Hello.

I see it as good opportunity here to add a marketplace forum, where users can request and offer all Pine64 products they have for sale.

Hello.

If anyone is having a near-mint condition PBP, please let me know as I would like to get my hands on one. Shipment to US address.

Hello,

I received my first PinePhone a couple of weeks ago. I transplanted my only SIM card from my iPhone SE (2nd gen) to the PP a couple of days ago and there is no way back for me. After the last Apple announcements I am pretty much done with them and Google is a no-go for me as well.
I am very happy with how useable and stable the PP is - at least for my kinda modest requirements.
I just felt like writing up the setup I currently arrived at; I somewhat doubt I will try many more other distros any time soon.

Here is my setup:
PinePhone model: Beta Edition 3 GB / 32 GB
Distro: Arch (Gnome v. 40.4)
DE: phosh (Wayland)
I installed Arch (build 2021/09/08 from here) on the eMMC via JumpDrive (see here)

Calling someone: Works.
Caveat: Surrounding noises can be (very) annoying for the person being called -- will try a cable headset soon.

Getting called: Works.
Caveat: When the PP is in deep sleep, the caller hears 6 rings while the PP wakes up. Then my provider informs the caller I am not available and that I will receive an SMS / text messages about the call.
My thoughts: I consider this a feature - I do not have to answer the phone when it sleeps which will be the case when a) I am on the road and am not using the phone or b) I am sleeping myself.
In any case I get the SMS and can then call back when/if it suits me - works for me

Receiving SMS / text messages: Works.

Sending SMS / text messages: Works.
Caveat: I manually set mobile to '2G only' beforehand. This may be an issue when 2G gets obsolete.

Battery duration: Should be ok - for me.
It lasts for at least 2 hours of normal use. I will better bring my charger/ power bank/ replacement battery for longer trips..

Camera: Not useful for taking pictures of important memories.
The image quality is just a joke to me. I disabled the front camera via the kill switch. I keep the rear camera for documentation purposes.
Workaround: I will carry my real camera more often now - works for me.


Apps

I regularly use these apps, sorted from hard-to-setup to alread-installed:


Spot (for Spotify)
- see https://flathub.org/apps/details/dev.alextren.Spot

Signal Desktop client
- see https://privacyshark.zero-credibility.net/#packages
- I gave up on Axolotl for now

Lollypop (mp3 player)
- came pre-installed; the work here was to copy music files onto the PinePhone. I did that by connecting my usb disk to the PP via the usb-c dock that came with it. The copying I did using the good old Midnight commander:
sudo pacman -S mc

PureMaps + OSM Scout Server (GPS Navigation)
- Performance + UX is 10 times as good as with the pre-installed 'Maps'
- Offline map data for my region only ate up about 2 GB of disk space
- In-car test: A complete failure. Short version: GPS on the PinePhone is not yet working in real life.
- see https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=puremaps
- see https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...coutserver

Shortwave (Internet radio)
- see https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=shortwave
- best internet radio app on any platform (fast + no ads ...)
- Caveat: when adding a station be careful not to freeze all of phosh (requires a phone restart for me - but the station gets added)

Weather
- Came pre-installed (I think); otherwise see https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=weather

KTrip (Public transport)
- Came pre-installed; otherwise see https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=ktrip
- Does the job, also tested it on-the-go, shows slightly less information than similar iOS/Android apps

Calendar.
- Instead of using 'evolution' (I prefer a calender-only app) I installed 'Calendar for GNOME': https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Calendar
- I only had to do this:

I am playing around with Godot and have been trying to use the FRT template to get a game running on my PP and it has not been working. Anyone able to have a bit more success?
[url=https://github.com/efornara/frt][/url]

Ive have wanted a pinephone for quite some time but havent pulled the trigger because of carrier support being spotty.  It is now time to reconsider and I contacted my carrier to determine whether they could support the pinephone on their network.  Their 'experts' did not know and advised that I use their IMEI check tool. Given that are an NVMO for Tmobile and the compatability list (https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php?title=...th_America) seems t-mobile friendly, I had hoped that someone might be willing to pump their IMEI into the tool and get back to me .  If there is another way I would be willing to hear it, but this is the best I can think of.

For anyone worried, IMEI is not overtly sensetive info and is often listed on the outside of the box of new cell phones. I wont go so far as to say that you should pass out your IMEI to strangers on the street, but this should be relatively safe.

IMEI Check Toool = https://www.usmobile.com/networks

Thank in advance

I'm running Armbian on my A64 2G Rev B and driving the GPIO pins with GPIOD and MMIO (userspace Linux). With GPIOD I get around 370 KHz doing write toggle. With MMIO is shows 2588 KHz, but on a scope it's really around 630 KHz. This same code works fine across multiple other boards https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery...using-perf. My mapping file is https://github.com/sgjava/java-periphery...properties Is this reasonable?

Java Periphery is a high performance library for GPIO, LED, PWM, SPI, I2C, MMIO and Serial peripheral I/O interface access in userspace Linux. Rather than try to build this from scratch I used c-periphery and HawtJNI to generate the JNI wrappers. This saves a lot of hand coding and allows for easier synchronization with c-periphery changes moving forward.
 
I believe this is the only userspace IO library that supports the new JDK 17 LTS (and still supports JDK 11). I had to fork HawtJNI to make it work with JDK 17. The only caveat is that ARM32 supports JDK 11. For some reason I cannot find a JDK 17 for ARM32 or information on why is was not supported. The install script handles this automatically. ARM64/x86/x86_64 uses JDK 17.

Hi all,

I am using the Phosh version on my pinephone with 3GB RAM / 32GB. I do not know where to begin the fix as it suddenly the default caller, SMS chat and contact list just become in-accessable (or appear to be not running at all). I am sure the phone service provider and my phone network is all valid (I can go online on firefox using the phone network without wifi).

When you call your own number, there are tones from where I calling my phone, but the pinephone is not responding to the call, no ringtone sound from my pinephone, the "Calls" app simply just did not shown or appeared. I tried to sent a SMS to the pinephone and the SMS "chat" app just do not show/responding. I tried to access the "chat" app on my pinephone and the app just become not responding and just give up on loading after a while. This goes the same with my contact list app.

Anyone has any idea, where should I begin my fix? or should I just reinstall the hold thing to make it work?
Any help is greatful.
Cheers.

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Hi all,

I got tired of putting my pin into the phone so I changed it to blank in settings.  I tried opening the phone up and now everything I enter (including blank) results in Wrong PIN.  What's the next step?

Thanks!