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Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.

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Most parts work, still not sure why Bluetooth gives me errors in dmesg, audio out works, microphone input not yet... I'm getting there.

But graphics, charging, low standby power consumption, LTE, wifi... those all work already.

The fact that postmarketOS has support and also that there are people working on mainline support, makes this a task that is not as difficult as I thought, as most work was already done for another distro.

Otherwise it runs more fluid than Android ever did on it and it has a great standby time (forgot to turn it off at around 80 % and a few days later it was at 58 %).

For now stuck on merging the Kernel patches from the sdm670-mainline project with those from Mobian, not really something I can do without knowing C. I just hope someone with the right skills does it at some point.

Then I just need to make some smaller merge requests, like one to add a udev rule for vibration support and so on.

Not much missing before I can finally use it as a daily driver.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And hopefully I can save a few devices from getting trashed. :)

Made huge amounts of progress since I posted this! Should really post a follow-up at some point. :D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You’re awesome! I can’t wait to see what you have been cooking up!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Will have to post a proper update soon-ish, but for now I'll just say that the device completely* works and I just have to get the kernel package into Mobian (until patches are upstream), for that get some Kernel packaging stuff right (it already builds, but is not yet the quality Debian people expect) and then create a few smaller MRs at projects which Mobian is built upon.

*everything except some sensors and some patches which exist but aren't yet pushed to git...