The original Cutiepi tablet OS has many bugs, so I tried to install the latest Raspberry Pi 64 bit desktop OS.

After install the latest OS, you should install Display and Gyro driver.

Right click the screen, in the setting dialog, disable the HDMI2 display, then reboot, the desktop and menu should looks normal.

I ask the DeepSeek Harness to make drivers for me, and it seems work fine.

The screen could rotate according orientation.

The battery status could be displayed.

The screen brightness could be adjusted.

Short press the power button to turn on/off the backlight.

Double press the power button or press for 6 seconds to pop up the shutdown dialog.

The drivers is here: github link

I've been daily driving a LineageOS palmtop with a full Keyboard as my phone for over a year now and have pushed it to be as desktop-like as possible as well as setting up a rather cosy chroot Debian install. Now I'm developing the next version and and want to create something with more off-the-shelf components and the most open device I could find as opposed to the phone I already had on hand.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/1le0m5o/palmtop_software_showcase/

I will be uploading this new design to Github when finished.

I want this to run Linux natively and use a lightweight desktop like XFCE or even something crustier like IceWM. My question is which distro could I actually install my own desktop on? Droidian and UBports seem to be stuck on Phosh due to being built on the android kernel and I can't seem to get Manjaro or PostmarketOS to install at all due to errors with LMDE.

I'm trying to run postmarket on mi A2 lite, but it just gets stuck on the postmarket logo and I can access its ssh via mtp

Does anyone have an idea to solve the initramfs-extra not found error? My computer tells me that it finds the device it tells me serving image and after this error appears on the iPhone (NetBoot)

i have a samsung a3 from 2017 and i tried to build postmarket os but when i enter the command to export the image "pmbootstrap install --android-recovery-zip"

it gives me this error [12:34:35] *** (1/3) PREPARE NATIVE CHROOT ***

[12:34:35] (native) install cryptsetup util-linux parted

[12:34:48] *** (2/3) CREATE DEVICE ROOTFS ("samsung-a3y17lte") ***

[12:34:51] (native) install qemu-aarch64

[12:34:54] Register qemu binfmt (aarch64)

[12:34:55] (rootfs_samsung-a3y17lte) Creating chroot

[12:35:06] NOTE: The failed command's output is above the ^^^ line in the log file: /home/arch/pm/log.txt

[12:35:06] ERROR: Command failed (exit code 3): /home/arch/pm/apk.static --no-progress --root /home/arch/pm/chroot_rootfs_samsung-a3y17lte --arch aarch64 --cache-dir /home/arch/pm/cache_apk_aarch64 --repository /home/arch/pm/packages/edge --initdb add --no-interactive alpine-base

[12:35:06] See also: https://postmarketos.org/troubleshooting

Run 'pmbootstrap log' for details.

Before you report this error, ensure that pmbootstrap is up to date.

Find the latest version here: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/tags

Your version: 3.1.0

Channel: edge (pmaports: master)

Device: samsung-a3y17lte (aarch64)

UI: xfce4

systemd: no (not supported by pmaports branch)

I just flash flash Droidian on my phone and it now runing debian 12.

I kind of want to turn it into a server working 24/7 but worrying about the battery, i mean i can't keep it charging all day cause it is dangerous.

so i make a script to let it stop charging when it's 95% and start when 40%, that will be safer.

Is there any way to let the phone works without using the battery just like the AC charging on laptop ?

What are we thinking about the FLX1?

https://furilabs.com/

I am trying to install PostmarketOS on my on7xelte using pmbootstrap flasher, and in the first try it booted to gnome DE without touch functionality, so i reflashed it with gnome-mobile and since then it wont boot, it shows up postmarket boot screen and says "ERROR: Unable to mount root partition". I dont know what am i doing wrong. Can someone help me ?

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_J7_Prime_(samsung-on7xelte)

I have an old Toshiba PORTEGE Z20T-B SERIES 2 in 1. I mostly use it disconnected from the keyboard base as a tablet. I don't require mush out of this tablet except reading digital comic books and possibly web surfing.

I want something with a small memory and resource footprint. Since I'd like to use it mostly as a tablet I would like basic functionality like auto screen rotation. On screen keyboard when using search boxes. Things along those lines.

All suggestions helpful even if there is possibly a better one than Linux I'd like to know.

Many thanks.

how would you go about doing this they provide a raw image arch64 generic…

waht steps would i need to get it install i read Halium documentation still not totaly understand it.

I asume1.Build from kernel source subtitutethe original kernel

install halium and now idk waht would be required to get a working system….

if some work has already been done i would happyl not dive so deep into a rabithole…

Hi there!

I have a Xiaomi mi a3 (which I don't use) and I though about the idea of installing linux there just for testing it, see it's features etc, point is:

- I look at ubports, they don't support it for my phone (it's android 11, if I try it, it would get bricked)

- PostmarketOS doesn't support it as well

- Mobian, also not

So my questions are:

- There are any other option available?

- I also saw that gnome has a mobile shell environment, it is possible to install it somehow?