Just received my new Pinephone this morning. The 3GB convergence edition. There's obvious issues right out of the gate but I'm glad to be part of the process. I want to thank everyone involved for keeping the thrill of open source alive.

As per title.

If so, how?

If not, why not, what caught you out / stopped you?

Hello all,


New to the community, so thought I’d just so hello…


I don’t like computers much and really hate smartphones… so buying a Pinephone BE is probably not the advice most of you would give. However, that is what I have done.

Much of the info about the Pinephone warns that it is a work-in-progress and not a good choice for a “Daily Driver”, so for someone who doesn't get on with apps and maps, you must be wondering why I would want one?… well, the answer is simple – Linux!

After years of working with MS systems at work and Apple systems at home, I have recently discovered the wonders of the Linux kernel and all its many flavors of operating systems – via the accidental purchasing of a Raspberry Pi… long story, wont get into it now – and now I’m hooked.

In the short time that I have been using Linux, I have learned more about computers than I have in the last 30 years of working with them, as my job involves the need to convert 8-bit, hex code over RS485 networks into HTML readable data… and only now does it all make sense.

With my limited knowledge, I may be biting off more than I can chew with the Pinephone, but I’m willing to give it a go, as all I need for a daily driver is the ability to make and receive phone calls and SMS messages, a note pad with a spell checker, a calculator, a torch, a camera and at a push, a web browser… 


Wish me luck...

seemed to install without difficulty, but it just hangs on the splash screen. Do I have to do go to phosh for siglo to work?

As required by Pine64 technical support I am posting to see if anyone else has this problem and a solution. Ticket ##9675##

Quote:    Please be inform you are require to post your question at PINE64 forum, http://forum.pine64.org and there is forum user that has same experience and provide answer to you.
    Thank you.
    Regards,
    support team #4...

Hi.
Received the phone a few days ago. Set up and updated first time.
Battery only charges to 85% no matter what and then system shows this fluctuating wildly during use so not reliable. I understand some think this normal. I do not.
Now, after updating I cannot get into the phone. I enter my pin to unlock, it let's me into the app I had open, calendar for example, the screen flashes quickly, and then goes blank before returning to the lock screen. Repeat to fade. Even after hard restart holding power button. I am no Linux code king but this and the general sluggishness of the phone lead me to believe its flawed.
Can anyone offer guidance? I'm prepared to put up with a device that's slightly slower than I'm used to but this seems excessive and with the loop it seems stuck on, unusable.
I also wonder if anyone can advise what sort of experience, speed wise, I should expect? I have taken videos and can upload if it helps. Should I contact support to return? Thanks for any help. J.

Update - installed Manjaro Phosh on SD card and booted from that. Experience is infinitely better and as expected really so must be an OS install issue from the factory process. As soon as I get the OK from support to flash new OS I will.
So, question is: Manjaro phosh, Mobian or Sailfish?

I flashed an SD card with SXMO a few months back and wanted to try a few different OS's now and the issue I am having is when trying to `dd` the new OS (Manjaro with Plasma Mobile) it is giving me an error of not enough space (below) but doing `fdisk` shows me that I have just over 29 GB of space, any ideas why this is happening? It has been a while since I flashed an image on the SD card but I think I followed the instructions properly.

On android, if I turn on airplane mode, the cell, bluetooth and wifi radios are turned off. When I turn off airplane mode, it only turns back on those radios that were on before it went into airplane mode.

Now for gnome settings and airplane mode. First off, airplane mode is not selectable itself. Instead, if I turn off wifi and bluetooth then the phone goes into airplane mode, turning off the cell radio in the process. This is not only counter intuitive, it's absolutely not what I want to happen. When I turn off airplane mode, it turns on all the radios.

Is there any way to completely and permanently disable airplane mode?

This might be kind of a rant, I just wanted to share.

So, I have been in the market for a fitness/smartwatch for a long time. A couple weeks ago, I gave up on waiting on the pinetime and bought a cheap one with good reviews on amazon, the Amazfit band5 or something like that.

Once it arrived, I turned it on and it wouldn't do anything. Opening the instructions, I discovered this thing is essentially a brick until you do the following:
-Bluetooth pair it with your iPhone or Android device.
-Install the Zepp app on this device
-Make a profile there so Zepp knows your name/age/birthday/weight/height and way more than I was comfortable giving.
-check for updates.

Only after all that was I able to use the darn thing. I felt kind of violated just trying to set this thing up. It works nice, battery life is amazing, but I don't trust it.

After using this data miner for about three days, The Pinetime was announced as ready for purchase! I immediately sat down at my PC and bought it, and it just arrived yesterday.To compare initial setup to the Amazfit band 5, I had to do the following for the Pinetime:

-research and find instructions to update firmware
-install GadgetBridge from the F-Droid app store
-pair Pinetime with my android phone
-go to the Infinitime github page and download the latest *DFU.zip file onto my phone
-just trying to open the zip folder from a file manager, Gadgetbridge knew what to do with it.
-try and fail to upload the firmware file to the pinetime about 6 times (connection drops for everything, including my phone screen going to sleep)
-profit.

Initial setup was way harder, and the user interface is not as pretty but I don't feel dirty trying to use it.

I now have a smartwatch that doesn't obviously mine my data for a 3rd party, and it actually does more. when paired to my phone, the previous watch would only work with big names (Spotify) for music streaming. This thing doesn't care what app I use for music, it worked just fine. Time will tell for accuracy of things like the pedometer though. had a busy weekend, but I intend to do some comparisons over the next few days.

May 2020 edition running Manjaro, will do fresh install via Manjaro ARM Installer
64 GB eMMC
barrel charger
I have never opened the back
no dead pixels
speakers work 
do not have original box, all else is like new.
$200 USD and includes shipping to continental USA via USPS.
Send email to edandjeanmcknight@gmail.com

have learned a lot re Linux and ARM, not using on a daily basis and ready for other projects.