Hello from a new and happy Canadian owner of a Pinephone.

I'm really impressed so far and I tried some distros. My choice is now Mobian and I installed Gnome Shell. I tried to find the answer to my question with no luck therefore, I'm asking in here.

Is there a way to answer a phone call from the login screen without having to actually log in user session? I really dont have the time to login with the password when the phone rings and, I miss the call. In GDM3.

Thank you all and long live to Pinephone!

I downloaded the Phosh 16 Beta yesterday and played around with it for a bit then when I went to boot it up this morning it would vibrate, show the notification light turn on then go black. I left it for about 10 minutes to see if maybe it was booting up but the screen was just dim and nothing happened. I tried booting into it 4-5 times with the same result. Anyone else experiencing this?

I'm following these guides:

https://fossingularity.wordpress.com/202...h-beta-15/
and
https://waydro.id/ (scroll down)

so on the first guide, "sudo waydroid-start" says command doesn't exist,

but going to the second guide, "sudo waydroid init" seems to work, but "sudo waydroid container start" and "waydroid session start" seem to get stuck, and subsequently, "waydroid app install whatever.apk" doesn't work either.

was editing boot.txt perhaps an outdated step? Any tips?
 

I have installed apps through the software application and have noticed that some apps do not open.  Specifically Pidgin I click on the app and it looks like its going to open but it just hangs.  Anybody else experience this ?

Now that I managed to get the multi-boot demo image working on an sdcard I have bounced through all distros it came with.

I am curious, how is sailfish os able to get smooth ui response compared to others?

I get all functions I need (so far) from pos phosh but it does have some noticeable delays when just getting around.

I went to download a recent merge request of Phosh because it added splash screen support, which I think it huge. When trying to install all the deb packages though I get an error that it conflicts with Squeekboard, anyone have an idea on how to get around that? Below is the link to the deb files, I installed them all aside from `phosh-osk-stub` and `phosh-osk-stub-dbgsym` with `phosh-osk-stub-dbgsym` depending on `phosh-osk-stub` and that conflicting with squeekboard.


https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/pho...an/output/

When booting up with Plasma Mobile, the screen brightness is set to minimum.

Looking at the action menu at the top, I can find two icons which look like any other ions of suns indicating brightness. In this case there is no slider, and pressing on the icons does nothing.

Any ideas?


Thanks

Hello again Everyone,
I've been using my new Pine Phone since the weekend and I have been very pleased with it. That being said, a longer lasting battery would be nice. I have no doubts that the community will continue optimizing software for minimal power consumption. In the meantime, are there any aftermarket batteries available in the J7 form factor with greater capacity?

I'm hoping something like that exists and Pine64 was just trying to keep prices down with the included battery. I remember there was this YouTube video where he finds batteries compatible with his iPhone 7 but with greater storage from Chinese street vendors and the J7 is a fairly common type itself.
https://youtu.be/faLaueR-Pgk

It'd be worth it for people like myself who use their Pine Phones as daily drivers to pay for a premium battery

So far though all I've found is this Reddit thread where they say they found a "replacement" and one of the replies mentions a "fat" battery which will work at the cost of the Pine Phone's back casing not fitting overtop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PINE64official/...nd_tested/

Alternatively has anyone modeled a 3D printable larger back casing that can house a fat battery?

Has anyone used "preload" on the pinephone? (link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Preload)
With preload the startup time of programs should be reduced, in exchange for a little bit more ram-usage. And I can imagine that it costs a little bit of battery.
I have tried it (on mobian) for a day and it seems to work. I have not done any measurements, but will compare with my 2nd pinephone soon. 

I'm curious whether other people have tried "preload", or maybe can benefit from it.

I'm hoping for possibly more technical explanations from people involved or those that just know.

The apps I'm looking forward to in the future are Cawbird (Twitter client) Giara (a Reddit client) and Komikku (a comic reading client). Looking at these apps, they seem to use the same UI framework which looks great, but actually using these apps is less than pleasant. Scrolling is jittery, and that assumes the app is responsive enough to let you scroll.

Is it just a less-than-stellar web toolkit that both these apps are using? I just recently discovered GTKeddit, which runs like a champ in comparison. It Has GTK in the name so I think it uses the same UI framework at least. Does anyone have any ideas?