I’m having an unexpected endless system boot on a h850 device. For couple of hours the white ẹ symbol is dribbling on its black screen.
Originally, the device had 1.8.1-r working. I had updated the device with 1.10-r using the OTA update process unsuccessfully – ended with endless boot.
Then I followed the official install process including
flashing a new version 1.10 recovery while in bootloader,
factory, cache and system formatting using the recovery and
confirming md5sum for the downloaded system zip file
sideloading the system zip file successfully
Still, after reboot system is booting endlessly.
Any suggestions to check or hints on how to proceed, please?
My plan to confirm the bug:
downdate to 1.8.1-r by full install process (new recovery, format device and sideload system)
update to 1.9-r OTA
update to 1.10-r OTA
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So, I made the following steps and got the following results:
downdate to 1.8.1-r by full install process (new recovery, format device and sideload system)
booting OK (lasting few minutes)
update to 1.9-r OTA
booting OK (lasting few minutes)
rebooting just to confirm a healthy system
update to 1.10-r OTA
endless boot (lasting an hour)
I’m reporting the issue and reverting to 1.9-r until the devs confirm changes in some of the higher versions (e.g. 1.11-r).
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I can confirm that 1.9 works fine, but 1.10 never finishes booting, i.e. the /e/OS boot animation stays on the screen. It’s not a “real” bootloop as the phone doesn’t reboot.
I’ve provided a logcat in the above issue: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/6912#note_385351
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yopixi
May 10, 2023, 11:42pm
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How did you get any logcat and how did you get it out of the device? I’m eager to learn a new trick.
Hello, sorry for taking so long to reply.
I did the following:
Reinstall /e/OS 1.9 and boot it
Activate USB debugging in the Developers Options
Plug the phone into the PC, and run adb devices
to prompt the USB debugging authorization on the phone
Install /e/OS 1.10 on the phone
On the PC, type adb logcat
while the phone reboots
On Linux, adb logcat | tee logcat.txt
will both display the adb
results and save them to logcat.txt
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Thank you for reporting. I’m waiting for 1.12-r. But unless tge devs tells about any changes or fixes I’ll be hesitant to just try blind.
yopixi
June 28, 2023, 5:19pm
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There is a 1.12.3-r release, but the changelog is only for r and is silent about the loop issue.