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Motorola Moto G7 Play (motorola-channel)

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Revision as of 20:41, 28 April 2020 by Jetremblay (talk | contribs) (Notes on working kernel)
Note Even though the chipset supports aarch64, the stock kernel is armv7 binder.
Motorola Moto G7 Play /
Moto G7 Optimo
Manufacturer Motorola
Name Moto G7 Play /
Moto G7 Optimo
Codename motorola-channel
Released 2019
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm SDM632 Snapdragon 632
CPU Octa-core (4x 1.8 GHz Kryo 250 Gold & 4x 1.8 GHz Kryo 250 Silver)
GPU Adreno 506
Storage 32 GB
Memory 2 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Android 9
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Features
Flashing
No data
USB Networking
No data
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
No data
Screen
No data
Touchscreen
No data
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
No data
Audio
No data
Camera
No data
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
No data
Bluetooth
No data
GPS
No data
NFC
No data
Modem
Calls
No data
SMS
No data
Mobile data
No data
Miscellaneous
FDE
No data
USB OTG
No data
HDMI/DP
No data
Sensors
Accelerometer
No data
Magnetometer
No data
Ambient Light
No data
Proximity
No data
Hall Effect
No data
Haptics
No data
Barometer
No data


Contributors

  • 00p513
  • Jetremblay

Users owning this device


The Moto G7 Play is a 5.7" phone with a 720 x 1512P display. It can be bought for about £120 in the UK. It is A/B partitioned, and has an arm64 cpu, however Custom ROMSs must be a64 binder (32 bit OS). No work has gone on to port this device to PostMarketOS yet.

Some notes from Amy

Variants

There are a few variants listed below:

Model Number Region/Carrier
XT1952-1 Europe
XT1952-2 Brazil
XT1952-3 United States (Unlocked)
XT1952-4 United States (Sprint)
XT1952-6 United States (Metro by T-Mobile)
XT1952-DL United States (Tracfone)
XT1952-T United States (T-Mobile)

Kernel

There is an XDA thread, which hasnt been posted to for a while, for compiling the kernel, for use with android. This may become helpful. It can be found here And source code for the kernel can be found here

I have had a look at trying to compile the kernel and there *is* a defconfig in the arm64 architcture, so i guess it may work, but i couldnt get it to build (hey, this is my first time compiling a linux kernel)

Notes from Jean-Etienne

The SDM32 kernel from LineageOS builds fine with arm64 architecture. Apparently the bootloader passes a skip_initramfs option which needs to be disabled in the kernel for postmarketOS to boot.

Initial merge request