New #phosh #squeekboard landed in #postmarketOS! Handles fractional scaling significantly better now! The keyboard still gets smaller, but it stretches to fill the available space rather than wasting space with black bars and making the keys even smaller. I hope that fractional scaling eventually will not impact keyboard height at all, but this is already a huge usability upgrade.
This is at 150% scale:
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@CalcProgrammer1 Hey! I was honestly impressed about gaming benchmarks you did on pmOS. Even saw the OnePlus 6 video and wanted to buy the phone myself just to play around with it. The problem is, I am scared of doing something like that to a device I will pay for. If somehow I could get into contact with you and ask for help, I would appreciate it!
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@Comy1312 The OnePlus 6/6T are some of the easiest devices to install postmarketOS on. If you screw up you can recover using EDL mode back to factory state with stock Android and try the install again. I had to do that to mine once. I also highly recommend not experimenting on your daily driver phone. The 6/6T are available used for around ~$100 so it's not a huge investment to experiment with postmarketOS.
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@CalcProgrammer1 here is the problem. I dont have a PC myself. My parents are strictly against it even though I have earned the money working. Yes, I go to school and have a job, and still am not allowed buying my own stuff. I was supposed to install postmarketOS on my old Huawei, but sadly bricked it in process. So, I am still scared about flashing because I dont know when can Termux give up on me (possible at any moment). I was glad to talk to you, and thank you for giving me courage!
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@Comy1312 Unfortunately you will need access to a Linux PC to install postmarketOS on the device, but once it's installed then you don't need the PC anymore unless you somehow brick the pmOS installation and need to reflash it. If you have a Steam Deck you could theoretically use that as it's technically a Linux PC.
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@CalcProgrammer1 I got nothing except a phone. I dont know how to get hands on someones PC, but I do have android-tools on my phone installed (fastboot etc), so that could work too.
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@Comy1312 Potentially you could set up a chroot/proot Linux container and use that to run pmbootstrap and build the images. Actually, for the OnePlus 6/6T, there are prebuilt images on the postmarketos.org site. I think all you would need is fastboot, but I've never tried running fastboot from one phone to another. As long as the Android kernel has the right drivers and you have the right USB adapters, it might work.
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@CalcProgrammer1 it really should. I just dont have much experience with fastboot etc, and I am quite stressed out when it comes to tampering with phones (my money was invested, and I have quite low hourly rate so I get even more scared)
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@Comy1312 With fastboot it'll either work or it won't. If you run the right commands I don't think you're too much at risk of bricking the OnePlus 6/6T to the point you would need a PC to reflash with EDL. If fastboot doesn't work though, you're stuck with an Android OnePlus 6/6T. Remember that even if you have the fastboot executable on your Android phone, the kernel will need the right drivers and you may need root (not sure though).
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@CalcProgrammer1 Maybe I would need root. So thats the problem I guess. Also, how do games perform on OnePlus 6?
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@Comy1312 I just reread your messages and you tried to install pmOS to a different phone already. Did fastboot work for you then?
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@Comy1312 Do you have access to another Android phone you can put in fastboot mode to test? Just running "fastboot devices" should show if a phone in fastboot mode is connected without doing anything to the phone's data. If it shows a device is connected, fastboot is working.
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@CalcProgrammer1 as of now, not anymore. The Huawei is fully bricked.
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@Comy1312 By fully bricked does it display a boot screen? Can you get to fastboot by holding volume down on powerup?
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@CalcProgrammer1 cant get to fastboot but can go to recovery. This website doesnt exist anymore.
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@Comy1312 That's odd, flashing postmarketOS shouldn't affect the ability to get to fastboot. Usually you only flash the boot (kernel) partition and userdata partition, leaving the bootloader and fastboot partitions alone. Also, fastboot may be a different button combination depending on device but usually holding volume down while holding power to force a reboot gets you there. Maybe try volume up or both volume keys.
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@Comy1312 Also, did you unlock the bootloader before using fastboot to flash postmarketOS? If you flash pmOS to a locked bootloader phone it will not boot. On the OnePlus 6/6T, you have to enable Developer Options in Android, enable OEM Unlocking, and then do fastboot oem unlock to unlock the bootloader before you flash pmOS.
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@CalcProgrammer1 Huawei wasn't supposed to be tortured. It was OnePlus 6 which I would buy for 40 euros (basically 40 dollars). But my mom didn't want to understand what was I going to do with the phone so she said no.
I know how easy it is to unlock bootloader on other devices except Huawei. They made you press down "testpoint" on motherboard so you can hopefully get OEM key
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I personally would like to see a bit of seperation between the alpha keys and the other keys (spacing, color difference). Looks good otherwise.
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@minecraftchest1 I went with the orthogonal layout on purpose as it is easy to get the spacing and it allows cramming more keys onto the screen without making some of them too small to press. I'm not sure squeekboard offers the ability to set key colors in the layout files, but if it does I agree, having the letters a different color would be nice.
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Can you adjuat the padding between rows? Having a bigger gap between the number row and alpha rows would help.
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@minecraftchest1 I think you can by messing with the key size values, but I like it the way it is. I am using 100x100 for the key size. If you make that smaller, the labels get bigger.
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