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ONEPLUS6

Installation​

For more details, follow:

On the phone:

  • Make sure to update you update current OS
  • Enable developer mode, and enable OEM unlocking
  • Unplug from USB, hold power and volume up. Wait for fasboot mode.

On a computer:

  • Get fastboot from Android SDK
  • Plug to the phone
  • fastboot oem unlock

Go to https://git.codelinaro.org/linaro/qcomlt/u-boot On the last release, get u-boot-enchilada-boot.img

fastboot flash boot u-boot-enchilada-boot.img

Reboot the phone. When u-boot menu shows up, select "Enable USB mass storage".

The different logical unit number (LUN) will appear as USB mass storage disks. One of them has a partition 17 with name userdata. Delete that partition.

Download the aarch64 iso for GNOME OS.

In the checkout of gnome-build-meta, add file utils/repart.raw.d/50-root.conf with the following content (this file is only to fix padding issues with existing partitions, but it will be skipped):

[Partition]
Type=root

If the disk is /dev/sda, then run:

sudo systemd-repart --architecture=arm64 --defer-partitions=root --definitions=utils/repart.raw.d/ --dry-run=yes --image=live.iso /dev/sda

If that looks ok, re-run with --dry-run=no.

Once the flash is completed, restart the phone by holding down the power button.

Known bugs, workarounds​

Sound does not work​

Not sure why yet.

No camera​

Still needs patches that are not mainlined yet.

USB host​

It has to be switched manually through debugfs, which is not accessible on GNOME OS due to lockdown. Thus it is not possible to switch to host mode.

No modem​

Restart ModemManager.

No SIM​

sudo qmicli -d qrtr://0 --uim-get-card-status

Look for the application ID. Then use it in:

sudo qmicli -d qrtr://0 --uim-change-provisioning-session='slot=1,activate=yes,session-type=primary-gw-provisioning,aid=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX'

You can create unit in /etc/systemd/system to run this command. You should probably make it start after tqftpserv.service.

For example:

[Unit]
After=tqftpserv.service
Before=ModemManager.service
StartLimitBurst=10

[Service]
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes
ExecStart=qmicli -d qrtr://0 --uim-change-provisioning-session='slot=1,activate=yes,session-type=primary-gw-provisioning,aid=12:34:56:78:90:AB:CD:EF:01:23:45:67'
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1s

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

SMS and calls​

Install Chats (aka Chatty) and Calls from flathub. RCS messages do not work, if you have multiple SIM on the same phone number, you might not get all messages.

(Calls were not yet tested).

Modem wants authentication when starting​

Something to fix, the polkit configuration is probably wrong for ModemManager.

Selecting time zone in GNOME Initial Setup​

Cannot choose a timezone via the textbox​

Clicking on the map to select your timezone, should be working instead.

"Next" button is off-screen​

Moving the window to the left, should expose the "Next" button. Alternatively, select your time zone, press "Previous", then "Next", then press Enter on the on-screen keyboard.

Device crashes when the screen turns off​

Some devices periodically crash when the screen turns off (either due to inactivity or when suspending). The notification LED lights up and turns solid white. After a bit, the phone enters "QUALCOMM CrashDump" mode.

wifi connection keeps dropping​

Occasionally, the wifi chipset restarts and briefly drops the current wifi connection. Actively using the connection (e.g: ssh connection, downloading sth.) seems to increase the frequency of disconnects. Bluetooth connections do not drop at all.

plymouth does not work​

Plymouth tries to launch, renders incorrectly and exits (first few seconds of bootup). Does not affect the boot process.

RTC clock is incorrect​

RTC clock shows current time as 'Epoch + time since GnomeOS was installed'.

[kawaiicvnt@retard ~]$ timedatectl status
        Local time: Wed 2026-01-07 21:00:01 EET
    Universal time: Wed 2026-01-07 19:00:01 UTC # Actual date
          RTC time: Fri 1970-01-02 22:45:29     # Epoch + time since install

RTC time is not lost between reboots, but there appears to be no RTC available when trying to set the time manually.