I swapped another piece of tech with a friend specifically so I could try e/os or lineage on a tablet.
But i tried the install yesterday from my linux laptop (ubuntu cinnamon), got as far as transferring the file using adb, and it keeps erroring out at 47%. there’s mention of 47% in the docs, “it may pause at 47%” but they’re not great at describing what exactly is happening so I’m stuck.
keep in mind, the instructions are a bit odd, “here’s a cli command but also here’s some windows software”, so i did my best but…am i missing something? I feel like there should be a step to disable SecureBoot but I haven’t seen one…is that the obstacle?
If it helps … loosely speaking, the 47% is the end of the file transfer to the device … the remainder of the process (53% perhaps) happens on the target device … we expect the device screen to report positively … perhaps
Stage 1 of 2
Stage 2 of 2
Success … error 0
However you must have seen the e-Recovery screen as Recovery … no good if you still see original Android recovery which needs to have been overwritten earlier.
Thank you, yes, that helps! without knowing what was going on, I couldn’t even guess at how to fix it, I wish it said “Downloading file. Download completed, Installing…” or something similar.
oh WOW, that document. that’s..definitely NOT what you get when you click through from the Devices page! That looks like a lot of the details I was wishing for.
Hah, I see “You will look for the terse instructions by searching your supported device here then look for the link “Install → To install /e/OS on …your phone… click here”.”. i think “terse” is generous.
and yes, I saw these ..but NOT the other ones.
Now that you say it, i vaguely recall those changes when I did my OnePlus phone…but that was the web installer so i was mostly just along for the ride. This is the first one from scratch.
I will have to come back to this, I’m having a weirdly hard time finding the Heimdall binaries, I keep thinking i’m downloading them and then there’s nothing there, just a README referring me to the github and source code.
Thank you for that. Heimdall is installed and working, now I’ve moved on to the next obstacle!
A7 has an automatic reboot when you leave Download mode. So i’ve spent the last hour trying to get BACK to recovery mode immediately after downloading the recovery file. it’s uncertain which will break first, the buttons or my fingers, as i try to get the exact timing.
Manually reboot into recovery, this may require pulling the device’s battery out and putting it back in, or if you have a non-removable battery, press the Volume Down + Power buttons for 8~10 seconds until the screen turns black & release the buttons immediately when it does, then boot to recovery:
With the device powered off, hold Volume Up + Power.
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as you don’t come from a device off and encountred an automatic reboot, forget about the power menu in the second phase : when the black screen comes, try only holding Volume Up
But it doesn’t boot up, it just loops between the first Samsung splash screen with the red warning and the screen with warning that the bootloader is unlocked and then the second Samsung splash screen and then it goes back to the beginning.
That was it! Something had gone wrong with the VBmeta. I remember looking at it, but I was flipping back and forth between three sets of instructions and it might not have ever made it into the terminal.
Thank you guys so much. I really appreciate all your help. You will be relieved, I don’t think I will do this again. The instructions are just too scattered and it’s too hard to work on a Samsung.
