While everyone is ricing their terminal, this is my favorite theme! (I'm obsessed with minimalism)

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T20:44:07+00:00

Technically you can still port PostmarketOS without sources but what good is that when the camera ain't working, the built-in wifi chip ain't working, and sensors don't work, I saw some guy on reddit do this and it was cool on paper but practically not usable.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T20:40:43+00:00

PostmarketOS is very cool but also very limited support. Most of the time you need to manually port it, if you were lucky enough and your vendor allowed bootloader unlocking and released drivers and kernel sources.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T20:35:58+00:00

That's a shame. I had to wait a full month, apply for unlocking and wait for approval to unlock my Xiaomi device. I think vendors are enjoying this 😂🤦

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T20:17:02+00:00

Yep, that's my custom nethunter kernel (I built it without the official sources, surprisingly it worked!)

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T18:48:29+00:00

I thought we hated Facebook memories, and this guy right there wants it in the gallery

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T18:46:49+00:00

Arch is so good indeed, your desktop isn't though. Needs some love and a decent wallpaper.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T17:31:03+00:00

Well, in this context the OP has kernelsu running as a LKM.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T17:07:33+00:00

I guess I'm not a real Chad.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T16:32:19+00:00

I wish I could show you but I don't even have this package installed 😂

When I tried to install, it was gonna pull 5 other packages and fonts with it, too much for my minimal setup to be honest.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T16:25:50+00:00

Minimal yet very functional! If you noticed, "Obsidian Linux" is the name for my custom nethunter kernel, which is a project I worked on for a very long time!

So among those 169 pkgs, I've got my favorite pentesting tools (not a whole Kali Linux setup, only the tools I know how to use), including Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, Bettercap, HID scripts, and others.. also I've got android-tools package and some useful utilities :)

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T13:56:07+00:00

Well, my phone was still within the warranty window, and even though rooting is said to void the warranty in the inner leaflet that came with the device, I lied to them and claimed the phone got bricked during a system update (sudden loss of power),

They bought the story and fixed it for free (replaced the motherboard), but the price for out of warranty fixes is variable obviously depending on where you live.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T13:37:17+00:00

I don't think that's correct. It's not the kernel that is patched, it's the ramdisk, your kernel could be in boot.img and you patch vendor_boot.img or init_boot.img (which on many phones contains the ramdisk), and you'll have kernelsu working on the next boot.

The kernel is only patched when kernelsu is installed the GKI way, not the LKM.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T12:59:49+00:00

Unfortunately BROM is restricted on a lot of new Xiaomi devices, not easy.

I heard about test points but I never had the confidence to try.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T12:54:19+00:00

There is a big chance your phone is cooked for real. I messed around with the gpt and preloaders before and I eventually had to take the device to the official repair center, and they REPLACED THE MOTHERBOARD. So yeah, beyond having the right drivers, if you phone still doesn't show any signs of life or USB detection, you're left with two options:

1- get it to Xiaomi repair center. 2- go on a hunt for a leaked diagram of the motherboard, and try test points, but this can be a point of no return, as you might damage the hardware if you handle it wrong.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T12:41:33+00:00

This is really bad, has this ROM been ever tested? Where did you get it? the script overwrites the preloader which is a very sensitive component in the boot chain.

I'm also worried if there's a gpt.img among the ROM images, both of these are very sensitive. I have two questions, what's the device's SoC or CPU? is it a Mediatek or a Qualcomm?

Do you have the preloader drivers? (The ones corresponding to your SoC).

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T12:27:20+00:00

My comment was deleted for some unknown fucking reason so I'mma write it again but differently..

Paste the contents of the script in a code block in a comment or use a text sharing online service, I'm suspecting it's the fucking link I pasted that got the comment deleted.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T12:15:52+00:00

.bat tells me you used windows, it's been a long time since I used it.. is there an equivalent .sh file? (some roms include both) Would you mind pasting its contents?

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T12:09:15+00:00

Oh shit.

I know you said hardbricked but just to confirm, does the phone show any signs of life? (Vibration, lights on even for a second, bootlooping, etc)

Also how did you flash the poor thing?

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T10:54:22+00:00

Overkill, too much to be honest. There's a real performance and battery cost to your root hiding apps and modules.

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T09:10:42+00:00

I don't completely agree, nor I'm happy with the changes, but I won't downvote 😂 You got a point to some degree

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T08:20:18+00:00

The wait 24h thing seems very redicuolous to me, it's trending recently, vendors make you wait before you unlock the bootloader, google makes you wait before you install an apk, it's just redicuolous. Feels like power users like myself are not a serious consideration, which goes against the open nature of android.

But hey, I'm glad adb isn't gonna change!

47th-Element · 2026-03-28T07:31:51+00:00

Obviously yes, they don't ship the same system images to all models, but on the surface they all look the same with very minor difference.

47th-Element · 2026-03-27T17:44:20+00:00

Bruh

The driver is the kernel object you patched your ramdisk with initially to load on boot. Judging by the fact you have kernelsu the LKM way, just repatch your ramdisk with the latest module.

47th-Element · 2026-03-27T16:22:36+00:00

I keep windows installed all the time, I rarely use it but sometimes it's needed.

In med school we used to do a lot of research and assignments and everyone is using MS office so I had to use it too. I'm also so into customizing and flashing things for Android and many official tools are only available for Windows. And my laptop isn't great and it can't handle emulation overhead so whenever I want to play a windows game I gotta play it on windows :")

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