Can you make reliable calls yet?

[Eugo]

First things first:

Pinephone is quite easy device to test and tinker things because if you mess up something you can just flash fresh image to it.

It is nearly impossible to brick it. So if there are lot of things broken I suggest just to flash new image to PP
And regarding to flashing I suggest to take a look this Tow-Boot



If Nano is not working for try vim. It will work.

This quote is from here

Frequent disconnects and reconnects (Modem vanishes and reappears a few seconds later during operation or after waking up from suspend)

Sometimes the kernel is too aggressive trying to suspend the USB port when it's actually in use. Disabling runtime suspend for the port usually helps a lot.

Edit /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-modem-eg25.rules
    Look at the first line where it says ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2c7c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0125", ATTR{power/control}="auto"
    And change it to ON ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTRS{idVendor}=="2c7c", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0125", ATTR{power/control}="on"

It is officially meant for that Biktorgjs nearly FOSS modem firmware but it will help also with the stock modem firmware.
If you choose to try Biktorgjs modem firmware please make your homework before flashing it - most likely it will works better than stock firmware but there are so many variables with different carriers.

If mobile broadband is not working please check your APN settings because some of them you have to set up manually.

Edit. And I am quite sure that with Manjaro Plasma Mobile all basic functions should work out of the box - so did they work at the beginning?
Pinephone is developing so fast that even few months ago written instructions or experiences might be totally different today - but hey that is only good thing . Many times you just have to dig deeper when you found some instruction or issue etc.

Thanks - the quoted commands were exactly what I couldn't find the second time.
And now I don't need it, I flashed megi's 15-in-1 on a 16G microSD and tried Mobian so far, and there it all works - haven't seen modems turning off etc. There's one very annoying thing so far, that the keyboard app doesn't actually switch layouts. It does say serbian was selected (either cyrillic or latinic), but still draws the qwerty layout. To me that's practically a showstopper. But everything else I tried just works. Will try others, when I find (again) the trick no not lose all of /home folder when I switch distros.

The things which worked out of the box:
- calling (for about a day or two, then lost it)
- phone book (but not „add this as contact“ from the previous calls; also it had import of phone book, but then didn't know in what format would that be, because export wasn't written yet
- sound recording
- megapixels, such as is, it does have funny notions about rotating the display
- wifi, and ssh through it
- clock and specially stopwatch, something I wished I had back on my previous Nokia E5
- browser was kind of funny but worked
- web over APN I didn't even try, stayed at home and it used wifi
- keyboard layout worked flawlessly
- messaging from terminal window (via ssh), using mmcli