I can't get Ubuntu Touch installed a second time

[Lazarus]

Well, I went back to Iode’ OS & Lunar OS for a while after first installing Ubuntu Touch back in January. I got my IMEIs back on my phone and know that this 2nd BraX3 is able to make phone calls. So now I want to go back to Ubuntu Touch from Lunar OS and keep getting boot loops after the install.

I am following this Ubuntu Touch page after unlocking the bootloader and get all OK prompts with fastboot.

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I have done this several times and it appears like it should work but sits there rebooting for 15 minutes. The only things I can think of is to try this on another computer with a fresh download of UT.

Any ideas what is wrong?

[Lazarus]

I got it working on another computer. I’m not sure why it took as the last 2 commands gave errors but said okay…I guess that was good as my other computer was able to execute those commands but then messed up the phone!

I attached some screen shots from Linux Mint 22.3!

[Lazarus]

Both times I got Ubuntu touch on my phone was from the same desktop PC running Linux Mint!

[george]

The failing format command for the userdata partition has been solved here but you are probably not using the same android-tools as this repository, fastboot format cannot generate f2fs image · Issue #109 · nmeum/android-tools · GitHub

Then you are trying to format the partition as ext4 which is the Linux default but you may have to keep it as f2fs.

[Lazarus]

I was thinking it was because I have the most recent Android Developer Tools on the computer that failed. I put those in the path. Maybe that’s why my UT system is mounted read only? This is the version of fastboot I’m using that failed:

fastboot version 36.0.2-14143358

[Lazarus]

I’m now on my desktop PC running Linux Mint 22.3 that did work.

fastboot --version
fastboot version 34.0.4-debian

This is not the most recent but does work!