pinephone_modem_sdk VS maruos

Hey, that looks really cool. I've been wanting to mess around with this stuff on PinePhone, which is in a unique position here since there are third-party images for the baseband which are mostly open source[1].

I've been especially interested in trying to reverse engineer what's going on with Google Fi on Android, but it is definitely a bit over my head, given that until recently I didn't even really know what an AT command was :) I'm guessing since it's Google the carrier stuff is mostly for fallback and all of the actually interesting stuff is done using protobufs over a data connection. (Fi is also interesting because you can make phone calls on the web over WebRTC. I wonder if that's some kind of gateway to SIP, or what.)

[1]: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk

Ironically modules made by Quectel are GPL compliant (https://www.quectel.com/quectel-open-source) and you can build custom firmwares for them (https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk) to strip out any OTA logic.

Fibocom, on the other hand, not so much.

I have a PinePhone Pro, and I'm trying to figure out a reasonable way to get more than one half of ten minutes of battery life out of it, while still receiving notifications. I figure the best route to go will be to create a service that holds ports open, while the CPU is completely asleep, and either run it on the modem's processor or, as an possibility for the PinePhone Pro, but not the original Pinephone, run it on the m0 core used for power management.

At this moment, Mobian on the PPP with the Modem SDK ( https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/releases ) and a few tweaks to the sound, the phone is great, the power is managed well, and the camera is usable. So I vote for Mobian Phosh as the current best. None of the OSs available are entirely stable on updates, so you still need to be careful.

I use this one with my Steam Deck. It uses the quectel eg25, same as pinephone, and can can be used with the fancy custom firmware.

It seems it is possible to connect a docking bar to the PinePhone but I cannot find what happens next? Is it possible to show on a screen what is displayed on my phone or is it dual screen or can I choose? I love the concepts behind maruOs but I think the project is dead.

>> So what exactly are “consumers” clamoring for that are not currently being delivered?

Until other choices are available, people tend to accept the default or keep on doing what was done in the past.

There is a segment of consumers that would like choices beyond Apple and Google mobile operating systems:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2019/jul/04/c...

https://vivaldi.com/blog/technology/smartphones-5-alternativ...

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/break-away-from-android-ios-7-fr...

Personally, I would like to see more "convergence" devices that let the little computer I carry around with me be anything I want it to be: a programmable general purpose computer, a streaming media server, or whatever else I want.

There are some projects that offer such functionality, but most require expert knowledge to setup or are not very widely-adopted or not very mature:

https://maruos.com/

https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Walled gardens are not where innovation happens because the gardeners uproot whatever does not meet their vision.

Depending on what the model is, you could try Maru https://maruos.com/

I just found MaruOS. It appears to be exactly what I was looking for. They are a little small apparently. They support only Nexus and Pixel phones and one Samsung's device. Hopefully they'll have a bright future.

So someone in this subreddit told me about Maru OS and that really got me dreaming about using my phone as a desktop computer when connected to a monitor. The Astro Slide with its dual boot capabilities and its two USB-C ports would be ideal for that I think.

My next phone will definitely be supported by https://maruos.com/ :)

MaruOS was a project that tried this for a bunch of phones.

https://maruos.com