On 19/2/20 4:16 am, james wrote: > So, > > After contacting several US carriers, the cover story is you can get a > cell phone, root it with linux, and it 'should work'. Supposedly, you > are encourage, but they > will not offer any help. So rather than spending months, > I'd like to 'cheat' and find a gentoo hack(er) that has > rooted and put some form of gentoo, or embedded_gentoo > on a cell phone. > > Please respond to the list, but, for whatever reason, private > responses are OK too. > > > I'm just tire of my Android cell phone downloading update *every > night*. I want/need control of the stacks > running on the phone. I have heard this is quite popular in Europe and > the Rf circuits have their own firmware, so it's really next to > impossible to hack the Rf side > of communications.....? > > > Any and all responses, public or private, are most welcome. Links only > are fine too! > > > James
For gentoo, I would say "not easy at all" - the problem is custom hardware, propriety drivers and lack of information, even in well supported models. There was an app where you could install gentoo into something like a container - worked well but the android kernel I was using at the time didn't have some functioned enabled that fed into limiting some operations in the container. Easier and more practical would be to install LibreOS. You can build ii yourself and build/include your own software as needed - I did it many times with its Cyanogenmod predecessor (I presume you still can). There are some other stacks suitable for phones such as sailfish and even android can be built yourself (and you can defang/customise it while doing it - google not needed and if you dont install GAPPS it still works fine) To be honest, if what you mentioned is your main gripe, build android and use a third party app store like F-Droid to control that side of the equation. Make sure you look into rooting, flashing a new OS and the implications of doing so - that can be another whole level of pain depending on the brand of your hardware, and how recent it is (less chance with new stuff as the really smart people have not had time to trailblaze :) BillK
