I don't really like the vibration motor, and I figure it would save more battery if it was disabled. How do I do it?

Hello everyone. Pinephone user here, now Pinetab user. 

I'm new to the Pinetab and came to checkout the Pinetab forum today. Saw a few posts asking how to open it. Was saddened to see a poll asking how many other ppl broke their screen trying to open their Pinetab. I know how bad it feels to break a screen.

So I made this video. Hope it helps someone out there:

https://youtu.be/9PXifBrTPro

EDIT: Had to open the Pinetab back up, this time caught entire opening on video, here: https://youtu.be/V-C6JzXhXbA (better instructional demo video than the 'tips' one above)

I tried all the phosh distributions and couldn't get the modem to connect reliably. It would maybe show 3G and receiving calls/texts was questionable. I read about updating the modem firmware on the wiki page, found that my modem's firmware was out of date and updated it. Now it says that it connects 4G but I cannot access the internet at all (I haven't even tried calls/texts with the new firmware).

The rest of the phone works good enough for me to actually use it (even the camera works). I'd really like to use the pinephone but not having a working modem won't cut it. Any suggestions?

Progress is ongoing.  Chromium is this >< close to working.  You can either wait for the devels to finish it up the right way or do this one weird trick today.  (Edge channel only?)

Create /etc/chromium/local.conf and put one line in it:

Hi everyone, 

just got my pinetime (open) yesterday. Wouldn't turn on, so I tried attaching to the charging base (2.4A outlet) and it powers on, staying on momentarily after removing from the base. This made me think the battery might just be dead so I let it charge for the afternoon, but it still won't turn on when detached from a power source. 

Is there something I'm supposed to do first for it to work properly? Any tests I should run to diagnose the situation? Any help would be appreciated. 

Thanks in advance

I am running mobian-pinphone-phosh-20210202.img
Today I received a system update through the phone GUI and a calling app update. Huge improvement on call quality. 

I have postmarketOS edition PinePhone.

Wish I could put one of these pinephone OSs on my POS phone. I've seen my model described as an engineering hack, so no one ever made an alternate ROM for it.

I got a postmarketOS generation phone, had a little play but haven't done much with it since. 

Its hard to keep track of the state of the various distros.. What distro(s) should I try now/next? I would like to have a shell, browser and phone/sms.

TIA for recommendations.

Hey all,

Just a heads-up that the second episode of PineTalk is now out.

Have a listen

I thought for sure that there was something wrong with ofono.  I even compiled ofono's master branch from source and learned how to create a pkgbuild, then eventually post my attempt on the AUR.  Apparently, they didn't like that very much.  However, I managed to get through it.  However, this approach led to a phone that would not make calls.  So, I reinstalled the original ofono and went back to the drawing board.

I started chasing down a few items online, including a few interesting items that turned out to not be too relevant.  I began to look at the network interfaces and noticed how wwan0 never had a link and only had an ipv6 address.  I ventured a guess that my service would be on ipv4 and couldn't find a good way to obtain or renew a lease.  I downloaded udhcpd from the AUR and ran it.  It spit out an ipv4 address along with DNS servers!  Everything went sideways after that and I thought I broke the phone.  However, with a few restarts I was back to the business of trying to get my mobile data working.

I disabled NetworkManager and enabled dhcpcd instead.  I noticed that wwan0 had an ipv4 address, but still no Internet or calls.  I went back to NetworkManager to keep things as close to default as I could.

Through more research, I stumbled across this post on the Manjaro gitlab for the Plasma Mobile Pinephone.  I was struggling with the same issue.  It just happens to be the case that my modem was on and registered while my wi-fi was off when I tried the following command: