Thanks for doing this Simon! We all really appreciate it. It takes a village to raise a replicant.
Simon Josefsson: > Hi all. > > I took some time to build replicant 6 for i9300 from scratch on a fresh > Debian 8 virtual machine, following the instructions on the forum page > https://redmine.replicant.us/boards/21/topics/12057 and the wiki. Below > are some observations. > > *) In general it appears usable as a day-to-day phone with SMS/MMS, > Phone, Web browser, fdroid, apps, etc. I'm switching from my old > Replicant 4 setup to this today. Compared to regular Android/CM, > graphics is slow, but it feels snappier than replicant 4. ZXing does > not work, and the small app screenshots in the task switcher does not > work -- these are known graphical issues. Previews in the Gallery > now works, compared to Replicant 4. VLC video playback does not work > (crashes replicant, see below), and this worked in replicant 4 so > this is the only regression I've noticed. > > *) I put my build files https://josefsson.org/replicant6/ -- I did not > get the sign-build script to do anything useful for me, so the ROM > use test-keys and are signed with my PGP key. > > *) I got front-camera, bluetooth and wifi to work using non-free > firmware from cm-10.1.3. NFC works fine out of the box. I haven't > worked on getting GPS to work. See non-free firmware notes at > https://gitlab.com/snippets/25705 > > *) Upgrading fdroid fails because it is signed using a different key? I > put the latest fdroid on there so right now this is not a problem for > me. > > *) I've seen hard reboot crashes when doing: > * Recording video in camera app > * Attempting playback of video through VLC > > *) I've seen soft crashes: > * Trebuchet crashes when managing icons in a sub-folder on the > homescreen > > *) Wiki suggestions (anyone wants to grant me write access?) > > http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyS3I9300Build > s/ReplicantSources#DownloadingUpdating-the-source-from-the-repos/ReplicantSourceCode#DownloadingUpdating-the-source-code/ > s/ReplicantSources/ReplicantSourceCode/ > http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BuildDependenciesInstallation > > http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BuildDependenciesInstallation > Mention that you need to run on debian-like systems: > dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update > before installing packages -- for zlib1g-dev:i386 > > http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BuildDependenciesInstallation > Drop redundant 'curl' from Debian 8 packages. > > *) Ironically, the same day I did this, my nexus 5x received Android 7. > Still, yay for replicant 6! > > Cheers, > /Simon > > > > _______________________________________________ > Replicant mailing list > Replicant@lists.osuosl.org > http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant >
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