What makes PinePhone a phone? It’s the 4G LTE Modem inside that makes Phone Calls and sends Text Messages!

Now we’re building a Feature Phone with Apache NuttX RTOS (Real-Time Operating System). To make things simpler, we’re writing down everything we know about the 4G LTE Modem, and how it works inside PinePhone…

1. What’s the Quectel EG25-G LTE Modem

2. How it’s connected inside PinePhone

3. How we make Phone Calls and send Text Messages

4. How we power up the LTE Modem

5. Programming the LTE Modem with UART, USB and Apache NuttX RTOS

Read on to learn all about PinePhone’s 4G LTE Modem…

NuttX RTOS for PinePhone: 4G LTE Modem

Hello,

I'd like to install Ungoogled Chromium on my Manjaro Arm Phosh Pinephone.  I don't see it as an option in Pamac and have read elsewhere that downloading software risks fatal partial upgrades (as I understand it). 

Can anyone advise me as to how to safely add the repository to Pamac or otherwise safely install this application?

Thanks in advance.

mn

Hello everyone, I would be very happy if there were programmers who would make a finished uefi bios, download it and install it on the spi or sd card without any effort, I've had denrockpro64 for a very long time, it's very tedious, the images are pretty bad, old kernel, with uefi could i install the latest linux myself using iso or windows 10, i don't want to throw my rockpro64 in the trash.

Hello everyone,

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I have just received the phone, with Manjaro-Arm installed. I've got the contacts moved from my Android phone and the voice part is looking good. It also goes on Wifi and thus to the Web OK.

However, I've sent an SMS from an SMS API and this hasn't turned up anywhere. Also I'm getting

Hi Pine !
I bought a pinephone but before installing it I would like to know what informations are leaked by powering it up and installing an OS on it (I'd like to try all the ones available), and to whom.
And ideally of course, how to avoid to leak anything.

If I understand correctly, if I set the physical kill switches to "cut" then nothing should be leaked.
Is that actually and entirely true ?

Is there a way to access the Net somehow in this situation (via some cable then I guess) ?

Once I'm done installing and I spoofed the MAC address, what would be leaked if I switch the Wifi on ?

If I put a SIM car on it, what will be leaked ? The IMEI number of the phone, the number associated with the SIM card, and the location of the SIM card I guess; anything else ?

How to spoof all these ? At least the IMEI number ? Or to prevent them from being leaked ?

Hello everyone:

I am new to the world of SBCs, due to life circumstances. I don't have much knowledge about this either, and less about programming... and I use google translator to write/read in English.

I would like to know what SBC I can use to make a PBX based on IncrediblePBX (Lightweight Linux + Asterisk + FreePBX)

Until now, a colleague who can no longer dedicate his time to this did it with Raspberry. The latest versions of IncrediblePBX recommend PI 4 2 Gb RAM, which as you know is out of stock.

Given that I don't need WiFi/Bluethoot, which of the Pine64 SBCs is equivalent to the Raspberry PI 4 with 2/4 Gb RAM?

My clientele can have quite a few extensions, although only about 10 simultaneous calls at the most. For example, hotels with up to 50 rooms: hardly any guests call or receive calls from the room phone because everyone has a mobile...

Thanks for your help, regards.

Dear Piners,

I discovered PinePhone Pro some months ago, I love it .
Before buying I would like to know if PinePhone Pro supports the followings:

1. DWS service agent for remote control the PinePhone Pro's desktop from PC.
https://www.dwservice.net/it/download.html

That's from DWS support: "
We never tried to install DWAgent on PinePhone and I don't know if someone have do it. Anyway postmarketOS is Alpine Linux based so I think you have no problem to install it (you have to install python before). Keep in mind you could have problem to use Desktop app because DWAgent support only XOrg and I think that postmarketOS use Wayland (or Framebuffer)."

If DWS doesn't work is there anything else to remotly control PinePhone Pro from PC?

2. PinePhone supports Skype?

If not is there anything else to do video calls with autoanswering mode in PinePhone Pro?

Thanks a lot, go Pine

Valerio

Valerio De Luca
Rome IT
deluca.valerio@gmail.com

Hi,

Just given this a try and was able to send/receive an SMS, and make/recieve a call (audio quality seemed fine).

Just need to see how stable the modem is, and if it works during/after suspend.

If you haven't checked it out for a while, it might be worth a go.

Thanks,

Hardware fix for software sound problem on Rockpro64 IT WORKS!!!! I  have sound coming from My Rockpro64 usb A 2.0(my family says), but not the headphone jack on Rockpro64 board

I have the same problem as do many others about no sound on the audio Jack.  For me its not a big issue (I'm deaf), but I like to use the computer to read and write and research etc, so family can use it for Multimedia.  So The family was complaining no sound watching a DVD and listening to some videos on line, which I cant hear anyway.  Well just off of a whim, I used to be an AirForce Tech, learned how to bypass and rewire things so troubleshooting problems like that and not of software are kind of a thing I enjoy.  

I have a couple old Telescopes I use to stargaze and they need a 16bit interface so I need serial support on Meade and Takahashi scopes.

Thus, 
The docking station I had with an old HP I used for this.  I simply plugged my USB input from the HP docking station HSTNN-S01X into the USB 2.0 on the Rockpro64 board, and plugged the speaker din plug into the headphone jack on the HP docking station and yes it works, the Family were Like yeah good dad it works great now.

Thats it. hp part number HSTNN-S01X.  Its a usb docking station for audio, video(serial), and 4 usb ports, as well as an internet plug for Hardwire.  Im sure other dockers might work too!  but I havent tested them, just the HP I had.  Its old but available on Ebay or maybe other places fore cheap fix hardware style untill the software kernel is easy for us non-programer users