My pine phone stopped making and receiving phone call. I have full Internet and connection sharing, SMS works fine, sending and receiving, but I am unable to make or receive phone calls.
When attempting to make a cal, it immediately goes to call ended, and when anyone calls me I get no indication that a call is comming through, at their end it goes to voice mail, and I receive an sms.
Hi,
My sealed Pinetime arrived today, I placed it on the charger, it booted, I set the time, a few seconds later it rebooted and is now stuck at the green pinecone logo at about 75%, nothing is appearing in gadget bridge or nRF Connect, hardware button is unresponsive, is there any way to contact Pine64 as I think I may have received a bad unit?
Currently I'm trying to let the battery completely drain but that is going to take days.
Running a linux OS on android phones Hey, so I just recently bought a galaxy s21 phone and since then I learned about the recent changes android is making, which basically would require third party developers to go through a verification process in order to allow folks to download their apks. I have concerns about this, since I use apks that Google and Android are not happy with to say the least, and I'm worried that this verification process will allow them to pick and choose who to verify and who to block, meaning I and others won't be able to download these apks anymore. So I'm trying to look into alternative OS I can install on android. So far I learned about some of the different linux mobile OS, but I'm concerned that I won't be able to run them on my galaxy s21. What phones should I look for in order to properly run and install a linux OS without potentially getting my phone bricked? I'm very new to this whole ecosystem so any and all advice is appreciated.
As always we need to be spreading the narrative of fully unlocked hardware and FOSS drivers to these people who want to go the libhybris ex-android hardware direction.
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I have played around with my pinenote, and all was well. I am uncertain if it was I that messed up, but after a while the on-screen keyboard became unusable because the special keys stopped working.
Here is the problem, which appears in all apps, but let's say in a terminal: all normal keys work (for instance, typing ls). However, backspace does not, Enter does not. The result is that I cannot run any command in the terminal. Ctrl and Alt also seem to be broken
What I suspect is some setting got broken when I added and enabled some other keyboard layouts I use on most computers. I vaguely remember Enter did not work on those layouts, so I reverted back to the preinstalled "en" layout, but that one does not work. But I am not sure. I have been updating it via SSH, hoping for a fix, but only now I got some time aside to look into this.
I would like to recover this, since I have already configured it well. I can operate it via SSH, but I am unsure what to look for. I am mostly a Plasma user, so I am unfamiliar with Gnome applications and settings, but I can manage with gsettings and such.
I’d like to share my experience as a user of the PinePhone beta running Manjaro.
Despite a few imperfections – which I fully expect from a device that’s still close to a prototype – I’m actually very happy with it overall. It’s an exciting project, and I want to sincerely thank and congratulate the developers for the great work they’ve done so far.
If I may add a small remark: a slightly smaller screen might have helped improve battery life.
I understand that large screens are the trend nowadays, but some users like me mainly look for a more compact device, focused on basic daily features.
For me, the essential functions are:
making calls,
saving contacts,
sending text messages.
I find it very important to have a Linux smartphone that respects user privacy. With messaging evolving (and SMS being gradually replaced by RCS), I truly hope there will be a software update or even a future model that can cover this use case as well.
I also read here on the forum that RCS may not be such a good solution, since Google and Apple have basically taken it over with their own servers and apps, which turns it into another data collection system. Honestly, I used to think RCS was a good replacement for SMS, but now I’m not so sure… Does this really mean that traditional text messaging will eventually be fully replaced by RCS, despite all these privacy concerns?
One thing I honestly don’t quite understand is why Signal doesn’t support this project. From an ethical standpoint, a private and Linux-based phone perfectly aligns with the values they promote. It would make a lot of sense if they engaged more with initiatives like this.
Once again, congratulations on this project. Please keep it going – it really answers a real need for many users.
Thank you and best of luck with the ongoing development!
Recently I made the brave attempt to upgrade my PPP bought before 2023, with RK2AW.
