[UNOFFICIAL BUILD] Google Pixel 2 / 2 XL (walleye / taimen)

/e/OS Devices UnOfficial Builds
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Download: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hD2sitpUkYV4WgRv9y89WwmxqILp2Rfo

  1. Download the latest supported /e/ build and TWRP image.
  2. Reboot to bootloader
  3. Wipe userdata (fastboot erase userdata)
  4. Fastboot into TWRP recovery
  5. Flash the latest build of /e/
  6. Reboot to system

Built with the latest lineage-16.0 branches.

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Hi Eamo5,

thank you! I would love to test it.
Is there a possibility to upload the compressed image(s) and not the payload.bin? It turns out to be very painful to deal with the payload.bin on macā€¦I wasted several hours without success (not knowing about Python, ASCII, etc.).
Thanks for your help!

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Sure, would you mind telling me if you are using a walleye or taimen device?

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Pixel 2 / 2 XL (taimen/walleye) is coming soon with LOS 17.1

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Yes Iā€™m the developer behind the 16.0 and 17.1 bringups for Pixel 2

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Great. Iā€™m using a taimen. Thanks!

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Hi,

Check the taimen folder. There should be a zip with the extracted payload.bin images in the zip with -img appended to the end of it.

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Do you think it is necessary to downgrade from StockROM Android 10 to StockROM Android 9.0 before installing e-0.11-p-20200829-UNOFFICIAL-taimen?

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No, these builds already include the latest Pie firmware. You should be able to downgrade directly to Pie following the steps listed above.

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First LineageOS 17.1 build for ā€˜taimenā€™ was released: lineage-17.1-20200910-nightly-taimen-signed.

And Googleā€™s stock Android 11 with Google Play system update 1.9.2020 and Android security update September 5, 2020 is also upgradeable for ā€˜taimenā€™.

It seems that time is passing faster and fasterā€¦

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Iā€™ve uploaded some prerelease unofficial Q builds to the gdrive folder. Only real issue Iā€™ve noticed is the AOSP contacts apk crashing. Everything else appears to be fine. My builds include the latest Android 10 firmware so need to flash stock. Enjoy!

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Is it enough to wipe Dalvik/Art Cache, system and data if you downgrade? I also recommend anyone trying this to use an OTG cable. Since for me ADB sideload didnt work.

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Hey Eamo5!
Thank you for all the work you put into this project!

Which stock OS/bootloader/TWRP versions are verified to work?
My taimen is currently on the latest stock Android 11 and I didnā€™t figure out a way to get /e/ working.
Should I downgrade? And where to?

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@Eamo5 thanks for making available these builds!

I am getting my parents Google Pixel 2s since this is the best BYOD their carrier will service. I want to get them on /e/OS and hope to update the /e/OS rom to the latest version.

Since I have Docker, I should be able to follow the /e/ instructions here and get the specific walleye code following LineageOS instructions here.

Iā€™ll give you all an update once the device actually come in.

Regards

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New UNTESTED build for walleye : e-0.20-q-20211207-UNOFFICIAL-walleye.zip | by smu44 for Pixel 2

Build command :

docker run \
-v "/srv/e/src:/srv/src" \
-v "/srv/e/zips:/srv/zips" \
-v "/srv/e/logs:/srv/logs" \
-v "/srv/e/ccache:/srv/ccache" \
-e "BRANCH_NAME=v1-q" \
-e "DEVICE_LIST=walleye" \
-e "REPO=https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/releases.git" \
registry.gitlab.e.foundation:5000/e/os/docker-lineage-cicd:community
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UNTESTED e-0.23-q UNOFFICIAL build for walleye: e-0.23-q-20220317-UNOFFICIAL-walleye ā€“ GoogleĀ Drive

Thanks @smu44 for the build command. Finally got the build to work after four tries. I believe my issues were:

  1. Did not extract proprietary blobs properly. (There is another directory referenced in the README of where to actually run the extract-files.sh script)
  2. Did not have swap available. (I believe this is tied to the error: FAILED: out/soong/.intermediates/frameworks/base/system-api-stubs-docs/android_common/system-api-stubs-docs-stubs.srcjar which occured at 97%)

I have uploaded the logs in the shared folder linked. I would be curious if not having a swap available was the reason for the stated error. I used Ubuntu 20.04, doing the build on an EXT4 filesystem with 16GB of ram and 16GB of swap, of which <1GB of swap was used.

It ended up using a little over 200GB of space and took two and a half hours.

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Please can you provide a link or quote? Thanks

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Nice ! :slight_smile:

Unfortunately I canā€™t try it, I donā€™t own this device.

Iā€™m surprised you had to extract blobs. I never had to, using Docker method ā€¦

No ā€œout of memoryā€ messages on your logs ā€¦ If this happens again, it may worth the try to re-launch without adding swap (you may have encountered a bug here).

BTW, storing your files in a Google Drive may not be very welcome here :wink:
You may try to create an account at AndroidFileHost for example.

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The README in /srv/e/src/Q/device/google/walleye states:

Nothing is really here. The walleye device tree files are in device/google/muskie.

And when I run sudo ./extract-files.sh I get Input file ./lineage-proprietary-files.txt does not exist!. So I try again in the muskie directory, and it appears as though the proprietary files are extracted. I donā€™t remember if they were already there before or not however, so maybe it is an unnecessary step.

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