* colemickens
got the bad-screen pixel 3 back, now all of the sudden after a factory reset, it will let me oem unlock! time to test my boot.img
<samueldr>
your story is getting more and more confusing here
<colemickens>
I know! The "OEM Unlock" option was greyed out, I even checked again. After I factory reset, I put it back in the box, to ship back, then on a whim, went through setup, went to dev mode, and it let me OEM unlock.
<colemickens>
Sure enough, just issues fastboot flashing unlock... and carried it out. The IMEI starts with "35" (indicating a likely Verizon unit). I don't know, but I'm happy!
<samueldr>
hm?
<samueldr>
it _can_ be unlocked or cannot?
<colemickens>
It is bootloader unlocked.
<colemickens>
Despite 20 minutes ago having a greyed out OEM Unlock toggle in Dev Settings...
<samueldr>
and 35* IMEI??
<colemickens>
yup
<samueldr>
this makes no sense at all!
<colemickens>
I know! So, I just re-setup after unlock, confirmed, IMEI is 35* and DevMode now says "Device is already unlocked"!!!!
<samueldr>
could it be a once-not-verizon provisioned phone, RMA'd into a verizon IMEI, then back out?
<colemickens>
I uh, I have no idea.
<samueldr>
sure, I didn't imply you would know
<colemickens>
:) I know, I was just sitting there typing out what I thought I knew but I got nothing
<thefloweringash>
oh hello, I see my name. I did get my hammerhead as far as running a kde session once, but it was never particularly robust. there seemed to be a few issues around the display, maybe related to refresh logic?
<samueldr>
[with mainline]
<samueldr>
though I guess that the OEM kernel isn't useful either
<samueldr>
might have been updates to that mainline fork though
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<thefloweringash>
so I looked at my device and found the back case was being pushed off by the swollen battery :-(
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<samueldr>
F
<samueldr>
I can't wait for an authority that decides to make it law that batteries have to be *trivially enough* user relplaceable
<samueldr>
mandate that glue should be minimal
<samueldr>
(under the battery)
<samueldr>
and screws or clipped backs
<samueldr>
I'm fine with "takes time to change", but changing it should be trivial
<samueldr>
AND
<samueldr>
the most important part
<samueldr>
"standard" batteries
<thefloweringash>
removing it was pretty simple, plastic clips for the back case, 6x tri-wing screws for an internal shield, and minimal adhesive under the battery
<samueldr>
yeah, it's old enough
<samueldr>
though that's probably still worse than I'd like
<samueldr>
first, tri-wing screws are not great
<samueldr>
now: where do you get a battery?
<samueldr>
the OEM will not sell you wone
<samueldr>
one*
<samueldr>
and you can't trust listings
<samueldr>
that's the second part of the problem
<samueldr>
because the first part can be done, but without the second part it's worthless
<thefloweringash>
being able to dispose of the battery without the device is a small win
<samueldr>
yeah
<samueldr>
but the device won't boot without a battery
<samueldr>
that I don't think rules can change really
<samueldr>
the charge circuit can't necessarily trivially give the necessary current
<samueldr>
at least that's what I was led to understand
<colemickens>
Hm, I made the android debug cable, and the serial device shows up, but fastboot never seems to work, even before I wired up the serial device it didn't seem to work.
<colemickens>
dmesg --follow doesn't even react as if a device was plugged in :s
<colemickens>
If I plug the phone in without the passthrough board, it works, of course.
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<samueldr>
hm
<samueldr>
btw there's an orientation for the SBU features (used for the debug cable)
<samueldr>
not sure if that's relevant
<colemickens>
I had tried other orientations, but I'm also realizing now that the picture on the tutorial has jumpers installed that I don't!
<samueldr>
I still need to review my changes, but basically making it *knowledge* based rather than almost "faith" based really helps
<ashkitten>
samueldr: i no longer have google-marlin btw, so can't test that
<samueldr>
thanks for saying it, didn't ping you since I didn't know your status on that :)
<samueldr>
while daniel//rf[m] "owes" me :) (I test robotnix things on the pixel 2 when he needs it)
<ashkitten>
gave it to a friend whose nexus 6 battery lasted an hour and got so hot the screen unglued itself
<samueldr>
good deed
<samueldr>
much better to see a second-hand device used and loved rather than in a drawer waiting for something fun to do with it
<ashkitten>
devices in this apartment are well loved
<kahiru>
angerman: heh, thought in this day and age this issue would already be nonexistent
<ashkitten>
offtopic but gf will soon have the starmax running Important Things
* samueldr
is confused about starmax
<ashkitten>
-> #nixos-chat
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<angerman>
kahiru: yea :-/
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<maxsc>
Hi all, I want to install NixOS on my RPi 3B and followed the instructions on the NixOS on ARM wiki to build my own image and burn it to a USB stick. After booting from USB I partitioned the sd card following the instructions from the NixOS manual (https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-installation-partitioning-MBR) without the swap partition and also encrypted the root partition before formatting. Then, I used t
<maxsc>
found here: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ARM#NixOS_installation_.26_configuration as a template and did a nixos-install. After rebooting from the sd card I get "ERROR: Did not find a cmdline Flattened Device Tree". What could be the issue here?
<srk>
maxsc: how does your /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf look like? is FDTDIR pointing to correct location?
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<maxsc>
ehmry: yes, it retrieves three files before the error: /extlinux/../..-initrd-linux-5.8.11-initrd and /extlinux/../..-linux-5.8.11-Image and /extlinux/../..-linux-5.8.11-dtbs/broadcom/bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb
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<ehmry>
and is broadcom/bcm2837-rpi-3-b.dtb in FDTDIR?
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<maxsc>
yeah it's in there
<maxsc>
I'm just thinking maybe I should set boot.loader.raspberryPi.enable = true; in my config instead of boot.loader.generic-extlinux-compatible.enable = true;
<maxsc>
This should generate the right firmware for me in /boot, no?
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