FP6 Lineage development

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Hi,

I just joined the forum as I’m looking into getting me the FP6 (Alas, still saving). I have loads of old phones, all with Cyanogenmod/Lineage, but all have some issue that can’t be repaired. My last attempt was a Samsung A13, nice specs (for what I need) but I had to stick with the official rom. That didn’t go well.

As the previous FairPhones have Lineage support, I was wondering, is somebody already working on a build for the 6? I could help a tad, but my knowledge is a bit dated. I’ve maintained the Samsung Tab S2 for a while and I’m now working my way back into the code with teh Tab S9, but I hope to be able to be of use when the project already has started.

Greetings,

KoffieNu (also on github under this name)

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Hi and welcome to forum :slight_smile:
So far I think today is first day I noticed bootloader unlocking code being available. Also maybe it would be good to wait a bit for /e/ to release their ROM as lot of work will probably be done by them by now (I admit I know too little to verify you can take their work on devices and backport it to lineageOS).

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The LineageOS port for the Fairphone 3 back then profited from the work done for the earlier /e/OS release.

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That is good news. I’m almost at the point sthat the gts9wifi sources I found are working again. (looks abandoned) The moment I have enough saved for an fp6 I can start tinkering with it.

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Just to leave that link here in case its somehow useful

And maybe is is anything helpful in the FP5 topic

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Also … (I don’t know how relevant this is, but linking to it can’t hurt either) …

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Thanks, following WeAreFairphone on github.

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Not really an answer, but many thanks for your work! My Tab S2 is still running with the latest LOS available.

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You’re welcome. I’m glad my 8" is still working, as it’s a great e-reader.
I hope I can get my hands on an fp6 (maybe after birthday next month) and start coding for that.

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At the FP shop the FP6 with /e/ OS by Murena is already available.

As /e/OS is based on LineageOS I wonder how long it takes until LOS will be available for the FP6 - is there any educated gues? Is the development already started (as /e/ seems already finished it has to, or am I wrong)?

Is murena and /e/ also affected by the hurdles Google is putting for open source forks of the AOSP? Or do /e/ have any other workorund than LineageOS for the google problematic?

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Mind that it’s just about waiting for now, because Fairphone just released the sources, but /e/OS Sources (Basically even Lineage OS Sources, because /e/Os is based on Lineage) are:

STILL CLOSED SOURCE

(Somehow…).
But i think we need to wait, even because i prepared the LineageOS enviroment so i could build it for the Fp6, but… discovered this sadly…
And Fairphone team released everything, so, matter of some days and i’ll try to make a build and see if it works (Can’t promise anything tho…)

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I won’t use my Fairphone 6 as a daily driver until there’s a stable & degoogled ROM available. So I can help testing stuff if needed for now.

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