g530fz : old postmarketos version works (almost) well, latest upgrade lost cellular/wifi/BT+powerstatus

By cristian_ci on 2024-01-18T22:16:26

It seems that your lognotworking/dmesg is identical with logworking/dmesg. And make sure apk upgrade -a is run. The latest kernel is 6.6 and yours is 5.17, which is not supported any more.

https://pkgs.postmarketos.org/package/master/postmarketos/aarch64/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-19T12:24:07

okay, i just understood that the apk upgrade -a fails on an error, but AFTER doing a very long system modification (i guess its upgrade packages) and then come back to the old kernel. how could i fix it?

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-19T12:24:07

Please post the full error logs/messages so that we can try to fix it.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-19T12:25:54

here it is, in attachment g530fzupgrade

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-19T13:13:08

I see. Try apk fix next. It will attempt to fix the errors happened before.

So the initramfs is still old version, which looks for old 5.17 modules instead of 6.6, and breaks most of the drivers.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-19T13:17:38

thank youg530fzupgrade2 it work better for qualcomm's cell chip, but the battery icon is still wrong : it's now full red/empty (with discharging even on USB charger) as on previous version it was full of charge (white).

notice that the common user didnt know "apk fix" tool ;)

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-19T13:24:29

I have a kernel fork with the possible fix. Consider joining #msm8916:postmarketos.org to acquire it and ask for further helps.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-19T13:43:52

@lm2lm2, I don't understand if you've made a fresh pmOS installation to g530fz or made an upgrade from an old instalation you've made in past.

@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise, I'm not sure if his still ongoing issues depend on installation could be not fresh (but maybe due to a broken upgrade) and if a new pmOS installation could be solve everything or if it's not needed (especially if he has not experience with that)

By cristian_ci on 2024-01-19T13:47:43

The original issue has been fixed by apk fix.

Another charger/battery issue found above needs to be solved by fixing the device tree in msm8916-mainline/linux .

Due to changes to add MFD and charger drivers, G530FZ requires a dedicated device tree since 6.5. And /etc/deviceinfo needs to be modified as well.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-02-11T22:50:30

so.. what should i do? :)

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-19T14:00:20

Consider joining #msm8916:postmarketos.org to acquire it and ask for further helps.

It's forbidden to publish 3rd party packages in main pmOS communities. The Matrix chat above is a fine place for it.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-19T14:05:14

Even if the patch from linux kernel mailing list has not yet been merged into upstream, it should be already included in linux-postmarketos-msm8916 kernel fork (!4520 (merged) shows it's currently 6.6).

By cristian_ci on 2024-01-19T14:47:21

is there a little script that i can run on the device to fix it?

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-19T15:46:16

Based on pmOS wiki: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Grand_Prime_(samsung-gprime) there are some questions to discuss:

I read: "Note: For SM-G530FZ (and maybe other variants), make sure you are on a recent firmware version that can boot aarch64 kernels. If lk2nd says ARM64 - unavailable or you're unsure, flash the latest (Android 5) stock firmware with Odin or Heimdall.". So, are you running aarch64 (64-bit) lk2nd kernel release or armv7 (32-bit) lk2nd kernel release?
(Optional?) Which lk2nd version number are you running on your device? (reference: https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/lk2nd/releases)
I read: "There are 3 panel variants supported, and lk2nd is required to enable the panel." (so, lk2nd is needed).
Check: apk search linux-postmarketos-msm8916 (it also shows which version of this package is installed)

By cristian_ci on 2024-01-19T18:29:44

well, i have no idea. Before this postmarketos i think it was running lineageos 14.

when i start my lk2nd i have :

lk2nd 0.12.2 next dc7218a7-20220328

product name lk2nd msm8916

model gprimeltexx

variant mtp eemc

panel ss_dsi_panel_hx8389c_gh9607501a_qhd

serial number 67c08bab

dtb 206 oxce08ff01 0 0x2

arm64 available

el2 unavailable

psci unavailable

secure boot enabled

i can give more information is necessary

apk search linux-postmarketos-msm8916 <= give no results

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-19T20:07:21

arm64 available

It seems you can load aarch64 kernels. to be sure, in pmOS, check: uname -m (in linux, I use this command to get kernel arch).

Your lk2nd seems stuck at 0.12.2 version. @wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise, grandprime seems supported since 0.12.0, is needed to upgrade to 0.15.0 for some reasons?

apk search linux-postmarketos-msm8916 <= give no results

Sorry, I've made a mistake. Check: apk search linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916.

By cristian_ci on 2024-01-19T21:01:25

grandprime seems supported since 0.12.0, is needed to upgrade to 0.15.0 for some reasons?

