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Motorola Moto E 2015 (motorola-surnia)

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Revision as of 14:33, 14 March 2021 by UnDevDeCatOS (talk | contribs) (Battery (Mainline: Fix typo)
Note This device is still running on armhf, although the processor supports aarch64. If you own it, change it and test it that way.
Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen)
Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen)
Motorola Moto E (2nd Gen)
Manufacturer Motorola
Name Moto E (2nd Gen)
Codename motorola-surnia
Released 2015
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8916 Snapdragon 410
CPU Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Adreno 306
Display 540x960 IPS LCD
Storage 8 GB Flash
Memory 1 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Android 5.0.2 Lollipop
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline yes
postmarketOS kernel 3.10.49
Features
Flashing
Works
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
Partial
Screen
Works
Touchscreen
No data
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Works
Audio
No data
Camera
No data
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
Works
Bluetooth
Partial
GPS
No data
NFC
No data
Modem
Calls
No data
SMS
Partial
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

Users owning this device


Unlocking the bootloader

Please visit the Motorola website for instructions. You will need a valid email address and working fastboot (driver installation needed for Windows and macOS, works out of the box on Linux). The Windows instructions works as written on Linux.

How to enter flash mode

Hold down Power + Volume Down while booting to enter Flash Mode.

Installation

I have tested flashing boot.img with an sdcard rootfs and this seems to work fine.

See also

Modem Setup (same as for motorola-harpia so far)

Content below copied from https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Moto_G4_Play_(motorola-harpia).

I used these steps to configure and test SMS. It sort of worked I think. Need to do more testing.

Wifi

Configure your kernel and enable the prima wifi staging driver

$ pmbootstrap menuconfig motorola-harpia
$ pmbootstrap build linux-motorola-harpia

On the device

# apk add wcnss-wlan
# /etc/init.d/wcnss-wlan start

Bluetooth (Mainline)

Using unrznbl's tree. bluetoothctl detects controller and pairing works. Still needs some testing to see if it is stable.

Battery (Mainline)

Battery fuel gauge is supported, but charging chip isn't. It does still charge but it dosen't indicate that it is charging.

Firmware {Wifi/Modem}

The firmware is now properly packaged since pmaports!1947

Modem

Make the necesary links for rmtfs

# cd /boot
# ln -s /dev/disk/by-partlabel/modemst1 modem_fs1
# ln -s /dev/disk/by-partlabel/modemst2 modem_fs2
# ln -s /dev/disk/by-partlabel/fsg modem_fsg

Install necessary software

# apk add msm-modem-downstream rmtfs libsmdpkt_wrapper libqipcrtr4msmipc ofono

Start the wcnss-wlan service to initialize the wifi card (helps the modem?)

# /etc/init.d/wcnss-wlan start

Start a tmux for multiple windows tmux

Start rmtfs on a terminal

export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/preload/libqipcrtr4msmipc.so
rmtfs -v

Start ofonod on another terminal

$ export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/preload/libsmdpkt_wrapper.so
$ ofonod -d -n

Send an SMS!

$ export PHONE_NUMBER="<number to send sms to ex: 1234567890>"
$ sudo dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.ofono /gobi_0 org.ofono.Modem.SetProperty string:"Powered" variant:boolean:"true"
$ sudo dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.ofono /gobi_0 org.ofono.Modem.GetProperties
$ sudo dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.ofono /gobi_0 org.ofono.Modem.SetProperty string:"Online" variant:boolean:"true"
$ sudo dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.ofono /gobi_0 org.ofono.MessageManager.SendMessage string:"$PHONE_NUMBER" string:"Hello world! -postmarketOS"

Receive SMS like this (might be spammy if you have other DBus apps):

$ sudo dbus-monitor