What native (mobile optimized) applications would you like to see becoming available for the PinePhone in the near future?

I am not talking about existing applications that are currently not compatible, I am talking about applications that exist on other platforms (such as Android), but are not available for linux phones, and that you would love to have on your PinePhone.

This thread is in order to put together some opinions, that will help developers decide what the end-customer really need / want on their PinePhone, and maybe give it a higher priority.

Any input will be very much appreciated :-)

Hi,
yesterday I got my PinePhone Plasma Mobile KDE (very nice...) and started to use it.
Didn't insert my SIM and worked for a while with wi-fi. Tried to install "cheese" to see if the camera worked but the phone stuck on the initial loading page of the application. So I turned off and turned on again the phone several times (also removing the battery) but all I got is always the same black screen, with the white loading lines (the last two ones are: "33.7574321 avdd-csi : disabling" and "33.7610781 usb-5v: disabling").
In other words, can't get the OS start again properly and the phone is sort of "bricked"  

Any help?

Thanks.

I recently found this Reddit post which shows Minetest running with mobile controls on the Pinephone. People under the post also seem to have gotten it to work on Mobin but the prebuild .deb and the cross compile script are both for amd64 and not ARM/aarch64. Any clue how to get this workig if it's possible at all?

Is anyone else having Wi-Fi trouble connecting on Manjaro?  I've only had the phone a few days (Plasma Mobile CE) and I got the wifi working initially for a couple days, but now it says it's connected to my network but it can't load any websites and there's an ! next to the wifi icon.  Then on Manjaro Lomiri SD card it can't find any nearby networks nor connect when I type it in manually, and the icon shows not connected.

However, I have loaded PostmarketOS and Mobian and they have no problems connecting to wifi.  So it seems to be a Manjaro issue?

*Update*  
The RC for InfiniTime which includes the ability to switch from 12/24hr mode is now available, so I am shutting down this project. Please use the official InfiniTime from now on.


Hi everyone!

Just wanted to post my mod to the default InfiniTime watch face. I know I saw a few people on Matrix ask where they can get a 12hr face, so hopefully it's useful to some.

Features:

• 12hr time with AM/PM designation
  
• Changed date to show Weekday (Short format), Month, Day, Year
  

After seeing other posts I can tell that the gps does not work. You should update the wiki, product page and shop page and change the gps status as 'broken' or 'partial working', to notify the clients.
I think its because of a bad gps antenna, can you tell me where is it ? and can i connect an external antenna ?
Thanks

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4586

Gives me an error, any other working link?

Hi all !

I've received today a USB C cable, and could finally test my pinecil in good conditions. I've run a test with a barrel connector when I first received the iron, but the connector was too small to fit into the plug, so I had to keep it in place with one hand !

So, I've started to look at what settings are available in the menu, and once I had done a tour, wanted to try using it. I had a strange problem, which was a steady "420 °C" where the display usually flickrs quickly around the set temperature. I eventually discovered that the tip was at room temperature, and the detailled idle screen told me that the tip was disconnected. I've tested each one of the 5 tips I have, that are all new and unused, same problem.

Anybody having the same problem ? What kind of solution may be applied to this ?

i've found another thread discribing the exact same problem, here : https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=12673 but there is no indication that the problem has been solved...

Thank you all !

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.