Hi there,

for some time now, in bright environments (outside), I see pairs of horizontal lines on my screen, no matter if it's active or not.
They are interrupted in the area of about the analog watch face. Or maybe that's the area in which I touch it mostly. Can anyone tell me, if that is supposed to be like that or what it is and where that came from? Is it a hardware issue?

I tried to take a picture, but since the display's glass reflects pretty much, this was the best I could get:



Hopefully you can recognize those lines. That's pretty annoying, disturbing and simply doesn't look good.
Thanks for your answers!

Hey everyone!

I'm working on an iOS companion app for PineTimes running InfiniTime (and probably other similar watches/watch OSes, but I haven't tested anything yet). It's pretty bare bones right now, but so far it can:

• Scan nearby devices and allow the user to select a device to connect to
  
• Connect to a PineTime running InfiniTime 1.3.0
  
• Set time and date immediately after connection
  
• Read heart rate, and subscribe to HRM's notifier for updated values
  
• Read battery level, and subscribe to battery level's notifier for updated values
  
• Display heart rate, battery level, and connection/bluetooth/scanning status to app main page
  
• Write test notifications to the PineTime (I'm working on proper notifications right now)
  
• Listen for button presses in the InfiniTime music control app (so far I'm just printing button presses to console, but assuming I can figure out how to expose the app to the iOS music controls it should be pretty easy to tie in!)
  

I'm now using my Mobian/Phosh Pinephone as my daily driver and one thing I've noticed is that it's difficult to pick up a call in a timely manner when the phone is in suspend mode. Default for my carrier is to go to voicemail after 4 rings. In testing I found the Pinephone takes 2 rings to wake up and become responsive, but then you have to swipe the screen and put in your passcode to log in and take the call. By that time the call is going into voicemail.

I think if the swiping/passcode coming out of suspend could be eliminated it should be (just) possible to pickup calls before voicemail kicks in. Is there a way to do this?

Good Morning!  So it has been a few months and I have just about got the Pinephone where I want it.  It is used as my daily driver but regrettably when driving I must also bring my android wiretap with me for its GPS functionality.  I have seen people who seem to have been able to get their phone to work for navigation with a combination of GPS and puremaps however I never found a great tutorial on what they did to get to that point.  So now I must ask the question.  Which Distros work with GPS?  Which do not?  So far I have tried Manjaro Phosh as well as Plasma and Mobian and according to the maps app, I live in Columbia MO.  This tells me that the phone is not using GPS or cell tower but my ISP alone to determine my location. (About 100 miles or so off from where I actually am)  When driving it seems to get a lot more accurate.  Maps can at least tell that im on the correct highway but it is also a little bit off so I think in this scenario it is using the towers as the towers are close to the highway.  I have heard that Ubuntu Touch has GPS functionality so I was considering giving it a whirl but was curious if others knew of other Distros that worked as well?  How about UBports?  Also, of the Distros mentioned above, has anyone gotten Mobian or Manjaro to work with puremaps?  If so, what had to be done?  Are there any terminal commands that will get the GPS to print out my Lattitude and Longitude?  (I have attempted installing packages that would communicate with the Modem and GPS but in the end was unsuccessful)

Thoughts would be appreciated.
Thanks

I currently write a blog post about Podcast apps for the Pinephone and thought who would be a better help then the Pine64 community. I will keep a list here which I will update with the help of your comments later on so here is what I have so far:

• Kasts: The Plasma mobile and if I had to guess soon general KDE podcast app and my personal pick.
  
• GPodder adaptive: There is a branch of GPodder that aims to adapt to mobile screens and while the interface feels a bit rough around the edges I really like it!
  
• Gnome Podcasts: The Gnome podcast app.
  
• Pyrocast: A very nice Podcast app focused on streaming instead of downloading that sadly seems dead.
  
• Pods: I can't say I fully understand the interface but it's still heavily WIP so probably subject to change.
  
• PineCast: A nice very much WIP podcast app for the Pinephone.
  

Hey guys,


Back in den beginning of the age of PBP there was talk about an Android 9 build being put together, however since then I have not heard or seen any more news regarding the Android front (and the android 7 builds that were up on the wiki also seem to have mysteriously vanished from there). Is there anyone who is working on Android related projects for PBP at all?

I've come across a couple threads that point out that Chatty stores its SMS records in.

Can anyone point me towards the documentation on Phosh's lock screen and menu icons?

I like the icons that Manjaro Phosh is using for service indicator, battery, wifi, etc, a bit more than the default I've seen used by Arch and Mobian. I'm trying to get my Arch installation all buttoned up as a daily driver and this is one of the last (I'll be it very minor) things I'm trying to configure

Thanks!

Hey all,

Playing with the thought to buy one, I wondered whether the PineTime is currently capable of waking you up via vibration -- presumably by notifying you about an alarm going off on your smartphone over a companion app, as this thread states an alarm app is to be developed.
Planning to use a PineTime with InfiniTime and Gadgetbridge as companion app, but did only find implicit statements for and against said capability.

Grateful for any answer

Cheers

How would I go about compiling GNUzilla/Icecat from source on the Pine H64 on Manjaro ARM?