is it too late to join the #pipewire party? i hope not, or else my #flx1 will be sad
all applications that use pipewire can finally utilize the camera (adding to our list of v4l, qtmultimedia and android apps)
one issue we are facing is that aperture is not very happy with the back cameras, so applications like #GNOME snapshot or authenticator will have the preview flipped. captured frames are surprisingly not flipped tho:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/261
Dear @Mer__edith and the the amazing @signalapp team,
After the last update, the Signal "desktop app" is requiring us to launch the mobile app - however, many of us do not have the Android or any other "mobile" version of the Signal app any more.
We are a large (by our standards) group of #Linux phone users, and your "desktop" app is our "mobile" app : )
Our previous phones on which #SignalApp was initially activated was an Android or Apple device and we have since then completely migrated to #Linuxphones. Some of us may have registered Signal on #signalcli, Flare, #Molly, Signal Android in #WayDroid, etc.
The #mobileLinux community is growing - we have members spanning a good number of projects and devices, e.g.
- @purism #Librem5 and #LibertyPhone running #Debian-based #PureOS #GnuLinux, #Alpine-based #PostmarketOS or #Mobian,
- @PINE64 #Pinephone and PP Pro running #ManjaroARM, #SailfishOS, etc.
- @furilabs #FLX1 running #Droidian-based #FuriOS,
- a wide variety of Android phones (including OnePlus 6, Google Pixel 3, #Fairphone 4 & 5) running #Alpine-based @postmarketOS ,
- @volla , #Fxtec and #Brax3 devices running #UbuntuTouch by @ubports,
- devices running @mobian which is part of #Debian project, etc.
[Apologies to any project I may have failed to include - you are all appreciated]
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after many days of work, here is another functional demo of #GNOME shell running on the secondary display connected to the #flx1. it took many hours to build the app and make everything act nice and not crash and integrate cleanly. still a long way to go but i think it is a good time to showcase the progress in the past 7 days.
i hope to get this ready and done by 13.0.9 which is the next release but obviously no promises.
@furilabs nice, nice, so #FuriOS is just like #SailfishOS or #PureOS, #Mobian, #PostmarketOS, ... yeah, it's a marketing post ;)
But (for me much more important) are you planning a second phone with for example a #Rockchip or at least a #Snapdragon SoC? Or do you just planning to use #Gigaset Smartphones as your base platform?
Spy-Free FuriOS https://furilabs.com/spy-free-furios/
FuriOS Doesn’t Spy on You - Unlike the Others. Read more.
Update 13.0.8 https://furilabs.com/update-13-0-8/
another update on this the battery has now dropped by 30% in 85 hours.
at this rate it the estimated 100 to 0 is roughly around 12.5 days. of course there is still room for optimizations so we can easily get it to 14 days of idle time, but i think this will do for this month.
Docker on your FLX1. A seamless experience non existent on iPhones and Android.
#FuriOS update 13.0.8 for #FLX1 has been delayed by about 10 days, but you why was this?
I decided to find the reason for the battery drain here is what we found
firstly, packagekit is a battery hog, so we wrote a #GNOME software plugin for aptkit for system updates, second was related to modems mainloop being blocked (sometimes and inconsistently) and not going to sleep and last (the hardest to find) was with the WiFi driver not going to sleep correctly.
All fixed up and landing this month!
Batch
Batch #2 will be a much improved release as it will have a smoother experience in all ways thanks to our continued hard work and our QA team for donating their time.
Read more https://furilabs.com/batch-2-update/
#flx1 #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile
https://furilabs.com/fastflx1/
At FuriLabs, we’re all about open source and the power of community. Today we speak to Alaraajavamma, the creator of the fastflx1 repository on GitLab.
#flx1 #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #FastFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile
@distrotube @ppulfer @furilabs
To summirise, it can absolutely be a daily driver! It wil be for me. Relative to expectation, it is a great device! I am very happy with my purchase and a big thank you to Furi Labs for all the work on this. Five stars! If you want me to post about other features or have questions, let me know.
@distrotube @ppulfer @furilabs
This is a review of a FLX1 phone. I am located in USA and as a phone it works fine (I use T-Mobile). Calls and messages work well, although sound is not very loud, it is very clear. Android works out of the box! Not every app will install, let alone fully functional, but because it runs inside of container apps might not have access to everything they need. Then there are apps that look for google services...
Fantastic https://furilabs.com/fantastic-feb-news/
FOSDEM was a great experience for the FuriLabs team and we can now announce that we have officially sold out of our first batch of FuriPhones and the second is on it's way!
Gallery App https://furilabs.com/gallery-app/
We built a gallery app for FuriOS. It is a much requested addition to the FuriOS ecosystem and although it has a small amount of rough edges, it is very much usable.
Initially the plan for bootman was to make it split a partition from LVM and reuse that for dual boot, but then @doggestman brought up sd card for installation storage which sounded good, so i decided to make it work. now, it can now boot from that too.
This will also allow for installation of other operating systems such as SailfishOS or Ubuntu Touch when they get ported over to the device, so its not limited to FuriOS only.
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (2/2025): A Comet about to hit
Recently I bought #FLX1 phone by #FuriLabs. It runs on #FuriOS.
My SIM card wasn't getting detected. Thanks to help by the FuriLabs team, it is working now :)
I found the team and the community to be very helpful in general.
Check out https://furilabs.com for more details.
#FreeSoftware #linuxonmobile #OpenSource
The FuriOS 13.0.5 monthly update is here!
This release includes GNOME and Debian updates, as well as a whole lot of other goodies and fixes from us. Some of the notable ones include: battery management improvements, modem data and call fixes plus more!
The Furi FLX1 is a $499 phone that ships with the Linux-based Furi OS (using Halium for Android drivers). Soon it'll be one of the few phones running mobile Linux to support US 4G and 5G network bands, as well as VoLTE. https://buff.ly/4gpnOZA #FuriLabs #FuriOS #LinuxSmartphones #MobileLinux #FuriFLX1
