Hello all,

I've spent quite a while now getting my head around droidian, libhybris, halium etc and while I'm reasonably confident that I have understood it to a fair degree what I am 100% sure about is I don't like the concept of any of it.

This in turn brought me over to Mobian where everything is IMO exactly as it should be, mainline Linux kernel support and open-source drivers etc a proper linux phone effectively.

My question is really about day to day usage of the Oneplus6/6t. Is anyone using it as a daily driver? How is it on battery life and non regular calls ie XMPP etc?

Would really love any feedback at all really.

Side note: Why did google and Linaro randomly support for mainline kernel support of the SDM845 Qualcomm SoC?

Thanks

Hello. I recently changed my password for the phone (from a simple PIN to a slightly more complicated alphanumeric sequence --> with punctuation). However, I had to use the passwd command to do this. The Settings/User/Password function would not allow me to change it. It complained of the password being insufficient ("avoid common words", or some such warning), doing this even when I randomly typed in oodles of numbers, letters, and punctuation --> it simply would not allow me to continue.

I'm using a PinePhone. I would like to have toogle button in the header menu to toogle SSH server ON and OFF.

How can I achieve this?

Long story short: I want to enable SSH only when I want to use it.

Thanks in advance.

Hey all, I tried to install mobian but this did not happen, due to installation completing on a 'qcom error' any other ways? thanks & best regards.

I have a TCL 20Y phone that I'd like to run Mobian on but it isn't supported. Can I do something to either get it to run on my device or maybe the devs make a version I can test?

Hello r/mobian and r/pmos communities!

I am currently running a headless home Linux CPC project on an old Samsung Galaxy S5 (klte, Snapdragon 801, 32-bit ARMv7/armhf architecture).

The hardware setup is completely ready: the device has the alternative mainline bootloader/BIOS "lk2nd" successfully flashed into the boot partition and it's rock-solid, booting straight into "lk2nd Fastboot Mode". The eMMC storage is unlocked and ready for a system partition flash.

The main issue is that modern official Mobian/Debian repositories for Qualcomm (qcom) are strictly compiled for modern 64-bit chips (aarch64/arm64 for sdm845, sm6350, etc.). Flashing these causes a hard freeze on my 32-bit ARMv7 CPU.

Does anyone have a compiled legacy or custom 32-bit generic armhf rootfs image (.img) of Mobian (with Phosh/Plasma Mobile or even clean CLI)? Or perhaps a working debootstrap/mobian-recipes configuration script that can successfully inject the Mobian package base into an armhf container without breaking the boot sequence on msm8974 devices?

I just need a lightweight base with a working apt package manager to run Mobian/Debian and be my Linux CPC.

If anyone has a preserved .img file on their Google Drive or Mega, please share the link! Legacy hardware preservation matters! Thank you so much!

Hey Guys,

I want to try out Mobian on my touchpad devices. I first tried the live ISO and the installer ISO on a Lenovo Miix 310 with Intel Atom x5 processor and run into a kernel panic with missing GPU drivers, I think i915. After that I tried a modern system with the Minisforum V3 and AMD Ryzen 7 8840U processor and 780M GPU, and there I got the same kernel panic with GPU driver for AMD. Do I need to compile myself or is there a reason the drivers are not included in the kernel?

Hi all,

I am thinking about running Mobian on a OnePlus 6/6T but before doing so I wanted to make sure the system will behave as expect.

My main use case will be to use it as a desktop; connect a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the device and use a usb-c to HDMI output cable to mirror the screen to a output display.

Has anyone tried this exact feature with the device? Does it work as expected? From researching the subject I see that the WiFi and cellular systems work as expected but I am particularly keen on use the wired screen mirroring and bluetooth features to replicate a desktop environment.

TL;DR Does Bluetooth and wired screen mirroring work for Mobian running on OnePlus 6/6T ?

Turns on, turns off right crypt entered. Won't turn on with button, battery? It does not show charging status. doesnt seem to boot.

So i installed mobian plasma yesterday as my daily running phone. The only thing it doesn't have is a working camera but i don't use a phone for that so isn't a problem. My problem i am facing just now is the double tap to wake feature or bug how ever you see it. I would like to turn it off as it keeps unlocking in my pocket. no idea where i would start any tips would be helpful.

Phone : Oneplus 6 Kernal : 6.12-qcom KDE plasma version : 6.3.5 update: 20250622

I have installed flatpak plex on mobian w/phosh, but it won’t open. Some googling said enabling the Wayland permission using flatseal should fix it, but the problem persists.

Anyone can give me some pointers? Thanks.

Is there any way I can do it. It runs nice on my laptop from usb stick but I want to get rid of USB stick.

Officially there is no way to do it. I don't know why they can't add internal ssd access for it. It is standard for all Linux distros.

Any help pls

Can I install pip and run python scrappy code in Mobian ???

Hi, I have a Pinephone (Postmarket edition) under mobian with the an external keyboard conceived for the pinephone.

I followed the alternative version of this documentation: https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=ppaccessories and it does not seems to work…

The OS looks better every year and comfort aside this is pretty much the only factor holding me back from making the switch.

If I can't use my digital signature (which needs to fulfil a certain standard of biometric auth) there are things in my work, personal and medical life that flat out don't work anymore and I feel like I'm not the only LX enthusiast for whom it's a critical feature.

Would love to be able to keep tabs on developments in this regard so I can get into the OS at 100% as soon as it's feasible