Coming soon to a #Fairphone 5 running @postmarketOS near you!

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@z3ntu @postmarketOS wow impressive!

@z3ntu @postmarketOS Oooh, nice, well done!

@z3ntu @postmarketOS
Great progress, Congrats.

I have same set up, but no camera found

@z3ntu @postmarketOS If it's possible to share solution, I can pull and test it.
Thanks

@Oleksii I guess that you will need to try this MR to get it working: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5821

@z3ntu Awesome work!

@postmarketOS

@Oleksii Run "mrtest add 5821" :)

@z3ntu @postmarketOS How well does postmarketos work on the fairphone 5 anyway? Do android apps tend to work fine using waydroid?

I'm actually getting a fairphone 5 soon!

@sashin Quite well, see the Features sidebar on https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Fairphone_5_(fairphone-fp5)

But there's still some things missing, so don't expect to daily drive it or be without problems. Also not sure about the battery life.

@z3ntu @postmarketOS already with a fancy instagram-like filter built in!

@valpackett @postmarketOS Exclusive filter!

@z3ntu If it's possible could you educate me a bit?
How can I run it?
I am full time web developer I already knows something 😃
I got a link to a PR, but I haven't worked with this type of sources yet.
Thank you.

@Oleksii Is this reference helpful? https://docs.postmarketos.org/mrhlpr/usage.html#mrtest

@z3ntu @postmarketOS Great news!

@z3ntu @pojntfx @postmarketOS I don’t get it. It has a camera?

@moehrenfeld This is using mainline kernel and no proprietary blobs, the only way the camera works on the Android stack is with a bunch of proprietary blobs.

@z3ntu @postmarketOS Wow, that's insane ! If the audio is implemented, I would happily buy a FP5 to daily drive it with pmOS 😁

@dala Yes, audio is the last big functionality missing after this, then it's only smaller things like NFC and haptics.

Daily driveability (i.e. reliability) is another hurdle though :)

@z3ntu I saw that the current battery life may have some issues, but is there anything else ? I mean something that make the phone unreliable for a daily usage.

@dala I know USB has quite some instabilities so very quickly when replugging the connection between laptop and device will stop working. And for the most part I've never attempted to use the phone in a bit more daily driver setting, I was just working on feature bringup

@z3ntu @postmarketOS that battery percentage could tell stories 😀

@dieTasse I didn't boot up the ADSP for the video, that's why there's no battery percentage reported, and the UI displaying 0%.

@Oleksii @z3ntu @postmarketOS Does external display work? Have you tried hooking it up with a usbc dock to hdmi?

@saligari @Oleksii @postmarketOS Yes, Fairphone 5 works fine there.
Fairphone 4 is WIP, it works with a special kernel branch but currently the phone will stop charging with that since it touches some Type-C bits and there's no charger driver, but otherwise also there it works.

@saligari @Oleksii @postmarketOS It's possible to dual-boot but it's not particularly simple or elegant. You can have e.g. Android on Slot A, then postmarketOS boot.img on slot B which then boots from SD card for example. To switch you need to connect the phone to a computer and run fastboot --set-active=a (or =b). And OTA updates from Android either won't work or will overwrite the postmarketOS slot.

@z3ntu @Oleksii @postmarketOS Ah ok, not great then. Thanks for the answer!!

@saligari @Oleksii @postmarketOS Dual booting on any Android phone will be somewhat similar. I know the SHIFT6mq has added some extra features to the bootloader to be able to switch slots without a computer but still probably OTA updates will use the 2nd slot to apply the updates
There's just no place for an essentially 3rd Installation.

@hexaheximal @z3ntu @postmarketOS I just picked one up on a trip to Germany last year. I have been quite liking at, and it has worked without any problems in Google Fi.
I am waiting with all the patience I can muster for pmos to have audio working in it, though.
I hear ubports had the audio working, fwiw.

@ulexus @hexaheximal Ubuntu Touch is just using downstream kernel + proprietary user space, so then it's comparatively easy ;)

@hexaheximal @z3ntu @postmarketOS Another option is to use an intermediate shipper. I use one based in Germany which is quite reasonably priced, if you would like the details.

@z3ntu @hexaheximal Ah, right. I remember seeing that, now. Thanks