I really wish they'd open up the architecture a bit...
Why would not they open architecture completely? This is a device that supposed to support linux without android. Where is this linux community they keep referring to. It is more like secret society. Nothing like open source community
I would also love to know that. 17 days back they have published in update:
We have not updated you on Linux for a while, but we have also been working in the background on some features.
We are working on the following features:
* Suspend and Resume - on open / close
* Initial Voice Call telephony support
Both have now been implemented and are being tested.
I would like to help, if nothing else with testing, my device was bought to get rid of android and now it is on a shelf waiting for better (linux) days.
Where or who is this community?
I'm afraid that this forum, geminipda group on telegram and matrix is all there is (about 100 people total). You can get telephony support with
apt update
apt upgrade
apt install dialer-app ofono ofono-ril-binder-plugin pulseaudio-module-droid-hidl audiosystem-passthrough
For the suspend newer kernel is needed (
http://gemian-buster.thinkglobally.org/jenkins/job/cosmo-linux-kernel-4.4-binaries/lastBuild/architecture=arm64,distribution=buster/ one from here should work, though I managed to brick my wifi connectivity doing that so it's risky, had to reinstall gemian, but used newer rootfs img file from here:
http://gemian-buster.thinkglobally.org/jen...20-05-08.img.gz (just replacing the img file in the customos installer folder on sdcard) after which installing the kernel worked (or maybe it was already included, uname -r gives the same version so hard to tell)) with it:
apt install gemian-lock repowerd xss-lock
The newer rootfs after update/upgrade included both though from the get go, so might not even need to manually install them