Hello folks, in hopes to improve my workflow ill post some scenarios and questions so that i can see weather these things to me are feasible or not, so here goes;

Disclaimer; i know that this device is meant for low powered computing and or tinkering but, at the end of the day is another singleboard computer adapted to a laptop form factor and as such i did expect some basic usage out of it, which it lives to the expectations but it also leaves me with some questions on how to maximize the usage i give to this.

I have been taking the pbp to work so that i can do some light tasks like arranging ideas for music, type up some lyrics, do a bit of Internet marketting and even the occacional youtube watching despite the WiFi being quite slow.. Now the video watching has gotten better when it comes to watching videos online, and i can definetly type things and even do some light tracking and creating to organize my beats and structures. After i went through the setup process with jack+pulseaudio its definetly doable and im happy it most certainly is.

But, ive come across various issues, those being software wise, the main distro im rocking is manjaro because of how much good work has been put in it but a few months ago ive been experiencing constant kwin crashes, ive started asking myself if there is a DE that would be better suited for responsiveness and whatnot since at that point is was tired of the many interruptions and time spent tinkering for better performance and less bugs.

I know the device is not comparable to say, an x86 laptop in speed or maybe even stability but i know there are better ways to work with this pbp. I was going to try out debian but all i get are 'scrambled' looking images as if someone threw the monitor in a blender idk why..

Can someone help me or rather suggest DEs or w.e. ? At this moment im not having a very pleasant experience and i know it can be better.

After the last update (10-March-2021) screen does not lock anymore.  I input the password once after the boot-up, then screen unlocks with button press, gyroscope trigger or even music track switching, literally with anything. Any suggestions how to fix it?

Here is the link to the manjaro forum thread about this issue, probably would help to fix this issue faster.

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/the-lock-scr...date/57129

I wrote a simple panorama viewer specifically to be run on KDE Plasma Mobile.

https://github.com/time-killer-games/panoview

It works on all platforms I tested on except Plasma Mobile. 

All I get after selecting an image is a white screen. Works on the PineBook Pro. Not sure what's going wrong.

Uses freeglut / glx / OpenGL ES. I have a Embedded System script for this in specific.

Build Dependencies:

sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libgl1-mesa-glx freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev libpthread-stubs0-dev libx11-dev libprocps-dev kdialog zenity

If someone could help me figure out why it's not displaying properly I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks!
Samuel

I received my Mobian CE Pinephone 1st of March and realised its not for me. Only used it a few times to distro-hop and haven't even taken it out of my room.

I am located in UK, Leeds / Bradford area, can easily drive to meet up and would prefer selling in person rather than Royal Mail if close by to me.

PM me if interested, looking for £210. Cost me around £230 after shipping and customs.

So I found this docking station that I really like and thought that this is something that would suite the Pinephone really well:


Seems to be up for preorder for $39 and should ship around april. If Pine64 where to manufacture something similar I for on would be all over it =)

Here´s the link: https://www.bee-link.com/collections/sto...2824697012

I noticed, that I do not receive SMS anymore. The last SMS I received was on 29.01.2021 and a SMS I should have received ca. on 03.02.2021 never arrived. Is this a known issue or is it only a problem with my provider?

I have a UBPorts edition PinePhone and I have determined that the modem simply does not work (I believe that the sim tray is faulty). I'd really like to order a new main-board but they're not available. I can't even order a whole new phone because they're not available either. The only other game in town that I know of is the Librem 5; I ordered one of those more than two years ago and it's still nowhere in sight.

So, when will new main-boards or phones be available in the US?

Greetings,

U-Boot has a board-specific method with signature

Hi I'm moving & getting rid of stuff. I have a spare pinephone UBports edition available to a good home. I'll mail it anywhere (I'm in Serbia right now), please just cover shipping and preferably add something extra, probably by Paypal or whatever. Serbia post is cheap, I've mailed much heavier things home to Canada for $30. I would just like to know that it isn't going to waste.

A reason why I am still a Samsung Galaxy S5 user are:

1. replacable battery

2. Micro-USB 3.0 connector

The same cable as for 2.5 hard drives can be used, and the connection is very stable. I am a heavy user, and phone death was most often caused by a broken connector.

Is there a reason for not using a micro-USB 3.0 connector as a standard, or one which is modified so that it works also with usb-c?

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