[HN Gopher] OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Li...
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OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel
support
Author : sodrick
Score : 82 points
Date : 2021-01-30 15:04 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| 1MachineElf wrote:
| Does LineageOS work well on these? I'm not sure I could leave
| Android for a different phone OS. Un-googled LineageOS seems like
| the best balance, but also it's difficult to find phones that
| have great support. For example, I have an LG V20 running it, and
| the experience has been kinda buggy. Ultimately, I wish I could
| use it on a Pine64 PinePhone, but that effort looks to have
| stalled last year.
| karlicoss wrote:
| 6T, LineageOS works without issues!
| flal_ wrote:
| LineageOS on a 5T here, everything works perfectly. The lineage
| + OnePlus community is very active
| boneitis wrote:
| I just found this post and haven't read what anything is about.
|
| But, I use a OnePlus 6 with rooted Lineage and whatever default
| version of a micro or nano gapps they suggest.
|
| I'm not much of a consumer-style user, but the phone absolutely
| does everything I expect of it.
|
| I do no shortage of stuff in Termux. AdAway works great. And,
| having the 256gb option gives me a lot of breathing room.
| FlorianRappl wrote:
| This is so great! Still using my one plus 6T and not up for a
| change yet. Battery life is still good and the performance is
| more then sufficient. Now, the afterlife seems to be predestined,
| too.
| estaseuropano wrote:
| I'm not sure if that's just the spin of the article, but isn't
| it odd that the fate of the device just depends on a single
| volunteer spending his time on making it usable? It seems
| surreal how fragile the phone OS ecosystem is. It wouldn't even
| be a big burden for the producers to, say, dedicate 1-2 staff
| days/month to this effort. Instead we all buy devices that
| expect to be bricked after 3 years unless volunteers step up.
| masijo wrote:
| Love my OnePlus 6, it hasn't aged one bit since I bought it. Glad
| to see development happening in an "old" but capable device.
| manojlds wrote:
| Still using the OP5. Battery and charge pin are my only issues
| as of now.
| valenterry wrote:
| But the battery starts to become weaker - and I have some
| trouble with the charger (it's on the device, not the cable).
| Too bad it's always so hard to exchange battery in these
| devices.
| jeswin wrote:
| Official battery replacement costs the equivalent of $16 in
| India, as listed on their website.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Indeed. This and dropping SDcards (so built in flash burn out
| sooner) contributes to electronic waste just as much as
| bloated websites and apps.
| arsome wrote:
| If you're a tinkerer, I'd seriously recommend using something
| like ACC (Advanced Charging Controller). It'll automatically
| cut your charge off at ~80% and slow the charging if it's
| heating up too much. Should greatly extend the service life
| of your battery. You can pretty much just install with Magisk
| and forget it. Perhaps it's too late for your current
| phone/battery but maybe on the next one.
|
| https://github.com/VR-25/acc
|
| Pair with something like AccuBattery for visibility into
| battery capacity over time.
| CameronNemo wrote:
| I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
| I wonder if it is usable on non-Android Linux kernels for
| hardware that uses USB charging.
| andor wrote:
| A few years ago, Oneplus service replaced the battery in my
| phone for a very low fee. It was done quickly and totally
| worth it.
| estaseuropano wrote:
| I also have trouble with the charger, it usually takes a
| minute of the old in'out until the phone and charger connect.
| rapsey wrote:
| My OnePlus 3 is still alive and kicking as a perfectly capable
| testing device.
| hebrox wrote:
| Just replaced my 3T last week. Such a great device, still fast
| and only a few minor scratches. Too bad there were no more
| security updates.
|
| And although this is "hacker" news, I didn't feel confident
| running non-stock Android..
| pantalaimon wrote:
| You can still get updates
|
| https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/oneplus3
| RealStickman_ wrote:
| Been running LineageOS on my OP3 for years already. Never had
| any problems that weren't caused by myself.
| villgax wrote:
| Lots of financial apps & cos treat OS names different than
| stock OS blindly as tampered/rooted for no reason. Maybe
| not on your daily driver but secondary phones will only
| survive with Lineage or community efforts.
| RealStickman_ wrote:
| > Lots of financial apps & cos treat OS names different
| than stock OS blindly as tampered/rooted for no reason.
|
| Yeah true. I just ignore the warnings usually.
| garaetjjte wrote:
| I'm an outlier still using OnePlus One? I don't get the point
| of replacing phone every year or two.
| pantalaimon wrote:
| I used mine until a year ago when I got a new phone through
| work.
