Linux Phones

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

1. 🇾🇪 Yemen: 0.4%
2. 🇸🇱 Sierra Leone: 0.18%
3. 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe: 0.16%
4. 🇲🇼 Malawi: 0.16%
5. 🇰🇵 Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea): 0.13%
6. 🇳🇬 Nigeria: 0.1%
7. 🇬🇭 Ghana: 0.09%
8. 🇰🇪 Kenya: 0.08%
9. 🇬🇮 Gibraltar: 0.06%
10. 🇬🇦 Gabon: 0.06%
11. 🇺🇦 Ukraine: 0.05%
12. 🇯🇪 Jersey: 0.04%
13. 🇿🇲 Zambia: 0.04%
14. 🇱🇷 Liberia: 0.04%
15. 🇵🇱 Poland: 0.03%
16. 🌍 Africa: 0.03%
17. 🌍 North America: 0.02%
18. 🇨🇮 Cote D’ivoire: 0.02%
19. 🇧🇿 Belize: 0.02%
20. 🇧🇫 Burkina Faso: 0.02%
21. 🇮🇳 India: 0.02%
22. 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.02%
23. 🇨🇿 Czech Republic: 0.02%
24. 🇬🇧 UK: 0.01%
25. 🇦🇿 Azerbaijan: 0.01%
26. 🌍 Worldwide: 0.01%
27. 🌍 Europe: 0.01%

Source: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide

cross-posted from: https://floss.social/users/kde/statuses/112020441791054217

KDE releases today Plasma Mobile 6. Check out its renewed base system and apps.

This version comes with a new and improved shell, a new home screen with heaps of new features, enhancements of the base system, improvements in apps like Clock, Kasts and Photos, and much more.

https://plasma-mobile.org/2024/02/21/plasma-6/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6 #PlasmaMobile

I got a Fairphone 4 after security updates were discontinued on my Samsung Galaxy S9 and I figured out it couldn't be flashed with a new OS (it was a fantastic phone while it lasted- was honestly Underutilizing its overall power. Got 5 years out of it).

TLDR : read the last paragraph

I am honestly taken aback by the transparency in regards to the FP4's construction. The repair manual gives the part number, quantity, and purpose of every single component on the PCBs. You get the full schematics as well.

Obviously I can replace any major part/board until support stops (they're saying they'll support it for 3 more years minimum), but I imagine that I could stock up a couple spare parts and treat the device well and get much longer from the hardware. As for support for the OS, I got the phone through Murena who put their own custom OS on it, but I imagine I could flash a new OS onto it without much problem.

The things I am thinking about are past that point. If replacement parts no longer get sold and something fails on one of the boards, I don't know the feasibility of finding a replacement component. Like, I imagine getting a matching capacitor wouldn't be an issue, but can you even find a replacement snapdragon or WiFi chip? And while we're talking about hot-air soldering on replacement parts: do PCBs have a duty lifespan? Is it more likely that my screen'll just die long before anything else?

Basically, assuming I treat this phone right and don't break anything in a drop, how long can I glide this fella out? what's the shorest lifespan parts that'll fail first - and what kind of lifetime can I suspect? What are parts I could consider replacing with a similar part? (I own a 3d printer and do diverse material fabricating as a hobby).

Most parts work, still not sure why Bluetooth gives me errors in dmesg, audio out works, microphone input not yet... I'm getting there.

But graphics, charging, low standby power consumption, LTE, wifi... those all work already.

The fact that postmarketOS has support and also that there are people working on mainline support, makes this a task that is not as difficult as I thought, as most work was already done for another distro.

Otherwise it runs more fluid than Android ever did on it and it has a great standby time (forgot to turn it off at around 80 % and a few days later it was at 58 %).

For now stuck on merging the Kernel patches from the sdm670-mainline project with those from Mobian, not really something I can do without knowing C. I just hope someone with the right skills does it at some point.

Then I just need to make some smaller merge requests, like one to add a udev rule for vibration support and so on.

Not much missing before I can finally use it as a daily driver.

What is the current state of Gnome mobile?

Will the patches get merged to the main branch, so it just becomes available on all diatributions?

Why has only PostmarketOS packaged it so far?

I'm looking to start testing out and developing for mobile Linux and am curious what the current best options are for used devices that support it.

I have done a bit of digging and the most popular choice seems to be the Oneplus 6, but it looks like supply has somewhat dried up and prices are creeping up on the second hand market... not to mention that it is starting to get a bit old.

I noticed that msm8953 devices are starting to get mainline support so tried getting lk2nd running on my phone (Moto G7), but couldn't get it to boot.

Is the (mainline supporting) hardware landscape really this bleak?

How is the experience nowadays on the os?

Is it stable?

How are the apps?

How is LTE performance?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/10523858

We currently have a generic port for Nvidia Tegra 2/3/4 devices using U-Boot as bootloader, supporting 9 different devices at the time of writing. This wouldn't have been possible without the work of Svyatoslav Ryhel (also known as Clamor), who has been working on Tegra devices for the last few years and is also a maintainer of Nvidia Tegra SoCs in U-Boot.

The wiki page has a list of supported devices.

Svyatoslav ported most of these devices without owning one, just relying on testing from people. This means anyone having such a device can reach him and eventually will be able to replace the old proprietary vendor bootloader with U-Boot.

Good new for original PinePhine users.

Hi, anyone knows how to reduce password length in pmos? I was trying to find how to do this on alpine but no luck . I can find in any distro but no in alpine ☹️