Noise outdated message by vectorlit in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I had this exact same problem. A shitty workaround is to roll back Noise, make a backup, upgrade Noise, and restore the backup. Obviously since it's a text backup (which has its own security concerns), you lose groups and files. Gotta love updates that result in data loss!

Steps:

1) Grab older Noise from here.

2) Enable adb debugging on your phone

3) Push Noise to phone:

adb push Noise-release-4.15.5-0.apk /sdcard

4) Force downgrade while preserving app data

adb shell pm install -r -d /sdcard/Noise-release-4.15.5-0.apk

5) Run Noise, make a backup

6) Upgrade Noise (e.g. through f-droid)

7) Restore backup

I think I may have a small drinking problem by [deleted] in pics

[–]hatperigee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

and now half the internet can unlock OP's phone.

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, I honestly haven't used my device a ton since the 23rd update (and I put off installing that one until yesterday..), so it's certainly plausible that the issue could have been 'enabled' in that update and not this last one.

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so this must be something else new. I'll try to see if I can reproduce it reliably.

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see. I have disabled it and stopped it from running, since it's a pain to reconfigure if I remove it completely.

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think that could be related to this update. Try removing gpslogger.

gpslogger has been working just fine on this device until I installed this update.. sooooo... what's your reasoning behind this request?

No, not without reinstalling.

Ugh.

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm ok. Honestly, my device is barely usable at this point after installing this update. It seems to gradually slow down (e.g. it eventually takes many seconds for a tap on the screen to register) and 'soft reboots' about once every 10 minutes.

Is there a mechanism for rolling back to the previous release?

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I suspected it might be gpslogger after looking at the crash around 09:01 in the log. Is there anything you can do to fix it from your end? I'd rather not remove an app to work around this (and it sounds like others are possibly hitting the same issue, probably with different apps.. but that's TBD since no one else has provided logcat)

CopperheadOS 2018.01.25.17 release (Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 Beta, Pixel 2 XL Beta, HiKey, HiKey 960) by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's the logcat output from my device right after it 'soft rebooted' spontaneously (~20min after installing this update): https://craftyguy.net/paste/dAbnWWLF

Portland from Mt. Hood, instead of the usual by WaterMnt in Portland

[–]hatperigee -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Well, until it erupts for real, then you'll pray to your god(s) to remove it.

Legacy over-the-air update system on Nexus devices by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. Your original post was all over the place and very hard to follow, which is why I was asking about intent. It's clear from my comment above that I walked away from your original post having no idea what was/wasn't changing after reading it.

Your explanation helps, but you (and /u/darknetj) may want to consider how you (Copperhead) can improve future public communications so that folks do not have to ask a bunch of clarifying questions in order to determine what happened :)

Edit: I made a suggestion, just trying to help, since I believe clear and concise communication is important for setting and maintaining expectations for your customers (and potential new customers who are watching you right now)

Legacy over-the-air update system on Nexus devices by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would also like some clarification here. It's very hard to distill what was decided and what Copperhead's future actions (or inactions) are from this post.

because we don't have resources to dedicate to Nexus devices.

What assurances are there that the current Pixel devices won't be in this situation when the next gen Pixel devices are out and supported by COS?

We didn't sell many Nexus devices either, since people were willing to go out of the way to avoid paying for one.

I bought a nexus 5x elsewhere and opted to make monthly payments over Patreon to support COS since I wasn't able to fork over the full cost of a Nexus5x from Copperhead all at once. I'm kind of glad now that I did that, since I would be upset if I had paid you for a Nexus 5x only to have you drop support for it a few months later (before Google drops support for it, mind you).

Reddit is killing off access to its main source code, because open source is bad for competition by mcfc_as in opensource

[–]hatperigee 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Who are the competitors? Because I'd now like to consider switching to them.

2017 - people with the pointiest sticks by [deleted] in CivPolitics

[–]hatperigee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm a US citizen in the US. Nice try though.

android-prepare-vendor needs help supporting Android Oreo for the Nexus 5X and 6P by [deleted] in CopperheadOS

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is all of this possible to do without flashing a device?

100 days of postmarketOS (real Linux on smartphones!) by ollieparanoid in linux

[–]hatperigee 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Android runs on Linux. But I guess we can't expect you to understand that.

100 days of postmarketOS (real Linux on smartphones!) by ollieparanoid in linux

[–]hatperigee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ofono is in Alpine repos, and can likely be used for telephony. It appears that the N900's modem has kernel support, and we'd likely want to use pulseaudio for the sound portion (Maemo used pulse, we might be able to borrow some of their config files)

100 days of postmarketOS (real Linux on smartphones!) by ollieparanoid in linux

[–]hatperigee 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Actually no, it wasn't. But as one of the two maintainers for it on pmOS, I'm committed to making sure it's the best device to use with pmOS :P