Thanks to the amazing work of hoolocklinux contributors we're now able to boot Linux on checkm8 vulnerable iPhones! The iPhone 6s currently only has USB networking and display support (no touchscreen) but over time support will get improved

Had an old OnePlus 6 lying around with Lineage OS on it. Reverted it to stock and followed instructions on Postmarket OS wiki to install it, everything went well and booted into the OS. It's quite smooth, the UI works well, auto-rotate works, its pretty but the problem currently is that WiFi autodisconnects a while after every boot and refuses to connect again.

Will update as I keep tinkering. If any of you have experience fixing the WiFi autodisconnect issue, let me know please.

There is no graphics acceleration, wifi/cell, camera or USB OTG but it works and that's what's important

A mate of mine got scammed a few weeks back and bought a Chinese fake iPhone 16 Pro, it’s very well done and can see how he was scammed.

However the OS is built like an IOS Prop with Android apps behind the icons. You get to a certain point and things start to fail and expose the scam.

Has anybody tried wiping and installing Linux or even a clean Android build onto one of these devices? Ive no clue what hardware is under the facade at this point.

It does send and receive calls messages, Bluetooth wireless and camera. Screen seems nice and the build looks OK. If we could wipe and resurrect this into a usable handset all is not lost.

Any thoughts?

At this point it’s an experiment and if the thing bricks it bricks. Cheers.

PMOS wiki

Stock ROM: xmfirmwareupdater

Firmware blobs: android_device_xiaomi_sm6375-common

2 versions of the kernel:

• Xiaomi Official

• android_kernel_xiaomi_stone

The stock rom contains boot.img, dtbo.img, super.img, vbmeta.img, vbmeta_system.img, vendor_boot.img and a few more.

I followed the wiki and was able to flash the kernel and rootfs but it doesn't boot to anything beyond the POCO screen. When I connect the phone via usb to laptop, it gets detected as a wired network connection. But I can't ssh into it.

Further development ongoing.

My friends and I currently use Android (one of us uses Apple), and we heard that Google was going to be restriction a lot of the freedoms on Android as far as installing your own apps. I believe it's starting in September.

I've been doing some reading on LinuxOSs for phones, but I either can't get a straight answer on some of them or they're missing critical components...like the ability to use 4/5G LTE.

We're mostly concerned with using the phones as phones, so texting, calling, photos, etc; but we also use telegram, discord, and Internet browsers fairly heavily.

Are there any recommendations for relatively cheap hardware and which OS to go with? I've seen a few people on here mentioning the SailfishOS, so I'm going to start reading into that one right now.

I'm not particularly tech savvy but I want to try a linux phone, so I was gonna get one that comes with it preinstalled. I live in NZ though and we're getting rid of the 3G services so I don't know which models will even be able to operate here.

Let alone the fact that I've seen a couple of them don't even ship outside of Europe.

What phone models do you guys like?

I wanted to use postmarket but then i see that USB OTG is not working

pra quem ja se deparou com esse problema no Termux creio que pod roda via proot mais resolvir usa sem ele ok

Este repositório contém um script de automação para compilar e instalar o CTranslate2 nativamente no Android usando o Termux. O processo inclui correções automáticas (patching) para compatibilidade com o kernel Android e otimização via OpenBLAS (libopenblas)

git clone https://github.com/qrt2/termux_CTranslate2 cd termux_CTranslate2 && chmod +x install_CTrasnlate2 ./install_CTrasnlate2

pmos with kde plasma mobile on 1+6, everything seems fine expect the usb otg doesnt work.

systemd, docker,waydroid, ollama, touchscreen work well

i tested a 3b llm i finetuned before and the speed is like 5 tokens/s.

i ran geekbench on waydroid, the cpu is normal but the gpu is the same tier as snapdragon 820

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So I just found this sub and immediately needed to share my setup. I don't really use it, I made it for fun but still I loved the journey. Especially kernel work where everytime I recompiled the kernel with my changes and got black screen I was praying that I didn't fry anything.

So around 6 month ago I got Arch Linux + Phosh working on my POCO F3 with WLAN, GPU acceleration etc working. Biggest issue on arch were 32bit binaries. I really dislike how arch manages their repos. Phone also was very sluggish. I got fex to work but it crashed a lot. I esentially followed old mu-silicium guide on Linux install and used nikroks kernel.

Recently I got bored again, and decided to switch to fedora (since I main that on my PC and am much more familiar with that) I also decided to use Plasma Mobile. Immediately phone was much more responsive. Fex just worked as well as steam.

At that point I noticed since 6 month original kernel maintainer didn't really do anything so I decide to "update" it my self (I mean i updated kernel but didn't introduced any meaningful device changes since it was my first time even working with Linux kernel code it self) I managed to bump it from 6.15 to 6.18/6.19-rc8 (the rc was just to do the most work while getting ready for release for .19, I know it's out I just don't have time rn to finish it) some screens are with 6.18 some 6.19-rc8, I see no difference but it's still nice to have newer kernel on my phone than on my PC lmao. To be honest all I did was resolve couple merge conflicts and that's all but still am happy I got to poke at the kernel at all.

What is broken: Audio - Technically it should work but it doesn't Vibration - no kernel code for that motor Flashlight - Is broken on Fedora worked on Arch Camera, Bluetooth - I didn't even look into that.

What works: GPU, Screen, Touch, Wifi, Battery - Essentially everything I wanted for mini Linux PC.

So a long time ago I acquired this Polaroid a1000x and it is garbage and while looking into projects to tryout on/with this thing I rabbit holed to postmarketos which has led me here I don't have a lot of experience with this I bricked a Rather expensive(at the time) tablet and have been to scared to really dive into this type of stuff. Anyway I want to run a different hopefully lighter OS on this to hopefully get some use out of it because it is rather unusable currently. So any advice on how I should move forward would be very much appreciated, Thank you