I am using the Pinephone as my only mobile, and on the whole I am happy with the hardware.

I do think, however, that it might be a good idea if some of the software was rewritten for a Linux phone instead of being shoe horned into the pinephone.

I am running phosh on Arch Linux, and as I speak the Settings (gnome) is tiny on the screen. If I open the Bluetooth Settings (gnome) rotate the screen to landscape and the back to portrait, it is also tiny. This is very annoying.

Does anyone agree?

OS works fine for not being connected to a cellular network, but it never detects the SIM card. I tried putting it in, resetting, getting new distros installed it still doesn't attempt to call or detect the SIM card. If it's of any use for this info, i ended up shaving off some of the ends that would scratch the SIM card for putting it in, but it still shows that the SIM card is not installed and phone calls are not going through.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Is there a troubleshoot page for the hardware of the SIM card itself or if it can be done through OS? I saw that there is a discord channel maybe i can share more info there.

SD cards are almost absent in eink devices nowadays, arguably for pushing people into buying cloud services and discouraging offline personal .epub and .pdf libraries. A linux device has no such conflict of interest, why then leaving sd cards out? 

128GB is lots for a simple eink reader, but gets filled quickly for mainline linux installations (not to mentions personal .epub and .pdf libraries, which can easily be much bigger than that). 

Is there any plan for supporting sd/microsd card expansion or other forms of in-device expansion? Is it possible to mod the device as is (spare connectors on the motherboard and similar) ?

This article explains how I read the PM 2.5 data from IKEA VINDRIKTNING Air Quality Sensor connected to PineDio Stack BL604 (with some soldering)

Connect IKEA Air Quality Sensor to Apache NuttX OS

   

First Draft for now , Should work with most Distro but only tested with arch phosh, feedback is greatly appreciated

https://github.com/K-arch27/pinebtrfs

Hey folks, I have been daily driving my pinephone running manjaro phosh since November and overall very usable however every day or two my phone ends up frozen and needs a hard reboot (it never happens when on the charger).

I know its not off because holding power does not turn it on. I need to hold power for a few seconds presumably to shut the phone down then hold power again to start it back up (screen shows nothing). Then everything starts working as it should. I don't know how to trouble shoot this as I have to reset to get access back to the terminal to check systemctl and obviously after reboot nothing in the system journal to indicate whats happening.

Any one else having this issue or have any idea how to trouble shoot it?

DHL told me my PineWatch shipment was recalled by the company. I've never heard of such a thing. Company billed me, thinks the delivery is "complete" but my product is heading back to China. So much for paying for express shipping. Has else any ever heard of such a thing?

Hello fellow human

How would you go about paying for mobile apps in your Pinephone or other linux phone? Similar to how it already is for the duopoly phones? Or would you prefer something different?

I do have some ideas, but I want to avoid making this into a leading question

Hello Forum,

As we can read January 2022 update regarding RK3588:

Quote:RK3588

• Many of you have seen the announcement – the RK3588 will be made available to vendors (in bulk) later this year
  
• It is a very powerful and complex SoC – full Linux functionality will take time, likely a long time
  

I'm trying to install Debian to the eMMC on my Pinebook Pro using Daniel Thompson's unofficial installation script. 

When ">>>> Checking for updates" (right after ">>>> Mount special file systems")

I get the error