#18 Biktor's Story, v22.06, SDM845, MSM8916, Bluetooth HFP

postmarketOS Podcast

What's Biktor's background and motivation for doing all that work with his alternative EG25-G modem firmware? Will we finally be able to upgrade from one postmarketOS release to the next one with upcoming v22.06? What's it like to play around in the SDM845 audio maze? You guessed it, we'll talk about all that and a whole lot more. Put on some headphones and enjoy!

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam, @dylanvanassche, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance).

Referenced in this episode:

• Biktor's Story

  • Buy Biktor a coffee
  • HTC S710 with a Linux port
  • pinephone_modem_sdk: main repository with a good README, issue tracker etc.
  • openqti
  • Experience from ollieparanoid, as of writing: with Biktor's firmware + adjusting udev rule, the modem runs much better than with the stock firmware. It's still not perfectly reliable for me, lately it crashed after >3 days of working fine. But with the open firmware we can track and fix the remaining bugs!
  • Upgrading to Biktor's firmware with fwupd in postmarketOS
  • Release 0.6.5 uses LK2nd

• Upcoming v22.06 Release

  • postmarketos-release-upgrade (CI fix: pmb!2185)
  • New devices: Samsung Galaxy S III, SHIFT6mq

• postmarketOS-tweaks: SXMO X11 support

  • !15
  • Video

• Bluetooth

  • pma!3080: temp/pulseaudio: fork for Bluetooth HFP/HSP support, with a video and lots of details, testers wanted

• MSM8916:

  • pma!3014: community/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916: upgrade to 5.17

• Android Dynamic Partitions:

  • postmarketOS wiki

Editing by: @MartijnBraam, @ollieparanoid, Music by: The Passion HiFi