I live in the USA and own a Pinebook Pro.  After my experience with that I look forward to experimenting with the PinePhone Pro. 
My cell provider of choice is TING.  They have a compatibility tool that requires the ESN, MEID, or IMEI  of the phone.  Since I do not HAVE the phone yet, I cannot provide that. 
My questions then are:
#1 have we an example number that would give me the information I need to test/predict if the PinePhone Pro will work with TING? 
#2 Is anyone else in the USA using TING with this phone?  If so, can you tell me a little about your experience?

Has anyone ever been able to get this to work? I've seen several questions about it, but no clear, specific answers.

I've got a bluetooth device that reports bluetooth version 2.1 and "Handsfree" capability so it should support hfp (handsfree protocol) version 1.5. It works perfectly fine with an Android phone.

On the pinephone (original) I've got Mobian with wireplumber 0.4.13 and pipewire 0.3.65-2. I swtiched from pulseaudio some months ago because I couldn't get anywhere with it.

I can initiate and end a call from the handsfree device but audio still goes through the pinephone built-in earpiece or speaker and the internal microphone. For incoming calls the pinephone properly causes the handsfree device to ring, and I can pickup and end the call with it, but again no audio goes through it so that I have to use the pinephone built-in earpiece or speaker and internal microphone. This tells me that at least the AT commands are being properly exchanged between the pinephone and the handsfree device.

Under the GUI settings/sound I see the handsfree device listed as an option for both the output and input devices but selecting it only results in a noise on the handsfree device that sounds like noise from an old-style acoustic phone modem.

My guess is that either the pipewire/wireplumber configuration is not correct, or there is still something missing elsewhere in the software. I've been administering Linux systems for more than a decade but haven't needed to mess with sound or bluetooth and I can't find enough pipewire documentation to figure out how to narrow it down further.

If anyone has got this to consistently work with Mobian using pipewire/wireplumber, pulse audio, or something else, I would appreciate knowing about it. Alternatively, if there is some other OS where it works, I would appreciate knowing about that. For me, and from what I've seen a few others, this seems to be the only thing standing in the way of completely adopting the pinephone for daily use.

Hi there,

when updating Manjaro on my Pinebook Pro (pressing that red shield with the exclamation mark in the Plasma taskbar) the update crashes with the following remark:
"

Quote:could not satisfy dependencies:

- removing nerd-fonts-terminus breaks dependency 'nerd-fonts-terminus' required by manjaro-arm-i3-settings

Hi all,

When i want to do a video call with a another guy, the GUI display this message : "Missing GStreamer plugins: videoconvert"

Packages installed are :
-nheko ; Version: 0.11.1-1 ; APT-Sources: http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main arm64 Packages
-gstreamer1.0-gl
-libgstreamer-gl1.0-0
- ... and all dependencies

Here my full logs.

Hey,

I am open source developer, who has been doing software for Pinephone. It's gaining traction and there are now commercial entities approached me and they like to ship Pinephone with my SW in volumes. I said go ahead, get Pinephones and install SW.

However,

They have been contacting with Pine64 sales, business developers and such. But with little luck. They tell me that Pine64 sales is not responding to their inquiries about volume orders and communication with Pine64 is generally hard!

I just cannot believe this is a case, please DM me an email to some North American business development contacts at Pine64 so I can pass it to these pretty serious actors. Backup plan for me of course is to look into Librem5 or something.

I'm following like 6 guides at once, I've tried bflb-mcu-tool, bouffalo-loader, etc., I have my ox64 wired up to a Raspberry Pi Pico and the machine itself appears as a serial port on my computer. But I can't figure out how to actually flash the 3-layer bin files that [1] lists. Every "official" piece of documentation says to use DevCube, but DevCube's linux binary is completely broken (it isn't marked as executable, and when you mark it as executable and try to run it, it craps out asking for some paleolithic version of glibc; the package released for my system's package manager is also named wrong, which is fun). I'm on day 3 of trying to get anything to write to this board and so far have made exactly 0 progress.

