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Hi. We(me+Ichernev) are currently messing around mainline kernel on Snapdragon 662. We are going to submit some base stuff pretty soon depending how maintainers will go on merging simple compatibles. However we are working on other devices, Redmi 9T(me) and Oneplus N100(Ichernev). While progress is going to be slow we will get there at some point, one of harder things will be Adreno 610 support due to no GMU but i hope this will be done by SoMainline for 665 SoC so we just can pick it.

I saw today that both Pros are supported in the current release of Droidian https://github.com/droidian-images/droidian/releases/tag/droidian%2Fbookworm%2F24 AFAIK we should use the fastboot images to flash. Backup your persist partition Download the realease Unpack zip Use flash_all.sh --- First and foremost, backup your "persist" partition. Better safe than sorry. Instructions are in other guides, Please, do not skip that step, there is no other way back to the vanilla persist partition. We are seeing more and more users losing their attestat

Could you please both add a warning at the top of your post, along those lines? First and foremost, backup your "persist" partition. Better safe than sorry. Instructions are in other guides, Please, do not skip that step, there is no other way back to the vanilla persist partition. We are seeing more and more users losing their attestation keys because they didn't backup their vanilla partitions before flashing alternate OSes, and some data have been shown to be unique to devices and not auto-regenerated when flashing stock. I'm not saying they come from this thread specifically, but

I received a blue Pro1x today and was planning on flashing it on it tonight, but got a bit sidetracked with LXC containers in SFOS. I have Droidian on a Pro1 and it's really nice and flexible, the main issue being battery life which is not optimized yet. I'll be playing with it on the Pro1x over the night or the week-end, for sure. I was only waiting for the delivery to test it. [Edit]

It's a known issue that has been reported during testing in the last few weeks. Engineers/devs at the factory did have HDMI working, but turned out the protocol they used only work with the HDMI adapter they were using. They have showed which adapter they were using and there was nothing special about it, not a proprietary one nor something with a chip in it. Since then they have tried to change the protocol so the same HDMI adapter may not work anymore. This suggests just a software issue though, and Liangchen said it's just an issue with the protocol they used and asked them to change it. Ho

I didn't spend a ton of time in Droidian, as I'm actaully quite enjoying using the Android ROM as a daily driver so far, but I did flash it and give it a go. I like that it has a real version of Firefox in which I can install & use extensions. The maps app isn't the worst map app I've ever used. There's a native Telegram app that actually works and may be usable in landscape mode with just a little tiny bit of UI tweaking. Location services worked great. Did not seem to suck down much more battery than the stock ROM. The actual Gnome interface is pretty bad in landscape mode, which is

I have Droidian on a Pro1 since last year, and on a Pro1x since last night. Droidian hasn't been a daily driver for me (mostly due to battery life and the fact that I'm not friend with the ergonomics of Phosh) so I don't know everything about it, but feel free to ask questions. I have played with it somewhat actively last year to get alternate WMs working (Sway doable with some work, and with issues, i3wm doable too with a X hack), LXC (doable with Sway as WM but the keyboard mapping caused issues for my keybindings), Waydroid (Droidian may have the best support for it), or simply install

QWERTZ with 'Physical Keyboard' set to 'German' indeed generally works. Although there are two bugs in the layout which make both the accent grave or backtick < ` > and the apostrophe < ' > unavailable:

Sorry, still traveling. Quick clarification, i did back up all mentioned partitions since i was advised so by someone that all of those are device specific and might help in the future. For now, i only played with restoring persist. That one always restored fine. I flashed like 20x back and fourth testing several broken states that lead into non-boot situations. But was always able to get back to the backup state.

I assume that the missing OTG support is part of the issue.

I was also going to go onboard with this too. Still haven't played around with my Pro1X much tho.

https://github.com/Kabouik/harbour-containers My PR to harbour-containers has been merged, it should now work much better than the upstream one that was using qxdisplay and, most of all, could no longer configure X in new containers properly. Instructions have been simplified, with just 3 packages to install from one single place (and hopefully from Chum app store soon, I'll submit them today), better default settings for X scaling and Onboard vkb, and most of all without the need to tweak things manually to debug container creation. - 3 packages to install from a single OBS re

Erm, it would have been wise of them to warn you on the need to do a backup first, as the stock persist.img doesn't contain device specific information that came with the persist partition originally on your phone. At the moment, it's not a huge deal as it's not even sure that any software uses that kind of hard verification, so your phone won't be broken, bricked, or unusable in any way, so don't worry too much about it, but we never know if the attestation keys may not be necessary in some obscure software you'd want to use, or in the future years. There may also be ways to regenerate

I have freshly reflashed using QFIL in Windows just be sure, then flashed my persist backup on top, and it does not pass key attestation. I know this persist "should" be good, because I backed it up a while ago, before successfully testing key attestation. In my earlier testing, after seeing successful key attestation, I flashed stock persist on top in order to fix my sensors (which worked), then flashed my backup persist back on top of that, expecting to lose sensors and regain attestation, and I did not regain attestation (but did lose sensors as anticipated). Hehe, no worries,

