The instructions at https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_P...stallation say "Please note that the following instructions do not apply to Explorer Edition".

My box says "Explorer Edition" but the phone has AOSP installed. Is it reasonable to follow the instruction for the Dev edition to get an alternative to AOSP booted? there doesn't seem to be an "Explorer" wiki page yet.

Update: based on Discord, it sounds like the "Dev" edition may have shipped in "Explorer Edition" boxes

If you make a video with/about the Pinephone Pro or showing it off or already know a video just post it here :

My PP Pro explorer shipped with a build of AOSP 9. Not exactly what I intended to run, but intriguing. Does anyone know where I can obtain a copy of the factory AOSP 9 image should I need it later?

Hi, is it possible to install Lomiri on Mobian? I have played around with different distros/GUIs and imo Mobian is the best distro while Ubuntu Touch has the best DE. I guess i could just install Lomiri and systemctl disable phosh, but is there anything that i should know beforehand? I had calling issues in Ubuntu and it seems like the communication-apps are DE-specific. Does it have dependencies that recieve a different update cycle on Mobian? Are there other potential issues i didn't think of? Kind regards.

Now, I'm speaking as a no user, but wanted to help out anyway with some thoughts!

1. Bigger battery option, I do not know if there was an options for the specific battery used for that specific phone, but if so, someone might be able to 3D print a cover and we could get that option. I have not looked into it, but I recall they used a battery from some kind of phone and there might have been providers for bigger battery options for that phone model, and thereby we just need a 3D print cover for it to the Pinephone pro. The bigger battery would make more lifetime, and you can nearly never get to much of that! 6400 mAh battery seem to be a great size, weight and Amp juice for my LG V20!!! Always nice with a transparent cover by the way!  

2. To see The External battery is great but, it does only seem to work with the standard slim batteries, if maybe a better design could be fixed that would support bigger batteries, that would be awesome!  I just got a usb charger for external charging although it does not fully charge the batteries, but around 90%, but it works pretty well overall it seems. It does seem to be able to charge the 2 different kind of batteries for the 2 different phones I have tested it with, although I do not know how much it charges the other kind of batteries as that phone screen is dead. German expensive trash that breaks by just minor drops.

3. Recording calls!!! This would be a HUGE seller point, Google did Evil and took this away in Android 9 beside doing other Evil things to kill recording apps. I've heard this was a standard feature in Android, although that must be before my time - after they took that away, programmers quickly filled the emptiness but sadly Google knock that down as well. So filthy, disgusting criminal company.

4. IF the screen breaks in the Pinephone, it would be a wonder if you could just connect to a screen and keyboard and get access to your data!!! Like I'm sitting with my German Trash of the Shift 6mq, now payed for 120 Euro or so for the 3 screen. And it would have been nice if one could just have connected to a Screen and keyboard and access the system itself. I think you might already have some kind of option for that, but at least if that was possible, what a seller point as well and satisfaction for the user overall

I think that is all I can help with as of now. I'm in the opinion that the 5 year old LG V20 is still the best phone on the marked, yet I would only give it 1 star out of 10 on a 10 grade scale. Don't root it, just use it as it is. The New Shift 6mq that I got would be graded with half a star, and the rest of the phones which does not have the 3 essentials of Jack-phone, Memory card and Changeable battery is primary 0 stars, there might be one exception, a handworker mobile running Android 8 and having the ability to measure air pollution, but I never tried it and it is old as well.

And the last word, GO PINEPHOOOOONE!!!! I hope you get some wind in the sails - if you just work your way to the mountain top, then it will fly with great speed down the hill  Many are interested in releasing them self from the tyrants, a community based phone with people behind it and not greedy tyrants, pushing ads and putting there dog noses up in our butt holes to steal our data, would be awesome.

I don't know if I have time and such for sniffing issues, and buying one of those Pinephone Pro - but... I'm pretty hard in my grading stars, but if you can get the essential foundational things worked out, this stands to shine! Go freedom for the people and take care that Evil people don't take things over from the inside, sadly we do see this some places in the open source environment. Like we are so concerned about your privacy, says Firefox, first thing sending you to google search engine by default Look at the fruit produced not their empty words... FSF are correct, we always want the users to have the freedom and choices, not give it out to Tyrants who decide what they think is best for us!

- Darkijah

For people trying to use the Pinephone as a daily driver, the biggest showstopper appears to be the modem with its quirks and crashes.

There are many stories about many problems, sometimes along with workarounds and fixes, spread all over the forum and often difficult to find.

I would therefore like to ask you:

Which modem problems did you have, that -- now comes the important part of the question -- you could solve or minimise and how did you do it?

How do I delete my forum account? Did a search on Help but no hits.

Thank you

Hello there,

the browser cog is a lightweight single window browser using WPE libraries. The problem is, that I cannot get the latest versions to run on Mobian - v0.8.1 is the last one functioning.

Has anyone here any ideas what could be the problem?

I tried the --platform= options, which result in errors that the libraries could not be found.

Thanks in advance!

I was trying to figure out a way to do automatic login in Mobian on the PP, but I couldn't find anyway to bypass the login screen.



Then, I got the idea of just making my password one number long, so I could enter "1" instead of "1234". I edited the file /etc/pam.d/common-password and changed the line:

Wondering if anyone else has had this issue. When I am on a call and I get another call the phone stops me from being heard, I have to hang up to continue my call.

Can I turn off call waiting to avoid this issue or has anyone seen this issue?

Thanks.