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We’re sorry. The SIM you entered is a pre-funded SIM card. Pre-funded SIMs cannot be used as replacement SIMs, they can only be used to activate new service. Please try again with a valid replacement SIM.

Didn’t know a $2 SIM card was “pre funded”. But apparently it is.

I won’t pay $10 for a SIM card. I might change my service though.

But there might be some kind of event on October 29th, so I might do nothing.

LOL, apparently Mint Mobile sends you replacement SIM cards that say the same thing. Both owned by T-Mobile. Can’t read it, as it’s on Reddit, and they like blocking VPNs.

What’s the cheapest service I can get a SIM card in town? Don’t want Boost Mobile. Read bad things about them.

If I can’t get anything I want, I’ll probably do nothing. Might have no money next month, and might be moving anyways. Or I might be dead. Got to wait until October 29th, to find out if anything happens.

What happens if I put SIM card in my Rabbit r1? Can I activate it in a browser or something?

Might be bargain, if a $2 SIM card is “pre funded”.

Also, the service has to use T-Mobile towers. Don’t want anything else, and Rabbit r1, may or may not do anything else, too lazy to look.

I don’t want to call the number either, only if I get my account number to port my number. Not to activate a SIM card, cause their site doesn’t work.

Looks like Tello SIM cards, can only be bought online. Faster on Amazon, and I no longer buy anything on Amazon. They got rid of my prime that was on my mom’s plan. I have to be on some family thing, that may or may not be possible. I don’t care enough, to ask her to look at it. She said she was going to look at it, but I probably said I didn’t care.

I don’t like Amazon, so I really don’t care, if I ever give them anything again.

And as usual, search engines are completely useless. Reddit might have something, but that requires split tunneling, or disabling VPN. Not worth the trouble.

Maybe a T-Mobile Connect SIM card can be had at a T-Mobile store. But then I’m directly giving T-Mobile money. Oh wait, I already am. Damn.

Also, would need another new account on T-Mobile, they are dicks. If I try to use an old account, it doesn’t do any good. Oh well.

To find T-Mobile Connect, search on a crappy search engine, any should find it. The prepaid site sucks, might lack a link to it.

$10 for a T-Mobile SIM card, no thanks. Dicks. I’d rather pay for a SIM card with a plan on it. From some other provider.

Well, looked at the old Reddit post for Mint Mobile, and at least 3 years ago, you have to pony up $10 and wait who knows how long to get it. Not worth the trouble.

T-Mobile is a massive dick head. Maybe porting to VoIP, and only having WiFi at some places, is the better option.

Well, I could get one of those SIM card eSIM adapter things. That’ll cost more, but won’t have to deal with waiting for SIM cards. Or paying $10 for a fucking SIM card.

Just have to give the money to my mom, so she can give it to shitty Amazon. Still rather not give Amazon anything.

But the better eSIM adapter, doesn’t come with a card reader on Amazon. Somebody said they had to buy card reader directly from the company. That might be expensive, depending on where it ships from.

9esim might ship from the UK. No thanks. Not giving Trump money either.

I could give her money to buy a Tello SIM card on Amazon. Or I could just use the iPhone as a phone. Back it up, reset it, disable a bunch of crap, see what I can do about the Apple Maps tracking me.

It boots, touch screen works too, cause I rebooted using the UI.

Probably won’t ever test flashing, as I only wanted to see if I could get it to boot. And in one of the .mk files, for two partition sizes or something, it says it’s a hard coded value, needs to be changed. So probably doesn’t work.

And it’s mounting the vendor crap now, cause I deleted the vendor folder. Not enough room on boot, for all of vendor.

Well bed time, maybe tomorrow or some other day, I’ll share some mk files, and maybe more info.

It took multiple how tos to get the damn thing to boot TWRP. Most of them outdated too.

The last one that did the trick, was for making a recovery image, but don’t bother running mka recoveryimage, even if it makes the .img file, it probably won’t work. So you need to be able to understand and not just follow the instructions. So you can not do the stuff that’s for the recovery image. I commented that crap out, since the Rabbit r1 clearly uses boot.

I even looked in the firmware I downloaded, and there’s no recovery.img.

