Hi, I've had to have multiple attempts to update my software on my Pinephone over the last 24 hours, because if I start the update and leave the phone unattended, it goes to sleep and the downloading freezes. I then have to cancel and restart the updating. Fortunately, it picks up where it left off, but it's still annoying. Could this be fixed in a future release please? Thanks in advance. 

For anyone wondering how to change the ringtone on Manjaro Phosh, after having tried everything and changing the source code of feedbackd I have finally figured out what makes it different and not work:

First follow https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=11195 or https://sspaeth.de/2021/03/customizing-t...-ringtone/

Now add XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME to your /etc/environment file (this is the important thing)

Without that XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable it always ignores sound themes for some reason, see https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd...c#L124-130

I don't know why Manjaro Phosh doesn't ship with that environment variable (or at least my install that is kind of old and only updated through pacman doesn't) because there doesn't seem to be a standard for configuring the active sound theme, so it is put inside the org.gnome.desktop.sound gsetting here. I think this also means it's impossible to change the ringtone on non-GNOME environments like KDE unless you override the freedesktop sound files or modify feedbackd.

If you want to setup a proper inherited sound theme just for customizations (which is how helper tools are expected to modify it for you) you need to create a sound theme called __custom, which you can put in ~/.local/share/sounds/__custom/ (or $XDG_DATA_HOME instead of ~/.local/share if that exists)

And in that folder you put an index.theme with the following content:

[Sound Theme]
Name=Custom
Inherits=librem5
Directories=.

(replace librem5 with the theme the user actually wants to use)

Now you can put sound overrides directly in that folder (there must be no stereo/ folder, everything directly in the __custom folder according to the sound theme spec)

I'm not sure what exact format the audio files need to be, but iirc if you choose .oga (ogg) it should be stereo with 48000 Hz

For my conversion I used ffmpeg -i input.wav -filter:a "volume=0.5" -codec:a libvorbis -qscale:a 8 phone-incoming-call.oga

Now change theme by typing gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound theme-name __custom

and potentially clear sound cache using rm /home/mobian/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb.*

Reboot for good measure or at least kill feedbackd to be sure it catches the update. (although it should watch for changes on that gsetting)

Hope this helps

Last night I flashed a microSD with the plasma mobile beta 7 to see how things have progressed and it looked really good for about 20 minutes then the screen faded to white and after locking the screen it became unresponsive. Is this normal stability for plasma mobile? And if so, why is Pine64 having it as their default when Phosh is way more stable?

Hi,
Is it possible to put the pine phone CPU into some form of sleep mode programmatically?

There are many instances during a program where it is useful to put the main processor into some form of sleep mode e.g a time-lapse camera App that goes into sleep mode in between taking images.

Is this possible with the pine phone?

Cheers.

Hello,
i'm a software guy, fairly inexperienced in hardware.
I love my pinebook pro, but it stopped working completely: no charging, no led, no startup (sd card, usb or internal). I would buy a new motherboard but it's out of stock; so I would want to try to repair it.
How should I start to diagnose it? I have no idea what failed. I've done some uboot updates, but I'm almost positive this is not my current problem (as the laptop was working for a few weeks since the updates).

Is there a begginer friendly guide for laptop repair that you would recommend? I have acces to basic tools at some hackerspaces around me.

Sorry for the large question; but I would love to get my PBpro back, because it's such a great machine I can't imagine any replacement. And I would love to use this opportunity to expand my DIY skills; I've already learned so much low level stuff by tinkering on the PBpro and Pinephone; why not get into hardware?

Thanks for any info, any pointer, any input.

Alex

Hi folks -

I have been trying to use KDE Connect on the PinePhone and not having much success under either Manjaro or Mobian.

 - Software runs, connects to my desktop
 - Desktop recognizes that it is connected to the phone
 - Dolphin will not find the phone to exchange files
 - However, I can send files individually from phone to desktop downloads folder.

I know that using KDE Connect with an Android phone, there is a setting in the "device plug-ins" category that allows you to choose folders to share, but the same menu entry does not have such a capability on the PinePhone.

Anyhow, if anyone has an insight on this issue, I would love to hear it!

Tim

Hi All,
I keep getting an alarm going off at random times. I don't think it's every day unless it's going off in the middle of the night and I'm just sleeping through it. 
It doesn't leave any notification in the ui and I don't have any alarms or timers set in Clocks.
I haven't managed to make it to the phone while it's going off so I haven't seen what the screen looks like at the time.

Has anyone else had this?
Any idea where this might be set?

Hello all,

I thought I should share my experience with getting a PinePhone, since I lurked here for a long while before joining, trying to get all of the information I could, before I spent my hard earned cash on a Beta phone; I was a bit worried things would not work in my country.

I’m coming from ios, but didn’t need all of the things there and just wanted a basic phone that did not spy on me.

I ordered my PinePhone on August 31st & got it today, September 7th (in the EU). The company did great, very fast order processing & handling, complete with DHL online tracking, which was spot on.

I followed the Wiki and got the phone up & working right out of the box. Calls work both ways and missed calls show a notification popup message from my telco (Telenor). I’m really looking forward to testing out this device.

Great Job on the phone to all at Pine & thank you for your work, I’ve wanted a functional Linux phone for more than 20 years.

Hello and good day I followed this(alwaysonvpn) tutorial in mobian wiki.  Everything works but when I switch to new wifi network. I have to manually enter the uuid secondaries in system-connections via nano.  I want to tunnel all data on my wifi adapter or phone threw my vpn (openvpn) is this possible on mobian

I do have the Manjaro edition, which I have not been happy with at all, so I have been using other distros. It seems as soon as I log into the Manjaro edition, the modem will be shut down.

I have not booted Manjaro in several months, and decided to boot it up yesterday and did some updates. After the updates, and reboots, back to the charger it went.

Later in the night, I needed to go out and about for about half an hour and decided to take booted Manjaro with me  to test it more. After about 20 minutes of messing with it, and modem continues to get shut down after login, I shut the phone down for the night.

Today, this morning, I slipped in the SD card with my usual distro I use with the phone. It powered on for a few seconds then shut down. The battery is drained

I don't think this should be happening as if I do the same with other cell phones, I can leave them powered off for a week, or so and the battery level is about the same as when I shut it down.

With the complaints about battery life, and this experience, I wonder if the hardware is really to blame.

Any thoughts on this?