Ok, So now you're wondering, what is PC in a Pocket?

 

Well, I started on a simple project back towards the ending of 2013, the project in its simplest terms, changes your cell phone, as you know it, into a fully functional ARM-LINUX PC.

 

Sounds great, But WHY and HOW?

It all comes cuz of the need to make a change. I realized that running my webserver on my core i7 laptop, uses a whole lot of energy, wattage consumption was enormous, and just to run a webserver. I had one of my old Android phones lying around the room, decided to grab it and turn it into a web and mail server, i watched a whole bunch of youtube videos on how to install linux on arm based devices, as well, as the for-begginers Linux-on-Android, and i tried both. Unfortunately, the lack of info and the bugs that i came across were countless. Here are a few examples of what i arrived to.

1. Linux Kernel is pretty huge, and almost impossible to fit it on the android boot partition, due to the size of Android kernel image offset and the initrd image, in addition to, booting the linux natively off of a compressed img file stored on the internal memory wasn't exactly ideal , and it made me lose the phone as a phone. So kissing all phones features goodbye.

2. The linux on android, appeared to be a good start, with tons of limitations as an operating system. Let me put it that way, HANDICAPPED OS.

3. and the list goes on and on.

 

Around this time, Samsung Note III came out, and i was so excited to check it out, and eventually bought it.

And That's the BIRTH of PC in a POCKET project.

 

I modified the Note III kernel sources to adopt the linux kernel bootstrapping, ergo allowing linux to boot partially yet natively with Android. Once you trigger the script I modified "Thanks to Complete Linux Installer", it allows the linux to run natively on Android with FULL Daemon support, as if it were the only system running, and still keeping all of the Android functionalities intact, which in other words doesn't defy the purpose of the phone as a phone.

That made it very much possible to use rdp daemon to run wich provides a beautiful PC version look and feel of the OS on the phone

 

That project requires extensive knowledge of C/C++ programming.

 

Here's some screenshots of my project