In the linux/PC world, most distros are live.  The live version has an install icon - making it easy
for the user to install onto the hard drive.  I'm curious to know the status in the linux/smartphone world.
Which "smartphone" distros are easy to test, and then, install on the PP?  User-friendly distros are a plus.
(p.s. I'm not a geek - just an advanced power user - and want to distro-hop on the PP.)

Thank in advanced for any help/tip.

Sheng-Chieh

Hi, noob here.  I have a PineTime watch which I've had for about two weeks.  I charged it on receipt and have been wearing ever since. 

Initially I was able to set it so that it woke up the display on raising my wrist; however yesterday that stopped working.  In the settings there is also an option to wake up with a single or double tap.  Neither of these works.  The watch can be woken by pressing the button, so it seems to be working OK otherwise - but does the refusal to be woken by a movement or a tap indicate that the accelerometer has failed?

Is accelerometer failure a known/likely occurence?  I've seen it mentioned once on the board.

Or could there be another issue; maybe re-starting the watch would help?  If so, can anyone suggest how to do that?

For background, this is a sealed device working with the KiActiv app on Android; so I only have access to the watch functions; KiActive should be receiving movement data for analysis offline.

TIL

The new update is great, I configured wireguard for VPN but I can´t figure out how to have it always on. I am using Phosh and Postmarketos 24.06. Any hints greatly apreciated

Hi all,
I have a Pinephone 1.2 Community Edition, I lately tested Sailfish OS that is great if compared to others (Mobian, Manjaro, SXMO) in making the battery last all day that was the biggest problem I had in 2 years of testing. Now my problem is about mobile data that don’t work at all after boot. I discovered that restarting ofono data start to work flawlessly but after that I can’t receive calls because phone turns on the screen that start flickering at the same frequency of ring tone on the calling phone but doesn’t show the controls to answer.
I noticed that via command line I can answer but there’s no audio at all. I tried restarting connman and eg25-manager but nothing works. I also tried to restart audio service but no luck. The only way to make it work again is reboot.
Remembering I had similar problem with other systems too I tried to update eg25 firmware from 01.002 to 30.006 but nothing changed. I noticed that when problem happens this error shows in logs: connmand [ofono] ERROR! GDBus.Error:org.ofono.Error.NotImplemented: Implementation not provided. I tried to restart dbus but it makes the phone unusable, no desktop, no icons, the only way to go is reboot. After reboot without restarting ofono calls are correctly handled without problems.
Anybody else experienced this behaviour? Any idea to solve?
Thanks to community and developers.

PS
Sailfish OS 4.5.0.24 (Struven ketju)
kernel: Linux PinePhone 6.5.0-pgz-pine64

I realized, that my PineTab2 has not received any updates in a while. Even software that I know has had updates (like OpenOffice) was not updated on the PineTab2. Did I mess something up?

Hello all, just wondering if there is already a way to get the full blog content in the rss feed?   If not, is this something you'd be willing to provide instead of just summaries?  It's much nice to review news I care about in my rss reader instead of having to go to everyone's website directly. 

Thanks

Pinephone with KDE Plasma stuck at K logo after update

Without any error message so my question is:

Is there any ''startup-sequence'' file and/or startup.log file
(and where to find log file from last startup)
so I could see at which moment startup procedure is stopped
and because of what reason.....
(maybe missing or corrupted file)

- How to make a Swiss German Layout with «ä» and «ü» for the Pinephone keyboard?

- I have installed postmarketOS on my Pinephone.

- postmarketOS only supports English and Czech

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostmarketOS

- Here is the discussion how to update the PinePhone keyboard driver to support missing characters:

https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=16750

- Is it still possible to add charakters such as «ä» or «ü» to the Pinephone keys so that if i use for instance Abiword that I can use it for writing in Swiss German which requires «ä» and «ü»?

- This is something which would be very interesting to know since i failed with both Bluetooth mice and keyboard to have a stable connection to the Pinephone.

- So the only way to go for me personally is a usb mouse

- But was someone able to get a usb mouse to get to work simultaneously with the Pinephone keyboard?

- What is shown in the following discussion shows only:

https://petergamma.org/how-to-get-a-usb-...pinephone/

- 1. A Pinephone with a Pinephone dock and a keyboard which as a trackpad which works.

- 2. A Pinephone with a Pinephone keyboard and a docking bar which shows that both external keyboard and mouse work, but not the the Pinephone keyboard.

- What would be interesting to know if someone confirms that the Pinephone works with an external usb mouse simultaneously.

- Can someone confirm this?

Instructions to install sfos to pinetab2 emmc

Flash sfos to sdcard, get the script here: nhttps://github.com/sailfish-on-dontbeevil/flash-it; some outdated info on page, the script should be 0.4.0.
Boot sfos on sdcard.
Set up ssh from your pc (not essential but makes life easier).
Transfer the flash-it script to the pinetab using scp or telegram/email.


1. Install gnu-bash: zypper in gnu-bash
You are offered 2 options due to conflict, choose option 1 "deinstallation of busybox-symlinks-bash-1.34.1+git2-1.8.1.jolla.aarch64";
2. Install sudo
3. Install wget
4. Install jq
5. Install parted
6. Install unzip
7. cd to the flash-it folder and run the script: sudo bash ./flash-it.sh and follow instructions.
If you're working from the terminal on PT2 make sure you have "display on while charging."
The P64 uart adaptor may be needed if there is another OS on emmc, it can be tricky: it goes in the usb slot furthest away from the power button, it should have a green led when you attach power and when you plug it into the PT2 there should be another smaller flickering red led in the middle of the adaptor. The usb connectors are not symmetrical, try turning the cable connector upside down if you don't see the red led.

The version flashed is now 4.6.0.13, wifi works out of the box. Camera doesn't work yet, BT temporarily out of order. Has been known to spontaneously reboot. Otherwise everything works. On first boot there's an option to encrypt which is currently being fixed. Choose developer options, quit and it then boots. Look in telegram channel for better solutions for home partition encryption.
Any problems telegram group: https://t.me/+E0A4d4tjx703MGFk