Somebody else may want to get flashing working. But I don’t think I care that much. Cause I have Ubuntu Touch on it, and plan on using that. It has it’s own recovery, that it probably needs for updates, and if you need to fix it.

Also, don’t bother looking at the boot for Ubuntu Touch, it’s way different. If you compile Ubuntu Touch, it compiles it’s own kernel.

With TWRP, you can use an already compiled kernel, probably faster. But possible to compile the kernel if you really want to do the work.

An email from a Democrat, was marked as spam, that wasn’t an accident. I checked the headers, they look good.

Now to mark the email from a republican named Richard as spam.

Dear friend,
 
If you’re reading this, our government has officially been shut down thanks to Republicans. I introduced a bill to keep the government open AND address the looming health care crisis—but Republicans are hell-bent on keeping their over $1 trillion cuts to health care that they enacted through the passage of their Big Ugly Bill. They’re full steam ahead on their plan to gut Medicaid and sabotage the Affordable Care Act. Hospitals across our state are already laying off staff as a result, and our rural hospitals are particularly at risk of total closure. What’s more is that because of Republican inaction, premiums are set to skyrocket across the country. NBC reported on one family here in Washington state that’s been paying $278/month but next year it could be as much as $1,800 per month—friends, that’s outrageous and it will drive families to the brink. 

There’s the truth. They actually read the bill, and/or don’t lie.

That’s only part of the email.

Google is trying to censor my email. They will probably start blocking email Trump doesn’t like next.

Tempting to delete my Google account. But I probably shouldn’t do that yet.

I should setup a filter, to mark all of Richard’s emails as spam. I never subscribed to it myself. Any future emails can all go to the spam folder too.

Woke up, and it drained itself again while sleeping, think less % was left then last time, probably slept longer.

It does have a low capacity battery. But the device page on Ubuntu Touch says 24+ hours for the battery, so wouldn’t think it would have a massive drain while sitting unused.

Well, I’ll get a better USB battery pack soon anyways.

Still don’t know if my SIM card will activate. I’ll wait at least until I get a new USB battery pack. Maybe until the case and screen protectors come.

Still trying to get TWRP to boot past the Rabbit logo. It’s a fstab problem. Or one problem.

adb works, that’s how I know. I think it might be easier if you compile the kernel. Instead of using a prebuilt one.

Probably should have bought the Teracube 2s, but no Linux, and the Rabbit r1 was $100 cheaper.

Sorry Richard, the Republicans shutdown the government.

“Repeal reforms that prevent taxpayer-funded health benefits from going to individuals here unlawfully”

I doubt that’s all the reforms do. If it was, I doubt they’d shutdown the government. Try telling the truth.

I’m far too lazy to lookup all the reforms. But I’ll believe the democrats, that everybody’s premiums are going up next year.

Also, why are you emailing me Richard? Well, if Google wants my ID in the future, I won’t be able to access that email anymore. I doubt they know the other email.

“Do you support shutting down the federal government to provide illegal immigrants taxpayer-subsidized health care?”

I should vote yes on that, just to piss them off. They are lying, so I can lie too. Also, I doubt illegal immigrants, get subsidized health care. Also, they should get rid of their own health care. Make Trump pay for his own security as well.

And my extra money to buy certain things from my insurance, is going down next year. When everything costs more, which makes zero sense. So yeah, republicans are liars.

If both sides are saying something different, you should probably look up the bills and see for yourself, or at least see what other people are saying. But seeing all the BS Trump is doing, I won’t believe a word they say.

How is committing war crimes making anything great?

I support shutting down the federal government for the truth, the bills will increase health care premiums for a shit ton of people.

Also, would be funny, if Trump ran out of money, and couldn’t do anything anymore. Not so funny, the military may have no money, and might not defend the US during World War 3.

But we’re all going to die anyways, a republican said so.

I can reboot now, but it just shows the logo or whatever, not any TWRP stuff.

[  116.990696] (4)[313:kworker/u16:3][sensorHub] scp_ipi_send fail
[  116.991012] (2)[251:kworker/2:1][sensorHub] scp_sensorHub_req_send fail!

Not sure that should make it fail to do anything though.

Ahh missed another step, with the fstab file. Not sure that’ll fix it though.

