Hi
I would like to know if there are some plans to develop / enhance the pinephone with an alert slider (like the oneplus' one - https://support.oneplus.com/app/answers/...ert-slider).
I have an oneplus X and I use it every day. It's invaluable.

The double-tap bug in Phosh, where you have to double-tap the numbers on the lock screen to enter them, has been known for a while, hasn't it? It's still present for me on Mobian, Phosh version 0.6.0. Has anybody figured out a way to reliably replicate it, or even better, has it been reported upstream?

I haven't seen a comparison of the two A72 cores vs the four A53 cores.  Just how much faster are the A72s?

So I did a benchmark of compiling the kernel with just the two A72s enabled vs just the four A53s.

Values in seconds.  Lower is better.

• A53x4: 2888 elapsed, 10985 cpu
  
• A72x2: 2285 elapsed, 4377 cpu
  

Hello,

I bought a New (was still wrapped in plastic) Pine64 Phone UBports Edition but when I charge the phone it never actually charges, and when I try to connect to a Wifi network none are available. I don't know what to do to get this thing to work. Please give me some feedback and instruction on what to do.

Thanks!

Been carrying for a week or so now, here is the current state of core functionality on PMOS-Phosh (edge)

In the last couple of days a new glitch has appeared, when the phone sleeps the modem is going down, not going to sleep.  On wakeup the modem takes about as long to return to showing bars as wifi, and since this started no message or call has come in while off the plug and the phone allowed to sleep.

That aside, and the bug in Contacts reported in a different thread, here is what you can expect.

At random, a text message from a new number will show on Chatty's list of conversations but you can't touch it to read the whole message or reply. It "depresses" when touched but nothing else will happen.  If you ignore it and come back in minutes or hours it sometimes works.  If you need to interact with it now you must reboot.  That has, so far, always worked.

If you make a contact for a text from a new number Chatty may or may not update the number into a name.  Rebooting won't fix that one, only deleting the conversation has any chance of working as new messages appear.  Still not assured of working though.  Get a billing message after every activity, no matter what it just shows as "38809090"  They aren't "normal" SMS so that might have something to do with it, they are system messages.

The calls app does have basic functionality now.  You can make and receive calls.  You get a call log and you can call back from it.  You can't create a contact or send an SMS in response to a call.  You apparently can't clear the call log either.

You can still expect Phosh to go insane and refuse to allow you to unlock or cleanly shutdown but it isn't as often now as a week ago.  And this morning the phone was simply dead.  Blue light was still on but it was unresponsive.  Power key did nothing, inserting the USB cable did nothing.  So cold start and the battery was almost unchanged from eight hours ago when it was put aside for the night.  Had took a few updates and rebooted at the end of the day so watch out?

Away from the core phone functionality, the alarm clock needs some love, badly.  If the phone sleeps it of course won't go off at all, waiting for some other event (call, text, power key) to wake it, then it goes off.  But even on the charger, the UI needs help badly.  Unlike Android, Phosh has no ability to allow an urgent dialog to precede the lock screen.  And the clock can't launch itself!  So you must enter the unlock code, launch the clock app and THEN you can shut the darned thing off.

This is not a problem per se with PBP.  Recently my ISP's modem has been acting up and I'm waiting on a new one.  Before it started acting up, PBP connected to wifi just fine, but now it won't connect.  Curiously, my Android based smartphone connects fine, as does an 8 year old Lenovo ThinkPad.  I've been trying to share the connection with the smartphone via bluetooth with less than perfect results.  The old Lenovo is running Fedora 32 and this PBP Fedora 33.  Perhaps I should mention, though irrelevant to the PBP that ethernet hardly works at all.
With inxi I just get 

Hi there,

I know this is a feature a lot of you have been waiting for since the beginnings of Mobian.
I'm therefore extremely pleased to announce that we've started work on it, with an on-device installer allowing you to select a passphrase and install Mobian to an encrypted partition.

This was adapted from pmOS's installer, so they definitely deserve most credit for that
As of today the installer works fine and can be downloaded here.

Only known issue so far is the flickering backlight on BraveHeart devices.

Please note the system will be installed to the device the installer is flashed on: if you flash the installer to an SD card, then Mobian will be installed on the same SD; if you flash it to the internal eMMC, Mobian will be installed on the eMMC. Allowing target device selection is on the TODO list, but it might be some time before we implement it.

Although this has been thoroughly tested on my devices, I'd like to have some more success (or failure) reports, so please give it a shot if you have some time to spare

Enjoy!

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Dear Pine64,

Since getting my PinePhone, and having two updates made to the Manjaro-arm linux OS, I find the PinePhone to work smoother and be more useful, therefore I spend more time with it than with my current "daily driver".

I have noticed that Pine64 forums are not mobile-friendly,  which makes it a real pain to use it on a mobile device.

Not a forums software expert, but coming from the niche of being a developer my self, I know that most forum system software packages today are offering a mobile-friendly theme/layout.

It seem to looke like Pine64 is using MyBB for forum system software, and I have stumbled upon this MyBB extension that gives it mobile friendliness capabilities:
https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?action=view&pid=637 as an example.

That should be feasible to configure, I believe.

Is it possible, by any chance that Pine64 could update the forum system theme/layout to be mobile friendly? 

Many thanks in advanced 

kern707

Lately it seems most of us moved over to mobian, manjaro and arch. Wondering if any die-hards around the UB space have noticed recent progress?
I can't find the words for how much more i love the UB/Lomiri interface vs phishphosh. Really hope it comes up!

TBH i was switching sd cards multiple times a day and also tinkering myself for the first couple months but that excitement has worn off and im really just waiting for some good news now.