The point with installing RK2AW is to get decent behavior in case of battery depletion - before RK2AW, if you deplete the battery, the phone would go into a battery-depleting perpetual loop and the only way to get the phone working again was to remove the USB and battery, push the Maskrom/RE PIN, and then boot the phone, and leave it like that for 10-20 hours.
sudo bash
cd /root
wget https://xff.cz/kernels/bootloaders-2024.04/ppp.tar.gz
sha256sum ppp.tar.gz
tar xvfz ppp.tar.gz
cd ppp
./spinor-flash-initial-setup.sh
And the outcome of this was that RK2AW with the "RKBIN" closed-source memory initialization blob + a recent U-Boot had been installed.
After that, I powered off the PPP, and disconnected USB and battery for 30 seconds. Not sure if all those steps are really needed but, after that definitely RK2AW worked as expected.
The issue came when I booted up PostMarketOS Edge with this new RK2AW-flashed PinePhone Pro:
The phone kept behaving as if I had tapped the volume up or volume down button, while I had not.
And meanwhile, the phone when in PostMarketOS stopped responding to when I actually pushed the volume button up or down.
I'm not sure if the issue is that I stopped using Tow-Boot and use U-Boot now, or if the issue lies in RK2AW.
Googling and asking Perplexity AI, I see that other people have had the same issue.
The quick fix is to disable the OS' event logics for when you push the volume button in the first place.
But, I cannot find any concrete suggestions for this fix.
I have also seen PostMarketOS insert gibberish in both directions into the UART data. It is so bad that the UART at least periodically becomes unusuable, because new gibberish is pushed every second, and often the gibberish is interpreted as special key combinations, that make you get logged out.
I saw some suggestion that at the root of this is a driver issue, so it sounds like it's fixed by including a particular Linux kernel patch into PMOS.
I tried with the latest PMOS Edge dated 20250830 and the problem is there too.
Did anyone have this problem too, can you share exactly how you fixed it?
Do you know any Linux distribution for PPP which has fixed the issue?
Apologies for starting in this sub-forum, I didn't see an "introductions" section.....
I'm a Linux user since 1998, but admittedly not a real "power user", every computer I own is Linux based, but I have to use an abomination at work like most people.
I have several years experience with SBC's and a healthy collection of them. As far as coding goes I know some C++, and know enough to do fun stuff, but I'm not a developer by any stretch of the imagination.
I'd like to order a PinePhone, and use it as my daily but I really need to know a few things before I do. I read through the forum some, and watched some YouTube videos but we all know how quickly things change and I didn't see anything super recent about my concerns.
It's understood that PinePhone is under development, and there are going to be quirks and plain old "don't work for that" scenarios (like everything Linux), so I'd like to see a baseline of what IS happening before I commit....
I'm not only open to trying different distros, but enthusiastic about it, so if one is better at giving me the capabilities I need than the others that's great!
The things I need from a phone are:
1) 5G phone service on T-Mobile (USA)
2) RCS chat
3) WhatsApp
4) FireFox, or a secure browser that isn't going to get blocked by places like my bank, preferably NOT chrome
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Also I'm curious what development environments can run, my go-to is Geany, and I've also just barely started dabbling in front ends so I'm curious what's supported, QT or something?
And I'm assuming there's a way to encrypt a folder and make a safe place for sensitive storage like LUKS?
Thank you for reading, I'm really excited to get some feedback, if I can do the 4 things above I'm ordering a Beta,I've looked at the Pro, but it's out of stock.
Quote:Given what Google just announced, I think that Linux phones are going to get very very popular very very soon. Does anyone here have experience moving from Android over to the pine phone? I use a lot of FOSS that Google really doesn't like and their policy changes coming in 2026 don't bode well for me. App developers on GitHub, F-droid anything not officially verified by Google or rather the developers of those apps are effectively going to be banned off of the ecosystem.
Just looking to pack a parachute.
Someone who uses Reddit should link back to this thread.
There is much misinformation, according to this thread a standard Pinephone is priced at $800 but only worth $200; the only available OS is Postmarket, and some feel the PP is a joke.
