Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 and 24.04-1.4 are both out, Jolla Phone batch #1 is shipping with Sailfish OS 5.2 notes published, huge Fairphone 6 postmarketOS advancements, Pixel 9a porting progress, PINE64 released the full PinePhone 3D files, and Plasma Mobile has a working Orca screen reader and more!

While celebrating my previous post of working call audio @pvagner@fedi.ml left this excellent comment:

https://ani.social/post/34656971/17805917

And this reminded me something that i and many devs sadly often forget, if its works for me it doesn't mean it works for everyone.

My philosophy is that linux should be as accesible as possible, nobody should be forced to be stuck with big tech.

So i tried my best to add orca screenreader support to plasma-mobile.

I mad this statement on my previous post

But a successful one!

But i genuinely don't know if i can claim that today, i don't use a screenreader so i don't know what the user experience should look like. I will glady incorporate feedback.

As with my kernel patches i will be working to upstream this with KDE, since this is probably not controversial i think it should be accepted quite quickly.

Small celebration:

I was quite happy when i saw this in my inbox:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260722234221.884765-8-srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com/

+maintainers:

• • Jorijn van der Graaf jorijnvdgraaf@catcrafts.net
• • Srinivas Kandagatla srinivas.kandagatla@oss.qualcomm.com

It looks like im being upgraded from linux contributor to linux maintainer!

Selling fp6 with pmos preflashed and with my patches preinstalled

Some comments mentioned this and it got me thinking, would there be demand for this?

I would be selling them on my catcrafts.net website, payment methods would be my bunq so wero, bancontact, credit card and crypto.

If you are interested in this, please upvote my comment, ive been looking into this and there is quite alot of administration that comes with it, so i would like to only do this if there is actual demand.

I would be shipping to any place i can. I will be shipping from the Netherlands, so keep that in mind for import duties and shipping costs.

Jumped in to PMOS yesterday on a OnePlus6T. So far very few bugs. I like KDE Plasma on my desktop dev computer, so I went with it for this phone. It feels familiar and so far I'm loving it.

One thing I see that is odd is the battery life so far stays at 100% when I go poking around doing cat on files in my battery driver, I see the charge current value is much higher than the charge_full value. Will this possibly correct itself over multiple charge cycles?

I read up on it a little in the PMOS wiki, but any extra insight would be much appreciated.

Is it worth while to set up matrix to join the conversation on the matrix channel postmarketos has?

GNOME OS has been demoed running on a Fairphone 5 at GUADEC 2026, Phosh's immutable BengalOS booted on a Pixel 3a, and more!

At first, man thinks he controls the modem.

But after the 20th reboot, man learns the modem controls him.

— Epictetus

So here it is! working VoLTE calls with audio on linux!

What a rollercoaster it has been i'll tell you that.

The frequency between my previous posts was only a few days, as you can see from the time since my last post this has been a far harder project.

But a successful one!

Now fully powered trough my new imsd project:

https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts/imsd

As i said in a my previous comment no matter what i did the regular modem route wasn't working, so i had to come up with my own.

This has several advantages however, call audio is now just routed trough wireplumber & pipewire, so its integrated much better.

Both inbound and outbound calls work.

How do i get this???

The patient route is waiting until my patches get accepted upstream, a few already have and are coming in 7.3 probably (pmos runs 7.0 currently still oof), a few will probably take longer, 7.4 or beyond.

but for the ones that want to jump right on ive published everything on my forgejo:

https://forgejo.catcrafts.net/Catcrafts

I will soon be publishing a shell script that does the entire installation soon for easy installation.

Sadly there is no way to just plug in an android and do it, so there are still a few manual steps needed, but i believe the path to adoption is reducing friction as much as possible, so ill do my best to make it as easy as possible to use.

imsd

So what is an "imsd"?

its a full userspace implementation of the IMS protocol, which drives VoLTE (4G) calls.

Normally the modem firmware drives this, but this is quite difficult to work with, now it runs fully via a standard daemon on linux!

Along with several d-bus helpers that integrate it with standard plasma-dialer.

if made a APKBUILD for pmos that is mutually exclusive with 81voltd, and loads imsd instead. so installation should be easy.

Now will this actually work?

That's where you come in!

I am just one guy with one phone with one carrier.

I can say it works on the Fairphone 6 with KPN. it might work with other carriers and other Qualcomm phones aswell, so potentially this could work for the entire linux phone ecosystem, but i have no way to test that.

If you end up trying it, no matter if it works or doesn't work, please send me a message or open a PR, then we can make sure it works for everyone!

donations

I really was surprised when people asked me this, i just see myself as a guy doing this in his free time, "why would people want to send donations to me?" i thought.

I still stand by my previous point, i have a job, and this project costs me nothing except for time, i don't have any costs. So i felt kinda guilty receiving money from people.

But i would much rather spend my time making software that benefits society instead of the B2B stuff i do at my job.

I really feel greedy for saying this, but if you want to send me a thank you then that is now possible at: https://bunq.me/catcrafts

Please don't feel any pressure to do this, doesn't matter what i get im still continuing with this bring-up. And if you don't want to donate to me there are many linux organizations that could really use the support! In my eyes we are all in the same boat with the same goal.

If you do decide to, and i cannot express my gratitude enough if you do, please write in the description that it's a donation, as this makes tax easier.

What's next?

Ive got a bunch more stuff coming soon, while i haven't posted here in quite a while i've been plenty busy on the mailing list:

So except some more posts soon.

Bonus round

Having fully working hardware is great, but a phone that has no apps is pointless for most people, so i would like to start a discussion in the comments.

What apps do you need that are preventing you from switching to mobile linux?

This is the source from my earlier post for anyone who just wants to try it. Its based off 20.04 because I don't have a 24.04 device to test it on.

Use at your own risk but let me know if you run into any problems.

I've tested it on my phone but removed some more hard-coded customization in the UI so I haven't used this particular version as much.

I've put it on GitLab for now because that's where the Lomiri source is. I made a GitLab issue here but aren't sure if that's the best way to contact upstream to see if they'd want this.

At this point, this is just a theory. But I do hope someone can make this real in the coming years :)

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/48809351

YT desc: First impressions of the Finnish phone company Jolla's new phone running SailfishOS, a Linux distribution with the ability to run Android applications on the device.

Looks like the viewer hasnt used the os before which makes for a bit more interesting pov

Quick and dirty three-week catch-up: the Jolla Phone finally landed in backers' hands at the Day1 event in Helsinki, FuriOS 14.0.3 shipped face authentication and Vulkan with swipe typing on the way, Phosh 0.56.0 is out, postmarketOS gets Plasma 6.7 and bigger boot partitions, and more!

Pay the $25 ransom little devs or else!

Normally, you have to go into different tabs to toggle Wifi, Bluetooth, change volume and so on. This puts things in one place.

Is anyone else interested in this or does an existing project already do this? It needs to make changes to Lomiri so I think that means installing through the open store wouldn't work.

cross-posted from: https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/976a535d-6f0e-4ae6-9d9f-e1010b35dc6b

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