cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/52208401
Google is making it harder to build custom ROMs for Pixel phones
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Im hard at work doing that.
For everyone that asks what alternative there is: Im developing a fully workiny postmarketos build for the Fairphone 6, which is a modern phone unlike most linux supported phones, i regularly post my progress here if you’re interested!
I’ve been eagerly following all your posts. I think Fariphone is a great target with a history of others choosing it as a phone series to support. Thank you for your service, might just end up getting one from your shop.
My biggest painpoint with transitioning from Android to Linux is no Bluetooth pass through to Waydroid, but that’s a whole different thing.
I’m very happy with GrapheneOS right now, but I can’t wait to get my hands on a Linux phone to get away from Google’s evil grip of death. But at the same time, there are lots of Android apps I need day to day…
ATL & Waydroid/Lepton will bridge you over
Thank you, I’d heard of Waydroid with my limited research on Linux phones but not Lepton. I did a quick search and it seems like a fork of Waydroid by Valve. That’s pretty cool! I’m trying to see if I can find a cheap, used Linux phone I can tinker with here in Japan because I don’t have the balls to dive head first into the Linux phone environment as my daily driver.
Ping me if you find a suitable target that isn’t a pinephone. I’d like to have something that has a bit more horsepower.
Looks like in maybe a month there will be a viable fairphone 6 with PostMarketOS (via user TheMightyCat):
I have a “close to viable on PmOS” Fairphone5 for 3 years now… sadly the devil is in the detail.
Looking at the PostMarketOS Wiki for Fairphone 5, it looks like audio, camera, calls, nfc, and fingerprint are all partial or broken.
themightycat@ani.social has been able to get audio, calls, and NFC working on the Fairphone 6. According to him, he is currently working on the camera(s) with another developer and also going to try and get the fingerprint reader working too).
I’m not sure how compatible they are, but it might be worth asking if he could look at porting the Fairphone 6 to Fairphone 5 for people. Alternatively, all his additions are open source, so someone else could take a look and see if they are portable.
Edit: corrected TheMightyCat’s code repository link.
I am not planning to work on the FP5 unless there is significant demand, might run a poll after i’m done with the FP6. The most sensible phone after the FP6 seems to be the FP6 plus that will be coming out, depends on how much of the hardware is the same but since its a refresh it should be pretty similar.
Also you linked the wrong repo, my repo is: https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/milos-linux
The wiki for the FP5 referrs to the stable branch afaik. Audio and calls are basically working, but as I said, the devil is in the details, like audio routing for calls and such. I wouldn’t be overly surprised if similar issues apply to the FP6 port.
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I have a Pinephone, but my problem with it was always the software, not necessarily the hardware. (Maybe it’s slow too, but it’s hard to tell when it hardly does anything to begin with.)
I haven’t really touched it in a year or so, but if the software is better now then I think it would fulfill the role of “cheap, used Linux phone [k0e3] can tinker with” just fine.
There’s a short list of options here.
Sadly it doesn’t list what actually works on each device :(
that’s why they are already working with Motorola . it’s know that Pixel 10 has a high potential to be the last GOS pixel .
And that is the phone I have… A pixel 10. I am going to keep it as long as humanly possible.
Tbh I’m surprised they still supported it on the pixel 10.
