/e/OS on Samsung Galaxy J5 2017

Anonyme · June 30, 2020, 11:54am

What’s wrong with the roomservice.xml I provided ? It doesn’t work ?

julek · June 30, 2020, 11:55am

Yours not. For lineageos 16 I do need to change 15.1 everywhere w/ 16.0 ?

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 11:56am

you will need complete new LOS16 sources.You can’t use los15 sources for los16 build. It’s like mounting a VW Golf door on a Merceds

julek · June 30, 2020, 11:57am

I know this, this point is not an issue w/ my Gbps fiber - just one hour d/l. But I’d be happy to get the remaining parts of roomservice.xml to attempt my build. Any hint on either :

Provide me with the content or…
Tell me how to retrieve it

Thanks

Anonyme · June 30, 2020, 12:07pm

No you can’t just change “lineage-15.1” by “lineage-16.0”. You have to build for Oreo since there is no LineageOS 16.0 thread on xda.
If you give me the link to a working LineageOS 16.0 thread, we will see.

julek · June 30, 2020, 12:30pm

I found this ROM for the phone, cannot guarantee it’s working :

Would it be sufficient ?

PS : just for my information what is xda ?

Manoj · June 30, 2020, 1:26pm

XDA is the site to visit for Lineage or other custom ROM’s …they have a lot of other info as well.

Anonyme · June 30, 2020, 1:26pm

No, we need to know where it comes from to found the sources used. And yes we don’t know if it works, so forget Pie.

XDA is a developper forum. If you are looking for an unofficial LineageOS, that’s where you will find it.

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 1:50pm

it comes from him https://forum.xda-developers.com/member.php?u=8353520

julek · June 30, 2020, 1:51pm

I tried w/ Lineage 16.0 and it failed miserably, but it also fails w/ Lineage 15.1 - soooo which would be better ? 15.1 or 16.0 ?

BTW the GitHub repo mentioned above is bluedogerino

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 1:53pm

@Anonyme could you pls try to explain that he can’t try LOS16, because he has no LOS16 device / kernel sources ?? It seems I can’t

julek · June 30, 2020, 1:54pm

Sorry my bad - I understand your point. But as I cannot build either w/ 15.1 it’s disturbing.

Anonyme · June 30, 2020, 2:00pm

You probably can build for Oreo, something is just wrong in your build environment.

First, try to build for an officially supported device by /e/ and LineageOS on Oreo to see if it works by following the documentation :
https://doc.e.foundation/how-tos/build-e
Or manually with the help of this script :

(Start from scratch, it helps)

Personally I prefer to build without docker.

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 2:00pm

With 'build is failing ’ or something else, no one can help. What kind of error we have to know

EDIT: paste you log here and we can have a look https://del.dog/

julek · June 30, 2020, 2:12pm

The error messages I got are above. I will copy / paste a complete log to make things clearer.

PS : sorry for my noob behaviour but I’m actually lost since there are things for both 15.1 and 16.0, and none of them seem to be official. This phone seems to be very poorly supported by LineageOS as of now. See https://dietrichschroff.blogspot.com/2020/05/my-samsung-galaxy-j5-2017-aka-j5y17lte.html

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 2:14pm

exynos builds are a pain. I have tried for 3 different Samsung devices and all where failing.

julek · June 30, 2020, 2:15pm

Thanks anyway for your support and sorry if I look stubborn, this is due to my lack of understanding for this world which is rather new to me. (I know docker and so on, phone flashing not exactly )

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 2:17pm

I hate docker. It’s unflexible. I’m always build the good old way with breakfast / lunch / brunch

julek · June 30, 2020, 2:19pm

And it’s a security bug by itself (actually I’m more investigating in DevOps / Security than phones ) - the only pro of Docker is that it enables you to have a clean working environment in our case (and for microservices as well when you need to pop up instances quickly - but this is another topic).

EDIT : could this one help ?

harvey186 · June 30, 2020, 2:42pm

julek:

>> [Tue Jun 30 07:46:03 UTC 2020] Starting build for j5y17lte, v0.9-oreo branch
including vendor/lineage/vendorsetup.sh
build/core/product_config.mk:243: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/samsung/j5y17lte/lineage.mk]]: 
"vendor/samsung/exynos7870-common/exynos7870-common-vendor.mk" does not exist.  Stop.
Device j5y17lte not found. Attempting to retrieve device repository from LineageOS Github 
(http://github.com/LineageOS).
Repository for j5y17lte not found in the LineageOS Github repository list. If this is in error, you may 
need to manually add it to your local_manifests/roomservice.xml.
build/core/product_config.mk:243: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/samsung/j5y17lte/lineage.mk]]: 
"vendor/samsung/exynos7870-common/exynos7870-common-vendor.mk" does not exist.  Stop.
build/core/product_config.mk:243: *** _nic.PRODUCTS.[[device/samsung/j5y17lte/lineage.mk]]: 
"vendor/samsung/exynos7870-common/exynos7870-common-vendor.mk" does not exist.  Stop.
** Don't have a product spec for: 'lineage_j5y17lte'
** Do you have the right repo manifest?

If you are talking about this error, it’s clear.

vendor/samsung/exynos7870-common/exynos7870-common-vendor.mk

is missing.
check you sources folder ‘vendor/samsung/exynos7870-common’ if it is available

EDIT: These sources are NOT in the manifest. So you have to add them