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Xiaomi Mi A3 (xiaomi-laurel)

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Xiaomi Mi A3
Mi A3 booting postmarketOS!
Mi A3 booting postmarketOS!
Manufacturer Xiaomi
Name Mi A3
Codename xiaomi-laurel
Released 2019
Type handset
Hardware
Chipset Qualcomm Snapdragon 665 (SM6125)
CPU Octa-core (4x2.0 GHz Kryo 260 Gold & 4x1.8 GHz Kryo 260 Silver)
GPU Adreno 610
Display 1560x720 AMOLED
Storage 64 GB / 128 GB UFS 2.1
Memory 4 GB / 6 GB
Architecture aarch64
Software
Original software Android (MIUI)
Original version 9.0
postmarketOS
Category testing
Pre-built images no
Mainline yes
postmarketOS kernel 6.1
Unixbench Whet/Dhry score 1549.8
Features
Flashing
Works
USB Networking
Works
Internal storage
No data
SD card
No data
Battery
No data
Screen
Partial
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
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

Users owning this device


How to enter flash mode

On boot press and hold the Volume Down button. If your device is already powered off, press and hold the Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously until you get to the "FASTBOOT" screen.

Installation

Install fastboot on your host system and run the following commands:

$ pmbootstrap init
$ pmbootstrap install
# fastboot erase dtbo
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_vbmeta
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs
$ pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
# fastboot reboot

Not merged features

Those features are already working but not yet merged into postmarketOS / mainline linux:

  • Touchscreen
  • USB OTG
  • Display and GPU

Display

The device as of now can only run a simple framebuffer.

Modem

No support on the platform as of now, shouldn't be too hard to implement since it's the same modem in the SDM630, SDM636, SDM660 and SDM670.

Who's working on it

Szczurek (@szczurek:matrix.org on Matrix)

See also