I’m planning to order a Pinephone Beta soon (150$ version). In my case I live in Romania and my cellphone provider is Vodafone. I can't quite remember or tell if it's a sim card or microsim, hopefully I'll fine either way? I wanted to be sure others with this provider can confirm everything works fine... by everything meaning at least calls, SMS, and 3G / 4G internet (I don't use MMS). So to EU users of the Pinephone, what's your experience with Vodafone SIM cards?

Hello and greetings! I'm planning to order a Pinephone Beta soon (150$ version) ideally next month if money allows. I use Manjaro Linux on my desktop and having a phone with it too will be a dream come true. I'm looking to know a few things first however.

On this one I've been trying to find an answer for ages but no amount of online searching helped. One thing I wish to know first relates to the camera: I see in the specs that it's 5MP for back and 2MB for front, but can find absolutely no information on how it films video! More specifically I wish to know the following:

1. First and foremost, what resolution and frame rate is video shot at? I need to be able to record in at least 1080p @ 30 FPS, the abilities of my current phone (an ancient Samsung Galaxy S3). I'm actually hoping filming at 60 FPS is going to become possible for me after this upgrade, but can take 30 as long as the resolution is 1920x1080 and not less.
   
2. Is the video format mp4? Asking as I remember old phones had weird ones (such as 3gp) which some applications couldn't even play properly. That was very long ago however.
   
3. This one's less important but still good to know: Can you use the flash while filming for shooting night time video? On that matter, is there a night setting to make video shot in darkness brighter at the cost of extra blur, so even if it's blurry you can at least see something?
   

I read somewhere that you could flash an sd card with like 16 distros if you wanted.. And have the ability to choose between those and test stuff out. Is that the case?
Or would i have to remove the default OS? This one: https://xnux.eu/p-boot-demo/

Hi,
has anyone experienced loss of sound output devices since an update (possible pipewire) 2 days ago ?
I re-flashed last edge posh installer and sound worked as before.
After reinstalling all updates sound output devices was gone again.

As i didn't find any clues in the forums and on the pmos matrix channel i'd thought i ask here if this is only me or it's a known problem.

This worked a few weeks ago. I have a KDE Pinephone that is now running Mobian and Phosh.
I have T-mobile sim card and I have used it before to make calls/send some text messages.
Now it will not work...

I have tried toggling the physical switch for the modem, ran a modem reset command, some other command systemctl eg5-....

Still nothing with the modem. Not sure what's wrong.

The phone is fully charged now but it has drained before.

Any thoughts/things I can try?

I don't know if it's a software or hardware problem.

My sim card is a nano type but it came wrapped in a regular sized sim adapter/I haven't punched it out/how I used it before when it was working.

WiFi and Bluetooth are both working normally as far as I'm aware, haven't done anything physical to the phone i.e. it just sits on my desk.

Hi forum.

I just received a new PINE64 Beta. Manjaro pre-installed. After a little playing, like installing ssh, x2goserver, upgrading and rebooting, the screen turned black. The K-logo can be seen. And sometimes the screen lights up and then turn black again. I rebooted several times. No change. I can SSH into it. What do I have to do to solve this?

Thanks in advance,
J.

How do someone set up a VPN, tor and signal on a pinephone? And while i'm asking. How do you fully encrypt a pinephone? Good features to have on a phone focused on privacy. One option while getting a new pinephone should be the option to encrypt it at boot in my opinion.

I discovered a few days ago that the built-in camera in my pinebook pro is not working.  I'm not sure for how long this has been going on, since I never actually tried before.

Since lsusb does not see it, I guess this cannot be a software problem:

My device is a PinePhone Beta Edition. On every distro I tried, whenever I turn the screen off, it will not wake up again (the screen flickers and then goes permanently black), and I have to hold the power button for 10 seconds and boot it back up again.

Below is the list of distros I tried:

- ArchLinuxARM/Phosh, with DRAM underclocked
- Manjaro/Plasma Mobile
- Manjaro/Phosh
- Mobian/Phosh
- Ubuntu Touch/Lomiri, channel KernelUpgrade

So the problem seems hardware-related.

Also, when the power key was pressed, journalctl reports "unable to get EDID for xrandr-DSI-1: unable to get EDID for output" on Phosh, but nothing on Plasma Mobile.

Is this a known issue? Is there a workaround?

Thanks!

Hey! With the current way the chats are bridged across different platforms, I find it difficult to visually distinguish messages from people on other platforms, because they all come from Pine64 Protocol Bot, with the same username and avatar (though the reference to C3PO is amusing <3).

I'm far not an expert in the topic, but as I know Matrix bridges can provide much better integration, passing actual usernames and avatars accross the bridge. There are bridges for many platforms, including discord, telegram and IRC: https://matrix.org/bridges. Most of them can be self-hosted or use third-party hosting, such as https://t2bot.io/.

So maybe we could try to bridge Pine64 chats around Matrix? We could try it first with just one chat channel, maybe #offtopic, or create a test one, and see how it goes?

I'm almost sure someone brought it up before and won't be surprised if there are good reasons not to do this, and if so I'm sorry for making another thread, but I searched the forum for around 10 minutes and couldn't find anything related.