PDU: Phone harness

The Phone harness is the piece of hardware that is designed to emulate the phone battery and control power, UART, and buttons to the device. You can read more about it the corresponding docs.

Getting a phone harness

The phone harness is Open Hardware, and therefore anybody can produce or order a PCB from their favorite manufacturer.

However, the postmarketOS project will, from time to time, do a batch order of phone harnesses and associated hardware (cables, PSUs) according to its needs and the budget approved. In order to help estimate the size of the order, team and community members are encouraged to request the hardware that the would like to receive by sending an MR adding themselves to the requests list.

Unfortunately, and due to budgeting constraints, requests might not be able be fully served. When serving requests, the team will consider the following groups of people in order of greater to lower priority:

• Maintainers of main devices.

• Team members.

• Maintainers of community devices.

• Maintainers of other associated FOSS projects.

• Maintainers and companies in the FOSS ecosystem.

Anybody requesting a phone harness and related hardware is encouraged to contribute to postmarketOS in some way, for example: maintaining devices, promoting the project, or establishing a recurrent donation.

The team keeps the right to not provide harnesses to specific individuals or entities despite budget or size constraints, when those are considered to not be in the benefit of the project.