Hacking on the Fairphone 2 @ FOSDEM (January 31st.)

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Yep, something is broken … and/or way too busy over there (stream-a.fosdem.org MistServer(?) only gives a timeout). Good that we have the slides and hopefully the video later.

Working: rtmp://stream-a.fosdem.org:1935/play/fosdem+ud2120cam (vlc, mkv, mplayer)

Transcript (fast and dirty … don’t misunderstand it.), please check the full video later:

  • The community says “I want my google apps and I want it rooted”
  • The story we want to tell is that you can have OSS and F-droid rooted
  • Amazon tries to have an app store, maybe they will look into this as well
  • Firefox was willing to make a port to the FP2
  • There are 4 OSs for the phone right now, very happy with that.
  • Hardware stuff: Extension port, 5 pins (gnd, 5V, charge, usb)
  • Yubikey (right now only works for one time passwords) for crypting the phone would be nice to have
  • usb for sharing data, serial port good for debugging as well, shows PCB.
  • Shows OT passwords with Yubikey (I assume the rest is not working right now)
  • How long till Android 6? (We are five people!), the phone is expensive to make, upgrades cost even more, we should look more in alternative operations systems (I think this is what he meant), but we need to reach market also.
  • “We provide the hardware and support, but we will not wast too much time on those” (Not clear, but I think this was the message.)
  • Nicer way to add the PCB is in the making, same for a better case to hold all this (almost usable)
  • GPS/Google (yes, google will take all your data)
  • Shows super bright LED case.
  • Someone asks about multiboot. Switching OSes? No … you have to buy two phones. (That’s so sad and stupid)
  • Hardware question: Can you modify the phone for hardware switches? (I think the answer here would be no, due to the SoC)
  • OpenPDroid (Set of patches for fake data, I think)
  • Takes about the Google Test (CTS Test, you can not modify the way the system works to pass google test. So no fake data on a google phone)
  • They will offer a hosting service for alternative builds
  • Currently they are just 5-6 people
  • Does the FP2 have a 2nd usb port? No, but the one provided is even OTG capable.
  • FP1 software: Status? This is my FP1, this I still use day to day. I value it very much. I have good news for you, because we have talked to MTK, they are not bad, but they need to sell stuff, we got base source code we can use to upgrade the FP1, but we are “big busy” … but in the coming weeks we will have good news.

(people start leaving already, hard to hear anything, I think some was asking something about modules … talk is over now.)

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