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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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