With official linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916, no. It's fine with old lk2nd >=0.12.0.

@lm2lm2 @cristian_ci About charger and battery, in fact it's a device tree bug in official linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916. It's hard to review the patches but I will try my best to send it to upstream mailing lists directly so it might get applied before 2030.

TL;DR There is nothing you can or need to do for now, unless you feel like to try my postmarketOS fork, fumOS.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-20T08:23:47

fumos? what do you mean? no way then to update by doing a kind of ./script.sh? or just an app whom can get the battery level in other way?

By lm2lm2 on 2024-01-22T19:40:06

No, fumOS is not a public project so I am afraid that there is no easy way.

You need the proper kernel package with the fixed device tree, and it's nothing like an app.

Consider joining #msm8916:postmarketos.org to acquire it and ask for further helps.

Sorry for confusing. I thought that I have made it clear. You cannot do anything for it without fixing the kernel device tree, and I cannot provide any more helps in this thread.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-01-23T04:01:53

More details about upstream patches here (it's just initial device tree)

By cristian_ci on 2024-01-25T19:06:20

The original issue has been fixed by apk fix.

Another charger/battery issue found above needs to be solved by fixing the device tree in msm8916-mainline/linux .

Due to changes to add MFD and charger drivers, G530FZ requires a dedicated device tree since 6.5. And /etc/deviceinfo needs to be modified as well.

@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise, it seems upstream patch has been accepted upstream and also initial device tree for grandprime (g530fz) has landed into torvalds tree. I guess this is not a blocker anymore but likely it needs waiting for v6.9. Am I wrong?

By cristian_ci on 2024-02-17T15:25:35

@cristian_ci Not really. The patches have nothing to do with the issue:

g530fz : old postmarketos version works (almost) well, latest upgrade lost cellular/wifi/BT+powerstatus

, which is proven and fixed by apk fix, neither do they have anything to do with:

the battery icon is still wrong : it's now full red/empty (with discharging even on USB charger) as on previous version it was full of charge (white).

Also, we doesn't use Torvalds's tree directly. Instead, kernel forks such as https://github.com/msm8916-mainline/linux is used.

Any further discussion is off-topic, so I would suggest stop the thread here. Please close this one already.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-02-18T08:41:31

Note that !4835 renames the device from samsung-gprimeltexx to samsung-grandprimelte, and the support for former one, samsung-gprimeltexx will be deprecated.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-02-18T08:44:18

I was already talking about that new battery issue:

but the battery icon is still wrong : it's now full red/empty (with discharging even on USB charger) as on previous version it was full of charge (white).

Due to what you previously said, it appeared as this new issue is related to device tree and the changes you made. If you mean, instead, that this new issue is due to device naming (as for 4835), I didn't know. If lm2lm2 says that the new issue disappears after applying 4835, then lm2lm2's battery issue is definitively solved. So, let's wait that 4835 is merged and for lm2lm2's feedback.

P.S. since this is just an issue and not a MR, single threads cannot be closed.

By cristian_ci on 2024-02-18T09:56:05

Nothing will be fixed in !4835 by the way, I am sorry but I have NOT claimed to fix anything yet, so try not to expect anything, untill there is a clear statement announced.

The battery/charger/PMIC/whatever is a new issue, which deserves a new issue thread opened, rather than sticking here. That's how GitLab is used.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-02-18T10:09:30

Consider joining #msm8916:postmarketos.org to acquire it and ask for further helps.

I would like to help, and solve your issues, but if you don't need any help, please reject the invitation. Ignoring would cause more misunderstanding. Hope that I don't need to repeat this for 5th time.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-02-18T10:23:02

@lm2lm2, if you're still interested to that and when you've time, please close this issue (2539) and open a new issue related to the new battery issue or consider joining #msm8916:postmarketos.org chat (as explained above) to get more details.

By cristian_ci on 2024-02-18T10:52:43

@wonderfulShrineMaidenOfParadise let's try with msm team, but it's sometimes a bit hard to connect to online element webapp..

By lm2lm2 on 2024-03-09T16:36:40

added status::needmoreinfo type::bug labels

problem here, is fixed by doing apk fix before and after each time "apk update" or "apk upgrade" will be used...

By lm2lm2 on 2024-03-09T16:30:58

mentioned in issue #2646 (closed)

By lm2lm2 on 2024-03-09T16:31:03

added type::support label and removed type::bug label

removed status::needmoreinfo label

added status::fixed label

Closing, as @lm2lm2 confirmed the issue has been fixed with the support.

By Raymond Hackley on 2024-03-15T13:42:42

closed

added device-samsung-fortuna label

g530fz : old postmarketos version works (almost) well, latest upgrade lost cellular/wifi/BT+powerstatus

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