Phorepoc OS on the PINE64 PinePhone, straight from a microSD card.
The full interface with its own apps, graphics on the phone's GPU, Wi-Fi and sound. The phone's own system is never touched.
Download · Phorepoc · PC and VirtualBox · PDK and PhoneLab
Phorepoc OS is an open-source mobile operating system with its roots in Symbian, built from the source Nokia and the Symbian Foundation released in 2010. On the PinePhone it brings the Symbian^3 interface and its apps to a phone with a modern chip, drawn by the phone's GPU.
- Download
phorepoc-pinephone-sdcard.img.xzfrom the latest release. - Write it to a microSD card with balenaEtcher.
- Put the card in and switch the phone on.
Phorepoc OS runs from the card. Take the card out and the phone boots its own system again.
These are development images for now. Besides Phorepoc OS, the card holds a small fallback system (the golden image): if a
newer image fails to boot, the phone falls back to it. To update a card, push the release's
phorepoc-pinephone-update.img.xz with the pdk, after unpacking it:
xz -d phorepoc-pinephone-update.img.xz
phe device push phorepoc-pinephone-update.img -w "Idle: ready"- The interface. The home screen, the menu and the built-in apps, with their transition effects, composed on the GPU (OpenGL ES through Mesa).
- The touch screen and the power key.
- Wi-Fi, with modern TLS, so apps and the web work over today's internet.
- Sound through the speaker.
- The motion sensors, through Symbian's own sensor framework.
- Apps and games made for Symbian^3, installed from SIS files.
Not yet: the camera, the volume keys, the headphone jack, and calls over the modem.
The pdk has the commands, from the source to the card image. With this repository,
adaptation-a64 and mesa-symbian
checked out next to core and the pdk, -b pinephone picks them up by itself.
Every push to main builds the image on GitHub Actions, from the exact commits board.lock pins. When the commits ask
for a release (Conventional Commits: feat, fix or a breaking change), it is
released under the next version.
What's in this repository
| Folder | What it holds |
|---|---|
os/board/ |
The phone's settings, plus the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi configuration and firmware |
os/src/ |
The Bluetooth driver (hctl_h5, initialisor_rtl), Wi-Fi start-up, the phone's tests |
os/tools/phorepoc-arm/ |
The scripts that make the card image |
recipes/ |
The image and release recipes phe runs |
registry/ |
The components this repository adds |
The drivers for the phone's chip, the Allwinner A64, are in adaptation-a64.
At build time os/ is laid over core's os/, so the paths line up with core's.
Code we wrote, and Symbian files we've changed, are EPL-2.0, with GPL-2.0-or-later as a Secondary License, and
Symbian files we use unchanged stay EPL-1.0. The licence texts are in LICENSES/.
The Realtek firmware in os/board/bt/fw/ and wlan/fw/ comes from linux-firmware, and can be redistributed under the
licence next to it.
Contributions are welcome under the same terms. Add your name to AUTHORS in your first pull request.
Phorepoc is an independent project, not affiliated with Nokia, the Symbian Foundation or PINE64.