I love gpt-5.6-sol….

Well, if you caught off guard, let me tell about this project. I have a old phone a Motorola G9 Plus (codename: odessa) and in the last year I found a custom ROM to it which made it more up-to-date and faster. The problem is it was an unofficial build because the phone is not widely avaliable (only sold in Latin America with most of them in Brazil) so it didn’t get any updates.

Well, thats when I realized that we have heavly capable AI models that likely will be able to scrape from incomplete work and make this phone up-to-date again. Currently we are trying to update the android kernel (its linux but a bit different) to the latest 4.14 LTS (its already discontinued) for support on Android 16 (without any shortcuts), but just jumping from 4.14.190 to 4.14.336 its a big-leap and one that bootlooped the phone.

We tried multiple things and we came down to find a midpoint where things start to break more, and we find that is between 4.14.283–4.14.286, and while trying 4.14.282 we found that the ADB (a developer tool that allows to push a OTA build, applications, etc) wasn’t working.

I tried multiple times with gpt-5.6-terra (a cheaper version to the sol variant) to fix this USB problem but it couldn’t. So after 4 tries, I tried again with sol and it did it first try!