Installing custom build of muditaOS on MY OWN phone

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Thanks for the explanation @Grzegorz_Szmidt

However, there are successful open hardware e-ink in Europe : for example the one made by the Croatian About Us - Soldered Electronics
Has Mudita tried to get in touch with them or other open hardware competitors ?

cc @urszula

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Dear Elie,

Thank you for your question. At this time, I am not aware of any discussions between Mudita and other companies about collaborating on open hardware e-ink projects. While transitioning to open source LUTs is not technically challenging, it is still a time-consuming process that does not align with the scope of our current projects, including the Kompakt. Based on the information I have gathered, we do not have plans to pursue this direction at this time.

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Hi,

I ordered a Mudita Pure which will arrive in a few days. I was under the impression that I could modify the software on it and this was the only reason I ordered one. Clearly, seeing this thread now, this impression was a wrong.

Without the ability to modify the software (more specifically the apps) on it, is no more use to me than a regular feature phone and much more expensive, so I fear I have to return it.

Before I do so, I just wanted to check if there is a realistic chance that users can modify the apps on the phone in the near future. In particular:

  1. The github wiki speaks of an effort to allow community builds. (As I understand it, through special update packages) Is there a concrete roadmap for that? When could we expect any results?
  2. The wiki also speaks of that ā€œYou can ask for the development version of Mudita Center with ā€œupdate from fileā€ capability enabled.ā€. Would requesting (and receiving) this development version allow me to modify apps on the phone? If yes, how can I request one and is the process to do so documented?
  3. Finally, I imagine that it would be possible for you to build experimental branches yourself from community pull requests, maybe even automatically. Could this be a way to allow users to use a modified OS (at their own risk, of course)

If there really is no realistic chance of modifying/improving the software for Mudita Pure in the near future (which would be a real shame, also considering that further development on the phone has stopped, cf post why-mudita-os-development-is-slowed-down) then I would urge to update your documentation and clearly state at the beginning of the relvant pages that user-modifications of the OS are impossible.

Before ordering I did check the docs specifically to see if I could modify the software and as I came across pages like ā€œrunnning on phoneā€ and ā€œsetting up development environmentā€ that gave clear instructions, I thought this would be supported. A small note in the middle of the page effectively stating (in complicated terms) that this is basically useless information for people outside of the company is really misleading!

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I woiuld donate to coders willing to improve OS - Pure firmware-software esp. SMS typing (add T9), notes, calendar and especially mp3 (Background player)
I suggest Power2People website
https://power2people.org

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@lu-fennell Welcome to the Mudita Forum & the Mudita Community. We sincerely apologize for any confusion caused by our current documentation. I have reached out to our team about this.

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Well, current state of affairs is ā€¦
Is MuditaOS dead since Pure, and partially Harmony will not recieve much bugfixes?
If its king of ā€œdead assestā€ for Mudita it would be nice to make OS and mudita firmware trully FLOSS and letting community modify it and take it further.
It costs company 0, but can give a lot to its users

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