This thing is really making me miss by pinephone or rock64 where you just throw in an SD card with an image written to it and it just works.

[1] https://github.com/openbouffalo/buildroot_bouffalo

Hello

I started having frequent crashes more than a month ago when the Pinephone was on for more than half a day. Recently, I tried to rerun Gnome Clocks, Megapixels, Gnome Control Center, etc after such crashes but in command line and I always obtained a first error message complaining about a failure to allocate memory and a segmentation fault. Is there a known memory leak in Phosh or Mobian? Am I missing something obvious?

After replacing my Pinephone's sideboard again (dead microphone for the 2nd time) and the coax cable, my Pinephone can no longer connect to the cellular network (US Mobile T-Mobile MVNO). While I was waiting for parts, I successfully used the SIM card in my old rooted Moto G4 phone while I waited for the parts to arrive.

I can no longer connect to the cellular network. No calls. No SMS. No Internet. Signal strength bars are normal, network is scanned but it will not register. Using ModemManager GUI, it briefly says  "Connecting to US Mobile (Success)" but then vanishes. The symptoms are as described here:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...ug+mode%22

My wife's Pinephone still works on the same network, but I don't dare swap her SIM card out and try it!  

So after trying all the stuff in the thread above, I'm ready to flash my modem again (now running . Unfortunately, looks like I now need to activate "debug" mode--either than or boot an older OS from back when my experimental phone was not "secure" or protected from being repaired  .

In the beginning of ppp sales, I was very active in trying to get phone going to make it usable (over 125 threads).  I worked diligently on the issues of memory, battery life, sms, mms, OS/desktop software etc. In the course of this my phone got borked due to sim/sd card holder wearing out due to excessive uses.  Wouldn't even make calls any more due to sim card not connecting.  Also, I never received the replacement card holder that I applied for and pinephone promised. I put phone away for 6 months into the "about to be discarded pile".

I noticed recently that there is available a replacement motherboard that says it has a new card holder.  I am seeking advice on whether to try the new MB or just permanently disengage from the pinephone pro effort.  My old plain pinephone at least makes calls and I use that occasionally and runs for a good while.

Assuming that, if I install a new motherboard, the phone will work, where is the system performance at now? Is this the same MB that was originally installed or have some changes been made?  If MB changes were made, what is best OS/desktop software anyone has had success with?

If no changes were made and phone is back to original, am I back to all the problems that people were banging their heads against before or is there now a workable combination of OS and desktop that works well enough so that phone is usable.  If so what are the suggestions as to "current best" software combination?

I was so hoping to get a linux phone working but I am nearly burned out on this effort.

tom kosvic

Hello,

finally I got aware of the modem firmware, that makes an exploit possible.
So I upgraded the firmware (which was 01.001.01.001) doing the following:

1. cloned giit repository https://github.com/Biktorgj/quectel_eg25_recovery
2. sent test sms -> modem in working state
3. run "./qfirehose -f ./" (-> new firmware version: 30.006.30.006)

After the upgrade the modem came up again working. Everything worked fine (Calls, SMS).
After a reboot, it still worked.

I put the phone into airplane mode overnight. Since then, the modem is in disabled state. It asks me for the SIM pin and unlocks the SIM card. But it does not show or connect to any network. It only tells me "modem in disabled state".

I switched the modem off by using the kill switch and restarted it with "systemctl restart eg25-manager".
I rebooted several times, tried airplane mode... but nothing helps.

Since it worked after the update for while, the firmware itself should be ok, shouldn't it?
I'm not sure if this is platfor specific, but I am running Manjaro with Plasma mobile (KDE Community Editiin).

So what am I supposed to do?


EDIT:
I found this, which could help me:

"To get adb access to the modem:
Get adb key via AT+QADBKEY?"

How is this done? How do I retrieve the adb key?


EDIT2: Got the key, but unfortunately, it doesn't work though