Are you using the Pinephone as your daily driver?

[d0n601]

The phone is for people that want to support the development of Linux phones. If you'd have read up on the status of what is and isn't functioning on various operating systems you'd have known what you were getting yourself into. I don't think "Beta" ever means "flawless and 100% reliable" in any way at all. It's a shame to see Pine64 getting returns when in my opinion they've been pretty up front about the device they're selling.

Beta doesn't mean flawless and 100% reliable.  I never said that it does.  However, if you're going to ship a smartPHONE, it had best be able to send and receive calls and texts at a bare minimum and store contacts.  At least that functionality should be better than a BQ running Ubuntu Touch in 2017. But this works worse.

A Beta version is "an early release of the offering that’s almost ready but might have bugs that can only be found when a wide user base tries it out."

The GUI update manager failed for broken dependencies out of the box.  Fine, I fired up the terminal and updated it from the command line.  No worries.  It's slow - fine, I wasn't expecting a flagship.  But the cellular modem's connection isn't something I can babysit throughout the course of my day.

Taking an ideal sounding definition of "beta" from somewhere else on the internet is obviously going to leave you disappointed. Pine64 states the following on their store's page for the Pinephone.

Beta Limited Edition PinePhones are aimed solely at early adopters. More specifically, only intend for these units to find their way into the hands of users with extensive Linux experience.

Users with "extensive Linux experience" means that doing the following to fix the issue with the modem should be no big deal. 


source

Code:

#!/bin/bash
FILE=/dev/ttyUSB2

if ! test -c "$FILE"; then
  systemctl restart eg25-manager
fi

Then in order to check this regularly I suggest using `cron` jobs as root:

Code:

sudo crontab -e

and set the following rule that executes every minute

Code:

* * * * * /home/mobian/bin/test-and-connect-modem.sh