Google Pixel 3 (google-blueline)

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Google Pixel 3
Google Pixel 3
Google Pixel 3
Manufacturer Google
Name Pixel 3
Codename google-blueline
Released 2018
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Original software Android
Original version 9.0
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (SDM845)
CPU Octa-core (4x2.5 GHz Kryo 385 Gold & 4x1.6 GHz Kryo 385 Silver)
GPU Adreno 630
Display 1080 x 2160 P-OLED, HDR
Storage 64GB/128GB
Memory 4GB
Architecture AArch64
Type handset
This device has been tested with postmarketOS, but its device package has not yet been added to the postmarketOS repositories.
This means that it cannot be selected in pmbootstrap.
Status: Work is ongoing, flashing works and telnet can be accessed during boot.
Features
USB Networking
Flashing
Works
Touchscreen
Display
WiFi
FDE
Mainline
Partial
Battery
3D Acceleration
Audio
Bluetooth
Camera
GPS
Mobile data
Internal storage
SMS
Calls
USB OTG
NFC
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Barometer
Power Sensor
Misc
Built-in DVB
Camera Flash
Keyboard
Touchpad
USB-A
HDMI/DP
Ir TX
Ir RX
Stylus
Memory Card
Haptics
Ethernet
FOSS bootloader


Contributors

  • hreikin

Users owning this device


How to enter flash mode

The Pixel 3, like all Google Pixel/Nexus devices, uses Fastboot as the flashing protocol.

To enter Fastboot mode, hold Volume Down while powering on the device. Let go of Volume Down when "Fastboot mode" displays on the screen.

Alternatively, if connected to a pc then you can also use adb reboot bootloader.

Installation

The steps below should allow you to flash postmarketOS to a Pixel 3 and boot to a point that telnet can be accessed.

  • Run pmbootstrap init and then delete the generated linux-google-blueline folder
  • Edit the APKBUILD in the device-google-blueline folder to remove the linux-google-blueline and mesa-dri-gallium dependencies and insert the linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845 and soc-qcom-sdm845 dependencies
  • Clone the sdm845 mainline kernel and create a new branch for your changes, copy the DTS file available in the Linaro kernel to the sdm845 mainline kernel and edit the Makefile to include it, comment out the following nodes to ensure the kernel compiles successfully: &sde_te_active, &sde_te_suspend, &dsi0 and &dsi0_phy
  • Add the following kernel configuration options to the sdm845.config file:
# Pixel 3
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP=y
CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK=n
CONFIG_PFT=n
CONFIG_USE_VFB=n
CONFIG_KINETO_GAN=n
CONFIG_SAMSUNG_TUI=n
CONFIG_SEC_RESTRICT_ROOTING=n
CONFIG_TZDEV=n
  • Source envkernel.sh and run make defconfig sdm845.config and make -j`nproc` to compile the kernel, run pmbootstrap build --envkernel linux-postmarketos-qcom-sdm845, pmbootstrap checksum device-google-blueline and pmbootstrap build device-google-blueline
  • Run pmbootstrap install --split, pmbootstrap initfs hook_add debug-shell and pmbootstrap export
  • Clone this DTBO repository from the crosshatch port
  • Edit the dtboimg.cfg file with the following changes:
sdm845-c1-dvt1.1.dtbo
	id=0x215
	rev=0x2
  • Edit the sdm845-c1-dvt1.1.dts file with the following changes before running build.sh to create the dtbo.img:
/dts-v1/;

/ {
	model = "Google Inc. MSM sdm845 C1 DVT1.1";
	compatible = "google,b1c1-sdm845", "qcom,sdm845";
	qcom,board-id = <0x00021505 0>;
};
  • Run the following commands to flash everything to the phone, You have to flash the dtbo.img and then the kernel normally for the telnet shell and then use fastboot to flash the boot and root images created with pmbootstrap install --split otherwise nothing shows up in telnet when running blkid:
fastboot set_active b
fastboot flash dtbo_b /path/to/dtbo.img
pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
fastboot flash vendor /path/to/exported/google-blueline-boot.img
fastboot flash userdata /path/to/exported/google-blueline-root.img
  • The phone boots and you should get the white screen with Google logo, sometimes it has a graphical glitch and others it doesn't. The SSH isn't working, it should have an IP and you can ping it but you can't connect by SSH. You can however connect to a shell with the telnet command; $ telnet 172.16.42.1
  • Run blkid, the vendor and userdata partitions should show up with the pmOS_boot and pmOS_root labels
  • Source /etc/deviceinfo and init_functions.sh before running mount_subpartitions which seems to complete with no errors reported in the shell or via dmesg but could be unsuccessful as nothing new is mounted when looking with mount or blkid
  • Running mount_boot_partition shows an error in telnet but not in dmesg however if you run mount -o ro -t ext2 /dev/sda10 /boot you should get the following errors output to the shell and dmesg:
/ # mount_subpartitions
/ # mount_boot_partition
Mount boot partition (/dev/sda10) to  (read-only)
mount: mounting /dev/sda10 on  failed: No such file or directory
/ # mount -o ro -t ext2 /dev/sda10 /boot
mount: mounting /dev/sda10 on /boot failed: Invalid argument
[  118.355939] EXT4-fs (sda10): mounting ext2 file system using the ext4 subsystem
[  118.363336] EXT4-fs (sda10): bad block size 1024
  • You can successfully mount the root partition with mount_root_partition and it is viewable in /sysroot.

Here are some links to the config files and logs, scroll down for multiple files:

Status

Work is ongoing, flashing works and telnet can be accessed during boot.

UART

USB

See also: https://github.com/Peter-Easton/android-debug-cable-howto, Serial_debugging:Cable_schematics#Google_Pixel_.22Android_Debug_Cable.22

Baud rate is 115200. Voltage is 3.3V, although 1.8V seems to work as well.

  1. Obtain a USB-C breakout board and a UART adapter
  2. Connect pins board pin (USB-C pinout) - UART adapter pin as following:
    1. A1 (GND) - GND
    2. A8 (SBU1) - RXD
    3. B8 (SBU2) - TXD
  3. Connect breakout board and phone using a USB-C cable that has working SBU1/2 (I had to use a thicker TB3/USB 3.0 capable cable). Make sure the cable is in "top" orientation (in my case Thunderbolt logos were facing same side as phone's screen and the A side of breakout board), it won't work if the plug is reversed on one side.
  4. Boot phone into fastboot, then execute fastboot oem uart enable and poweroff.

See also