**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sat Jul 08 03:00:01 2017 Jul 08 17:28:36 hey - i just got a feature phone/flip phone, and i was wondering if it's possible to flash this kind of device with a custom OS, and a friend suggested here as a place to ask Jul 08 17:29:06 google has not been much help - anybody know if this is a possible thing to do? the phone is an alcatel a392cc Jul 08 20:17:02 you generally can't flash your own OS to a feature phone Jul 08 20:18:04 to start with, those devices are too stingy on resources for anything useful to run on them Jul 08 20:19:15 then they generally are not documented, so you couldn't create and drivers for the peripherals, often you don't even know the CPU they got Jul 08 20:19:32 s/ and / any / Jul 08 20:19:32 DocScrutinizer05 meant: then they generally are not documented, so you couldn't create any drivers for the peripherals, often you don't even know the CPU they got Jul 08 20:20:50 some symbian phones might have enough grunt, but I never heard of anybody creating a linux for a symbian phone Jul 08 20:23:19 http://www.comparecellular.ca/cell-phones/alcatel-onetouch-a392a/specifications.asp ->"Proprietary operating system" no dice Jul 08 20:25:56 http://www.comparecellular.ca/cell-phones/alcatel-onetouch-a392a/reviews.asp not even worth trying, eh? Jul 09 00:27:02 =( Jul 09 00:27:16 i dont even really want that much out of it Jul 09 00:27:41 but the music player is fucking garbage (it lists tracks in an album in alphabetical order) and i was hoping to put something similar in power but not fucking garbage onto it ;-; Jul 09 00:31:11 i explicitly don't want a smartphone cuz i dont have enough self-control to not get sucked into it, but i /would/ like to be able to listen to music with my phone Jul 09 00:35:33 are there feature phones that are open enough to be able to actually write programs and run them on them? but which don't have, e.g., a touchscreen or enough resolution to watch a movie on them Jul 09 00:38:24 er, it just occurred to me that maybe i should actually look up what openmoko itself is, given that my friend thought this channel would be relevant... :> **** ENDING LOGGING AT Sun Jul 09 03:00:01 2017