AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life. My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.

Everything is up for anyone who wants to install it, or to understand the changes and manually write the patches for mainline: https://github.com/sv1sjp/mi-max2-oxygen-msm8953-nura-drivers Testing, feedback and PRs welcome.

OC by @sv1sjp@lemmy.world

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    That’s pretty cool. Llms are great for this kind of thing, I’m hoping they can bring hacking to the point you can cobble together random hardware and make it work

    I think that’s where the magic is. It’s like mighty putty - it’s not great as a building material itself, but it fills in gaps and let’s you stick all kinds of things together