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Replicant status
Added by pitr lolo over 5 years ago
Hello folks,
it's been long time since the replicant 6 was updated, I started to worry whether the project is still alive. I have the latest replicant 6 build running on my S3 as my main device for more than 1 year. The security patch level states November 2017 which is soon going to be 1 year old.
Is there any plan to update it ? What is the ETA ?
I know you're not paid for this and you rely on the sponsorship and you do it in your free time, but I'll have to consider to switch to another platform soon, in case nothing happens.
Thanks a lot for your work.
Cheers
Peter
Hi,
the replicant-6.0-dev branch of manifest repo has currently latest security updates from month or so ago if you want to compile it yourself. This is the roadmap for the next (6.0 004) release: https://redmine.replicant.us/versions/41 that few of us are working on right now.
Any help with for example testing #1853, or #1832 would help. Also we are looking for people to test the new kernel for Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 – that is actually the biggest bottleneck right now.
Hi,
I'd like to use pre-compiled versions per release (to make it faster/simpler to update to next release), which I think most users want too, but good to know about dev branch - thanks for that !
I don't have Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 so I cannot test. But I can offer testing on S3 and I'm pretty decent at shell(bash) scripting if this helps. Just let me know whether I can help in these 2 areas.
Cheers
Peter
Wow, I did not know that part. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. now updating on the i9300 to see the tests. Thank you =)
I will be happy to help tesing on the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. But is there an issue with the unofficial nightly builds? The most recent ones for the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 are from end of September.
Hey just re-enabled the espressowifi/3g builds.
I had them disabled since we didn't seem to have any testers for them, but they will be built today and you should be able to test them out in a few hours.
Thanks for helping test everyone!
Thank you, Amarpreet - I saw the builds. I will test the latest one on espresso-wifi and report back.
I conducted a few first tests. Short overview:
- installation works
- install wizard has wording/label issues
- camera app crashes
For details, see the attached screenshot or visit my SystemTestPortal instance at the following URL:
https://demo.systemtestportal.de/kuleszdl/Replicant/dashboard/
I will add more test cases and issue further testing once I find more time.
Unfortunately, I must admit that I own the device since a few days and haven't played with it yet. Therefore, I discovered too late that I am unable to test wifi/bluetooth as the espresso-wifi needs a proprietary USB-OTG-plug to connect USB devices (I ordered such a plug now, should be here in a few days).
Hey guys,
so after some time, I found a time to try to update my S3 with latest build on https://jenkins.minhas.io/nightly_builds/replicant/6.0-dev/i9300/20181118/. Unfortunately, it boots, but doesn't open an android UI, saying "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped". When I click ok, same error is displayed in a loop. This renders the phone to be unusable, how can I rollback please ?
Or is there any quick fix available ? :)
Anyone experiencing the same issue ?
Cheers
pitr lolo wrote:
so after some time, I found a time to try to update my S3 with latest build on https://jenkins.minhas.io/nightly_builds/replicant/6.0-dev/i9300/20181118/. Unfortunately, it boots, but doesn't open an android UI, saying "Unfortunately, System UI has stopped". When I click ok, same error is displayed in a loop. This renders the phone to be unusable, how can I rollback please ?
Or is there any quick fix available ? :)
Anyone experiencing the same issue ?
Did you clear the cache in the recovery? I have always cleared also the user data when I tested the images, so that might be required, but let us know if clearing just the cache worked.
Hi,
clearing the cache didn't help and led to the same situation. I had to Wipe data (keep media) which led to format of media (due to encryption I guess?). Anyway now it's working, thanks for that. I'll report any issues I encounter.
Cheers
pitr lolo wrote:
clearing the cache didn't help and led to the same situation. I had to Wipe data (keep media) which led to format of media (due to encryption I guess?). Anyway now it's working, thanks for that. I'll report any issues I encounter.
Thanks for the report. We need to then do a wiki page to this like https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/MinorVersionUpgrade but name it MajorVersionUpgrade and make the instructions say to delete user data and back it up. That should be then linked somewhere in the release announcement.
Hello Daniel, we are going to be releasing Replicant 6.0 0004 in the coming weeks and will need some testing done for the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. We don't have a release candidate available right now, but we likely will next week. In the mean time, we want to ensure that this build boots up and doesn't lead to any regressions: https://replicant.cyberdimension.org/ethernet-test-0001/ These Roms were built by GNUtoo. Any chance you could help us out? More details can be found here: https://redmine.replicant.us/issues/1889#note-12
