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After upgrades in mesa, ofono, kernel we have had several regressions and not all of them are fixed. It would be great if you could help out.
In any case, take a look at the open hammerhead issues before starting an installation!

Warning WARNING: This device is not recommended for future use with postmarketOS due to its armhf architecture. Alpine Linux (the distribution that postmarketOS extends) pmaports#599 has been considering dropping it.
The processor of the device may support the armv7 architecture. If so, you can modify the device package and change the architecture accordingly.
LG Nexus 5
Nexus 5 running plasma mobile
Nexus 5 running plasma mobile
Manufacturer LG
Name Nexus 5
Codename lg-hammerhead
Released 2013
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon 800
CPU 4x 2.3 GHz Krait 400
GPU Adreno 330
Display 1080x1920 IPS
Storage 16/32 GB
Memory 2 GB
Architecture armhf
Software
Original software Android 4.4.4 on Linux 3.4.0
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline yes
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 415.0
Features
Flashing
Works
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
No data
Screen
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Works
Audio
Broken
Camera
No data
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
Works
Bluetooth
No data
GPS
No data
NFC
No data
Modem
Calls
Partial
SMS
Works
Mobile data
Partial
Miscellaneous
FDE
No data
USB OTG
Works
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

  • MartijnBraam
  • dzervas
  • lawl
  • bshah
  • opendata

Fastboot Mode

First make sure to enable USB debugging in Android ([1]) Then with device powered off, hold down Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously for a few seconds, until Fastboot Mode screen appears.

OEM Unlock

Get device into Fastboot Mode, plug in USB cable, then:

$ sudo fastboot oem unlock

When prompted on device, use Volume-Up/Down buttons to highlight choice, then Power button to select it. The Fastboot Mode screen will appear again, and a message regarding flashing will appear briefly.

Installation

First build the image:

$ pmbootstrap init
$ pmbootstrap install

Then in order to flash it put your device in fastboot mode, and plug it in USB. Then do:

$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs --partition userdata
$ sudo fastboot format system
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel

Issues

Plasma mobile

Navigation bar is broken. See this bug.

X.org is broken

So, no graphical program can be started. See this bug.

Bluetooth

Bluetooth seems to be lacking some firmware.

From dmesg:

[    0.650667] bluetooth hci0: Direct firmware load for brcm/BCM4335C0.hcd failed with error -2

Using instructions at https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_3_-_Setting_Up_Bluetooth

apk add bluez
rc-update add bluetooth

Running bluetoothctl seems to indicate that the controller is recognized:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi_3_-_Setting_Up_Bluetooth
[bluetooth]# power off
Changing power off succeeded
[bluetooth]# power on
Changing power on succeeded
[CHG] Controller 07:16:16:94:0E:5D Powered: yes

WiFi workaround on boot

The wifi adapter works in NetworkManager, but it boots in airplane mode and NetworkManager does not detect that. Therefore at boot you need to disable the wifi adapter first, and then re-enable it. This can easily be done in the graphic shell (Plasma Mobile has an airplane mode switch in the pull-down menu: check it and uncheck it) or through the shell:

$ sudo nmcli radio all off
$ sudo nmcli radio all on

Webbrowser

In plasma-mobile, Angelfish webbrowser does not run. You may want to install, configure and use qtwebbrowser, Firefox and/or Chromium.


Troubleshooting

Fastboot unknown chunk type

Flashing with fastboot seems to fail for some outdated firmware, it prints the message "FAILED (remote: Unknown chunk type)" when trying to flash the rootfs to userdata. This can be solved by updating to the latest baseband firmware and bootloader.

Remote Data Too Large

Sometimes `./pmbootstrap.py flasher flash_kernel` can fail with an error message that includes "Failed (remote: data too large)". This might be solved by updating by reflashing the latest version of the stock Android image for the device.

Partition layout

hammerhead:~# fdisk -l -o Device,Start,End,Sectors,Size,Name /dev/mmcblk1

Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 14.7 GiB, 15758000128 bytes, 30777344 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 98101B32-BBE2-4BF2-A06E-2BB33D000C20

Device             Start      End  Sectors  Size Name
/dev/mmcblk1p1      1024   132095   131072   64M modem
/dev/mmcblk1p2    132096   134143     2048    1M sbl1
/dev/mmcblk1p3    134144   135167     1024  512K rpm
/dev/mmcblk1p4    135168   136191     1024  512K tz
/dev/mmcblk1p5    136192   137215     1024  512K sdi
/dev/mmcblk1p6    137216   138239     1024  512K aboot
/dev/mmcblk1p7    138240   142335     4096    2M pad
/dev/mmcblk1p8    142336   144383     2048    1M sbl1b
/dev/mmcblk1p9    144384   145407     1024  512K tzb
/dev/mmcblk1p10   145408   146431     1024  512K rpmb
/dev/mmcblk1p11   146432   147455     1024  512K abootb
/dev/mmcblk1p12   147456   153599     6144    3M modemst1
/dev/mmcblk1p13   153600   159743     6144    3M modemst2
/dev/mmcblk1p14   159744   160767     1024  512K metadata
/dev/mmcblk1p15   160768   193535    32768   16M misc
/dev/mmcblk1p16   193536   226303    32768   16M persist
/dev/mmcblk1p17   226304   232447     6144    3M imgdata
/dev/mmcblk1p18   232448   277503    45056   22M laf
/dev/mmcblk1p19   277504   322559    45056   22M boot
/dev/mmcblk1p20   322560   367615    45056   22M recovery
/dev/mmcblk1p21   367616   373759     6144    3M fsg
/dev/mmcblk1p22   373760   374783     1024  512K fsc
/dev/mmcblk1p23   374784   375807     1024  512K ssd
/dev/mmcblk1p24   375808   376831     1024  512K DDR
/dev/mmcblk1p25   376832  2473983  2097152    1G system
/dev/mmcblk1p26  2473984  2535423    61440   30M crypto
/dev/mmcblk1p27  2535424  3969023  1433600  700M cache
/dev/mmcblk1p28  3969024 30777299 26808276 12.8G userdata
/dev/mmcblk1p29 30777300 30777310       11  5.5K grow

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