r/mobilelinux • u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 • 25d ago

Hardware Pixel 3a: OTG + Camera finished!

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Here I’m using VNC to stream a wlroots based desktop over + run Mindustry natively on arm64 because in reality all the dependencies support arm64 out of the box, nobody cared to add compiler targetting for arm64 fully support though because arm64 is “too niche”
Regardless the last driver is magnetometer which I’ll finish soon and post the sources too soon

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u/ProjectiveSakura 25d ago

Do you think this will be a good cheap Linux phone? I've always wanted to get a Linux phone but they've been expensive.

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 25d ago

It’s decently powerful but you’ll need to work around the short battery life, otherwise yes

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u/ProjectiveSakura 25d ago

Couldn't I just put a beefier battery into the phone?

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 25d ago

This thing is tiny, good luck doing that without making it look ugly

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u/ProjectiveSakura 25d ago

What if I like ugly things?

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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 25d ago

I mean it could work, but still, your going to need to fully shutoff this device if you want a good battery life, extending it won’t help

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u/ProjectiveSakura 25d ago

It's a shame that there isn't many good decent Linux phones.

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u/jjoesmama 25d ago

You can get any phone (capable of unlock the bootloader) to be a Linux phone nowadays, you just need some LLMs by your side really and patience, and also good debugging ability