This is for a user who just got a PBP (loves it ) and before has used LinuxMint Cinnamon since forever.

Since he's used to Cinnamon, he wanted that as a DE, and I thought, "Easy. Go to Add/Remove software, find cinnamon-desktop, and install."

Well, that part was easy. But it keeps booting into KDE. I simply cannot find where you tell the system to use cinnamon. There's no option to choose DE at login (that I could see), and no setting that can be changed after it's booted.

There's got to be a way, right?     Help, please.

Hi guys,
I just got my phone few weeks back and been testing different builds. The 2 that I like and are working most of the time are Arch Linux Arm and Mangaro Phosh also Manjaro plasma(but having problem waking up the screen).
I find that when I try to call my Cell the modem for the sim card and I use shaw mobile services in BC always have busy signal on a first dial, if I hangup and call again the call goes true. Any one have the same experience? Other than that I love the phone and the option to ungoogle myself is great.

https://youtu.be/B4glJJrzY8o

hello,

pretty new to cell phones with previous desktop experience with linux. i have an old blackberry z30 that needed replacement and didn't like the iphone/ android options.

i recently inserted my sim card into the pinephone and keep getting the 'modem no carrier' messages. i'm on the koodo/telus network in canada. koodo network is displayed on the top right of the pinephone. sms, spacebar, and the phone seem to be functioning normally!? is there something i should be doing/configuring?

thanks.

Have you cut a hole in the back cover of your pinephone and regularly switch off your cellular modem with the dip switch to keep the 3 letters from being creepy? If so, you will need these scripts so you can turn off/on the modem without having to restart your phone.

Turning modem off:

Install "minicom"

Hi, I have rock64 v3.0 and screen is blinking quite much. With "blinking" I mean black rectangles that appear and disappear on screen when I move or resize window, also screen is "shaking" when it happens. Don't know how to describe it accurately with text, I can record a video if someone needs it. I tried armbian focal, it had lima driver. Also I tried slackware with mali driver, the blinking was gone when I decreased resolution to 1600x900 (resolution of my monitor is 1920x1080). I wanted to do this on armbian but other resolutions were not available, xrandr printed only 1920x1080.
Does anyone know how to fix it?

Just received my PBP and would like to rebuild kernel for Manjaro with some custom settings.

I just cannot find any pointers how I'm able to rebuild recent kernel and from what repo's (including patches)?

I have tried the latest release of manjaro plasma, when I update, it won't boot any more. I have also tried the latest dev build of manjaro. The same thing happens. I also tried manjaro MATE, and the same thing happens. All of them seem to get a random grey screen, I have even seen the Armbian logo appear in grey when trying to boot manjaro. Very strange.

I have a mrfixit debian sd card, it is pretty stable I guess. I am using it to flash my emmc, but it's pretty slow in regards to ui interactions. 

The latest releases of Armbian have graphical issues, and the latest release of TwisterOS Armbian only has a 30% chance of booting up for me, as well as really muted audio. 

So far all of these distros have had really bad touchpad sensitivity. Does anyone know of a way to fix this that will work in most distros?

TwisterOS runs the fastest and smoothest of the 3 for me.  It even runs youtube video better than my pi4. It's very nice, but has too many other issues.

So does anything smooth and stable exist out there at this point? Preferably ubuntu/debian as it makes it possible to install all the things I am used to, easily.

Hi everybody
I just received my pinephone beta with convergence pack which is the latest they offer with Manjaro and Plasma Mobile. 

Things have gone perfectly with it.  I have updated and upgraded everything perfectly but for some reason at the end of the day yesterday the display goes to black unless I hold my finger on the display.  Initially I thought that it may have been related to low battery which was at 15% so plugging it in fixed it.  But today with full charge the display shows itself only momentarily and then dims.  If plugged in its fine.

The "display brightness" slider that I access by dragging the screen down will slide itself to left and dim the display.  If I drag it to the right to full brightness it stays there while my finger is on it, if I remove it the slider slides back to left and gives a black screen.

I don't that this is related to an update as the phone was fine for a while after I updated and upgraded. Its just went like this for seemingly no reason.

Can anybody possibly suggest a way forward here?

Thanks for amy help.

Can anyone here recommend a bluetooth keyboard with built-in touchpad that will work with the Pinephone's internal bluetooth (that is, without requiring its own dedicated USB receiver)? Hooking up a mouse and keyboard via the dock works but it's pretty awkward to work with the phone that way.