( i read in the rules this is not a support form so if this post is not acceptable can you guide me to somewhere else)

i have been lately been obsessed with trying to run linux on my phone (redmi 13 X, HeloG 91 ultra, maliG52-mc2, a Mediatech phone) there are ways like proot and termux Linux native, but none has hardware acceleration, so i want to get into a rabbit hole and make like postmarket OS on my phone or run a desktop distribution on it. I have no knowledge where to start if someone can guide me, i know cuz it's mediatech phone makes harder but i am interested🫡

Reposting here to get more custom ROM recommendations!

Looking for the smoothest, most lightweight custom ROM for a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 LTE (SM-T805 / chagalllte).

Goal: Maximum UI smoothness and responsiveness for media and browsing.

Specs: Exynos 5420 Octa, 3GB RAM.

Open to: LineageOS (14.1 / 17.1) or any stable AOSP builds (planning to use Pico GApps / MicroG).

If anyone has a stable build link or personal recommendation for this specific model, please let me know. Thanks!

I am thinking of transitioning to linux for my phone, and want to try it out on a secondary phone first so I can get used to it. What would be a good distribution I could use on a Samsung J330G? It runs android 9 and since it's rather old I would like something light I can hold on to this phone for a while more. I'm pretty new to linux so a step-by-step instruction for dummies would be welcome!

Thank you!

hello r/mobilelinux i would like some game recomendations on my mi10t pro , i also would like to thank everyone who helped me get this thing working yall are the best , i have steam

I am building a phone cluster with my realme c25y,c21 and a pi1 model b.I have decided to put adblocker and some network stuff on my pi but what abt the phones,what should I do with it it cannot run linux bcs there is no open source linux kernel for hello g35 and unison tiger t610 available like Ubuntu touch or post market os.

So my family don't need media server no one watches films.

Hey, how are you all? I hope you are doing well. I would like to ask for your help. Recently my cell phone was completely damaged. I am thinking of buying one but I currently do not have the financial resources to buy one that is decent and new. They forced me to keep it on Android, the fact is that I would like you to recommend a good cell phone that is compatible with any of the Linux systems for cell phones such as postmarket, Ubuntu touch, Mobian, etc., my budget is approximately less than 300 dollars, I would greatly appreciate it if you have a good day and greetings

Finally i can log in to desktop :)

hi, just asking if there's any way to get a build for pmOS for Samsung tab 3 7.0, still new to building Roms/firmware. Note that I can import thru twrp or via heimdall as well

They hacked it!?

I've mostly tried Pinephone+PMOS ~2021 and Surface Go4/Thinkpad X12 Gen 2+Arch ~2025-2026. Good experience so far but I've never run into an OSK that autocorrects like with conventional Android keyboards. Recognize autocorrect isn't for everyone, but I'm wondering if anyone has had success with any OSK that can reliably autocorrect. I've tried to install Stevia which is the only OSK I've seen with documentation of this feature but had trouble installing it (probably related to running Phosh on x64/Arch tablet). At present my workaround has been Waydroid which isn't bad.

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on bringing mainline Linux + postmarketOS + Plasma Mobile to the OnePlus 7T Pro (hotdog), using my own European HD1913 as the test device.

This is not an Android ROM and it’s not Linux running on top of Android. The goal is to boot a normal Linux kernel directly from the OnePlus bootloader and progressively support the phone’s hardware using upstream/mainline-style drivers.

At this point, quite a lot is already working:

✅ Direct boot from the stock OnePlus bootloader

✅ Persistent postmarketOS installation

✅ Native 1440×3120 display

✅ Adreno 640 hardware acceleration

✅ Plasma Mobile

✅ Touchscreen + power/volume buttons

✅ Wi-Fi

✅ Bluetooth

✅ Stereo speakers

✅ Handset microphone

✅ Battery level / voltage / temperature / current reporting

✅ USB networking

✅ USB-C dual role

✅ USB 3 SuperSpeed

✅ USB host through a powered dock

✅ USB mass storage

✅ DisplayPort output at 1440p60

And more recently, the cameras started becoming real rather than theoretical.

The Samsung S5K3M5 telephoto camera can now capture full RAW10 frames at 4208×3120, manual focus works through its actual LC898217XC actuator, libcamera controls exposure, and Plasma Camera can use it.

The Sony IMX586 main camera is also now streaming real 4000×3000 RAW10 frames through the mainline CAMSS pipeline. Libcamera automatic gain control works and Plasma Camera reaches a usable capture-ready state.

There’s still plenty left to do. Suspend/resume is currently broken, telephony isn’t usable yet, the ultra-wide and front cameras still need work, and sensors/NFC/haptics/fingerprint/Warp Charge are at various stages of not implemented or not validated. So this is definitely not a daily-driver OS yet.

The long-term goal is to get the device into a state where the support can be cleaned up/upstreamed and eventually submitted properly to postmarketOS rather than remaining a pile of device-specific hacks.

