Thinking on the difficulties regarding providers I was wondering if a masking agent similar to whats available for browsers was possible,

I had a tough time with the terminology to even get any results, call masking kept coming up, but what I found sure didn't surprise me

an IBM patent

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160379010A1/en

I didn't comb through it but on the surface....

When I set an alarm and my phone is otherwise asleep, it seems to wait until I wake it up to sound the alarm.

Say I set the alarm for 7:30am.  At 8:00am it will be sitting their silent.  When I wake it via the power button on the side it will start "alarming".

I take it that is not the intended behavior?

So i got my pinephone on the 3 of april and i have come to realise that the rear camera on my phone makes an audible click (does not sound like its coming from the speaker) whenever i open the Megapixels camera app and i was just wondering if this is normal or if i should create a support ticket with the pinephone customer support team.

Thanks in advance for any help and sorry if this is a stupid question : )

I am sometimes unable to turn off auto-brightness for the display.

And while this in itself would not be a problem, it tends to decide on its own to turn the brightness all the way down making the display difficult to read in bright light.

This usually happens when I am at an extreme in brightness.  For example, out in the sun.

I use the tap-down at the top of the display and set the brightness back to something reasonable and over a few minutes it pulls the brightness back down to minimum.  The behavior is repeatable.

Over in Settings when I try to disable auto brightness the button slides over to the left but does not turn grey.  It stays blue.  And I can see the brightness setting bouncing around.

Next if I go inside where the ambient like is not shall we say extreme, the auto-brightness button can be turned off.

I am wondering if the button has trouble working right when the brightness it is reading from the sensor is at an extreme end of its scale?

Following the instructions here

https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php?id=firefox


I get

Greetings all,

I have been trying out the Linux phone I got recently (Librem 5) and noticed that generally apps are not so ready for the small screen...

I wonder if others using other Linux os's on Pinephone have noticed a similar problem or have any good workarounds?

As an example, there are several good Android calculators (Arity, open source on FDroid is my go to)
but on mobile Linux the most awesome calculators are bloaty or cut off on the small screen and don't work so well...
In fact I went through the options and listed out some of the problems - and linked bug reports, here:
https://howtotrainyourrobot.com/in-searc...pinephone/

I'm really used to the Ctrl modifier only applying to the single keystroke which follows it.  Instead, Ctrl behaves like a caps lock, staying applied until you click it again.  I'm sure that's great for some, but not me.

I've had a swing through the Squeekboard documentation, and but I really don't see anything in the config file to control this.  Has anybody addressed it?  TIA.

Attempting to enable the third mmc port in 4 bit mode with little progress.  I enabled it via dts & disabled the spi0 port which shares the same pins. The system comes up, sees the peripheral.. but thats about as far as I can get.  

I pulled off the RTK8189ES module and soldered my peripheral in its place and it works fine.

Some details...

dmesg log w/errors

[    1.377523] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.mmc: initialized, max. request size: 16384 KB
[    1.404182] mmc2: new high speed SDIO card at address 0001

[  17.998911] sunxi-mmc 1c11000.mmc: data error, sending stop command
[  18.005356] my_driver mmc2:0001:2: sdio readl failed -110


changes to sun8i-v3s.dtsi

mmc2: mmc@1c11000 {
  compatible = "allwinner,sun7i-a20-mmc";
  reg = <0x01c11000 0x1000>;
  clocks = <&ccu CLK_BUS_MMC2>,
  <&ccu CLK_MMC2>,
  <&ccu CLK_MMC2_OUTPUT>,
  <&ccu CLK_MMC2_SAMPLE>;
  clock-names = "ahb",
      "mmc",
      "output",
      "sample";
  resets = <&ccu RST_BUS_MMC2>;
  reset-names = "ahb";
  interrupts = <GIC_SPI 62 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
  pinctrl-names = "default";
  pinctrl-0 = <&mmc2_pins>;
  status = "disabled";
  #address-cells = <1>;
  #size-cells = <0>;
};

mmc2_pins: mmc2-pins {
 pins = "PC0", "PC1", "PC3", "PC4",
        "PC5", "PC6";
  function = "mmc2";
  drive-strength = <30>;
  bias-pull-up;
};


changes to sun8i-s3-pinecube.dts

&mmc2 {
  vmmc-supply = <&reg_dcdc3>;
  bus-width = <4>;
  non-removable;
  status = "okay";
};

/* 
&spi0 {
   status = "okay";
   flash@0 {
  #address-cells = <1>;
  #size-cells = <1>;
  compatible = "winbond,w25q128", "jedec,spi-nor";
  reg = <0>;
  spi-max-frequency = <40000000>;
  };
};
*/

I have an early adopter version and the internal Bluetooth has never worked. Do I need to enable it or use a dongle? I have an old Dlink DBT 122 that's past its prime. 
Does anyone know of one that works with PineTab?

I got my Pinetime (sealed) yesterday and it was working great. The battery has been fine and I was connecting to Gadgetbridge ok, with an update of the default firmware to Infinitime 1.0. However, this morning, my phone has been unable to hold a connection to Gadgetbridge for more than 10 seconds. I tried to restart both the phone and watch but unsure how to restart the watch I accidentally factory reset it. However, I am still having trouble, even when forgetting and resetting the connection in Gadgetbridge, to maintain a connection long enough to do a firmware update OTA (this has been attempted with both my phone and my wife's phone, both Samsung S20FE running Gadgetbridge downloaded from F Droid). 

I am not sure if this is a hardware or software problem, but is there anything I could do to try to fix the connection.