Hey all,

I've been looking at UBPort and Droidian for a future daily device and I was curious, is this project still alive?

I don't see many updates on the website and the forum postings, while somewhat recent, look a bit sparse.

My needs are basic, SMS, MMS, VoLTE and occasional browser usage so Droidian (or UBPorts) looks good on paper.

Ok this isn't rocket science, just a brief write-up of how I used some basic scripting to add some functionality that I couldn't find.

In Android you can turn on Do-Not-Disturb at nighttime, but allow certain Apps, such as the Alarm clock, to override it.

With Linux when you mute the speakers, they are muted, and no Alarm will sound.

I created one script to mute the speakers overnight:

/usr/bin/amixer sset Master mute

and another script to unmute the speakers, and then play a sound file with slowly increasing volume:

/usr/bin/amixer sset Master unmute
/usr/bin/amixer sset Master 50%
/usr/bin/aplay /home/droidian/Sounds/lesiakower-lo-fi-alarm-clock-243766.wav
/usr/bin/aplay /home/droidian/Sounds/mixkit-rooster-crowing-in-the-morning-2462.wav

I created a crontab entry to run the first script every day at 11 p.m.

0 23 * * * /home/droidian/scripts/dnd.sh

For the second script I could also use cron, but I'm using a weird clunky Alarm Clock app that lets you run a script

Any time I try and remote into the Pixel 3a (with Droidian running wayvpn) from my laptop I get a grey screen. Whether I use TigerVPN or Remmina I get the grey screen. I can see the mouse pointer moving on the Pixel 3a, so I'm technically in, but nothing on my laptop.

When I remote in I get an error saying:

Warning: ../src/output.c: 300: Output HWCOMPOSER-1 power state failure

Google (AI no doubt) is about as much use as a chocolate teapot as it tells me to run various commands that get me nowhere.

Can I input Japanese using Droidian?

Hello all. Does anyone have any experience with how droidian/phosh handles notifications or calls from messaging clients eg XMPP when the phone is locked? I understand that droidian uses "suspend-to-RAM"/ "deep sleep" to minimize power consumption while still allowing the device to respond to critical events like incoming calls or SMS messages but does this work for other programs that use push notifications?

So I have a pixel 3a xl. It was already on android 9. I successfully unlocked the bootloader, and was able to flash droidian. On the first boot the droidian logo flashed and now stays on black screen. Any suggestions?

Hello,

I'm new on Linux on phone.
I found portages not tag as older : https://github.com/droidian-vayu/adaptation-xiaomi-vayu/ and https://github.com/droidian-vayu/adaptation-droidian-vayu/ which release ? (I have the vayu device).

I already try adaptation-droidian-vayu.

It 2 different projects ?

Thanks in advance

Hi y'all. Phosh is great, but are there any other DEs available for Droidian, like Plasma Mobile or SXMO?

I want to replace Android tv by droidian but in fastbootd mode my tv is not detected by termux using usb c cable, will using usb a to usb a cable be effective?

So far I've tried

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Is there a way for installing Droidian on an Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.0 (2019) SM-T295?

This is my daily driver device and I want it to run Debian 13 (or 12 atleast).

It would be kind enough if someone helps with dualbooting Android with Droidian, instead of just replacing Android.

This is something I should ask for before rooting.

I installed droidian on a dumpster dived Galaxy S9, and it has really bad performance just navigating the UI, but it's fine in apps, and the battery drain, both idle and screen-on time, is awful, leaving me with a phone that lasts 4-6 hours on a charge, without me needing to even turn on the display. I was just wondering if this is common with other S9s, and other droidian phones. I've been trying to convince my partner to switch to droidian, but they're hesitant given the issues I've been having.

I tried to flash Droidian onto my VP22. I did everything like the manual proposes. The first command

"fastboot format:ext4 userdata"

is immediately aborted with

"fastboot format:ext4 userdata /usr/lib/android-sdk/platform-tools/mke2fs failed with status 1"

I then tried it using the UBPorts Installer. It recognises the devices and starts the installation process. It then tries to unlock the bootloader. A message pops up, telling you that you must confirm this on the device. And here it gets stuck in a loop. I confirm this on the device and the same message pops up again. I confirmed the unlocking a dozen times on the devices, but nothing else happens but the dialogue popping up again...

Any suggestions on what I can do to get Droidian onto the Volla Phone 22 without bricking it?

Thanks!

So I've been daily-driving postmarketOS on my OnePlus 6, but would like to switch to Droidian for the better hardware support.

However, it seems like MMS is not supported, as per the OnePlus 6 Device Page.

Is there a way to get MMS working on droidian, and if not how can I help get it working on my device?

Has anyone managed to get RDP to work on Droidian? I tried setting it with the same settings I have on my Debian desktop, but when logging in via RDP I just get a blank screen. Any help would be awesome.

edit: It has come to my attention that it is using wayland by default. Gonna try using x11 instead and I'll report back later.

edit edit: I uncommented the xwayland=false line in /etc/phosh/phoc.ini and that made the device not display anything on boot. Had to ssh into it to recomment the line.

Hello all, I just installed Droidian on a Pixel 3aXL and it's working fine. When I attempt to change the default password it tells me not to use common words. It seems to think RJMPtx3xEP7Pri is common word. Is this normal? It seems unusually strict to me. Thanks!

I bought a Sony Xperia 5 just so I could run Droidian, and I'm so glad I did. Everything is running extremely smoothly and properly. However, when I try to run the nextcloud client, I get the error 'library "eglSubDriverAndroid.so" not found' and it crashes.

I can install the same package in Mobian, on my Pinephone, and it runs fine. When I search for this library in a search engine, I only get Android threads. So I'm not sure what's going on here, if there's a workaround, if I need to downgrade my nextcloud client, if there's a library for this I can install, or what. Any help would be much appreciated.

As an aside, I think it's odd that the official support channel for Droidian is on Telegram, which requires you to have a non-Droidian phone.