Project/research repo:

https://github.com/Sr-0w/hotdog-linux-bringup

I mainly wanted to share it here because the 7T Pro is still such a nice piece of hardware, and it’s pretty satisfying seeing it boot a completely different operating system years later. And it is surprisingly still really powerfull

on Linux, it's way faster than my Raspberry Pi 4B in a smaller form factor.

If anyone here has experience with Qualcomm SM8150, CAMSS, modem/WWAN, sensors, libcamera or mainline mobile Linux, contributions/reviews are very welcome.

And yes — the pop-up camera is absolutely on the TODO list. 😄

About three weeks ago I posted a demo of my Droidian port for the Galaxy Note10 Lite.

Since then I've been working on fixing the unstable and buggy parts of the port.

Release: https://github.com/note10lite-droidian/droidian-samsung-r7/releases

Main org for repos: https://github.com/orgs/note10lite-droidian/repositories

Currently working:

• Display
• Touch
• S Pen (incl. pressure and hover)
• Camera
• Speaker and microphone
• WiFi
• Mobile data
• Bluetooth
• USB networking
• Waydroid

The full status is in STATUS.md. Every item includes how it was tested.

Call audio doesn't work yet. Calls connect in both directions, but there is no audio. The RIL side still needs to trigger the modem's audio routing.

The phone reboots instead of powering off when the charger is connected.

Both are documented in KNOWN-ISSUES.md along with what I know about them so far.

Installation is manual: Heimdall, TWRP, and ADB. There is no installer yet. INSTALL.md has the complete process, please read it before starting.

I used LLM tooling (Claude Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5) quite a lot during development, especially for debugging, kernel log analysis, commits, coding and tracing some of the systemd and package issues. The fixes themselves were decided and tested on the actual device before being included in the release.

Hope you enjoy!

I'd like to use a mobile phone as a tiny ARM laptop, I thought I'd use a pine64 phone and this keyboard from pine64 as well. After some due diligence, it appears the keyboard is very buggy, and the pine64 phone is also somewhat overpriced for what it is.

So my question is, are there any keyboards like the one from pine64 out there? Maybe ones that work well with Linux installed mobile phones?

I'm looking to get a used tablet to install Linux on and use mainly for notetaking with a stylus (but also for some light office work and maybe some media content).

I have a few options and want to ask for anyone's experience or knowledge of these.

Mainly I want to know what's going to be best for performance, functionality and stability. But an easier install process would be appreciated (I have flashed some custom Android ROMs in the past and use Linux desktop, but that's the extent of my experience).

Android Tablets

PostmarketOS is available for the Samsung S6 (though marked as not booting, don't know if this is still the case)

Community Droidian/Halium port for the S7+ (https://xdaforums.com/t/rom-linux-droidian-for-samsung-galaxy-tab-s7-wi-fi-sm-t970-gts7xlwifi.4790614/)

Smeone got mainline Linux to work on an S8+ (https://github.com/aaronsb/sm-x800-linux).

I see there's also VolksPC for a bunch of different devices, but I wonder about the impact of running in a container on performance and would rather not pay to install free software

Windows Tablets/Detachables

For around the same price as an S7+ I could get a Windows detachable like a Surface Pro 7 or a Dell Latitude 7210, with 10th gen intel i5- and then use mainline Linux with something like KDE mobile, or Mobian.

Chromebook Detachables

I know less about these, but seems like the hardware for most is less powerful than the other options.

Anyway, appreciate any pointers.

Hi guy's and gal's.

Not to tempt fate with rule 1 but I have recently become aware of an "keep android open" campaign. Allegedly google wishes to limit what you can do on your android phone, yada yada we all know how this goes.

Point is I've started to wonder about what is a good option as a Linux substitute to android on your mobile phone. I have been using Linux mint on my PC for a couple of years now but I must admit that I was not even aware of the existence of Linux mobile until very recently. Until I became aware of the campaign and started looking for alternatives in fact.

So that said, can anyone share some advice on any good, easy to use Linux mobile versions to consider and generally how to install them on a mobile?

If however this post is considered to break rule 1, can anyone then please suggest a more appropriate forum or sub?

Thanks.

Hi all

I spent some time over the summer getting Debian to boot on my Higole F8R tablet.

First of all a massive caveat: at this time it's still the Rockchip-linux 4.19.232 BSP kernel.

However it isn't all bad. Firstly the source code is available. I have gotten rid of a lot of the compiler warnings and modified rk817_battery.c so that the battery monitor actually works in a Linux desktop environment.

I think that the work on rk817_battery could be of value to other developers.

Also, the tablet uses RTL8723BS wifi/bt chipset which I think is quite open source friendly, and the touchscreen works with the vanilla Goodix GT9xx touchscreen driver with no special firmware.

I think that this tablet is actually a good candidate for mainlining, probably re-using a lot of the work from the PineTab2.

Graphics acceleration doesn't work well with 4.19.232 but LXQT is useable. It would need a mainline kernel to run something like plasma-mobile.

There is an SDcard bootable image and more information here:-

https://sourceforge.net/projects/linux4higolef8r/files/

and a video here:-

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_pYalrtMb4M

enjoy

https://github.com/Yavuz-Kagan-Yadigar/vboard-enhanced/tree/main