So I got pissed off the microphone on my PBP doesn't seem to work, and started seriously troubleshooting - made sure the levels are fine in alsamixer, looked through pavucontrol... And saw that it shows actual signal levels from the microphone, and they are fine. Closed pavucontrol, open program for recording from mic, still nothing. And then I noticed that if I launch pavucontrol when some program is trying to record something I get no mic levels, but if I first open pavucontrol and see the mic signal levels there and then start recording while pavucontrol is open I actually get sound recorded.

Has anybody seen something like that? Do you have troubleshooting tips for this - I'd like to be able to use microphone without having to open pavucontrol first. I mean, one could say that it can be considered a privacy feature :-D but it sure is inconvenient.

Hi guys- 

go easy on me - I thought I saw a few days ago where you have 3 or 4 options for plasma builds - here's one link: https://forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-arm-...hone/62363

but there you have the standard stable version 

and a bleeding edge "nightly release" version

I thought there was one or two in the middle - like a "stable release" - this is what I want - not bleeding edge, but also not released a month ago. 

My real question is, though, can't I just add the (excuse my ignorance) "ppa" source to the "Discover app" for whatever the "not quite bleeding edge" release is, and have that be my default build? or does it still need to be done via SD card / flashing / terminal commands? 

I think I'd like to be a little more involved in testing, but not sure how dangerous I want to be. 

Either way, if there's a fix in "the latest kernel" for x*, how do I become more of a part of testing it? 

*x right now is: 
- I'm still missing calls, and noticing that the phone gets warm while this is happening
- I still can't send texts. 
- I still can't make calls when the phone is hot. 
- yesterday, I couldn't hang up from a call - had to shut the whole phone down, lol. 

In my mind, the most important function of a smart phone is the phone itself. I have to be able to reliably make and receive calls and texts. 

Thanks guys & gals!

Hi,

Is it only me, but with Manjaro 21.05 on PineBook Pro, the PacMan Transaction Summary screen does not paint until I sweep my mouse over it. No words, no buttons. See attatched and TIA.

https://imgur.com/gallery/uOHwOVs

Plugin based voice assistant runs from CLI so easy to integrate and script, need default setup to direct to duckduckgo or other privacy search engine and local openstreetmaps NOT google or other infringing services https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PR-nxqmG3V8
https://github.com/sukeesh/Jarvis
I have not used a voice assistant so am not sure how useful it is, perhaps more useful when driving/piloting a vehicle; like Jarvis in Iron Man's power armor.
I am curious if this is something this community considers an important functionality for Debian Moble.
Now there was Saera https://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=84753 for the Maemo5 Linux Nokia N900 but it was something you had to hand build and I recall the voice recognition was not great.

Hello everybody,
I just received my new Pinephone Beta Edition With Convergence Package.
I tried to launch him but after few seconds of loading (with KDE logo, don't know if normal), the Welcome screen freeze and then a strange screen appears : After a series of numbers and letters that i don't understand and a nice "fffffffffff" (the same in my head), all I "understand" is "failed to read Who-Am-I register" (I can share a bad quality photo in a next post if you want).
Sometimes it goes untill wifi connection screen and the keyboard pop up (woaw) but after few seconds this screen appears again or a simple freeze or a black screen, it depends.
Also when I put the charger, it automatically turns on the phone, red then orange led few seconds and after nothing the led turns off (no charge I think) and the telephone crashes as usual.
I tried to do it with and without sim, with and without battery, with or without the charger . I wanted to share it with you before trying something else.
I did'nt found another topic on that subject (my mistake if there is).
I knew that I'll have to learn and be patient with buying this phone but not this soon ^^'
Thank you for your help.
hd

Hi Guys 

Please help me out nail the issue with my camera.

Im using PostmarketOS image and i was using Megapixel camera. Megapixel shows picture from camera (a lot of violet colours) but if i click button to make image it suddently hang megapixel.
No image will be saved anywhere in /home/user dir

i tried to make a workaround to use https://git.sr.ht/~martijnbraam/python-pinecamera
camera.py which doesnt work as well:

im getting something like this

Anybody knows if the board RockPro64 is meeting the requirement of low voltage standard of EN62368?

/Mats

Hi there, i have encountered a couple of annoying things about using manjaro phosh after the latest update:
1) Sometimes modem goes down completely. I don't know how to reproduce that, but sometimes modem module shuts down completely, and calls application says that there is no calling device at all. Naturally, internet also goes down. Rebooting does fix it, but a couple of times it caught me when i had to give a call or quickly search for something on the internet.
2) Audio is kinda glitchy now. Sometimes audio just stops coming out through both speaker and earphones jack. For example, when i listen to music with Audacious player it stops playing after some time (3-5 minutes). Most curious, this time depends on the track i listen to (and moon phase, i suppose). This issue is also related to alarm, which is much worse. Thankfully, i did not have anything urgent when i overslept because of the alarm problem. Sound returns right after i press unlock button (just have to turn on the screen, even without entering the passcode). Technically it keeps playing music/sound, but into nowhere. However, not all applicatins have that problem: freetube works nicely when i listen to any videos in podcast mode with locked screen.
Please write if you have encountered similar problems and if you have solved them.

A bit of usage experience:
In spite of technical problems (like mentioned above) i love that phone. Unfortunately, i can't use it as my primary phone yet, but it is always my number 2. 
What it can:
1. Browse internet. Firefox works nice here. Unfortunately, ui of extensions is broken, but the rest is fine
2. Watch youtube. I use freetube application with legacy video format, which gives me acceptable ~480p video.
3. Use messangers. Telegram works fine, fractal and NeoChat launch and look good, but did not use them yet. Pretty sure it will run any messanger you would like to install.
4. Listen to music. Mentioned above problem is annoying, but is not fatal. Furthermore, there must be player that can avoid that problem.
5. Call. Calling is allright, both incoming and outcoming (if modem did not go down, but this is temporary, i hope)
6. Use navigtion. Standart maps application works normally.
7. Programming. I wrote a couple of python scripts using vim and launched a couple of self-written java console utilities. Did not find a proper IDE yet, but it has jdk, gcc, python and tons of other development tools. When a physical keyboard finally comes out it would be excellent development tool to use "on a go"
What it can't:
1. Run android apps. I've seen messages on forum that anbox is working, but mine doesn't. Probably because i use beta5 and update it with pacman -Syu. I will try to fix that later, but now i have to write diploma.
2. Take photo and record video. Technically, megapixels app can take photos, but preview is much worse than the actual photo. It also works very slow, which is critical if you want to catch a moment.

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Hello, just got my PBP. Strong and cool. Like it very much.
Unfotunately, once completed the Manjaro ARM install few initial screens, never had the first access...
Tried everything, username, full name, password, password for root: always access denied.
Got a picture with my phone of the "Finish Manjaro ARM Instal" summary (the last of the initial screens): I'm using the right UN e PW.
Any idea about what happened?
And I can I fix it? Just flashing SD card with a new image of Manjaro ARM? And the eMMC?

Thanks.