EPISODE · May 29, 2022 · 46 MIN
#18 Biktor's Story, v22.06, SDM845, MSM8916, Bluetooth HFP
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What's Biktor's background and motivation for doing all that work with his alternative EG25-G modem firmware? Will we finally be able to upgrade from one postmarketOS release to the next one with upcoming v22.06? What's it like to play around in the SDM845 audio maze? You guessed it, we'll talk about all that and a whole lot more. Put on some headphones and enjoy! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam, @dylanvanassche, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Biktor's Story Buy Biktor a coffee HTC S710 with a Linux port pinephone_modem_sdk: main repository with a good README, issue tracker etc. openqti Experience from ollieparanoid, as of writing: with Biktor's firmware + adjusting udev rule, the modem runs much better than with the stock firmware. It's still not perfectly reliable for me, lately it crashed after >3 days of working fine. But with the open firmware we can track and fix the remaining bugs! Upgrading to Biktor's firmware with fwupd in postmarketOS Release 0.6.5 uses LK2nd Upcoming v22.06 Release postmarketos-release-upgrade (CI fix: pmb!2185) New devices: Samsung Galaxy S III, SHIFT6mq postmarketOS-tweaks: SXMO X11 support !15 Video Bluetooth pma!3080: temp/pulseaudio: fork for Bluetooth HFP/HSP support, with a video and lots of details, testers wanted MSM8916: pma!3014: community/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916: upgrade to 5.17 Android Dynamic Partitions: postmarketOS wiki Editing by: @MartijnBraam, @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
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What's Biktor's background and motivation for doing all that work with his alternative EG25-G modem firmware? Will we finally be able to upgrade from one postmarketOS release to the next one with upcoming v22.06? What's it like to play around in the SDM845 audio maze? You guessed it, we'll talk about all that and a whole lot more. Put on some headphones and enjoy! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam, @dylanvanassche, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Biktor's Story Buy Biktor a coffee HTC S710 with a Linux port pinephone_modem_sdk: main repository with a good README, issue tracker etc. openqti Experience from ollieparanoid, as of writing: with Biktor's firmware + adjusting udev rule, the modem runs much better than with the stock firmware. It's still not perfectly reliable for me, lately it crashed after >3 days of working fine. But with the open firmware we can track and fix the remaining bugs! Upgrading to Biktor's firmware with fwupd in postmarketOS Release 0.6.5 uses LK2nd Upcoming v22.06 Release postmarketos-release-upgrade (CI fix: pmb!2185) New devices: Samsung Galaxy S III, SHIFT6mq postmarketOS-tweaks: SXMO X11 support !15 Video Bluetooth pma!3080: temp/pulseaudio: fork for Bluetooth HFP/HSP support, with a video and lots of details, testers wanted MSM8916: pma!3014: community/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916: upgrade to 5.17 Android Dynamic Partitions: postmarketOS wiki Editing by: @MartijnBraam, @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi
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#18 Biktor's Story, v22.06, SDM845, MSM8916, Bluetooth HFP
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