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This Linux phone with Android app support has three kill switches for complete privacy (www.yankodesign.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Suoko@feddit.it to c/android@lemmy.world

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Here is a video of android apps:

https://youtu.be/L7ZEUvl2oXA

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[–] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yes, I mean the 2018 era SDM845 bunch of phones. They mostly work. While postmarketOS is the community that made linux on phones possible, it is not the only thing that you can run on these, there is actual choice. I personally liked Mobian very much.

Making linux phones more widely adopted will require wider community interest and halium is just not the way forward.

Edit: screenshot to illustrate my point, my OnePlus 6T running NixOS in UEFI mode (based on this writeup by /u/chayleaf@lemmy.ml:

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[–] glitching@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

thanks for the linked writeup, always new stuff to learn.

I'm on 6T and mobian, how's your luck with taming cameras?

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[–] GrapheneOSRuinedMyPixel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

haha, none at all! I've spent like 6 months trying to boot normal NixOS instead of mobile-nixos, got it booting last week, almost nothing works, currently I'm trying to build a newer kernel and maybe fix sound.

I quite like the boot chain that I achieved (bootloader -> tianocore EDK II UEFI from Renegade Project -> normal systemd-boot) and I also installed the whole thing via USB by mounting disks directly.

On Mobian I think at least one camera did work but was purple all over, never actually tested the hardware on android.

All mobile distributions ship without kernel modules that I need, compiling manually on every update is not really sustainable, this is the reason why my setup is so convoluted.

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