I have three Pinephones one phone is on stock firmware, one phone is the opensource firmware, and the other phone I flashed the open source firmware but returned it back to stock firmware. The phone I know is on stock firmware I know which one it is but I need to know which is on the opensource firmware and to know if the stock firmware took in the second phone. Is there an AT command or some other command to tell me what firmware I am on?

Of all the OS images available which is the most advanced in terms of power efficiency?

I worked on cellphones at Qualcomm for ~tens years.  I'm very interested in this topic

Will there be spare parts available for the PineTime such as the LCD+Touch and battery?

Is there trick to creating the Linux image for the Quartz64?  I have no trouble burning and booting the Android 16MB emmc image but I have tried burning Armbian, Arch images and LibreElec to emmc and SD  and I don't get the the kernel logo (or any HDMI) from them.  I've tried burning with Windows and Ubuntu.

The SD image contend look find when they are mounted in Android.

Thanks,

Martin

Hello,

I have two questions:

1. If I order a Pine Phone Pro to ship in the EU, must tax paid by the recipient?
   
2. What is the meaning of the sentence "In general, custom tax and VAT not included except Pine Phone EU VAT batch."? Does it mean that the Pine Phone Pro is shipped inside of the EU and only shipping must be paid and no tax?
   

I've got MicroG and Aurora running on Waydroid here. Apps generally work, eg a food delivery app and Bolt, which is like Uber. I installed Bumble and set up my profile, but It won't let me see any potential matches, it's just says 'oops, check your network.' Network is fine, I suspect it is a location problem, although settings says that Bumble has not requested location, while other apps have. I have the Mozilla location backend for MicroG installed. Any tips or ideas? Thanks!

Hello,
I've watched a few reviews of the Pinephone and Pinephone Pro on Youtube.
There is a common theme about charging: That the phone has to be powered up while it is charging.
Has anything changed lately in that regard?
I have also noticed that the reviewers complain about battery life, because it seems the OS is unable to tell running apps that the phone is locked or the screen is off. I wonder why it doesn't just decrease the CPU cores' speeds in that case.
Thanks.

Just posting that there are still Pinephone Convergence sound issues occurring. Sometimes when making a call the call connects and I can hear the other person but they can not hear me. I have to hang up or they do and then I play with sound settings trying to figure it out. The calls system (Gnome) is erratic, unstable. At one point after this problem I noted that in sound settings there were no data in the fields. This indicates to me a complete crash of sound application. 

I would like to suggest that Calls and Chatty be their own operating system. A dedicated call/text system similar to that of Android type system. I now see that sharing the sound system with the operating system regardless of system is not a great idea. Is it possible to have a dual o.s. ? In my case Arch Linux but separate to Arch a dedicated side by side call / text system that Arch has nothing to do with?

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Hello,

I updated my freshly-received PinePhone Beta, which was working correctly. Then after restart I have only a black screen with KDE logo and a mouse pointer. I can connect via SSH.

SDDM's journal:

Quote:Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile systemd[1]: Started Simple Desktop Display Manager.
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Initializing...
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Starting...
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Logind interface found
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Adding new display on vt 1 ...
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Loading theme configuration from ""
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Display server starting...
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Adding cookie to "/var/run/sddm/{5894bace-d8ca-4a6f-b885-770aa308b4c9}"
Jul 04 19:19:14 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Running: /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp -background none -seat seat0 vt1 -auth /var/run/sddm/{5894bace-d8ca-4a6f-b885-770aa308b4c9} -noreset -displayfd 18
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Setting default cursor
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Running display setup script  "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup"
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Display server started.
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Unable to find autologin session entry "plasma-mobile.desktop"
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Socket server starting...
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Socket server started.
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: The configured theme "matcha-dynamic-sddm" doesn't exist, using the embedded theme instead
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Loading theme configuration from ""
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Greeter starting...
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm-helper[3312]: [PAM] Starting...
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm-helper[3312]: [PAM] Authenticating...
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm-helper[3312]: [PAM] returning.
Jul 04 19:19:17 plasma-mobile sddm-helper[3312]: pam_unix(sddm-greeteression): session opened for user sddm(uid=972) by (uid=0)
Jul 04 19:19:18 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Greeter session started successfully
Jul 04 19:19:18 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Message received from greeter: Connect
Jul 04 19:19:23 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Auth: sddm-helper exited with 11
Jul 04 19:19:23 plasma-mobile sddm[3221]: Greeter stopped.

Quote:Failed to create wl_display (No such file or directory)
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, wayland-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, xcb.

Aborted (core dumped)