Could you please both add a warning at the top of your guides, along those lines? First and foremost, backup your "persist" partition. Better safe than sorry. Instructions are in other guides, Please, do not skip that step, there is no other way back to the vanilla persist partition. We are seeing more and more users losing their attestation keys because they didn't backup their vanilla partitions before flashing alternate OSes, and some data have been shown to be unique to devices and not auto-regenerated when flashing stock. I'm not saying they come from these guides specifically,

We have in the lineage threads for 18 and 19, as well as AICP-R had a number of posts on a strange charging issue, where it keeps the battery at a stable level, neither charging nor discharging while connected. This seems not to be limited to the Pro1, but is an issue that also affects the Pro1. See the post I made here in the Lineage 19 thread. Unfortunately this common problem is rather illusive, as it is not easy to say how to trigger or avoid it. All we know for sure is that it is temporarily gone after a reboot. I have tried multiple times to find a 100% reproducible method, b

Hello. As I mentioned in some other topic, I received my Pro1X 2 days ago. It looks great, keyboard is even better than in original Pro1 - layout much closer to normal, much more tactile. As with every qwerty phone I started from rooting, and tweaking keyboard to Polish language (by the way, if there are any Poles here, I'd like to share my keyboard tweak as a Magisk module - it really makes a difference!). Unfortunately I encountered a problem with bottom (right) loudspeaker. Sound is intermittent, sometimes popping, sometimes sounds like reversed phase. It helped for a while w

Have the Same problem only to me it seems to be temperature related or something even more uncontrollable... First tried the speaker while charging and didn't get any sound from the right/bottom speaker than some popping. Moving the cable or pressing on the case didn't help. Some hours later the speaker worked fine, the next day while getting warm outside it stopped working again. Also have a problem on the keyboard backlight (already opened a thread on that). Maybe you could help as you opened your Pro1 X. Can you remember how the keyboard is connected? Is it only a single connector

That is how I read the current situation, unfortunately. We know we need a backup of Persist, but we do not know why that did not help @ducksoup, at best it is a matter of how the restore is done, as it seems to work for @mosenwith edl.

Hey man, Excellent work you've did! Following your instructions all goes fine without any hiccups, unfortunately the last command for reboot does nothing on mine... Instead it shows all the edl options I can use (similar to when you execute edl --help)... Tried only reset without reboot... And now it's stuck on F(x)tec logo... Any brave ideas are much appreciated:)

I wanted to do it on mine but that didn't work, an extra command is required when in bootloader mode: fastboot oem enable-charger-screen fastboot oem off-mode-charge 1 (Thanks Tadi.)

@Spargeltim What was your solution? Did you contact the support or find any workaround?

( @Spielverderber Found the thread, merged )

It sound like a depleted battery, and the (silly) default of booting on charging. We have another thread in here with one that had exactly the same, I'm not sure he found a fix. For anyone else i STRONGLy suggest to do the following from a pc connected (boots the phone, but does not clear things) adb reboot bootloader Wait for boot to bootloader to finish (or do manually holding VolDown+Power) fastboot oem off-mode-charge 1 There is this silly default that powering the phone turns it on, and if the battery is depleted, it does not have enough power to do the boot...

Strictly EDL on the Pro¹-X. Its very convenient not having to unlock the bootloader to flash imo. Having much experience with fastboot from doing user support over at AsteroidOS. I am using and debugging Fastboot a lot and i really appreciate to now learn about EDL more. In AOS, we don't have rooting problems 😛 We even got our very own universal community bootloader with integrated adb server. So debugging a WearOS smartwatch and prepare it for porting is as easy as "fastboot --cmdline debug-ramdisk boot aos-bootimage.fastboot" to boot into the bootloader and have full adb. Where is the mag

As far as I understand, IMEI and whatnot should be in fsc, fsg, or more likely modemst1 and modemst2. Don't quote me on that though.

I can select a different layout - it results in wrong letters as expected. ctrl+space switches between "Deutsch" and "Englisch USA" if I enable both and the "Ü" key right of "P" types "[" and "{" -. The "+" key types "]" and "}"

FWIW, I did not back up persist until after it was "damaged" to break the sensors. However, when I flashed back everything stock except persist, using the edl Python tool and the process described here (I edited the xml to skip persist), I did still pass attestation in Android. Then, I used fastboot to flash the stock persist.img, thus fixing sensors and breaking attestation. Finally, I used fastboot to flash back my saved persist, and did not regain attestation. I performed additional tests using QFIL to flash full stock image back, and then fastboot to replace persist with my bac

Mosen definitely backed fsc, fsg, modemst1, modemst2 and persist (which I advise to do as well, they're only taking up 40MB of storage space on your disk), but I don't know if he restored them all.

Yes, I can write ü, "+", "*", "~", ö,ä and e.g. "?"

