This is a simple question but I would like to know where to find the 'bypass contact points' on a _developer_ edition of the PPP.
Not needed at this time but we never know

Can anyone provide an update on the implementation of the fingerprint scanner case? Which (if any) OS' currently support the new case with fingerprint reader?

This video appears to suggest Manjaro w. Phosh supports the device: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEXv_SrD0TA

Since I've previously caught people trying to read my password on my laptop or phone in various environments over the past few years, I'm really looking forward to having a functional fingerprint scanner to unlock my Pinephone and mitigate this vulnerability.

I bought a Community Edition Pinephone back in 2020 and would like to upgrade it to the 3GB RAM, 128 GB eMMC board. Is that practical/possible to do myself, or would I do better to buy a new, complete Pinephone with these specifications instead? I enjoy simple DIY computing/electronics projects.

Thanks in advance. 

Any suggestions for a video player that works well on PPP (using Phosh)? Neither Totem nor VLC play nice.

Series of events:

$ booting long delivery time
$ insert nano SD with converter
$ -get long-boot-script
$ run is-my-black-glowing-screen-wallpaper.exe
$ sudo smiley face 'I see a cursor'
$ Godmode /this/welcome/screen/is/beautiful
$ sudo apt udate [wrong distro]
$ epiphany "there is an app for that"
$ epiphany "app will not work" crash.exe
$ 464/packages update.exe
[crash]
$ sudo apk -Syu
#########################--------------------------------------------------------------
error
error
error
corrupted remove file <whateverman>.important Y/N_:
$ forget it/call somebody
[horrid echo sound]
$ execute text message
[success]
$ spend/4 hours/trying to/update
$ run give-up-and-sleep-while-charging.exe
#will-not-boot
$ open file 'WTFover.vomit'

I don't ask much. Don't have FANG on you. Update without crashing. Do not require another OS full install.

I know this is still BETA. I wouldn't dare even ask for my money back. I don't even care that the camera doesn't function.

If I wanted to spend $400 on one day of disposable fun it would have been a stripper.

Please fix this or don't sell it.

I tried to install mobian onto my new Pinephone pro and now the phone wont turn on at all.

I installed the mobian image from https://images.mobian.org/pinephonepro/i...227.img.gz and wrote it to a sd card with dd.
Once I inserted it into the pinephone I went through the following installation steps
I selected 'enable device encryption' and entered a password
I selected the image to be wrote to eMMC
once I began the installation it came up an error box stating that the installation had failed.
I thought nothing of it and went to try install another Pinephone pro image into the phone, however the phone did not turn back on
I have tried everything I can think of but I can't get any response from the phone, no vibration, flashing light, sound or display turning on.

It is difficult for me to work successfully on pinephone pro in terminal.  Problem is working with small virtual keyboard.  I make mistakes very frequently.  I found making an ssh connection to pinephone pro from my linux pc is very easy and it gives use of pc keyboard.    Guideline steps below:

on pinephone pro, make sure openssh is installed  ---    sudo pacman -S openssh     I think it is default installed but not sure

on pinephone pro, make sure sshd service is running  -- sudo systemctl start sshd

on pinephone pro, verify that sshd service is running  --  sudo systemctl status sshd

on pinephone pro, run ip to get ip address of pinephone pro which is needed by ssh client -- sudo ip a      note ip for wlano, e.g., 192.168.1.205 

on linux pc, install ssh client, muon also called snowflake, works well for me in openSUSE leap 15.3.  Has a gui

on linux pc, start ssh client and configure connection .  For snowflake provide a connection name, host ip (pinephone pro ip from above), username:manjaro, (in  my case), pw  (PPP pw), port 22 default works for me.

start ssh connection --  in snowflake access your new connection and then click connect.  Connection is made for me.  I have found ssh automatically connects wirelessly if off lan or connects to pc by wire if connected to pc.

the snowflake gui interface, after connected, has a terminal button. Press that and your pc keyboard will run your phone.  You can use all available linux commandline commands that are available on your system. You can start PPP gui apps from the snowflake terminal and run them from your phone.

I found this make things much easier.  Hope this helps someone.

tom kosvic

So I managed to boot from the SD card, but now it's asking me for a passcode to unlock the device. I set up a passcode during my initial set up when I first turned the phone on (There was no SD card in the phone at the time), but that passcode isn't working to unlock the device running from the SD card. It doesn't seem to matter which distro I'm using as I've tried multiple.

 Any idea what this passcode the phone is looking for is?

Any help appreciated. I really want the see the PPP become daily driverable.

I perfectly understand than I got a work in progress. Nevertheless, yesterday evening I got the phone charged at 100% and leave it for the night to see how much it would use. Answer: 100%. This morning the battery was empty. It still accepts to charge, but does that mean that the Pinephone Pro is opposite to "normal" phones: keep it on the charger except when you (for a short time) want to carry it with you?

Seriously: it came with Manjaro Plasma. Anyone running some other distribution who was able to get at least 12 hours life unplugged?

Hi everyone! Just got my PPP today and have been tinkering with it. I've been having massive problems just trying to get the default experience to function in any capacity (currently, when I boot the phone, I enter my passcode and then I just get an unresponsive white screen)

 So I figured I'd try flashing a different OS to the SD card and booting from that. So I flashed archlinux- archlinux-pinephone-pro-phosh-20220222.img

 How long is it supposed to take? I booted the phone, it vibrated for a few seconds, went through a terminal-looking loading screen, and now I've been stuck at some kind of loading screen (A phone with a penguin on it with a swirling loading circle) for about 20 minutes now. Did I do something wrong or is this normal? [url=https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/Pine64-Arch/releases/download/20220222/archlinux-pinephone-pro-phosh-20220222.img.xz][/url]