08-19-2022, 06:51 AM
(08-18-2022, 08:06 PM)orbital Wrote: OK that is good to hear. With my Android I charge it every day and it never goes below 60%. But one hears horror stories about the Pinephone.
The way I typically charge the PinePhone is to plug into the charger while the phone is turned on, then turn the phone off and walk away for a while. Of course if you plug the charger in while the phone is off it automatically turns on, so in that case I just let the phone boot, then turn it off and let it charge. Seems to work OK that way. I really had not even given charging a thought as being a problem. Maybe it doesn't work if the battery is totally drained but I have offline chargers for that, the Pinephone accessory charger and a universal charger.
Really the only thing I find annoying with the hardware is the slow boot time and overall sluggishness. From turning on the phone to being able to make a call takes about a minute and a half, booting from the eMMC. I do have full disk encryption so that may be slowing things up a bit given the Pinephone's weak CPU. Given the low price of the phone though I can't really complain.