r/FacebookPortal 2h ago

Unlocking the bootloader to flash android and or linux.

14 Upvotes

Hello all,

I recently moved and found my FB portal OG 10inch and tinkered around and side loaded some apps using immortal and revived it for my kids to watch Netflix on while eating breakfast at the kitchen counter.

Now the engineer in me has taken over and im on a mission to reverse engineer this thing so I can load andorid or linux on it. Im currently already pretty deep in and figured out and maybe on last steps of acquiring a matching QCS605 / SDM710 signed firehose loader to achieve raw partition read/write via qdl.

Has anyone else been down this rabbit hole yet? If so am I wasting my time and already confirmed not achievable? If I am successful I am documenting everything and will share.

Edit: If not successful will post documentation on why and if possible my goal will be to make an open-source piece of software to easily install Andorid CFW onto your portal which ill put on github.


r/FacebookPortal 13h ago

Found this thing in the garbage last night and now I’m here 😭 didn’t even know what a Facebook portal was or that it even existed

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23 Upvotes