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OnePlus 6 and OnePlus 6T seeing work for mainline Linux kernel support

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This is so great! Still using my one plus 6T and not up for a change yet. Battery life is still good and the performance is more then sufficient. Now, the afterlife seems to be predestined, too.

I'm not sure if that's just the spin of the article, but isn't it odd that the fate of the device just depends on a single volunteer spending his time on making it usable? It seems surreal how fragile the phone OS ecosystem is. It wouldn't even be a big burden for the producers to, say, dedicate 1-2 staff days/month to this effort. Instead we all buy devices that expect to be bricked after 3 years unless volunteers step up.

Love my OnePlus 6, it hasn't aged one bit since I bought it. Glad to see development happening in an "old" but capable device.

I'm an outlier still using OnePlus One? I don't get the point of replacing phone every year or two.

Sshh; don't let the YouTube smartphone reviewers hear you, they'll be offended.

Honestly, the only YouTuber I know with millions of subscribers who doesn't behave like everyone buys a new smartphone every other day is Zack from JerryRigEverything he literally showed a video from 2014(Note 4)as Galaxy S21's video to make that point[1] in his recent video.

[1]https://youtu.be/Y4wrxLVs3eU?t=355

Really impressive, the footage is amazing. Incredible it's coming from a 6 years old phone !

My wife inherited my Oneplus One and uses it (running LineageOS); I'm still using my OnePlus 5T and don't plan to change it ever (unless the audio jack makes a comeback).

Note that the One without any Google spyware still lasts 3 days no problem. I'll probably switch my 5T to Lineage without any Google stuff sooner or later.

I'm about to replace my OnePlus 5T. Last year it started garbling the incoming audio from outgoing phone calls, about 50% of the time. This week it garbled an incoming phone call, so I really can't put off upgrading any longer. I don't make a lot of voice calls, and from home I can use my land line, but if I can't receive calls, it's not a phone.

I've really liked the phone apart from that, but it's a pretty big "apart from that", so I'm iffy on going OnePlus again. Support talked me through making a bug report, and then...nothing.

Anybody else have a similar experience?

I've caught mine doing this but assumed it was carrier/google voice causing issues.

I don't use Google voice, and it's only ever been this phone. It started right after an OS upgrade last year, so it seemed much more likely to be OnePlus than TMobile.

One hasn't received security updates from OnePlus for over 2.5 years.

There are still updates from LineageOS.

I have a OnePlus 6 and I have security update Nov 1, 2020.

Replaced my 3T last year. The port was completely worn out and probably close to completely failing and the battery was noticably degraded after 4 years of heavy use. On top of that the alert slider started acting up on it's own.

Ofc you could try to replace those parts but I decided it's not worth it. It's pretty difficult to find a replacement battery that both doesn't explode and actually has as much capacity as advertised.

I was a happy owner of the 1+ 2, 1+ 4. I'm now using the 1+ 6 and I'm glad to hear there's an upcoming Linux support. The thing is, my first two phones were stolen, so sometimes you don't really have a choice.

I used mine until a year ago when I got a new phone through work.

It still runs the latest Android thanks to LineageOS and still was fast enough for the web (thanks to AdAway).

Only a bit. I still use my OnePlus One daily. I find it odd as well how quickly people replace their phones.

Security & App performance for starters, YMMV.

But the battery starts to become weaker - and I have some trouble with the charger (it's on the device, not the cable). Too bad it's always so hard to exchange battery in these devices.

If you're a tinkerer, I'd seriously recommend using something like ACC (Advanced Charging Controller). It'll automatically cut your charge off at ~80% and slow the charging if it's heating up too much. Should greatly extend the service life of your battery. You can pretty much just install with Magisk and forget it. Perhaps it's too late for your current phone/battery but maybe on the next one.

https://github.com/VR-25/acc

Pair with something like AccuBattery for visibility into battery capacity over time.

I've been looking for something like this for a long time. I wonder if it is usable on non-Android Linux kernels for hardware that uses USB charging.

