The Volla X23 (GX4) Thread

Hardware Adaptation
#121

Go to here:

surf to UbuntuTouch / Installer,
download and install the UBports Installer,
Read and follow the instructions.
edit: flash Volla OS first, then reboot and test if it works.
With UBports Installer you can also flash SFOS onto the Volla.

#122

I have experience only with gs290.
There the ub installer would not say: its a volla.
So i did select the wanted phone.
I think it did reask if i am sure then run the installer.

When i needed to reflash, i had first to flash org image (volla os) then use ub installer

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#123

Yes @pawel.spoon , i forgot to mention this important step and edited my post above now.

#124

@Seven.of.nine
So, UBports Installer shows the following: -
Error: fastboot: flash: Error: Flashing failed { ā€œerrorā€: {ā€œcodeā€:1}ā€œstderrā€:FAILED (remote:ā€˜No support by lock controlā€™) fastboot: error: Command failed"}
The UT installer wonā€™t let me copy the error message, so the above may include minor spacing mistakes in my transcription, but you get the gist of it! At that point I closed the installer as no other options seemed good.

#125

BTW the installer seems now to only offer UT and Volla OS, not SFOS - unless SFOS is only offered as an option after another OS is successfully flashed?

#126

If you have followed all the usual steps to unlocking the phone (bootloader unlock and oem flashing setting in android), you can just boot the phone into fastboot mode and use @piggz flash script. @piggz, could you advise if there is some hitch with a GX4 PRO?

As for the UBports installer, recent versions do NOT support flashing SFOS. Sad, but true :slight_smile:

I have as a rule installed VollaOS first on these phones just to test that everything works and the android base is one that should be the same as the one @piggz develops the SFOS port with. So, my steps have been:

  1. Use ubports (or the flash.sh script) to install VollaOS first
  2. test hardware (wifi, calling, camera, bluetooth, etc).
  3. enter developer mode, unlook bootloader, allow oem flashing foo
  4. boot the phone into fastboot mode
  5. run the flash script.
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