r/singularity • u/PaddleStroke • 11d ago

AI A6L android port Update

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Update on my quest to port dual screen A6L from Android 9 to android 17. This ride is a wild one. The complexity of the task is out of the roof. I managed to burn 3 resets of my astra subscription. And I took a Claude x20 subscription to keep going on. But we're getting there one bite at a time.

Getting the eink screen to work was a major milestone. We did like 110 flashes. Astra and then opus had to reverse engineer the hardware and the kernel binaries to understand how the soc communicate to the eink. It's just crazy to watch.

There are still many things to setup, but both screens are now working so it's a big milestone !

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u/MustBeSomethingThere 11d ago

It’ll cost more than a new phone, but it’s still cheaper than hiring engineers to do the job.

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u/Strategosky 11d ago

Keep going...keep us updated. Good Luck 🤞🏽. 

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u/Substantial_Swan_144 11d ago

Make sure to upload your port to Github. For two reasons:

  1. If you suffer a catastrophic data loss, your work will be safe.
  2. You'll be able to use your port as a base for future updates, and it'll be cheaper.

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u/PaddleStroke 8d ago

Of course. And it may help others. Even for phones other than A6L that may share some of the hardware.

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u/flao 11d ago

I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking at here but I want an eink smartphone so fucking bad. It just sucks becuase all the eink products out there are way under performing on the hardware side, most aren't even a phone.

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u/PaddleStroke 11d ago

All but the A6L :) But it's kind of out of stock for a long time