I have a really dumb question and a follow-up
I bought a used Galaxy SIII at a flea market yesterday for $15. It boots up into a lock screen fine, so I know it's working. However, it's the Sprint version so I'm not sure if I have a i9305 or the i747m version in my hands.
The wiki has thorough setup instructions for the i9305 but not the i747m so I'm not really sure what to do if it's the i747m model.
Sorry for posting such a dumb question - it's been a long time since I've played around with the Galaxy SIII since mine has been dead for years.
Posted Sep 2, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC
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After some further investigation I answered part 1:
It's indeed an i747m - Odin mode tells me it's an SPH-L710 which has a dual-core 1.5ghz processor, so that matches up with the i747m.
In that case the next step is porting it as a new device, there is a guide on the wiki here:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Porting_to_a_new_device
Thanks for that - it looks like it is already supported. I'm mostly waiting on clearing stuff off my microSD card since the only one I have to spare has about 32gb of video files I don't want to delete forever.
In the meantime, I've completely wiped the device and prepped it for install. I'd like to install TWRP but it's not showing up in Odin for some reason - probably because the drivers need to be installed. Most of this stuff is a blast from the past - I haven't done most of this for a couple years now since my HTC 10 has been trucking along just fine.
I'm probably going to install it then forget about it after a while. It won't really be useful until it gets mainlined, which is coming in the near future.
Awesome! What's your source?
Probably this
See also: https://postmarketos.org/blog/2017/12/31/219-days-of-postmarketOS/#mainline-linux-kernel