I'd like to programmatically place a call to a specific number and specify my own audio input and output streams. Is there any documentation around for this?

This thread is being started to document the trials and tribulations of installing Anbox on my Pinephone.  Likewise, it would be an honor to learn from those who blazed the trail before me.

I managed to install Anbox through pacman by switching to the unstable branch.  (It seems that the unstable branch also has a few fixes to other software that have been helpful, but maybe adding an extra bug or two.  I'm not entirely sure, but I digress.)

This is not recommended if you are squeamish about experimental software.

Quote:version: danctnix-0_git20201130-r2
cpu:
  arch: 
  brand:
  features:
os:
  name: Manjaro-ARM
  version:
  snap-based: false
kernel:
  version: Linux version 5.10.13-1.0-MANJARO-ARM (builduser@on2-runner) (gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.35) #1 SMP Fri Feb 5 15:29:57 UTC 2021
  binder: false
  ashmem: true
graphics:
  egl:
    vendor: Mesa Project
    version: 1.4
    extensions:
      - EGL_ANDROID_blob_cache
      - EGL_ANDROID_native_fence_sync
      - EGL_EXT_buffer_age
      - EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import
      - EGL_EXT_image_dma_buf_import_modifiers
      - EGL_EXT_swap_buffers_with_damage
      - EGL_KHR_cl_event2
      - EGL_KHR_config_attribs
      - EGL_KHR_create_context
      - EGL_KHR_create_context_no_error
      - EGL_KHR_fence_sync
      - EGL_KHR_get_all_proc_addresses
      - EGL_KHR_gl_colorspace
      - EGL_KHR_gl_renderbuffer_image
      - EGL_KHR_gl_texture_2D_image
      - EGL_KHR_gl_texture_3D_image
      - EGL_KHR_gl_texture_cubemap_image
      - EGL_KHR_image_base
      - EGL_KHR_no_config_context
      - EGL_KHR_partial_update
      - EGL_KHR_reusable_sync
      - EGL_KHR_surfaceless_context
      - EGL_KHR_swap_buffers_with_damage
      - EGL_EXT_pixel_format_float
      - EGL_KHR_wait_sync
      - EGL_MESA_configless_context
      - EGL_MESA_drm_image
      - EGL_MESA_image_dma_buf_export
      - EGL_MESA_query_driver
      - EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display
      - EGL_WL_create_wayland_buffer_from_image
  gles2:
    vendor: n/a
    vendor: n/a
    extensions: []

Trying to get the audiobook player cozy and the ebookreader foliate to work, I encounter problems. Both flatpaks are quickkly installed, however, foliate opens and I can even select a file but after this is done it remains idle. Cozy doesn't even start.

As I'm unfamiliar with flatpaks I don't even know how to go about tackeling the problem. Any suggestion is welcome.

After an update (using mobian) about a month or so ago my wifi suddenly stopped working, I figured something was just stuffed up with the driver but didn't have time to spend on it immediately. Just got the pinetab out again and tried to figure out the problem , but it turns out that the driver looks fine, also a complete reload of mobian didn't fix it. I then tried Ubuntu and the wifi wasn't working there either. Tried  all the fixes mentioned in the wiki. Dmesg doesn't contain anything obvious. ncmli r   shows all radios on, but nothing found on scan. Also load a new image of ubuntu  and tried arch, all with the same results. Any ideas?

I recently purchased a 2nd pbpro as a gift and need some help with issues that I have been patient with my own device.  The gift in question was to replace a lackluster institution issued piece of hardware.  This hardware needs to be able to be able to have zoom meetings and surf the web (chromebook-ish).  I tested zoom in a web browser with the pbpro and it worked better than what was offered (so far so good), but the web browsing is a bit slower and therefore a problem (to them).  I have noticed lag in application launch as well on my own device with launch of ..everything. Terminal, web browser (all of them) email and chat applications... all basic stuff.  Before this second person with a pbpro I would have just considered these problems due to working from an sdcard instead of emmc.  I have proven that this is not the case through testing both my machine and theirs.

That was all background, here is the foreground question:  what can be doneto make the pbpro more "snappy" for a non saavy user (the gift recipient mainly but myself aslo). Ive tried manjaro in a few DE flavors and chromium from ayufan but haven't ventured too much further. I do not have gentoo skill and ubuntu (on x86) is too "easy" for the recipient of my gift pbpro (currently manjaro kde and manjaro budgie on sdcard) . Suggestions are appreciated and welcome

For myself, I have an sdcard that has my os tweaked how I like (minus the performance debuff) and I would like to move it to my emmc rather than reinstalling and reconfiguration.  Is there an option to move an existing install from an sd to emmc?  When I search the forums I get nothing but horror stories and no sure path to success. TIA

edit: grammar and words

I know the website recently changed formats and had a redesign but had a hard time navigating to the forums from pine64.org (had to scroll to the bottom of the page instead of a link at the top of the page).  My post is to suggest that the forums might be viewed as a higher priority and placed back in a more prominent place. As a largely open source project, I think that the forums should be a suggestion in the top level rather than something the user may have to hunt for in the fine print.  Just my $.02

I know there are a number of threads addressing issues similar to this, but this request is specific: 

I have spent a lot of time with Mobian, and gotten it as close to my liking as possible, but I am not ready to use it as a daily driver. I would like to back up my Mobian installation and then maybe try UbPorts again. If I don't find it useable I will switch to Graphene for now.

But, in a couple months, maybe I will boot my Mobian installation again, run some updates, and see how it handles. Of course, I don't want to lose my GrapheneOS installation in case I need to switch back. 

So how to manage multiple installations? Should I just use dd?

Sadly, I was not careful when taking the top layer of the factory screen protector off of my phone. I had already put in an order for a soft case and a pine book dock to try with my main laptop. As much as I would like to order a glass protector from pine, the shipping is a bit much for just the protector. If us power supply’s were in stock I would just order both. So what I am wondering is has any one here tried a proctor for another phone and how well did it work.

I have a kde ce pinephone, and I am having a problem reading the sd card. I have tried with two different cards with the same results.

The sd card is listed in lsblk, however none of the partitions on the card are listed. I thought that was strange, so I tried to open the device in fdisk, but all I got was this error:

[February 5, 2021]  Mobian CE PinePhones destined for all of European countries, bar the UK, will be dispatched on February 8th from the EU warehouse. This means that all those in Europe (minus UK) should receive their PinePhones by February 21.



Mobian CE PinePhones destined for the USA, Canada, Australia and other destinations will be shipped between February 22 and the 28th from Hong Kong. We initially hoped to ship all Mobian CE PinePhones prior to Chinese New Year (starting February 9th), but unfortunately logistics issues with the KDE CE and other factors prevented this from happening. Stay tuned for further news after CNY.

[February 22, 2021] Post-CNY shipments have resumed. Mobian CE PinePhones will be picked up by DHL tomorrow (feb 23) and, granted there are no delays, should be departing Hong Kong on Wednesday (Feb 24). Those of you waiting for your Mobian CE will receive tracking numbers at various points in time in the next 3-4 days. 

PinePhones purchase on clearance over the CNY period and destined for EU destinations will ship out tomorrow and Wednesday (Feb 23, 24).

PinePhones purchase on clearance over the CNY period destined for all other destinations will ship out Thursday (Feb 25) and Friday (Feb 26) from Hong Kong.