When Jump Drive is running on the phone, plugging it into my Manjaro Plasma laptop via USB mounts the phone as a storage device. On the laptop, I can see the phone's eMMC and the SD card. But, when Manjaro Plasma mobile is flashed to the phone's eMMC and up and running, plugging it in doesn't mount anything. Nothing is logged on the laptop when the USB is plugged in and removed. I'm using the same red USB cable that came with the phone in both cases, Jump Drive and running system. What is different?

How do I get the phone to mount as a storage device on my laptop?

I'm running Manjaro Plasma mobile beta2.

Thanks!

I haven't found a distro yet that will automatically mount an SD card in the phone. I'm running Manjaro Plasma beta2 right now. Why doesn't the SD card automount when booting the phone? I've made sure that the SD card isn't bootable, so it doesn't interfere with booting the phone. The SD works fine when it contains an OS image or the jump drive.

How do I go about manually mounting the card? I want to use it for file storage, music, etc.

Thanks for your help!

I've been trying to figure out how much I can use the docking bar which came with the Mobian CE Convergence edition. It worked under Mobian (I think) and pmOS (pretty sure - I'm spinning through distros to find what works). Doesn't work under Manjaro Plasma beta2.

I'm trying it out on my Manjaro Plasma laptop. syslog shows the components being recognized in it. Mostly works, but there's some oddities, like when I plug in the HDMI the ethernet shuts down. Is that something intentional in Manjaro Plasma? For example, I see when a second display is connected, Notification automatically switches to the do-not-disturb setting. Maybe it's shutting off the ethernet for some similar assumption about how it's being used?

It doesn't work very well at all on Windows 10 (same laptop - dual boot). Does it need a driver?

Is this docking bar a known device that has been labeled by Pine64? Does someone have the model of it so that I can search for drivers?

I also have a little GPD Pocket 1 mini-laptop. Docking bar doesn't work under Windows 10. I booted Manjaro Plasma on it and the docking bar doesn't work there.

In all cases, I power the docking bar with the power supply suitable to that computer.

Thanks for your insights.

Anybody else experiencing this issue? Dock works fine for everything but it's draining my battery at a rate of about 2w. I though it might have been the usb port on my monitor i'm using it with, so I switched to a wall charger and when connected to the phone directly it charges, but as soon as I try to use it with the dock it's back to discharge mode. I'm running all the current updates on mobian at the moment.

Ive been testing all the os' I can get my hands on, none of them have working calls or text, except I managed to get one working as a once off somehow.

Ive noticed that on ub ports it says 'Denied'... Can I assume that my provider has blocked my pinephones from the network?

Edit: using the pmos test image, it says the network is connecting and working fine.... This is doing my head in why no other os image works?!

Hey Ya'll,

Not entirely sure if others are wanting this, but thought I'd share my fix on this workaround if you been trying to get this firewall to start on system startup on mobian (fix will be similar to almost any Distro actually).

This is for anyone that wanted to use the UFW - uncomplicated firewall service vs iptables. 

Useful background knowledge:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwar...orkTarget/

Assuming you have already installed ufw:

edit the /lib/systemd/system/ufw.service

When the latest monthly blog update announced Manjaro with Plasma Mobile as the new default, I threw that on a micro SD card and have been testing it since. Sometime in the last week, an update broke auto-rotation for me.

Everything is fine in portrait mode, but when I rotate my phone 90 degrees the screen will rotate 90 degrees in the *opposite* direction, resulting in the screen being upside down when in landscape mode.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue, or maybe even know how to fix this? This is definitely going to need fixing by the time that keyboard accessory comes out, since the phone would always be in landscape using that.



PS: Aside from this issue (and intermittent crashing when trying to use a USB-C dock), I'm really pleasantly surprised with KDE. I thought I would hate it, but it feels like it has a lot of potential and is already pretty polished.

I got Red Pocket carrier working on my pinephone using mobian as the OS. I could make calls receive calls and send text and receive text. The plan i use for Red Pocket is $2.50 per month. Posted this because if someone is looking for a low cost carrier this might help them.

I was using the PMOS factory test image and while running the Automatic Test it hangs at "Upgrading EG25" and never completes.

The modem is now undetected by any OS I've tried. Any tips on getting it back?

Thanks!

edit: after looking at restoring the eg25 fw to its factory state via https://github.com/Biktorgj/quectel_eg25_recovery/ it's such a convoluted mess. Is there any other way or does clicking TEST on the Test img. just brick modems? aargh.