Motorola Moto E 2015 (motorola-surnia)

From postmarketOS
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
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Original software Android
Original version 5.0.2
postmarketOS kernel 3.10.49
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916)
CPU Quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Adreno 306
Display 540x960 IPS LCD
Storage 8 GB Flash
Memory 1 GB
Architecture AArch64
Type handset
Features
USB Networking
Works
Flashing
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Display
Partial
WiFi
Works
FDE
Mainline
Works
Battery
Partial
3D Acceleration
Works
Audio
Works
Bluetooth
Works
Camera
Broken
GPS
Mobile data
Partial
Internal storage
Works
SMS
Partial
Calls
Partial
USB OTG
Partial
Sensors
Accelerometer
Broken
Ambient Light
Broken
Proximity
Broken
Power Sensor
Broken
Misc
Memory Card
Works
Haptics
Works
FOSS bootloader
This device is based on the Snapdragon 410.
See the SoC page for common tips, guides and troubleshooting steps

Contributors

Users owning this device


Unlocking the bootloader

Please visit the Motorola website for instructions. You will need a email address for only receiving email (disposable email is enough) and working fastboot (driver installation needed for Windows and macOS, works out of the box on Linux).

How to enter flash mode

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

Installation

First, flash lk2nd-msm8916.img to the boot partition.

Boot that, press volume down during that booting to get to the lk2nd boot menu.

See Usage for lk2nd.

After that, use the normal Installation_guide

Installation to directly to device and sdcard have both been tested to work.

Note: A recent (edge, alpine-release 3.19_alpha20230901, kernel 6.5.2) attempt to install using a recovery zip image on an SD card fails (#1877, not specific to surnia, but rather to MSM8916). The end of pmos.log file shows:

+ chroot /tmp/postmarketos/chroot /bin/busybox --install /bin
chroot: can't execute '/bin/busybox': No such file or directory

Display

The display panel works fine, but backlight control doesn't due to missing driver for BD65B60 IC.

Battery

Battery fuel gauge is supported, but fan54046 charging chip isn't. It does still charge but it doesn't indicate that it is charging.

USB OTG

Device cannot supply its own power, so you must use a powered otg adapter for usb otg to work.

Firmware {Wifi/Modem}

The firmware is now properly packaged since pmaports!1947

Modem

Modem may not work on some variants due to lack of support for compressed firmware images in rmtfs. This will also break sound on affected devices. To get sound working, you can choose the no-modem remote processor provider in pmbootstrap init. Alternatively you can apply this workaround to get modem working.

Hardware / sensors detail

For reference, sensor information from sensorsandbox (f-droid) on xt1526; note that in addition to hardware-based sensors, it presumably includes software-based / derived sensors:

sensor details (sensorssandbox)

name vendor version type
3-axis accelerometer Kionix 1 1
Ambient light sensor TAOS 1 5
Proximity sensor TAOS 1 8
Display rotation sensor Motorola 1 65536
Flat up
Flat down
Stowed
Camera activation sensor

Sensors appear to be handled by Motorola Sensorhub

See also