Re: new old user

2015-12-18 Thread Alan Corey
re: new old user FSO yes, very little of it worked for me but it looked promising. Nasty crashes occasionally as I recall. The problem with Sven Ola's Debian Kit is that it seems to be abandoned, or maybe he just gave up the domain name. There was the website and a small repository of deb

Re: new old user

2015-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Alan Corey wrote: > No, my phones aren't mainstream. When I said mainline Linux, I meant the version of Linux published here: http://www.kernel.org/ That version of Linux doesn't support almost all of the Android phones that exist. Android phones (mainstream o

Re: new old user

2015-12-18 Thread Alan Corey
re: new old user No, my phones aren't mainstream. I have a Motorola XT1505 and an XT1527, the motoe2 line. I'm not going to spend big bucks on a cell phone, so I've got something less popular than Samsungs. Motorola's 80ish years of experience with radio may have been a

Re: new old user

2015-12-18 Thread Paul Wise
It all depends on what you want exactly. If you want to overwrite all the software on your phone with software only from Debian, that probably isn't possible due to the fact that the mainline version of the Linux kernel probably doesn't support your device and Debian only uses mainline Linux, same

new old user

2015-12-17 Thread Alan Corey
I wasn't in the list before but about February I installed Sven Ola's Debian Kit found on f-droid. Used it a few months, was reasonably happy with it, then the phone hardware blew up. I still have my SD card with the Debian partition and a bunch of the original install stuff, plus about 1.5 gb of