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jayFORkay

2y↑95

It really nice see you tinkering around with these special devices. I just found this channel and now I'm stuck here..

Janus Cycle

2y↑13

Thank you. I've collected many devices over the years. Heaps more stories to come.

jayFORkay

2y↑4

@Janus Cycle that sounds promising.
I got myself over the years some old Sony Laptops and PDA, maybe I should also start tinkering again. You got me motivated!

Janus Cycle

2y↑1

@jayFORkay Nice, I do like a good PDA to mess about with. I hope to one day look closer at some Sony CLIÉ's :)

jayFORkay

2y↑3

@Janus Cycle try to get a UX50! My unit died a few years ago but it was a really great device.

Janus Cycle

2y↑2

@jayFORkay I would love a UX50. I hope I can find one for a good price one day.

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Piotr Masłowski

2y↑57

The degraded boot performance can be just some timeout, but it could also be something like an interrupt storm, where the CPU constantly receives spurious IO events to handle

Janus Cycle

2y↑14

I suspected there was something getting stuck. It's great to hear and learn new terms such as interrupt storm. Thank you for that. I 'm really enjoying this learning process with Linux.

app0the

1y↑10

Or maybe the quirk switches the SDIO bus from SD to regular SPI mode and if the eMMC is also on the same bus... whoops!

ThePiGuy24

1y↑16

While it's probably far too late for this comment to be of use to you, It may be of use to someone else reading the comments. The graphical way to rotate the display in LXQt is in the monitor settings applet, accessible through "Preferences" > "LXQt Settings" > "Monitor settings", through which you can set the rotation of the display (and each connected display if you have multiple) in the "Advanced" tab for each display. (Should also be persistent between boots)

Janus Cycle

1y↑7

Your comment is very useful to me, because I'm always learning, and will be continuing to try and install Linux on this and other unusual devices. Thank you for the tip!

ZetaPlayzGames

1y↑1

@Janus Cycle I would recommend an install of Alpine Linux. It's an extremely lightweight (in terms of ram useage) operating system that runs with maybe half the ram useage as a normal distro. GNOME uses 500-600MiB.

Sithhy

52w↑6

@ZetaPlayzGames Not sure Alpine would be recommended; it comes with no DE installed & you have to set it up completely through the terminal while reading a lot of the wiki to get it working. However, I do kind of want to see it due to how small & lightweight it is

Retapich

1y↑9

How interesting!🤩
Do you have any plans to run Android-x86 on it (for example, Project Sakura, BlissOS)? That would be great🥰

Summoner Arthur

1y↑12

Its so cool seeing someone messing around with these devices just like I would if I had them LOL
Have you tried installing windows on that chinese exclusive nokia n1 tablet? It is an x86 device, and I've seen people unlocking its bootloader before. Maybe you can do something with it.

Piotr Kubiec

1y↑2

We need phones like this today - with modern Android and Windows Dual-Boot, modern specs and a slider keyboard it would be my number 1 choice. I did try the FxTec Pro1 but after over 1 year of waiting it broke after a few hours of use (slider sensor) and the support was unable to help in reasonable timeline. BTW AFAIK their support still sucks, if the users can't help themself then there's not much to do.

Juan Chaves

51w↑1

You could have tried with Windows 10 LTSB, which is a stripped down version of the first W10 releases. Or maybe W10 LTSC. Both of them are considerably faster than the W10 Home or Pro versions

STALKER

1y↑2

Would love to see mx Linux with Fluxbox on this

Joao Shiozo

1y↑2

Alpine linux with xfce would've been perfect to run on this little device as a base alpine install with xfce uses about 230mb of ram
or better yet using a DWM so its even lighter

Sithhy

52w

Will you be doing another video about installing Linux distros on this phone? I'd love to see you try to get RaspberryPiOS running on this, as they offer the regular ARM version as well as a x86_64 variant

F Sayadi (EdomeTN)

49w

I wonder if there are items for this in stock still

YT_ThijmenPlayz

51w

tip at 0:51, try running the game with lower screen settings in windows settings like turning the resolution down, that also could help a little bit.

DRNEGOLICIS

49w

well i was looking at buying one for a daily use phone. you helped me decide against it. i run windows 7 on my daily driver computers. 1gb of ram is to slow. now if it could run windows 98 or 2000 i think it would be perfect

SpaceStream

2y↑6

Golleee....i just can't get ENOUGH of retro tech tubers ..

