I installed from the cli with sudo apk add chromium but looks like itās also listed in the software center. Going that route, be sure to use the straight āChromiumā and not āChromium Web Browserā which is the flatpak version and not recommended.
Iāve reworked my partitions so I have 6.3G on root. I sent the info to Felix in hopes that heād have some ideas on how to package that in for easier installs. This thread is already crazy long so didnāt want to muddy the waters, but happy to share with his blessing
Another neat trick I just simply tried and it worked:
You can write lk2nd to flash from within Linux, no need to EDL it: dd if=<path to lk2nd.img> of=/dev/disk/by-partlabel/boot
Itās all a big happy mess My intention is to eventually condense all our findings down on the postmarketOS Wiki, if they are universally relevant to the device.
And feel free to share your partitioning. I unfortunately havenāt gotten around to trying it yet. But I may look into it tonight, because Iām starting to hit the limits of my rootfs
Interested to hear what you have done with the partitions.
Iām hoping to get one of felixās images tested on the Smart Display 8, but unfortunately the partitions on that device are smaller than the Thinksmart View so I canāt get it flashed.
Alright here we go: pmos-lenovo-cd-18781y-partitions.tar.gz. Start by extracting those files into a dir that has Felixās 2 images with the ālatestā filenames. Weāll be removing unused partitions like system & vendor so we need to relocate a few others. In EDL mode, this will read from the device and save locally:
edl r cache cache.img
edl r persist persist.img
edl r misc misc.img
Now you should be ready to flash. This uses qfil mode to write multiple partitions & the new partition table:
edl qfil rawprogram0.xml patch0.xml .
Donāt worry about missing file warnings for splash.img or recovery.img, I left those in if anyone wants to replace them as well.
Iāve been using linux for this, but in Windows it should be similar to Felixās instructions using python3 edl commands. Let me know how it goes!
I had some minutes to spare before work so I gave it a go. Seems that Iāve been missing something for me - it did not work.
I had already done a dump before I did the first flash so I have already been on the safe side before trying this.
So with the latest images installed on the device I did the following.
Downloaded your archive. Unzipped it in the downloads folder, moved the files into the the edl root folder where the other images lay.
Had a look into ārawprogram0.xmlā to see how the images need to be named in detail (which is ālk2nd-lenovo-cd-18781y-latest.imgā and āpmos-lenovo-cd-18781y-testing-latest-rootfs.imgā if anyone is wondering) - so I renamed the images to that.
Followed your instructions closely (itās well described so that was not hard if you have done a flash of the other images before ).
As announced splash.img and recovery.img were throwing errors, the following went fine:
pmos-lenovo-cd-18781y-testing-latest-rootfs.img
cache.img
persist.img
misc.img
pmos-lenovo-cd-18781y-testing-latest-rootfs.img
gpt_main0.bin
gpt_backup0.bin
The last three lines were: firehose_client - [qfil] patching ok firehose - Setbootablestoragedrive succeeded. firehose_client - [qfil] partition(0) is now bootable
Removed power, removed the USB-C-Cable, plugged power back in, no luck. Tried flashing (only the last command) a second time. Waited for 10min after the first boot, no change.
Now, when I replug the power I can only see the the lenovo logo for a split second and nothing else is displayed.
No worries, Iām sure thereās a solution but I have to go to work and check again in the evening.
Hmmā¦ I assume the first file you listed was a typo? (should be the lk2nd file). If youāre using linux or can see how the USB device registers, check if the PID on boot is the dreaded 900E ādiagnosticsā mode. Otherwise if it manages to boot with no display you may be able to ssh in for a closer look.
Itās seems like it mostly flashed ok, another thing to try is reflashing just the boot partition with the original edl w boot <filename> command. Maybe something else is different with the himax version?
Can anyone confirm on their device that you see a tiny keyboard in portrait mode? as per my previous image I posted. Would be good to try and get a proper size keyboard. It seems to change slightly depending on the screen scaling but is always small.
I wonder if itās linked to the way the screen is setup (and the incorrect portrait/landscape modes) - is there anything you did to define the screen or is this discovered automatically?
I wonder if itās linked to the way the screen is setup (and the incorrect portrait/landscape modes) - is there anything you did to define the screen or is this discovered automatically?
On my Himax variants, the keyboard never does quite get to full-size. However, I donāt believe this is related because the landscape view is upside-down on my non-Himax, as well, and the keyboard fills the entire width of the screen.
My intention is to eventually condense all our findings down on the postmarketOS Wiki, if they are universally relevant to the device.
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