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Author: Merlijn Wajer
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To: maemo-leste
Subject: Re: [maemo-leste] Grand plan to get make phones... phone (for Motorola Droid 4)
Hi,

On 09/07/2020 20:38, Raanan Elefant wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>>> I believe it would be good to get phones working well enough to do calls and SMSes.
>>>>
>>>> 1) I can prepare new version of unicsy_demo.
>>>>
>>>> 2) I'd like you to package it for Leste, and perhaps ship it in default install for N900.
>>>>
>>>> => that should make SMS and data usable on N900 (not calls), out of the box.
>>>>
>>>> 3) I can prepare patched kernel for droid 4, based on 5.7-rc. It will use latest Tony's
>>>> patches, where available, and my/Tony's old hacks where not. Goal: enough support for
>>>> calls/SMS/data.
>>>>
>>>> 4) I will publish patched ofono, suitable for kernel from step 3.
>>>>
>>>> 5) I may need to do unicsy_demo update for d4 mixers, etc.
>>>>
>>>> 6) I'd like you to package 3), 4) and 5) for Leste.
>>>>
>>>> => that should make calls and SMSes usable on Droid 4 (data only with gross hacks).
>>>>
>>> Any idea when a working image will be available for the N900? Sorry if
>>> that seems like nagging, purely from excitement about what you guys are
>>> doing with the project :)
>> Please Cc the lists with such questions.
>>
>> We are unlikely to get phonecalls to work in a useful way on
>> N900.
> Ever? Over at #postmarketos on freenode they told me maemo-leste was
> closer to phone functions than pmos.


I believe that we will get those to work. Sicelo has already reported
being able to make calls and hear one side clearly. As far as I
understand this is doable, there might be some latency issues to work
out, but I also recently discovered some Nemo audio work that might help
us, too: https://github.com/nemomobile/pulseaudio-module-cmtspeech-n9xx/

Pavel, have you seen this ^ before?

For me, the focus has just been on the Droid 4, simply because it's more
powerful, and faster to develop on. And the modem does echo
cancellation, supposedly, whereas the N900 modem requires that to be
done in userspace. Pulseaudio has modules for that (echo cancellation)
now, too.

> I was really hoping to rock my N900 with latest linux as my daily
> phone... :(


I think you might be able to, somewhere this year.

Cheers,
Merlijn