If you don’t know what you are doing, and aren’t insane, I don’t recommend attempting.

Even if I get it working, or at least showing the screen, I probably won’t share anything, or how to do it. Took a shit ton of searching to get this far.

This is the best how to, well might be missing some info. I didn’t use the scripts from OrangeFox. Worth using, if you didn’t already install everything. I’m doing it in Distrobox, but those scripts probably work in Distrobox too.

For the Rabbit r1, use bootimage, instead of recovery, so “mka bootimage”.

I can almost shutdown laptop and turn back on, for updates. Rebooting doesn’t work right, no idea why. Still beats using spyware.

To test battery life while sleeping, I’ll turn it off with the reset button and turn it on. In case it needs to be shutdown completely before booting for some reason.

[   14.846569] (2)[265:kworker/2:2]aw87xxx_pa 0-0058: Direct firmware load for aw87xxx_acf.bin failed with error -2

That file doesn’t exist, not on the device, or even in my folder with the code. Not in lib64 folder either.

It exists in vendor_a.img.

find . -name *aw*
./lib/gc05a2_mipi_raw_tuning.so
./lib/hi846_mipi_raw_tuning.so
./lib/libstagefright_soft_rawdec.so
./lib64/gc05a2_mipi_raw_IdxMgr.so
./lib64/gc05a2_mipi_raw_tuning.so
./lib64/hi846_mipi_raw_IdxMgr.so
./lib64/hi846_mipi_raw_tuning.so
./lib64/lib3a.awb.core.so
./lib64/lib3a.awb.so
./bin/awk
./etc/ipsec/ipsec.d/cacerts/thawte.der
./firmware/aw87xxx_acf.bin

Hmm, why is it not mounting it? It can’t?

One more build then bed time. But I wonder, if I need the lib64 from the vendor too.

If it doesn’t work, I’ll inspect the boot.img from Ubuntu Touch, and see if they included the firmware and lib64 in it.

Bought an “open box” one for $30 or so after shipping and probably tax. Hmm AsteroidOS doesn’t say the speaker works, it has no speaker? Oh well, cheap.

There’s a new one on eBay for $60. So it’s half off a new one.

Seller doesn’t have a lot of feedback oddly. But they have other stuff for sale. Hopefully I get it, and no problems.

Shouldn’t be the R one, based on images.

Open box needs battery replaced too? That sucks. Says it’s easy though.

Looked up specs, it has a “loudspeaker”.

Rebooting works in TWRP now, still nothing on screen. Progress though.

Trump doesn’t approve of the ICEBlock app, so Apple removed it.

Hmm, now which watch to get to use with my Rabbit r1. Should probably get a cheap one, since I need a battery pack for it too.

ICE is violating the constitution, so is Trump.

I want the Bangle.js v2 but it’s $150. Got to stop using my iPhone. Apple sucks big time now. More then they did before.

TicWatch Pro 2018/20 might be better then the ASUS one I found. Probably costs more though. Some of the used ones, cost more then the Bangle.js. Hmm, the one for $65 might be a good one. And it has a heart rate sensor.

TWRP compiled, and is the right size now. Rebooting Rabbit r1.

And it still won’t boot anything when using fastboot boot xxx.img. Guess I have to flash it.\

The ASUS ZenWatch 2, the bigger one model, is in better condition probably. And cheaper.

And TWRP won’t boot.

Well, adb works. Nice.

“libc: Using old property service protocol (“ro.property_service.version” is not set)”

When trying to reboot.

Found a cheaper watch LG G Watch W100. Think I’ll order, and if I insist on a better one, with a heart rate sensor, I’ll get on e eventually. Or buy it new for $60.

I had the wrong IP in the config, probably was right before I changed it. That might have been on the day I stayed up till 7 AM. And I’m pretty sure the already compiled version has WireGuard included, unless somehow it flashed the version I compiled, doubtful. Their docs don’t have enough information to build it, not the newest version anyways.

And the battery probably shouldn’t be draining while doing nothing from 100% to 54% in around 7 hours.

I might have something running causing the problem. Or I need to reflash completely, including wiping userdata. Might be Libertine causing the problem. Or maybe using a VPN does.

No SIM card, WiFi was on, but wasn’t connected when I woke up.