Filip Porubsky

1y↑2

I think that thecmain problem is not with cpu but with memory (not ram) speed

Raven4K

he should do a total comparison how well windows software runs on both windows and linux through steam on linux

Andre_Victor Gonçalves

2y↑17

Great video! Any thoughts about putting Windows XP in it? Or maybe an old macOS?

Janus Cycle

2y↑13

I think MacOS would be possible because I've seen Japanese references to it being done. I need to learn much more about Hackintoshing though.
Windows XP seems to be the hardest of all and I'm not sure how to even start the installer yet.

FreeRunLT Deimis

1y↑1

@Tyler Hey. Have you tried something like this before? I have tried installing XP on this device for a while now and have not been able to. Setup always freezes on "Setup is inspecting your computer hardware configuration". But i be able to make it work, i think XP would pretty well on this device, since windows 7 is to slow.

Tyler

1y↑1

@FreeRunLT Deimis I have not tried specifically on this phone, but I have used VMware to install OSes directly to hard disks, after figuring out which controller I need to emulate.

mcpe! vsmcbe

52w

@Janus Cycle Can you link to the references?

BillyNator121

1y↑1

i think you should try to give it a better cpu and mainly a better drive like a SSD at least 128 gb

Partyfreaker

50w

You should've done Windows 10 LTSC, it is built for devices with low specs like a machine with only the minimum functions of windows 10

GH228

51w

Lol my sd865 phone runs windows faster with an emulator than this hardware
I would also like to have one of those, but it looks like it is really rare. Also I would try to mod bios and unlock hidden features, maybe there is GPU/CPU overclock via bus speed

Raptor50aus

2y↑17

Nice effort with Windows 10 and that why I did not bother installing it on my Vaio UX with 1GB ram and the 30GB SSD. Windows 7 works nice.

Janus Cycle

2y↑6

Thanks. Windows 7 still has it all. Even in it's twilight years it keeps showing up for the fight.

That Guy

51w↑2

It was not the spaces in grub that didn't work, rather you're passing kernel paramenters to linux itself, and you cant have a space between the =
GRUB being the bootloader passes some options to the kernel, which are available before any configuration files are read in userspace (GRUB contains its own filesystem drivers)

Janus Cycle

51w

Thank you, I still have much to learn. I'm currently installing Linux on another computer right now!

That Guy

51w

@Janus Cycle it's alright

NaoyaShinota

2y↑3

Has anybody with this phone ever tried to hack the SIMBIAN OS of this phone? Also love how you are experimenting with this device.

Janus Cycle

I haven't seen anything about hacking that part. Thanks for watching and enjoying though :)

夜空が素晴らしいです。

1y↑1

Maybe you could get a bit more better experience if you used Windows 10 LTSB 2015 which is still officially being supported by Microsoft up to 2025.

misssarabunnie

51w

You mentioned you installed the latest version of windows 10. Maybe trying an older version would work better?

TeamRed Studio

1y↑1

I wouldn't expect the CPU to cause lag on a video game. Usually when the frames are rendering slow, it's the GPU that's struggeling. From experience, often when the CPU is slowing things down you start seeing the entities, physics and other stuff that is controlled by the CPU run in slow motion.
The biggest issue with Windows 10 is probably the emmc being extremely slow. When my RAM gets full it usually doesn't have issues at all, or the entire system locks up and the display drivers start crashing. When the drive is slow, right click menus, the start menu, settings and boot and sleep times are extremely slow. But often that gets much better once Windows finishes running Store app updates and Windows updates in the background.

GraveUypo

52w↑1

that is very, very wrong. you must have been lucky enough not to use a cpu-bottlenecked system. but cpu performance is actually even more important than gpu, but in truth you need a balance as to avoid one component to bottleneck the other. a system with a slow cpu will not only run at a bad frame rate, but it will have more inconsistent and stuttery performance doing so. anyway, there are cases that even my 5800x3d limits my 6900xt, so you can bet a 1.2ghz mobile cpu that is a single core (i'm assuming) will limit gaming. skyrim is way out of this thing's league. you need to go back 10 years further to give it any chance to running a game in real time. morrowing ran decently with 1ghz cpus

TeamRed Studio

52w

@GraveUypo That's weird, I had a laptop from 2006, and it'd always run games graphically fine at a decent 30fps, but the movement of entities and physics objects would always go in slow motion because the CPU just couldn't calculate it fast enough. I could see it in activity monitor and killing other processes that used cpu would always make the games a bit faster. It might be just a weird case I experienced but I have never seen a system get slow frames from a full cpu, not on mac and not on windows.

