineer of your phone but note that your phone must have popular chipset on itself like Mediatek,Spreadtrum etc and your android version must be Android 5,6,7,8,8.1,9 otherwise you need to port it your self.
I am making this post for people like me to help them get a test of Custom recovery.
Thanks Folk.
I will continue it on Part 2
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Did you just say Mediatek and Spreadtrum are "popular" chipsets?
Lol, no, I don't think so.
Most real developers avoid devices with those processors.
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well I'm so glad to heard about it, mm and maybe I'm so happy about it . well absolutely I can't wait for this one. I'll see you at the next part
so where is the next part?
Sorry
MarvinMod said:
so where is the next part?
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Sorry for replying late. But I will make it soon.