Hi!

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Aquaris X5 (Longcheer L8910) is a smartphone released by BQ in 2015.

As part of msm8916-mainline project, this series aims to bring initial
mainline support for it.

Good to see another phone being supported. Can I ask you to cc:
phone-devel@vger.kernel.org with phone stuff?

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Features added:
 - SDHCI (internal and external storage)
 - USB Device Mode
 - UART
 - Regulators
 - WiFi/BT
 - Volume buttons
 - Vibrator
 - Touchkeys backlight
 - Accelerometer and gyroscope sensor
 - Magnetometer sensor

How close are you to having useful phone calls?

You can do phone calls (with audio) and you can use mobile data, if you
have the patches for that. :) I'm trying to find time to finish up the
drivers needed for that, but I've been a bit short on time lately.

:-). 

Actually we have come pretty far with MSM8916-based smartphones.
Most functionality is (somewhat) working at this point, the primary
open task is optimizing suspend/power consumption. Battery/charging
and camera is also tricky but works somewhat on some of the devices.

Yes, power consumption is a lot of fun :-(.

Most of the functionality is packaged in postmarketOS [1] and you can
find a list of the devices in the postmarketOS wiki [2]. Especially
the ones in the "community" category are quite similar in terms of
working functionality.

I know about postmarketOS (I even contributed a bit some time ago),
and watch it from time to time. Currently I'm using old Nokia 6151 for
phone calls, but would not mind switching. Work is ongoing in Droid 4
land -- phone calls are also "almost there". But the almost seems to
be a lot of work :-(.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek