Sxmo - Simple X Mobile Released for the Pinephone (new minimalistic UI & image)

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Calling works here too, I really like dwm and its really cool with the swipes and buttons. If I change to "speaker" audio and play a movie file in mpv, the audio is scuffed. Its like its missing some "HZ" voices in song text are gone. Other then that I tried turning off 3 cores to extend the battery life. Dont think it helped mutch. Sometimes wish there was a dot "." on the keyboard, i do really like it otherwise.

Also I don't want "tethering" on buy default can i turn this off? Tried ifdown USB0

There's only so much (horizontal) space to play with but I agree dot on the first layer of the keyboard would be nice. You can always switch up to the second layer. I'd say check out pmOS wiki for disabling tethering - I think you could set things up as an initscript to disable.

Those demos looked interesting, looking forward to trying it out!

edit: posting from surf on my pinephone... awesome job putting this together! I like having split screens and how easy the toggle buttos are to use.

Edit 2: happy to say that phone calls and texts work! Just had to toggle the modem. Accessing the 'numpad' to enter a voicemail pin felt clunky and I can't seem to get one-finger gestures for volume up/down or brightness to work.

We have a ticket in the tracker to switch the in-call menu to use the svkbd keyboard instead of dmenu for the DTMF tones - agreed it's clunky atm. Vol/brightness are just diagonal directions - so imagine a 45 degree angle (while you are holding the phone straight). Once you get the hang of it, it becomes pretty natural.

If I change to "speaker" audio and play a movie file in mpv, the audio is scuffed. Its like its missing some "HZ" voices in song text are gone.

I noticed the same behavior, though I haven't checked back in a while to see if it has changed any, or if the issue was specific to MPV or SXMO or affected other images.  It seemed like the Speaker output is playing the left and right channels together out of phase, which will cause cancellation in the low frequency range and result in effects like vanishing vocals (and often other sounds that are centered in the stereo image).

Admittedly I only use headphones and never use my phone in the speaker setting (and the audio output menu was added by a contributor )  But I will take a look eventually or would be happy to merge changes on the audio config. I do wonder if the speaker on the Pinephone is mono itself though (does this effect happen in other images too?)

The battery charge level icon doesn't seem to update when the phone is plugged in, does anyone else have that happen?

Yup - it's a todo item for me, it'll automatically update after 30 seconds always (so you'll see it as charging after 30s), but I want to investigate a mechanism to automatically update the bar instantly on plugging/unplugging  probably via udev.


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As for updates on Sxmo - I'm close to having an update for CRUST compatibility which I'll push in the next few days. The screenlock program will be changing to have 3 LED states (red/purple/blue) for (deep sleep/screen off/screen on input lock) rather than the 2 it has currently.

Been very impressed with the battery life numbers on CRUST - the phone will finally be able to sleep longer than I can and then some which is great