Hey all,

I am a bit new to Linux, (been usin it for about a year and a half). I just got my Pinephone, and I'm really happy with it! I like Mobian a lot, and don't want to switch from it, however I really do not like how the homescreen on Phosh looks. I always prefer to have a very clean homescreen with no icons. From my understandin, there's no way to do that with Phosh, unless I learn how to program my own app drawer... I'm currently learnin Python but it will be a long while before I will have the skill to do that. I really liked how the homescreen looked on Plasma Mobile. From what I'm seein on Mobian's Wiki page, it looks like switchin desktop environments to Plasma is currently broken. 

Recently I saw this, https://www.itsfoss.net/cutie-shell-new-...-and-more/ and was wonderin if there's a way to do Mobian +Cutie. It looks cool, and while I don't have a whole lot of programmin know how I don't mind usin the terminal and learnin things. 

I was also wonderin (this might be a dumb question... sorry) if you switch desktop environments, do you also have to switch apps? For example I really like Chatty and have it currently all set up. Would I have to change over to a different chat app that ships with cutie? Or is that not somethin that gets changed when you switch desktop environments. 

Really appreciate any replies!

Just curious, I loaded kde connect on my phone and on my Pinebook Pro running latest Manjaro.  I installed KDE Connect on both phone and PPRO and brought them up: and neither one could SEE the other.

Both on the same WiFi, neither can SEE the other.  Is this expected behavior? 
If this SHOULD work, any suggestions for what to check?

UPDATE: One day later.  Discovered it needs the port range open for both TCP and UDP.  Fix that in your firewall and everything connects.
Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.  I will leave this here for anyone else who encounters the problem to find.  "Check your firewall."
[Now I feel silly!]

is the phone keyboard a full windows keyboard?

If so the keyboard has an usb header, if costs would be within reason,
the phone keyboard could be redesigned into a multi purpose keyboard.

It should then be able to act as a keyboard for none pinephones and pinephones, an usb port for
attaching blue tooth to the keyboard,
if the internal battery could enable such usage and an usb port for wired connection
to the
keyboard. Regarding
android phones a holder should be made. I do not know how many of such
keyboards are on the market? Could such a keyboard provide revenue.

Newbie question here, running bog standard Manjaro:

What's the difference between the Discover app, which tells me I am to date, and pacman -Syu which goes and does a set of updates?

What is the largest micro SD card which PinePhone supports?

For example, can I use 256 or 512 GB SD cards and also boot an OS from them?

Hi,

I'm running into difficulty getting main camera autofocus running.  I've taken the following steps:

1. Replaced my Braveheart motherboard with a new 3GiB motherboard.
   
2. Replaced my camera module with a new one.
   
3. Installed the latest Mobian weekly (2022-01-02).
   
4. Upgraded all the things ( sudo apt-get upgrade -y ).
   
5. Started Megapixels, and tapped the screen to trigger autofocus.
   

Wondering if someone has tried to flash blobless ATF and run libre kernel on quartz64?

Also is the board completely oshw?

Thanks

I have been working on a "Pinephone Multiboot Platform" guide for the wiki, to consolidate in one place some of what I learned working through this myself. The intended audience is new Pinephone owners with some prior linux experience; just beyond the noob level. The goal is to  explain the power and flexibility of p-boot with btrfs, walk through the process of downloading and installing the Multiboot Demo Image to sdcard, and go over some basic btrfs commands to examine and manipulate os installations. That's as far as I have gotten at the moment. It's is still a work in progress, so I haven't posted it to the wiki. You can see the current draft on my user page: https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/User:Woo2.

If you find it useful and think its worth continuing please say so. For now I have to move on to other things, but if feedback makes it seem worthwhile I'll try to find time to add sections on setting up a partition table and filesystem from scratch, adding OSes, and performing p-boot flash and unconf/conf operations.

https://tuxphones.com/pinephone-modem-ot...e-support/

Hello, I was reading that article about firmware change and easy upgrades, has anyone tried it? Please share the experience.

Hi everyone I'm looking for a way to mainstream Linux phones for myself (I need WhatsApp) and for other people that also need WhatsApp I thought for a bit and came to the conclusion that the KaiOS version of WhatsApp is the only Version which is possible to import to Linux without changing any code by making a shell around the app that communicates with Linux (more of a container really)
Can you tell me if this is possible and if so can you please help me find the WhatsApp app files for KaiOS because it's impossible to find.