(edit: I found it!) What is the default passcode for new postmarketOS installs?
5d 8h ago by sopuli.xyz/u/sbeak in linuxphones@lemmy.ca
Hi all, I finally got my (second, the first was hardlocked into EDL mode and the buttons are all jammed, whoops!) OnePlus 6 to get postmarketOS installed! I'm very happy now, but it looks like there's a default passcode. Trying things like "0000" and "1234" doesn't work, and there isn't anything listed in the wiki.
My device is running the stable v25.12 build of postmarketOS, installed via the prebuilt image w/ Phosh.
EDIT: The default passcode is 147147 according to the wiki for all prebuilt binaries, who knew? I had only checked the wiki for my specific device!
Please keep sharing your experiences. I’m also new to PMOS.
I'm going on a trip to Germany soon, so I'll bring this little device. I'll probably use it as a music player, but I'll also try a few note-taking apps I found. The audio jack is unfortunately pretty broken on this used device though, it has definitely seen a lot of use, so I'll have to make do with Bluetooth.
Initial impressions, most of the functions seem to work, and there's a lot of neat tricks to pmOS. You can set the pin keypad to be randomised, and you can toggle whether UI elements avoid the notch. WiFi is a bit spotty but I mostly fixed it by changing the regulatory region to the UK. I was able to get cell service working w/ 4G, which is nice, but I have not tried making (or receiving) any calls or SMS messages yet. Location does seem to work but it puts in a different city, I'll have to see how I can fix that later.
I have also noticed some other quirks about pmOS. It looks like you can't change to a different 6 digit pin code, as the system treats that as an insecure passcode and doesn't let you change it. On a phone, it isn't very viable to have a long password. It's probably only be the graphical prompt though, I'm sure that you can change configs or something via the command line to set another PIN code. There's other discrepancies, like the wallpaper selector showing a landscape desktop display as the preview, where the OS occasionally treats the device as a desktop. It's only minor issues and doesn't put me of using it, but there is still some work to be done it to make it seamless it looks like.
And nowadays, there's actually quite a bit of cool software on Linux phones! Majorly these are GTK / GNOME-like apps, but there are also many Qt / Plasma-like apps. Since I'm running Phosh, I mostly used the GTK apps. In the software store, it helpfully tells you which apps are "adaptive", meaning whether they work well on mobile UIs. Aside from one exception (Sleek, a todo.txt app), it did correctly identify which were usable on a phone.
Some notable options include Mimick, a third-party Immich client that works really well with native UI, FreeTube (which somewhat scales okay in mobile, I didn't know they did that!), Gapless, which is preinstalled, but is still a great music player that scales well with mobile, and Secrets, a KeePass compatible password manager that I can use Syncthing with to sync my passwords with other devices!
A small tip, using the "Add Water" app gives Firefox a GNOME theme, making it a little easier to use on mobile.
Many of the "GNOME" apps, although basic, look nice on mobile and work well for what they do. Think Weather, Clock, Calculator, Calendar, etc.
There's also a few neat games you can get on mobile Linux. Ultimate Tic Tac Toe is always fun, but you also have 2048, Duel! (game of Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock against a computer), Chess, Sudoku, Flood It, Pentobi (Blokus), etc.