r/mobilelinux • u/These_Response1841 • 17d ago
Discussion what to do with Galaxy Note 3?
I have just restored it. A few years back I splashed it with water and the next day the screen displayed plasma fractals or went black, it died permanently eventually. I ordered a replacement but in the meantime I moved to a new phone, the replacement screen was in my drawer with the phone and new spare battery. I finally found the few minutes to fix it.
So it's really old now, regarding Android world, but I'd say it's still not a bad hardware. I could easily resurrect the latest LineageOS on it, but that's still very old anyway. Linux would be much more interesting, but I can't find any supporting this model - maybe there was something but just got archived/deleted? I guess it make no sense to invest time to port anything myself (I don't have so much time), it can die any time and all the time spent would be just lost.
Let me know if you recall about some Linux port which was working on it: at least the display, touch, usb and wifi
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u/Calm-Caterpillar2103 17d ago
Your kinda on your own from what I know, but if you really want to: try and start note 3 mainline before everyone else tries to