work on getting Focal onto the PinePhone

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Hello, is it possible to choose which apps installed on Waydroid can appear on the home screen of PostmaketOS Phosh.

By default "Waydroid" integrates many applications: such as the "clock" or the "camera" which are useless, because (for the most part) already present natively in PostmaketOS. So there are many duplicate apps which makes using the home screen chaotic.

Thanks in advance 

PS: I've already disabled the "unwanted" apps using the "Waydroid" settings, which made them "disappear" from the Waydroid home screen, but had no effect on the PostmarketOS one.

I've had a PinePhone for a few years now and unfortunately it has been collecting dust. For me it was not reliable enough, along with a few issues that take away from it being a daily driver.

I want to revisit it before I decide to just buy another Andorid phone.

What OS is a daily driver that can be relied upon?

Also what features are still missing? I know It may not seem much to you but group messaging is a requirement and the ability to send images too because it's actually an utility for some of us.

I'm running:

Non-pro Pinephone, latest version.
Phosh ,the default with a very recent Manjaro for Pinephone download
KEYBOARD CASE!

That last one needed all caps because it was a big battle to get the special characters working on the function keys front bevel.
With that I have a nice pocket computer. I can run several windows, and switch between them using Alt-tab.
I am developing software in Rust and it's working grreat. Apple could not make this happen with their iPad, which I own. I never use it.

The keyboard:
Looks great. I actually spilled milk onto it, and cleaned it up with a tissue, q-tip, and alcohol prep pad. The keyboard took this punishment in stride.
After a lot of really tedious hassle, I found a way to fix the keys without making a keyboard map, kernel modules, or any recompilation of anything. It will work on Phosh.
Keyboard charging:
The charge status does not look right. But it functions correctly. Using unplugged, it stays green with the same incorrect percentage all day long. Then it will eventually turn orange,
late in the game, when the case has also stopped nourishing the battery. But it is a decent run time after all.

Why I like it:
The look is good. The utility is good. You might think the phone as a screen makes it top-heavy. But this is a benefit when you are trying to push against the screen hard enough to select something. 'gedit' on the Pinephone keyboard not only works, it is a work of art. They have the dialog popups working great, and navigating on the screen with a combination of touch and arrow keys is a joy!

PICS:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12wBDZ9M...share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KabP1Qu...share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yqiOZ3F...share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z-7Ydym...share_link

Hello everybody!

I try to use USB3 and USB3 port C in Super Speed mode, but all gadgets speed is downgrade to High Speed (USB2.0).

Tested on OpenWRT / Armbian_23.02.1_Rockpro64_bullseye_current_5.15.96_minimal 


There is kernel log for USB3 flash stick on my PC:

I got a pinephone a few days ago and admittedly I haven't had many phones but this is something I've never encountered before. I've tried numerous OS and every single one has this problem. I've searched and couldn't find anything about how normal it is for a pinephone. If I unplug and plug the charger back in it will start charging again until it is full and the cycle repeats, I'm not sure how far until it starts charging again if it ever does but I've let it get as low as 70%. The fact that I have to unplug and plug the charger back in is also a bit concerning. On the OS it ships with (at least after I manually reinstalled it, I didn't check it as it came shipped), manjaro with plasma mobile it says health is 0% and the battery is unknown.

Brand new PinePhone received today (not pro.)
Would not boot out of the box. Stopped at KDE logo.
I wrote image to SDCard and booted the phone from it. No problem.
Once in the Pinephone I DD'd the same image to the emmc. It completed but when I rebooted, it was stuck in a boot loop. (Turn on, vibrate, turn off.)
I booted from the SDCard again and no problem.
Another flash to the emmc and the phone shutdown at some point. It was plugged into power and charging.
I then booted it again and tried to flash again. It crashed at a different point.

Now it won't turn on at all. It is black and has zero lights or response.
- On battery alone
- On battery + power
- On power alone

I think I destroyed my new Pinephone in less than an hour. 

I'm thinking about getting a pinetime but I'm wonderimg where they are made? Amazfit is a bit uncomfortable for me as it is a chinese company and I would also like to avoid anything made in China. Though amazfit gtr2 is a bit more tempting with having a mic and speakers. Is there any change there will be a pinetime 2 with mic/speaker/nfc in a near future?

Had many issues with the original Manjaro OS on my pppro, such as pgp keys not properly authenticating etc. after some long troubleshooting I decided to install a fresh image to my eMMC from an SDcard. During the flashing of the eMMC, the phone crashed, and the flashing was interrupted.
Now whenever I boot, it is IMPOSSIBLE to boot from SD card without bypassing eMMC with the RE button (I used to have tow-boot, which allowed me to use the volume down key and this no longer works) No matter my timing I never seem to be able to boot with the eMMC initialized. It never shows up in "lsblk" and therefore I cannot re-flash the drive to a complete install.

Quick note about tow-boot: it does seem to still exist as I get a brief blue flash before some kind of (what seems to be a) hard override of my input

I ran the dd command as per usual when the phone breaking crash happened, nothing fancy.

Anything I can do to access the eMMC from my computer?
Can I use a USB-C keyboard to boot the phone from SDcard? (I don't have one at my disposal so I haven't had the chance to try)
Any other ideas?  

Thanks in advance to anyone with the knowledge to help me out of this mess

I stumbled on posts about the micro-kernel Genode/Sculpt OS (about 14MB from the latest OS test): https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=14780 and the mesh network expanding to feature phone NuttX RTOS: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=18196 a few months ago.

Occasionally I catch updates when checking the forum or getting updates when subscribing, but I miss related new threads unless I'm lucky enough to see them when they're on the front page of the sub forums before cycling off.

It would be great to see these OS's with their own dedicated PinePhone Software sub-forums to see all related threads in the same place to avoid missing out on interesting updates.

There are currently multiple OS's with subforums that haven't been updated in a few years so it begs the question why these two very active efforts that are posting regular progress updates still haven't gotten their own.

I read much more than I post on this forum and if I'm missing some existing etiquette for this sort of thing feel free to let know.