[Replicant] Replicant 6 on i9300 user feedback

[Kurtis Hanna]

Thanks for doing this Simon! We all really appreciate it. It takes a
village to raise a replicant.

Simon Josefsson:
> Hi all.
> 
> I took some time to build replicant 6 for i9300 from scratch on a fresh
> Debian 8 virtual machine, following the instructions on the forum page
> https://redmine.replicant.us/boards/21/topics/12057 and the wiki.  Below
> are some observations.
> 
> *) In general it appears usable as a day-to-day phone with SMS/MMS,
>    Phone, Web browser, fdroid, apps, etc.  I'm switching from my old
>    Replicant 4 setup to this today.  Compared to regular Android/CM,
>    graphics is slow, but it feels snappier than replicant 4.  ZXing does
>    not work, and the small app screenshots in the task switcher does not
>    work -- these are known graphical issues.  Previews in the Gallery
>    now works, compared to Replicant 4.  VLC video playback does not work
>    (crashes replicant, see below), and this worked in replicant 4 so
>    this is the only regression I've noticed.
> 
> *) I put my build files https://josefsson.org/replicant6/ -- I did not
>    get the sign-build script to do anything useful for me, so the ROM
>    use test-keys and are signed with my PGP key.
> 
> *) I got front-camera, bluetooth and wifi to work using non-free
>    firmware from cm-10.1.3.  NFC works fine out of the box.  I haven't
>    worked on getting GPS to work.  See non-free firmware notes at
>    https://gitlab.com/snippets/25705
> 
> *) Upgrading fdroid fails because it is signed using a different key?  I
>    put the latest fdroid on there so right now this is not a problem for
>    me.
> 
> *) I've seen hard reboot crashes when doing:
>    * Recording video in camera app
>    * Attempting playback of video through VLC
> 
> *) I've seen soft crashes:
>    * Trebuchet crashes when managing icons in a sub-folder on the
>      homescreen
> 
> *) Wiki suggestions (anyone wants to grant me write access?)
> 
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyS3I9300Build
> s/ReplicantSources#DownloadingUpdating-the-source-from-the-repos/ReplicantSourceCode#DownloadingUpdating-the-source-code/
> s/ReplicantSources/ReplicantSourceCode/
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BuildDependenciesInstallation
> 
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BuildDependenciesInstallation
> Mention that you need to run on debian-like systems:
> dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update
> before installing packages -- for zlib1g-dev:i386
> 
> http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/BuildDependenciesInstallation
> Drop redundant 'curl' from Debian 8 packages.
> 
> *) Ironically, the same day I did this, my nexus 5x received Android 7.
>    Still, yay for replicant 6!
> 
> Cheers,
> /Simon
> 
> 
> 
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