I noticed that the Battery Charge Percentage is not very accurately shown

I thought "eh 50% Battery, that's enough to run a System Update", which turned out to be wrong as the Phone shut down EARLY during the Update Process (within less than 5 minutes). You can probably guess how that bricked my install.

Before it shut down at random, I did use KDE Connect to send notifications to my Desktop (originally wanted to share Clipboard but NOPE, not installed on the Phone) and it sent mixed Messages about the Battery Status between 20% and 50%, both of which were considered "Low Battery". I did have the Phone plugged into the included USB Hub with Ethernet and the USB Charge Cable, so I am not sure how that influenced the whole ordeal.

All I know is:
1. Phone ran Update
2. Battery Low Warning Spam
3. Phone Shutdown during Update
4. Brick that gets stuck during K-Gear shaped Boot Animation

What the actual Issue is, I do not know. Only that this happened, and now I need to re-flash the eMMC, which apparently only works when the Battery is fully charged for some reason (according to the recently edited and easily missable Jumpdrive ReadMe on GitHub).

Trying out Mobian next, once the Battery is charged enough for flashing.

I want to set up a PinePhone as a video communicator. It should boot straight into a video chatting application, for example Jitsi Meet:

   

What I do not want:

• Ability to open arbitrary apps:
     
   
  
• Ability to browse the web:
     
     
  
• Ability to select a Jitsi server. (The server is preconfigured.)
  
  

• Ability to see battery status and data consumption.
  
  
• Ability to connect to a WiFi network. Some public networks require authentication on a web page.
     
  For now, it is sufficient if the WiFi networks are preconfigured, and otherwise the phone is connected to the Internet via a mobile network.
  
  
• Ability to receive phone calls, which are merged into the video chat.
  
  
• Ability to make phone calls from the video chat.
   
  
• Ability to connect an external web cam via USB.
  
  

• Preferred: Full Linux OS that boots into a locked down web browser which loads the Jitsi Meet URL. I may want to have the option to run a little web server which serves a web page with Jitsi embedded in an iframe.
  
  
• Full Linux OS with the Jitsi Android app running e.g. Shashlik. I have just discovered Shashlik and have not yet tested it.
  
  
• Android based OS with just the Jitsi App. The app opens when the device is turned on. There is no home screen. I’m not sure if that is even possible.
  
  

I use for several years a Elecom ClipClap mouse for my smartphone. It is very comfortable to use for this purpose, since it is the smallest mouse I could find on the market:


https://www.ebay.ch/itm/ELECOM-mouse-Blu...2749.l2649


The mouse is from Japan, and I could only find one seller on ebay who sells the mouse. I recently bought a new one. It was the last one in the shop. I asket them to get new ones, since it is good for Linux phones. The renewed the stock, but the prize was now 50 USD instead of 30 USD.


I complained, and said, although I m from Switzerland, I m not ready to pay every prize for this mouse. They answered, it is not because of this reason. The prize would be defined by the number of pieces they buy from the manufacturer. If the would sell more of this model, prizes will drop again.


I saw that at the Elecom shop, the prize for this mouse is also 50 USD now. They don't have an english web page, all is in Japanese language. And they don't have a prize listing in dollars, but only in Yen. It was available in different colors before, now, there is only the red model available. Is the product dead, and do they only sell the stock?

If you see an alternative mouse which is suitable, please let me know.

Hello!

I'm wondering if it is possible to have the 3D models of the PineTime, and more specifically the models of the case.
I would like to 3D print the bottom part to do some experiments, like passing from 2 pins to 4 pins.

Greetings everyone !

Here is a tiny post to ask and to gather some opinions about adding some goodies to the store.
By goodies I obviously mean things like stickers, apparels, mugs...

PS: I'm sorry if this has already been asked. ^^

Hey all, received my PinePhone today with Manjaro ARM/ KDE Plasma. I'm wondering how I can return to the home screen. Everytime I open an application, the only way I know to return home is to power off the phone and on again.. Surely there is another way?

hello, I have a brand new device today .... and it vibrates abnormally it's not normal help

I'd like to get the linux ARM version of Microsoft teams installed on my Mobian Pinephone.  I downloaded the file teams-for-linux_1.0.6_arm64.deb from https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-...x/releases and using Kings Cross I tried running 

sudo dpkg -i teams-for-linux_1.0.6_arm64.deb

After unpacking the file, it outputted:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of teams-for-linux: teams-for-linux depends on libappindicator3-1; however: Package libappindicator3-1 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package teams-for-linux (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.68) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing: teams-for-linux

I thought I'd be able to fix this by next running sudo apt install -f but after running this, the output noted:

The following packages will be REMOVED: teams-for-linux
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 161 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

After confirming I'm back to square one....I have the deb file but teams is not installed.

The questions I have are 1) are the commands I attempted the correct way to try to install this deb file on my Mobian pinephone. 2) is there a way I can get this work work?  If so, how?

Feedback, direction is much appreciated as I need teams on my pinephone before I can make it a daily driver.  Thanks in advance!

In older reference releases of Manjaro (e.g. the factory preloaded image on the Manjaro CE), the fstab entry for the boot partition used "LABEL=BOOT_MNJRO" as the identifier. Somewhere down the line, this changed to "UUID=fat-uuid". If you try to upgrade with the old "LABEL" line, the whole line becomes corrupted ("less" warns you it may be a binary file, the line is displayed as "^@" symbols), which causes random but frequent kernel panics and oopses, making the phone unusable.

What you need to do is run "blkid" (possibly as root), take note of the filesystem UUID (not PARTUUID) for the partition with LABEL=BOOT_MNJRO, and replace the corrupted line in /etc/fstab with the following:

Hello,

it's my first post on this forum, so let me say hello first and quickly say that I'm a developer, libre software enthusiast, and XMPP developer (I'm working on a multi-frontends XMPP client, not focusing only on instant messaging but also on blogging, events, photo albums, etc, it's named "Libervia", formerly "Salut à Toi").

I've just received my PinePhone KDE edition, and I've started to play with it.

First of all a big congratulation both for the hardware and the software, I'm really impressed by what has been achieved ! I've had in the past on OpenMoko and a Nokia N900, and I can appreciate the achievement. I have not put yet any SIM card, but it's already great as a portable GNU/Linux device.

The pre-installed Plasma-mobile was not usable because it was not possible to quit/change the application (for whatever reason I had not the button on the bottom to do it). Each time I wanted to quit an application which had no quit menu, I had to reboot the device !

I've managed to update with discover, it took some time (I was wondering if it didn't crash, on reboot it stayed a while on the installation message), it would be nice to have some trace to see what's happening.

After the update, the Plasma mobile is really usable, and I can exit or switch apps normally. I'm a long term KDE user, and it's really great to see that on a phone, with the sound I'm used to and all, really neat. In addition it's quite beautiful.

The device works quite OK at this stage of development, it's absolutely usable, the browser is relatively fluid, for my first tests it's great. Again congrats to everybody involved in hardware or software, I'm really impressed !

I've tried the convergence (I took the convergence package), this one did not work as expected: not working with hotplug, and when I boot with it it is detected but I have only a black screen with the mouse pointer on it, I can't do anything. If I don't plug the monitor, the keyboard and mouse are working.

It's great to have the terminal available directly. Is it possible to do a Ctrl key with the virtual keyboard ? I would like at least to be able to to a Ctrl-C when I need to kill an app, and I haven't found how to do so far.

For the record, I've bought this device mainly to port my XMPP client on the various FOSS OSes, if anybody is interested in a XMPP client…