|
| It still runs the latest Android thanks to LineageOS and
| still was fast enough for the web (thanks to AdAway).
| Aerroon wrote:
| Only a bit. I still use my OnePlus One daily. I find it odd
| as well how quickly people replace their phones.
| Abishek_Muthian wrote:
| Sshh; don't let the YouTube smartphone reviewers hear you,
| they'll be offended.
|
| Honestly, the only YouTuber I know with millions of
| subscribers who doesn't behave like everyone buys a new
| smartphone every other day is Zack from JerryRigEverything he
| literally showed a video from 2014(Note 4)as Galaxy S21's
| video to make that point[1] in his recent video.
|
| [1]https://youtu.be/Y4wrxLVs3eU?t=355
| BoumTAC wrote:
| Really impressive, the footage is amazing. Incredible it's
| coming from a 6 years old phone !
| sstephant wrote:
| I was a happy owner of the 1+ 2, 1+ 4. I'm now using the 1+ 6
| and I'm glad to hear there's an upcoming Linux support. The
| thing is, my first two phones were stolen, so sometimes you
| don't really have a choice.
| uranium wrote:
| I'm about to replace my OnePlus 5T. Last year it started
| garbling the incoming audio from outgoing phone calls, about
| 50% of the time. This week it garbled an incoming phone call,
| so I really can't put off upgrading any longer. I don't make
| a lot of voice calls, and from home I can use my land line,
| but if I can't receive calls, it's not a phone.
|
| I've really liked the phone apart from that, but it's a
| pretty big "apart from that", so I'm iffy on going OnePlus
| again. Support talked me through making a bug report, and
| then...nothing.
|
| Anybody else have a similar experience?
| Forge36 wrote:
| I've caught mine doing this but assumed it was
| carrier/google voice causing issues.
| uranium wrote:
| I don't use Google voice, and it's only ever been this
| phone. It started right after an OS upgrade last year, so
| it seemed much more likely to be OnePlus than TMobile.
| zokier wrote:
| One hasn't received security updates from OnePlus for over
| 2.5 years.
| krab wrote:
| There are still updates from LineageOS.
| Osiris wrote:
| I have a OnePlus 6 and I have security update Nov 1, 2020.
| wazoox wrote:
| My wife inherited my Oneplus One and uses it (running
| LineageOS); I'm still using my OnePlus 5T and don't plan to
| change it ever (unless the audio jack makes a comeback).
|
| Note that the One without any Google spyware still lasts 3
| days no problem. I'll probably switch my 5T to Lineage
| without any Google stuff sooner or later.
| villgax wrote:
| Security & App performance for starters, YMMV.
| gnulinux wrote:
| I'm still using OnePlus 6. It's ok, I wouldn't say I love it
| but I use my phone only for chatting and browsing reddit so
| it's not worth a change. Besides, before I bought OnePlus 6 in
| 2018 I had a Samsung and it was a total shitshow. So I guess
| overall I'm happy with it.
| estaseuropano wrote:
| I still use my OP6 but I have to admit I regretted buying it
| from day 1, there are just too many small
| inconveniences/annoyances and thanks to the various OP data
| scandals the eternal feeling that China is watching. I've also
| never been happy with the camera and after about a year an
| update caused issues so that often the camera app freezes. With
| Linux it might live yet a few more years for me. But I'm not
| going to buy another OP or similar brand.
| Jonnax wrote:
| So this means that the phone will one day be able to run a stock
| linux kernel?
| pantalaimon wrote:
| Already almost does
|
| https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchil...
| joana035 wrote:
| Yes, and probably already does.
| icy wrote:
| As an OP6T owner, this is really exciting news. Caleb also used
| to maintain a SailfishOS port for the 6T, but he's dropped it to
| focus on pmOS instead.
| bullen wrote:
| Does OpenGL ES 3 work under linux?
| opencl wrote:
| Even the non-ES OpenGL 3 works in the freedreno GPU driver.
| According to [1] it supports up to 3.3. There's also a Vulkan
| driver though I'm not sure how mature it is.
|
| [1]
| https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/blob/master/docs/fe...
| calebccff wrote:
| Hey, developer here, yeah OpenGL ES 3 works, that is, super tux
| racer runs just fine. Unfortunately Phosh lacks support for
| hardware acceleration, but I'm working on bringing Manjaro ARM
| to the device with Lomiri which runs VERY well
| villgax wrote:
| Wish it would get Android 11 damnit
| calebccff wrote:
| Haven't had time to work on it, but it's totally possible to
| apply some Android patches to the Mainline kernel and boot
| AOSP, so, keep an eye out
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