Howโs the experience? I tried it on fp4 1-2 years ago, and it was pretty unstable for daily driving at the time. I returned to android for a while, and now Iโm running PostmarketOS on this. It works reasonably well, but phone call audio doesnโt work yet (speakers altogether started working just earlier this year) and thatโs kind of a dealbreaker. The development is also slow, as all the work is done by a single person (huge kudos to Luca Weiss).
I just ordered a FairPhone 5 for the purpose of test-driving any reasonable Linux solutions on it. My eventual preference will probably be Mobian or Postmarket OS with plasma-mobile, but those appear to require additional dev time before theyโre practical daily drivers, especially on the FP5. Ubuntu Touch appears to be a reasonably mature option, and they specifically single out the FairPhone 5 on their website as the best supported hardware right now. I believe this maturity may be largely due to utilizing closed source Android blobs to drive phone hardware which isnโt ideal for us FOSS purists but at least has the advantage of accelerating their dev efforts.
Title. I made a space to try and encapsulate all the known Linux Mobile Projects. Ideally this couldโve been a list or directory of sorts, but since I didnโt find one, I kinda just decided to make one. - itโs inspired by postmarketOSโ space.
In this issue: Two XMPP Events, learn about Spaces in XMPP, a new XMPP MUC BanBot, Self-hosting UnifiedPush with Conversations as Distributor, a new member of the Slidge family, and a complete translation of JoinJabber to Portuguese (BR). โฆ
Iโd rather continue working on mainlining the Xperia 10 III, but now I apparently have to figure out how to revert the latest changes on https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Sony_Xperia_10_III_(sony-pdx213)
I am looking forward to changing out my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
But I am very confused of what to choose, of the many options. Here is some criteria you guys could maybe help me choose the perfect fit from:
Samsung disabling bootloader unlock and what Google is doing with Android reminded me that Bootloader Unlock Wall of Shame exists.
And also that FSFโs LibrePhone project exists, but not much progress has been seen from that.
Jolla may not be a household name, but for more than a decade the Finnish company has positioned its Linux-based Sailfish OS as an alternative to the mobile software duopoly that is Googleโs Android and Appleโs iOS.
Finally got around to getting a cheap SIM to play around with secondary devices. I threw it into my Ubuntu Touch OnePlus Nord N10 for fun and was absolutely shocked to see that VoLTE worked and calls worked perfect! Last I looked VoLTE was still in heavy development and far off. This is awesome, and the biggest hurdle to daily driving UT in the USA as we can only call on VoLTE.
Noticed most of Gajim is now usable on a phone. Just a couple menus are difficult to use and chats donโt open a separate view, so that the chat list and the chat itself compete for space.
Iโm in the market for a new phone, and Iโd like it to be Linux. As Iโve been building a table of options, I thought Iโd share it. Itโs a wide table; sorry about that.
The Movuan project was started by community member lxb and announced in a forum post as an alternative to mobile distributions using the systemd init system. Thanks to being forked from Mobian, the project makes use of modified Mobian debos to build itโs images.
Has anyone actually successfully installed PostmarketOS on an old device recently? I've had a long struggle through trying to prepare a Nexus 7 (2012) and the result seems to be a dead device before I even got to actually installing PostmarketOS.
Over the past few months, and especially since the last holiday season, many exciting things have happened in Mobian: new devices are (about to be) officially supported, many new and improved packages have made their way into both Debian and Mobian, and weโre getting ready for our next stable release!
I have an unused Windows tablet from 2021 running some Core M processor or other that I want to put Linux on and start using again. It doesn't have a keyboard so I would have to actually use it as a tablet and not a laptop. Is there a distro built around one of the mobile desktop environments that also runs well on x86? (Last time I tried Linux mobile it was pretty much only for ARM and I never got it to work well on even an x86 virtual machine.) Or is regular GNOME deskrop still my best bet for a tablet?
Hey everyone, I'm going insane due to a lack of creative project. I've written an app already but I haven't gotten around to publishing it yet. I'd like to know what kind of apps you'd like to see created for mobile Linux. I prefer easier, bite-sized projects over particularly large ones, but I'd love to hear your ideas nevertheless.
My current rig:
* old android phone with GPS disabled
* external GPS device (NMEA over bluetooth)
* OSMand from f-droid for offline maps and navigation
* BlueGPS to connect to the bluetooth GPS device, grab the NMEA signal, and feed it as a mock location
* developer options ยป mock locations enabled
Since https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1gdhy7u/experimental_flathub_release_of_newpipe_on_linux/ got a bit of traction yesterday, this is WhatsApp straight from Meta running on Linux desktop using android-translation-layer.
It looks like ubuntu touch on the fairphone 4 is nearly perfect, and the features that don't work I won't miss. I'm very tempted to buy a second hand fairphone 4, but I can't really find much on the experience of ubuntu touch. How do you install apps? Are there repo's that I can look at? And is it just branded ubuntu touch, or will any ubuntu apps made for arm work on ubuntu touch? If anybody has some links or personal experiences they could share, that would be greatly appreciated.
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