09-03-2022, 09:11 AM
Okay, after three weeks I'm almost there, Manjaro Phosh has everything I need, and I've customized or managed to workaround a few things:
So far so good, after less than three weeks of fiddling, I have a phone I can use. Actually, I have a linux box which can even make phone calls, and isn't pwned by either of the big corps.
- The keyboard layouts work, I've got both serbian layouts (cyrillic, latinic, vertical and horizontal) working.
- Downloading pictures and (probably) sound recordings from the phone just works, if I boot into Jumpdrive, it appears as a mounted disk. Have to sudo mount it to be writable, though.
- Flash doesn't work in Megapixels, though the button is there, but it does nothing. However, I can turn the flashlight on, take a picture - that works, and is actually quite nice, as I can see what I'm doing
- My provider has the USSD menu, to which I should reply with a SMS containing just the digit of the option I choose. However, no button appears on the dialog showing the message. Looking for USSD codes on wikipedia (!) I noticed that the number dialed can have trailing components, so instead of dialing *100# to get my status, and then sending a message with just a "2" inside to get a SMS with details, I call *100*2# and get the same SMS. This may help someone, I hope.
- Looks cool with all serif fonts everywhere
- On maps, can't get rid of keyboard after I type the locations, so the visible portion of the map is about two postage stamps.
- There's the Tweaks app and I've supplied two .mp3 files (also .ogg versions) to be my ringtone and incoming message tone, but it doesn't work. I'll have to dive into some config editing.
So far so good, after less than three weeks of fiddling, I have a phone I can use. Actually, I have a linux box which can even make phone calls, and isn't pwned by either of the big corps.
