Omarchy Mobile: the speakers work, and the ports keep coming

Thirty pull requests merged since yesterday’s post. Here is what changed.

On the Pixel 7 Pro

• The speakers work. They had been muting themselves and crackling under music. Both turned out to be the amplifiers’ own settings: a temperature rule that fired on a reading that isn’t reliable at our volume, and a boost converter that crackles when it runs lightly loaded. With the converter off and the rule moved to where it applies, music plays clean and loud enough to use, a little below stock’s maximum. The speaker filter is now flat, with 6 dB of drive for streamed music, chosen by ear on the phone.
• The NFC tile really switches NFC off and on.
• Earpiece mode for calls is being tested: the top speaker alone at a safe level, which calls will need. The first tests found a crackle on speech, so it isn’t merged yet.
• A flat battery taught us something. Left unplugged overnight with automatic sleep switched off, the phone stayed awake until the battery ran out. The low-battery action put it to sleep at 2 %, which was about ten minutes of charge, and nothing shut it down after that. The fix, being built now: power off at 5 %, and never sleep below 8 % on battery. Automatic sleep stays off by default until that and the remaining sleep tests pass.

Community ports

• Pixel 9a (W4HO-ham): the Tensor G4’s clock controllers landed as one fourteen-commit series, along with its panel driver, GPU clock, thermal sensors, UFS power handling, USB-C, Bluetooth and haptics. The phone’s own device tree is in review next.
• Pixel 7a (latentoperator): UFS and the touchscreen are in the published kernel, and its device package installs an Arch root on the phone.
• Pixel Fold (boozedog): both panels’ display triggers now come from the device description.
• Pixel 6 Pro (robotosaith): touch recovers from a stalled controller, and crash logs survive a reboot.
• Pixel 4 XL (HemangKumawat): its bring-up notes and results are in the repository.
• New: a Pixel 7 port, whose touch driver is merged and whose board device tree is in review, and a OnePlus 13 port proposed.

One rule got written down along the way: most drivers serve several phones, so a change for one phone has to leave the Pixel 7 Pro exactly as it is, or show why it shouldn’t and be tested on it first.

The devices list has every phone’s status.

To help, read the contributor guide, open an issue for your phone, or follow along here.

Omarchy Mobile is a community project built on Omarchy. It is not an official Omarchy or Basecamp product.