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On 2/18/20 9:29 PM, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote: |
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>> So, |
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>> After contacting several US carriers, the cover story is you can get a |
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>> cell phone, root it with linux, and it 'should work'. Supposedly, you |
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>> are encourage, but they |
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>> will not offer any help. So rather than spending months, |
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>> I'd like to 'cheat' and find a gentoo hack(er) that has |
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>> rooted and put some form of gentoo, or embedded_gentoo |
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>> on a cell phone. |
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>> Please respond to the list, but, for whatever reason, private |
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>> responses are OK too. |
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>> I'm just tire of my Android cell phone downloading update *every |
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>> night*. I want/need control of the stacks |
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>> running on the phone. I have heard this is quite popular in Europe and |
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>> the Rf circuits have their own firmware, so it's really next to |
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>> impossible to hack the Rf side |
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>> of communications.....? |
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>> Any and all responses, public or private, are most welcome. Links only |
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>> are fine too! |
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>> James |
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> For gentoo, I would say "not easy at all" - the problem is custom |
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> hardware, propriety drivers and lack of information, even in well |
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> supported models. |
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> There was an app where you could install gentoo into something like a |
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> container - worked well but the android kernel I was using at the time |
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> didn't have some functioned enabled that fed into limiting some |
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> operations in the container. |
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> Easier and more practical would be to install LibreOS. You can build ii |
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> yourself and build/include your own software as needed - I did it many |
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> times with its Cyanogenmod predecessor (I presume you still can).� There |
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> are some other stacks suitable for phones such as sailfish and even |
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> android can be built yourself (and you can defang/customise it while |
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> doing it - google not needed and if you dont install GAPPS it still |
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> works fine) |
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> To be honest, if what you mentioned is your main gripe, build android |
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> and use a third party app store like F-Droid to control that side of the |
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> equation. |
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> Make sure you look into rooting, flashing a new OS and the implications |
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> of doing so - that can be another whole level of pain depending on the |
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> brand of your hardware, and how recent it is (less chance with new stuff |
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> as the really smart people have not had time to trailblaze :) |
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> BillK |
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Good info (thanks!) |
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Here's what I've found so far. The purpose of this posting is to share |
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info, so we have a gentoo on a cell phone. I am currently researching |
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'unlocked' samsung phones that support 5G and CDMA, so most sim cards |
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should work. If others are interested, or know of viable github (etc) |
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places to upload codes to, gentoo centric, I'd be all for that. I just |
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done with carriers running my cell phones. Sure they can control the RF |
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(hardware), but not the software running on the phone. here are a few |
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links:: |
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https://fossbytes.com/how-to-install-a-linux-on-android-phone-without-rooting/ |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_mobile_virtual_network_operators |
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Here is an unlocked 5G and CDMA? I'm looking at to root with gentoo:: |
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Galaxy S20 5G 128GB (Unlocked) |
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https://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/phones/galaxy-s/galaxy-s20-5g-128gb-unlocked-sm-g981uzaaxaa/ |
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Chating with samsung right now. Explaining *why* there needs to be a |
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samsung dev phone, supporting and working with Gentoo.... we'll see |
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how this goes... |
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More comments? encouragement, folks interested? |
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James |