This isn't a big issue as yet, but I thought I'd just mention it as it seems to be getting worse. I bought a Pinephone about a year ago and it came with a screen protector. I haven't had any problems with it until recently - It seems that the adhesive holding the screen protector to the screen is starting to streak. At least, I think it's the screen protector adhesive. All the whitening is occurring on the display edges, rather than the edges of the protector, as can barely be seen in my grainy photo attached. As such, I'm not sure if this might be an issue with the screen itself, but the whitening is not visible when there is a display image at these whitening sites.
I suspect that it may be something to do with prolonged heat generation from the modem/processor as the position of this whitening and the observation of it's periods of greatest growth coinciding with prolonged heat (usually from video playback). I would be curious; has anyone else encountered this issue? If so, were you able to find the cause? Also, were there any steps you took to arrest the growth of these white patches and/or ameliorate what was seen?
I've got two Pinephones from the Manjaro Community Edition release.. One is unused but opened, the other I've kept the OS updated but never used it extensively.
I'm selling both of them. I'd like AUD$250 per phone shipping in Australia included. If you want shipping outside Australia let me know and I'll work out a price for you.
Both phones operate, are undamaged and include the original box.
Hey again. I recently posted a howto in the Mobian side of the forum. I wanted to post the same howto on the Manjaro side with the changes that were made to make it work on this side. (Please note that these ideas originated from others working with the Librem 5. I only adapted it to work with Manjaro. Please give credit to those who it is due in the link at the end. Also note that I am in no way an expert and am much more comfortable with Debian based systems. I am fairly new to Arch so if you know a more efficient way to complete the same task feel free to post below .)
In the end what I was attempting worked so with that out of the way lets begin!
Step one.
Install git.
Code:
sudo pacman -Syyu
sudo pacman -git
Step two.
Install all of the Manjaro equivalents to the original Debian commands. (This could take a while....it downloads around 300-400 meg?)
Code:
sudo pacman -Sy base-devel
Press enter when it asks what you want to install.....I just installed everything.
Step 4
Lets run it.
You can now enter a number between 1 and 2 for your scale
Code:
wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.5
I mentioned this in the Mobian side but I find that "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.35" works best for me as anything smaller uses the smaller keypad that is very difficult to type on.
Hope people find this helpful!
Now....if I could just get it to keep the current scale when I reboot that would be nice.
Hello, I have been attempting to figure out how to setup custom scaling in the pine phone as the default 200% is WAY to big for all apps to work well and 100% gets apps working well but makes the keyboard so small it becomes difficult to type.
I have read several articles concerning the Librem 5 and have come up with the following fix.
(Please note that I am using other peoples work so please credit them where they are due. I will post links to the sites I got everything from.)
Step one.
We will be using an application called "wlr-randr" and we will be installing it from Github.
To begin, we must first install "Git"
Code:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git
After this is done we can begin installing "wlr-randr"
I added sudo after "meson build" and "ninja -c build" as you do need elevated privileges to run these.
This will scale your screen to a size in between 100 and 200 percent.
Code:
wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.5
Personally I ended up sticking with "wlr-randr --output DSI-1 --scale 1.35" as anything smaller uses the smaller keyboard that is used in 100% scaling. This way I get the best of both worlds.
Hope this helps folks out.
Sometime soon, I hope to give this a shot on Manjaro Phosh and see how it goes. Currently, I have only got it working on Mobian.
So I just wanted to make this information more readily available to those who are new or want a custom lock screen for their pine phone. I love the Phosh based OS's but I wanted a little more glam like PlasMo had.
I just want everyone to know that I didn't come up with any of this information. It was all posted originally by Lowkeylone on Reddit.
Basically you need to create a new file. It will be located in this folder ----> ~/.config/gtk-3.0 and it will be called "gtk.css" (I did this on my laptop with the SD card inserted so I could use mouse and keyboard to save me a little hassle.)
Copy and paste this data into your new file:
Code:
/*
* Set a background for the lockscreen.
*/
phosh-lockscreen, .phosh-lockshield {
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7)),
url('file:///home/lowkey/Pictures/background.jpg');
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
}
/*
* Set a background for the app grid.
*/
phosh-app-grid {
background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7)),
url('file:///home/lowkey/Pictures/background.jpg');
background-size: cover;
background-position: center;
}
Make sure you change the file paths to match the image file you want to use.
For best results it was suggested that the file be resized to 720X1440. I simply used gimp to crop/resize the image.
It went well for me. I just had to make it my wallpaper as well for it to seem seamless while loading apps and stuff.
This should work on other OS's that run Phosh as well.
Good evening. I acquired a Pinephone – Beta Edition with Convergence Package back in March and initially found the operating system to crash continually. I came back a couple of months later to it and tried to update the Manjaro to see if things had improved. After several hours of putting error messages into Google I have manged to get the phone mostly updated apart from an error which I believe is near the tail end of the process.
The issue is that the Pinephone seems to become unresponsive whilst "checking available disk space". I have no idea why this is happening.
Last few lines of SSH terminal:
Quote:Total Installed Size: 3775.60 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 244.18 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(453/453) checking keys in keyring [#############################################] 100%
(453/453) checking package integrity [#############################################] 100%
(453/453) loading package files [#############################################] 100%
(453/453) checking for file conflicts [#############################################] 100%
( 87/457) checking available disk space [########-------------------------------------] 19%
Other details that might be relevant are that I have also experienced the screen flicker / going blank since embarking on the update process and that I the power brick I am using is an Apple iPhone /iPad one which is below the recommended specifications (15W – 5V 3A from store page) at only 5V 1A.
Any help with this issue would be much appreciated, even if it is just pointing to a pre-existing article fixing this problem.
I would like to install OpenBSD (6.9 at the time of writing) on an encrypted RAID1 device.
After struggling for a very long time with a defective PCIe to SATA card, I finally managed to finish the installation process. But I'm not able to boot from SATA.
I've flashed SPI with u-boot and put the dtb (and even u-boot) on 'i' partition of the disk, but didn't manage to have it boot successfully.
Hi, I'm trying to use this command (update-rc.d) to add a script to the startup but Kings's Cross can't find it. Is it possible to install this command? Thanks!
Hi, I followed all the instructions I could find to get VoLTE working. My carrier "Consumer Cellular" uses AT&T network which is soon totally disabling 3G so I must get VoLTE working. However I'm not sure if it is working. I need help understanding it.
I have Manjaro CE with Phosh.
I reached the carrier support and they succesfuly detected the modem model and enabled something on their end to allow VoLTE.
I followed the VoLTE steps on the main PinePhone wiki page.
Code:
AT+QCFG="ims"
+QCFG: "ims",1,1
OK
The 4G indicator shows in the UI. To test, I called my wife.
Elsewhere I have read that the fourth value of AT+CLCC tells you whether the voice is carried by VoLTE. The Quectel AT command reference says ony this about it:
<mode>Bearer/tele service 0: Voice 1: Data 2: FAX
However the line with my wife's phone number has a 0 in that position. Still I wonder, with all the other symptoms lining up??
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