Some of us live in remote and or mountainous areas with poor to no signal strength for 2g,3g,4g and gps Im wondering if a case could be made that has an extra battery/batteries and external antenna ports for powered higher strength antennas. Im also wondering if the 6 gold breakout pins in the back would be sufficient for such a modular case.

Hello,

Is the upcoming pinephone keyboard planned with different layouts ? I can speculate on that, as the pinebook has only been released with qwerty layouts (the subtle ANSI vs ISO difference wasn't really interesting to me).

I understand it would be complex to produce many different layouts. At minimum, are keyboard stickers (eg. azerty...) been planned ? It would be likely impossible to find any commercially available sticker that would fit the small buttons of the keyboard.

Thank you for the feedback !

I was so happy today with so many packages updates, but after the reboot calls geary and gnome-contacts were missing, I tried to reinstall and got "dipends on packages libfolks-eds25(>=0.14) and libfolks25(>=0.14), but not installable" "impossible to correct the problem, the packages are dammaged and broken" (I was translating the output of the terminal, those may not be exact words)

I have been inspired to make my own phone and really like my Pinephone.

As I start on this journey I am looking for some friendly guidance. I would really like to chat with some of the folks in the Pine64 hardware team so that I can learn a bit more and even see how viable my idea is or if there is any synergy between out projects.

Right now I am looking for a manufacturer to make me an android phone with hardware similar to the Pinephone in many ways so I thought that this community would be a great place to start.

I would be very appreciative to chat with anyone with manufacturing experience making phones especially with a community based model.

Recent thread item says installed plasma beta7 update.  My information tab in settings says 5.xxx for kde.  I would like info on:

Where is the beta7 update available?

Can I install a kde plasma update through pacman online update or do I need to install manjaro +plasma through a flash?

If it can be obtained through pacman how do I reference the search and update on the commandline?

thanks for any info,       tom kosvic

I received this phone on Sept 2, had a problem with it from get-go. Unless it is connected to a charger it sticks in a login loop. That is: enter password, accepted, display for about 5 seconds, enter password etc, etc. etc..
While the phone was on the charger I tried a software update as suggested. That kept crashing with libcanbera 0.30+2+ unmet dependencies. After a lot of searching I discovered how to update from the terminal with Pacman (always thought that was an arcade game from the ‘70s). That crashed and could not be updated due to locked files which had to be removed using the terminal. This happened 3 or 4 times.
With the last update try I left it over night on the charger.
Update success: but: It is still stuck in the login loop.
Is this PinePhone quality control or did I just get a piece of junk?

now, sxmo has a alternative window manager, wayland, built in. We can choose it in the settings menu. But my sxmo says: your device looks not ready yet. Am I wrong in supposing wayland support is built in with, say, latest edge download of postmarket sxmo?
For example, this one?
https://images.postmarketos.org/bpo/edge...hone/sxmo/
Actually, I'd say even a older install might receive wayland support on update.

Anybody knows more about that? Do we need to additionally install wayland in sxmo?

Hi, I just installed some updates to Manjaro w/ Phosh on my pinephone a couple of days ago, and since then I haven't been able to speak or hear the caller when I answer a call, or make an outgoing one. I can't confidently attribute the change to the updates though, as I'm the target of ongoing cyber attacks.

Has anyone else experienced this problem?

It would be helpful to know if this is a bug in the OS that came with the latest wave of updates or some other attack.

The only other thing I did in the same timeframe is attempt to install Pidgin on my phone for messaging, and a facebook messaging protocol library for it. I would have thought it extremely unlikely that those could impact such core functions of telephony. 

Thanks in advance for your thoughts, as always.

Hi,
Once an OS is installed on to the pine phone what is the actual process of getting an App/program loaded on it. For example if a write a program in python how do i get it to successfully run on the pine phone?

Cheers.

Hello is there something in progress to put gnome podcasts or other podcast client in the debian repository? I am not a big fan of platpak.
Also having dino-mobile in the debian repo like the manjaro phosh distro would be amazing.