Back when the keyboard came out, there were some hoops to jump through to get access to all of the symbols using, such as £-+, etc.

Eventually it was fixed properly, but now it seems that recent kernels have broken it again.  There are fixes for other OSes (Mobian, Arch), but I can't find anything for PMOS.  I'd be happy just to downgrade the kernel for now, but I can't find any instructions for that.

Anyone else encountered this, and solved it?

Using PMOS +Phosh, on OG Pinephone.

I don't take pictures very often but it can be handy sometimes. Today I needed to use the Pinephone to take a few photos and Megapixels kept crashing most of the time, either during launch or when taking the picture. Finally rebooted the phone and got it to take some pics and although it appeared to work there was nothing in the Pictures directory. Finally I found that for some reason Megapixels is now placing  the photos in my home directory instead. (It didn't do that the last time it was used.)

Since Megapixels tends to flake out I thought I'd give Pinhole ("Camera" application) a try since I saw it mentioned while searching the board here. Pinhole launches but does not display anything from the camera, just a black background. Running it from the command line yields the following diagnostics:

Hello PineTab folks,
I bought a PineTab a couple years ago because I try to put my money where my mouth is on consumer Linux alternatives to shifty Big Tech offerings. I wish people had more choice in phones and tablets operating systems than we do. While it is very cool, my PineTab has gone unused for too long for a variety of reasons, and I'm not a developer, just a Linux newbie who dreams of having devices that work for PEOPLE, not for Silicon Valley, as respected individuals. Not for privacy-invading marketing departments. 

I listed my PineTab on eBay yesterday and I hope I've described it accurately and fairly. If you want to take a look, it's here:
http://ebay.us/bZwdHc?cmpnId=5338273189

I'll stay on this forum for the week in case anyone has questions. Thanks for reading this.

Tim

I have the casing of a older pine phone but the main board and microphone has been removed and I'm green . I would like to know if somebody would help me out with a part number to a set that I could at least use phone maybe text so I could get started. The main use would be to download music.

Hi,

I have problems getting started with this phone.
At first there were problems loading this phone altogether.

Now it actually loaded the operating system, but writes:
can't run /sbin/getty I/0 error

The OS is PostmarketOS

T.

Hi,

I've got my PinePhone, but there seems to be a problem.
For the first time I did everything fine, but I suppose the problem was that I put an inactive SIM card, for the first time the phone didn't load and it write smth like "login' at the top of a black screen. Nothing else happened.
Then I perhaps did the wrong thing - I didn't know how to turn it off, so I took the battery out.
Since then the phone only loads to a factory test.

What should I do next?
Sorry, I'm a newbie here. I actually thought the phone would have the OS installed and I wouldn't have to do smth extra.

Best.
T.

Here's how we build an IoT app with Zig and LoRaWAN ... And run it on PineDio Stack BL604

Build an IoT App with Zig and LoRaWAN

Has anybody gotten Waydroid working yet on the 5.18 kernel on the Pro? Currently running Arch Phos.
I have heard of success on the OG Pinephone

Sometime last year I purchased a 3GB PinePhone beta edition with the convergence package. Since then I haven't used it very much but I have been trying to use the phone with the dock recently on a fresh install of the latest stable image of Manjaro with Plasma Mobile. All my packages are up to date and the phone has not been giving me Mali driver crashes like it used to.

However when trying to use the PinePhone with the dock I am noticing a strange problem when attempting to use an external monitor using the HDMI port. Both USB ports work fine with the wireless keyboard and mouse that I have attached, and the ethernet cable and charging port work fine as well. When I plug the entire dock into the PinePhone it detects all of these devices attached to the dock and is able to interface with all of them properly except the external display. So I get power, my keyboard/mouse, and an ethernet connection.

The strange part about this is that the PinePhone is able to determine that it is connected to an external display - the display mode changes to desktop and you are able to see the output options on the touch screen (duplicate display, etc.) However the external display does not detect a signal coming from the PinePhone - most of the time. Occasionally I will see the desktop flicker on my external monitor. Even stranger is that if I hold the dock at a particular angle above the phone itself the image stays, but as soon as I let go and place the dock back down it loses the signal again.

I have tried the Convergence dock on two separate external displays, with two different HDMI cables, and even used a different external USB-C dock with the PinePhone, and the Convergence dock with a different computer to determine what exactly the issue here is. I've come to the conclusion that the issue is probably the PinePhone's USB-C port itself, since the Convergence dock works fine with HDMI output on other devices, the displays themselves are working fine, the common link between all of the problems is the actual PinePhone. The only source of doubt is that the other devices hooked up to the dock will still work even if the HDMI output does not.

I don't know how to fix this issue if my PinePhone has a faulty USB port. I am well outside the warranty period and have no experience with fixing hardware. If anybody has any idea where to start looking in order to fix this I'd appreciate any suggestions.

Hi,
in https://gnulinux.ch/postmarketos-v22-06-veroeffentlicht
wrote Lioh Möller about the possibility of updating the firmware of the modem Quectel EG25-G.
I followed the instructions. There were no error messages. It now has the latest firmware version.
However, the modem does not work under postmarketOS. Only in Manjaro Phosh Beta 24 does it work if I toggle the "Mobile Data" switch on and off and on again under "Network".
The modem also does not work with Manjaro-ARM-plasma-mobile-dev-pinephone-20220613.
It's like an own goal.