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Breaking news: after days of smashing my head into a vocoder shaped wall im now going to try to do it fully in userspace instead of the qualcomm kernel path.
I got quite close with this, but no matter what i did it wasn't coming online.
The issue with this hardware is that it's not going trough the linux audio system really, its IMO quite janky with graphs going straight to the amps.
My new approach should make the modem just a regular pipewire source/sink, we shall see in the coming days if this new approach works.
It's not entirely unprecedented, OpenIMSs is doing something similar.
having it as a regular linux audio device is also so much better, that way it's nice and integrated and there is no separate route that gives trouble.
this should also address erebion's question for bluetooth calls, as we can then just use the regular bluetooth audio which already works
Speaking of Bluetooth, if you manage to figure out this one, it is probably the biggest blocker for me I've had from being able to fully move to Linux + LineageOS via Waydroid: the ability to share Bluetooth with both the Linux host and Waydroid simultaneously like you can with many other IO. Not sure if NFC has this same issue.