Abhijith PA: Running PostmarketOS on my phone
Couple of weeks back I installed PostmarketOS on my idle phone Leeco Le 1s , which was paper weight for
some time now.
It all started with a roadtrip to Pondicherry (I will soon write about
this trip). As I was sitting on the front seat where Praveen s Librem
5 kept charing on the car dashboard. And we had a small discussion
about
PostmarketOS and how much new ports are available now.
My idle phone came to my mind. After reaching home I started
setting up porting pmOS to this device. Going through pmOS website, to
my surprise there is already a port for this device.
The OEM unlock is quite easy even though a little hiccup at begin (I
suspect it is solely of my cable). The Xiaomi users knows the pain of
unlocking bootloader.
With the pmOS community preferred practice of using 
Mate desktop is not at all touch friendly even though I tried to
scaled up to read and tap things on the screen. Wiki suggest xfce4 is
little more touch friendly. I started moving to xfce. Then again same
problem, stuck at boot loop.
This time it was with lightdm, I turned off CanGraphical issue warning and now I have
xfce desktop. pmos xfce seems great comparing
with mate.
Nothing works as of now from a Mobile phone point of view. The phone
maintainer says the battery is working, but I couldn t get it working.
Its always in battery mode and 50% status.
I thought the hardware buttons will never work. But with
pmbootstrap, I
built image for my device, flashed it. And phone boot stopped with
pmOS logo. I thought I went to bootloop. I tried sxmo, xfce4, everything same
nothing happening after boot logo splash.
The pmOS troubleshooting wiki is quite good. They have documented
most issues. Though screen is stuck I can still ssh to the phone.
From wiki I came to know its a screen refresh problem. I installed
msm-fb-refresher package and
ran it as a daemon.
Voila, I have a mate desktop.
Mate desktop is not at all touch friendly even though I tried to
scaled up to read and tap things on the screen. Wiki suggest xfce4 is
little more touch friendly. I started moving to xfce. Then again same
problem, stuck at boot loop.
This time it was with lightdm, I turned off CanGraphical issue warning and now I have
xfce desktop. pmos xfce seems great comparing
with mate.
Nothing works as of now from a Mobile phone point of view. The phone
maintainer says the battery is working, but I couldn t get it working.
Its always in battery mode and 50% status.
I thought the hardware buttons will never work. But with xev, I can
see the hardware key event triggering.
Like each month, have a look at the work funded by 
I recently bought a refurbished thinkpad x260. If you have read my
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Laptop refreshment
Too much word here and there I decided to do a visit. I took a motorbike and started a journey to Munnar. Due to covid restrictions there weren t much tourists, so this was to my advantage. There are many water falls on the way to Munnar. Some are very close to road and some are far away but can be spotted. Munnar travel is just not about the destination because its never been a single spot. Enjoying the journey that the ride has to offer.
I stayed at a hotel, little far away from town, though I never recommend hotels in Munnar. Try to find home stays and small establishments away from the town. There are British Era bungalows inside the plantations still maintained in good condition which can be booked per room or entire property.
The lush greenery on the Mountains of tea plantation is very refreshing and feast to our eyes. The mornings and evenings of Munnar is something to watch, mountains wrapped in mist slowly uncovering with sunlight and again slipping to mist by dark evening. I planned only to visit places which are less explored by tourists.
People here live a simple life. Most of them are plantation workers. The native people of Munnar are actually tribal folks but since the plantation boom many people from Tamil Nadu(neighboring state) and other parts of Kerala settled here. The houses of this plantation workers resembled Hobbit homes in Shire from Lord of the Rings as they are in the hill slides. The Kannan Devan hills, the biggest hill in area covers more than half of Munnar.
Two famous Tea companies from Munnar are 
