Porting a dual-screen device to Android 17 with Claude: 110 flashes, 3 burned resets, and eink reverse engineering
PaddleStroke · reddit · 2026-09-23
A Reddit user is documenting a wildly complex port of the dual-screen A6L device from Android 9 to Android 17, leaning heavily on AI coding agents. They burned through 3 Astra subscription resets and bought a Claude x20 subscription just to keep the project moving.
Key milestones:
- Getting the eink screen working took around 110 flashes; Astra and Opus had to reverse engineer the hardware and kernel binaries to understand how the SoC communicates with the eink display
- Both screens now work, marking a major milestone
Plenty of setup remains, but the author calls it steady progress "one bite at a time" — a fascinating firsthand look at AI agents doing deep hardware reverse engineering.
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