Samsung Galaxy Fame (samsung-nevisp)

Features
Flashing It is possible to flash the device with pmbootstrap flasher.	Works
USB Networking After connecting the device with USB to your PC, you can connect to it via telnet (initramfs) or SSH (booted system).	Works
Battery Charging and battery level reporting works	Untested
Screen Display works. Ideally with sleep mode and brightness control.	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration	Broken
Audio Audio playback, microphone, headset and buttons.	Works
Camera	Broken
Connectivity
WiFi	Works
Bluetooth	Untested
GPS	Untested
Modem
Calls	Untested
SMS	Untested
Mobile data	Untested
Miscellaneous
FDE Full disk encryption and unlocking with unl0kr.	Works
Sensors
Accelerometer Auto screen rotation works in desktops e.g. Phosh or Plasma Mobile	Untested

Samsung Galaxy Fame
	; Samsung Galaxy Fame (nevisp) running mate
Manufacturer	Samsung
Name	Galaxy Fame
Codename	samsung-nevisp
Released	2013
Type	handset
Hardware
Chipset	Broadcom BCM21654G
CPU	1.0 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU	Broadcom VideoCore IV
Display	320x480
Storage	4 GB
Memory	512 MB
Architecture	armv7
Software
Original software The software and version the device was shipped with.	Android 4.1.2
postmarketOS
Category	downstream
Mainline Instead of a Linux kernel fork, it is possible to run (Close to) Mainline.	no
pmOS kernel The kernel version that runs on the device's port.	3.0.101
Device package	device-samsung-nevisp
Kernel package	linux-samsung-nevisp

Contributors

fsmnarmosta

Maintainer(s)

fsmnarmosta

Users owning this device

Rom4nik

How to enter flash mode

Upon reboot, press home and volume down.

Installation

Using the pmbootstrap flasher

pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs

Alternatively, use

pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs --partition userdata

to flash the filesystem / to the larger userdata partition (eg. sxmo won't fit into the system partition)

User interfaces

The most usable seems to be sxmo right now. By default, it has cumbersome font settings (and a somewhat incorrect positioning of the xdm login screen). The first can be solved by tweaking the variables dmenu.font, dwm.font, st.font and svkbd.font in the file ~/.Xresources. These values were fairly usable:

dmenu.font:	FiraMono Nerd Font:size=5
dwm.font:	FiraMono Nerd Font:size=5
st.font:	FiraMono Nerd Font:size=5
svkbd.font:	Sans:bold:size=5

To position the xdm login dialog, look at the file /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources. It should contain a line of the form

xlogin*geometry: <width>x<height>+<x>+<y>

The following values seem to have worked fairly well:

xlogin*geometry: 320x300+0+0