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Hello! I am a recent PhD graduate, and on my spare time work on MMS, VVM, and other odds/ends for the Pinephone/Librem 5. I am also of the Mobian devs and play Trombone.
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Chris, Debian Maintainer has a nice ring to it: https://nm.debian.org/person/kop316/
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@linmob@linuxmobile.social
@linmob For those looking for it, cameractrl is here: https://gitlab.com/NekoCWD/cameractrl
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@kop316@fosstodon.org
This weekend I am going to try daily driving with the Oneplus 6 with @mobian . I can tolerate no camera and I will see how calls go over the weekend.
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@kdieter@machteburch.social
@kdieter
I think for what I was looking for, I have enough. Thank you for your help!
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As a follow up, it looks like the solution to the audio (and possibly camera problem) was simple to fix: sudo apt remove pulseaudio. This will remove pulseaudio and install pipewire.
EDIT: It also looks like the bottom mic is disabled unless you select "Earpiece" as the output, and headphones don't seem to work in the Oneplus 6.
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So unfortunately, device audio on both the OnePlus 6 and 6T is very unreliable with the speaker, earpiece, and mic on Phosh. Hopefuly I can look into it within the next few days/weeks, as the phone works wonderfully otherwise.
I have also noticed the camera is finicky as to whether it wants to show up too.
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@kdieter@machteburch.social
@kdieter
Thanks! Yeah They were on by default for me too. I turned them off because they messed with MMS.
I am really curious why it is, which is why I pubhished my findings here
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@okennedy@discuss.systems
@okennedy
Ahh interesting. I haven't made the leap from my L5....but I may soon. I want to try out the calling a bit more first.
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@okennedy
I actually just got the Oneplus 6 in the mail (I got it when I realized the 6T desn't have a headphone jack), it does in fact work.
I have call audio issues though, and I am not sure why yet.
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@mobian
Ok, there is no doubt disabling auto suspend has a very positive effect on the battery. After 4 hours being unplugged and left alone, I am at 88%
EDIT: I can confirm similar behavior on the Oneplus 6. I left it idle overnight (8ish hours) without auto-suspend, it went from 95% to 74%. This was with a SIM card inserted connected to 4G amd connected to WiFi.
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If anyone has a Oneplus 6/6T running @mobian , I would appreciate some confirmation of a result I got. By default, the power savings setting auto-suspends the phone (1 minute for battery, 15 minutes for line power). With that setting, I got ~12-14 hours on battery idle (I checked this twice).
However, when I *disabled* it (so no suspend at all), I got *29* hours on battery idle. I have only tested no suspending at all once, and I will test again. Does anyone else get similar results?
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Ok, so I tracked down the MMS issue, it is related to suspend. It seems that when the modem comes out of suspend, it will report that it has internet connectivity, but it really doesn't. The workaround is to toggle the cell function on and off. If I disable suspend, MMS works fine.
I am curious as to how suspend affects battery life, as if I can get away with not suspending and having a decent battery life, it isn't a problem.
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@jonsger@mastodon.stuttgart.international
@jonsger
I simply don't have enough data for most of this, as I have only had it for a day or so, and I am not using it as a daily driver. I can post when I have more info.
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@okennedy@discuss.systems
@okennedy
I would assume so, they are nearly identical devices.
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- VoLTE seems to be hit and miss. It seems that I can talk and the other person can hear me, but I cannot hear them. I also have to call several times for it to work.
Overall, I think if I can solve the MMS and Call issues, this is a strong contender for a daily driver. This at least solves almost all of the issues I was worried about if my Librem5 went belly up for some reason.
Also, to the folks who have been working on making this work, thank you very much for that work!
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- I had to install
81voltdfor VoLTE to work, but it works for incoming and outgoing calls on T-Mobile USA. - Audio EDIT works when I do what the wiki says to do.
- On it took 13 hours to go from from 100% to 20%. It is the original battery. Mobian has auto suspend, I will try with idle only next.
- While the Oneplus 6 has a 3.5 mm Jack, the Oneplus 6T does not.
- Neither the Oneplus 6/6T have an SD card reader.
- The OLED screen is really nice.
- Both cameras have a color tint to them.
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Some initial observations running @mobian@fosstodon.org Trixie on a Oneplus 6T:
- To make sure I had the most up to date Android (OxygenOS 11.1.2.2) was kind of a pain, I documented how I did it here: @kop316@fosstodon.org
- GPS works extremely well. With Satellite-GTK, I get a lock inside 2 seconds consistantly.
- There seems to be an issue receiving MMS after it has been on for a while, I haven't tracked down why
- Visual Voicemail worked out of the box with T-Mobile USA.
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@mpanhans
You cannot directly flash critial partitions it like it says in the pmOS wiki, so what I did was only flash the boot image and the dtbo image. This allowed me to boot into the latest TWRP image (You have to do this to flash the lastest OTA, earlier ones will error out).
Then I can now finally flash the OTA zip. You then restart it to flash both slots. (You may have to reload the OTA zip into the filesystem again, but now you can use the system updater & use the local update).
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@mpanhans
Ok, so This was annoyingly complicated, but here goes:
https://xdaforums.com/t/oneplus-6t-global-rom-ota-oxygen-os-repo-of-oxygen-os-builds.3865396/ This has a repo of all of the OTAs, so you can download the latest there. HOWEVER, that was annoying slow, so I looked up the filename of the latest one, and then I found it on Android file host (the md5 sum matched)
Next, I loaded that zip file into the device's filesystem.
Then, I extracted all of the images with: https://github.com/ssut/payload-dumper-go
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@mpanhans
AFAIK it doesnt need to be higher? I didnt see a requirement for Mobian
I purchased a Oneplus 6T to try out @mobian@fosstodon.org on it. However, it turns out there are some of them that are T-Mobile branded, and to unlock it for Mobian, the official procedure is to first ask T-Mobile to SIM Unlock it then ask Oneplus to unlock the bootloader.
Thankfully, someone figured out how to just reflash the entire phone so you can skip both of those steps! The process is here: https://www.xda-developers.com/t-mobile-oneplus-6t-international-without-unlocked-bootloader/
You have to run Windows bare metal for it to work (I tried a VM, it didn't work).
I fixed the long standing issue of taking pictures on the L5 on @mobian@fosstodon.org ! This will allow a new build to come out soon, but if anyone is impatient, they can build it from this MR: https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/packages/millipixels/-/merge_requests/2
Edit: I just merged and uploaded the new version. It is in staging now but will come to trixie soon.