Maya

Maybe look into the Oneplus 6? It has a dual sim slot and can run Postmarketos, though I have no idea whether the software can handle dual sim and stuff like VoLTE probably won’t work.

Considering the sheer magnitude of iPhones that have been manufactured, this is kinda a big deal.

Wifi works, Bluetooth works, Audio works most of the time, but can be a bit weird sometimes, GPS requires some weird flashing of android versions that is beyond me, camera works but is cropped and wonky, and fingerprint senor and usb-otg don’t work at all.

Calls and SMS work fine, I just have to disable automatic suspend. I’ve never tested Data so I don’t know if that works and I have no idea if VoLTE works, though I don’t think I need that for calls here in Canada.

A Oneplus 6 running PostmarketOS.

I find it amusing that I don’t “sideload” at all on my linux phone, rather, basically everything I want is already in the repos.

yay, updates for my free software!

Yeah, Waydroid is just an application and will run on normal amd64 and arm64 linux devices just fine. Having it setup from the factory is just a nice quality of life feature.

I got it from https://blog.luigi311.com/furilabs-flx1/. Furi labs specifically links to this article on their website, so I would assume it’s factually correct.

I don’t think I’ve ever even used Signal’s call features, I forgot it even had them lol.

I was forced into using Microsoft Authenticator as well, but you can extract the tokens it uses for TOTP code generation from its database lol.

2026 year of the BSD phone.

Flare is good enough that I use it daily. The fact that it cannot act as Signal’s “Primary Device” does kinda suck, but I just have a separate Android phone that I keep around for bullshit like that. It definitely is annoying that Flare only can see messages after you add it as a secondary device though.

I’m not really interested in a phone that runs linux on top of Android software, like what furi labs does. They use Halium, which makes it more like phones running Ubuntu touch or Droidian like what Volla does rather than something like the pinephone or librem V.

IMO one of the greatest parts of a pure linux phone is that nothing is new. It runs the same apps as my desktop and works in the same way, so I don’t have to learn two sets of apps. Other than stuff like call management and Phosh, the desktop environment I use that’s tailored for small screens, I run all pre-existing software like systemd, wayland, firefox, nautilus, etc. IMO the biggest hurdle is hardware support, since only a few phones are able to run pure linux, and even on those few, there are still many parts of the hardware that are not supported.

No. the FLX1 uses a project called Hallium, which as I understand it, basically runs an Android container and the original Android kernel to interface with the hardware

Too bad that receiving calls didn’t work for you. Did you maybe forget to disable auto-suspend? My OP6 will not wake up for SMS or calls when suspended. Generally, I find sms and calls to work pretty well on my OP6, though I still wouldn’t completely trust it.

Yeah, I’ve tried both the Pixel 3a, Pinephone, and Oneplus 6 with PostmarketOS. PostmarketOS is pretty awesome, and the fact that it even works on phones originally running android is impressive. But the Oneplus 6, even though it’s one of the best supported android devices for PostmarketOS still has numerous issues the pinephone does not have:

• Broken selfie camera processing
• cannot wake from suspend upon receiving SMS or call
• No usb OTG
• Getting GPS to work requires some crazy process involving flashing specific versions of android, which I’ve not figured out how to do.
• Visual corruption sometimes when waking from suspend

Ubuntu touch has relatively wide support for android devices, since it uses the original Manufacturer kernel, with all it’s hacks and lack of updates.

The GPU in the thing is old enough that Firefox and GTK4 apps are not hardware accelerated. It’s kinda sad since I actually kind of like the pinephone hardware excluding the SOC. It’s too bad that no one has really come out with anything better afaik that has the same openness (other than the librem 5, but that thing is hella expensive), really only leaving android phones, which have their own issues that are IMO worse than just a slow processor.