On normal Linux, if your device has a proper PMIC with a driver that allows this, you can just change the max charging voltage to something like 4.1V or less via sysfs (/sys/class/power_supply/*) on each boot. You can do the same for maximum charging current, to avoid so called "fast charging", and charge at 0.2C for example. And that's it.

Indeed. This and dropping SDcards (so built in flash burn out sooner) contributes to electronic waste just as much as bloated websites and apps.

A few years ago, Oneplus service replaced the battery in my phone for a very low fee. It was done quickly and totally worth it.

I also have trouble with the charger, it usually takes a minute of the old in'out until the phone and charger connect.

Official battery replacement costs the equivalent of $16 in India, as listed on their website.

I still use my OP6 but I have to admit I regretted buying it from day 1, there are just too many small inconveniences/annoyances and thanks to the various OP data scandals the eternal feeling that China is watching. I've also never been happy with the camera and after about a year an update caused issues so that often the camera app freezes. With Linux it might live yet a few more years for me. But I'm not going to buy another OP or similar brand.

I'm still using OnePlus 6. It's ok, I wouldn't say I love it but I use my phone only for chatting and browsing reddit so it's not worth a change. Besides, before I bought OnePlus 6 in 2018 I had a Samsung and it was a total shitshow. So I guess overall I'm happy with it.

Just replaced my 3T last week. Such a great device, still fast and only a few minor scratches. Too bad there were no more security updates.

And although this is “hacker” news, I didn’t feel confident running non-stock Android..

Been running LineageOS on my OP3 for years already. Never had any problems that weren't caused by myself.

Lots of financial apps & cos treat OS names different than stock OS blindly as tampered/rooted for no reason. Maybe not on your daily driver but secondary phones will only survive with Lineage or community efforts.

> Lots of financial apps & cos treat OS names different than stock OS blindly as tampered/rooted for no reason.

Yeah true. I just ignore the warnings usually.

You can still get updates

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/oneplus3

Still using the OP5. Battery and charge pin are my only issues as of now.

My OnePlus 3 is still alive and kicking as a perfectly capable testing device.

Does LineageOS work well on these? I'm not sure I could leave Android for a different phone OS. Un-googled LineageOS seems like the best balance, but also it's difficult to find phones that have great support. For example, I have an LG V20 running it, and the experience has been kinda buggy. Ultimately, I wish I could use it on a Pine64 PinePhone, but that effort looks to have stalled last year.

I just found this post and haven't read what anything is about.

But, I use a OnePlus 6 with rooted Lineage and whatever default version of a micro or nano gapps they suggest.

I'm not much of a consumer-style user, but the phone absolutely does everything I expect of it.

I do no shortage of stuff in Termux. AdAway works great. And, having the 256gb option gives me a lot of breathing room.

LineageOS on a 5T here, everything works perfectly. The lineage + OnePlus community is very active

6T, LineageOS works without issues!

So this means that the phone will one day be able to run a stock linux kernel?

Already almost does

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6_(oneplus-enchil...

Yes, and probably already does.

As an OP6T owner, this is really exciting news. Caleb also used to maintain a SailfishOS port for the 6T, but he's dropped it to focus on pmOS instead.

Does OpenGL ES 3 work under linux?

Hey, developer here, yeah OpenGL ES 3 works, that is, super tux racer runs just fine. Unfortunately Phosh lacks support for hardware acceleration, but I'm working on bringing Manjaro ARM to the device with Lomiri which runs VERY well

Ok, interesting!

How hard would it be to run this on Samsung S9?

I see they still sell adapters with HDMI/USB and power but how do you install DeX?

Even the non-ES OpenGL 3 works in the freedreno GPU driver. According to [1] it supports up to 3.3. There's also a Vulkan driver though I'm not sure how mature it is.

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/blob/master/docs/fe...

Wish it would get Android 11 damnit

Haven't had time to work on it, but it's totally possible to apply some Android patches to the Mainline kernel and boot AOSP, so, keep an eye out

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