Monday, September 11, 2017

Keeping up with debian Sid

My small build system

I need to replace some distro packages with my improvements.
For this I need to patch the sources -- I only handle git. I need to be notified, warned, when a new version is needed.

So I patched apt to report when a switch from my version to the upstream would happen (due to  "apt dist-upgrade").

In such a case I run my  git-rebase-origin which rebases my feature poset (of feature branches/segments mixed into "merges") over a refreshed remote branch.

Then I run my scripts to invoke gbp(1) with a suitable version string, and create the deb packages & put them in reprepro.

the sequence of commands to maintain apt itself:


$ cd ~/git/apt/
$ git-rebase-origin  

# this deduces the upstream -- base of my feature branches.

$ release
# this detects I'm building my extension of upstream debian package, so deduces the correct version, build, uploads, tags, pushes, installs.

When I only want to test some changes, I run 
$ snap
which creates a .deb package, installs it, withouth any reprepro etc.


Sunday, July 16, 2017

Logický test


5 lodí, každá má číslo, barvu, maskota a suvenýr z Měsíce.
Nestartují ze své země, ale přistávají v ní.

1. Modrá loď startuje v Hirošimě
2. SSSR přiveze z Měsíce vlajku USA
3. v Lunburgu startuje loď s číslem 1.
4. Kočka cestuje v lodi s číslem o 1 menším než je číslo zlaté lodi.
5 Slavík je maskotem lodi, jejíž start. číslo je o 1 vyšší než číslo zelené lodi.
6 Loď s prostředním číslem veze zpět měsíční prach.
7 Hlemýžd je maskot lodi, jež startuje na Bajkonuru.
8 Stát, který odstartoval na mysu Caneveral, příveze zpět starou měsíční kameru.
9 Maskot v červené lodi je žába.
10 Zelená loď patří Číně.
11 Japonsko má startovní číslo 2.
12 Stříbrná loď patří NSR.
13 Loď USA startuje v Pekingu.
14 NSR přiveze do Lunburgu z měsíce kosmické auto a má startovní číslo o 1 nižší než SSSR.


Tyto infomace stačí k tomu, abychom zodpověděli dvě otázky:

A. Která loď má jako maskota zebru?
B. Která loď přiveze zpět z měsíce ženu?

Monday, May 29, 2017

Upgrading Nubia 7 mini

I recently bought this  phone on marktplaats, already upgraded to Mokee Android 7. I liked the features, my previous phone used Android 4.2.
So I bought another one for my wife, this time I had to make the upgrade myself. It was not straightforward:

The first nubia used as recovery  TWRP 3.0.2-0, the other is with clockwork-mod (v6.0.5.0).
  • I had to resize the big "grow" partition manually, i.e. merge it with "userdata".
  • suddenly I saw disconnections of Wifi, and that was due to the same MAC address of the 2 nubias.

MAC address

So I searched for a solution to tune the MAC address. I found the hint on Intf0MacAddress in WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini. But it did not work.
/data/misc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini  nor  /system/etc/wifi/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini
So I had a workaround to
echo 98:6c:f5:63:ec:d0 > /sys/devices/fb000000.qcom,wcnss-wlan/wcnss_mac_addr
while in airplane mode.
In the end I  found /persist/WCNSS_qcom_cfg.ini which indeed works, and overrides the other 2 files.

ANDROID_SERIAL to distinguish them?

To have them accessible via adb at the same time, I need to distinguish by this serial number, which is unfortunately identical. For now I overwrite the kernel cmdline in img_info with "androidboot.serialno=XXX"

Proximity sensor

After receiving some (whatsapp) calls, I noticed it was almost impossible to get the screen back on, as expected.

So, as a workaround I turned off  in Phone> Settings> Accessibility> Use proximity sensor.
But Whatsapp does not seem to have this option.

So I installed Sensors test and some app to "reset/calibrate" but to no effect.

So I started to look for the kernel driver, to fix a possible bug. There are confusingly multiple kernel sources on github:
Btw. failures of the other kernels can be seen thanks to android ram-console: after the failure, the phone reboots to recovery and 
adb shell cat /proc/last_kmsg
shows the problem.

In the end the problems is only the calibration, so 
 echo 500 > prox_threshold_low  
fixes the issue. To see this value, I did:
cd /sys/class/proximity/proximity/
echo 1 > prox_debug
and "dmesg -c" while running the sensor test app, to see:

[43580.286869] [SENSOR_ALS_PROX] [taos_prox_threshold_set: 2338] proxdata = 396
I guess it's stored in /persist/proxdata/threshold ?


Other issues


calendar/alarm database -- crash when entering the Alarm app:

android.database.sqlite.SQLiteException: Can't downgrade database from version 12 to 8

I removed the relevant file.

SystemUI crash due to wallpaper using too big image


java.lang.RuntimeException: Canvas: trying to draw too large(143769600bytes) bitmap.
....
AppCrashReceiver: com.android.systemui stopped unexpectedly...

rm  /data/system/user/0/wallpaper_*



My improvements (divided into feature-segments)  https://github.com/mmaruska/android_kernel_nubia_nx507j/network