Hi folks,

Just unboxed my new Mobian Community Edition Pine Phone --- so excited!!!

Everything seems to be working pretty well. The web browsing is pretty darn slow, but I just installed Browsh, so maybe that will be a little faster.

The problem I am having is, I am getting an indication that there is an update available, but when I click "download," it tells me that it failed due to a lack of dependancies being present. However, the list of needed dependancies is blank!

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

--Matt

I got a 3gb Mobian yesterday. While I was trying to get my Google Fi nanoSIM in the white plastic adapter and into the phone, I broke the right-most prong of the SIM card socket. Bummer. I had it for about 15 minutes at that point. Anyway, I went about soldering it back on. It didn't work. I couldn't tell if it was the hardware or software. In flashed Manjaro+Plasma, and the SIM card was not recognized. I flashed postmarketOS latest test distro, and the SIM is good! I can phone and text. So, my solder job is good, the Google Fi is recognized without effort (I use it in an iPhone and Android phone, freely moving the SIM around and it works in everything I've tried).

Since I want to increase RAM and available memory to something more suitable to my work - will it work and will the clusterboard register it as RAM?

A number of devices don't stay in the USB-C socket at the bottom of the phone. I see that the USB-C connector on the red cable that comes with the phone is a little longer than most.

The most serious example of this trouble is the Convergence dock bar. The fit is very poor. I have to align the two together so there is absolutely no strain and sometimes I need to hold them together by and to ensure a trustworthy fit.

The USB-C on the dock fits into the USB-C socket on my laptop well, so I think the problem is the socket on the phone.

Sorry if this is a FAQ, but I'd like to complain about the constraint in search in this forum, that strings must be more than 3 characters. I can't search for "gps", "usb", "sd", "df"... Is it that bad to remove this limitation? Thanks for your help.

Still trying to use my Pine Phone as a cell phone, the closest I have came is calling another cell phone they could hear me but with the volume all the way up and holding my ear to the speaker I could barely hear them.

Have had the Pine Phone since 6-10-20 and have yet to make a phone call, send a text or take a picture.

At this point I either have a defective phone or Pine Phone has screwed me.

What are my options I am feeling the need to start a "Buyer Beware Of Pine Phone" campaign on several popular Social Media sites as the whole thing seems like a total scam to me.

Suggestions?

WHO EVER set up these forums and defaulted "Do not subscribe to this thread" is NO GENIUS!

This sites administrator needs to set the default to "Subscribe and receive email notification of new replies" If I have to explain why you should not be the administrator, you should also be changing the option FONTS to be BLACK AND NOT LIGHT GRAY on a BRIGHT WHITE background, what are you trying to hide and why

Thanks in advance

Hello All,

I have three PBP's running the pre-package Manjaro KDE setup. After a recent update one of them has been having this lockup problem a couple of times per day (with heavy use during the work day). The symptom is that the UI freezes, no mouse movement and no keyboard response.

I've dug through the journalctl logs to try to identify errors that could help to explain what's happening. Here are a few entries that are correlated with the time of the latest incident. I've tried searching for similar bug reports along these lines and they appear to be either very old and/or have nothing to do with the OS version and/or hardware set that we have here. I think the most striking thing here to me is that there are multiple segfaults happening and there's a serious error in the kernel. These are near the bottom below, but I've added other errors leading up in case they can provide more hints.

Upon starting up and logging in my new Pine64 Pinephone (KDE Community Edition Plasma Mobile Manjaro), expected Navigation buttons are missing. This is the X and square and icon in the middle at bottom of screen.  At the botom are three icons for Phone / Phone Book / Angelfish, but that's all.    I can open usual application like Settings and AngelFish but once inside any application there are no virtual buttons on the bottom of the display to allow "back" or "exit" function.   Is there some action or setting or update I can take to make them appear? I've tried swiping all directions, etc.   No amount of reboot makes these buttons available.  How to make navigation buttons appear, on desktop and  while within application?  Thanks.

Update Feb 28 - Running all updates, perhaps that will take care of it.

Hi,

I have my second pinephone now. It is the KDE Plasma Edition. I quite like the UI and it runs ok it seems. Only problem is, I am missing functionality like scale-to-fit that is available for phosh. I can't for example configure nextcloud client since buttons are missing on the UI. Is there something like scale-to-fit or wlr-randr for KDE Plasma?

Best Regards,

anhilde

I believe I read on the pine64 block or wiki that a pineobok distro 'should' or 'might' work on a pineTAB, possibly with some minor adjustments?
I know that is pretty vague .... sorry.  :-)

I was looking to try a Manjaro-ARM distro, and the TAB flavors lag the *book and *Pro devs by quite a bit. 

Thanks,
Dennis