Zsombor99

1y↑1

Maybe "Tiny10" could be a good option to try on this phone! 😉

Aeduo

1y↑2

Looks like windows 10 was able to get some kind of graphics acceleration, where while linux was able to set a display mode, it seemed to be not using any kind of acceleration at all. :/ It looks like the linux desktop could be almost usable if it could get that going, but I have no idea what kind of GPU this thing is even using. It might be one of those old powervr GPUs in which case there's basically no hope.

Janus Cycle

1y↑1

I do believe it's a Powervr GPU, which is unfortunate.

SOTP

49w

Actually graphics acceleration works normally but rotating the display breaks both the touchscreen and acceleration (see last vid)

David Z

2y↑3

LOL this is fantastic, love your channel friend!

SOTP

49w↑1

I'd love a third trilogy

Janus Cycle

49w

So would I. I have big plans. From a Hackintosh, to serious BIOS mods, to the forbidden Windows XP install. They all require lots more knowledge and ability that I'm still looking into gaining.

(Inactive Channel)

2y↑6

It could be challenging to run those OS.

Janus Cycle

2y↑3

Yep , it's a challenge. But for quite different reasons.

Duk Nuts

1y↑4

love these types of videos so no hate from me but just strange that you would boot a game that would nowhere near run or even open (to my surprise) And linux mint XFCE would have been a perfect OS for this and would probably run better than default windows 7

Janus Cycle

1y↑2

I enjoy pushing hardware to it's limit to see how it handles. Sometimes it's fun to go way beyond them.
Thanks for the tip on the Linux distro. I do want to try more Linux installs on older 32 bit hardware and Mint version 19 looks interesting.

Duk Nuts

1y↑1

@Janus Cycle I'd be super interested in how it handles other OS's for sure. Great video btw!

Victor Mendes

1y↑1

Could you try installing Windows 10 the light version?

Mike Jaques

2y↑1

Very enjoyed seeing this phone indeed

S3Kglitches

49w↑1

thumbs up for first thing trying to play Skyrim on a Windows device, apparently we share the same performace testing methodology

Janus Cycle

49w

Pushing those limits :)

SOTP

49w

@Janus Cycle if you end up retrying skyrim, you can probably try ridiculous settings like i said in the comments

G. BarricadeX

50w

It was necessary to configure the phone version of Android 12 if you configured the computer version of the smartphone

Nick Northcutt

49w↑1

Very interesting stuff!

Євген Великий

52w

You know. Linux may be great for someone, but me. I have asus eeepc netbook and its kinda slow under win7. Reading over internet i have seen many suggestions to try lubuntu or arch or mint. So i've tested them all and its was terrible. No normal video drivers. No support for Fn-keys. No touchscreen drivers. No hibernation. No overdrive for cpu to overclocking up to 2Ghz. Its nearly unusable. Bruh.

Japanese Mickey Mouse

2y↑2

it would make a dope retroarch device as well

Janus Cycle

Good suggestions. I'll be trying this out one day. Thanks.

Macka GG

52w↑1

I know that this comment is very late, but can you redo video with installing Tiny10? I really want to see how it performs, because for Tiny10, ram isn't an issue.

Janus Cycle

51w

I enjoy reading comments on older videos. I do want to try with this phone again. But I had a bad experience with Tiny 11 on my VAIO. I hope Tiny 10 is better in 1GB ram.

SOTP

49w

@Janus Cycle it is, someone even managed to get it to boot up with 128 mb of ram (you can probably guess it was with pagefile and beyond slow, but it worked!).

tecpupy

1y↑1

nice,i remeber in 2020 when i installed windows 10 on my 1gb ram 1ghz laptop , it was unbarebaly slow and wifi did not work on windows or linux

ΜΞΤΔ★LUCY | Riddim GLiTCH

1y↑1

I have a suggestion for Linux. Just install arch. Literally just arch. You'll bee booted into a command line interface from which you can pick and install components to your needs and liking.

T Colin

while arch may run a bit better, it's far from the most user friendly. no offense to janus cycle but if he struggled to rotate the monitor, i think arch may prove impossible to use. a tweaked lubuntu install is the best choice for a beginner

Armando Ávalos

52w↑1

I recomend you yo use Ubuntu mate, i use It on old equipment ando It use less hardware than lubuntu, running fluid
❤

Aidan Chappelle

52w↑1

2:02 "So if I ever need to restore to Fujitsu's original configuration, I should be able to do that." Yeahhhhh... not like some manufacturers like to render the recovery partition obsolete if you even THINK of touching it...

SOTP

49w

How do u set it back up if u delete it anyways?

aeroz corp

It is possible to re-chip the ram from 1GB to 2/4GB? It might look nice to run with Tiny 11 if the ram can be up at least 2GB. Haha

Jay Koerner

The CPU itself is maxed out at 1gb, it can't allocate 2gb

aeroz corp

51w

@Jay Koerner aww too bad.

SOTP

49w

Try older versions of windows 10, maybe 1807 or maybe even 1607

Unkown Lore

2y↑2

Can you make a video showing what games are on the phone? It’s the iアプリ/iAppli part of the phone. I’m curious to see what type of Star Games are on their.

Janus Cycle

2y↑3

Here are some photos in the iアプリ/iAppli menu. I don't see any games. But some items won't open without a sim card. If there is something more you want to see let me know.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1qdmIgZhZnX10DrYs1jEGp8vJtd-ge8lW

420 Healing

Try Windows XP or ReactOS or android x86

SOTP

1y↑2

Can u actually edit the options file and try to set ridiculous settings for it to run better? Like 320 x 240 and other things like that.

Janus Cycle

1y↑1

That's an interesting idea. I would like to try a cut down Windows 10 'Lite' version.

SOTP

1y↑1

@Janus Cycle cant wait to see that

Andras Szabo

1y↑4

I wonder why someone makes any Win7 computer with 1 GB RAM?? I have an Archos 9 tablet with factory Win7 with 1GB RAM, and it is goddamn slow. If I were a manufacturer like Fujitsu, or Archos, or whatever brand, I would install as many RAM and storage as physically possible in order to get a device that can be used for many years without getting obsolete.

Janus Cycle

1y↑1

This is a really good point. RAM is very limiting for these sort of operating systems.
I think they build phones to only last a few years. So they don't cost too much, and can buy the next one when they become obsolete.
Also the Intel CPU in this phone was designed to only work with 1GB of RAM!

Andras Szabo

1y↑2

@Janus Cycle I did not know that. My Archos has 1 GB with the same CPU. Now I know why :(
Since that computer is slow, I am using an Olivetti Philos 46 instead, picked up for 15 dollars from a local flea market. No battery, but mint condition, and working.

すどにむ

DRAM consumes power proportionate to capacity(rather than chip count). So skimping on RAM is one way to extend battery life a bit on top of marginal cost reduction.

D C

48w

Just wondering do OP just bought this additional docking pf the phone?

SOTP

50w↑1

Also just saying even if you brick the bios, its possible to fix but painful...

Janus Cycle

50w

I'm terrified of bricking the BIOS. But one day I will try editing it regardless.

SOTP

50w

@Janus Cycle yeah i get it its a pain to fix if u brick it and u could end up messing up and breaking the board or somethin

SOTP

50w

@Janus Cycle Also did u find a bios file for the original one?

SloudPL

1y↑1

POV: Next video running minecraft on linux hardware challenge.

Johan Last

The upcoming Windows 12 will require a minimum of 8GB of ram and I sincerely hope Microsoft enforces their requirements for this Windows so manufacturers would stop selling devices that is below the required specs for Windows.

Ernesto Gabriel Giron Marquez

Have actually someone tried to boot Android X86 on this phone?

Jason_S2

2y↑2

Awesome!

Geometrikseliztikism Felsefesi

2y↑3

can you try haiku os because its best for this device haiku supports x86 (32 bit) and low requirements like 256mb ram and requires atleast pentium mmx 233mhz (officially pentium II) and any graphics card

Janus Cycle

Haiku OS looks interesting, thanks for the suggestion. I would like to try it.

Rasp Bean

You should try Tiny10 version...

かいがあるしゅん

51w↑1

this video is from a year ago i hope you'd go back and try tiny 10 to this device

XTLCE

1y↑1

You should try windows 10 superlite by ghost

james42519

49w

Why did you not just use windows phone 8 or windows 10 mobile because made for phones? There was even a phone sold with windows 10 mobile and linux dual boot

richard klegin

51w

You should run tiny windows

william A.

2y↑2

this is a fun idea side project to do i like the videos and or the videos you make teaches me something

Janus Cycle

Thank you. I have also been learning lots as I make these videos. It's great to share this experience with others.

william A.

@Janus Cycle you are welcome i am a fan of the channel

M Isa

1y↑1

What about Android x86?

Gabriel V.

So cool!!!!

