Today I received a free 4G replacement flip phone from AT&T due to 3G service being phased out in February 2022. I did not ask for the phone, they just went ahead and sent it, and as expected it is a stripped-down Android phone filled with Google spyware. Trouble is I thought I had until February to switch over but the paperwork with the new phone said if I don't activate it myself it will automatically be activated in 30 days. (It has a new SIM and my old one will be deactivated.) I called AT&T support with my concerns, and my preference that my current SIM stay activated to install a phone of my own choosing (Pinephone). Needless to say there was nothing they could do to stop the automatic activation.

I really don't even want to turn this thing on but it looks like I'll have to let the spyware phone activate the new SIM and hopefully it will work in the Pinephone like the old one does. So it looks like assuming it works I'll be going with the Pinephone as my daily driver six or seven months faster than I thought. Since calling has been working well it shouldn't be a problem. If it doesn't work I'll be looking for another provider, as I will if AT&T cuts off the Pinephone for not being on their whitelist.

So… I receive a phone call from The Carphone Warehouse in the UK asking if I’d like to switch to them as they have unbeatable deals on ALL mobile cell phones for all networks. The call went something like this…

“Hello sir, I can do you an unbeatable deal on your next phone purchase…”

“I doubt that… I use a PinePhone…”

“Yes sir, we have all the iPhones you could want…”

“Not iPhone, PinePhone… P.I.N.E.P.H.O.N.E…”

“Yes sir, I will see if we have them in stock (30 seconds silence while she googles it) ...yes sir, we have them in stock…”

“You have PinePhones in stock???”

“Yes sir… PinePhone by Pine64… we have those…”

“Really???”

“Yes sir… if you’d like to confirm your payment details we will have it delivered to you by tomorrow afternoon…”

Needless to say, this went on for a few more minutes of her insisting she could get me a PinePhone, even after I told her I was looking on her company website and the PinePhone was no where to be found. Outright lies, told in a bid to get me to sign up to a deal… any deal… so long as she got a sale.

I didn’t see the point in calling her out or complaining, as I bet she is only following company procedures... and I did end up having lots of fun confusing her about how Linux works and wasting her time in the process.

João Azevedo provided the initial work for CardDav import into Phosh (on the Librem 5) in this post:

https://puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-...-importer/

I have simply packaged his work for Arch Linux Arm (Pinephone) users.

syncevolution in AUR was very outdated and un-buildable on modern systems, and the script had to be hand-crafted.

Now, one can lazily import a .vcf file full of contacts after a couple AUR builds. Beware, syncevolution takes some time to natively build on the phone.

syncevolution PKGBUILD:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/syncevolution/

phosh contacts importer script PKGBUILD:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/phosh...-importer/

The pinetab seems to be a bit low powered(I only have a pinebook pro with Manjaro XFCE on it, which runs okay-ish). I recently installed xmonad on an old laptop with an Intel Celeron N2840 and 2gb of ram and it doesn't do much but it runs well.
I also own a 2-in-1 tablet/laptop thingy, which I pretty much just use for Emacs and hand-wirtten notes(Xournal++).


Has anybody tried installing Xmonad or something similarly light-weight on the pinetab with just the most barebones launcher for a few apps.

Here you can see Line 3 BLE address of 2nd PineTime was introduce next to Raspberry Pi After removing line 7 BLE address PineTime https://pastebin.pl/view/9c6227a6So the first time (line7 was connected but now removed) still shows in the buffer of BLE
addrresses 
But when I run wasptool it breaks and  I am unable to use to to connect when I swap with another Pinetime. What is the correct procedure to perform a swap such that the wasptool will recognize the 2nd PineTime BLE address and connect to it rather than connecting to the one that is in the buffer of Raspberry Pi

I did an update tonight (2021 Jun 23) and the chatty app stopped working.

Is there a reliable TOTP generator for ALARM? I see Authenticator on Mobian, but its builds fail for me from the AUR.


I've tried building Martijn Braam's numberstation, but running the output results in

Fellow Pinphoners!

I'm an "enthusiast" grade user and need some advice. I'm running the latest Beta edition of Manjaro ARM with Phosh and I need to install a Whatsapp client on it. Has anyone here done this successfully? Any pointers or better would be greatly appreciated. TIA.

Hi,
Truth: I am in deep, way over my head.  If another forum is better suited for help questions, please let me know.   

Admiring the mission, and needing to to better understand linux, I purchased several products in hopes to dive into learning linux for work. My PBP has been a great tool but I am having issues with my phone. When it first arrived I was able to use phone, text, and wifi.  A had a few issues the first day. phone service would blink out and back in, power/battery indicator not correct (or the phone would randomly turn off), and it would occasionally freeze and a restart would be necessary. I started getting error messages about modem and the phone wifi and data stopped working and occasionally the sim is not recognized. I tried updates the same issues occurred. I thought maybe some of the issues could have been from bad sim adaptor and put the phone away until I could get a new one.  I picked up a new adaptor today and installed sim into phone. The phone service seems to be working better but not data. My big issue now is my pin is not working and the reset button does not reset. The phone will also power down/turn off when showing a full charge.  Any advice or direction would be greatly appreciated. 


recap: 
1. modem/data and service issues
2. freezing and random turnoff 
3. login (pin) reset not working

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

My name is Leonardo and working together with my brother Marco we wrote a very rudimentary Compass app for the Pinephone with Python. To our knowledge, there is no such app available to date. Check the screenshot at the bottom.

We have tested the app in Phosh (Manjaro, Mobian and postmarketOS) and Plasma Mobile (Manjaro). For the moment it only works with "old" (a.k.a. pre-beta edition) Pinephones, which have the original magnetometer chip LIS3MDL. If it is not found, it will just display randomly generated values.

Currently the app is a proof of concept and not intended for daily-driving. That being said, you can get it and try it from

https://gitlab.com/lgtrombetta/pinephone-compass/

For best results, follow the suggestion in the Readme about changing the Sampling Frequency of the magnetometer. Take also into consideration the issue of calibration. We will try to come up with a tool to automatize these tweaks in the future.

We hope the app can be useful to some people. We intend to improve it over time, and of course, we are open to constructive criticism and contributions! Keep in mind though, that this is our first open source project, so please be kind.

Enjoy!





Changelog:

v0.3.1

* Preliminary support for the AF8133J magnetometer (Pinephone Beta edition). Needs custom kernel driver and patches.
* Advertise the app to Phosh as adaptive.

v0.3

* Complete project refactoring:
- Installation now handled by meson build system
* Complete GUI overhaul in GTK3 with:
- Magnetic field readings now shown under the compass card.
- Settings window with graphical calibration tool
- Dark/light theme switch
- About window

v0.2

* Automatic changing of the sampling frequency
* Calibration tool
* Major code refactoring

v0.1

*Initial Release