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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (samsung-zeroltexx)

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge
Manufacturer Samsung
Name Galaxy S6 Edge
Codename samsung-zeroltexx
Released 2015
Type handset
Hardware
Chipset Samsung Exynos 7420 Octa
CPU Octa-core (4x2.1 GHz Cortex-A57 & 4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53)
GPU Mali-T760 MP8
Display 1440 x 2560 Super AMOLED
Storage 32/64/128 GB
Memory 3 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Android
Original version 5.0
Extended version 7.0
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
postmarketOS kernel 3.10.108
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 3096.2
Features
Flashing
Partial
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
No data
Screen
Works
Touchscreen
Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
No data
Audio
Works
Camera
No data
Camera Flash
No data
Connectivity
WiFi
Works
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
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

Maintainer(s)

Users owning this device

  • Aleksas
  • Crashniels (Notes: PostmarketOS)
  • Grimler
  • JulianGro (Notes: working condition, not in use, stock Android)
  • KrakinTheKonsole (Notes: RIPPED Audio hardware.)
  • Sanzoghenzo (Notes: faulty screen, wifi not working on Android)
  • St.S (Notes: booting w/USB,ssh access,display,touch,wifi,audio,bluetooth;camera,sensors,ir-tx with some user-space helper programs)
  • ZeroCool32 (Notes: Sort-of broken; locks up most of the time, reboots by itself (due to faulty battery, runs LineageOS)


What works

  • Xfce4, Mate, Sxmo user interfaces

Installation

Create a recovery zip and flash it with TWRP.

Hardware / sensors

Results from sudo hwtest on SM-G925T:

hwtest

Results from sensors (package lm-sensors) on SM-G925T:

sensors

For reference, sensor information from sensorssandbox (f-droid) on SM-G925T; note that in addition to hardware-based sensors, it presumably includes software-based / derived sensors:

sensor details (sensorssandbox)

The following refers to SM-G925F (zeroltexx) and SM-G920F (zerofltexx): Some of the sensors, as well as the infrared (remote control) sender LED, can be activated by first initializing the sensorhub with a firmware blob (which Android does within the "lhd" daemon). This firmware blob is actually compiled into the downstream kernel already (readable in device /dev/bbd_patch), but needs to be uploaded to the sensor hub chip using a special packetized protocol in /dev/bbd_packet. An example Rust program for doing that is available here.

See also