OmegaRed

52w

Install kali Linux or parrot os to transform it into an hacking portable machine

ボロ EU

1y↑1

I wonder how would android x86 work? I mean, look, at the point when single core PCs could no longer run youtube or any other online videos on win xp let alone 7 or any linux, android x86 ran pretty well with youtube an app and defktop firefox x86 made for android x86. It gave single core laptops at least 2 more lifes before dumping them into trash.

Star Girl

1y↑2

i have windows on lumia 950 but when i want to run any direct x file or open gl
it says update gpu but i dont know how, it always says your drivers are up to date
bluestacks also crashes, says open gl is older version
i wonder how you have done this to that phone it is even slower than lumia 950

Janus Cycle

I've given up doing anything graphical on my Lumia Windows 11 phone. The phone in this video deserves a better chance with trying a 'Lite' version of Windows 10.

Miguel Nuno Osório

52w

Try installing debian 11

noklapanxd

i want that phone. i really need that

# goodknight

1y↑1

unix based OS is the future ..

FinalBossOfCanada

But can it run Doom?

But can it run Crysis?

Windows 11 COLLABVM

Try Android x86

Graph g

Is it arm based (arm32)?

Japanese Mickey Mouse

2y↑1

is any good for gamecube emulation

kafe net bozorgmehr

51w↑1

thanks for ur great videoes.
i want to install linux on lumia 950xl , how can i do that? win 11 is so slow on it and does not work at all

Janus Cycle

51w

I'm running Tiny 11 ARM on my 950XL and it's better. There are a couple of Linux ports, but they are very incomplete and not well supported.

SOTP

49w

@Janus Cycle i wonder if someone will port windows xp to it

Dorky Dicken

2y↑2

How bout test running and installing Android-x86 or BlissOS or even FydeOS or ChromeOS maybe even ReActOS

Janus Cycle

2y↑1

These are all great suggestions. It's that darn eMMC drive that is holding me back from trying anything too different. I would like to try things like Android-x86 on other devices first.

Dorky Dicken

So wait. What other kind of hard drive works on it, M2, SSD? Which also makes me wonder if the real max ram is 2gb. You know after it's not being sold they stop doing reports on what it'll take, like the samsung split qwerty touchscreen umpc could take 2gb's of ram but it's only reported as 1gb of ram known to be supported.

Vi Han

Maybe puppy linux run better .

jimkoutso2008

2y↑3

Can you try windows 8.1?
I think its faster than windows 7 and windows 10 when i tried it on a potato laptop.

Janus Cycle

2y↑6

I've always wanted to try Windows 8.1. I do need a break from this phone. But it will be a future project.

SOTP

@Janus Cycle part 2?

Adin Nugroho

48w

Talking about slow Windows 10, that's why I use modified version. No Bloatwares, No Background process, No anything

ha ka

1y↑1

hi im thinking about buying this phone and i was wondering where can i buy the dock
because i cant find it anywhere

Janus Cycle

1y↑1

Probably the best place is to keep watching your favourite Japan Yahoo auction proxy site. These phones sometimes come with the dock

Greg Bogdanis

put windows light on it

AWPA :3

1y↑1

4 spf (seconds per frame)

jul cat

Try tiny 10

The Technology guy

1y↑4

The best os for this phone is Windows 7 starter

Janus Cycle

1y↑3

I really like this idea, I hadn't considered using the Starter version before, thanks.

The Technology guy

1y↑1

Np 😊

Bill Killernic

1y↑1

try windows tiny 11

FennecTECH

1y↑1

your network adapter is going to be SDIO its a royal bitch to get the thing running

I'm a normal Guest

1y↑1

Install Windows 8.1 then

GraveUypo

52w

hmm i think this would barely be able to run quake3-level games at a decent speed. skyrim was a looooooooong shot. maybe morrowind.

Cloud

51w↑1

But, can it run Crysis? (nah, just kidding)

SOTP

50w

Im guessing you could try and get it to run with ridiculous settings (since you can modify the options file).

Richard C

1y↑1

Puppy Linux

i bought the toad in my pfp

Yo idk if it will work but try batocera

Krisjanis Kronbergs

1y↑1

Tiny 11 please

Gabriel S. Carrion Vivar

1y↑1

Please try Ubuntu touch

Janus Cycle

Nice, I like it.

Carawana

51w

install win 11

Thompson Evergreen

52w

Underpowered? It literally runs windows 7 it's an old phone, I guarantee it'd run half life/oblivion

SOTP

50w

I wonder what a phone like this would look like if made in 2022.

Statix Bolt

1y↑1

Tiny 11!!

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