Trying to format TWRP for it now, why not? Got nothing better to do. At least you can mostly find the info needed to do so if you look hard enough. I won’t use an online build system.

If you copy the build.prop or whatever the name of the file was from the dump or phone, and rename to system.prop, you still have to do work. You’ll get a lot of “error: found duplicate sysprop assignments:” errors. Easy solution, remove the lines from system.prop.

I doubt TWRP will boot the first successful compile, I have no idea what I’m doing.

According to this, you don’t need the entire system.prop file. But it’s outdated, cause the vars changed.

ro.product.system.brand=alps
ro.product.system.device=k65v1_64_bsp
ro.product.system.manufacturer=alps
ro.product.system.model=r1
ro.vendor.mediatek.platform=MT6765
ro.system.product.cpu.abilist32=armeabi-v7a,armeabi

Maybe that’ll work for system.prop. And maybe I should reboot my phone, it’s in fastboot, can mess with Libertine, might have an option to make it freeze or something.

Good luck using a firewall in Ubuntu Touch, I just block the internet by doing that. I just set SSH to run on the VPN IP. And no SSH wasn’t running while I was sleeping, stopped it just in case.

Good news, Ubuntu Touch won’t boot. Recovery boots though.

rsync: [sender] link_stat "/home/uranus/mtk/Auto-Twrp-Builder/out/target/product/k65v1_64_bsp/root" failed: No such file or directory (2)

No that folder doesn’t exist. That’s where I’m at with compiling TWRP. And that Auto-Twrp-Builder is crap, no idea what the point of the convert.sh script is. And the other part, you don’t need their python script, you can run with python3 -m twrpdtgen <path to image>.

Might need to use the magic reset button, shutting down from recovery didn’t fix it either. Hmm, might need to wait longer, or reflash it again. And it booted this time, turned it on without plugging in USB, and waited before doing so.

Nothing is using much CPU, so probably not Libertine.

“error: +out/target/product/k65v1_64_bsp/boot.img too large (107126784 > 33484800)”

LOL. I missed a step from this guide, but now it’s way too big.

Damn only around 20 GB free on my laptop’s drive. And my entire folder is 200 MB or so.

Perhaps don’t use the vendor partition to get the vendor folder’s contents. LOL. I got it from the super img.

Hmm one guide says you don’t need the lib64 folder. Trying to find the guide updated for Android 12.

Will leave Vendor folder empty, might mount it anyways.

Added “ro.property_service.version := 2” to the system.prop file, I got the value from adb with Ubuntu Touch recovery, adb shell getprop will tell you. Also changed “PRODUCT_SHIPPING_API_LEVEL” to 32.

There’s two methods, use this script, or use the installer.

I assume you unlocked the bootloader, and have mtkbootcmd.py working, if not see here.

What you need:

• mtkclient-gui
• mtkbootcmd.py
• SDK Platform Tools
• Script or installer
• boot.img (Not needed if you download the script.)

To use the installer:

All is done in the folder you put the script, and/or mtkbootcmd.py.

• Backup your device with mtkclient-gui, go to read partitions and select all, then uncheck userdata, unless you have userdata you want. (To get mtkclient-gui to see your phone, turn it off, and plug it in.)
• . venv/bin/activate
• python3 mtkbootcmd.py FASTBOOT (To get into fast boot, run the command, turn Rabbit r1 off, unplug it, and plug back in)
• Use the installer until it reboots it, and it says waiting for device.
• Most likely a boot loop, click the reset button
• python3 mtkbootcmd.py FASTBOOT
• fastboot flash boot_a boot.img
• fastboot flash boot_b boot.img
• fastboot recovery

Script:

• python3 mtkbootcmd.py FASTBOOT (To get into fast boot, run the command, turn Rabbit r1 off, unplug it, and plug back in)
• ./flash.sh, in the folder you extract the script archive to.

The script is less work.

You can always run python3 mtkbootcmd.py FASTBOOT to get back into fastboot if you need to, and don’t forget the reset button.

You will have to mess with unplugging it and back in, not hard, but it requires it a lot.

Perhaps if you unlock the bootloader the official way, you don’t need the python script. But I don’t want their OS, or to make an account.