Hi,

This weeknd I've finally got round to trying Gnome Shell instead of Phosh, and now I just wish I'd tried it months ago. I don't have to enter the PIN every time I switch the screen on, I can see my desktop, it's usable at 720x1440 and it's so much more configurable.

The only obvious issue I've noticed (and it's not that big a deal), is that there's no 2G/3G/4G indicator, no mobile signal strength indicator and indicator for mobile data. Does anybody know a way to do this (without having to try and write my own extension)?

Thanks,

P.S. If anybody else is using Gnome Shell and has any tips/tweaks then please let me know. Can't say that the on screen keyboard bothers me that much, but it could certainly be better.

Hi all;

I dropped my phone a while back, I got a replacement screen and installed it myself. First time on any phone...
I put it back together and the modem doesn't appear to be working, have reinstalled mobian, I have signal strength, but not registered on the network. Everything else seems to work WiFi is good.
Have tried different sim card, no change, sim works on other phone.
Is there anything I can do to narrow the fault down to software or hardware ?

I guess I must have stuffed the main board somehow when I pulled it apart, but it would be good if I could confirm it.

Thanks

Hi

I bought a 12V / 3A power supply. When I plug in it, the green LED on the board turned on. The LEDs on the network board are also on. But when I press the Power button, nothing happens, the board does not turn on. What could be the problem? Before that, I never power on the board.

Hello all,

For a client project I have obtained two PineCube units and have tried to set them up with Armbian, but regardless of the SBC I see the same issue. After starting a download of a larger (multiple MB) file from a HTTPS server (Git repository), the system becomes unresponsive and has to be hard reset.

* I used two different PineCube units.
* I used a known good SD card (pulled from a working Raspberry Pi 3B system).
* I used different USB cables and chargers (also used with Raspberry Pi & Odroid systems previously).
* I used Ethernet and WiFi (separately) with identical results.
* I used the Focal Armbian version, then the Buster version, with identical results.

Does anyone have stable Ethernet/WiFi on PineCube with Armbian, or is this considered to be an unstable feature? The PineCube wiki seems to hint at this being still experimental.

Pinephone freezes after a couple minutes with kernel 5.9 5.10 and 5.11 after last update
Geary doesnt start and pinephone doesnt recover anymore after sudo reboot or deep sleep
Only hard reset will start again

I'm trying to download apps directly from the site but its telling to go to setting and security to enable downloading from unknown source.But im unable to find that setting on my pinephone kde am I missing something or is it located somewhere else ?

A launcher to toggle between the stock light and dark themes in Mobian:

goes in:      ~/.local/share/applications/
name it:      themeswitcher.desktop (or whatever name with .desktop extention)

I'm getting a error stating unable to unlock database with opening up discover icon

I am looking to sell my Pinephone PostmarketOS edition and I want to reflash the image it shipped with. 

Anyone have a link? Or should I just put the latest release on it? What would you do?

Thanks

I took my pinephone out in the forest today, even though I thought that the camera wasn’t working well. I discovered a few things: 

Megapixels looks bad currently in Mobian phosh, but does a great job. Although the image in the viewer looks distorted and off color, the resulting photos are decent. 

On the default Mobian image, the photos are saved as dng and tiff files. But if you install dcraw and imagemagick, Megapixels saves both raw dng and jpeg files. 

sudo apt-get install dcraw imagemagick

Here’s more info from the developer:
https://blog.brixit.nl/pinephone-camera-pt4/

This pushes the Pinephone much closer to daily driver for me.