Omarchy Mobile: now on Omarchy 4.5

• Omarchy 4.5
• Pixel 7 Pro
• Pixel 9a
• More

Omarchy Mobile runs on Omarchy 4.5. The Pixel 7 Pro took the update on 11 November through its own Updates sheet, and phones on the development channel get it with their next omarchy update. Here’s what changed since the last post on 9 November.

§Omarchy 4.5

Omarchy 4.5 reached Omarchy’s stable channel just before our first release, and our changes to Omarchy didn’t apply to it. So phones were held on 4.0.6 while we caught up. That hold now points at 4.5.

• What 4.5 changed under us: a new notification store, renamed system commands, a package list put together from several files, and a new dictation setup. Each one touched something the phone depends on.
• The notification shade and the bar read 4.5’s store. Toasts, the badge, swipe to dismiss, reply and Clear all work as before.
• The lock screen kept everything: the PIN pad, the glance view, fingerprint, the emergency button and double tap to wake.
• Restart, first-run setup and the Mic key use 4.5’s commands, and still work on 4.0.6.
• The update was rehearsed first, on a copy of a 4.0.6 phone, in one step and in two. Then the reference phone took it the way any phone will: Updates, then Restart.
• How to get it: on the development channel, open Updates or run omarchy update. It asks for a restart at the end.
• Stable phones stay on 4.0.6 a little longer, while 4.5 gets some days of use on development. A release image built on 4.5 follows.
• It’s tested on the Pixel 7 Pro so far. If you run another phone on the development channel, tell us how the update goes.

The 4.5 port of our Omarchy changes came from marselnenaj, with testing on 4.5 by jkjoplin.

§Pixel 7 Pro

• A Settings app is taking shape: device information (marselnenaj), and a Display page with brightness and refresh rate (Somnius).
• Back goes back one level, and from an app’s top level it goes home.
• Rotation is a quick half turn, with the old frame fading out (angelrenefm).
• Weather follows your location when Location is on, and Location works right after an install.
• A hang or a reset no longer costs the next boot its modem. The modem starts all the same; only a second one in a row holds it off.
• Swap on compressed memory, at half the phone’s RAM (den-kloot).
• The USB connection keeps its addresses across restarts, so your computer sees the same network device each time (azazelpy).
• Waking the screen is cleaner: the brightness comes back only after the panel is off, and the phone notices a wake at once (Somnius).
• Waydroid (azazelpy): the opt-in Android container’s check now refuses a device configuration opened by hand.

§Pixel 9a

W4HO-ham’s port:

• The modem and the phone service can start at boot, opt-in for now, and both run from the published kernel’s own drivers.
• Sleep: the two ways a sleep could end badly are fixed, one in the kernel and one as a sleep hook. The clock alarm can now wake the phone.
• A call that ends is confirmed ended before the next one starts.
• The GNSS link is in the published kernel.

§More

• Pixel 8 Pro: NFC starts at boot and sound starts from a packaged unit (Somnius), Suspend uses the sleep state that works (gitColinX), and the GNSS chip has its place in the kernel (Somnius).
• Pixel 8a (aninmucek): Omarchy’s image runs on it, and the kernel has its buttons.
• Pixel 6 Pro (robotosaith): its display is in the kernel.
• Pixel 6 (Gr-linkk): a first device package.
• Xiaomi Mi 8 (quatrixone): first light, recorded, and a guarded way to boot from a network root during bring-up.
• Pixel 6a (latentoperator): its notes cover a desktop that survives a restart.
• The installer got the pieces a guided install needs, and a long list of fixes (only21mil, robotosaith).
• Behind the scenes: a release’s download folder lists its files, a phone’s first start mounts /run the way systemd expects (angelrenefm), and the boot image loads its packed drivers once (Gr-linkk).

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.