Hello,
Playing with Pinephone I have just realised, that the only way to receive real time communication like calls and messages is over GSM service. VoIP and internet messengers will not work, because when phone gets suspended - operating system goes offline and if you disable power saving feature - keeping the system all the time online, the battery will be consumed within a few hours. 
What i have researched is that the only ability of crust is to wake up the system, being triggered by GSM call or SMS and in the best case you can manage periodic wake up for syncing services like email. Does this mean that there is no way and there is no view for the future that pinephone will be usable for real time internet communication, for example push service awakes the system and let the app to pickup incoming VoIP call or IM message ?

Hi all, regarding the general narrative here around android, it seems like everyone thinks android is some closed source software...well, it's not. there is no google  in AOSP

What is in your opinion the difference between running GloDroid and Ubuntu on pinephone? Glodroid is also open sourced system that uses linux kernel, called android.

Basically, android is a linux derivative specialized for mobile devices.
To me, saying android bad, linux good  sounds like people who say Linux is crap, unix is the best. FreeBSD is the only OS for real men, forget about linux.

Hi,

Last week, I took off my Pinetime (sealed version) to wash the dishes and stored it in my pocket. When I took it back to wear it, the watch was in a bootloop (attached video).



After trying the different reset/recovery options and letting the watch battery drain, I managed to recover the watch.

But after at least three episodes of bootloop, there now seems to be a screen/display issue (see attached pictures).

Anyone knows if this might be either an hardware or software/firmware trouble? Or is there an easy way to test that?

I really like my PineTime, it's a bummer that it's now unusable after only about 13 months.

Thanks

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Hello
couple of months ago I ordered PinePhone Pro with keyboard.
it came with plasma as usual but actually I couldn't update or install any app.
some guys looked at my log and found out that the keyrings are broken and thus update was not possible.

now I would like to install Mobian instead of plasma but actually I don't have the required skills to do that.
thus I am willing to pay for a step by step help to do the following:
 
1 - install Mobian 
2 - ensure that the keyboard drivers are ok and working
3 - install releight reloaded with phosh (https://github.com/WebFreak001/raleigh-reloaded)

please PM me if you are interersted

thanks

Hi guys, i installed lakka on my pine64 but i don't have any sound via hdmi port, can you fix it? 

Thanks

I'm trying to do

Suppose we’re creating our own Operating System (non-Linux) for PinePhone…

-  What’s the File Format?

-  Where in RAM should it run?

-  Can we make a microSD that will boot our OS?

-  What happens when PinePhone powers on? (U-Boot)

This article explains how we ported Apache NuttX RTOS to PinePhone. And we’ll answer the questions along the way!

PinePhone boots Apache NuttX RTOS

Hi all,

I have this issue when starting Arch Plasma on Sd card on pinephone: when I'm on the pin screen, I insert it and then it restarts automatically. It does the same thing again and again.

Do you know any solution with this?

Thanks so much.

Do we have a date or time when the design flaw of the battery/keyboard and usb-c connector usage getting fixed so we can use the usb-c while the phone is in the keyboard case?

where can i find complete specification of this product?
i want it to work well with my ppp and mobian.
i 'm not a good developper but want to practice to firmware and driver development .
but first i think i need good understanding of this hardware.

for now i clarify the structure of usb tree :
usbA ports numbered from vga port to sdcar reader A1,A2,A3
linux bus 5
 -> Vialab usb2 hub 4ports Vendor=2109 ProdID=2817
    -> port1 directly connected to physical port A2
    -> port2 directly connected to physical port A1
    -> port3 ?
    -> port4 conected to Terminus hub 4 ports Vendor=1a40 ProdID=0801
        -> port1 directly connected to physical port A3
        -> port2 ?
        -> port3 ?
        -> port4 terminus hub 4p Vendor=1a40 ProdID=0801
            ->port1 directly connected to physical SDcard port
            ->port2 directly connected to physical microSD port
            ->port3 fresco logic ( it6564?) hdmi/vga convertor Vendor=1d5c ProdID=7102
                            ^seems to have a firmware is it possible to flash ?
            ->port4 CMX sound card conected to audio jack Vendor=2000 ProdID=dd00

linux bus 6
 -> vialab usb3 hub 4p
    -> port1 ?
    -> port2 ?
    -> port3 eth adapter rtl8153 0bda:8153
    -> port4 ?

how i named the ports ; from left to right facing the ports
jack, sdcard/microsdcard, usbc 2, usbc 1, usba 3, usba2, usba1, vga, hdmi, usbc pd Femal, usbc pd male.

i don't know where shoud be mentioned the sound card to send audio thrue the HDMI. is it an interface of the it6564.
maybe it required to send specific encoded sound to specific it6564 interface?

is anyone have a photo of the interior of the docking station ?