02-06-2023, 09:10 PM
Installed Genode OS and followed the step by step laid out in: https://genodians.org/nfeske/2023-02-01-mobile-sculpt
It booted as advertised and the phone worked right away. The # on the touchpad doesn't work in this early version.
No message/texting yet as a feature.
I followed the prompts for installing their add ons like their browser and it says the install was complete, but I didn't see any new option to boot. Turns out, you press the far left of the screen and wait 30 seconds to bring up the add ons to show off the 3d screen rendering bonafides. All popped up, except the morph browser and instead shows the [runtime] log stating in blue towards the bottom of the thread "Warning: morph-browser : configured RAM exceeds available RAM, proceed with 1413106113" [The log is tiny on the screen and doesn't allow for zooming in]
I've got the $199 3GB PinePhone which I believe is the "PinePhone version 1.2" it recommends, so I'm not sure if it's a glitch on their end or if I need to update something on my end to proceed with 1413106113 which I can't figure out how to do.
The main interest was the battery life.
I started at 51% and saw it drop a percentage point just about every minute and then stabilize at 30% for awhile and then resume the drop. It provides a "Performance" and "Economic" option to pick your battery draw, but I didn't see much of a difference when toggling between the two.
"The battery percentage value is not always reliable. It is the plain information received from the power-management chip without any sanitizing. Take it lightly."
It's currently showing 18% and I'll let it go for a few hours to see if it powers down due to battery draw. If not and it stays on, I guess that verifies that the "percentage value is not always reliable" with the true power being higher, but just not something I can verify at the moment. Maybe it's still 51% after an hour of toying with it.
Update: been playing around while the mobile network is activated and the power is holding at 15% instead of the steady drop from earlier. Will see how low it can go/how long it takes.
Overall, I like what I see and I just need the # button activated and texting added as a feature which I'm sure they're working on and I'd be happy to use this as my default OS. The morph browser would be nice, but I can live without since I'm just in need of a vanilla phone most of the time.
Is it time to create "Genode on PinePhone" as a forum category yet? My vote is "YES" based on this initial experience.
It booted as advertised and the phone worked right away. The # on the touchpad doesn't work in this early version.
No message/texting yet as a feature.
I followed the prompts for installing their add ons like their browser and it says the install was complete, but I didn't see any new option to boot. Turns out, you press the far left of the screen and wait 30 seconds to bring up the add ons to show off the 3d screen rendering bonafides. All popped up, except the morph browser and instead shows the [runtime] log stating in blue towards the bottom of the thread "Warning: morph-browser : configured RAM exceeds available RAM, proceed with 1413106113" [The log is tiny on the screen and doesn't allow for zooming in]
I've got the $199 3GB PinePhone which I believe is the "PinePhone version 1.2" it recommends, so I'm not sure if it's a glitch on their end or if I need to update something on my end to proceed with 1413106113 which I can't figure out how to do.
The main interest was the battery life.
I started at 51% and saw it drop a percentage point just about every minute and then stabilize at 30% for awhile and then resume the drop. It provides a "Performance" and "Economic" option to pick your battery draw, but I didn't see much of a difference when toggling between the two.
"The battery percentage value is not always reliable. It is the plain information received from the power-management chip without any sanitizing. Take it lightly."
It's currently showing 18% and I'll let it go for a few hours to see if it powers down due to battery draw. If not and it stays on, I guess that verifies that the "percentage value is not always reliable" with the true power being higher, but just not something I can verify at the moment. Maybe it's still 51% after an hour of toying with it.
Update: been playing around while the mobile network is activated and the power is holding at 15% instead of the steady drop from earlier. Will see how low it can go/how long it takes.
Overall, I like what I see and I just need the # button activated and texting added as a feature which I'm sure they're working on and I'd be happy to use this as my default OS. The morph browser would be nice, but I can live without since I'm just in need of a vanilla phone most of the time.
Is it time to create "Genode on PinePhone" as a forum category yet? My vote is "YES" based on this initial experience.