@mosen said he has successfully restored a backed up persist and passed attestation test, so it would be great to have his view on it and know exactly what he did before concluding on that matter.

No hurry here. This is all just for fun at this stage (although eventually, once the dust settles, I do think SFOS as host OS with containers for Linux and Android would be an ideal setup). I'm pretty busy today anyway, although perhaps later I'll try out some Adam's kernels and at least see if I can get them to boot. Bad keymaps may be the least of my worries. 😉

Thanks so we now know that it is important but NOT sufficient to backup the persist partition, so now the big question is what ALSO should be backed up? (And without the ability to add key-attestation, it is hard for us to test, unless we initially backup EVERYTHING from a device that still got the keys....)

I can share with you the kernel 1.6.1 from Adam (later versions that can be downloaded from his repo break the keyboard mapping so I don't advise them), but if you're not too much in a hurry, it might be best to just wait until he comes back from holidays and updates it with working mapping improvements.

Awesome, @Aka.

Personally I had hoped that when they redesigned the main board, they had added an eSim. But might have been too expensive, or might not be supported by the SoC?

Fixed

Yes, it is (currently) not working. I hope it can be solved later by a firmware upgrade.

Still not really Linux as in mainline Linux, but speaking of LXC, I have tried to update harbour-containers today to fix some long lasting issues that were keeping many users away: https://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=1574540&postcount=240 It's being tested in the fork, everything may not work, I'm not a dev. If all goes well, I'll make a PR for upstream and push it to the Chum repository (a FOSS GUI store for SFOS).

I could not open it of my Pro¹X using my nails but it may happen the reason was the very first two openings - also it is harder to open if both SIM slots are in use. Once I saw a very well-built (not too long) 2SIM + SDCARD holder. Otherwise, I feel more confident also having an alternative data storage in my phone - I understand there are "clouds" but also phone hardware may have problems. My friend's Pro¹ has developed an internal UFS flash storage problem (completely dead flash IC) and also two of my Nokia N900s developed faulty eMMC flashes - however, N900 had a 256MB flash

Thanks for this heads-up. Having my Pro1 so nicely set-up as daily driver almost feels like a burden, now. If I only had a spare Pro1 or Pro1X for tinkering with such promising projects ... At first glance, I can find no review or video online about Droidian even for the original Pro1, which is strange given it is one of the only three officially supported devices ... @steeb did you test on Pro1 or Pro1X?

You can even customize the bag (e.g. add card slots) on their homepage: https://www.fitbag.com/

Same situation here. I had broken sensors, but working attestation, but then when I reflashed my persist backup, which ostensibly valid keys, I lost attestation.

In the stock ROM I've been testing radio connections a lot in these days. I have LTE, WCDMA and GSM. I have a perfectly working Mi 9T Pro. Comparing the signal levels, there is no significant difference (maximum 5%) on any of the networks. I noticed that with LTE (B20 for sure, B3 I don't know yet) the Pro1X randomly drops the network for a moment (about half a second) and reconnects. This happens roughly every 20-100 seconds. I don't know if anything has an effect on it. Sometimes the upload and download arrows next to the 4G icon on the notification bar disappear for a second and then return

EDL works with locked bootloader. Fastboot does not. Might a locked bootlaoder be the issue?

Thanks for the warning!

Looks like your persist.img broke. Did you backup your persist.img before flashing Linux? If not, then a simple fix to solve sensor issues would be to flash the stock persist.img (can be found inside the .tar.gz stock ROM) using: adb reboot bootloader fastboot flash persist <file_path>persist.img As far as I understand, this method won't fix the lost attestation key problem, but it will fix gyroscope; accelerometer; proximity; and magnetometer issues that occur after flashing from a different OS. Corrections from others are always welcome 🙂

I ported Google Camera to the Cosmo Communicator, which has a "24MP" Quad Bayer sensor (as advertised). My work can be found in the OESF forum. The stock camera app produces horrific interpolated 24MP images with smudged detail, no shadow detail, and often burnt or washed-out colors. GCam produces a clean 6MP RAW image with high detail (for a 6MP sensor) and accurate colors, and 6MP JPEG images of similar high quality. The sensor definitely performs better in low light than conventional Bayer sensors of even higher resolution (for cell phones and tiny pocket cameras). So in my experience,

Nice! I just received my Pro1X (Black/6GB/128GB) yesterday, just unboxed it today and still haven't played with it much yet. I do have the original Pro1 and used the hell out of the thing. I installed SFOS, an Arch Linux ARM container and some apps, it's one of my favorite Linux PDA.

i think we have to start with a other Point. I use the Phone since Friday with no Problems by making some longer Calls (1 Hour) and my phone rings everytime so no forwarding to the Voicebox. -> Phonecalls are working So i think the problem is to search in the type of Networks. i am located in Germany (Munich) and use Vodafone GSM/WCDMA/LTE With the Data Connection i have some Problems in the underground but this i have with every Phone. I have now made the change described here, And will test it the next days.