Looking at the demo videos/docs/guide it seems like this is mainly intended to be used for mobile.

If I wanted to use it while docked/as if it was i3-wm how far will I get? Will I need to do stuff like use xrandr to show/position the external monitor?

I did figure out how to properly flash the images onto the SD card so it actually boots/isn't skipped.

But I figured I'd ask before I got into it.

Thanks for any thoughts.

edit: Oh and I was curious about the idle RAM usage. Mobian is surprisingly not as bad as I thought eg. I saw a number just over 500MB. Is Sxmo significantly lower than that? I got a 170MB figure nice.

Hello,

I'm trying to add my protonmail account in the geary but so far without success.
Running the latest version of Debian:

Was one already able to do the following:
- run a protonbridge client
- add a protonmail account in geary (or any other mail app) using the config from the protonbridge

Or
- running a mail client with a protonmail account and bypassing the protonbridge

Looking forward to get this running!

Thank you

Br

I just installed sxmo on my new pinephone and it appears that there is no ~/.config directory. Thus, there is no hooks, so I can't receive incoming calls. I can't seem to find said hooks directory on the git page. I was able to see that I am successfully getting the call by running modemmonitor.sh (or whatever it's called) via ssh, but again, the phone doesn't do anything when the call is incoming. 

Anyone know where I can get these files?

Hello,

I tried to do some comparison between various Pine-devices available, (a comparison chart between all the Pine-doohickeys would be cool) and search the forums but I ended up with an impression that the PinePhone is the only device with hardware switches?

Does Pine64 has any plans to implement those to other devices? Say laptop or tab / anything with camera/microphone/etc would warrant having at least some of those handy switches alone.

Settings > Cellular Networks > SIM Cards

• data populated
  
• phone is able to make and receive calls
  
• phone is able to send and receive texts
  

• blank screen
  
• no input field
  

I was expecting to be able to just do stuff like sudo apt install htop etc... but that did not happen.

At this time I still haven't figured out what is the equivalent thing of apt for KDE Plasma Mobile eg. is it yum/pacman/etc...

I did see there is Ubports... I might try that. I'm coming from web development side I was intending to use VS Code for example and run Node locally but maybe I completely misunderstood what this phone can do right now? I think VS Code can run on ARM.

I also noticed the dock doesn't charge my phone. I'm still trying to get video output from the dock to an external hdmi monitor, was looking at some threads.

I think I will have to get an SD card/try different OS's that way.

I'd appreciate any thoughts. At this time I'm more interested in the dock-computing aspect than an actual phone eg. sms.

Hello all.

I just received my PinePhone and I'm mostly impressed with it so far. I have run into a very early snag, and I'm not sure how to correct it. After going into the Discover app and having it update to the most recent set of packages, I find myself without nav buttons along the bottom or the status drawer at the top. As a result applications go full screen and I cannot exit or navigate away from them without plugging in a keyboard.

The time, battery, and wifi status are visible on the lock screen, but I gather now that is a separate application.

Has anyone else seen this? If you have, is there a way to correct it or do I need to start looking into how to reload the OS entirely?

Thanks!

Out of curiosity, i plugged my Pinecil into my Anker model A2322 60w USB-C PD brick with a 2M USB-C charging cable that was sure advertised as being capable of 60W PD, and says so on it, whatever that is worth. I bought these for my Pinebook Pro originally. Plugged the brick into my kill-a-watt power meter. 

The display shows 15v on it, and the KAW shows it drawing 28W. Just to see if it was holding back unless/until it needed the juice i put the tip inside a spare "V6" style 3d printer printhead heatsink and held it in front of a fan. It struggled and continued to just get 15v. 

Is this a bad cable maybe, or perhaps this is a firmware issue? This pinecil is from the 2nd production run, just received today.

tried to login to my voicemail but couldnt send dial tones so i had to log in using my landline

also the menu is noticeably smaller than the main menu for in call and some others, but its especially noticeable while i try to dial with my construction worker hands in the short timeout for the vm prompt

Just received my pinecil from the 2nd production run, and something is loose inside it? 

It's not just the buttons - if i hold both of them down and shake it, i can still hear something moving around inside it.